ML18081B163

Comments on NRC Actions Re Facility Licensing.Extended Delay in OL Issuance Provided Adequate Time to Grant Hearing Requested in 790831 Petition.Commission Should Review Cost/ Benefit Analysis.Svc List & 800303 Press Release Encl

ML18081B163
Person / Time
Site:	Salem
Issue date:	03/03/1980
From:	Coleman A, Coleman E AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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NUDOCS 8003070388
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• 35 "K" Drive Pennsville, N. J. 08070 (609) 678-7125 March J, 1980 United States of America Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C. 20555 Attention Harold R. Denton, Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation PSE&G Co. SAL:EM UNIT NO. 2 -DOCKET NO. 50-Jll PROPOSED ISSUANCE OF OPERATING LICENSE CPPR-53 Dear Mr. Dentona ** Your correspondence of August 21, 1979, acknowledged receipt of our petition dated August J, 1979 requesting a "stay" of the issuance of the operating license for Salem Nuclear. Generating Station Unit No. In addition, your correspondence of October 1, 1979 acknowledged receipt of our petition of August Jl, 1979 seeking to amend our previously submitted petition.

This petition covers need for power, economics and safety-related issues. With your letter, you sent us a copy of the notice that was being filed for publication with the Office of the Federal Register.

The licensee {PSE&G) in a*news release to the wire service (UPI) dated March J indicates it is the intent of the NRC to license Salem II in the near future with no regard to our petition {attachment).

-We feel the Commission is negligent in its responsibility to Citizens by not reviewing current cost benefit analysis.

The NRC has had our petition for five (.5) months. The extended delay in the issuance of an operating license for Salem II has provided :mre than adequate time to grant us a hearing on the cost benefit analysis and need for power as required by the National Environmental Policy lOCFR Part 51, and lOCFR Part 2. We are prepared to present factual evidence that Salem II ( 11 AS IS") is neither heeded nor is it an affordable source of energy *. *rs it the intent of the NRC to operate in a. "business as usual" marmer -completely ignoring the concerns raised in our . petition as amended?

• Very truly yours, Alfred c. Coleman, Eleanor Go Coleman . J;.--o-..

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) v SERVICE LIST Director of Nuclear Reactor Regulation u.s. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. c. 20555

• Director Qf Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards u.s. Nuclear Regulatory Commission . Washington, D. c. 20555 Director of Office of Inspection and Enforcement u.s. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. c. 20555 Director of Office of Administration U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. c. 20555

• Dr. Joseph M. Hendrie, Chairman U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. c. 20555 Vi ct or Gi linsky, Commissioner u.s. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washingt*on, D. c. 20555 Richard T. Kennedy, Commissioner U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission c.-. 20555 Peter A. Bradford, Commissioner . u.s. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. c. 20555 John F. Ahearne, Commissioner.

U.S. Nuclear*:aegulatory Commission Washington, D. c. 20555

--* _ __.___ <Tht l!tullrtin . Monday, March 3, 1980 . 2 NB Salem II plant .may. start* in April .. -Lower Alloways Creek -(UPI) -The Nuclear Regulatory sion probably will grant permission next month for a limited startup of Public Service Electric & Gas Co. 's

• Salem II nuclear. plant, a utility spokesman says. Spokesman Arthur F. Lenehan also predicted ye5terday that the plant, which has been idle since struction was completed year, could be in full operation by the end of the summer if the NRC allows the ty to open in April. PSE&G was prevented from ing the reactor last June after the NRC imposed a moratorium on new nuclear operations following the cident at the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania last March. But the commission last week gave permission for a limited tup at a Tel)Ilessee nuclear plant and Lenehan said NRC officials "have indicated to us we are second in line

• for the granting of a limited tion license." "If all goes well, we could get that t license ift April," he .added. The so-called "low power-testing license" would permit the 1.1 million kilowatt plant to begin generating up to 5 percent of , its capability, ; Lenehan said. I The license also would allow cials to conduct tests, Lenehan add-j ed. The tests are expected to take be-* tween four and six months, he said, and, if successful, the utility ceuld then apply for a full-scale operations license.*

At full capacity, Lenehan said the $750-million Salem II would produce enough power to replace 45,000 bar-* rels of oil a day. NRC officials have visited the lem II plant several times in recent months and after carefully inspected the facility, said "it looked encour-. aging," Lenehan said. The commission is expected to deal first with a request from ia Electric .Power Co. for a limited operation license for its North Ana nuclear plant before taking up the PSE&G reQuest, Lenehan said. *