ML031200386

Response of the City of Santa Clara, California, to Courts April 9, 2003 Order

ML031200386
Person / Time
Site:	Diablo Canyon
Issue date:	04/16/2003
From:	Pembroke J City of Santa Clara, CA, Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke, PC
To:	Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, US Federal Judiciary, Court of Appeals, for the District of Columbia Circuit
References
03-1038
Download: ML031200386 (6)

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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT

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Northern California Power Agency,

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Petitioner,

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v.

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CaseNo. 03-1038 Nuclear Regulatory Commission, et al.,

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Respondents. )

RESPONSE OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA, TO THE COURT'S APRIL 9,2003 ORDER The City of Santa Clara, California ("Santa Clara"), by and through its attorneys.

James D. Pembroke and Lisa S. Gast, Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke. P.C., 1615 M Street, N.W., Suite 800, Washington, DC 20036, hereby submits its Response to the Court's April 9, 2003 Order and states as follows:

Santa Clara notifies the Court that it supports the position of the Petitioner, Northern California Power Agency ("NCPA").

Santa Clara currently intends to raise the following issues, each of which is reflected in NCPA's "Statement of Issues to Be Raised" filed in this case on March 28, 2003:

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Whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission erred in finding that it lacked any legal authority to transfer the antitrust license conditions in the present license for the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant to the new entities proposed to be created under Pacific Gas & Electric Company's reorganization plan.

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Whether the Commission's proposed removal of antitrust conditions from a nuclear license without holding a hearing, or conducting an antitrust review, is contrary to the Atomic Energy Act and to Commission regulations.

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Whether the Commission's conscious deprecation of its statutory antitrust mission, as evidenced in its order below, is arbitrary. capricious, and contrary to law.

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Whether the Commission may allow a licensee that shuffles assets among corporate affiliates to thereby escape the constraints of antitrust conditions which the licensee accepted as term of its license. without conducting a hearing into whether the licensee's corporate reorganization would in any way affect the concerns which led to the imposition of the antitrust conditions.

Additionally, Santa Clara may raise the following issue:

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Whether Commission erred in determining that its proposed removal of the antitrust conditions would not adversely affect Santa Clara's and others' ability to enforce those antitrust conditions.

Dated: April 16, 2003 Respectfully submitted.

James D. Pembroke Lisa S. Gast Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer

& Pembroke. P.C.

1615 M Street, NW Suite 800 Washington. DC 20036 (202) 467-6370 Attorneys for the City of Santa Clara, California

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that a copy of the foregoing Response of the City of Santa Clara, California, to the Court's April 9, 2003 Order was served upon each of the parties reflected on the attachment hereto by United States Mail, postage prepaid, this 16"' day of April 2003.

Dated at Washington, D.C., this 16th day of April, 2003.

Sean M. Neal DUNCAN, WEINBERG, GENZER

& PEMBROKE, P.C.

1615 M Street, N.W.

Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 (202) 467-6370

Robeit C. MLDiarmid Ben Finkelst~in Spiegel & M Diarmid 1333 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W.

Washington, b.C. 20036 Lawrence J. Chandler, Esq.

Office of the General Counsel Mail Stop -O-15 D21 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 David Effros Utilities Commission of the State of California 505 Van Ness Avenue, 4"h Floor San Francisco, CA 94102 Roland D. Pfeifer, Esq.

Assistant City Attorney City of Santa Clara 1500 Warburton Avenue Santa Clara, CA 95050 James C. Feider Director, Electric Department City of Redding 777 Cypress Avenue Redding, CA 96049-6071 Laurence G. Chaset, Esq.

Public Utilities Commission of the State of California 505 Van Ness Avenue Room 5131 San Francisco, CA 94102 Gregory Heiden, Esq.

Public Utilities Commission of the State of California 505 Van Ness Avenue Room 5024 San Francisco, CA 94102 Steven M. Kramer, Esq.

Carla J. Urquhart, Esq.

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley

& McCloy LLP 1825 I Street, N.W., Suite 1100 Washington, D.C. 20006 James H. Pope Director of Electric Utility City of Santa Clara 1500 Warburton Avenue Santa Clara, CA 95050 James H. Pope, Chairman Maury A. Kruth, Executive Director Transmission Agency of Northern California P.O. Box 15129 Sacramento, CA 95851-0129

Grant Kolling i Senior Assistabt City Attomey City of Palo Aito P.O. Box 10250 Palo Alto, CA 94303 Edwin F. Feo, Esq.

Milbank, Twebd, Hadley

& McCloy LLP 601 South FigIleroa Street 30th Floor Los Angeles, lA 90017 Roger VanHoy Assistant General Manager, Electric Resources Modesto Irrigation District P.O. Box 4060 Modesto, California 95352 Sheldon L. Trubatch, Esq.

Law Offices of Sheldon L. Trubatch 4222 River Road, N.W. #1 Washington, D.C. 20016 William C. Walbridge General Manager M-S-R Public Power Agency P.O. Box 4060 Modesto, CA 95352 Rick Colemar Trinity Count Utilities Dis P.O. Box 121i 26 Ponderosa Weaverville, 4 Manager Public rict l ane "A 96093 Scott Steffen, Esq.

Assistant General Counsel Modesto Irrigktion District P.O. Box 406p Modesto, CA 95352 Richard F. Loke, Esq.

William V. ?anheim, Esq.

Pacific Gas Electric Company 77 Beale Street B30A San Francisc4, CA 94105 Girish Balachandran Manager Supply Resources City of Palo Alto P.O. Box 10250 Palo Alto, CA 94303 Harrison Call Call Company 130 S. Cloverdale Blvd.

P.O. Box 219 Cloverdale, CA 95425

3arne B. Linoholm, Jr., Esq.

{ounty Coudsel San Luis Obi o County County Gove ement Center 1050 Monter y Avenue, Room 386 San Luis Obi po, CA 93408 Office of Corimission Appellate Adjudication U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, ).C. 20555-0001 David A. Repka, Esq.

Brooke D. Poole, Esq.

Winston & Strawn 1400 L Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20005 Robert K. Temple, Esq.

2524 N. Maplewood Avenue Chicago, IL 60647