Dear Mr. Anders,

A4NR would appreciate you sharing our comments with the full committee immediately. The form on the DCDEP website only allows short comments/questions/responses and A4NR has detailed and cited our concerns in the attached document.

Thank you in advance for sharing our comments.

In peace
Rochelle

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In Peace

Rochelle Becker, Executive Director
Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility
PO 1328
San Luis Obispo, CA 93406
www.a4nr.org

The lands at Diablo Canyon should be retuned to their rightful owners the Indians of California. US should return stolen land to Indian tribes, says United Nations, http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2012/05/us-should-return-stolen-land-to-indian.html http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-madley-california-genocide-20160522-snap-story.html

Extra information from Cal Energy Development Company came in a meeting on September 27 as requested by Bob Mitchell and John Shoals. This was a follow-up to the presentation Cal Energy made at our re-purposing workshop These are some key points Mr. Mitchell wanted our Engagement Panel to keep in mind as we prepare our year-end report:
1. Cal Energy needs the CA Legislature to authorize up to 4K MW of off-shore wind energy, as this apparently is not specified in the current mix of renewable energy sources. Cal Energy is requested we advocate for that in our report to PG&E
2. Cal Energy is requesting that we request that the marina, as well as the current tunnel structures be left in place for use as a conduit for their proposed undersea transmission line.
3. They are additionally hoping that we will publicly advocate for the U.S. Navy to release access to the preferred off-shore areas most suitable for an off-shore wind-turbine farm and include that recommendation in our report.
4. Cal Energy hopes that we will advocate for the Diablo Canyon facility become in the long run, a center for innovation and marine science.

See attached letter of support for making land available to yak tityu tityu yak tilhini - Northern Chumash Tribe.

Gene Nelson, San Luis Obispo, CA

22 MR. NELSON: Good evening. My name is Dr. Gene
23 Nelson. I am the government liaison for Californians for
24 Green Nuclear Power Incorporated. We are an adverse
25 intervener before the California Public Utilities
1 Commission, and we are opposed to the wasteful closure of
2 Diablo Canyon Power Plant.
3 We were at the BOEM meeting last week in
4 Sacramento, the Trident winds project. We are told by
5 military staffers that they appreciated the 24/7,
6 365-day-a-year availability of Diablo Canyon's abundant

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7 power, which accounts for 9 percent of California's
8 in-state generation. California's 39 military bases
9 depend on Diablo Canyon's reliable power for performing
10 their mission and for maintaining operational readiness.
11 Diablo Canyon is the only dispatchable generator in
12 California that operates independently of any outside fuel
13 or energy source because the energy is stored inside the
14 core. This is not an attribute that's shared by
15 60 percent of California's in-state generation, which is
16 powered by natural gas, which is vulnerable to the aging
17 infrastructure. We have aging thousands of miles of
18 natural gas pipeline and compressor stations. Think San
19 Bruno is a place to start.
20 So what we looked at and we are asking the
21 applicant to pay attention to are some NERC Reliability
22 Reports, dated November 14th, 2017, May 25th, 2018, and
23 August 15th, 2018, and a DOE draft report dated May 29th,
24 2018. All these reports highlight the reliability risks
25 associated with California's overreliance on natural
1 gas-fired generation. Excerpts of these reports will be
2 supplied to the applicant.

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3 The important national security rationale is an
4 additional factor that should be considered by applicant
5 PG&E as CGNP prepares to take this proceeding to the State
6 of California appeals court system. CGNP anticipates
7 prevailing on merits. All CPUC decisions must be for the
8 benefit of the public which benefits from Diablo Canyon's
9 safe, dependable, abundant and emission-free generation.
10 Diablo Canyon's generation is economical, undercutting the
11 cost of California's in-state fossil-fired generation and
12 is far less expensive than the cost of unreliable solar
13 and unreliable wind generation when their substantial
14 taxpayer-funded subsidies are removed.
15 Another CGNP concern is the impropriety of PG&E
16 failing to obtain approval for a change in intensity of
17 use from the California Coastal Commission prior to
18 commencing the CPU's proceeding. This is one of the
19 factors that we will be litigating against the applicant
20 on. Thank you for your attention.

Lisa Newton, Avila Beach, CA

18 MS. NEWTON: Good evening. My name is Lisa
19 Newton, and I'm a resident of Avila Beach. I'm here as a
20 citizen, not representing a group. First of all, I would
21 like to thank the panel for serving, being volunteers.
22 It's quite a large responsibility for the future of our
23 area.
24 My reason for being here, there is a
25 desalinization plant at the site of Diablo, and I
1 understand that the output of that desalinization plant
2 could be as high as 100,000 acre feet of water. Right now

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3 in Avila Beach, we use 100 acre feet of State water and 65
4 acre feet of Lopez water. So if we had that much water
5 available, not just to Avila, that would also serve the
6 entire South County and could even be part of San Luis
7 Obispo. And right now, we are in a drought. And so I
8 understand this is years away, but we have to plan for the
9 future and for generations to come. I probably won't even
10 be around after all this happens, so I think it would be
11 important to consider that making pipes available from the
12 plant all the way down to where the Lopez water pipes are,
13 which would be costly, but it would be well worth our
14 while.
15 And then secondly, I wanted to address
16 Ms. O'Malley's comment about public lands. You know, you
17 could use public lands for a prison. So you know, I was
18 thinking -- I have to kind of chuckle, because it could be
19 isolated and it would be private and the prisoners would
20 have a lovely view of the ocean. Something to think
21 about. Thank you.

Leonard Marino

Comment card submitted at meeting.
We are concerned about the traffic on Avila Beach Drive. Will there be another road built to access the Diablo Canyon area?

Clint Miller, Pismo Beach, CA

12 MR. MILLER: Good evening. My name is Clint
13 Miller. I'm a resident of Pismo Beach. Full disclosure,
14 I do work at PG&E Diablo Canyon Power Plant. I've been
15 the radiological waste program monitor for 33 years there.
16 I am talking tonight as a citizen of Pismo
17 Beach. I have been to several of the workshops. You have
18 probably seen me. I was interested to hear from the
19 residents of Avila and their concerns about traffic post
20 decommissioning when it becomes a tourist mecca. My
21 question was what about the traffic jam during

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22 decommissioning? Do people at large know it is going to
23 be an 8- to 10-year traffic jam from Avila to Pismo rail
24 yard? I mean, when it's car show weekend, I don't leave
25 the house.
1 So one of your charges, I think it's No. 2, is
2 to help communicate with the public. Do they know that
3 that traffic jam is coming? And as PG&E said, they are
4 going to have this estimate to go to Greenfield and tear
5 everything down and then in reality, a lot of us, we have
6 already heard, is to the leave things behind, what can be
7 left behind, and not taken away. The way I think to
8 reduce that traffic jam is to remove less stuff.
9 As you've already heard tonight, I would ask you
10 not to give up maybe on leaving some facilities behind
11 inside the radiological tools area and focus more on the
12 decontamination than the demolition. That may take more
13 time. It may take more interest, but what is that balance
14 point between extra traffic and removing less material?
15 And remember, there is really nothing for PG&E to gain to
16 go out and say, "Oh, we're just going to leave that
17 behind." I mean, the blowback on that would be, "You

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18 don't want to do the work," but that's not what it's
19 about. It would be, get that balance. I'm not sure how
20 you are going to obtain that.
21 You know, we heard Cal Poly is, maybe, hesitant
22 to move into the facility right now, But maybe Cal Poly
23 would be used to help poling, crowd sourcing to get that
24 sense. The people coming to these meetings, we are
25 advocates. That's not the people in the community who are
1 at home doing laundry, getting homework to the kids. In
2 fact, I have to get back and help my kid and turn on the
3 dishwasher tonight so I can get the low energy price, and
4 then I can unload in the morning. But you know, really to
5 get that sense of the community, would they be willing to
6 leave things behind? And for instance, if the dome were
7 left behind, we already heard one entity say, "Hey, there
8 could there be national monument there." So would that be
9 a repurposing?
10 And the one other point is how you remove that
11 stuff. Right now, thousands of trucks is going to be the
12 estimate. I would say don't give up on barging. It would
13 be a push to get there, but we didn't hear that being

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14 vetoed by either the Lands Commission or the Coastal
15 Commission. And the new generators came by barge.
16 Fukushima has taken out a lot of stuff by barge. So those
17 things I ask you to consider. Thank you for your time.

Jane Swanson, San Luis Obispo, CA

24 MS. SWANSON: So I'm Jane Swanson. I am San
25 Luis Obispo Mothers For Peace. I claim no expertise, and
1 I'm not making any predictions with my comments, but I
2 wanted to mention some possible risks to having building
3 uses within spitting distance of a dry cask facility.
4 My information comes from a National Academy of
5 Sciences report, the title of which is "Safety and
6 Security of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage." It's
7 a public report. This report -- don't worry, I won't
8 summarize the whole thing, just mentioning a couple of

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9 things, but the report does point out that the casks are
10 designed for safe storage, but they are not immune from
11 terrorist attack. One potential type of terrorist attack
12 would be that imposed by a large aircraft. As strong as
13 the casks are, they could definitely be breached by a
14 large aircraft. And the big danger there would be if the
15 cladding on the fuel rods were damaged, that would release
16 radioactive substances into the atmosphere, and that would
17 be a very bad day. Add to that the potential of burning
18 jet fuel, and you've got a mess.
19 So I bring up this unpleasant topic because I
20 think it's important that this risk, small as it is, be
21 recognized as this panel and PG&E consider repurposing
22 buildings and the repurposing of the lands on the
23 12,000 acres.
24 Now that I have made myself very popular, I do
25 want to become my more cheerful self. I'm actually pretty
1 cheerful. I want to express my appreciation to this panel
2 of hard working, dedicated citizens. I know you are
3 volunteering your time. And I am pretty sure it's a lot
4 of time and a lot of heavy thought.

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5 I also would like to complement PG&E. This is a
6 very informative, educational process, and their slides
7 are just primo. I always look forward to their slides
8 being uploaded on the website so I can study them after
9 the meeting. So thank you all for your work. And I'm
10 sorry to be such a downer.

See attached letter of support for making land available to yak tityu tityu yak tilhini - Northern Chumash Tribe.

Chris Barrett, Arroyo Grande, CA

22 MR. BARRETT: Thank you. My name is Chris
23 Barrett. I live in Arroyo Grande. I am speaking on
24 behalf of the San Luis Yacht Club. I'm the commodore of
25 the yacht club. San Luis Yacht Club is a private club,
1 200 memberships. Most of the memberships are couples, so
2 we have about 400 people that I am representing that are
3 active boaters. They are either sailers, kayakers, power
4 boaters and fisherman.
5 It is the club's desire that the breakwater
6 remain in place and that the harbor area remain in place

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7 and be open for public boaters to visit. Primarily, it's
8 a safe haven for people transiting the area, but also kind
9 of a short-term visit, excursions from Morro Bay to Port
10 San Luis, or other areas, to come and visit. If there was
11 a possibility of anchoring, mooring or docking there and
12 having a picnic or some other day use, that would be
13 valued by the yacht club members.
14 We also want to comment that we would sure like
15 to see all the open space there remain as open space, if
16 possible, and that the harbor have minimal changes.
17 Minimal changes because it's really a haven or a sanctuary
18 now for a lot of wildlife. So we want to see it remain
19 that way, though I have to say that I haven't been to the
20 harbor. As a boater, I have to stay 1 mile away from
21 Diablo Canyon when I am on the water, but I'm anxious to
22 be able to visit by boat. Hopefully, the breakwater will
23 remain in place and that will be available for public
24 boating public to visit in the future. Thank you.

Larry Bittner, Avila Beach, CA

13 MR. BITTNER: Good evening. My name is Larry
14 Bittner, Avila Beach. You all have a copy of the letter I
15 sent to Congressman Carbajal, and I also sent a similar
16 letter to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs trying to
17 educate them and make them aware this facility may
18 potentially be available. I could reiterate what I said
19 in the letter, but I'd just to share with you kind of my
20 passion of why I think the veterans should be highly
21 considered for any type of reuse of the buildings that we
22 have available.

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23 In 1966, when Johnson was trying to get 450,000
24 to 500,000 guys in Vietnam, I guess I'd watched too many
25 John Wayne movies and joined the Marine Corps. Well,
1 luckily, I was probably one of the luckiest marines around
2 because I didn't end up on the wall and I didn't up
3 damaged from being in the war. Today, we have a different
4 type of military. It's all volunteer. Less than
5 one-tenth of one percent of our population are in the
6 military. And those patriots, if we didn't have the
7 medical facilities in the field and the doctors, our wall
8 -- the wall on terror would be a whole lot more than the
9 50,000 we have the Vietnam Wall. The problem with that is
10 we have a lot of people coming back with missing limbs,
11 burns, PTSD, brain injuries, et cetera, that need veteran
12 services. So I don't know if the Veteran's Administration
13 will have an interest in this, but if they do, I'd like
14 you all to be receptive to it.
15 In the short-term, because the facilities at
16 Diablo Canyon are long-term, we have a small facility here
17 in San Luis Obispo. It's in the center of town. It's a
18 small office and limited parking, and I would encourage

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19 PG&E to maybe talk with the VA and see if that facility
20 could be moved to the community center. It's larger.
21 It's right off 101. It has great parking and it could be
22 a great improvement for the veterans. We have too many
23 people, because our facility is so small, that have to go
24 to Los Angeles. Some of these people in lots of pain, it
25 takes them 12 hours, 14 hours for the round-trip to get a
1 couple shots for pain. So trying to keep this
2 presentation -- I have 29 seconds left -- short. If the
3 Veterans Administration has interest, I would sure like
4 you all to be receptive.
5 Congressman Carbajal's office is very excited
6 about this idea. They called me, actually, the day after
7 they got the letter, so we will just see what happens, but
8 keep an open mind for the vets. They deserve all we can
9 share with them. Thank you.

William Toman, Los Osos, CA

11 MR. TOMAN: Good evening. My name is Bill
12 Toman. I live in Los Osos. Pleased to be with you again.
13 To continue with the comments earlier, it really is an
14 amazing process here with the stakeholder panel. I've
15 followed the retirements of nuclear plants throughout the
16 country, and I'm unaware there is a process as well
17 informed and as well executed as this panel providing so
18 much time for the right amount of information to be input
19 and decisions made on that basis, as opposed to a very
20 compressed, rushed process that leads to perhaps

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21 less-than-best decisions. So this has really been an
22 amazing process that will continue on for several more
23 months, so thank you very much for the opportunity.
24 I'm here to say that it is important that the
25 assets at Diablo Canyon be considered to be available for
1 repurposing for renewable energy activities, and in
2 particular to offshore wind off of California. I am back
3 from last week's meetings in Sacramento with the Bureau of
4 Ocean Energy Management and the California
5 Intergovernmental Task Force on Renewable Energy, as well
6 as meetings with the Department of Defense in Oregon the
7 past week regarding offshore wind. And the consensus is
8 that while the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is
9 looking at instituting a process for implementing seabed
10 leases for offshore wind developers probably sometime in
11 2019, the Department of Defense is still very
12 uncomfortable with what we would call utility scale,
13 several hundred wind turbine offshore wind farms anywhere
14 south of Monterey Bay, including the Central Coast.
15 A potential solution is to have a small pilot
16 project of two or three floating wind turbines off the

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17 Central Coast area that most likely would interconnect
18 with Pacific Gas and Electric's system. And I would like
19 to follow up with PG&E later with proposals for
20 collaborations for implementing pilot wind projects in
21 order to inform the Department of Defense of the
22 acceptability ultimately of offshore wind farms that would
23 ultimately repurpose assets at Diablo Canyon. Thank you
24 very much for your time.

Larry Owens, Los Osos, CA

12 MR. OWENS: Good evening and thank you all for

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13 your service. I didn't intend to actually speak on this
14 item, but since my name showed up, I might as well. A
15 potential use that occurred to me because of the existing
16 infrastructure and assets that are in this area is that of
17 a data center or data centers, also known as "server
18 farms." They require a lot of intense power. They also
19 require fiber optic connectivity. And if I am not
20 mistaken, there's a major fiberoptic trunk that comes from
21 the Pan Pacific and empties into California right at the
22 MBO, just a few miles north of us.
23 I live in Los Osos. I come from the Silicon
24 Valley in which I was a power -- I have a worked for a
25 power utility that powered the data centers of Silicon
1 Valley, and I saw the direct impact on the economic
2 development in the development of information technologies
3 firsthand over the years that I spent working there.
4 And as we look into our future, the Internet of
5 things, autonomous vehicles and artificial intelligence
6 are all going to require more and more and more square
7 feet of data center space. Data centers don't employ a
8 lot of people, which is a downside for economic

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9 development, but on the other hand, they empower the
10 community to move forward in the high-tech world,
11 especially within a 90-mile radius because of the latency
12 factors. So just wanted to bring that up as a potential
13 use for the property.

I spoke with a resident that would like to have as many transmission lines removed as possible. They also want to request that additional lines not be added above ground. They are concerned about the aesthetics of the large power lines. They also do not want to be able to view any wind generating turbines from shore.

An Avila Beach resident states her greatest hope is that as many people as possible from our county are able to benefit from the repurposing of the buildings at Diablo Canyon. She hopes that multiple businesses, non- profits, research, education and even the local arts community can find a niche within the many buildings that have potential for repurposing. This will help our economy recover from the closing of Diablo Canyon.

Resident of San Luis Obispo states that we should consider reusing as many buildings as possible as long as they are completely cleared of any radioactivity. It is better for the environment to keep the buildings in place and reuse them. He wishes the plant had never been built, but since it is there, lets reuse as many of the buildings as possible along with the marina and the desalination plant. It will be worse on the environment to demolish and truck all of it out.

I spoke with a resident of Avila Beach who would like to see all the Diablo Canyon buildings taken down and the land restored to its original state. He would like the breakwater removed too. He would like all the lands to go into permanent conservancy. The short term trade off of increased traffic through Avila is worth it to have a pristine stretch of coastline that is not marred by an industrial plant.

Several Avila Beach residents state they would like as many buildings as possible reused and not demolished. They would like to minimize the amount of debris hauled by truck through Avila Beach. They would like to see the buildings repurposed and some type of jobs created which can replace the economic loss of the plant.

As part of the local equestrian community I would love to see this area containing multipurpose trails, a connection to Montana De Oro Trails, a horse camp similar to the Hazard Canyon horse camp at Montana de Oro, and ample parking for horse trailers for "day" riders.

The chance to ride out of MDO to the Diablo Canyon Property would be a dream come true for all of us horse riders. We would appreciate being part of the 12,000 acres of such beautiful land.

This area is a beautiful asset on the Central Coast. Please consider having a horse camp with trails that connect to Montana de Oro. Ideally the camp would have ample horse trailer parking for both day and overnight use. Thank you for your consideration.

Keep our open spaces undeveloped

This is such a beautiful section of coast line I hope the Panel will include horse trails and even a horse camp like at Montana De Oro. If no camp area at least a nice size parking area where we can park our horse trailers. Thank you

I received this comment from a community member: “I can't wait to hike from Avila to Los Osos. Please hurry, I'm getting old.”