ML19220C908
| ML19220C908 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 03/30/1979 |
| From: | Scinto J NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE LEGAL DIRECTOR (OELD) |
| To: | Christenbury E NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE LEGAL DIRECTOR (OELD) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7905160050 | |
| Download: ML19220C908 (2) | |
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Note to Edward Cr ristenbury Re.
. ARCH 6 BOARD NOTICE REQUEST There has been scme question concerning the delay in processing the request for Board Notification transmitted by Vassallo's note of March 6,1979, concerning Midland. and Davis-Besse (and other BRW plants).
The request was assigned to melf on March 8,1979, bui. I first saw it on March 20 or 21.
On March 8,1979,'Mr. Reis was out of town and I was working on the
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NEC0 brief which was due out the following Monday (March 12, 1979).
On that morning I received irformation tnat NEC0 was abandoning the Sheffield site, and spent the day getting copies of NECO's notice and organizing meetings of all the people involved (Christenbury, Malsch, Murray, Bell, Dragonette, Fonner, and Scinto, et al).
This took all day and into the evening.
Starting on March 9,1979, immediately af ter our early morning con-ference completing work on the matters left open on NECO the night before, I began work with Mr. Case and Mr. Stello concerning the 5 Stone & Webster plants. That lasted all day, March 9, and into the night, and again on Saturday, March 10. On Monday, March 12, I spent all day and into the night at Mr. Denton's office preparing the Show Cause Orders issued March 13.
I flew to San Francisco on J-the afternoon of March 13, 1979, for meeting with the Livermore Lab team working on SEP.
I returned on March 15. On the morning of March 16 I worked with Mr. Malsch on the legal procedural questions raised in connection with the orders and in the afternoon I worked with you and Mr. Murray on the NECO Show Cause Order. We worked on Saturday morning, March 17, on the NECO order.
We met to discuss organization of teams for the Show Cause work on March 19, and I spent some time with Bernie Eardenick trying to get going on the radon 'rief.
l/ Our current practEe was to assign these matters to me in light of the difficulties in keeping track of these items and the delays involved in distributing them to the individual case 6ttorneys and to selected members of the office.
It was hoped that wi th the new processing unit to provide address lists and labels we could handle the matter in the Chief Hearing Counsel's office.
It has proved far longer than expected for the work processing unit to get geared up to provide _ complete or selected lists and labels.
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I know I looked at the March 6 notice on the evening of March 21 since I had it in the brief _ase when I weit downtown to discuss the Three Mile Island 2 airplane t. ch. spec. with Chandler and Trowbridge on March 22, 1979. The memos by the I&E supervisors and from Vassallo indicated the comments were not significant.
Chandler and I talked about it in the bus and Chandler mentioned that it did not relate to the only rema:ning issue in the Three Mile Island 2 case -- airplanes.
I then noted that *.he request was not consistent l
For example with the Board Notification policy in a number of respects.
i it requested notificati;n of Midland and Davis Besse while SER's or Supplements were still to be written (in these cases the policy is to l
cover these items in the SER rather than in T!otices).
I prepared a note for the case lawyer on Friday, March 23, but held it back fro two t
First, we had discussed Board Notices reasons on SatJrday, March 24:
that day and you indicated quite strergly your wish (and Mr. Shapar's) to expedite flotices to the maximum extent and not to get into questions
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like whether it is premature under the policy to sent them or whether it falls within the remaining open issues in the case (such as the radon j
Second, Mr. Creswell called me on March 23, 1979, and wanted cases).
to know if we were going to forward his memo to the Davis-Besse, Midland l
I explained that we were planning to forward it promptly to Bcards.
those Boards and to several other 8 cards in which there were B&W reactors I informed them that I wanted the individual case lawyers pending.
t to review it to see if they wanted to handle it in any special fashicn.
j I explained that I expected that this would involve a lot of copying I told him that I and some effort to get address lists and labels.
I hoped to get all the address lists and labels out by the end of the t
next week, March 30. Mr. Creswell did not indicate that he was unhappy at such date. He asked me for a copy of the Board letter.
On Saturday, I rethrcught this and decided that rather than wait for l
Board the individual lawyers to comment, the general discussion of i
notices we talked about for the Tuesday staff meeting would be adequate.
On Tuesday, March 27, af ter the gene *al matter of Board flotices was discussed and you made clear that we were to expedite all notices I again pressed for the labels on all cases to assure that all outstand'ng notices would be out by the end of the week (fiarch 30).
On March 29, someone mentioned in connection with the Three tiile Island incident the Regicn III inspectors comments.
I asked Mr. Mosely what that connecticn was and he indicated that they were reconsidering their I obtained copies of the March position in light of Three Mile Island.
28 and March 29 I&E memos and pursuant to Mr. Shapar's instructions the whole package was dispatched on March 29, 1979.
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