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Forwards News Clips on Various Aspects of Util Proposed Power Reactor at Bodega Head
ML20234C968
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Site: 05000000, Bodega Bay
Issue date: 08/22/1963
From: Southwick R
US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
To: Fouchard J
US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
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was " extremely con.scrvative"i.

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l By DON ENGDAllL' to oppose the proposal. said hoy considerations,' rcised viith Mr.

d P.D. Staff Writer thinks they shed wait a week ori Mautz a scrics of queshon.1 tbcut '

SAN RAFAEL - Marin County so before making a decisic the proximity of the San A:v.!rcas Supervisors listened yesterday to' The Marin hearing was uhed g quaMy d rd W wM de ;

Fauk b de @ de d N three and a half hours of argu. uled July 31 when the board ac !!

j ment over the nuclear-fueled pow-is a be p l

cepted on offer from Paul Golis.it reac er plant proposed Dr Bodega Bay lawyer. Rohnert Park devciopati i

in Sonoma County'

'and secreary of the Sonoma Counyl l.0^,0-foot distanco from the fauk l

It was a spirited affair, with ty Association For Deve'opment of za}"'.tEC ny PG&E.is "cxtremely.

edge to the plant site ;iven i

. anti-plant speakers far outnum-Bodega Bay to bring cem argu,

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I barm; those favoring the Pacific ments in favor of the pkr.t.

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).4 1.ad Qu Ge reacta will Gas & Electric Co. proposal-and He turned out yesterd y to be ".nh he x;.id in "colid ros," ar.d with ^

.. county speakers m the the minority, with PGiE chiefP the re:.d turbine and cther map o civil engineer P. F.

h.tz the only other speaker favoring th*f structures 'will be on " residual The Marin board took no stand;

.la!" th:.t la better than most Supervisor Peter H. Behr, who in plant.

foundation mr.tcril.

1 the past has urged his coueagues (Contfaued on Page 12, Cal. D Mr. hhr h,uad h'msd "trou-I'cd" by dctnitions of " solid -

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Sixteen other speakers-six of The " false impressicas" have C

them from Marin County-waded done gre:t damage to be co.nty a{[,

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j gy 3 trto the utility company's proposal image. Mr. Go!!s said. As for sa-4g,'

ori a w!de variety of grounds.

pervisors, he declared, "I know 8

f'"{,"Q,.Mdby Mr. Golis said his organizadon-they ncre not m co.hu udh which he said has more than 2.000 PGLE.,

Mr. Mautz cet "certt.:r is r.ot a f;de rock is,;olid.

c, o mcmbers-wants to correct " false Supervisors, he said were told Mautz [

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mpressions" about the plant and by-PGLE of power nuds in the about Sonoma County raised by are;, thst Eodega ficad was the said in that it has, nr.ted no.'

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most economical s!!e and that The plant has support of the PG&E wanted to build an atomic P ant there.

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" people of Bodega Bay and of So.

noma County as a whole," Mr. Go.

He found,,no questh.., t,=.,.aH Mill Va!!:y, uh.; said ;:. a a pro-i fe,sional go; tut, su a 31nks

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I hs declared. As for questions of other thbgs being equa, tne 50-th: Bodegr. head k.... is a k m

plant safety he said, his organiza.

n ma supenkes uq have Py "pu c.c," cr.; rd.c. 2r, are uon "bclieves that the Atomic En-ferred to keep the beac!and in prH p7oug a im twg. Mts rur.-

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    1. d#8'0"'. d wi!! make the prop-i non.gwk;c opp acnmeep' 8 Care lhfiat're was that of La Wtta.w. Cotati, The Rohnert Park developer also i

The power plant can provide lashed out at opponents who have'-

former pzz trurnpcter ci now a' enck et Sonema Cot 2 :icipital. !

tax money for development of the

. distributed "a tremer.doas amount' bay. he said, including solution of scare literature" about possilde I,ht Watters said PGi:S has had:

";:,od huntin;," for power plant,

of tha sewage disposal prob!cm contamination of milk in the So.

l there. The one year delay the pro-r.oma and Marin dairylands,in the' sites :!ong the Cahforrua coast..

hat "Codega licad is r.at yet in '

posal has a.rcady suffered.has area of the plant.

cost the coumy is a whole $1 mil-p3tg3 e -- 1 gy" lion in wx revenue, he said.

Dairyn)ca have taken a "veryl responsible etutude" in the situa-i Mr. Go!is showed a blueprint of the couaty's plan for bay develop.

tion, he said, have investi;ated !

I and determined that "they can i ment, oudined the projects pro-7 live with this thing."

posed but said the Sonoma County PG&E engiaer Mautz told the t supervisors have been "hard put" supervisors that his company's i

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to find money to develop the area.

studies showed the Bodega loca I Mi. Colis flayed opponents who tion to be "the best and most i he said have created the impres.

economical site for a plant in the sion that the people of Sonoma arca where a new generating Coumy are "a bunch of rubes...

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ignorant and corrupt.. " and He outlined the company's back-that there was a "gigande con; ground in* nuclear energy which !

spiracy between PG&E 'and the he said has convinced it.that l Board of Supenisors" in ' initial aiomic power is " safe and eco-sta;cs of plant approval, namical..."

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supervisors declined to hcld a; I

hearing) or PG&E." he skid, but "Pubile Uninformed" Ceorge Wheehvright, Marin coast "if our form of ;;overr. mint,s to!

Ho ' called 'it " madness" and.

rancher, declared that the public survive, amateurs muot make dei

-c sions on the advice of exn has been deliberacly been kept "lo!!y" to locate the plant near-

. uninformed about the proposal.

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  • but shou:s "quc.dm; the fault zone, but said muc of the upcris."

He said new milk contracts giv9 Present in the audicace during the opposition to 'the propos1 stems from a desire to orescrt en Sonoma County farmers. con-most of the hearing was one S04 the headland in its nature eie..

tain a clau.se " stating at any time numa County Superviaor - Lc!gh!'

Ma;;rita Klassen, Sonorna, t.-

their milk shows measurable ra--

ordinator of the county chapter of.

bioactivity they will receive no Shoemaker. Petaluma. who favored [

some requests for Scauma Countyf l

the Northern California Associa..

payment for the milk" and asked -

hearings and who cast the icnc '

tion to Preserve Bodega Head and for a." satisfactory answer" why' dissenting vote when de PG&S!

Harbor, the principal opponent of that is done "if it is safe to release (

use permit for the Bedega Her.r.,

radioactive gases into toe air."

the plant. envisioned damage to site was granted more than threci-Mr. Wheelwright spoke for an informed pubye albwed i. say in]

the twocounty milk industry and years ago.

said that could far out. weigh tax revenue from the plant..

" future environmem and th.t end Pt/C Denial gets which naw devc!c;acents may la env.hcr development oa an~

Projections against radiation l bring."Ec (and othere pointed to cier fect 10 the bc!!}.; comic-hazards are " defective " shei charged, and regulations control-the reccat apprehension over the versy, the g;s PabDc Utilities hn; emission of radioactive ma-use of ins.:cticidos in which ex-Co.nmissic 4 her yesterday do.

pcrts " honestly motivated said n!cd.w.t.e pn:.!n for re hear.

terial from' the plant are "only, there was no dan;;cr."

Ins the f,b.2 ccA 30r57-paper security."

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o ranchcr, said he is no expert but dent 'E!!ir.m L:na CRscaf,; a found it "not good br,rsa sense to

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the plant " fallout" wi!! ta to his!

lin an attemp; to facce :. ccw property values. Mr. Cocddale' lhcaring.

praised the Marin sup:.rvisors-as did others-for " accepting your responsibility" to !! sten to argu.

ments.

Ilarold Sirap;on. San Francisco, chairman of the San Francisco

. Council for Contemporary issucs, urged a go-slow approach on the plant proposal, as cid H. A. Sum-j mers. Kentlic!d civ!: engiccer.

Mr. Summers said he be!!evo the plant siting.to be a rir,k,-"q l

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and "very detrimental to the arca's!

r inatural beauty."

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build a nueIear power versy.

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"It v o.ad seem 'that thero;". A PG&E spokesman s:iid,.

,is a greater riA to adjacent Mr Xcnt's statement isv3 i

Roger K e n t, northern

chairman of the Califor-land in this car,e heavily pop 2 diff urent from others 'n'la3E it.hted, area in locating a recenut."

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nuclear power plant near ca.

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' tral Committee, strongly j San Andreas fault or otheri AEC will hcar in Santa RxS protested the plans in a eae. quake areas' than out i and we ht,p; the date for thLt i

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beari letter to Glenn Seabore ent urgad 2 AEC chair-

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Kent urged Seaborg not to be swayed by the amount of

' money the utility company already has spent on the project because the expendi-i I ures were. "made at the i

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! risk" of Pacific Gas and

',EIcctric without the required l authority t,f the commission.

! "We tmanimously oppose jany industrial development

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' part of California's.. shore-line, but are well aware of the limitations of your juris-L

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