SBO-million authorized for Clinch River
projects despite opposition from Carter
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) —
Congressional authorization to
continue work on the Clinch
River Breeder Reactor despite
President Carter’s opposition
has rekindled an old argument
of the project’s opponents.
A House-Senate conference
committee authorized SBO mil
lion Tuesday to keep the $2.2
billion project going in 1978 with
language stipulating that its site
not be moved from Oak Ridge.
Anthony Roisman, an attor
ney for the National Resources
Defense Council, said in a tele
phone interview Wednesday the
action forces a probable court
fight over how the project’s li
censing activities will be con
ducted.
“That compromise language
says Clinch River will get less
scrutiny than a conventional
nuclear plant,” Roisman said.
“It attempts to exempt Clinch
River from the National Envi
ronmental Policy Act and the
Atomic Energy Act.”
The NRDC, as the primary
intervenor in Clinch River’s li
censing process, was its most
forceful opponent until Presi-
New Fords
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DETROIT (AP) - When
Ford Motor Co. unveils its 1978-
model cars Friday, they will
carry prices averaging $387
more than comparable 1977
models. The stiffest boosts are
on large models, while many
small cars will cost less.
The nation’s No. 2 automaker
said Wednesday that the in
crease works out to an average
of 5.8 per cent, and it boosts the
suggested retail price of a
typical Ford, Mercury or Lin
coln for 1978 over the $7,000
mark, including options.
Ford is hoping that putting
the price increase burden on big
cars will boost sales of its small,
fuel efficient cars.
Under a new federal law,
each company’s fleet of cars
produced in the 1978 model year
must average at least 18 miles
per gallon. Otherwise, the
company faces a stiff fine. Ford
has said it must sell a greater
proportion of small cars to meet
the minimum standard.
Ford’s price hikes are in line
with those announced last
month by General Motors Corp.
GM said its 1978 prices would be
about 6 per cent or $405 higher
on the average than for com
parable 1977 models. An
average GM car also will be
priced above $7,000 for 1978.
Ford’s 1978 base prices will
range from $2,995 for the sub
compact Pinto Pony, which has
been cut 4.3 per cent from a
comparably equipped 1977 mod
el, to $20,099 for a special edition
Continental Mark V Diamond
Jubilie model.
Prices for fullsize and inter
mediate cars are 6 per cent to 8
per cent more on average than
in 1977, prices on luxury com
pacts are up 2 per cent to 4 per
cent, and prices for sub
compacts are down 1 per cent to
5 per cent.
In addition to price cuts on its
small cars, Ford said prices for
the 1978 subcompact Bobcat
Runabout, Wagon and Villager
Wagon would be $122 lower in
Alaska, Hawaii, Washington,
Oregon, California, Nevada,
Idaho, Utah and Arizona.
Injury of
girl probed
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.
(AP)—Georgia authorities
were investigating the injury of
a 22-month-old girl reported
Wednesday in critical condition
at Erlanger Hospital.
“The little girl has possible
head injuries and bruises all
over her body,” hospital
spokesman Fred Gault said.
“We have reported it to the au
thorities...”
The little girl was identified
as Angela Shelton, daughter of
Marilyn Diane Shelton of Ros
sville, Ga.
Mrs. Shelton, who is divorced
from the child’s father, told po
lice she left Angela with her
boyfriend Monday night to go
shopping. The boyfriend told
police the baby fell out of bed.
dent Carter announced in April
that he wanted the project
scuttled.
Project officials have blamed
NRDC and the group that pre
ceded it in intervening—the Sci
entists Institute for Public In
formation—as being respon
sible for the breeder not being
under construction now.
Last year, NRDC forced the
Nuclear Regulatory Commis
sion into making an environ
mental study of the project in
accordance with the National
Environmental Policy Act.
The NRC staff’s environmen
tal report concluded there were
at least three government
owned sites—in Idaho, Wash
ington and South Carolina—that
are more remote and safer than
Oak Ridge.
The report said the project
should still be built here be-
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cause of the work already com
pleted, but it added that if con
struction isn’t begun in the next
two years, relocating it should
be reconsidered.
Rep. Marilyn Lloyd, D-Tenn.,
the most vocal proponent of the
breeder in the conference com
mittee, said language in the
panel’s report affirms that
Clinch River should be its site.
“If the thing is going to be
built, it ought to be at least built
right and in the safest place
possible,” Roisman said. “That
amendment eliminates that.”
The bill approved by the con
ferees also directs the new De
partment of Energy to to re
sume the licensing activities.
The department’s predecessor,
the Energy Research and De
velopment Adminstration,
asked NRC to halt the licensing
after Carter announced his in-
tention to shut the project down.
Until then, hearings on the
project’s request for a limited
work authorization to begin site
work had been scheduled for
June. Roisman said he had
planned to challenge the Oak
Ridge site at the hearings.
“When Congress tries to
make substantial changes to the
law at the last minute,
something you usually end up
with is court litigation,” he said.
“We’ll fight them in the courts
or wherever we have to."
The breeder authorization is
part of a $6.7 billion energy re
search bill. After the conferees
agree on other parts of the bill,
it and supplemental appropria
tions bills have to be approved
by the House and the Senate.
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project office estimated the en-
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Carter’s desk until the end of
October.
Secretary of Energy James
Schlesinger has said Carter is
likely to veto a bill that includes
more than the $33 million in
funds he wanted to close the
Clinch River project.
However, White House aides
recently have said Carter may
allow the SBO million to go
through as long as construction
doesn’t begin in 1978 and wait
until next year to make another
attempt to halt it.
The President’s opposition to
Clinch River is based on its fuel,
plutonium, which also can be
converted to power a nuclear
bomb. The electric utility in
dustry contends the breeder,
which creates as much fuel as it
bums, is needed to stretch the
nation’s uranium supplies.
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Confidential cable
Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., holds a copy of a confidential diplomatic cable as he testifies
before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington. Dole released the Cable
which he says the Panamanian leaders rejected the administration’s claim that the U. S.
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