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4 Joe Fouchard, Divistem of Feblic April 26, 1962 Information, Headquarters Dale J. Cook, Acting Assistant to the Manager for 7tsblic Information, SAN CALIFORNIA FUC 20 REOPEN SODEGA BEAD HEARitm MAY 21, 1962 l
1 MK BJC the Califerata Feb11e Utilities Commission has scheduled 1
a reopening of a hearing en the application pending before it of Pacific Gas & Electria Company to allow the firm to construct a M4,000,000 s,cclear power plant at Bodega Emed. California. Earlier hearings were completed on i
March 9, a reseme of which is being circulated as AEC
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Informaties Paper AECE 65/8.
I The TDC issued em April 21 an order to reopen the Bodega
.I Esad hearing before Rueminer retterson at 10:00 a.m., Mon-day, May 21, in the IOC Court Room in San Francisco. A
' taff member emplained te SAR the reopening was prompted I
s by the large member of letters received by the FUC pro-l testing the.E.:::f plant, primarily from conservationists.
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A clipping free the O& ELAND TRIBUNE covering the reopening l
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Wildlife conservalidnis t'
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s who prefer ducks to atoms at i
Bodega Bay today won a tem i
porary victory-in their fight l
to block the construction of
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a nuclear power plant there The California Public Util ities Commissiori decided td-
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$64 million power plant at the bay site.
The decision came a f ter PUC officials re swamped with ported being quite a few
' letters" protesting the pro-posed plant on the grounds it would despoil one of the last scenic recreation areas in Northern California.
The letters began com....
ing in after the PUC completed l
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and took it under submission on March 9. PG and E had requested permission from the i
PUC to build the plant.
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A PUC spokesman said to-I
' day the utilities commission 1
ould reopen hearings in San w
i Francisco on May 21 at its i
hheadquarters in the S t a t e' Buildmg.
No decision w,ill be made ntil the second series of pub-u lic hearings has been com-pleted and the results studied.
The proposed nuclear.
powered station, if it clears all the hurdles, is expected to be completed by 1965 and
.PG and E says it would pro-doce the least costly nuclear-generated power'in the' na.
tion.
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