ML091400780
| ML091400780 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Bellefonte  |
| Issue date: | 05/20/2009 |
| From: | Annette Vietti-Cook NRC/SECY |
| To: | NRC/OGC, Tennessee Valley Authority |
| SECY RAS | |
| References | |
| 50-438-CP, 50-439-CP, Construction Permit 1, RAS 3821 | |
| Download: ML091400780 (4) | |
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION In the Matter of
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TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
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Docket Nos. 50-438
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50-439 (Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2) )
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ORDER On May 8, 2009, the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, the Bellefonte Efficiency and Sustainability Team, and the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (Petitioners) filed a Petition to Intervene and Request for Hearing regarding an NRC order reinstating previously-withdrawn Construction Permits for Bellefonte Units 1 and 2. Contentions 1 and 2 of the Petition state that the NRC lacks statutory authority to reinstate the withdrawn Construction Permits.
The Commission intends to resolve this threshold authority issue before taking action on Petitioners other contentions. To aid the Commission, the Commission directs Petitioners, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), and the NRC Staff (Staff) to submit briefs, of no more than 15 pages, addressing the question whether the NRC possesses the statutory authority to reinstate the withdrawn construction permits. Petitioners, TVA, and the Staff will have 14 days from the issuance of this Order to file their briefs on this question. Thereafter, Petitioners, TVA, and the Staff may file responding briefs, if they choose. The optional responding briefs shall be no more than 10 pages, and shall be filed within 7 days from the filing date of the initial briefs.
All briefs shall be filed in accordance with the E-Filing procedures set for the in the Federal Register notice announcing the opportunity to request a hearing (74 Fed. Reg. 10, 969, March 13, 2009.)
The remainder of Petitioners proposed contentions will be held in abeyance, pending the Commissions ruling on the threshold authority issue. The Commission may refer Petitioners remaining contentions to the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel at a future date. Notwithstanding 10 C.F.R. § 2.309(h), TVA and the Staff should not file answers to the Intervention Petition, other than the briefs described above, pending further order of the Commission.
This Order is issued pursuant to my authority under 10 C.F.R. § 2.346(a).
For the Commission
[NRC SEAL]
/RA/
Annette L. Vietti-Cook Secretary of the Commission Dated at Rockville, Maryland This 20th day of May, 2009.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION In the Matter of
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TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
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Docket Nos. 50-438
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and 50-439 (Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant,
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Units 1 and 2)
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(Construction Permit Reinstatement)
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of the foregoing ORDER OF THE SECRETARY RESPONDING TO PETITIONERS CONTENTION REGARDING AUTHORITY OF THE NRC TO REINSTATE THE WITHDRAWN CONSTRUCTION PERMIT have been served upon the following persons by the Electronic Information Exchange.
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Commission Appellate Adjudication Mail Stop: O-16C1 Washington, DC 20555-0001 OCAA Mail Center E-mail: ocaamail@nrc.gov Tennessee Valley Authority Office of the General Counsel 400 W. Summit Hill Drive, WT 6A-K Knoxville, TN 37902 Edward J. Vigluicci, Esq.
E-mail: ejvigluicci@tva.gov Scott A. Vance, Esq.
E-mail: savance@tva.gov Maureen H. Dunn, Esq.
E-mail: mhdunn@tva.gov U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the Secretary of the Commission Mail Stop: O-16C1 Washington, DC 20555-0001 Hearing Docket E-mail: hearingdocket@nrc.gov Counsel for the Applicant Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP Counsel for Tennessee Valley Authority 1111 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC 20004 Kathryn M. Sutton, Esq.
ksutton@morganlewis.com Lawrence J. Chandler, Esq.
E-mail: lchandler@morganlewis.com Mary L. Freeze, Legal Secretary E-mail: mfreeze@morganlewis.com Sharon Wisely, Legal Secretary E-mail: swisely@morganlewis.com
Docket Nos. 50-438 and 50-439 ORDER OF THE SECRETARY RESPONDING TO PETITIONERS CONTENTION REGARDING AUTHORITY OF THE NRC TO REINSTATE THE WITHDRAWN CONSTRUCTION PERMIT 2
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the General Counsel Mail Stop: O-15D21 Washington, DC 20555-0001 Edward Williamson, Esq.
E-mail: elw2@nrc.gov David Roth, Esq.
E-mail: der@nrc.gov Andrea Jones, Esq.
E-mail: axj4@nrc.gov Brian Newell, Paralegal E-mail: bpn1@nrc.gov David E. Roth, Esq.
E-mail: david.roth@nrc.gov Jeremy Suttenberg, Esq.
E-mail: Jeremy.suttenberg@nrc.gov OGC Mail Center E-mail: OGCMailCenter@nrc.gov Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, Inc. (BREDL)
P.O. Box 88 Glendale Springs, NC 28629 Louis A. Zeller, Administrator and Science Director E-mail: bredl@skybest.com Counsel for Westinghouse Electric Company Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC 600 Grant Street, 44th Floor Pittsburg, PA 15219 Barton Z. Cowan, Esq.
E-mail: teribart61@aol.com
[Original signed by Nancy Greathead]
Office of the Secretary of the Commission Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 20th day of May 2009.