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Response to a Letter Dated August 21, 1968, Regarding the Kewaunee 9 DISTRIBUTION: Suppi File TFEnglehardt PDR Shapar Formal File OCR (2) HLPrice SECY (2) Docket No. 50-305 CKBeck Gladys Ertter MMMann (DR-1832) CLHenderson DR Reading File RLDoan PAMorris VOSchmidt Honorable Gaylord Nelson United States Senate Dear Senator Nelson: I am pleased to reply to your letter of August 21, 1968, regarding the Kewaunee Nuclear Power Plant, which enclosed a copy of a letter from Mr. Alvin Beranek of Kewaunee, Wisconsin. Mr. Beranek has also written a letter to the Atomic Energy Commission of similar purport to his letter to you. A copy of our answer to his letter which was addressed to the Commission is enclosed. As indicated in this response, we are unable to give him any assistance concerning any desire of the Wisconsin Public Service Corporation to obtain a right-of-way over his property for transmission lines..as this is a matter outside of the substantive jurisdiction of the Commission. Copies of the documents.and booklets which we are mailing to Mr. Beranek are also enclosed. Sincerely, ( signed )' Haroid -L Price Harold L. Price Director of Regulation Enclosure: Copy of Itr to Alvin Beranek v/ends. DRL .DR .A4 r is Price 6 S98- --- -------- 9/ A/68 9/468 o24o0 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1968 0-296-617 UNITED STATES ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20545 Docket No. 50-305 SEP 2 0 1968 Xr. Alvin Beranek Rural Route 1 Kewaunee, Wisconsin 54216 Dear Mr.'Beranek. 12, 1968, inquiring I am pleased to reply to your letter dated August about the Kewaunee Nuclear Power Plant. and the Advisory Com The regulatory staff of the Atomic Energy Commission independent, statutory group of ex mittee on Reactor'Safeguards (ACRS), an on reactor safety matters, perts whose function is to advise the Commission which was the application for a construction permit thoroughly reviewed a result of this review, both with the Commission in August 1967. As filed could the regulatory staff and the ACRS concluded that the proposed reactor it could be constructed at the Kewaunee site with reasonable assurance that undue risk to the health and safety of the public. The be operated without staff's Safety bases for these conclusions are embodied in the -regulatory is enclosed. Evaluation dated May 28, 1968, a copy of which was held in Kewaunee, Wiscon A public hearing to consider the application Safety and Licensing sin on june 27-28, 1968, before a three man Atomic the Commission. This hearing was open to the public Board designated by members of participation in the hearing by interested and procedures for representatives were provided.. Pursuant to these procedures, the public of Kewaunee and the Town of of the State of Wisconsin, and local officials Carlton took part in the hearing. After considering all of the testimony Safety and Licensing Board. and evidence offered at the hearing, the Atomic 1968, in which it authorized the issued its initial decision on August 6, to the Wisconsin Public Serv issuance of a provisional construction permit copy of the Board's decision is ice Corporation to construct the plant. A enclosed. regarding the safety In reviewing the application and reaching conclusions and the ACRS took into consid of the proposed plant, the regulatory staff .including those eration the matter of releases of radioactive materials, Mr. Alvin Beranek -2 which might be contained in released gases, during operation of the plant. The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board also took the matter into consider ation in reaching its decision to authorize the granting of the provisional construction permit. Further discussion of this matter may be found in the regulatory staff's Safety Evaluation, which is enclosed. Also enclosed are copies of two booklets prepared by the-Atomic Energy Com mission regarding the licensing of power reactors and atomic power safety which will provide more information regarding the Commission's licensing procedures and the safety programs designed to protect the health and safety of the public. We are unable to provide you with any assistance regarding your difficulties with the Wisconsin Public Service Corporation regarding'the acquisition of the Commission a right-of-way since the substantive regulatory authority of is limited essentially to matters of radiological health and safety and the common defense and security.. Sincerely, Peter A. Morris, Director Division of Reactor Licensing Enclosures: 1. Safety Evaluation 2. Initial Decision 3. Copies of Two Booklets cc: Senator Gaylord Nelson * Senator.William Proxmire 0 . LISTER HILL., ALA., CHAIRMAN *AYNE MORSE, OREG. JACOB K. JAVITS, N.Y. RALPH YAR OROUGH, TEX. WINSTON L. PROUTY, VT. JOSEPH S. CLARK. PA. PETER H. DOMINICK, COLO. JENNINGS RANDOLPH, W.VA. GEORGE MURPHY, CALIF. HARRISON A. WILLIAMS, JR., N.J. PAUL J. FANNIN. ARIZ. 1832 CLAIBORNE PELL, R.I. I ROBERT P. GRIFFIN. MICH. EDWARD M. KENNEDY, MASS. ,zCnifte 2Ates zenafe GAYLORD NELSON, WIS. WALTER F. MONDALE, MINN. COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE STEWART E. MCCLURE, CHIEF CLERK JOHN S. FORSYTHE, GENERAL COUNSEL WASHINGTON. D.C. 20510 August 21, 1968 Mr. Robert D. O'Neill, Director Congressional Relations Atomic Energy Commission Washington, D. C. 20545 Dear Mr. O'Neill: Even though the Atomic Energy Commission did not issue a permit to construct a nuclear power plant in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, until review by the AEC Regulatory Staff and the Commission's Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards and a public hearing by an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, my constituent, Mr. Alvin Beranek of Kewaunee, Wisconsin, has expressed concern about the danger. He is concerned about the danger to those persons living near the proposed nuclear power plant. Please give his letter the utmost consideration and advise. Many thanks for this courtesy. .X ej,.- GAYLORD NELSON U. S. Senator GN:p enclosure 13.2 Z1e- 1832 COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS k 22 AUG WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510 \96-3 OFFICIAL BUSINESS Mr. Robert D. O'Neill, Director Congressional Relations Atomic Energy Commission Washington, D. C. 20545 .1 0 p C,, LU * ~ 1 ~ Ci~/* ,* K V&', (.2 .~ I.'4 ~II ~I.f I-. U ~ z~/2r ~ ~'7 ~-~-~- .A'i 4 Vv-~~L~ ~-j~-~ ~piy ~ ~ w-~-- (2~2~d~ 7 1~Q~~v~7 ~ / ___ j I L~( ~19L~~ .z4 ~-~ J I A r ~rY6~C~zZ~J1 7 li/?~y * ~ ~ I 4 ~ j~ ~ ,j -7 ~Z~i-~-z~ 6b- z 7w 7 * 'I ; I 'I 1 I.. * ,1/ ~ * **. <T~A.~ cc I .*.* ~Th.
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