ML022040715

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M020723-Affirmation Session: Affirmation Session: I. SECY-02-0096-Direct Final Rule on Electronic Maintenance & Submission of Info; Ii. Duke Energy Corp (McGuire, Units 1 & 2, Catawba Nuclear Station, Units 1 & 2) Appeal of LBP-02-04; SAMA
ML022040715
Person / Time
Site: Mcguire, Catawba, McGuire  Duke Energy icon.png
Issue date: 07/23/2002
From:
NRC/OCM
To:
References
LBP-02-04, M020723, SECY-02-0096
Download: ML022040715 (5)


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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION AFFIRMATION SESSION PUBLIC MEETING Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commission Hearing Room 11555 Rockville Pike Rockville, Maryland Tuesday, July 23, 2002 The Commission met in open session, pursuant to notice, at 1:45 p.m.,

Richard A. Meserve, Chairman, presiding.

COMMISSIONERS PRESENT:

RICHARD A. MESERVE, Chairman NILS J. DIAZ, Member of the Commission (VIA TELECON)

EDWARD MCGAFFIGAN, JR., Member of the Commission STAFF AND PRESENTERS SEATED AT THE COMMISSION TABLE:

ANDREW L. BATES, Acting Secretary KAREN D. CYR, Office of the General Counsel

2 DISCLAIMER This is an unofficial transcript of a meeting of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission on July 23, 2002 in the Commissions office at One White Flint North, Rockville, Maryland. The meeting was open to public attendance and observation. This transcript has not been reviewed, corrected or edited, and it may contain inaccuracies.

The transcript is intended solely for general information purposes. As provided by 10 CFR 9.103, it is not part of the formal or informal record of decision of the matters discussed. Expressions of opinion in this transcript do not necessarily reflect final determination or beliefs. No pleading or other paper may be filed with the Commission in any proceeding as the result of, or addressed to, any statement or argument contained herein, except as the Commission may authorize.

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[1:45 p.m.]

PROCEEDINGS CHAIRMAN MESERVE: Good afternoon. Commissioner Diaz, are you on the telephone?

COMMISSIONER DIAZ: I sure am.

CHAIRMAN MESERVE: Welcome. This is an affirmation session. We have two items to come before us this afternoon. Would you please proceed?

MR. BATES: Mr. Chairman and Commissioners, the first item this afternoon is SECY-02-0096, its a direct final rule on electronic maintenance and submission of information.

The Commission is being asked to act on a final rule that amends the NRC communications regulations to help bring the regulations into compliance with the Government Paperwork Elimination Act. The Commission has voted to approve the publication and implementation of this direct final rule subject to a number of changes that were provided to you earlier in the attachment. Will you affirm your vote please?

CHAIRMAN MESERVE: Aye.

COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Aye.

COMMISSIONER MCGAFFIGAN: Aye.

MR. BATES: The second item is SECY-02-0113, in the matter of Duke Energy Corporation and the McGuire Nuclear Station, as well as the Catawba Nuclear Station, and it deals with the appeal of the Licensing Board Decision 02-04, in the SAMA Contention. The Commission is being asked to act on a Memorandum and Order responding to appeals by the Duke Energy Corporation and the NRC staff of LBP-02-04, which granted the petitions to intervene and requests for hearing of the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League and the Nuclear Information and Resource Service. The Commission has voted to approve a

4 Memorandum and Order which affirmed LBP-02-04 insofar as it admitted the first part of the Severe Accident Mitigation Alternatives contention related to hydrogen igniters and station blackout, but it reverses the Boards admission of the proposed hydro-electric line as part of the SAMA contention. Will you please affirm your vote?

CHAIRMAN MESERVE: Aye.

COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Aye.

COMMISSIONER MCGAFFIGAN: Aye.

MR. BATES: Thats all I have.

CHAIRMAN MESERVE: Very good. Thank you very much. And with that, were adjourned.

5 CERTIFICATE This is to certify that the attached description of a meeting of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission entitled:

TITLE OF MEETING: Affirmation Session (PUBLIC MEETING)

PLACE OF MEETING: Rockville, Maryland DATE OF MEETING: July 23, 2002 was held as herein appears, is a true and accurate record of the meeting, and that this is the original transcript thereof taken stenographically by me, thereafter reduced to typewriting by me or under the direction of the court reporting company.

Transcriber: DARLENE K. WRIGHT Reporter: (TAPE RECORDING)