WPCNR County Chronicle. May 10, 2005: On the day the Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave Indian Point its highest safety grade as a prelude to renewal of Indian Point operating licenses, and was asked by County Executive Andy Spano not to renew the plant's licenses in 2013 and 2015, Westchester County Legislator Rob Astorino (R—Hawthorne), candidate for county executive, called on Andy Spano’s administration today to immediately release a costly and long-overdue study on the feasibility of shutting down the Indian Point nuclear power plants in Buchanan.
Previously, the cost of closing Indian Point to the county has been estimated by Entergy as being over $3 Billion.
According to a news release from the Astorino campaign, the county awarded a $385,000 contract for the study to a Boston-based consulting firm named Levitan & Associates in May 2004, but one year later there is still no indication when the study will be released and what, if anything, it will determine about the future of Indian Point.
Astorino said sources inside the Spano administration have confirmed the study is complete but is being withheld because Spano doesn’t agree with the results.
The Spano administration approved the contract in 2004 without legislative approval, opting instead to award the contract for the study through the county’s Board of Acquisition and Contract, a three member panel which Spano controls.
