ML18347A709

Requesting Information on Palisades Reactor & Funding of Intervenors

ML18347A709
Person / Time
Site:	Palisades
Issue date:	10/04/1979
From:	Riegle D US SEN (Senate)
To:	Kammer C Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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Download: ML18347A709 (4)

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Incoming: Senat~r Donald Riegle From: Const1 tuent referral from Thomas Edwards Mr. Carlton Kammer Dire,c tor,. To: Carl *Kammerer, OCA Date JO 14179 Office of Congressional

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Req~ie*s-qsN~ info on Pal j sade; ~eactor Affairs & funding of 1 ntervenors

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September 21, 1979 RR 1, Box 12 Bloomingdale, MI 49026 Sen. Donald W. Riegle, Jr~

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Washington, D. Ce 20510

Dear Sen. Riegle:

Enclosed please find a copy of letters sent to both the u. s.

Army. Corps of Engineers and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Please also note that copies of that letter have been s~nt to other parties, as indicated at ,the ertd of that letter.

Both as a spokesperson for the Valley Alliance as well as an individual I am requesting that you please respond to two concerns:

1) Is there not an inter-agency conflict in the Palisades steam generator issue when on the one hand the NRC has not yet made a firial determination as to whether the replacement can even take place, while on the other the Corps and DNR are currently prdcessing applications for permits which would allow Consumers Power Co. to begin preparation for replacement?

Is there any way you can interceed in this matter?

2) In public hearings tax-payer monies are used to hire legal counsel for state and federal agencies holding these hearings, Nuclear Regulatory Commission public hearings are one such example. In what ways can you help secure public funds for your constituents to be used to pay for lawyers and expert witnesses at such hearings? Agencies which issue liscenc~s or permits for nuclear-related purposes have no assurance of getting all the information they need without the citizens'

• input and the citizenry is at a definite disadvantage in being' able to express their point of view when not adequately represented by legal cousel or expert witnesses.

r look forward to receiving your answers to these questions.

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I am writing as both a concerned citizen, who lives within 25 miles of Palisades Nuclear Power Plant, as well as an appointed representa-tive of The Valley Alliance, a community group working for a non-nuclear world, based in Kalamazoo but comprised of citizens from the southwest Michigan area.

It is our understanding that Consumers Power Co. plans to construct a temporary barge slip facility just off the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant site in Covert Township in Lake Michigan so they can conduct off-

. shore dredging as well as on-shore fill-in dumping in order to receive an*d unload two new steam generators for their Palisades plant. It is also our understanding that before new steam generators can be installed

.at Palisades the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) must make a deter-mination concerning the necessity for and safety of such a change in equipment. The NRC has not yet made a.final decision in this matter and has, in fact, granted a citizen request for a formal public hearing concerning this very iss.ue, It therefore appears to us that .consumers Power Co. is not only premature in applying with state (Michigan Dept.*

of Natural Resources) and federal (U. S. Army Corps of Engineers) agencies for permits for these off-shore/on-shore activities but is presumptously assuming that it will be granted NRC approval for steam generator replacement, Consumers Power Co. 's attitude makes a mock-ery of the *public hearing granted by the NRC, The U, S. Army Corps of Engineers' as well as the Michigan Dept. of Natural Resources' decision to consider such applications for permits is therefore also premature.

It is our belief that the changes being planned by Consumers Power Co.  ; '

at the Palisades plant will ultimately result in detrimental effects upon the people of southwest Michigan, This citizenry has been granted a public hearing and neither the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers nor the Michigan Dept. of N~tural Resources ~hould accept applications for pennits from Consumers Power Co. until a final determination on the steam generator issue is made by the NRC. Premature acceptance or and prcUminary determination on these applications is a waste of the taxpayers' money and only serves Consumers Power Co.'s interests by ignoring and making .a sham of the democratic process of allowing the citizenry to be heard.

If the U. s. Army Corps of Engineers and the Michigan Dept. of Natural Resources do. however choose to accept Consumers Power Co.'s applications

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then we hereby formally request a pre-project public hearing be held to further discuss the details of Consumers Power Co. 's proposals since it is our belief that these actions are of extreme importance to the public of southwest Michigan and must be met with free and

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I have been appointed as an official ~pokesman fot The Valley Alliance by members of The Valley Alliance.

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