{"id":310,"date":"2010-01-21T16:24:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T16:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a4nr.org\/?p=310"},"modified":"2010-01-21T16:26:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T16:26:27","slug":"dear-michael-peevey-president-california-public-utilities-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"Dear Michael Peevey, President, California Public Utilities Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please copy and paste the following letter to the following: http:\/\/docs.cpuc.ca.gov\/sendemail\/(apg20445tev00ljy3hcmmtrx)\/sendmail.aspx?cmr=5218<\/a><\/p>\n

Dear Michael Peevey, President, California Public Utilities Commission<\/p>\n

Subject: Application of PG&E for Approval of Ratepayer Funding to Perform Additional Seismic Studies Recommended by the CEC<\/p>\n

As a California ratepayer, I wish to join Assemblyman Sam Blakeslee (R-SLO) in support of PG&E\u2019s application seeking funding authorization.\u00a0 The CPUC authorization would allow PG&E to proceed with the implementation of seismic studies recommended by state oversight agencies and the state legislature and upheld by the Governor.\u00a0 Assemblyman Blakeslee, who holds a Ph.D. from University of California, Santa Barbara for his research in seismic scattering, micro-earthquake studies, and fault-zone attenuation, has closely followed the Energy Commission\u2019s recommendations and his leadership on this issue has been valuable to the community and the state.<\/p>\n

Without the results of updated seismic mapping and studies, both the county and the state place ratepayers and California\u2019s economy at risk.\u00a0 We do not presume to know what the results of these studies will be, but we are certain that there will be impacts to our county. Even though the current licenses for Diablo Canyon do not expire for over 15 years, San Luis Obispo is being asked now to accept the risks of 20 more years of aging reactors that produce and must store highly radioactive waste onsite.\u00a0 We are being asked to go forth without investigating the alternatives that may be available or the risks we are being asked to assume.<\/p>\n

We therefore ask that the CPUC condition the funding on PG&E\u2019s requesting a stay in the NRC relicensing application until seismic studies are complete and reviewed.\u00a0 PG&E was given our ratepayer funding in their 2007 GRC to do a feasibility study, the results of which were supposed to be submitted to your CPUC for your determination on whether PG&E should proceed with relicensing.\u00a0 PG&E has already spent our money on the yet unseen feasibility study, and has filed at the NRC without completing those steps.\u00a0 We request that no further ratepayer funding for any relicensing activities\u2014except completing the state mandated seismic studies in an expedited and timely manner\u2014be approved. When required seismic studies and mapping is complete, then the NRC process can proceed, if warranted, without foreseeable costly legal battles.<\/p>\n

NRC Regulations state \u201c\u2026the NRC has no role in energy planning decisions.\u00a0 State regulatory agencies, system operators, power plant owners, and, in some cases other Federal agencies, ultimately decide whether the plant should continue to operate\u201d.\u00a0 In 1967 California permitted construction of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant without knowing of any offshore earthquake faults.\u00a0 In 1982, the NRC granted an operating license, which acknowledged one active fault less than three miles offshore, and required over $2 billion in retrofits.\u00a0<\/p>\n

PG&E would like Californians to decide now<\/em> whether Diablo Canyon can operate for 20 years beyond 2025 without placing our state\u2019s economy and reliable generation at risk. The NRC\u2019s own timetable indicates relicensing should only require 36 months.\u00a0 Therefore, there is ample time in the present to make sure all studies are complete before moving ahead with this process, and that the state has time to exercise its jurisdictional duty to review seismic studies before placing current and future ratepayers and stakeholders at financial risk.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Sincerely,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Please copy and paste the following letter to the following: http:\/\/docs.cpuc.ca.gov\/sendemail\/(apg20445tev00ljy3hcmmtrx)\/sendmail.aspx?cmr=5218 Dear Michael Peevey, President, California Public Utilities Commission Subject: Application of PG&E for Approval of Ratepayer Funding to Perform Additional Seismic Studies Recommended by the CEC As a California ratepayer, I wish to join Assemblyman Sam Blakeslee (R-SLO) in support of PG&E\u2019s application seeking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a4nr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}