ML18046A368

Discovery Rept Per ASLB 800229 Memorandum & Order.Util Sent NRC Rept & Documentation Re Time Isolation Valves Were Open During Operation.Util,Per NRC Request,Is Performing Addl Investigations & Analyses

ML18046A368
Person / Time
Site:	Palisades
Issue date:	02/06/1981
From:	Bielawski A ISHAM, LINCOLN & BEALE
To:
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ISSUANCES-CIV, NUDOCS 8102100655
Download: ML18046A368 (2)

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!SHAM, LINCOLN & BEALE COUNSELORS AT LAW ONE FIRST NATIONAL PLAZA FORTY-SECOND FLOOR CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60603 TELEPHONE 312-S58-7500 TELEX: 2-5288 WASHINGTON OFFICE 1120 CONNECTICUT AVENUE, N. W.

SUITE 32S WASHINGTON, D. C. 20036

I 202-833-9730 Feburary 6, 1981 Honorable Ivan W. Smith Administrative Law Judge Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Re

Consumers Power Company (Palisades Nuclear Power Facility) - Docket No. 50-255 (Civil Penalty)

Dear Judge Smith:

The purpose of this letter is to provide you with a report on the status of discovery and other prehearing matters in this proceeding pursuant to your memorandum and order of February 29, 1980. Counsel for Consumers and the NRC Staff have discussed and agreed to the contents of this letter.

Consumers has provided to the Staff a report and other documentation which, in Consumers' view, have a bearing upon the period of time the isolation valves in question were open during operation. The NRC Staff has informally requested that Consumers perform additional investigations and analyses. Consumers is in the process of performing such investigations and analyses; The parties have agreed to pursue discovery matters which remain outstanding. These matters include the deposition of Mr. Fred Leckie on February 9, 1981, and responses by Consumers to the NRC Staff's Third Round of Interrogatories.

The parties have also agreed to suspend further formal

discovery until such time as it can be determined whether a settlement agreement can be reached.

Alan P. '.EHela\vski Counsel for Consumers Power Company APB/rk cc: Service List