PROTEST OF THE ALLIANCE FOR NUCLEAR RESPONSIBILITY, SIERRA CLUB, CALPIRG, ENVIRONMENT CALIFORNIA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER TO PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY’S APPLICATION TO RECOVER THE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH RENEWAL OF THE DIABLO CANYON POWER PLANT OPERATING LICENSES – March 10, 2010

2010-03_10 A4NR to CPUC LR protest

http://a4nr.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/2010-03_10-A4NR-to-CPUC-LR-protest.pdf

Pursuant to Rule 2.6 of the Commission Rules of Practice and Procedure, the
Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility, Sierra Club, CALPIRG, Environment
California Research Center, (A4NR et al) hereby submits this protest to the
application of Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) to recover the costs
associated with renewal of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant. A4NR, et al’s,
Protest is based on PG&E’s incomplete Application for ratepayer funding.

Decision 07-03-044 March 15, 2007 recognized A4NR, Sierra Club and TURN’s
concerns that PG&E’s “feasibility study” was nothing less than a full Nuclear
Regulatory Commission License Renewal application – absent only the
signature, envelope and stamp. To address these concerns the CPUC Decision
stated that: “We have already addressed this concern by requiring PG&E to
submit the study to the Commission as part of an application in 2011 on whether
to proceed with license renewal. If PG&E fails to do so, we agree with PG&E’s
observation that the Commission “has ample means to deal with PG&E’s failure
to comply with the Commission’s order to file an application, if that should ever
come to pass.”

A4NR, et al, believe that PG&E’s January 29, 2010 letter to CPUC Chairman
Peevey fails to fully and completely meet the Commission’s directive relating to
AB 1632 recommendations and the required submittal of the application to the
CPUC in advance of filing a license renewal application with the NRC.