ML19206B361
| ML19206B361 | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 04/21/1978 |
| From: | Kelley J NRC OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL (OGC) |
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| ML19206B362 | List: |
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| SECY-A-78-034, SECY-A-78-34, NUDOCS 7905090246 | |
| Download: ML19206B361 (3) | |
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of action in these circu~. stances.1 This is not a case which presents an issue of excep-tional legal or policy importance and, there-fore, I do not belie /e it warrants Commission
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No Commission Review.
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Kelley ing General Counsel
Attachment:
ALA3 465 Commissioners' comments should be provided directly to the Office of the Secretary by c.o.b. Wednesday, Aoril 25, 1978.
DISTRIBUTION Commissioners Commissien Staff Offices Secretariat 2 'j
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2 As the Appeal 3 card points cut in ALA3 465 and pcin>'d out in ALA3 256 (January 27, 1973), the parties and the Scard were obliged by regulaticn to accept the randon value in Table S-3 The Cc:=ission has since fundamentally changed the groundrules cn the raden release issue.