ML19326A311

Requests Extension of Time in Which to Prepare Necessary Documentation to Refute Environ Rept & Become Formal Intervenor

ML19326A311
Person / Time
Site:	Davis Besse
Issue date:	10/17/1970
From:	Oster I BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIV., BOWLING GREEN, OH
To:	Wells A Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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NUDOCS 8002030137
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Mr. A. A. Wells, Chairman

~ Atomic Safety and Licensing Panel U. S. Atomic Energy Commission

.- Washington,- D. C. -20545

Dear Mr. Vells:

By virtue of this letter I would like to lodge a formal request with your office for an extension in time so that our group can pursue in detail the ramifications of the Environmental Report filed by the Toledo Edison Company on the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant. According

.to the Notice which appeared in the Federal Register on August 20, interested parties at both the State and Federal levels had been given an interval of sixty days during which objections and/or clarifications to the report could be made. Repeated attempts to obtain the necessary exchange of information which could be used for this at both the Federal and State levels have been largely ignored and/or ansuered in vague and uncertain terms. For instance, the Director of the Bureau of Sports Fisheries and Wildlife has not even responded to our inquiries, the Radiological Health Unit of the State of Ohio Department of Health

_ has answered our Inquiries.with the vague statement that they were looking into the matter; and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources claims "that it does not have any authority in this matter" to just mention a few, if the conclusions of the Environmental Report filed by Toledo Edison were to be accepted by default, it would make a mockery of the Environmental Policy Act of 1969, in passing, I might mention that the report scens woefully inadequate in many respects and I cannot Imagine that it could be accepted in its present form. However, in order for our group to prepare the necessary documentation and to sock legal counsel for establishing ourselves as

. Intervenors in this case, it would be necessary for us to obtain an extension of the time limit for at least nIncty days. As you probably are well aware of the fact, ths firiaiiciaT distidv~s ~ nEcessary~ for private citi: ens to undertake such a venture are enormous. Ordinarily, this could be and

,_ _ . should..be_ handled _by the appropriate State and Federal agencies. I am afraid I must level the serious charge that up to nces we have seen no indication that many of them are willing to accept this responsibility.

Looking forward to hearing from you further, I remain 80 0 '3 0M

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Cs Respectfully yours, d/V trwin I. Oster

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