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Texas Avenue, Bryan 822-0200 Page 4 The Battalion Tuesday, October 17, Boulter seeks bid for RR post WRED Boy, i-fj-eo-llv burns ww DuTT to lose. the fA-S.C. ockKs just to please, some oU 0-3 contractor... \f Hopes to improve gas, oil industry AUSTIN (AP) — Former Con gressman Beau Boulter, the Repub lican who lost his bid last year to un seat Democratic U.S. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, is back on the campaign trail. Boulter on Monday announced his candidacy for the Texas Railroad Commission seat now held by Re publican Kent Hance, who is run ning for governor. Boulter, 47, of Amarillo, said he would seek to revitalize the oil and gas industry and increase competi tion in intrastate transportation. He said the three-member Rail road Commission, which regulates Texas energy and transportation in dustries, must play a key role in com posing a national energy policy. “The foundation of our economy is the oil and gas industry,” he said, adding that the United States’ de pendence on imported oil “imperils our economic, energy and military security.” Boulter, a two-term congressman, received just 40 percent of the vote in 1988 against Bentsen. But he said the campaign had helped him estab lish name identification with voters. No other GOP candidates have announced bids for Hance’s seat. Democrat Clint Hackney, a former Houston legislator, has said he will run for his party’s nomination. In other political developments: • Sen. Chet Edwards, D-Duncan- ville, a candidate for lieutenant gov ernor, urged voters to support Prop- osition 21 on the Nov. 7 constitutional amendment ballot. The proposal would authorize $75 million in tax-exempt college savings bonds. 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Inspectors say Texas nuclear plant not ready to load, test uranium fuel ASSOCIATED PRESS The Nuclear Regulatory Commission opened a special inspection Monday of the Comanche Peak nuclear power plant in Texas amid charges that senior agency officials had covered up prob lems at the $9 billion facility. A team of NRC inspectors will spend 11 days at the plant, about 40 miles southwest of Fort Worth, to assess whether it is ready to begin load ing uranium fuel for tests required before it starts full-scale commercial production. had been edited to create an untrue impression of the plant’s readiness to operate, and that neg ative information about the plant owner’s perfor mance was deliberately withheld from official in spection reports. The move followed allegations in an Oct. 4 let ter to NRC Chairman Kenneth Carr from an anonymous group of agency inspectors. The in spectors maintained that Comanche Peak was not ready to begin loading fuel and that senior NRC officials had manipulated inspection data to make it look as though it was ready. The plant had been scheduled to start loading fuel sometime this month. Meanwhile, a group calling itself the Citizens for Fair Utility Regulation on Monday filed a re quest for an order that would delay a fuel loading and low power license for the plant. The request was filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commis sion. The inspectors implied that agency documents We believe that the commission should be aware of what we view as manipulation and the exclusion of factual information — letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission “We believe that the commission should be aware of what we view as manipulation and the exclusion of factual information,” the inspectors wrote. A copy of the unsigned letter was made available to the Associated Press. “If such information were properly consid ered and evaluated, it would indicate a less than satisfactory performance rating in some areas” by the plant owner, Texas Utilities Electric, and a need lor improvements before the NRC proves fuel loading, the letter said. Joe Fouchard, an NRC spokesman, said commission does not know who wrote the let but has no doubt that it is legitimate. “We are treating it seriously,” Fouchard said The letter itself did not spell out the flam Comanche Peak that allegedly were covered by the NRC, but the authors included pages draft inspection reports and internal M memos that they said demonstrated the serimi ness of problems there. The NRC declined to release the draft insp tion reports and internal memos. In their letter to Carr, the NRC inspectors^ a draft report on Texas Utilities’ performantt Comanche Peak had incorrectly concluded there were no problems. The letter said the'if of “those who knew the real performance h been “outvoted” by senior NRC officials whoti little or no direct involvement with the site Comanche Peak is one of the most thorougl inspected nuclear power plants in the nation, : though it has never operated. After l,OOOor allegations of construction flaws surfaced 1982, Texas Utilities switched engineering^ tractors and spent several years re verifying plant’s design and repeating tests requiredM NRC. 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