ML17207A474
| ML17207A474 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Saint Lucie  |
| Issue date: | 10/04/1979 |
| From: | Bishop C NRC ATOMIC SAFETY & LICENSING APPEAL PANEL (ASLAP) |
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| References | |
| NUDOCS 7910180415 | |
| Download: ML17207A474 (3) | |
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA p
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING APPEAL BOARD Michael C. Farrar, Chairman Richard S.
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In the Matter of FLORIDA POWER 6 LIGHT COMPANY (St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant, Unit No.
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Docket No. 50-389
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MEMORANDUM AND ORDER October 4, 1979 In this construction permit proceeding, we have called for a hearing on the matter of the stability of the applicant's electrical grid and the adequacy of the plant's emergency power supplies generally.
The applicant's prepared testimony was submitted some time ago.
We recently received the staff's prepared testimony; in its wake, the applicant has promised (by letter of September 26, 1979) to advise us promptly whether it will submit a response and, if so, how long it will need to 1/
do so.
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Our original contemplation was that the applicant and staff would file direct testimony simultaneously; each
= would then be given the opportunity to comment on the other's filing.
ALAB-537, 9
NRC (April 5, 1979)(slip opinion, pp. 21-22).
As it turned out, the delay in the staff's filing allowed it to include a response to the applicant's testimony in its document.
At this point, then, it is appropriate to extend to the intervenors the opportunity to file prepared testimony 2/
of their own.
In that regard, they indicated several months ago that they hoped to obtain expert witnesses to testify on their behalf.
"Intervenors
Response
June 29,
- 1979, p.
5.
At that same time, they stated that they intended to begin discovery, at least of the applicant, 3/
promptly.
Accordingly, the intervenors are instructed to advise us in writing by Friday, October 19, 1979, of the status of their preparations for trial and of their plans for sponsoring direct testimony of their own, including the names of any. witnesses involved. If they do plan to present their own witnesses, they may have until Friday, November 16, 1979 to file prepared testimony.
In selecting that time
- period, we have taken into account that, although the staff's testimony only recently became available, the intervenors have had the applicant's principal testimony in hand for quite some time.
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See ALAB-537, supra, slip opinion, p.
22.
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In this regard, see ALAB-543, 9
NRC (May 3, 1979)
(slip opinion, pp. 5-6).
Although we are not now setting a firm, date or location for the hearing, we anticipate conducting it in the south Florida area during the week beginning on December 10, 1979.
We will issue a formal order in this respect upon receipt of the advice from the parties which we are now awaiting.
Xt is so ORDERED.
FOR THE APPEAL BOARD C. Je Bishop Secretary to the Appeal Board