ML19281B687
| ML19281B687 | |
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| Site: | Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png |
| Issue date: | 03/20/1979 |
| From: | Bradford P Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Gossick L NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
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| NUDOCS 7905300667 | |
| Download: ML19281B687 (1) | |
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s,.....sr March 20, 1979 OFFICE OF THE COMMISSION E R MEMO TO:
Lee V. Gossick Executive Director for O erations FROM:
Peter A. 'Bradford SUBJ ECT :
PROCEDURAL MEETINGS BETWEEN NRC STAFF AND UTILITY REPRESENTATIVES I would be interested in the staff's views on whether meetings such as the Shoreham meeting recently complained of by Mr. Like should be opened to the public and our Federal Register Notice amended accordingly.
My concern is that tha line between procedural meetings and substantive meetings is a fine one.
An advantage which one receives in procedural matters can easily become a substantive advantage.
Notice of procedures to be used and schedules to be followed is an advantage to litigants.
Besides giving a potential advantage to the staff and the applicant, the meetings also give the appearance of collusion.
Therefore, it may be reasonable to invite intervenors to procedural meetings such as these.
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Irving Like, Esquire Special Counsel for the County of Suffolk 200 West Hain Strcet Babylon, Ncw York 11702
Dear Mr. Like:
No have roccived your letter, d,ted Deccabar 11, I?7P, to tite cec e ta cu of tha Nac1 car Rcquiatory Comissinn r?garfina 3pplicaticn at :RC Et rf f Iolicy on Open Hcetinys t.o meetings neld on the Shaseh.nu 1 e a c.s.
Since the policy in question is one applied by the NRC Staff as distinguished from the Commission itself, your letter has been directed to me for a response.
As it is stated in the Federal Register of June 29, 1978, the Open Hceting policy is a formal articulation of the general practice that has been followed by the Staff in the past.
In accordance with this
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pra c tice, meetings that were held to exchange technical information and views necessary for the technical review of applications have boon noticed and summarized by the NRC Staff.
For those Shorcham mcctings that have been held to facilitate this technical exchange of information betwcen the Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO) and the NRC Staff, you have been sent the appropriate notices and summaries.
In addition to the technical meetings, other meetings have been held betwcon representatives of LILCO and NRC management that were not noticed.
You and other parties to the Shorcham proceeding were informed of these meetings by a letter from NRC Staff Counsel dated January 3, 1979.
These meetings were held to discuss the status of the Shoreham licensing review and rcheduling of applicant input data and Staff review activities for the various staff branches involved in the review of the Shorcham facili ty.
Since these mcatings did not involve the exchange of technical information, or any other information which would affect the result of our review, summaries have not been prepared.
In my vicw, holding such non-substantive scheduling type meetings with a license applicant without providing notice to other parties or interested persons is not inconsistent with the policy sta tement.
However, for the Shoreham case, such meetings are no longer needed Di m % ost samme
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