ML17212A252

Responds to Parsons & Whittemore,Inc to Nrc. Parsons & Whittemore,Inc Has No Valid Basis,Procedurally or Substantively,Upon Which to Participate in Antitrust Proceeding.Certificate of Svc Encl

ML17212A252
Person / Time
Site:	Saint Lucie
Issue date:	06/22/1981
From:	Green D FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT CO., LOWENSTEIN, NEWMAN, REIS, AXELRAD & TOLL
To:	NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY)
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ISSUANCES-A, NUDOCS 8107010415
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ROBERT LOWCNSTCIH JACK R. NEWMAN HAROLD I; RCIS MAURICC AXCLRAD KATHLCEH H. 5HCA J. A. BOUKNIOHT,JR.

MICHACLA. BAUSCR DOUOLA5 O. ORCCN E. ORCOORY B*RNCS ALBERT V. CARR, JR.

ANNE W. COTTINOHAM KA'THLCEN A. COX ROBERT H. CULP PETER O. FLYNN STEVEN P. FRANTZ FREDERIC S. BRAY ALVINH. OUTTCRMAN DAVIDO POWCILa DAVIDB. RASKIN DONALDJ. 5ILVERMAN aABH. KEN DOCKFTNUM8E< ~

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@gIBB ~g Mr. Samuel J. Chilk Secretary of the Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.

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Dear Mr. Chilk:

I am in receipt of a letter of June 11,

1981, addressed to you by counsel for Parsons

& Whittemore, Inc.

As Mr.

Bouknight is on vacation, and I have been out of town, we have been able to turn our attention to this letter only today. It merits only the following brief response.

1.

This exchange of letters began when Parsons Whittemore's President transmitted a letter to the Commissioners themselves.

That letter was not a pleading, was not submitted in the context of any proceeding pending before the Commission or in accordance with any of the Commission's rules.

What prompted FPL's response to it was the inclusion of condemnatory statements about FPL, and the omission of facts which FPL o<

believes must be considered before the Commission can reach P~

any judgment on either the legal or equitable merits of S

Parsons

& Whittemore's position. If anything is clear from counsel's June ll letter, it is that those facts, particularly the underlying contractual disputes involving Parsons

/pe Whittemore, Dade County, and FPL, are at the heart of any objective evaluation of Parsons

& Whittemore's claims.

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This is not the place to respond to the rhetoric in Parsons

& Whittemore's June ll, 1981 letter.

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LOwENSTEINp NE~JLÃ REZS BAD OO Mr. Samuel J. Chilk June 22, 1981 by Parsons

& Whittemore's counsel is quite apparent.

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It is FPL's belief that when those facts are brought Eefore the Commission in a proper context, it will be plain that Parsons

& Whittemore has no valid basis, procedurally or substantively, upon which to participate in any antitrust proceeding before the NRC. 2/

Respectfully submitted, cc:

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as G. Green Counsel for Florida Power Light Company Whether or not Dade County has made payment to Parsons Whittemore, FPL's prior letter did not so suggest.

It did quote from a passage in a recent Complaint filed against P&W by the County in which Dade County alleges that:

(1) the entire contract purchase price of the facility and equipment,

$ 128 million, has been placed in an escrow account by the County, to be paid upon receipt of adequate assurance of performance by P&W; (2)

P&W has failed to meet performance conditions which are an agreed precondition to any payment, and has repudiated its contractual obligations; and (3) apparently P&W has refused to honor its legal commitments until and unless someone agrees to pay P&W more money than the contract provides.

E.g., Complaint, paras.

33, 38-40.

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Parsons to obtain Parsons subpoenas files.

Whittemore has adamantly resisted FPL's efforts these facts.

For example, in Docket No. 50-389A, Whittemore has even resisted the issuance of for the pertinent documents contained in its

UNITED STATES OF 2QKRICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC. SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of FLORIDA POWER

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of letter to Mr. Samuel J. Chilk, Secretary of the Commission, dated June 22, 1981, was served upon the following persons by hand delivery* or by deposit in the U.S. Mail, first class, postage prepaid this 23d day of June 1981.

Ivan W. Smith, Esquire Chairman Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.

20555 Robert M. Lazo, Esquire Atomic Safety and Licensiqg Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.

20555 Michael A. Duggan, Esquire College of Business Administration University of Texas Austin, Texas 78712 Docketing and Service Station Office of the Secretary U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.

20555 Jerome

Saltzman, Chief Antitrust

& Indemnity Group U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.

20555 Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.

20555 Richard S.

Salzman, Esquire Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.

20555 Joseph

Rutberg, Esquire Lee Scott Dewey, Esquire Fredric D. Chanania, Esquire Counsel for NRC Staff U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.

20555 Ann P.

Hodgdon, Esquire Office of the Executive Legal Director U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commi s sion Washington, D.C.

20555 Thomas Gurney, Sr., Esquire 203 North Magnolia Avenue Orlando, Florida 32802 Robert E. Bathen Fred Saffer R.W. Beck

& Associates P.

O. Box 6817 Orlando, Florida 32803

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George Spiegel, Esquire Robert Jablon, Esquire Daniel Guttman, Esquire Spiegel

& McDiarmid 2600 Virginia Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D.C.

20037 William C. Wise, Esquire Suite 500 1200 18th Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C.

20036 William H. Chandler, Esquire

Chandler, O'Neal, Avera, Gray 6 Stripling Post Office Drawer 0

Gainesville, Florida 32602 Janet Urban, Esquire U.S.

Department of Justice P.

O. Box 14141 Washington, D.C.

20044 Donald A. Kaplan, Esquire Robert Fabrikant, Esquire Antitrust Division U.S. Department of Justice Washington, D.C.

20530 1g Charles R.P.

Brown, Esquire Brown, Paxton and Williams 301 South 6th Street P.

O. Box 1418 Fort Pierce, Florida 33450 George R. Kucik, Esquire Mare Gary, Esquire Ellen E. Sward, Esquire Arent, Fox, Kintner., Plotkin Kahn 1815 H Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C.

20006 Benjamin H. Vogler, Esquire U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.

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