ML19220A365
| ML19220A365 | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 01/19/1978 |
| From: | Blake E SHAW, PITTMAN, POTTS & TROWBRIDGE |
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| NUDOCS 7904170478 | |
| Download: ML19220A365 (4) | |
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CRDER 3279' On February 9,1978, Intervencrs, Citizens for a Safe Environment and York Ccmmittee fnr i Safe Environment, moved this Ccmmission for a e
stay of the Licensing Ecard's Initial Decision of December 19, 1977, to authorize issuance of an operating license for Unit No. 2 of the Three Mile :sland Nuclear Station (TMI-2).
LBP-77-70, 6 NRC On January 27, 1973, the Appeal Scard denied the itervenors' motion for a stay of the decisien.
ALAB-456, 7 f;RC The Intervencrs now ccme The apolication for the cperating license for Unit 2 of Thraa Mila Island was filed in 1974 at a time when Chairman Hendrie was serv-ing as an Assistant Direcsor in the regulatory staff of the Atcaic Energy CC=n ssion and three ecnths before he left the Ccmmission.
Chairman Hencrie has fcund three memoranda that reference the Three Mile Island project.
He has recused himself from participating in ceciding the notica for a stay.
He will decide at a later date af ter hearing frca the parties, whether his previous involvemenk was or such a minimal nature as to allcw his participation in
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2 to us for relief." Both the applicant and the NRC staff urge the Ccemission to deny the stay.
For the reasons which follow, we deny the Intervenors' motion for a stay but we direct the Appeal Board to con-sider the issue of the environmental effects of radon (Rn-222' in de-ciding the merits of this appeal.
Our regulations require that the following four factors be ad-dressed in consideration of a motion for a stay:
(1) whether the moving party has made a strong showing that it is likely to prevail cit the rerits; (2) whether the party will be irreparably injured unless a stay is granted; (3) whether the granting of a stay would harm other parties; and (4) where the public interest lies.
10 CFR 2.783(e) (1977).
In their submission to the Ccmmission, Intervenors have intreduced a variety of contentions regarding the merits of their case.
Of these, only the issue of the envircnmental effects of Rn-222 in uranium mining and milling was presented to the Appeal Ecard and is therefore prcperly before us.
10 CFR 2.788(f)(1977).
Mcwever, the other issues have been raised on the merits of intervenors' appeal frcm the Licensing Ecard decision.
That appeal has been fully briefed before our Appeal Board, The instant proceeding is not an appeal of this denici.
In public Service Ccreanv of "ew Haroshire (Seabrook Station, Units 1 and 2), 7 i,d.C
, Slip Cpinion 3: 44, n.4a (January 6, b78) the Ccmmissien ind:cated that a party aggrieved by an Appeal Ceard decision denying a stay should apply :o tne Ccmmission for a stay under 10 CFR 2.733(a), (h) rathei-than petition for review under 10 CFR 2.786(b).
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3 which has scheduled argument for March 23.
These issues thus will be addressed in the course of that appeal.
The Intervenors claim that releases of Rn-222 associated with the production of the annual fuel requirement for a light-water reacter will be many orders of magnitude larger than the figure of 74.5 curies in Table S-3 of 10 CFR Part 51.
They are correct in asserting that Table S-3 understates these radon releases.
The Commission has taken under advisement a recommtidatien by the NRC staff that Table S-3 be w.. ended to remove the value for radon releases and that the subject of radon releases and associated health effects be declared litigable in all individual licensing proceedings.
While the Appeal Soard decided correctly that the Intervenors' ar"; ment was barred by the fuel cycle rule, in these special circumstances in which chere is na apparent dispute that part of the rule is sericusly inadequate the purpose of the rule wuJla not be served by its rigid application in this case.
The Rn-222 release figure in Table S-3, a table which heretofore has been relied on by the Commission and its Scards in their NEPA analyses of the environmental effects of the uranium fuel cycle, is in In this particular case, however, the Licensing Ecard admitted error.
Intervenors' evidence about Rn-222 releases and then undertcck a NEPA analysis en the assumpticn that Intervenors' contenticns cuout Rn-222 releases were correct.
The Licensing Board concluded that the substitu-tion of the significantly larger release figures urged by the Intervanors x-
4 had a negligible effect upon its NEPA analysis.
The Intervenors in their motion have challenged the Licensing Board's articulation of its reasoning, but they have not presented the requisite showing that they are likely to prevaii in their contentien that the Licensing Board's conclusion was wrong.
Thus the fact that the Rn-222 release figure in
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Table S-3 is in error does not justify a stay in the factual circum-stances of this particular case.
Nor are we persuaded by the Intervenors' arguments that they will
er irreparable injury if TMI-2 is allowed to operate pending the s'
Appeal Ecard's review.
Because the fuel for this period of operation has already been mined and fabricated, operaticn of the plant will make no additional contribution to the radon releases on which the Intervenors base their argument for a stay.
The Intervenors point to the costs of decommissioning as an 1rreparaule in.iury resulting frca contamination if operating is not stayed.
This contamination is not an irreversible harm, nowever, because there are methods available to decontaminate a facility and restore the site to unrestricted use.
Economic costs of this decommisrioning would not fall on the Inter-veners.
By contrast, grantir.g a stay could do significant harm to oth-parties.
Applicant's submission on this motion and the Final Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement indicate that a delay would cost the Applicant's customers some $8 million per..:enth in added electricity
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Intervenors contend that the Applicant had voluntarily delayed this pix and that harm to them offsets harm to the Applicant.
This contention is disputed by the NRC staff and in any case is not relevant to the point at issue -- whether in the situation as it now exists the other parties would be harmed by a stay.
Unnecessary delay in operation of IMI-2 could impose substantial costs, even if not precisely the costs outlined above.
These costs and any burden of associated energy shortages will be shared by the public.
For the reasons above, we deny Intervenors' motion for a stay.
Since the Rn-222 value in Table S-3 is incorrect, we direct the Appeal Eoard to review this case as though no Rn-222 release figure had been determined by regulation in Table S-3.
The Appeal Board, there-fore, should consider the environmental ef fects of the release of Rn-222 during the front end of the fuel cycle as an opeo ' actual issue to be determined on the evidence in this particular case.
If the Appeal Ecard thinks this issue was inadequately explored at the Licensing Eoard level for any reason, including en assumption by the parties that the S-3 Table was not subject to dispute in an individual licensing proceeding, it should take action as it deems necessary to complete the record.
It is so CRDERED.
For the Ccnw Sion.
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CHILK Secretary of :Le Ccc.missicn Dated at Washington, D.C.
this 2d day of March,1978.
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(Thre e Mile Island l' nit No. 2)
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-1 CERTIFICATE OF SER'JICE I hereby certify that I have this day served the foregoing document (s) cpon each person designated on the of ficial service lic: compiled by the Of fice of the Secretary of the Cor:nission in this proceeding in 2-accordance uith the requirements of Section 2.712 of 10 CFR Part Rules of Practice, of the Nuclear regulatory Commission's Rules and Regulations.
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METROPOLITAN EDISON COMPA'TI, ET AL.
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SERVICE LIST Dr. Chauncey P. Cepferd Edward Luton, Esq., Chairman 433 Criande Avenue Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission State ColleEe, Tennsylvnnia 16EC1 Washington, D. C. 20555 Mr. Gustave A. Linenberger Atocic Safety and Licensine Eoard Honorable Karin W. Carter U. S. Luclear Regulatory Concission Assistant Attorney General Washington, D. C.
20555 office of Enforce ent Department of Environmental Resources Dr. Ernest O. Salo 709 Health and Welfare Building Professor Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 Fisheries Research Institute, WH-10 College of Fisheries Miss Mary V. Southard University of Uashin6 ton Citizens for a Safe Environ =ent Seattle, Washington 98195 P.O. Box 405 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17108 George F. Trowbridge, Esq.
Shaw, Pitt=an, Potts, Trowbridge Government Publication Section 1000 E Street, N. U.
State Library of Pannsylvania Faohington, D. C.
20006 Education Building, Eox 1601 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17126 Counsel for NRC btaff U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Cocmission Washington, D. C. 20555 3[> ~ [).'$ bI
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