ML19290B983
| ML19290B983 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Comanche Peak, South Texas  |
| Issue date: | 12/17/1979 |
| From: | Chanania F, Lessy R NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE LEGAL DIRECTOR (OELD) |
| To: | Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8001090010 | |
| Download: ML19290B983 (6) | |
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD 4
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ANSWER OF THE NRC STAFF TO MOTION OF HOUSTON LIGHTING
& POWER COMPANY TO COMPEL FURTHER DISCOVERY On October 1,1978, Houston Lighting & Power Company ("HL&P") filed its "First Set of Interrogatories and Requests for Production of Documents" addressed to the NRC Staff. On December 1,1978, the Staff answered these interrogatories (in great detail in many instances) and produced numerous documents in response thereto. As discussed below, this pleading is in response to HLLP's motion, filed on November 30, 1979, requesting the Board to order further responses to said interrogatories.
For its part, the Staff has, since December 1,1978, been availing itself of the discovery opportunities allotted to all parties by the Board.
The Staff has served interrogatories and document requests as well as participated in numerous depositions. As HL&P's motion recognizes, "the parties have had...
time and opportunity to accuire whatever information they needed..." to pro-vide more complete responses (HL&P Motion, p. 4 (emphasis added)).
As of now, the Staff is at the point of synthesizing and analyzing the accuired in.for-mation while continuing its discovery efforts.
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2 Now, with no forewarning, or discussion, or the courtesy of informal notice, comes HL&P with its formal motion to compel discovery.
It should be noted, that not once prior to the filing of its motion, did HL&P even informally request updated answers to HL&P's interrogatories. The Staff would have liked the opportunity to discuss with HL&P a mutually agreeable time-table for the exchange or providing of additional documents end updated resnonses before this matter was brought before the Board by HL&P.
This Board has on more than one occasion directed the parties to this proceeding to first attempt to re-solve conflicts informally where they arise in the discovery context.
The timing of the HL&P motion is also interesting.
It.as hand-delivered to the Board and to the Commission's H Street office on a Friday afternoon, November 30, 1979.
Yet, a copy was not received in the Staff counsel's mailroom until the following Tuesday (December 4th).
Further, HL&P's motion requests Board action on December 14, 1979, -1/
which is prior to the time the Staff response is due under 10 CFR 5 2.730(c).
As mentioned above, the Staff will be happy to work with HL&P to arrive at a mutually convenient schedule for further Staff responses to HL&P's interroga-tories.
Indeed, the Staff itself had been planning upon a follow-up pro-duction of documents within the next two weeks. Accordingly, the Staff respectfully requests that HL&P's motion be denied without prejudice pending
-1/ By further coincicence, December 14,19,9 is the same date that th'e Appeal Board has set as the due date for the Staff's response to HL&P's motion for directed certification of the Board's order denying summary disposition.
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- infomal discussions between the Staff and HL&P.
Alternatively, the Staff requests that HL&P's motion be held in abeyance by the Board, pending infomal discussions between the parties.
Respectfully submitted,
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NRC Docket Nos. 50-445A COMPANY, et al.
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of ANSWER OF THE NRC STAFF TO MOTION OF HOUSTON LIGHTING & POWER CO@ANY TO COMPEL FURTHER DISCOVERY in the above-captioned proceeding have been served on the following by deposit in the United States mail, first class, or, as indicated by an asterisk, through deposit in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's internal mail system, this 17ch day of December, 1979.
Marshall E. Miller, Esq., Chairman Donald A. Kaplan, Esq.
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Susan B. Cyphert U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Nancy A. Luque Washington, D.C.
20555
- Frederick H. Parmenter, Esq.
David A. Dopsovic, Esq.
Michael L. Glaser, Esq.
P.O. Box 14141 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
20044 Washington, D.C.
20036 Mr. William C. Price Sheldon J. Wolfe, Esq.
Central Power & Licht Co.
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel P.O. Box 2121 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Corpus Christi, Texas 78403 Washington, D.C.
20555
- G.W. Oprea, Jr.
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Executive Vice President U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Houston Lighting & Power Company Washington, D.C.
20555
- P.O. Box 1700 Houston, Texas 77001 Docketing and Service Section Office of the Secretary Robert E. Bathen U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission R.W. Beck & Associates Washington, D.C.
20555 P.O. Box 6817 Orlando, Florida 32803 R.L. Hancock, Director City of Austin Electric Utility Somervell County Public Library P.O. Box 1088 P.O. Box 417 Austin, Texas 78767 Glen Rose, Texas 76043 1729 083
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R. Gordon Gooch, Esq.
Jerry L. Harris John P. Mathis, Esq.
Richard C. Balough Dan H. Davidson, City Manager Baker & Botts 1701 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
City of Austin Washington, D.C.
20006 P.O. Box 1088 Austin, Texas 78767 J.K. Spruce, General Manager City Public Service Board Jerome Saltzman, Chief P.O. Box 1771 Antitrust & Indem.11ty Group San Antonio, Texas 78203 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comstission Washington, D.C.
20555 Robert C. McDiarmid, Esq.
Robert A. Jablon, Esq.
Jay Galt, Esq.
David A. Giacalone, Esq.
Jack P. Fite, Esq.
Marc R. Poirier, Esq.
Looney, Nichols, Johnson & Hayes Spiegel & McDiarmid 219 Couch Drive 2600 Virginia Avenue, N.W.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102 Washington, D.C.
20037 Merlyn D. Sampels, Esq.
Jos. Irion Worsham, 'Esq.
Jon C. Wood, Esq.
Spencer C. Relyea, Esq.
W. Roger Wilson, Esq.
Worsham, Forsythe & Sampeil Matthews, Nowlin, Macfarlane 2001 Bryan Tower, Suite 2500
& Barrett Dallas, Texas 75201 1500 Alamo National Building San Antonio, Texas 78205 Morgan Hunter, Esq.
McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore Fifth Floor, Texas State Bank Building W.N. Woolsey, Esq.
900 Congress Avenue Dyer and Redford Austin, Texas 78701 1030 Petroleum Tower Corpus Christi, Texas 78474 Joseph B. Knotts, Esq.
Nicholas S. Reynolds, Esq.
Dick Terrell Brown, Esq.
Debevoise & Liberr.an 800 Milam Building 1200 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
San Antonio, Texas 78205 Washington, D.C.
20036 E. William Barnett, Esq.
Douglas F. John, Esq.
Charles G. Thrnh, Jr., Esq.
Akin, Gump, Hauer & Feld Melbert D. Schwarz, Esq.
1333 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W.
Theodore F. Weiss, Esq.
Suite 400 J. Gregory Copeland, Esq.
Washington, D.C.
20036 Baker & Botts 3000 One Shell Plaza Don R. Butler, Esq.
Houston, Texas 77002 Sneed, Vine, Wilkerson, Selman & Perry P.O. Box 1409 Robert Lowenstein, Esq.
Austin, Texas 78767 J. A. Boukni ght, Esq.
William J. Fra:1klin, Esq.
John W. Davidson, Esq.
Peter G. Flynn, Esq.
Sawtelle, Goode, Davidson & Troilo Douglas G. Green, Esq.
1100 San Antonio Savings Bbilding Lowenstein, Newman, Reis, Axelrad San Antonio, Texas.78205
& Toll 1025 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
20036 j-Q9 084
C. Dennis Ahearn Esq.
Kevin B. Pratt Attorney General's Office Debevoise & Liberman 1200 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
State of Texas P. O. Box 12548 Washington, D.C.
20036 Austin, Texas 78711 James E. Monahan Executive Vice President and General Manager Brazos Electric Power Cooperative, Inc.
P. O. Box 6296 Waco, Texas 76706 Frederick H. Ritts, Esq.
William H. Burchette, Esq.
Law Offices of Northcutt Ely Watergate 600 Building Washington, D. C.
20037 Michael I. Miller, Esq.
James A. Carney, Esq.
Sarah N. Welling, Esq.
Isham, Lincoln & Beale 4200 One First National Plaza Chicago, Illinois 60603 David M. Stahl, Esq.
Isham, Lincoln & Beale Suite 701
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105017th Street, N.W.
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20036 Roy P. Les sy, Jp'.
Counsel for NRC Staff Mr. G. Holman King West Texas Utilities Co.
P. O. Box 841 Abilene, Texas 79604 Maynard Human, General Manager Western Farmers Electric Cooperative i729 085 P. O. Box 429 Anadarko, Oklahoma 73035 Donald M. Clements, Esq.
Gulf States Utilities Company P. O. Box 2951 Beaumont, Texas 77704 Robert M. Rader, Esq.
Conner, Moore & Corber 1747 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
20006
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