ML110050330

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Entergy Request for Change in Hearing Date
ML110050330
Person / Time
Site: Pilgrim
Issue date: 12/30/2010
From: Gaukler P
Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw, Pittman, LLP, Entergy Nuclear Generation Co, Entergy Nuclear Operations
To:
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
SECY RAS
References
50-293-LR, ASLBP 06-848-02-LR, RAS J-330
Download: ML110050330 (4)


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DOCKETED RAS December 30, 2010 (12:14 p.m.)

OFFICE OF SECRETARY RULEMAKINGS AND December 30, 2010 ADJUDICATIONS STAFF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board In the Matter of )

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Entergy Nuclear Generation Company and ) Docket No. 50-293-LR Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. ) ASLBP No. 06-848-02-LR

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(Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station) )

ENTERGY REQUEST FOR CHANGE IN HEARING DATE Entergy Nuclear Generation Company and Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. (collectively "Entergy") respectfully request a change in the schedule for the hearing and potential oral-argument on new pending contentions from March 2 and 3, 2011 to March 9 and 10, 2011. The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board's ("Board") in its December 22, 2010 Order (Providing Dates for Hearing and Oral Argument) set the hearing in this matter for March 2, 2011 and potential argument on new pending contentions for March 3, 2011. The Board provided, however, that if any party has a significant or serious problem with these dates that it would consider rescheduling them to March 8-9 or March 9-10, provided that such a request "indicates the precise reason for the change and that all other parties are available on the alternate dates, and does this no later than January 5, 2011 ."

Entergy does have a significant and serious problem in meeting the March 2 and 3 dates set by the Board. One of Entergy's two expert witnesses, Dr. Steven Hanna, is an adjunct associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health in the Department of Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk. Dr. Hanna teaches two classes for the Harvard School of Public Health in conjunction with other professors; one class is at Harvard and a second class is overseas in

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Cyprus. Both classes are taught by a team of five or six professors which requires the close coordination of their schedules as well as the technical content of their lectures. The schedules were finalized by the Head of the Department in mid-December, and Dr. Hanna is now scheduled to teach his lectures in Cyprus the week of February 28 - March 4.

As required by the Board's December 22, 2010 Order, counsel for Entergy has checked with the NRC Staff and Pilgrim Watch on their availability for March 9 and March 10. Counsel for the Staff has advised Entergy counsel that the Staff and its witnesses are available for those dates and that the Staff has no objection to rescheduling the hearing and potential oral argument to March 9 and March 10. Additionally, Mary Lampert of Pilgrim Watch has advised counsel for Entergy that Pilgrim Watch is also available on both March 9 and March 10.1 Accordingly, Entergy respectfully requests that the hearing be rescheduled to March 9, 2011 and that any potential argument on new pending contentions be rescheduled to March 10, 2011.

David R. Lewis Paul A. Gaukler PILLSBURY WINTHROP SHAW PITTMAN LLP 2300 N Street, NW Washington, DC 20037-1128 Tel. (202) 663-8000 Counsel for Entergy Dated: December 30, 2010 Ms. Lampert did advise counsel for Entergy that she is scheduled to be in Cuba March 12 to March 20 and that she would therefore request that the time from March 11 to March 20 be considered dead time and not be accounted for in the time allowed to file any pleadings that are due subsequent to the hearing and potential oral argument. Entergy believes that Ms. Lampert would likely have the same time conflict regardless of whether the hearing and potential argument is March 2-3 or March 9-10. In any event, the schedule for the filing of pleadings following the hearing and potential oral argument is premature and would be determined at that time..

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board In the Matter of )

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Entergy Nuclear Generation Company and ) Docket No. 50-293-LR Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. ) ASLBP No. 06-848-02-LR

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(Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station) )

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of "Entergy Request for Change in Hearing Date" were served on the persons listed below by deposit in the U.S. Mail, first class, postage prepaid, and where indicated by an asterisk, by electronic mail, this 30th day of December, 2010.

  • Secretary *Office of Commission Appellate Adjudication Att'n: Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff Mail Stop 0-16 C1 Mail Stop 0-16 C1 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 Washington, DC 20555-0001 ocaamail@nrc.gov secy@nrc.gov; hearingdocket(ihinrc.gov
  • Administrative Judge *Administrative Judge Ann Marshall Young, Esq., Chair Dr. Richard F. Cole 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, DC 20555-0001 Washington, DC 20555-0001 amy(&nrc. gov rfcl @nrc.gov
  • Administrative Judge Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Paul B. Abramson Mail Stop T-3 F23 Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Mail Stop T-3 F23 Washington, DC 20555-0001 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 pba@nrc.gov I
  • Susan L. Uttal, Esq.

148 Washington Street *Andrea Z. Jones, Esq.

Duxbury, MA 02332 *Brian Harris, Esq.

mary.lampert(acomcast.net Office of the General Counsel Mail Stop 0-15 D21 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 Susan.Uttal@nrc.gov; andrea.jones@nrc.gov; brian.harris@nrc. gov; michael.dreher@nrc.gov

  • Matthew Brock, Assistant Attorney General *Sheila Slocum Hollis, Esq.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Duane Morris LLP Office of the Attorney General 505 9th Street, NW One Ashburton Place Suite 1000 Boston, MA 02108 Washington, DC 20006 Martha.Coakley@state.ma.us sshollis@duanemorris. corn Matthew.Brock@state.ma.us

  • Mr. Mark D. Sylvia *Chief Kevin M. Nord Town Manager Fire Chief and Director, Duxbury Emergency Town of Plymouth Management Agency 11 Lincoln St. 688 Tremont Street Plymouth, MA 02360 P.O. Box 2824 msylvia@townhall.plymouth.ma.us Duxbury, MA 02331 nord@town.duxbury.ma.us
  • Richard R. MacDonald *Katherine Tucker, Esq.

Town Manager Law Clerk, 878 Tremont Street Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Duxbury, MA 02332 Mail Stop T3-E2a macdonald(itown.duxbury.ma.us U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 Katie.Tucker@nrc.gov Paul A. Gaukler 2