ML20214A616

Expresses Concern Re Fairness in Proceedings Concerning Facility Startup.Many Citizens Believe Proceedings Are Fixed & That Someone within Regulatory Bureaucracy Should Sound Off About Fairness in Proceedings

ML20214A616
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Site:	Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png
Issue date:	11/10/1986
From:	Barbash M CITIZENS TO REPLACE LILCO
To:	Margulies M Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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e CITIZENS TO REPLACE LILCO 265 WEST MAIN STREEf, P.O. DRAWER 0, BABYLON, N.Y. 11702 / 516-669-3236 4

• November 10, 1986

%TFERi%G COMMITTEE Mautwe Barca,n Chentnren Elaine Benson Nora Bredes Leon Campo B.lt Chaletf Fraser Doughert, Judge Morton B. Margulies Dan Gluth teenard (,oldwhmidt Admlnistrative Judge

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, ,4, IJ.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Jack Hohende ser Washington, D.C. 20555 Josepn kaufman Nansy keHey irms L ke Dear Judge Margulies; sharon tus.ornne w dham varran. sr.

w anam um.no I recently had the privilege of testifying before you and and Ed.ard M Go era other members of the licensing panel. Like others who

$"' ant /rf testified, I am deeply disturbed that the panel has now been spilt Nrhan Pei up and reassigned. This seems to be just one more effort by the

@s$",Cd'"" Nuclear Regulatory Commission to do whatever is necessary to ries snedaen license Shoreham, despite the shortcomings of the evacuation plan.

Judem B $nedJon RODers snwJer rom r.ome. The evidence keeps mounting that we citizens are confronted with a De' ' 'um*" " fixed" proceeding. And, when we learn that Lynn Nofsiger has AD%l%OR1r 00441TTIE already reCelVed over one-half million dollars from the Long Island f Lighting Company, our concern turns into paranola. Surely, there ,

se,N"c,nen tas an, usemenman Paul Harenbe's are people of integrity within the regulatory hierarchy who

$N Ia','ne", '( are also becoming uncomfortable with these proceedings.

supenisor fuJun Hare suren we uarnn L"8 From what little I knew of you and your fellow judges. I Un'IdrY,*I,"trunn had begun to hope that you could not be compromised. The sename sames task sudden reassignment tended to confirm that belief. But now your U'e C n" Na'm Ya'n5,.,, removal has rendered your integrity immaterial. If my speculations w ememn nonen ownes are correct, it is time for some plain public talk on this matter.

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%uemNs man la8ft Behalt w.emmsenan t e..s s eu. Yes, it is easy for me to ask someone for bravery when it is his wemmmysuseensamu job and not mine which is on the line. The fate of whistle US C "la."'Un'),'", blowers in this country is not encouraging. Despite this, we live l we%.cman ce a. t.rWe in continued hope that someone within the regulatory bureaucracy Wemen man rhomas Barrag' will sound a call for fairness in the proceedings. Eventually, if

( ...n s tenlum the American public's growing apprehension regarding nuclear power I i n a o, a.me c armappa tu,.aur orna,a usro , is to be overcome, a return to fairness must help the nuclear t cC I.'c'((d bi [ industry itself. May I have your thoughts on the matter?

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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 5.1966 Power Plants and Powerless People Morton I. Goldman s arrogant Oct.15 land in an emerrency. They were told that letter on nuclear plant safety is actually an an evacuation plan need not be considered exceteent argument for reform of heensing until the final heensing hearing after the procedures. Mr. Goldman starts by clasm. plant was built. They asked other ques-ing that " states have had the right for tamis, such as the possibihty of a hydrogen years . . to participate dunng the federas explosion. They were told not to worry heensing process. . . . What a cruel atinut anything-the experts knew best. so

, hoan! The rigtit of states and other inter. much for " participation."

veners to " participate

• has actually been Mr. Goldman then questions how states the nght to plead before a court with deaf . . can be expected to provide a signift-ears. For example, back in the early '*0s. cant contnbution to the safety manage-dunng the heanngs on the Shoreham nu. ment of a high technology nuclear indus-clear plant on Ismg Island. interveners try. . " He a!so notes the tie in of the 11-raased the problem of evacuating 12mg Is. rensing issue with elections. This is a repe-

' tition of the old refrain that wisdom is ex-r clusively in the province of a chosen few.

In fact. he seems to be stating that some Issues are beyond pubhc comprehension '

and, therefore. should be exempt from the democratic electoral pmcess.

j This is exactly what has happened with nuclear power. The people who wrote the laws regulating that industry accomphshed a remarkable feat. First. they strtpped low calities of their historic rights of decision concerning health, welfare and safety.

Then, with the Price Anderson Act, they .

virtually eftmmated the nght of everyone -

to just compensation for damages. It is a ,*

situation unparalleled in Ameneen peace -

time history.

Would that the building industry, of which f am a member, enjoyed compara-l ble freedoms fmm the problems of local j

control of soning, etc. Actually. I would forgo that pleasant speculation in ex-

[ change for bnnging the nuclear industry .

l back into the real world of responsibility.

• accountabihty and the normal Amencan i process.

l MALBics BARSAAH Chairman Citizens to Replace LJlco I Babylon. N.Y.

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