ML17212A924

Informs of Util Position That Pendency of Antitrust Proceeding Is No Bar to Issuance of Ol.Fl Cities Estopped from Interposing Any Objection to OL Issuance Due to Previous Representations & Actions.Certificate of Svc Encl

ML17212A924
Person / Time
Site:	Saint Lucie
Issue date:	10/22/1981
From:	Bouknight J FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT CO., LOWENSTEIN, NEWMAN, REIS, AXELRAD & TOLL
To:	Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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ISSUANCES-A, NUDOCS 8110280134
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ROBCRT LOWENSTCIN JACK R. NEWMAN HAROLD F'CIS MAURICEAXCLRAD KATHLEEN H. SHEA J. A. BOUKNIGHTiJR.

MICHACLA. BAUSER DOUGLAS G. GREEN DAVID O. POWELL I

CI GREGORY BARNES ANNE W. COTTINOHAM ROBERT H. CULP PETER G. FLYNN STEVEN P. FRANTZ FRCDERIC S. GRAY ALVIN H. GUTTCRMAN DAVID B. RASKIN DONALDJ. 8ILVERMAN LAW OFFICCS LOWENSTEIN, NEWMAN, REIS 8c A.XELRAD 1025 CONNECTICUT AVENUES N. W.

WASHINGTON, D. C. 20036 202

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Mr. Harold Denton Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.

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Florida Power S Li ht Com an (St. Lucie Plant, Unit No. 2), Docket No. 50-389A

Dear Mr. Denton:

On October 7, 1981, counsel for a group of Cities that are intervenors in this proceeding wrote you concerning the effect of pending construction permit antitrust review pro-ceedings on issuance of the operating license for St. Lucie Unit No. 2.

The letter states Cities'iew that an operating license cannot be issued during the pendency of these pro-ceedings over their objections, but indicates that those objections could be withdrawn "under appropriate circumstances."

Florida Power a Light Company (HFPLH) offers the following in response to the Cities'etter.

First, the October 7 letter evidences Cities'actic of attempting to jeopardize operation of this plant in order to extract unwarranted economic concessions from FPL, a tactic that is deplorable

and, moreover, will not succeed.

The Cities persist in these tactics notwithstanding that the City of Orlando owns 6% of St. Lucie Unit No.

2 and that another 15%

of the ownership of the unit has been offered to other munici-palities and cooperatives, including some Cities on behalf of which the October 7, 1981, letter is written.

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Second, it is FPL's position that the pendency of anti-,

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license, in the particular circumstances of this case.

Moreover, FPL believes that the Cities are estopped, by their previous representations and actions, from inter-posing any objection to issuance of an operating license.

To put, it simply, they were allowed to intervene in this proceeding 31 months late on the basis of their promises that they would not seek delay.

FPL has moved the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board for a declaratory order ruling that the Cities are so estopped.

FPL's motion is pending before the Licensing Board, which has indicated that it will hold its ruling in abeyance for the time being."/

The Cities'etter omits any reference to these matters.

FPL questions the propriety of the Cities'xpressing their objection to you while the question of whether they are estopped from doing so is pending before the Licensing Board.

Sincerely, J.A. Bouknight, Jr.

owenstein,

Newman, Reis 6 Axelrad 025 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D.C.

20036 Herbert Dym Covington 6 Burling 1201 Pennsylvania

Avenue, N.W.

P.O.

Box 7566 Washington, D.C.

20044 Attorneys for Florida Power S

Light Company cc: Attached Service List

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Memorandum and Order Concerning Florida Power 6 Light, Company's Motion for a Declaratory Order (August 4, 1981),

Florida Power 6 Light Company (St. Lucie Plant, Unit. No, 2), Docket No. 50-389A.

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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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FLORIDA POWER 6 LIGHT COMPANY

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Docket No. 50-389A CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of the foregoing letter to Harold Denton from J.A. Bouknight, Jr.

and Herbert

Dym, were served upon the following persons by hand, delivery (*)

or by deposit in the U.S. Mail, first class, postage prepaid this 22nd day of October, 1981.

Peter B. Bloch, Esquire Chairman Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.

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

20555 Michael A. Duggan, Esquire College of Business Administration University of Texas Austin, Texas 78712 Ivan W. Smith, Esquire Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.

20555 Docketing and Service Station Office of the Secretary U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.

20555 Thomas Gurney, Sr., Esquire 203 North Magnolia Avenue Orlando, Florida 32802 Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.'0555 Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.

20555 Robert E. Bathen Fred Saffer R.W. Beck 6 Associates P.O.

Box 6817 Orlando, Florida 32803 Robert A. Jablon, Esquire Alan J. Roth, Esquire Spiegel 6 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 Janet Urban, Esquire P.O.

Box 14141 Washington, D.C.

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William H. ~ Chandler, Esquire

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

Gainesville, Florida 32602 Donald A. Kaplan, Esquire Robert Fabrikant, Esquire Antitrust Division U.S. Department of Justice Washington, D.C.

20530 Benjamin H. Vogler, Esquire Ann P.

Hodgdon Counsel for NRC Staff U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.

20555 Charles R.P.

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

Box 1418 Fort Pierce, Florida 33450 Bouknz.ght, Jr.

L 4enstein,

Newman, Reis 6 Axelrad 25 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.

ashington, D.C.

20036 (202) 862-8400 DATED: October 22, 1981

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