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Entergy'S Motion to Stay Further Proceedings on New England Coalition'S Motion to Compel
ML070250144
Person / Time
Site: Vermont Yankee File:NorthStar Vermont Yankee icon.png
Issue date: 01/18/2007
From: Travieso-Diaz M
Entergy Nuclear Operations, Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw, Pittman, LLP
To:
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
SECY RAS
References
50-271-LR, ASLBP 06-849-03-LR, RAS 12904
Download: ML070250144 (4)


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January 18,2007 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DOCKETED USNRC NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board January 18, 2007 (4:OOpm)

OFFICE OF SECRETARY In the Matter of 1 RULEMAKINGS AND ADJUDICATIONS STAFF 1

Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, LLC ) Docket No. 50-27 1-LR and Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. 1 ASLBP No. 06-849-03-LR 1

(Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station) )

ENTERGY'S MOTION TO STAY FURTHER PROCEEDINGS ON NEW ENGLAND COALITION'S MOTION TO COMPEL On January 16, 2007, New England Coalition, Inc. ("NEC") filed its "Motion to Compel"

("NEC's Motion") seeking that the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board ("Board") compel the production of certain documents withheld from disclosure on privilege grounds by Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, LLC and Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. ("Entergy") in this proceeding. Responses to NEC's Motion are due on January 3 1,2007.'

All the documents subject to NEC's Motion relate to NEC Contention 1, which alleges that Entergy's Environmental Report failed to sufficiently assess the environmental impacts of increased thermal discharges into the Connecticut River over the twenty-year license extension period. Entergy has sought interlocutory Commission review of the Board's decision to admit this contention for litigation and the review has been granted. CLI-07-01 (January 11, 2007).

The parties are required to submit briefs supporting their positions on the admissibility of NEC's 1

NEC's Motion is supported by fifteen exhibits, Exhibits 1 through 15. NEC's Motion at 1. These exhibits were not served electronic but by mail. Therefore, responses to the motion are due fifteen days after senrice. 10 C.F.R.

$ 2.306.

Contention 1 within 14 days of the Commission's order, and submit reply briefs within 7 days thereafter. Id.at 2.

Given the ongoing Commission review of the admissibility of NEC's Contention 1 and the likelihood of a Commission ruling on the issue in the near future, Entergy submits that it would be a misallocation of the parties' resources and those of the Board to address NEC's Motion at the present time. Accordingly, we request that the Board stay further proceedings relating to NEC's Motion (including the parties filing responses to the motion, and the Board ruling on the motion) until 10 days after the Commission has ruled on the admissibility of NEC Contention 1.2 In the meantime, Entergy will continue to produce discoverable documents relevant to NEC's Contention 1.

In accordance with 10 C.F.R. 5 2.323(b), Entergy has contacted NEC and made sincere attempts to resolve the issue raised by this motion, and those attempts have been unsuccessful.

Respectfully Submitted, r,

/BaGd R. Lewis Matias F. Travieso-Diaz PILLSBURY WINTHROP SHAW PITTMAN LLP 2300 N Street, N.W.

Washington, DC 20037-1 128 Tel. (202) 663-8 142 Counsel for Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, LLC, and Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.

January 18,2007

' Such a stay would allow Entergy to consider the possibility of providing redacted versions of some of the documents whose production NEC seeks. For example, Category 4 of the documents covered by NEC's Motion seeks production of "articles" on "research regarding fisheries." NEC's Motion at 1. Those articles are protected by work product privilege because they contain marginal notations by non-testifying consultants or are materials downloaded from the Internet highlighting the search strategy of the attorney or consultant, and thus reflecting their mental impressions and legal theories. Entergy may provide redacted versions of the articles with the privileged notations removed.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board In the Matter of Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, LLC ) Docket No. 50-27 1-LR and Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. ASLBP No. 06-849-03-LR 1

(Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station) )

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of "Entergy's Motion to Stay Further Proceedings on New England Coalition's Motion to Compel" dated January 18,2007, were served on the persons listed below by deposit in the U.S. Mail, first class, postage prepaid, or with respect to Judge Elleman by overnight mail, and where indicated by an asterisk by electronic mail, this 18th'~day of January, 2007.

  • Administrative Judge *Administrative Judge Alex S. Karlin, Esq., Chairman Dr. Richard E. Wardwell Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Mail Stop T-3 F23 Mail Stop T-3 F23 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 ask2@nrc.gov rew@nrc.gov
  • Administrative Judge *Secretary Dr. Thomas S. Elleman Att'n: Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Mail Stop 0 - 1 6 C1 5207 Creedmoor Road, #101, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Raleigh, NC 276 12. Washington, D.C. 20555-000 1 tse@nrc.gov; elleman@eos.ncsu.edu secy@nrc.gov, hearinadocketOnrc.aov Office of Commission Appellate Adjudication Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Mail Stop 0 - 1 6 C 1 Mail Stop T-3 F23 U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 Washington, D.C. 20555-0001
  • Mitzi A. Young, Esq. *Sarah Hofmann, Esq.
  • Steven C. Hamrick, Esq. Director of Public Advocacy Office of the General Counsel Department of Public Service Mail Stop 0 - 15 D2 1 112 State Street - Drawer 20 U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Montpelier, VT 05620-2601 Washington, D.C. 20555-000 1 Sarah.hofmann@state.vt.us may@nrc.gov; schl @nrc.gov "Anthony Z. Roisman, Esq. *Ronald A. Shems, Esq.

National Legal Scholars Law Firm *Karen Tyler, Esq.

84 East Thetford Road Shems, Dunkiel, Kassel & Saunders, PLLC Lyrne, NH 03768 9 College Street aroisman~,nationalle~alscholars.con~ Burlington, VT 05401 rshems@,sdkslaw.com ktyler@sdkslaw.com

  • Jennifer J. Patterson, Esq.

Senor Assistant Attorney General Environmental Protection Bureau 33 Capitol Street Concord, NH 0330 1 Jennifer.Patterson@doj .nh.gov

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1 -I Matias F. Travieso-Diaz