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{{#Wiki_filter:m ' L........ .. w u. m. a n - lr .s '. ~ > ci,. '.)Y bt6 i5 W c.'./ / [ / 40 . Joe Fouchard. News Service Branch June 17, 1963 Division of Public Information, HQ Rodney L. Southwick, A sistant to the Manager for Public Information, SAN CLIPS ON 50 DECA BAY S o -2M gg, Encloced are: 1. Copy of Sierra Club release and petition to' California Legislature to halt PC4E work at Bodega Head; P 2. ' Letter to the Editor from San Rafael Independent Journal on Bodega (San Rafael is about equi-distant between San Francisco and Santa Rosa); and 3. Story on Marin Supervisors' resolution to Congressional dels-getton and Legislative delegation. Enclosures As stated (Bar,1d Price, REC,1TiiA, BQ, w/en:Is. CC: HQ, w/encia. RotArTEWistein, Howard Shapar, 000, HQ, w/ancis. .G.,_T% p / 4'., N In Rec'd Of Dir. of Regn. [ ,.g;q, 4.gd}. y~ 9' Date -- -- --~~ b. Time - --l-l-;Lo .ti ~ o. - -- -- --~ Y.c ?/ H ST --------- f / T \\: _.f'j s. x..w.g-(,e / 14 ;im~' i s 8709220399 851217.- PDR FOIA FIRESTOB5-665 PDR. o. 1 e-- 't.
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3 ."..c p ( ( d4 Sierra Club i 1050 Mills Tower 1 San Francisco, 4. California IMMEDI ATE RELEASE Hasse Bunnelle June 13, 1963 YU 2-2822 l SIERRA CLUB URGES STOP WORK AT BODEGA ~ I The Sierra Club today requested that State Legislature to urge P.G.& E to stop further coristruction on its proposed nuclear power plant at Bodega Head until an Interim committee of the Legislature I had studied the need for amending the Public Utiliti.es Act of l California to provide for considere. ion of scenic and community values in determining the issuance of a certificate of.public convenience. ) 1 David Brower, Executive Direct or of the 22,000-member l l organization, said that the club has for many years supported the establishment of a state park at Bocega Head. "We have opposed the power plant P.G.& E. proposed for this site as e development incompatible with the superior uses of the site," Brower said. "We 1 did so even before it was disclosed that a nuclear reactor, with its uncertainties, was proposed." { Brower went on to say that an interim study would be well { advised, since it would allow evidence to be amassed on such important public considerations as alternative sources of power, alternate costs, safety, and future needs for parks, recreation and open space. " Presumably, the A.E.C. will consider some of the aspects of safety whenever it holds its hearing. We can understand the increasing public concern that P.G.& E, is being' contemptuous of that agency by i rushing along with site excavation at Bodega Head just as if the hearing had already been held and its findings announced. The Sierra Club's interest in safety is limited to what it considers a safe
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..~.a ( ( ) ) = environment for parks and recreation and what it considers to be unsafe pollution of air, Jand, and water, and attendant destruction i of wildlife, and this would include pollution by radiation." , Future needs for parks, recreation, and open space have not been adequately studied, he pointed out, "It has been extremely i difficult to finance adequate studies about long-range needs for l parks, recreation, and open space. The budget for.the entire three-year outdoor-recreational-resource study by the Rockefeller. l 1 Qommission, conducted for the ar'.re nation and projecting to the l year 2,000, amounted to only two hours of this year's Gross National Product. For all this disparity among studies, we have learned that, \\- the year 2,000 is likely to need forty times the present park acreage and that there will be nowhere near enough land to meet that' need," Brower concluded, "The least we can do is delay putting power plants for which there are alternatives on scenic shorelines for which there are no alternatives." i (The full text of the Sierra Club's letter to State Legislators l is appended.) ~
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( i4.3, v@k.>nt g?g J a 7 \\ +f ' s,ykh C 11 J 4.d ji j$ y vg { , "] SIERRA CLUB uiiis ro. r. san ersocisco 4 i S June 13, 1963 by Anul Adams in T&4 h rit A.wrke, ry & i To Each Member of the California State Legislature: This is to request your help in furthering a resolution voted unanimously by the Executive Committee of the. Sierra Club at its meeting June 9 and concurred in by -{ other members of our Board of Directors present for the discussion:* J It was moved by Bestor Robinson, seconded by Lewis F. Clark, and unanimously voted that "The Sierra Club requests that the Legislature pass an appropriate reso-1 lution urging that no further construction on a power plant be permitted at Bodega Head, and that the matter be referred to an interim committee of the Legislature for. study of an amendment to the Public Utilities t.ct of California to provide for the consideration of scenic and community values in determining the issuance of a certi-ficate of public convenience and necessity." No Legislators know better than you how important the scenic coastline of California is to the nation. The way we use it should be decided by veighing more values than the narrow concerns expressed in projected demands for electrical energy and costs of generation. It can be assumed that the market for electricity vill grou and that P,G. & E. will attempt to supply the market efficiently and at re'ason-abic cost. ~ But it must also be assumed, and a forer, provided for exploring the evidence, that scenic-resource and community values are at stake, that they are fully as vital as kilowatts to California's future, and that there is no clear provision of lau that they be adequately considered before development inimical to those values is 1 licensed. For many years we have supported the establishment of a state park at Bodega Head, as well as a marine biological station for unimpaired,research. Ue have opposed the power plant P.G. & E. proposed for this site as a development incompatible with the superior uses of the site. We did so even before it was disclosed that P.G. 6 E. proposed to build a nuclear reactor, with such uncertainties attendant upon possible radiation as are now being revealed in the able investigation by Congressman Chet Holifield's committee. An interim study will mean delay of development at this site and may even pre-clude it. Considering the values at stake, we believe that the delay would be well advised. In this deity th'c public utility should be neither resticas nor restive, considering the irrevocability of the decision the utility has been pushing for so hard. The interim study will allow evidence to be amassed on these important public considerations:
- 1) The alternative sources of pouer. Uc know from P.G. & E.'s announced plans
.i that there are alternatives--other plants on their drawing boards that can be built before Bodega, rather than after Bodega. I 15
~ ..l L x ~ s 2) Alternate costs. A revised schedule may very well increase costs..Trans-i mission from a remote plant--and P.G. & E. is shoving great interest in long-distance transmission--may also increase costs. But as Sierra Club President, Dr. Edgar Wayburn has said, "P.G. 6 E. might give some thought to the idea of asking its cus-1 tomers uhother they would be villing to pay a trifle more per kilowatt hour' for elec-tricity if the plant is located elscuhere."
- 3) Safety. Secretary of the Interior uccuart Udall has expressed serious con- }
) cern about the safety of a plant so near one of the most active f ault zones on earth. ] Presumably, the A.E.C. will consider some o! the aspects of safety whenever it holds l its hearing. Uc can understand the incrna-aiic concern diat P.G. & E. is being contemptuous of that agency by rushing aloon h site excavation at todega Head just as if the hearing had aircady been held and iu findings announced. The Sierra Club's -} interest in safety is limited to what it conal.cra a safe environment for parks and ,) recreation and uhat it considers to be unsafe pollution of air, land, and water, and attendant destruction of wildlife, and this uould include pollution by radiation. (
- 4) _ Future needs for parks, recreatio:
,.o open space. It has been relatively easy to obtain funds for long range plans relating to the need for commodity recources, including pouer development. It has been extr ucly difficult to finance adequate studies about long-range needs for parks, recreation, and open space. The budget for the entire three-year outdoor-recreational-resource study by the Rockefeller Commission, conducted for the entire nation and projecting to the year 2,000, amounted to only two hours of this year's Gross National Product. For all this disparity among studies, ve have learned that the year 2,000 is likelp . forty timms the present parh acreage and that there vill be nowhere near enough u.a. to meet that need. The least ue can do is delay putting power plants for which t!s are alternatives on scenic shorelines for which there are no alternatives. i The cost of delay, after all, will be act by power users, not by the utility, I which should wish to serve the public, and not,3ush it. Uc urge your help in giving the public this further opportunity to havo its interest protected. Hurried construc-tion is likely to be infinitely more costly than deliberate preservation of an impor-tant California scenic resource. Sincerely, David Brouer Executiva Direc or (*Destor Robinson, Oakland attorney; Leuis F. Clerk, Alameda engineer; Edgar Uayburn, San Francisco physician; Richard H. Leonard, San Francisco attorney; Randal P. Dickey,Jr., /.lameda attorney; Clifford heimbucher, San Francisco management consultant; Jules Eichorn, Peninsula teacher; Frederick Eissler, Santa Barbara teacher; Charlotte Hauk, Berkeley technical editor.)
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Hehr said there should be County could be ad ex.nert opinion on such sub. fected." -jceta' The' motion was pervisor Peter l'.c, "The problem is not in thisg c. county and is r40t properly beg board heard letter. fore this board," said acting, Pacific Marine Sta.<, Chairman William D. Fussel-lon Beach and branch of the Bom 2. . nun. But he agreed that repre. , sentatives should be aware of committee. .any possible effect on Marin "This county has las jong as the board " takes no +. sibility to maintain e [iaction for or against the plant t. in this subject." Hehr o ' l tself." is an exceedinf;ly compt..:. 'n a secor,.d motion by Su field. but we should imht:a:. sisor William A. Gnoss, per. our concern and ask nur repa. the sentatives to keep an cyc on; - hoard agreed to ask for an the matter." amendment to a proposed State Supervisor George 1.udy sec.j Assembly bill which would put responsibility for any damage i onded Behr's motion. The. from the plant an ~ the com. county clerk was directed toi Pany controlling it The send letters to Senators Thom. as H. Kuchel and Clrtr 1;ngle amendment was requested by <j l the Pacific Marine Station...Joel W. {(. and Rep. Donald H. Clausen, See BODEGA, pag:n 4; H 1 l ~1 m,pw., +. w.aeme*08 _ _ _ _}}