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$EE I 81963 Division of Public Information, HQ Rodney L. Southwick, Assistant to the Manager for Public Information,=S&N BODEGA BAY CLIPS NI:DJC The opponents to the nuclear reacter at Bodega Head have
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carried-their effort to the California Supreme Court through y
the meatum of an appeal. They went the court to intervene.
and force the state FUC to hold another hearing. Cue point appears to-revolve over whether the AEC has pre-empted the reactor safety field.
We will forward a copy of the petition within a few days.
Clips from today's editicas covering the filing are attached, together with a few others on Bodega we have collected.
Attachments:
News Clips cct k rold Price, REG, HQ w/ attach.
Robert lowenstein, DIML, HQ w/ attach.
F. K. Pittman, DSD, BQ w/ attach.
Boward Shapar, 000, BQ w/ attach /
R.' W. Smith, Compliance V, SAN w/ attach.
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Gas and Electric Co's. nu-clear. power _ plan t at' Bodega Head was carried Opponents of PG&E's pro-yesterday to the California posed atomic power plant on Supreme Court.
, Bodega Head asked the Stato Opponents of the $31-l Supreme Court yesterday to million plant filed an appeal
. intervene and force the State i
asking the high court to.
Pub!ic Utilities Commission k to hold still r.nother hearing.
decide ' whether. the State Public Utilitics Commission l The acticn was brought by erred in handing the ques-the Northern California Asso-tion of carthquake danger to clation To Preserve Bodega the Federal government.
Head and Harbor.
PG&E has begun prelimin-ary construction work at the
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RULING
' The attorney who filed the brief, Donald L. A. Kerson, conservation. The b a s I c said the Supreme Court can power of a state to rule on immediately order PG&E to the welfare of its own citi-ccase con struetion work zens in utility regulation is also at stake."
pending a ruling.
Kerson filed the petition on behalf of the Northern Cali.
fornia Association to Pre-l serve Bodega Head and Harbor.
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The appeal argues that the
. P u bli c Utilities Commis.
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' carlier this year in ruling it
,. had no right to deal with the l proximity of the reactor to
, the San Andreas fault. Three
' of the.five commissioners
' concluded the Atomic Energy s
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' the field of reactor safety.
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that PG&E's own seismologi-
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"into a mosaic of blocks."
q The appeal emphasizes its argument that the commis-has the Jl sion categoricallypower and the responsibility l
> _ a reactor on a site very near ;
to an earthquake f ault.
i In ~~ comment last night, David Pesonen,. spokesman ;
for the petitioning associa !:
tien, dociated: "There is more at. issue here timn
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l California Court is Asked to Order a Reh arin '
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j SAN FRANCISCO, Sept.17
-The California Supreme Court i
was asked today to order the
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State Public Utilities Commis-
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The rehearing would consider:
1 the question of whether. tt is safe to locate a proposed $61,-:
000,000 nuclear, reactor so close
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to the San Andreas earthquake fault.
A' majority of the five man Lj commission, which has refused rehearings three times, has held that Federal. law has. " pre-J empted the field of safety of l
i nuclear reaotors. The Atomic j
Energy Commission plans to hold hearings in the case.
Fear for Scenlo Beauty Today's petition was the last in a series of maneuvers by the g
< Northern California Association to Preserve Bodega Head and
~ Harbor, Inc., a citizens' group j
which hopes to block construe.
Lion of the plant by the Pacific
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Gas and Electric Company. In addition to safety factors, the group believes that the project and its high voltage !!nes would spoil the scenic beauty of Bo-e dega Bay on the coast north of San Francisco.
Their petition, filed by Ben-jamin Dreyfus and Donald I.
A. Kerson, their attorneys, said' that the safety issue was so tmportant to. the ~ California people that the state commis-
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sion must consider it in decid.
ing whether to authorize the construction. The authorization was granted last,Nov. 8, pend,
ing action by the A.E.C.
Seismologist Hired Mr. Dreyfus and Mr. Kerson also contended that opponents l
of the project were denied a fair hearing by the Public Utilities Commission because they were not allowed,to cross-examine the company witness on safety,
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.T. D. Worthington, about vari-
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his testimony.
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the proposed plant ~ would be 1,000 feet from the fault or one I
i and a half miles.
They said that ** suspicious of the company's regard for the public interest," their group en.
_p gaged Dr. Pierre St. Armand, ;
a seismologist, to study the alte and that he reported that it was'
- 'a very poor location for a re-actor."
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. Just ilke Jack Landse ed-est. m%syearstobulu.
to poleng my life, but to fully hoe my Ida end day. But much Are Se businen peple and large property to my regret, I asutd seier kap gag p,y gy,, owners ao poor pass with Jaelt Out I know g,,gg that u be were she taday be
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aratises being made by the e habeve s as like lullmg mE at assess say. -
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conseds. I est only hope es ase sensassa a will attract een the thaishing touch at Bedega. less etsuers ever the years 4 may, as rise rude, landnespas piaat a prepneed n met attise.
ad busy ersted by tim ME, but I answo you all that R will ae doubt repel people.sive, amida being dansmous,
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The reasse we are expresslag aurselves is becouae of the edi.
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a 8 Press Den!acrat. flagardism of the pres and eens, it is the last werd la paar journaham.
3 k ranks well with the rude mnuuungs of Paul Colis From our esperience with i
other simdar badles, such bursta i
of bad taste la apressen show '
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