ML19341D684

Submits Third Quarterly Status Rept Per ASLB 800827 Order. Specific Proposed Site Selected on Hanford Reservation.News Release & Map Encl

ML19341D684
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Site:	Skagit
Issue date:	03/31/1981
From:	Thomsen F PERKINS, COIE (FORMERLY PERKINS, COIE, STONE, OLSEN
To:	Deale V, Hooper F, Linenberger G Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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                               \' .-    /.  .g    N Valentine B. Deale [ Chairman                                                       Gustave A. Linenberger, Member Atomic Safety and Licensing Board                                                   Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 1001 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.                                                       U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.                       20036                                        Washington, D.C.            20555 Dr. Frank F. Hooper, Member Chairman of Resource, Ecology Fisheries and Wildlife University of Michigan School of Natural Resources Ann Arbor, Michigan                          48109 Ia the Matter of Puget Sound Power & Light Company, et al.,

(Skagit Nuclear Power Project, Units 1 and 2) Docket Nos. 50-522 and 50-523 Gentlemen: This is Applicants' Third Quarterly Status Report filed pur-suant to the Board's order of August 27, 1980. We are pleased to report that Applicants have now selected a specific proposed site for the Skagit Project on the Hanford Reservation. A copy of Puget's News Release of March 27, 1981 and attached map showing the location of the proposed site is en-closed. Selection of the specific proposed site has made it possible to begin the site specific environmental studies, which are now underway. The results of these studies will be presented in the Skagit ER by future amendment. Applicants' geological and geophysical program relating to the Hanferd Reservation (described in our status report of Decem-ber 24, 1980) is still continuing. _"'he resultc of this program will be presented in the'Skagi ture amendment. N 4 D

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Valentine B. Deale, Chairman Dr. Frank F. Hooper, Member Gustave A. Linenberger, Member March 31, 1981 Page Two Applicants now plan to file the amendments to the Skagit ER and PSAR necessary to reflect the change of the proposed site to the Hanford Reservation by December 31, 1981. This represents a three-month extension of the schedule noted in our status report of September 30, 1980. This extension was necessitated by the delay encountered in selecting the specific proposed site. Very truly yours, PERKINS, COIE, STONE, OLSEN & WILLIAMS

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By M F. Theodore Thomsen Attorneys for Applicants Puget Sound Power & Light Company FTT:kd cc: Service List (with enclosure) F

March 31, 1981 Date

 - Valentine B. Deale, Chairman        Frank W. Ostrander, Jr.

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Assistant Attorney General 1001 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. 500 Pacific Building Washington, D.C. 20036 520 S.W. Yamhill Portland, OR 97204 Dr. Frank F. Hooper, Member Chairman of Resource, Ecology, Roger M. Leed, Esq. Fisheries and Wildlife Room 610 University of Michigan 1411 Fourth Avenue Building School of Natural Resources Seattle, WA 98101 Ann Arbor, MI 48109 CFSP and FOB Gustave A. Linenberger, Member Eric Stachon Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 2345 S.E. Yamhill U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Portland, OR 97214 Washington, D.C. 20555 l Robert Lowenstein, Esq. Alan S. Rosenthal, Chairman Lowenstein, Newman, Reis, Atomic Safety and Licensing Axelrad & Toll 1025 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.

    ..ypeal Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission   Washington, D.C. 20036 Washington, D.C. 20555 Warren Hastings, Esq.

Dr. John H. Buck, Member Associate Corporate Counsel Atomic Safety and Licensing Portland General Electric Company Appeal A ard 121 S.W. Salmon Street U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Portland, OR 97204 Washington, D.C. 20555 James W. Durham Michael C.-Farrar, hamber Portland General Electric Company Atomic Safety and Licensing 121 S W. Salmon Street Appeal Board ' Portland, OR 97204 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 2055S Richard D. Bach, Esq. Stoel, Rives, Boley, Docketing and Service Section Fraser'& Wyse Office of the Secretary 2300 Georgia Pacific Building U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 900 S.W. Fifth Avenue Washington, D.C. 20555 Portland, OR 97204 (original and 2 copies) Canadian Consulate General Richard L. Black, Esq. Donald Martens, Consul Counsel for NRC Staff 412 Plaza 600 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 6th and Stewart Street Office of the Executive Legal Seattle, WA 98101

    ~ Director Washington, D.C. 20555 Nicholas D. Lewis, Chairman Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council 820 East Fifth Avenue Olympia, Washington     98504 Kevin M.~Ryan, Esq.
   ~ Assistant Attorney General Temple of' Justice Olympia, WA    98504-Pobert C. Schofield, Director

Skagit County Planning Department 3/31/81 218 County Administration Building serumr vernon. WA '98273

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                                  \('kI[[                                                    l CONTACT: Mike Spellman, Hanford Office 946-1684                FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE l March 27, 1981        1 PUGET POWER SEEKS HANFORD LAND PURCHASE FOR NUCLEAR POWER PROJECT Puget Sound Power & Light Company today asked the Richland Office of the Department of Energy to sell the utility approdately 640 acres of property on the Hanford Reservation for the site of its planned Skagit Nuclear Power Project.

Selection of a specific site for the project was announced tcday in Richland by Robert V. Myers, Vice President of Generation Resources for Puget Power. The property is approximately 10 miles north of Richland, about 4 miles west-northwest of the Washington Public Power Supply System plants which are presently under construction. The area is one of several potential site locations on the Hanford Reservation which Puget Power has been studying for the past several menths Myers said. He said the site will be sized to acco:modate two nuclear generating units i I of 1,288 MWe each.  ! Puget Power announced last July its intention to move its proposed Skagit Nuclear Power Project to Hanford. That decision, the Company said, was based in part upon continual delays in licensing the project at its original site near Sedro Woolley in Skagit County. In September the utility formally notified I the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) of its intention to relocate at Hanford. ) l The Hanford site investigation work has been performed by Northwest Energy ) Services Company (NESCO), a subsidiary company which will also perform l

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ouget Power Nuclear Project Site add I construction management services for the Skagit/Hanford project under the direction of Puget Power, Myers said. Myers said current project activities are devoted to preparing licensing documents for submittal in late 1981 to state and federal agencies in support of Puget Power's applicacion for a construction perfait. Licensing reviews and public hearings would most likely extend throughout 1982, he said, culminating in the construction permit early in 1983. If actual construction work were to begin in 1983, Myers said, comercial operation of the first unit would be expected in 1991.

                     "However," he em;hasized, "this schedule presumes that significant improvements are made in the federal regulatory process, which will provide reasonable assurance that nuclear projects can go forward on time and on budget.

Without such regulatory improvements and assurances, our project will not be pursued." i If the project does proceed on a timely schedule, Myers added, "most of our construction work can be performed by workcrs who are already here, because construction activities at the Supply System should be winding down at the time our activities are starting." This, he said, c uld help stabilize area employment and the local econory, I avoiding many of the problems of " boom and bust" which are often associated with l

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i Three other investor-owned Northwest utilities are partners in the project sponsored by Puget Power. These are Pacific Power & Light Company, Portland ! General Electric Company and the Washington Water Power Company. 1

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