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Joe F e rd, News service Branck March 19, 1944 Meisten of Fwblic Information, NQ Aedney L. Soutbuick, Ameistant to the Manager for Publie Information, SAN SOFSSBS CONT 90C181001 Gli 30 DECA-F.U.C. CASE F1 RLS
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Attashed are meus clips en the California Supreme Ceart deciates em attanyta to seed the sees back to the California
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- 1. Clip, 8.F. Chronicle,3/14/64 l.
- 2. Clip, s.F. It===4w, 3/14/64
- 3. Clip, s.F. some call Bulletta, 3/18/64
- 4. Clip, omkland Tribune, 3/18/64 cc: Barold Price, REG, MQ, w/attachs.
J Robe _rt,, lauenstein,_ DLER,, MQ,, w/attachs.
F. K. Pittmen. BED, 34, w/sttachs.
J. D. Lymna, DFI, SQ, w/ attacks.
R. W. Smith, Comp 1.
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/May Turn to PUC j,The Northern California whether the site in safe.
I 6po<iation to P r eee r s e The PCC had argued that
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.Ut ilities Comminion with mission.
lhe unsettled question.of 11 o w e v c r. the associa-carthquake safuy.
Lion's attorneys are still' 1
David resonon. head of the ann-atom plant group.jicading the court's dect.4 ion i o see if it contains a loop-l t
dald. *'We are seriously con-: hole for a itsther appeal to
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sidering asking the PUC toithe PUC.'
rule on this pomt."
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preme Court decision Tues-day declining. to order the l PUC to re-open the case may not end litigation oser the contros ersial P a c i f i c Gas & 10lectrie Company j
nuclear power reactor pro-pwed to he built on the Sonoma County roast.
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Club. onc' of the Nation's (Pacific's marinc' station at The State S u p r c m e ard.
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- Court refu sed ycsierday to The radiation safety of the largest conservation groups. lDillon Beach, announced blow the controversial plant will be weighed by an The club's brief was also re' yesterday that the National AEC hearing in Santa Rosa,Jected by the court.
Science Foundation has i
Ucdc a 1 Tem! ' n u c1e a r Y*8 f' Earthquake h a z a r d s are awarded a $5700. research I-power project pcoposed by still an issue in the Bodega grant for a year long geolog-Pacific CM and Elegtric Th e Committee to Prc.
< s e r y c Bodega Ifcad was Head controversy, however, ical study of undersea earth-
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,' joined in its appeal to the Dr. Joel W. Hedgpeth, direc-quake faults in the Bodega The coort ruled unam. Supreme Court by the Sierra tor of the University of the Head area.'
mou3}y against a group of easervationists wha have teen fightir; the $61 milhonl gg
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the project hom the Statei Puttic Utilitics Commission' I
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in um. L a s t may thcl ciation to Preservc Uodegal, Atom Plant "Ncrthern California Asso-licad" aded the P C C to grant a re hearing on the permit. The commission rc.
Opposiflon to the $61 million Pacific Cas & Electric Co. nu-fused, and last December the!.
clear power plant at Bodega project's oppoients went to Head in Sonoma County lost to-I-
the Supreme Court.
day before the State Supreme DELAY Court.
In a unanimous decision the Yesterday the Supreme high court refused to block plant Court said the opponents had C0"8"CUO"-
united too long to challenge H wever, the Atomic Energy the PCC ruling. and that if Commission has yet to hear and this sort of delay ucrc coun.
pass up n the question f wheth-tenanced no one could ever launch a utility construction q[.sak ha ard, project without fear of later The court rejected a plea by litigation.
the Northern California Associa.
The court aho rejected an lion to Preserve Bodega Head a r gu m o n t that only the t order the State Public Utilities Atomic Energy Commission Ccommission to reopen the case could rule on the Dodega and reconsider its permit to licad construction permit.
PG&E.
C o n g r c s s empowered thcl The association delayed too ACC to judge radiation haz-l long, the court said, It also said the commission had full author-ards of nuclear projects ity under the Federal Atomic but all other safety aspect Energy Act to decide whether j
were left to State agencies i the plant s location near the j
said the court, San Andreas fault was safe.
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The conservationists hav Meanwhile, University of the i n s i s t e d that the Bodeg Pacific has received a $5,700 re-l! cad atom plant, to be local scarch grant to undertake an cd on the Sonoma count.
extensive study of earthquake, coast near the San Andrea faults at Bodega Bay.
carthquake fault, would en The grant is descirbed as the danger the Day Area be second phase of a study begun cause of the earthquake haz last year by electronic equip-ment aboard the research ves-sel. Baird.
Calvin C. Dactwyler, a re-search associate from the Scripps Institution of Oceano-graphy at La Jlla, will admin-ister the Nation Science Foun-dation grant l
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(Contlaued from Page 1) l The court held the PUC the public, other than radia-had absolute jurisdiction in tion, were presented to the
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tential radiation hazard, a determining the safety of commission and after full y '"n
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question that will be settled the reactor site and added consideration. ; the n commis.
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at future hearmgs in Santa that not even the mighty sion iound the. location was
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Atomic Energy Commission a safe one."
4 The State Supreme Court DitAGGED IIEELS can go into that question.
The five month' late peti-refused yesterday to har con.
The Supreme Court ruled
. According to the ruling tion was labeled by the court the conservationists - the written by Justice Marshall as. a." device" which so"ght--
struction of PG&E's proposed
$ril m.dh.an nuclear power Northern California Associa. F, McComb, Congress had "a review of the bask deci-plant at Dodega llcad.
tion to Preserve Bodega empowered the AEC only to slon."
. The conservationist club Head and th Sierra Club-1ook into the. radiation It such a device were al.
opponents of the plant in-
' had dragged their heels by hazards of a reactor.
lowed, one obtaining a cer.
tificate i r o m respondent being five months too late in TEit31ED DEVICE commission. (PUC) - c o u I d i i dicated. they will continue asking the coart to authorize
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never safely act under it the battle to halt the project.
new hearings before'the
.*An examination of the without fear of later attack,"
They ' announced the Um.?
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record discloses that ev - sa d the court, versity of the Pacific has Commission on earthquake dence' of possib!c hazards t
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Icccived a.$5,700 - federal hazards of the plant.
On July 9 of last year; the grant to explore the con-PUC uttered its last word on servation. t chargos that an the matter by refusing to re-is
.carthquake will destroy the consider its earlier approval
- plant, 0f Bodega Head as a reactor David Pcsonen, executive site.
secretary of the Northern The conservationists had Cahfornia Association to Pre-argued that the PUC crred i
serve Ende::a licad. said his in not givmg proper consid-
- roup will aik for a new hear-cration to the placing of the
'OI in:: " immediately ' by the reactor over the - San An-Nate Pubhc Utihhes Com.
dreas earthquake fault. They also accused the conunission mb.4on.
.I'he Me rel's umni-of unoring possible future destruction of marine life mous ruim;;. hov.crer, was not a signal for PG&E to fro mthe discharge of radio-2 proceed with construction active waste into the sea.
of the controvers.al facility, In its ruling, the court did
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not consider these trgu.
mission stil, must rule on ments but adhered strictly -
whether the plant is a po-to the legalistics of tardy ap-l
, peal filing.
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