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ML20236F621
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Site: Indian Point, Diablo Canyon, 05000000
Issue date: 03/23/1976
From: Gammill W
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To: Gossick L
NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO)
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This is late because of Dr. Stepp's heavy work schedule on priority cases, notably preparation of SER supplement for Indian Point 3, one day of depositions on the Indian Point generic hearings, and several meetings related to the Diablo Canyon seismic issue. Also, please note that the package was in OELD for one full week before concurrence.

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I THE WHITE HOUSE WA5HINGTON February 24, 1976

Dear Mr. Hensey:

Thank you very much for your letter of January 31,1976, to the President concerning the siting of nuclear power plants in California.

The responsibility for licensing of commercial nuclear power plants is now vested in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, an independent regulatory agency that was established in January 1975. That agency is responsible for evaluating safety, environmental, and other aspects of nuclear power plants.

We have forwarded your letter to the Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for his consideration.

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Kenneth A. Lazarus Associate Counsel to the President Professor William H. Hensey, Jr.

4550 Franklin Avenue Los Angeles, California 90027 l

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M_. . _ President Gerald Ford

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As professor of California History for some 20 years, teaching about Californians tragedies (avoidable and unavoidable alike!) and triumphs, I would like to register an URGENT word of premonition and concern about the developing scandal of the reckless siting of California nuclear plants.

l The scandal has suddenly deepened, as the press brought to light in recent days, the hushed-up fact that P G & E .* s new reactor is sited within TWO AND A HALF MIIKI of an - active earthquake fault 800 miles long ( the San Simeon) . See attached press clips) .

How could the State and Federal licensing agencies be so careless /

Worse yet, Mr. President, this exposh comes on top of the previous incredible licensing of two new plants at San Onofre (near LT. Nixon's home) in the midst of a notorious multiple earthquake fault zone!

(The only large stone Mission Church the Padres builded in Calt?ornik, was near there, at San Juan. A terrible quake smashed it in 1814, killing 40 worshippers! Two quakes near there hit the headlines within the last 18 months!)

It is claimed that the authorities 'didn't know' about the San Fault.. But I have discovered that they DID KNovi about Simeon i the quake danger at San Onofre ! I read these words in the AEC's l Licensing Dh ectorate's own federal report! --

". . .the (San Onofre) plant site is. . 60 miles from the San Andreas Fault, 4d miles from the San _ Jacinto Fault, 23 miles from the whittier-Elsinore Fault, la miles from the Newport-Inglewood Fault, 7 miles from the South-Coast Offshore (fault) zone, and one-half mile from the Cristianitos fault..." (" Safety Evaluation of the San Onofre nuclear Generating Station Units No. E & 3" pa6es C-G , 4 ; C-6, 9 ; C-15, 11; C-19, E) .

Mr. President, as you recall, I am sure, the Hewport-Inglewood and South Coast Offshore faults were associated with the wrecking of Long Bea3h in the quake of 19331..

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Is not all this recklessness in 1icensing of sites, asking for trouble? Tax-payers, rate-payers, stockholders and voters would be affected by the millions if a quake incident frightened the public into abandoning these plants so close to fault lines!

Could you please use the pratege of your high office to see that this matter is thoroughly reviewed and investigated and remedied? Perhaps the agencies involved can adopt more careful policies.

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vimn sta wnur by August of this year and the other covered a fault zone about five miles by the came month next year. offshore. Subsequent mapping by SAN LUIS OBISPO-An active i Permission to build the two units USGS geologists and PG&E consul.

i fault zone offshore from two large was granted by the former Atomic tants showed it to be a substantial nuclear reactors that are nearing Energy Commission in December, and active fault zone.

completion here has turned out to be 1970. when the nearest active fault At the same time, USGS scientists-more potentially dangerous than pre- was believed to be 20 miles away. began to focus attention on other <

viously suspected, raising doubts As an added meastfre of conserva- possible consequences of a massive about how or if the Diablo Canyon tism, PG&E said it designed the plant carthquake offshore, quetions in - L nuclear power plant can be licensed, to withstand a 6.75 carthquake di- volving the velocity of ground waves 1 l

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' fault, called the Hosgri Fault Zone, is ground acceleration forces of 0.5 gra-

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. withstand a hypothetical earthquake "8[y'8 e ,[gth dabn[%$ch fS I g'rong," said a USGS schmologist.'7t Was a mistake." / f Construction on the reactors continued after the off.  !

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.l , l j ing revelations about the offshore' Further analysis by USCS showed that the fault passed E l g geclogy are likely to lead to a' delay 4" in operation of the plant, officials of

as close as 2.5 miles to the reactor sitelGovernment geols ogists also conclude (! that sin earthquake of 7.3 magnitude; l'

the Nuclear Regulatory Commission reported in'1927 took place on the dsgri Faulti From t ,.

this they deduced that im'earthquak 'of.7.0 to 7,5 could ;

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'i the facility < F not able to satisfy . .Then in December. Science mag;zine published an arti.

L FRC, the two units may'have to be cle by Clarence A. Hall Jr., chairman of UCLA's geology i reconstructed before a 1,icense can be , department, that showed the Hosgri Fault is 80 to 150, il . < .

. miles long and has undergone.00, miles of movement, i baued."There is a pr'obability it can be rei some.guite recently. .s b.  ?.+ Jr, ,

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."The fault 18 looldng like a b!g lulu,' said Hall in an hk l t .divnion of reactor licensmg, . terview,"arad Pye been just conservative.". ' . .*

i ~ .*It'a pocsible that no license will be" Es article concluded that the$an Simeon-Hodgt! Fcult i issucdl.' said wthere NRC official. system,a's he called it,Pcould be a" tentialhazard to any P JIowever Mth federal and PG&E of. l engineered structure local #d.alo e' coast from San "ficials were optimist.ic that the reac , Simeon south to the vicinity of Pu . ma Point."- .

{i Rtors could wentually be tis'ed. ? Kreference to the Diablo Canyon Plant was removed -

{ from' Hall's original text by.the USGS, which had funded .

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