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Joseph Fouchard, DPI, DQS January 17, 1963 l
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CLIPPING PROM SANTA ROSA PRESS DEMDCRAT (JANUARY 6, 1963)
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Attached for your information fa a story from the Santa Rosa Press Democrat of January 6,1963, on the AEC procedures for reviewing PG6E's application for a itcense to construct and operate a reactor at Bodega Bead.
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.i For AEC's Hearing ~*on Bodega Plsnt l
- #^NI' 2-Interested party: "T[En eafety of ttfre~ador design and; I
Tha Alemic Energy Commission who is not a party may, in the dis-its alte on Bodega llead.
prcbaMy won't schedule hearthgs crellon of the presiding officer, be j
on the controversial nuclear. fueled permitted to make a limited ap.
'. Qualiftentions j
pouer plant proposed for Dodega pearance by making oral or writ.
De AEC points out that the f
g ten statement of his position on construction permit PGf4E is after z Please Empedite e go IIcad until this spring, but an ad' i
THl3 vance %k now at the AEC rules.
the issues within such limits and "does not autorpatically Jnsure the t-News Bureau for Ut<E gives se idea of how the procedure on such conditions as may be fixed applicant the righTto ar* operat.
$roveingin will gu.
by the presiding officer..."
,ing license or authorization."
. 3-State participation: "The pre '
The Pacific Cas & Electric Co.*PlH siding officer will afford a repre-) co It is' granted on the "basle ofi i
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. application for the construction per.3 Rf reasonable assurance that the pc-j d
sentative 'of 'an intere6ted state
' posed facility can be des %ned, mit for the plant has been filed with the AEC. The commission which is not a party a reasonable constrveted and operated at the A. J. McCollurn said it wi!! hold the hearing in Cal '
opportunity to participate and to
. proposed 'ite -in a manner euch y
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intmluce evidence, interrogate-that undue hazard to the health R. R. Gros witnesses, and advise the com-Under relatively-new regulations' and safety of the general public the AEC can conduct.the hearings mist.lon without requiring the rep" through an appointed Atomic Safe -
resentative to take a position with;
'will not result."'
Before.getting the op'eratirig 11-ty and Licensing Board.
respect to the issues."
11 cense it remainsh'for the appli-
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cant to prove that the facility has,
- H. R. Sutherland That,s a three. mar) body, con-Issues cutlined slsting of two technically. qualified members and one qualified in ad-A typical AEC nottee of hear.'
3, g,cg,.been desigrled and con.
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ministrative procedures.
irig on a construction permit out' structed in the proposed manner '
R. H. Gerdes lines the issues considered:
and that tralned personnel pro.
4 The hearng comes after the ap.
v ded with adequate operating and 1 "Whether the applicant has:os ernergency procedures, are pre.
p'icatien is reviewed by the com-pg submitted 'suffielent.information
- 5. L. Wey pared for,the responsibility of nel of no s on o rt to provido reasonable assurance' operating the facility in the pro.
, L. H. Anderson known as the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards.
that a faci!!ty of the general type
. osed manner.
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proposed in the application can be where information in the app!!-
This, says the AEC, offers "ad; constructe:! and operated at the cation for construction permission
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.L vice and counsel on any reactor propmed locetion without undae ticals with design and antic: pated safety problem.".,,
risk to the health a d safety cf operating conditions, the final re-3, y4 the publie;"
port submitted when the license
~~ h Pubtle llearing 3-"Whether there l's reasonabid is requested must deal in detail i
If the commission staff and the'.
assurance that the technleaf in.
with the " facility as actually, con.
R. W. Joyce '
j advisory committee agree and re.-
. formation omitted from and re*;,s,tructed.",
l port favorably on the application.;
gu! red to complete.the applicatIw It must include, says the AEC.
A. J. Swank t
j the procedure then moves to the will be supplied;"
l "a body of convincing" evidence j
pub'ie haaring stage.
. '3- "Whether the ' app!Icant l#,
that operation as proposed will not E* H* Fi sh
The tring "providos, mechan.
. technically qualified to design ami endanger the health and safety of Ism w vby interested. persons
. construct the proposed facility.:
the general public."
H. W. Hoberkorn
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may p.Sc.pate formally In the and I
PG&E. originally said it would determination as to' whether a
. VWhether the issuance of asr ask the AEC for'the construction K. C. Christensen construe!!or: permit or authorita.
authorization for construction of tion shofd be granted and, esla.
the faellity will be inimical to the permit in July of last year and ex.
pected to get it in March of this
[!sfied by the applicant." says theoMhe safety conditions to be sat!
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E E. EnM hea and sa y the 4EC.
E" It proposed to submit applica-a tion for the. reactor operating li-L. W. Coughlan
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'he posMon of the " interested per*
ne hearings, se s the' AEC.will R. H. Peter on ins fall generally into three cat.
be conducted "with the maximum o
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d,egree of informality" where there h5, and receiv's it'in September,
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cmding, how t.iat interest may be of. contested issues and end up a affected by commission aetlon, and full
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es eess.nev. e.es the contentions of the petitioner."M opponents, banded togethc.r.y[f W N' 8""'
The presiding officer can permit as the Northern California Ar40-4 1
intervention or deny thepctition:..
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