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United Press International
WALLIS — Many residents of
this small town 45 miles west of
Houston are bitter about Hous-
| ton Lighting 8c Power Co.’s deci
sion to cancel its planned $2 bil
lion Allens Creek nuclear power
plant.
Some say the utility ought to
i compensate them for their pre-
parations to accomodate the
facility.
In anticipation of rapid
! growth predicted by HL&P in
11972, school districts consoli
dated and sold $4 million in
| bonds to build a new school for
new residents, including an ex-
: pected 2,400 construction
I workers.
Wallis created and incorpo
rated fire and police depart-
ments and levied taxes to pay for
them.
But on Aug. 26, HL&P
I announced it was canceling the
jject because of rising costs
and the difficulty of getting a
federal construction license.
Construction on the project nev
er began.
“They’re pulling out, and
we’re left footing the bill,” said
Mayor Frank Petter. “Luckily,
we businessmen didn’t build all
the houses and apartments
HL&P wanted us to when they
started this project up.
“We didn’t need to incorpo
rate to begin with. We were too
small. We only did it because of
HL&P.”
HL&P has asked the Texas
Public Utilities Commission to
let it recover the $300 million
plus it spent getting ready to
build the plant.
“We’re pretty bitter,” Petter
said. “HL&P is trying to charge
off and recover their losses on
Allens Creek but we’re not in
cluded in their losses. I think,
somehow, Wallis should be com
pensated.”
HL&P spokesman Graham
Painter denied HL&P urged the
town to take any particular steps
to prepare for growth.
“We informed them of antici
pated growth so they could take
steps to cope with growth,” Pain
ter said. “The blame for the can
cellation of this project is with
the federal government.”
The utility had said construc
tion on the project would create
many jobs and pump $149 mil
lion annually into the area’s eco
nomy.
HL&P Painter said HL&P was
just as disappointed as Wallis
community leaders because it
wanted the plant to meet grow
ing energy demands.
HL&P blames the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission for re
peated delays in licensing con
struction of the plant. Allens
Creek was the subject of what
officials said was the longest
license hearing in NRC history.
Opponents said they wanted
to stop the plant because it was a
threat to the environment. They
said HL&P, which has had much
trouble building the South
Texas Nuclear Project, was not
competent to build a nuclear
plant.
HL.&P denied both charges at
the NRC hearings, but still had
to fight its way through licensing
processes which remained in
complete when cancellation was
announced.
People are angry over high
school taxes for construction of
a new high school built for 750
students that currently serves
240. Officials said they thought
the plant would pay for the
school.
“We’re farm people. We’re
not city people. We have farm
incomes and farmers are going
broke,” Petter said. “A lot of
businesses are going to close.
Taxes are taking too much of
the businesses’ income.”
HL&P announced the plant
in 1972 as a two-reactor plant.
They shelved it in 1975, then
revived it in 1976 as a one-
reactor project. Before the pro
ject finally was scrapped, the
latest target date for completion
was 1991.
Painter said HL&P has no
plans to sell the site and might
build a coal-fired plant there in
the early 1990s.
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