Council to appeal Trojan waste expansion
By CATHERINE SEIGNER
Of the Emerald
The state Energy Facility Sitting
Council decided by unanimous
vote Monday to appeal a recent
federal order allowing Portland
General Electric Co. to expand
waste storage facilities at the Tro
jan nuclear power plant.
Don Godard, EFSC staff direc
tor, recommended the agency ex
ercise its authority to appeal be
cause the U.S. Nuclear Regulat
ory Commission’s (NRC) order is
sued Oct. 5 included only one of
the six technical safety specifica
tions EFSC had requested.
Godard emphasized that EFSC
is not arguing with the federal de
cision allowing additional spent
fuel storage racks at the plant, but
that the agency is concerned
about the safety questions.
“Council is not opposing instal
lation of racks,” Godard said. “We
would just like to impose restric
tions on their use."
The additional technical
specifications include water
chemistry controls within the
spent fuel pool, alternative stor
age cavities, water temperature
controls — used to standardize
bron content — and installation of
facilities allowing the movement of
a full reactor core reserve to the
pool at one time.
Godard said the appeal, if suc
cessful, would establish additional
requirements that might help avert
accidents.
“We don’t feel you can operate
a nuclear plant on a gentleman’s
agreement," he told several PGE
officials at Monday’s meeting.
“PGE has argued in the past that it
doesn't have tocomply with state
regulations.”
PGE Vice President John Frew
ing told EFSC it should not appeal
the federal decision.
“There is no safety issue out
standing after the NRC order. The
appeal process is open-ended’
with regard to time and cost and
would be counter-productive both
to our customers and to the peo
ple of Oregon.”
Frewing cited a previous case in
Minnesota where Northern States
Power Co. ran into similar prob
lems at the Prairie Island nuclear
plant.
“The appeal was instituted in
June 1977 and is still pending,
Frewing said. “There has been no
action in 18 months.”
Godard asked PGE officials if
the appeal would prohibit in any
way the company’s plans to install
additional racks. Frewing said it
would not.
“We can still operate the plant,
but the appeal would increase the
technical specifications even
more.”
Godard said he could see addi
tional specifications would be
“burdensome” but that additional
requirements are needed.
"That’s the difference between
PGE and the EFSC staff," Godard
said. “A thorough training prog
ram will identify to plant operators
the basis for all requirements.”
Hearing fails to attract input
Criminal justice planning was
not the most prevalent issue
among Lane County citizens
Monday night, as was apparent
when a lone citizen turned out for
a public hearing on the subject.
The hearing was the first at
tempt by the Citizens Advisory
Committee (CAC) for Criminal
Justice Planning to solicit citizen
input to aid the committee in de
veloping problem statements for a
Criminal Justice Plan for the 1980
fiscal year.
Problem statements for the plan
will be developed by CAC, com
prised of citizens-at-large and the
Technical Advisory Committee on
Criminal Justice Planning, made
up of administrators for Oregon
criminal justice systems and sub
mitted to Lane Council of Gov
ernments by Dec. 1 for review.
The Criminal Justice Ran for
the 1979 fiscal year was the first of
its kind for Lane County. The plan
was put together to organize and
identify legitimate criminal justice
problems and to deal with the
problem of funding.
Lane County received
$227,000 in federal Law En
forcement Assistance Administra
tion money for the 1979 fiscal year
and the figure will be near the
same for 1980. The money will be
administered through the Criminal
Justice Plan in the form of grants
to public and private non-profit
agencies.
LEAA funds are split among five
categories, and the problem
statements are to address those
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areas: 5 percent to prosecution, 5
percent to defense, 20 percent to
juveniles, 10 percent to courts and
20 percent to corrections. The re
maining 40 percent of the funds
will go to enforcement.
Additional funds, supplied
through the Juvenile Justice Act,
are also to be administered by the
Criminal Justice Plan. The funds
will amount to about $50,000 for
the 1980 fiscal year.
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“We have had instances in the
past when PGE was doing some
thing different than what the state
would interpret,” Godard went on.
“The type of problems that come
up are caused by lack of attention
to detail.”
EFSC member Bill Luch moved
to adopt the staff recommendation
to appeal the NRC order.
“This is a viable and sensible
way to bring NRC attention to
state concerns over the bad odor’
surrounding the back end of the
fuel cycle (nuclear waste),” Luch
said.
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“It we do nothing, we will allow
ourselves to slide into a de facto
storage situation like that happen
ing in 29 other sites right now.
Sooner or later we re going to end
up in court on this issue.”
Marian Frank, EFSC member
and Eugene resident, agreed with
Luch. “I’m committed to going
ahead with an appeal.”
Prior to the unanimous vote,
EFSC member John Thorpe said
adherence to technical specifica
tions is mandatory.
“You can't put a price tag on
safety."
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