SCE courts controversy with $4.1B SONGS restoration plans

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Southern California Edison (SCE) vice president Stephen Pickett drew the ire of Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Pacoima, the chairman of California's Senate energy committee, while testifying Tuesday about the utility’s 15-year, $4.1B plan to restore the site of the shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant (SONGS) to “green field status.”
Pickett told the committee that while SCE is committed to restoring the land, it is considering keeping underground structures that the public can’t see in place while also suggesting there is no need for the input of a citizen’s advisory panel.
Sen. Padilla warned SCE that it is going to have to meet "a high threshold to convince us of anything other than (a full) green field" restoration.

From the article:

“Pickett, the Southern California Edison representative, said the utility expects to submit its specific plans for decommissioning sometime in mid-2014.”