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HR. 8631: TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE PRICE-

ANDERSON ACT

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

JOINT COMMITTEE ON ATOMIC ENERGY
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES

NINETY-FOURTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

POSSIBLE MODIFICATION OR EXTENSION OF THE PRICE-
ANDERSON INSURANCE AND INDEMNITY ACT OF 1957 IN
ORDER FOR PROPER PLANNING OF NUCLEAR POWER-

PLANTS TO CONTINUE WITHOUT DELAY

SEPTEMBER 23 AND 24, 1975

Printed for the use of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy

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For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, V.8. Government Printing Office

Washington, D.C. 20402 - Price $6.50

JOINT COMMITTEE ON ATOMIC ENERGY

JOHN O. PASTORE, Rhode Island, Chairman

MELVIN PRICE, Illinois, Vice Chairman HENRY J. JACKSON, Washington

JOHN YOUNG, Texas STUART SYMINGTON, Missouri

TENO RONCALIO, Wyoming JOSEPH J. MONTOY.1, New Mexico

MIKE McCORMACK, Washington JOHN V. TUNNEY, California

JOHN E. MOSS, California HOWARD H. BAKER, JR., Tennessee

JOHN B. ANDERSON, Illinois CLIFFORD P. CASE, New Jersey

MANUEL LUJAN, JR., New Mexico JAMES B. PEARSON, Kansas

FRANK HORTON, New York JAMES L. BUCKLEY, New York

ANDREW J. HINSHAW, California

GEORGE F. MURPHY, Jr., Executive Director

JAMES B. GRAHAM, 48sistant Director
ALBION W. KNIGHT, Jr., Professional staff Member

WILLIAM C. PARLER, Committee Counsel
JAMES K. ASSELSTINE, A8sistant Counsel
NORMAN P. KLUG, Technical Consultant
STEPHEN J. LANES, Technical Consultant
CHRISTOPHER C. O'VALLEY, Printing Editor

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CONTENTS

HEARING DATES

Page

Tuesday, September 23, 1975..

1

Wednesday, September 24, 1975..

113

OPENING STATEMENT

Montoya, Hon. Joseph M...

1, 113

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Anders, Hon. William A., Chairman, accompanied by Marcus A. Rowden,

Commissioner; Peter Strauss, General Counsel; and Jerome Saltzman,

Acting Chief, Office of Antitrust Indemnity--

Prepared statement.---

67

ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION

Fri
, Hon. Robert, Deputy Administrator; accompanied by Hudson

Ragan, Acting General Counsel..

FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION

Hill

, Hon. John, Deputy Administrator, accompanied by Paul Dragoumis,

Director, Office of Nuclear Affairs; and Edwin Kuhn, Associate Assistant

Administrator for Energy Conversion.-

52

WITNESSES AND STATEMENTS

HEARING OF SEPTEMBER 23, 1974

Gravel
, Hon. Mike, a U.S. Senator from the State of Alaska

39

Nexon, Hubert H., senior vice president, Commonwealth Edison Co.,

representing the Edison Electric Institute.

106

Proom, Burt C., general manager, Nuclear Energy Liability-Property

Insurance Association, representing NELPIA and the Mutual Atomic
Energy Liability Underwriters, accompanied by Roy Hammond, vice
president, American Mutual Reinsurance Co., representing Mutual
Atomic Energy Liability Underwriters (MAELU]; Joseph Marrone,
general counsel, NELPIA; and Charles Bardes, liability underwriting
manager, NELPIA..

77
Simpson, John W., chairman, Atomic Industrial Forum, accompanied by
Gerald Fain, chairman, AIF Insurance and Indemnity Committee..

HEARING OF SEPTEMBER 24, 1975

Allen, William F., Jr., president, Stone and Webster Engineering Corp--- 203

Dubrow, Morgan D., staff engineer, National Rural Electric Cooperative

Association

207

Prepared statement.

208

Hobart, Lawrence S., assistant, general manager, American, Public Power

Association

210

Prepared statement.

211

Kalmanson, Alvin G., chairman, Committee on Atomic Energy, The

Association of the Bar of the City, of New York.-.

196

Kepford, Dr. Chauncey, representing the Environmental Coalition on

Nuclear Power, accompanied by Judith Johnsrud, director, Environ-

mental Coalition on Nuclear Power..

130

Prepared statement.---

131

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