ML19273B370

Motion by Gulf States Utilities Co to Extend Time within Which to Respond to Board'S Subpoena Issued on Behalf of Power Util Board of Brownsville,Tx.Forwards Two Notices of Special Appearance & Certificate of Svc

ML19273B370
Person / Time
Site:	South Texas
Issue date:	03/09/1979
From:	Rader R, Wetterhahn M CONNER, MOORE & CORBER, GULF STATES UTILITIES CO.
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NUDOCS 7904060187
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MOTION OF GULF STATES UTILITIES COMPANY TO EXTEND THE TIME WITHIN WHICH TO RESPOND TO THE BOARD'S SUBPOENA ISSUED ON BEHALF OF THE PUBLIC UTILITIES BOARD OF THE CITY OF BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS On February 26, 1978, the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board in the captioned proceedings signed a subpoena for the production of documents to the Gulf States Utilities Company (" Gulf States"). The subpoena was issued on behalf and at the request of the Public Utilities Board of the city of Brownsville, Texas, which is a party to the instant pro-ceeding for antitrust review pursuant to Section 105c(2) of the Atomic Energy Act. The subpoena was not served uncil March 6, 1979. Gulf States is not a party tc this proceeding and has no present intention to intervene.

Accordingly, the interests of Gulf States are, at the present time, limited to compliance with the subpoena so as to satisfy the needs of the Board and the parties to this proceeding with minimal hardship to itself in pro-790400 0/87

ducing the requested documents. For the reasons discurrld below, Gulf States appears specially before this Board to move for additional time in responding to the subpoena.

The schedule attached to the subpoena indicating the nature and breadth of the documents requested is some fif-teen pages in length. On its face, it will enccmpass the review of many thousands of documents to determine whether their production is required, and whether Gulf States should interpose any objection to their production on the grounds of relevance, privilege, or some other reason. In this respect, it should be noted that Gulf States, not a party to this antitrust proceeding, will require some time simply to familiarize itself with the antitrust review under way in order to determine the relevancy of each document re-quest.

N Without elaborating at this early juncture, we would simply note that the Commission's Rules are designed to protect non-parties such as Gulf States from overbearing document requests. As a general proposition, it :tas been observed that discovery in the NRC's proceedings "must be kept within workable bounds on a proper and logical basis for the determination of the relevancy of that which is sought to be discovered." Allied-General Nuclear Services (Barnwell Fuel Receiving and Storage Station), LBP-77-13,

--*/ Counsel for' Gulf States has been advised by counsel for Brownsville that a more limited response than the produc-tion formally requested in the subpoena might be acceptable in lieu of compliance with the subpoena itself. Conferences and negotiations in this respect might also require addi-tional time.

5 NRC 489, 492 (1977). The Commission's Licensing Boards have been particularly critical of requests which are "too broad" so as to require the responding party to search

" millions of pages of record data contained in voluminous files" and thereby impose "an inordinate and oppressive burden in terms of the reasonable needs" of the parties.

Boston Edison Company (Pilgrim Nuclear Generating Station, Unit 2), LBP-75-30, 1 NRC 579, 588 (1975). Further, addi-tional analysis will be required to consider other aspects of the response by Gulf States in complying with the sub-poena. See, e.g., Public Service Company of Oklahoma (Black Fox, Units 1 and 2), LBP-77-18, 5 NRC 671 (1977). Obviously, a reasoned analysis of the rights and obligations of Gulf States in responding to the Board's subpoena will require some additional time.

Under the circumstances, Gulf States' requests an addi-tional thirty days within which to respond to the subpoena, thus extending the return date to April 11, 1979. Under the Commission's Rules, 10 C.F.R. 52.741(d), a party has thirty days to respond to even the simplest dccument request. Surely, a non-party such as Gulf States should have at least as much time to respond to an all-encompassing su'3poena demand for documents such as this.

Respectfully' submitted, CONNER, MOO & CORBER l .A Lb ,

Mark J. etterhahn Robert M. Rader Counsel for Gulf States Utilities Company, appearing specially

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

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Houston Lighting & Power Company ) Docket Nos. 50-498A The City of San Antonio ) and 50-499A The City of Austin )

Central Power & Light Company )

(South Texas Project, Unit Nos. )

1 and 2) )

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NOTICF OF SPECIAL APPEARANCE Notice is hereby given that the undersigned attorney herewith enters a special appearance on behalf of the Respondent in the captioned matter. In accordance with S2.713, 10 C.F.R., Part 2, the following information is provided:

Name -

Mark J. Wetterhahn Address -

Conner, Moore & Corber Suite 1050 1747 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, D.C. 20006 Telephone Number -

202/833-3500 Admission -

Uniced States Supreme Court Name of Respondent -

Gulf States Utilities Company P. O. Box 2951 Beaumont, Texas 77704

Notice is further given pursuant to 52.708, 10 C.F.R.,

Part 2, that service upon the Respondent should be made upon the undersigned.

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Ma'rk J etterhahn Dated at Washington, District of Columbia, this 9th day of March, 1979.

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

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Houston Lighting & Power Company ) Docket Nos. 50-498A The City of San Antonio ) and 50-499A The City of Austin )

Central Power & Light Company )

(South Texas Project, Unit Nos. )

1 and 2) )

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NOTICE OF SPECIAL APPEARANCE Notice is hereby given that the undersigned attorney herewith enters a special appearance on behalf of the Respondent in the captioned matter. In accordance with S2.713, 10 C.F.R., Part 2, the following information is provided:

Name -

Robert M. Rader Address - Conner, Moore & Corber 1747 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Suite 1050 Washington, D.C. 20006 Telephone Number -

202/033-3500 Admission -

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Name of Respondent -

Gulf States Utilities Company P. O. Box 2951 Beaumont, Texas 77704 s

Robert M. Rader Dated at Washington, District of Columbia, this 9th day of March, 1979.

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BEFORE THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATCMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of )

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Houston Lighting & Fowsr Company ) Docket Nos. 50-498A The City of San Antonio ) and 50-499A The City of Austin ).

Central Power & Light Company )

(South Texas Project, Unit Nos. )

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of " Notice of Special Appearance" of Robert M. Rader and Mark J. Wetterhahn, and " Motion of Gulf States Utilities Company to Extend the Time Witnin Which to Respond to the Board's Subpoena Issued on Behalf of the Public Utilities Board of the City of Brownsville, Texas," dated March 9, 1979, in the captioned matter, have been served upon the following, by deposit in the United States mail, this 9th day of March, 1979:

Marshall E. ler, Chairman oseph J. Sauncheb, Esquire Atomic Safety & Licensing Board Chief, Public Counsel &

Panel Legislative Section Nuclear Regulatory Commission Department of Justice Washington, D. C. 20555 P. O. Box 14141 Washington, D. C. 20044 Sheldon J. Wolfe, Esquire Atomic Safety & Licensing Board Joseph Gallo, Esquire Panel Richard D. Cudahy, Esquire Nuclear Regulatory Cemraission Robert H. Loeffler, Esquire Washington, D. C. 20555 Isham, Lincoln & Beale Suite 701 Michael L. Glaser, Esquire 1050 17 th Stree t, N. W.

1150 17 th Street, N. W. Was hington , D. C. 20036 Washington, D. C. 20036 4

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John D. Whitler, Esquire Joseph Rutberg, Esquire Ronald Clark, Esquire Antitrust Counsel Department of Justice Counsel for NRC Staff P. O. Box 14141 Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C. 20044 Wash? Mton, D. C. 20555 Joseph Knotts, Esquire Chase R. Stephens, Chief Nicholas S. Reynolds, Esquire Docketing and Service Section Debevoise & Liberman Office of the Secretary 1200 17th Street, N. W.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C. 20036 Washington, D. C. 20555 Douglas F. John, Esquire Joseph I. Worsham, Esquire Akin, Gump, Hauer & Feld Merlyn D. Sampels, Esquire 1100 Madison Office Building Worsham, Forsythe & Samcels 1155 15 th Stree t, N. W. 2001 Bryan Tower, Suite 2500 Washington, D. C. 20024 Dallas, Texas 75201 R. Gordon Gooch, Esquire Spencer C. .Relyea , Esquire John P. Mathis, Esquire Worsham, Forsythe & Sampels Baker & Botts 2001 Bryan Tower, Suite 2500 1701 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W. Dallas, Texas 75201 Washington, D. C. 20006 R. L. Hancock, Director Robert Lowensteine Esquire City of Austin Electric J. A. Bouknight, Jr., Esquire Utility Department Lowenstein e Newman, Reis & P. O. Box 1088 Axelrad Austin, Texas 78767 1025 Connecticut Avenue, N. W.

Washington, D. C. 20036 Jerry L. Harris, Esquire City Attorney William J. Franklin, Esquire City of Austin Lowenstein, Newman, Reis & P. O. Box 1088 Axelrnd Austin, Texas 78767 1025 Connecticut Avenue, N. W.

Washington, D. C. 20036 Richard C. Balough, Esquire Assistant City Attorney Frederick H. Ritts, Esquire City of Austin Law Offices of Northcutt Ely P. O. Box 1088 Watergate 600 Building Austin, Texas 78767 Washington, D. C. 20037 Dan H. Davidson Wheatley & Wolleson City Manager 1112 Watergate Office Building City of Austin 2600 Virginia Avenue, N. W. P. O. Box 1088 Washington, D. C. 20037 Aus -in, Texas 78767 e

'Roff Hardy, Chairman and Chief Don R. Dutler, Esquire Executive Officer Sneed, vine, Wilkerson, Selman Central Power & Light Company & Perry P. O. Box 2121 P. O. Box 1409 Corpus Christi, Texas 78403 Austin, Texas 78767 G. K. Spruce, General Manger Morgan Hunter, Esquire City Public Service Board McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore P. O. Box 1771 900 Congress Avenue San Antonio, Texas .78203 Austin, Texas 78701 Jon C. Wood, Esquire Kevin B. Pratt, Esquire W. Roger Wilson, Esquire Assistant Attorney General Matthews, Nowlin, Macfarlane P. O. Box 12548

& Barrett Capital Station 1500 Alamo National Building Austin, Texas 78711 San Antonio, Texas 78205 Linda L. Aaker, Esquire Perry G. Brittain, President Assistant Attorney General Texas Utilities Generating P. O. Box 12548 Company Capital Station 2001 Bryan Tower Austin, Texas 78711 Dallas, Texas 75201 E. W. Barnett, Esquire Jou.' E. Mathews, Jr., Esquire Charles G. Thrash, Jr., Esquire Mathews, Osborne, Ehrlich, Baker & Botts McNatt, Gobelman & Cobb 3000.One Shell Plaza 1500 American Heritage Life Bldg.

Houston, Texas 77002 Jacksonville, Florida 32202 J. Gregory Copeland, Esquire Robert E. Bathen Theodore F. Weiss, Jr., Esquire R. W. Beck & Associates Baker & Botts P. O. Box 6817 3000 One Shell Pla:a Orlando, Florida 82803 Houston, Texas 77002 Somervell County Public Library G. W. Oprea, Jr. P. O. Box 417 Executive Vice President Glen Rose, Texas 764DJ Houston Lighting & Power Company P. O.- Box 1700 Maynard Human, General Manager Houston, Texas 77001 Western Farmers Electric Coop.

P. O. Box 429 Anadarko, Oklahoma 73005

W. S. Robson, General Manager '

South Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc. James E. Monahan Route 6, Building 102 Executive Vice President and Victoria Regional Airport General manager Victoria, Texas 77901 Brazos Electric Power Coop., Inc.

P. O. Box 6296 Michael I. Miller, Esquire Waco, Texas 76706

- Richard E. Powell, Esquire Isham, Lincoln & Beale Judith Harris, Esquire One First National Pla:a Depar*aent of Justice Chicago, Illinois 60603 P. O. Box 14141 Washington, D. C. 20044 David M. Stahl, Esquire Thomas C. Ryan, Esquire Jerome Saltzman, Chief Isham, Lincoln & Beale Antitrust & Indemnity Group One First National Plaza Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chicago, Illinois 60603 Washington, D. C. 20555 Knoland J. Plucknett Jay M. Galt, Esquire Executive Director Looney, Nichols, Johnson &

Committee on Power for the Hayet.

Southwest, Inc. 219 Couch Drive 5541 Skelly Drive Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73101 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74135 Marc R. Poirier, Esq.

Spiegel & McDiarmid 2600 Virginia Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D. C. 20037 5

- Roberti M. Rader 6