ML13336A537
| ML13336A537 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Indian Point  |
| Issue date: | 12/02/2013 |
| From: | Amitava Ghosh NRC/OGC |
| To: | Kennedy M, Lawrence Mcdade, Richard Wardwell Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
| SECY RAS | |
| References | |
| 50-247-LR, 50-286-LR, ASLBP 07-858-03-LR-BD01, RAS 25361 | |
| Download: ML13336A537 (11) | |
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UNITE D STATE S N UCLEAR REGULATORY C OMMI SS I ON WASHINGTON, DC 20555 - 0001 December 2, 2013 Administrative Judge Administrative Judge Lawrence G. McDade, Chair Dr. Richard E. Wardwell 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 20555-0001 Washington, DC 20555-0001 Administrative Judge Michael F. Kennedy Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Mail Stop T-3 F23 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 In the Matter of ENTERGY NUCLEAR OPERATIONS, INC.
(Indian Point Nuclear Generating Units 2 and 3)
Docket Nos. 50-247-LR and 50-286-LR
Dear Administrative Judges:
Pursuant to the Atomic Safety and Licensing Boards December 18, 2008, Memorandum and Order (Addressing Requests that the Proceeding be Conducted Pursuant to Subpart G), slip op. at 13, the Licensing Board's Order (Granting Consent Motion Regarding Mandatory Disclosures), dated January 30, 2009, at 1, the staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Staff) herein notifies the Licensing Board and the parties that the hearing file has been supplemented for this proceeding. Materials in the hearing file may be accessed through the Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). An index containing the ADAMS accession number, date, and title or description of each item in Hearing File Index, Supplement 58 is appended hereto as Attachment 1.
On or about December 12, 2013, the documents identified in the hearing file will be made available via the Electronic Hearing Docket (EHD), which may be accessed at the following URL: http://ehd.nrc.gov/EHD_Proceeding/home.asp. The hearing file will be contained in a sub-folder entitled, Indian PT Hearing File, Supplement 58 in the Indian_PT_2&3_50-247&50-286-LR" folder of the EHD.
In addition, as required by 10 C.F.R. § 2.336(b)(5), the Staff is producing a privilege log, identifying documents withheld under the deliberative process privilege, which are appended hereto as Attachments 2. Also attached is the Declaration of John W. Lubinski formally invoking the deliberative process privilege with respect to the documents in Attachment 2. The Staff will
Judge McDade December 2, 2013 Judge Kennedy Judge Wardwell preserve and maintain the privileged documents identified in these logs during the pendency of this proceeding.
Further, pursuant to 10 C.F.R. § 2.336(c), attached is the Affidavit of Kimberly J. Green, certifying that all relevant materials required by this section have been disclosed, and that the disclosures are accurate and complete as to documents identified by November 25, 2013.
Finally, the NRC Staff notes that it has made a good faith effort to identify and characterize all documents meeting the criteria of 10 C.F.R. § 2.336(b) and 10 C.F.R. § 2.1203 in this proceeding. In identifying these documents, the Staff does not concede their relevance to the license renewal issues to be decided in this proceeding.
Sincerely,
/Signed (electronically) by/
Anita Ghosh Counsel for NRC Staff
Enclosures:
Attachment 1 - Hearing File Index, Supplement 58 Attachment 2 - Deliberative Process Privilege Log Declaration of John W. Lubinski Affidavit of Kimberly J. Green cc w/Encls.: Service List
Attachment 1 - Indian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Supplement 58 - December 2, 2013 Accession Document ID# Title Number Date 58-0001 ML13309A640 11/04/2013 2013/11/04 Indian Point LR Hearing - IPEC License Renewal - April 2013 Audit of Westinghouse Proprietary Information - RVI Program 58-0002 ML13309A638 11/05/2013 2013/11/05 Indian Point LR Hearing - IPEC License Renewal - RAI 6a Response Time - RVI 58-0003 ML13309A637 11/05/2013 2013/11/05 Indian Point LR Hearing - RE: IPEC License Renewal - RAI 6a Response Time - RVI 58-0004 ML13323B779 11/19/2013 2013/11/19 Indian Point LR Hearing - RAI on RVI Applicant/Licensee Action Item 1 58-0005 ML13318A450 11/19/2013 Request for Additional Information for the Review of the Indian Point Nuclear Generating, Units 2 and 3, License Renewal Application, Set 2013-06 (TAC NOS. MD5407 and MD5408).
58-0006 ML13311A330 10/24/2013 2013/10/24 Indian Point LR Hearing - Fwd: Entergy Monitoring Plan 58-0007 ML13322A834 11/22/2013 IP RAI for Cost Estimates Report and Documentation
Attachment 2 - Indian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Deliberative Process Privilege, Supplement 58 - December 2, 2013 Certain documents otherwise subject to inclusion in the hearing file and mandatory disclosures for this proceeding have been determined by the NRC Staff to contain information subject to withholding from public disclosures as predecisional, deliberative information. Pursuant to 10 C.F.R. § 2.336(b)(5), the Staff is providing this log to identify the following documents, withheld under the "deliberative process" privilege.
Addressee Author Name Estimated Accession Document Document Name ID # & Author Title Comment Page Number Date Type & Addressee Affiliation Count Affiliation DP- ML13309B648 W. Holston, 2013/11/05 Indian Point 11/05/2013 E-Mail w/ J. Wise, Internal 59 58- NRC/NRR LR Hearing - Please peer Attachment NRC/NRR discussion 001 review the IP SER input regarding SER for BP using the attached input.
files.
Attachments:
[NL-13-132, publically available at ML13282A140; NL-13-098, publically available at ML13211A173; NL-12-174, publically available at ML12341A180]
DP- ML13312A833 K. Green, 2013/11/08 Indian Point 11/08/2013 E-Mail J. Poehler, Internal 2 58- NRC/NRR LR Hearing - DRAI 6a NRC/NRR discussion 002 regarding draft RAI 1
Attachment 2 - Indian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Deliberative Process Privilege, Supplement 58 - December 2, 2013 Addressee Author Name Estimated Accession Document Document Name ID # & Author Title Comment Page Number Date Type & Addressee Affiliation Count Affiliation DP- ML13316B992 W. Holston, 2013/11/12 Indian Point 11/12/2013 E-Mail S. Turk, Internal 4 58- NRC/NRR LR Hearing - FW: Update NRC/OGC discussion 003 on Indian Point 3 Service K. Green, regarding buried Water System Relief NRC/NRR piping leakage Request D. Morey, NRC/NRR DP- ML13316B988 W. Gardner, 2013/11/12 Indian Point 11/12/2013 E-Mail W. Holston, Internal 2 58- NRC/NRR LR Hearing - IP SER as NRC/NRR discussion 004 you requested. regarding SER input DP- ML13317A888 K. Green, 2013/11/13 Indian Point 11/13/2013 E-Mail J. Poehler, Internal 2 58- NRC/NRR LR Hearing - RAI 6-A NRC/NRR discussion 005 regarding draft RAI DP- ML13318B175 M. Moser, 2013/11/14 Indian Point 11/14/2013 E-Mail w/ A. Ghosh, Email forwarding 10 58- NRC/NRR LR Hearing - NYSDOS Attachment NRC/OGC draft CZMA 006 Letter- Predecisional R. Chazell, consultation letter NRC/NRR
[Also withheld under Attorney-Client privilege]
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Attachment 2 - Indian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Deliberative Process Privilege, Supplement 58 - December 2, 2013 Addressee Author Name Estimated Accession Document Document Name ID # & Author Title Comment Page Number Date Type & Addressee Affiliation Count Affiliation DP- ML13323A360 W. Holston, 2013/11/19 Indian Point 11/19/2013 E-Mail K. Green, Internal 2 58- NRC/NRR LR Hearing - IP 9/26/12 NRC/NRR discussion 007 SER Input File W. Gardner, regarding SER NRC/NRR input DP- ML13323A363 K. Green, 2013/11/19 Indian Point 11/19/2013 E-Mail w/ M. Galloway, Internal 10 58- NRC/NRR LR Hearing - Monthly Attachment NRC/NRR discussion 008 Status Report to ASLBP J. Lubinski, regarding SER on IP NRC/NRR supplement and RAIs Attachment [NRC Staffs 21st Status Report to the Board, publically available at ML13308B382]
DP- ML13324A039 W. Holston, 2013/11/20 Indian Point 11/20/2013 E-Mail w/ D. Morey, Internal 10 58- NRC/NRR LR Hearing - Indian Point Attachment NRC/NRR discussion 009 Buried Pipe SER Input for regarding SER Applicant letters and RAI input Responses Through October 2013
Attachment:
Draft SER input 3
Attachment 2 - Indian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Deliberative Process Privilege, Supplement 58 - December 2, 2013 Addressee Author Name Estimated Accession Document Document Name ID # & Author Title Comment Page Number Date Type & Addressee Affiliation Count Affiliation DP- ML13326A116 W. Gardner, 2013/11/22 Indian Point 11/22/2013 E-Mail w/ J. Wise, Internal 19 58- NRC/NRR LR Hearing - RE: IP Attachment NRC/NRR discussion 010 review regarding SRE input
Attachment:
[NL-13-131, publically available at ML13274A238]
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December 2, 2013 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of )
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ENTERGY NUCLEAR OPERATIONS, INC. ) Docket Nos. 50-247-LR, 50-286-LR
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(Indian Point Nuclear Generating Units 2 and 3) )
DECLARATION OF JOHN W. LUBINSKI I, John W. Lubinski, do hereby state as follows:
- 1. I am employed as the Director of the Division of License Renewal (DLR) in the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissions (NRC) Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR). My supervisory responsibilities include oversight of the NRC Staffs review and evaluation of the Indian Point Nuclear Generating Units 2 and 3 license renewal application.
- 2. As part of their responsibilities in updating the hearing file and mandatory disclosures for these proceedings, NRC staff members under my supervision identified documents as privileged because they contained information concerning the Staffs pre-decisional deliberative process. The documents are listed in Attachment 2 to the submission of the Staffs Hearing File Index Supplement 58.
- 3. I have personally reviewed the documents identified as privileged in , and have determined, in accordance with the guidance set forth in Management Directive 3.4, that they contain pre-decisional information concerning the Staffs review of the license renewal application. The documents contain either the Staffs analyses, recommendations, opinions, or evaluations, and may not necessarily reflect the final agency
position with respect to the matters discussed therein. The documents comprise part of the deliberative process necessary for the Staffs review of the pending license renewal application.
- 4. Further, I have determined that disclosure of the documents could result in harm to the agency, in that it would (a) prematurely disclose the preliminary views of individual Staff members and/or the Staff prior to reaching a final agency decision, and could thus create confusion as to the actual policy or views of the NRC Staff; (b) hinder the efficiency of the Staff, in that forced disclosure of its internal discussions on an unresolved issue would tend to chill all future deliberations and would interfere with the Staffs ability to engage in a free exchange of opinions and analyses prior to publishing its final review documents; and (c) imply or suggest incorrectly that the opinions of the Staff members involved in these communications are actually the final decisions of the agency, while no such final decision has yet been made.
- 5. Accordingly, I formally invoke the deliberative process privilege with respect to the documents listed in Attachment 2 to the submission of the Staffs Hearing File Index Supplement 58.
- 6. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct to the best of my knowledge, information and belief.
Executed in Accord with 10 CFR 2.304(d)
John W. Lubinski Executed in Rockville, Maryland this 2nd day of December, 2013
December 2, 2013 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of )
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ENTERGY NUCLEAR OPERATIONS, INC. ) Docket Nos. 50-247-LR, 50-286-LR
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(Indian Point Nuclear Generating )
Units 2 and 3) )
AFFIDAVIT OF KIMBERLY J. GREEN CONCERNING MANDATORY DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENT OF 10 C.F.R. § 2.336(b)
I, Kimberly J. Green, do hereby state as follows:
- 1. I am employed as a Senior Mechanical Engineer in the Division of License Renewal in the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissions (NRC) Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. I serve as the hearing file project manager for the Indian Point Nuclear Generating Units 2 and 3 license renewal application (LRA). Among other things, I am assisting with the preparation of the hearing file and mandatory disclosures in connection with the LRA at issue in this proceeding.
- 2. I hereby certify that all relevant materials required to be disclosed pursuant to 10 C.F.R. § 2.336 (b) and (c) in the captioned proceeding have been disclosed, and that the disclosures are accurate and complete for documents identified as of November 25, 2013.
- 3. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct to the best of my knowledge, information and belief.
Executed in Accord with 10 CFR 2.304(d)
Kimberly J. Green Executed in Rockville, Maryland this 2nd day of December 2013
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of )
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ENTERGY NUCLEAR OPERATIONS, INC. ) Docket Nos. 50-247-LR, 50-286-LR
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(Indian Point Nuclear Generating )
Units 2 and 3) )
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE Pursuant to 10 C.F.R § 2.305 (revised), I hereby certify that copies of the foregoing Letter to the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board regarding the Indian Point Hearing File, including: - Indian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Supplement 58; Attachment 2
- Indian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Supplement 58 - Deliberative Process Privilege; Declaration of John W. Lubinski, dated December 2, 2013; and Affidavit of Kimberly J.
Green, dated December 2, 2013, in the above-captioned proceeding have been served upon the Electronic Information Exchange, the NRCs E-Filing System, this 2nd day of December, 2013.
/Signed (electronically) by/
Anita Ghosh Counsel for NRC Staff U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the General Counsel Mail Stop - O-15D21 Washington, DC 20555 Telephone: (301) 415-4113 E-mail: anita.ghosh@nrc.gov Date of signature: December 02, 2013