ML080090612
| ML080090612 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Oyster Creek |
| Issue date: | 01/07/2008 |
| From: | Silverman D AmerGen Energy Co, Morgan, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP |
| To: | NRC/OCM |
| SECY/RAS | |
| References | |
| 50-219-LR, RAS 14883 | |
| Download: ML080090612 (5) | |
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY BEFORE THE COMMISSION DOCKETED USNRC January 7, 2008 [11:05am)
OFFICE OF SECRETARY RULEMAKINGS AND ADJUDICATIONS STAFF In the Matter of:-
AmerGen Energy Company, LLC)
(License Renewal for Oyster Creek Nuclear)
Generating Station))
January 7, 2008 Docket No. 50-2 19 AMERGEN'S ANSWER OPPOSING CITIZENS' EMERGENCY MOTION FOR ADDITIONAL PAGES TO APPEAL THE BOARD'S FINAL DECISION AmerGen Energy Company, LLC ("AmerGen"), licensee in the above-captioned matter, hereby files its Answer to the "Emergency Motion for Additional Pages to Appeal the Board's Final Decision" ("Motion") filed on January 4, 2008, by Citizens.- Because Citizens have failed to provide a legitimate reason for the Commission to stray from the generous twenty-five page limit mandated by 10 C.F.R. § 2.341 (b)(2), Citizens' Motion should be denied.
Page limit requirements are "intended to encourage parties to make their strongest arguments clearly and concisely, and to hold all parties to the same number of pages of argument." Hydro Resources, Inc., CLI-01-4, 53 NRC 31, 46 (2001). The Commission is "quite aware" that the page limit for petitions for review requires parties to be "direct and concise,"
especially where the "issues are numerous and complex." In the Matter of Carolina Power &
Light Company (Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant) Inc., CLI-01-1 1, 53 NRC 370, 393 (2001).
The six organizations comprising "Citizens" are Nuclear Information and Resource Service ("NIRS"), Jersey Shore Nuclear Watch, Inc. ("JSNW"), Grandmothers, Mothers and More for Energy Safety ("GRAMMES"),
New Jersey Public Interest Research Group ("NJPIRG"), New Jersey Sierra Club ("NJ Sierra Club"), and New Jersey Environmental Federation ("NJEF").
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Certainly, Citizens should be able to adequately brief any issues relating to the single contention at issue in this proceeding while staying within standard page limits. Furthermore, prior to the 2004 revisions to Part 2, the page limit for petitions for review was only ten pages72 In comparison to the previous limit, the current twenty-five page maximum is in fact quite generous.
Citizens' motion is perfunctory and provides no rationale for the requested relief, other than a vague reference to"'all the issues raised in the proceeding in over two years of litigation."
Motion at 1. This case involves a single contention that was the subject of a hearing that lasted only two days.
For the foregoing reasons, the Commission should deny Citizens' Mlotion in its entirety.
Respectfully submitted, DonalZ.Silverman, Esq.
Kathryn M. Sutton, Esq.
Alex S. Polonsky, Esq.
Raphael P. Kuyler, Esq.
MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCK]US, LLP 1111I Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20004 Phone: (202) 739-5502 E-mail: dsilverman(a-morganl.ewis.com E-mail: ksutton@.morganlewis.com E-mail: apolonskv(~morgant wis.com E-mail: rkuyler(~morganlewis.com S Changes to Adjudicatory Process, 69 Fed. Reg. 2182, 2225 (Jan. 14, 2004). Ten pages was the applicable page limit in the cases cited above.
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J. Bradley Fewell Associate General Counsel Exelon Corporation 4300 Warrenville Road Warrenville, IL 60555 Phone: (630) 657-3769 E-mail: Bradley.Fewel h~exel oncorp.com COUNSEL FOR AMERGEN ENERGY COMPANY, LLC Dated in Washington, D.C.
this 7th day of January 2008 I-WA/2882172
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE COMMISSION In the Matter of:.
AmerGen Energy Company, LLC)
(License Renewal for Oyster Creek Nuclear)
Generating Station))
January 7, 2007 Docket No. 50-219 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of "AmerGen's Answer Opposing Citizens' Emergency Motion for Additional Pages to Appeal the Board's Final Decision" were served this day upon the persons listed below, by e-mail and first class mail, unless otherwise noted.
Secretary of the Commission*
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Attn: Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff One White Flint North 11555 Rockville Pike Rockville, Maryland 20852-273 8 (E-mail: HEARIN\\GDOCKETaiinrc.,gov)
Administrative Judge Paul B. Abramson Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Mail Stop: T-3 F23 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-000 1 (E-mail: pbae~nrc.gov)
Administrative Judge E. Roy Hawkens, Chair Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Mail Stop: T-3 F23 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 (E-mail: erh~cnrc. ov)
Administrative Judge Anthony J. Baratta Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Mail Stop: T-3 F23 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 (E-mail: aib5(@nrc.gov)
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John A. Covino Valerie Anne Gray Division of Law Environmental Permitting and Counseling Section P.O. Box 093 Hughes Justice Complex Trenton, NJ 08625 (E-mail: john.covinoOdoljlps.state.njus)
(E-mail: valerie. 2rav(adol.lps.state.nj us)
Suzanne Leta NJPIRG 11I N. Willow Street Trenton, NJ 08608 (E-mail: sleta(~,nipir~g.org)
Office of Commission Appellate Adjudication" U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 Richard Webster Julia LeMense Rutgers Environmental Law Clinic 123 Washington Street Newark, NJ 07102-5695 (E-mail: rwebster~a-kinoy.mutgers.edu)
(E-mail: i huffi~kinov.rutgers.edu)
Paul Gunter Kevin Kamps Beyond Nuclear 6930 Carroll Avenue Suite 400 Takoma Park, MD 20912 (E-mail: paul~beyondnuclear.orQ)
(E-mail: kevin~.be vondnuclear.org)
Emily Krause Law Clerk Atomnic Safety and Licensing Board Mail Stop: T-3 F23 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 (E-mail: eikloainrc.gov)
Mary C. Baty Kimberly A. Sexton James E.* Adler Office of the General Counsel, 0- 15D21 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 (E-mail: kas2(@nrc.zgov)
(E-mail: mcb Inanrc.gov)
(E-mail: jeal 6i@nrc.g.ov)
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