ML080090612

Amergen'S Answer Opposing Citizens' Emergency Motion for Additional Pages to Appeal the Board'S Final Decision

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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ILA S~ 14q2-: DOCKETED USNRC January 7, 2008 [11:05am)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF SECRETARY OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY RULEMAKINGS AND ADJUDICATIONS STAFF BEFORE THE COMMISSION In the Matter of:- January 7, 2008 AmerGen Energy Company, LLC)

Docket No. 50-2 19 (License Renewal for Oyster Creek Nuclear)

Generating Station))

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 CarolinaPower &

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 pages 72 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:. January 7, 2007 AmerGen Energy Company, LLC)

Docket No. 50-219 (License Renewal for Oyster Creek Nuclear)

Generating Station))

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* Administrative Judge U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission E. Roy Hawkens, Chair Attn: Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel One White Flint North Mail Stop: T-3 F23 11555 Rockville Pike U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Rockville, Maryland 20852-273 8 Washington, DC 20555-0001 (E-mail: HEARIN\GDOCKETaiinrc.,gov) (E-mail: erh~cnrc. ov)

Administrative Judge Administrative Judge Paul B. Abramson Anthony J. Baratta Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Mail Stop: T-3 F23 Mail Stop: T-3 F23 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-000 1 Washington, DC 20555-0001 (E-mail: pbae~nrc.gov) (E-mail: aib5(@nrc.gov)

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John A. Covino Office of Commission Appellate Valerie Anne Gray Adjudication" Division of Law U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Environmental Permitting and Counseling Section Washington, DC 20555-0001 P.O. Box 093 Hughes Justice Complex Richard Webster Trenton, NJ 08625 Julia LeMense (E-mail: john.covinoOdoljlps.state.njus) Rutgers Environmental Law Clinic (E-mail: valerie. 2rav(adol.lps.state.nj us) 123 Washington Street Newark, NJ 07102-5695 (E-mail: rwebster~a-kinoy.mutgers.edu)

(E-mail: ihuffi~kinov.rutgers.edu)

Suzanne Leta Paul Gunter NJPIRG Kevin Kamps 11I N. Willow Street Beyond Nuclear Trenton, NJ 08608 6930 Carroll Avenue (E-mail: sleta(~,nipir~g.org) Suite 400 Takoma Park, MD 20912 (E-mail: paul~beyondnuclear.orQ)

(E-mail: kevin~.be vondnuclear.org)

Mary C. Baty Emily Krause Kimberly A. Sexton Law Clerk James E.*Adler Atomnic Safety and Licensing Board Office of the General Counsel, 0- 15D21 Mail Stop: T-3 F23 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 Washington, DC 20555-0001 (E-mail: kas2(@nrc.zgov) (E-mail: eikloainrc.gov)

(E-mail: mcb Inanrc.gov)

(E-mail: jeal 6i@nrc.g.ov)

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