ML19289E881

Motion by Intervenors for Initiation of Discovery Procedures & Submittal of Interrogatories to Util Re Utils Electrical Grid Stability & Emergency Power Sys.Certificate of Svc Encl

ML19289E881
Person / Time
Site:	Saint Lucie
Issue date:	04/17/1979
From:	Hodder M HODDER, M.H.
To:
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NUDOCS 7905290289
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{{#Wiki_filter:. EC PUBLIC DOCUMENT ROOLI q UNITED STATES OF A" ERICA g op,c ilVCLEAR REGULATORY C0'dMISSI0t! // c ATO:4IC SAFETY AND LICE!! SING APPEAL 30ARD 1 .$M74

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D r. '.l. Reed Johnson Q 4 In the Matter of ) ) Docket No. 50-389 FLORIDA POWER S LIGHT COMPAtlY (St. Lucie 'luclear Power Plant, ) U n i t flo. 2 ) ) s POTION TO PERMIT DISCOVERY Intervenors obtained copies of ALA3-537 for the first time on Friday, April 6, 1979, while visiting 'lRC offices in 3ethesda,:td., when William D. Paton, Esquire of DELD provided a copy of that document to Counsel for intervenors. Coincidentally, Intervenors learned and subsequently confirmed, that on the very date, April 5,1979, that ALAB-537 was ordering addition-al hearings on electrical grid stability problems in the FPL systems, Florida Power and Light Compan.v was experiencing what apoarently has become its " third annual spring electrical blackout."* (See attac' d '4 i am i Merald articles of April 5,1979 and April 6,1979.) Indeed, Joe Johnson, an engineer for the Florida Dublic Service Commission stated," Florida is becoming known in electrical circles as the blackout capital of the worl d." (See the "iami Herald article of April 6, 1979, attached herein.) Presently, counsel for intervenors is busy preoaring a petition fo r Writ of Certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court asking that Court to review decisions arising from the f ailure of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to consider Class 9 accidents in the 'IEPA siting revier for the St. Lucie Unit 2 nuclear power reactor on pooulous !iutchinson Island, as uoheld

• Florida Power and Light ComDany eXDerienC?d Drevious Consecutive annual systemwide blackouts on May 16, 1977 and '!ay 14, 1973 during the spring season respectively.

There has been additionally in the FPL system a varied history of many blackouts during the decades of the 1970's and late 1960's. 2048 M9 7 9052 90,Rg7

by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in a final Order filed January 30, 1979. Upon completion of that effort, and after May 1, 1979, Intervenors would wish to avail themselves of discovery on the electrical grid instability and emergency power systems issues as is their right under 10CFR Part 2 af the Commissions Rules of P ractice. Therefore, pursuant to 10CFR 2.741 Intervenors motion that they be granted leave to obtain production of documents and things and entry upon land for inspection and other purposes. Specifically, Intervenors ask that, as is allowed by 10CFR 2.741(a)(1), they be permitted to inspect and copy all documents and tangible things in the possession of and pertaining to the electrical grid stability and emergency powa. systems of the Florida Power and Light Company. Pursuant to 10CFR 2.740(b),. Intervenors ask that they be granted leave to propound interrogatories to the Florida Power and Light Comoany concerning electrical grid stability and emergency power systems in the FPL systems. lt U l Martin Harold Hodder Counsel pro se and for Intervenors 1131 N.E. 86 Street Miami, Fla. 33138 Tel. No. (305) 751-8706 2048 190,

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of the "Mo'. ion to Permit Discovery" have been served on the following by deposit in the U.S. Mail on this \\ ?Ith Day of April,1979. f Michael C. Farrar, Esquire William D. Paton, Esquire Ch a i rm a n Counsel fo r NRC Regul atory S taf f Atomic Safety & Licensing Nuclear Regulatory Commission Appeal Board Washington, D.C. 20555 Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Norman A. Coll, Esouire Steel, Hector and Davis Richard S. Salzman, Esquire 1400 Souteast First National Atomic Safety & Licensing Bank Buildina Appeal Board Miami, Fl a. 33131 Nuclear Regular Commission Washington, D.C.20555 Harold F. Reis, Esquire Lowenstein, Newman, Reis Dr. W. Reed Johnson Axelrad & Toll Atomic Safety & Licensing 1025 Connecticut Avonue, NW Appeal Board Washington, D.C. 20036 Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Mr. C.R. Stephens Supervisor Edward Luton, Esquire Docketing and Service Section Chairman Office of the Secretary Atomic Safety & Licensing of the Commission Board Panel Nuclear Regulatory Commission Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Washington, D.C. 20555 Dr. David L. Hetrick Professor of Nuclear Engineering University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona 85721 Dr. Frank F. Hooper Ch a i rm an Rewource Ecology Program School of Natural Resources University of iiichigan Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 4 4\\ l 'Y q

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