ML19241A587

Letter from NRC Acting Secretary, Richard Laufer, to Lawrence Delafield

ML19241A587
Person / Time
Site:	Pilgrim
Issue date:	08/29/2019
From:	Richard Laufer NRC/SECY
To:	Delafield L Six Ponds Improvement Association
SECY RAS
References
50-293-LT, 72-1044-LT, License Transfer, RAS 55221
Download: ML19241A587 (4)

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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 August 29, 2019 SECRETARY Mr. Lawrence H. (Pompey) Delafield President Six Ponds Improvement Association 76 Morgan Road Plymouth, MA 02360

Dear Mr. Delafield:

On behalf of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), I am responding to your letter of August 20, 2019, to the Commission regarding the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station license transfer request from Entergy and Holtec (Docket Nos. 50-593 and 72-1044). In your letter, you request that the NRC delay its decision on the license transfer application until after the Commission rules upon the license transfer intervention petition filed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The license transfer was approved on August 22, 2019.

Because your letter bears on the contested adjudication pending before the Commission, it would be inappropriate for the Commissioners to discuss or comment on the matter at this time.

This is because the Commission must remain impartial during the pendency of the adjudication.

A copy of your letter and this response will be served on the participants in the Pilgrim license transfer proceeding.

Sincerely, Richard J. Laufer Acting Secretary

Augw:st 20, 20 19 Cmnm is,;itm1.-r.. foi:- the Nudear Rt:gu!11lrn:y Cwnm is,;io11

& Kristine: L. Svin id;;i, Presidtm L U.S. Nuclear RcguL'tlory f'.,ommis!iion M.iil ~rop 0 - lf, H31 W.is.bmgto.LL lX: 2055-:HlOOI Re: Transfor oflicens.e for the Plyrnoudi I' ilgrim Nuclear L' laut W ~ arc a.~ling you to tu.bk nny ocmsid!erution of i:nm:sferring the licc:nses for fhc Plymouth Pilgrim N ude.ar Plan!

until you have openly and c-0mplctcly answcrod the concerns outlined h,y Pilgrim Watch, Sen. F..d Marlooy, and the Attomey General ofl!Ae Commo111w:caltll ofMMsaolmsetts.

The Six l'onds J03iProvemmt Association is a oelg.hoor.llood organization r~~rcseuting a comm11nity of ap:proxi-m'lliely 500 res.ide.\ces within tliie Town orPlymooih and 5 m iles from tlte subject plwit YooractiOtls will b,we a direct and long las.tin.ft etlect 011 die heal!th,, welfare a:rid l!dllmale ,; ia:bil ity ofou community.

\lie s,i1pponthc motinns of Pi lgrim Wakh and the C',mnmomi.*talth to s.ray tihc cffcctivencss ofsn orclei:- .a.ppm,.,in~

!he lic.a1se trnnsfer. We reques,t lhat there bt: NO license trunsfor without an. open and diligent assessmem of the prospcotivc tramft..-n.-c. We i.:anoot ov,i:r-;lalc the impmia:nce of lhis n.,qu~ and a..J. that. lhi:. letter- be cnk~-d intu your files.

l.11w1rtmc.tl 1I. ( Pwnpey) Deliilield, President Six Ponds l mprovemc:,nt Al'isociution 76 MQrgan Rood, Plyrrao~th1 Mil 0236-0 CC;

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION In the Matter of )

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ENTERGY NUCLEAR OPERATIONS, INC. )

ENTERGY NUCLEAR GENERATION ) Docket Nos. 50-293 and 72-1044 LT COMPANY, HOLTEC INTERNATIONAL, )

and HOLTEC DECOMMISSIONING )

INTERNATIONAL, LLC )

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(Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station )

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of the foregoing Letter from NRC Acting Secretary, Richard J.

Laufer, to Lawrence H. Delafield have been served upon the following persons by Electronic Information Exchange.

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Commission Appellate Adjudication Office of the General Counsel Mail Stop: O-16B33 Mail Stop - O-14A44 Washington, DC 20555-0001 Washington, DC 20555-0001 E-mail: ocaamail@nrc.gov Tison A. Campbell, Esq.

Anita G. Naber, Esq.

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission David E. Roth, Esq.

Office of the Secretary of the Commission Rebecca A. Susko, Esq.

Mail Stop: O-16B33 Jeremy L. Wachutka, Esq.

Washington, DC 20555-0001 Jennifer E. Scro, Esq.

E-mail: hearingdocket@nrc.gov E-mail: Tison.Campbell@nrc.gov Anita.Naber@nrc.gov Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel David.Roth@nrc.gov U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Rebecca.Susko@nrc.gov Washington, DC 20555-0001 Jeremy.Wachutka@nrc.gov E. Roy Hawkens, Chairman Jennifer.Scro@nrc.gov E-mail: Roy.Hawkens@nrc.gov Entergy Services, Inc.

101 Constitution Ave., NW Suite 200 East Washington, DC 20001 Susan H. Raimo E-mail: sraimo@entergy.com

Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station Docket Nos. 50-293 and 72-1044 LT Letter from NRC Acting Secretary, Richard J. Laufer, to Lawrence H. Delafield Balch & Bingham LLP Pilgrim Watch 1710 Sixth Avenue North F148 Washington Street Birmingham, AL 35203-2015 Duxbury, MA 02332 Peter R. LeJeune, Esq Mary Lampert, Director Alan D. Lovett, Esq, E-mail: Mary.Lampert@comcast.net E-mail: plejeune@balch.com alovett@balch.com Counsel for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts:

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Energy and Environmental Bureau 1200 Seventeenth Street, NW Office of the Attorney General Washington, DC 20036 One Ashburton Place, 18th Floor Meghan Hammond, Esq. Boston, Massachusetts 02108 David R. Lewis, Esq. Joseph Dorfler, Esq.

E-mail: Meghan.Hammond@pillsburylaw.com Seth Schofield, Esq.

David.Lewis@pillsburylaw.com E-mail: Joseph.Dorfler@state.ma.gov Seth.Schofield@mass.gov

[Original signed by Clara Sola ]

Office of the Secretary of the Commission Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 29th day of August 2019 2