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'~~~guIatory File C UNITED STATES ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION IN THE MATTER OF: I IN .2 1.;' Place Date - Thnsda, 7 11 17 Pages9T - DUPLICATION OR COPYING OF THIS TRANSCRIPT BY PHOTOGRAPHIC, ELECTROSTATIC OR OTHER FACSIMILE MEANS IS PROHIBITED BY THE ORDER FORM AGREEMENT Telephone: (Code 202) 547-6222 ACE - FEDERAL REPORTERS, INC. 0 Official Reporters 415 Second Street, N.E. Washington, D. C. 20002 NATIONWIDEUEGLU37 COVERAGE A~izu:py \'g. Gf375 d UNITED STA.ET OF AR..A ATO ¢l ' .' 4B-GY... C TSI'I3, - - - a -. C Ca - -. - a. CC a. In the m..tter of CONSOLIDTD EDISON COMPP2 OF 1~3Ck~t NOC $0.-247 9 NEW yoa,a INC. 2 6 .(Indian Point st"' v°°" tNO Croton--nHudson New York I 9 1972 Th r day,, 7 DeCCMKJr 5 IZ rmnt, at 9 00 a m. eco e'ed, pilriavant to adjou •BEFORE , Csq. -satet .lAtomit 5k'MUEL W JENSCHO and Licensing Board. DR. JOHN C. GY1R, member. .R' R. B. BRSGGS, Member. I' 17 APPEAWAKNESt is the following chang heretofore noted+ with (As Y. St. , AlbanY, N. 19 BRUCEB L. o MITIND 112 State MR, Energy Council of on behalf of the Atomic York - NOT PRESENT 20 tThi Ste.te or New I AttorneyV onGenera beha Lf MR. JAES CORCORAN , AssistantS.. teStateof Nework- --. &.... ? 11 of: thme State of New York -,pR'ESENT :.,3 21 4 5 I I 6876 P GeckleK 4 Robe G Moishe Si ,an-.Tov 7 Charles N.oCartor 8 Mary Jana OeotDa~n 9 ~Wlliam Yee 6928 Charles Couthm-t 15 I 20 I.W 5 I 6s77 dd #i O.C E E D I N G S, 0 m P R Please. come to o:der 0 CI-VAIRNAN JEISCI: yesterday we in .'c-) 3 1 believe during the day of transfe rrig the hearings consideration of the Possibility of the Board indicated. 5 in this proceeding to WashJington, we S the Atriioc Energy Cot.kission that it was Our Impression that at Cr-O-o-Fn-HudEqfl neax '7 desired that this h-earing be here Point 2 so that members of the site of the plant of Indian to attend and hear the the public culd have an opportunity the more folly infoimed. con erning p0o.ceedings and be perhaps by daily attendalnce a dhearing progress of these matters the evidence as it is presented a full of course, is majntafining 13 The Cor5mission, proceedings here in the viciniy 11-1 and col"Plete record t se public the local depository 1s at the 5 of the site. I believe and school here in -d is region 6 libra.y in the Henry Hudson proceedings of course, to follow the 17 the public is invited, and being informed of all the by reading the daily transcript in is in the proceedirg So that .19 forma.. filings that are, made record does afford themaintenance of the public sense, the 20 an opportunity, and it may be a better opportunity'for 21 they wrili this proceeding because parties to be informed tout material read and study the written ave an opportunity to may give then a better in the transcript which 24 included after all of the proceeding. 25 understanding 6 87 8 the parties dav before 2mil 1 The Boar.d in its inquiry of 2 yesterday. as to the convenience to be served by trarsfer-ing no S the hearing to Washington, did note tha.t the public ha.s A been attending these sessions of t hearings for the past 5 two or three seasions in any sijmeabl-e= e may have 6 Yesterday it was our impression that there iost 7 been one or two members of the public hee-e othc #ise, .... or the a of the people attending here are assoai-.e.d way in 9 other of t-he parties, assisting in so",.le techni.calI 10 the proceeding . 11 The Board conc-1ades that the prpose thit the forte he.a.ig, has 12 Atomic Energy Co.mission had in mind these several se.s ons of 13 been fulfilled in the sense that fulfilled and it woul_ 14 hearings since December of 1970 has been of the Ca.missioil to have the is no longer serve the purpose public does IS expense of this type of proceeding here since the -to be informed. The Board 17 not apparently desire to attend .of the public indicates they 18 would infer that the abseince the proceedings from the 19 prefer to be informed concerning "aintainedin this region. 20 public record that is at note that the Staff has had, 2i The Board did including ,this one, a large 22 several of these sessions, who are away from their regular 23 compleminent of personnel schedule that the Staff appazrently 2A duties- and knowing tie when they are in the Washington '25 has, -they can be expected 6879 chores by after area to give attention to their cont.iflinifg offi~es which perinits 3Ii hours work i n the-Wasihington or Bethesda 1ore expexditioUz.Sly the work of the Commissi-On to go forwardi of Officials awayu 4 rather than having a. large complement their regulax place of duty. it#% would better So -the Board, also concludes that iLf the Ihearing in thiLs 7 serve -tile intetests of thea Coawssiofl so that thcza work of proce eding were tzansferred to Wshington opportunities th~e Staff tl.Le -Co~Maissiof can go forward at all 10 has to attend to their duties. cons ide-ratiols, asking thel parties 11 w3 were in oux indicated its view; the Hiudson 12 for their X-es-consezs The Staff consu:ltred W~~it .1 anCciate52 River Fishermen' s Association has it convenient -L. hav,;e the and indicated that it w-oul d find further sessionls in Washington. 17 ~oncil' Does the Applicant.6 have a view 15 matter? We agree thtthe: 14R. TROSTEN: Yes, Hr, Chairman. complentent of meycibers of the public 19 h-as -not been a very large purpose that there would be somec useful 20 here and it Iis trile However, we moving the heariflq to Washington. 21. served by the Ato-mic Energy also feel that the basic policy1 of * 22 such as this in the area SCoiurnissicfl for holding hearings 23 it should be or- thle facil.ity Is a good one and -that * 24 it may w~ell be thait continued Ai t-his particu7Lar proceeding9 6830 to t-he the Pl~blic may c'los0 at-tend 4ml~ additionl members of and,~ therefore, it aPPears hearing astehearing progres~ses fteBadWudCniu 2 t us that'i ,ol epeeal_ in CLJ~ to-nHE, ds 4 to hol~d t-he heaIrig hereC~I by ruenbers is an inteet expressed 'Shtrgr i rdi~there fth considerati~onl to 7 ftep~biteBoard will give requeo,. from mombers of the -thematerUntil we hear some ions Work and we feel tehat the Cc!mniss 9 Public in this regard,~ this be better served by trnfern 10 reef~~ltC ill 1.1 procceeding lto Washing~ton. further vo wil~ be~ glad to givc-e 13a Vi d in tisreard, make soyT-- adjustinent the matter and perhaps 114 considerati~on to Sat a later time. party to the expressionl by any other 16 Any other 17 proceeding? (No response.) here that have see any represenltatives 19~ ~ 1 o' record, at least. Sbeen entered or. the this sessionl note, however, that after 21~ wightm of the Attorney it was a representative Syesterday, 1 believe I don't see here this State of New York whom' 23 General of the Monday -- he dorn't think~ he was here W24 morning i-zn fact, 1. he came in Wednesday he re Tuesdaly I guess 25 may have been to did state that they would object 9 ~i! afternoon; but he I just din 't .know the basis I * .asferring the proceeding. that assertiOn. We indicated we 8 upon which he would make hid"h'hrenow, puornin~ I. do not see A£ would hear him this 6 7 8 .9 0I 14 5 16 17 9123 18 19 20 *22 23 i2 6882 this proceeding arl I lie perhaps in his absence from 2 has not been informied of the expressions by t-he Board 3 respecting its suggestions about moigthe hearin.g to 5 Perhaps if he had a. opportunity to read the 6 transcript, he can be better informed of the position of 0 ifored he ~pes~ion by Burdtwt 7 -the Soard; and if he desires to conmi*anuicate 2urther with a the Board when he has time to attend to tis proceeding, his suggestions 9 we will be pleaed to give consideration to 10 as weli. 11 We feel that perhaps he has not had an opportun-ity and under 1 because he haz been absent, to fully appreciate 113 stand the views of the Board. The Board is endeavoring to locate a hearing I can 15 room for Washington and perhaps during the morning 16 have further inforration to anunounci publicly on the record -the locatioz of the hearing. Aflter the session last night, the 18 I might also note that it is my recollection that doing, 19 parties have again, as the Board appreciates their 20 endeavored to work out a proposed agenda for the session after today and it was indicated that the Hudson River Fishermean's Association will be prepared to cross-examine Is that 2 the Applicant's witnesses starting on Tuesday. correct, Mr. Macbeth? MR.