ML20239A410

Forwards Article from 630106 Santa Rosa Press Democrat Re AEC Procedures for Reviewing PG&E Application for License to Construct & Operate Reactor at Bodega Head,Ca

ML20239A410
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Site:	05000000, Bodega Bay
Issue date:	01/17/1963
From:	Southwick R US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
To:	Fouchard J, Lowenstein R US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
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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

1. #^NI' 2-Interested party: "T[En' eafety of ttfre~ador design and; I l -

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 permitted to make a limited ap. ' . Qualiftentions on the controversial nuclear. fueled pearance by making oral or writ.

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pouer plant proposed for Dodega De AEC points out that the g i

go IIcad until this spring, but an ad' ten statement of his position on construction permit PGf4E is after z Please Empedite e THl3 the issues within such limits and "does not autorpatically Jnsure the vance %k now at the AEC rules. t-News Bureau for on such conditions as may be fixed Ut<E gives se idea of how the procedure by the presiding officer . . ."

applicant the righTto ar* operat. $roveingin will gu.  ! ,ing license or authorization." *

. 3- State participation: "The pre ' ,

i The Pacific Cas & Electric Co.*PlH siding officer will afford a repre-) co It is' granted on the "basle ofi i .

application for the construction per.3 Rf sentative 'of 'an intere6ted state reasonable assurance that the pc-j d GENERAL OFFK mit for the plant has been filed ' posed facility can be des %ned, which is not a party a reasonable constrveted and operated at the with the AEC. The commission A. J. McCollurn

- opportunity to participate and to . proposeds 'ite -in a manner euch said it wi!! hold the hearing in Cal '

ifornia. intmluce evidence, interrogate- y witnesses, and advise the com- that undue hazard to the health R. R. Gros Under relatively-new regulations' and safety of the general public mist.lon without requiring the rep" the AEC can conduct.the hearings 'will not result."'

through an appointed Atomic Safe - resentative to take a position with; Before.getting the op'eratirig 11- -

respect to the issues."

, ty and Licensing Board. .

11 cense it remainsh'for the appli-That,s a three. mar) body, con-Issues cutlined

.ls . cant to prove that the facility has, - H. R. Sutherland slsting of two technically. qualified 3, g,cg, .been desigrled and con.

A typical AEC nottee of hear.' p members and one qualified in ad- structed in the proposed manner '

ministrative procedures.

irig on a construction permit out' - 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 p'icatien is reviewed by the com- pg 1 "Whether the applicant has:os ernergency procedures, are pre. - 5. L. Wey submitted 'suffielent .information 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 that a faci!!ty of the general type .posed manner. 3; on Reactor Safeguards. proposed in the application can be where information in the app!!- j. F. Bonne, This, says the AEC, offers "ad; constructe:! and operated at the cation for construction permission vice and counsel on any reactor propmed locetion without undae .L ticals with design and antic: pated risk to the health a d safety cf -

operating conditions, the final re- 3, y4 safety problem." . ,, '

the publie;"

port submitted when the license

~~ h i Pubtle llearing is requested must deal in detail

' 3-"Whether there l's reasonabid _ R. W. Joyce '

If the commission staff and the'. assurance that the technleaf in. with the " facility as actually, con.

j advisory committee agree and re.- . formation omitted from and re*; '

t ,s,tructed." , ,'

l port favorably on the application.; gu! red to complete.the applicatIw _ A. J. Swank j It must include, says the AEC.

the procedure then moves to the will be supplied;" '

"a body of convincing" evidence j pub'ie haaring stage.

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. '3- "Whether the ' app!Icant l#, that operation as proposed will not - E* H* Fi sh

The tring "providos, mechan.

". Ism w vby interested . persons

. technically qualified to design ami

. construct the proposed facility.:

endanger the health and safety of the general public." ~

may p .Sc.pate formally In the and " _ H. W. Hoberkorn

. I PG&E. originally said it would determination as to' whether a . VWhether the issuance of asr ask the AEC for'the construction construe!!or: permit or authorita. authorization for construction of .

K. C. Christensen permit in July of last year and ex.

tion shofd be granted and, esla. the faellity will be inimical to the

• nm n pected to get it in March of this d Se 8n Secur y or yean E E. EnM

[!sfied by the applicant." saysa hea theoMhe and sasafety y the conditions to be sat!

4EC. E" '

It proposed to submit applica-tion for the. reactor operating li- . L. W. Coughlan

' rom the AEC Rules of Practlee Inf I

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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 . o a es Tuly Wies: - be conducted "with the maximum d,egree of informality" where there h5, and receiv's it'in September, '

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are "no contested substantial is. + - - " + - ' "a yow; whose interest may sus..." ' f. 4

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• participate as a PG&E proposal has indicated its ..d ~ .' .

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F.~.y . o a written petition intentions. to carry the fight be- '

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Interest of t'm petithner in the pro.

cmding, how t.iat interest may be may fit jnto the AEC's cetegory of. contested issues and end up a

• D~ [l affected by commission aetlon, and full The presiding officer can permit M

. n<e!rer.s formal proceeding.

es eess.nev. e.es the contentions of the petitioner."

opponents, banded togethc.r.y[f W N' 8""'

1 as the Northern California Ar40- 4 intervention or deny thepctition: .. ' clation to Preserve Bodega Ifea<!,

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