ML19317E868

Comments on Environ Rept:Environ Consequence Reasonably Assessed But Fes Should Be Submitted to Sc Appalachian Regional Planning & Development Commission

ML19317E868
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Site:	Oconee
Issue date:	08/27/1970
From:	Orlebeke C HOUSING & URBAN DEVELOPMENT, DEPT. OF
To:	Price H US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
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Dear Mr. Price:

This is in reply to your letter of July 23, 1970, which requested coments on the environmental report of the Duke Power Company for its proposed power station which is to be known as the Oconee Nuclear Station and is part of the Keowee-Toxaway Pmject, which is currently under construction.

The Federal Power Comission issued a license in September 1966 which authorized Duke Power Company to proceed with the Keowee-Toxaway Pmject.

This pmject is located at the meeting of the Piedmont Hills and the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains in Oconee and Pickens County, South Carolina and Transyl-vania County, North Camlina, and along the Keowee River and its tributaries.

Construction of the Keowee Hydro Station, the Jocassee Hydro Station with pumped storage, and the Oconee Nuclear Station will result in an initial power capacity of 3,408,000 kilowatts. The long-range expectation of the project is to achieve electric generating capacity of 10 million kilowatts. The Oconee Station itself would consist of three units of 886,300 kw each, utilizing pressurized water type reactors.

HUD Comment We believe, with the reservations noted below, that Duke Power's statement indicates reasonable treatment of environmental consequences. We defer to other agencies on standards for air and water quality, safety, and radiation and thennal pollution standards.

HUD Reservation

1. The statement from Duke Power Company indjcates the importance of this project to the economic development of this region or Appalachia.

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2 The Company states that these plans are being coordinated with the planning agencies of the two counties involved. However, the impact of this project will extend well beyond these local counties and we therefore suggest that the final environmental impact statenent should Le submitted to the agency designated in Budget Bureau Circular A-95 as the regional planning clearing-house. In this case, the designated agency is:

South Carolina Appalachian Regional Planning and Development Commission Dalton Building 18 Thompson Street Greenville, South Carolina 29601

We would appreciate having a copy of the final environmental statement sent to our Regional Administrator, Mr. Edward Baxter, Peachtree-Seventh Building, Atlanta, Georgia 30323.

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