ML20003D678

Advises NRC That Inservice Dates of Five Planned Generating Units Will Be Delayed Due to Financing Constraints.Allens Creek Facility Will Be Started Up in Mar 1991.Urges NRC to Continue Timely Licensing Support

ML20003D678
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Site:	05000467, Allens Creek  File:Houston Lighting and Power Company icon.png
Issue date:	03/25/1981
From:	Oprea G HOUSTON LIGHTING & POWER CO.
To:	Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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NUDOCS 8103300307
Download: ML20003D678 (1)

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Dear Mr. Denton :

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This is to advise that owing to financing constraints, we ~

have determined that it will be necessary to delay the in-service dams of five of the Company's planned generating units, including Allens Creek Nuclear Generating Station. Our revised schedule for Allens Creek calls for start-up in March 1991.

Under our new schedule, construction start would not be delayed; rather the overall construction would be stretched out to ease financing requirements.

We are hopeful that a program of load management will be effective in reducing peak demand to levels which can be reliably served with the reduced installed capacity associated with the new plan.

We urge your continued assistance in helping to meet our original date for the beginning of construction in 1982. If we fail to start construction in 1982, we will lose the financing tane-fits from the stretched-out schedule, and the flexibility to accelerate construction if load management is unsuccessful. Additionally, we may also suffer attrition in the staff we have developed in antici-pation of the etart of construction in 1982.

l l- Your continued timely IIcensing support will be greatly l  ! appreciated.

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