ML19199A411
| ML19199A411 | |
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| Site: | Beaver Valley, Peach Bottom, Salem, Hope Creek, Susquehanna, Seabrook, Limerick, Vermont Yankee, Callaway, Midland, Crane File:NorthStar Vermont Yankee icon.png |
| Issue date: | 10/13/1976 |
| From: | Chilk S NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY) |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY) |
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| NUDOCS 7905020054 | |
| Download: ML19199A411 (1) | |
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UNITED s1 AT f[fy 3(e* *'%,k NUCLEAR REGULATOR, OMMISSION SPITI Al. lW1. I VI RY WASHINGTON. D. C OGG5 73 (AT'hShig h
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I OFFICE OF THE OCT 131976 >i, CECRETARY Docket Hos. 50-271, 50-272/311, 50-277/278 50-289, 50 G O,.50-329/330, d
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%yjg To those addressees on the attached list:
On October 8, 1976, the 'nited States Court of Appeals for the District J
of Columbia Circuit entered an order ctaying issuance of the mandate in Natural Resources Defense Council v. hRC, in response to cetitions for stay of mandate filed by severaTparties in addition to the NRC, indicating, inter alia, that the Commission 'shall make any licenses granted between July 21, 1976 and such time when the mandate is issued subject to the outcome of the proceedings herein." A petition for a writ of certiorari has been filed in that case by the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation seeking review of the decision, making it appear that the mandate will not issue for the next severai months, ar least.
FRAP 41 (b).
Other parties, including the Cc=ission, may also nek Supreme Court review.
The Vermont Yankee C]rporation has also filed a motion with the Commission seeking recall of its directive, in its,eneral Statement of Policy, r
establishing a hearing board to conside.. suspension of the Vermont Yankee license and authorizing the ccnvening of similar boards on petition in other cases, until such time as the mandate may issue.
The Commission today released a supplement to its Environmental Survey of the Nuclear Fuel Cycia, and issued a notice of proposed rulemaking indicating its present belief that adoption of an interim rule setting revised values for the contributions of the waste management and re-processing portions of t.1e LWR fuel cycle to the environmental impacts of an individual reactcr, could be possible within three months.
In light of all these circumstances, and in particular the court of appeals' action and the indications that adoption of an interim rule on a timely basic a ll be feasible, the Commission is considering the suspension of all pending show cause proceedings on fuel cycle issues, as moved by the Vermont Yankee Corporation.
You are directed to file any response you may wish to make to the aforesaid notion, a copy of which is attacned hereto, to reach the Secretary of tne Commission on or before the close of busiress Friday, October 22.
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