[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 231 (Friday, November 29, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 60734]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-30446]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-361, 50-362, And 50-206]


Southern California Edison Company, et al. San Onofre Nuclear 
Generating Station; Receipt of Petition For Director's Decision Under 
10 CFR 2.206

    Notice is hereby given that by request dated September 22, 1996, 
Stephen Dwyer (Petitioner) requested that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission (Commission) shut down the San Onofre Nuclear Generating 
Station ``as soon as possible'' pending a complete review of the ``new 
seismic risk.'' This request is being considered as a Petition under 10 
CFR 2.206.
    As a basis for the request, the Petition asserts that a design 
criterion for the plant, which was ``0.75 G's acceleration,'' is 
``fatally flawed'' on the basis of the new information gathered at the 
Landers and Northridge quakes. The Petitioner asserts (1) that the 
accelerations recorded at Northridge exceeded ``1.8 G's and it was only 
a Richter 7+ quake,'' (2) that there were horizontal offsets of up to 
20 feet in the Landers quake, and (3) that the Northridge fault was a 
``Blind Thrust and not mapped or assessed.''
    The request is being treated pursuant to 10 CFR 2.206 of the 
Commission's regulations. By letter dated November 22, 1996, 
Petitioner's request that the Commission immediately shut down San 
Onofre Nuclear Generating Station was denied. As provided by Section 
2.206, appropriate action will be taken on this request within a 
reasonable time.
    A copy of the Petition is available for inspection in the 
Commission's Public Document Room at 2120 L Street, NW, Washington, DC 
20555-0001.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 22nd day of November 1996.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Frank J. Miraglia, Jr.,
Acting Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 96-30446 Filed 11-27-96; 8:45 am]
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