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Requests Rept Seismicity & Tsunami Rept,Bodega Head,Ca, Issued by Us Coast & Geodetic Survey.Clips from Santa Rosa Press Democrat Encl
ML20234E939
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Site: 05000000, Bodega Bay
Issue date: 11/25/1964
From: Ackerman A
HYDROELECTRIC PLANNERS
To: Price R
US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
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Dear Mr. Price:

We have been advised by the Office of-the Secretary of the Interior to write to you in the hope that you can supply us with a report on " Seismicity and Tsunami-Report, , Bodega Head, California" issued by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Your courtesy in sending us a copy will be very much appreciated. Sinc e rely' your s,  ! l e -w j (,, r-- 

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PG&E to Offer County i t Recreation Use of Head Kontinued from Page la  ; - nr>rtheast side of Bodega fiay j The proposal now, Mr. fiam- the AEC appraval fo sey said, is that the company-But the company planned to'will offer the new i PG1E site at cost announced Oct.after 30 ? an At run power transmission li n e s plus six per cent per year plus omic Energy Com ' 

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have made the airfield unus-l credit for what it able. would cost' withdrawing its application to to restore the old airport. PG&E s a b s e q u e ntly pur- {the AEC for permission to build'- chased some 30 acres of land.comes out about $22.000,He said the total net c o s t to the north ofthat th( understanding theit woutd bay, withl The westshore roadlands. accept. At that time, company spokes-make a deal with the county'tance is scheduled for initial men were tight-lipped about' to replace the old airstrip' consideration today, The conty then used the air. Mr. Ramsey said the north. the 225 might 

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i medged material womg it out as a field. where fromit meetsthe thebay'lis tideflats- that proposed tne company might fortryl acceptanc 

                                          !a county road.                             gai.wlater-for AEC approval The remainder-the bulk of it the headlandsof a r.uclear-fueled plan
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                                         ,ty park road. Under that desiG otedThe AEC staif object on an a                  that; jnation, the county would have PG&E's proposer;rgument
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  • nounced today that it is asking'. Before it coula be included the Californla Public Utilities ;n the state sysnm-as s' ate Commission to cancel its per. hiw mit for the plant. now stands--the county rould have to amend its beach The PUC issued the permit and shorchne master plan to m the fa:! of 1902, but condi melude it.

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I t waz.: mar 5RzRL-..~ w.:x:nwamewemerz:t::uuaman i PESONEN OBJECTS ' p r,, n iA n 9/h m- - Supervisors OK Lease . 1 For Bodega Head Park ' Ily DON ENGDAHL l The AEC's staff had concludament of the headlands for ree , Sonon:a County has a five ed the combination of earth 'reation use. year lease on the Pacifte Gas qu.,ke hazards at the site and~ The westshore road built tz 

    & Electric Co 's Bodega Head the untested nature of PG&E's PG&E as part of me power property beginning the nrst of proposed solution to meet the'plarit projec: - and r,ow owned the year.                                 effects of pred;cted ground by the county - leaus onto the The dollar a-year offer for the' movement produced a " reason headlands, purpose of " recreation and for,aMe doubt" the plant would bei In June the comp:my unveib no other" was enthusias!ically: safe.                                         ed plans for recrection ard accepted yesterday on a 5-0 vote'                     State Praise            park development of lands not of the Board of Supervisors.             '

PG&E's offer of the land to'directly involved ir the pre It came after a spokesman the county yesterday brought: posed plant. for the conservation - scientist praise frorft Hugo Fisher, ad i That plan mvolved fencing te group that o' attled the now mmistrator of the State Re . (Continued on Page 16, Col.1) defunct a t o m i e power plant: sources Agency.  ! plans urged them to wait until ' the proposal could be resiewed He said in Sacramento that in more detail. t is an " outstanding example David Pesonen, executive see of private enterprise workmg retary of the Northern Cahfor with public agencies for the nia Asuiciation to Preserve Bo public benefit in a difficult sit-dega the PG&E IIcad offer and Harbor, with open sus . s tewed " " " County Development There were no immediate in. picion, end suggested the State'dications of what the county Division of Beaches and Parks might be the more appropriate might do in the way of develop-agency to operat? the 200-acre i headland recreation area. i i But supervisors, some of ' u hom regard M r. Pesonen's I organization as the primary l reason for the failure o' the' l power plant pians, gase him i only bare talking room l One - Supervisor S. Carson Mitchell. Sonoma-angrily to.ld him that "you and your organi-zation thould hide your heads in shame . . . you ougnt to be l ashamed of yourselves. The group / which Mr. Peson- . 

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ment that it was dropp:ng its apphcation to the Atomic En , crgy Commission for approval r-of the reactor. i

e ' ' id-Press Demoerof, Santo 6 Bodega The lease says PG&E has the Park -ight to use ite land "or any portion thereof" after giving the Lease O Kij LL county 30 days' notice. It says the county must have Count / Counsel Richard dam-sey saio the lease itself avuld have nc effect o;t the tases. 

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the consent of the company be. (Continued from Page 1) And, said Mr. Diereks, under;j fore making any improvement keep autos on roads, develop-l on the land, and says if the the terms of the tease the com-ment of picnic facilitin. view county wants an extension of pany would be unable ta sell l areas, hiking trails and plant- terms of the lease the company the lana for the lease per:od.{ mgs. Mr. Pesonen declared the tam ' will negotiate toward that end. P i a n n i n g Director John Planning Director Prather, Ing of be le proposa! id ' Praths.r, wno dotbles as the who participated in the prepar- n t g se "adequr,:e notice" to execuave officer of the county ation of the proposal said the allow tune for rewew of it. Harbcr Comma 3 ion, sakt today county is the " proper govern- Ile wondered soout the c:;ect he wouldn't expect any immedi' mental agency" to " permit con- of the lease ca the cv.n:y s; i ate material change on the tinued pubhc use of the area . 

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area wrong with a state park?" l But he said he'll discuss with T puslic has derr.or,strated He said the state has aircady! the Board of Supervisors pos- s ( .. interest" m the area the plan- a Muh m,70s2,3 aq ! shili'ies of " basic improve-' ning director said, and told the. quisiti n n Bodera Head and; me n t ,.," generally along the board that 180,000 automobiles ' 8Uggy,sted a delay m county ac-ininiinum - development lines # 8 " "5 cuttinud earlier this year by have visited the headlands. ""f' ,"'" 8 are clean PG&E as what it planned to Supervisor E. J. <Nm. ;. Gu:.' And he declared there 13 a dotti wondered if those were, do with the property, "substanual legal doubt" that i cars of people who went to use PG&E can make such an agree. j Th.e prospects and problems the headland property for re". e sc s mor ment " nvolvina land can-i { gn reation purposes, or rather were! cum see ers. demned with rat 5 payers' moa-i its rer.ilar meeting, he said. ey for a specific a" i Mr. Prather allowed a ularge' Supermor Shoemaker decried, The lease starts Jan. 1. It majority" were those who were , e a u so any " ridicule, at,use and tnat attracted by the controver: type of thing" of " dedicated" ever the plar.t although a "bgy[ PG&E raen. . "who have! Excladed is the 1Gfochdiame-  ; ter, 73. foot deep hole excavated Percentage ' were clam diggers.. brought about a great service to Supervisor Leigh Shoemaker the State of Californ a." for tit it'. fated reactor and called it a "rather magnarc ; fenced lands surrounding it. And he saw "nothing but hen-mous gesture on the company s - efit from the lease propaah flow To !!se lloie Part and declared that the "ste There is no necc for "ftrther ture of PG&E will not sutfer ciscussisn and review" of the Kenneth Diercks, PG&E rep . one bit" from the offer. resen:ative who put the offer proposal. he said. "nothiq out : But he ind.cated c o n c e r n time would be lod We inould. formeJy to the board, sa,d i sev-about the effect of tne lease on strike unile the iMn is hot . . .", made tax income from the land, ar.d ' eral propma!.s for st.cntific uses have ban,1. of the p: The vote was unanimous. the chance of a company sa.e t Wh;.e they are being evalu- of the property. ' ated, he said, the company will' Mr. Diercks said he dida'tI hold the site and the fences know about the taxes, but sad which will" prevent people from the land is r.ow not " operated; falling into the hole." property" since applications mi The fence line along the use it for a power plant sue short.:ine will be moved back have been withdrawn. about 10 feet, he said, to pro-vide better podestrian access to the rock jetties at the mouth of the harbor. - _ _ _ _ _ _ - - _ _ _ _ _ _ -}}

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