ML19305D977
| ML19305D977 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 04/15/1980 |
| From: | Singer L NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE LEGAL DIRECTOR (OELD) |
| To: | Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8004170058 | |
| Download: ML19305D977 (5) | |
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of
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METROPOLITAN EDISON COMPANY,
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(Three Mile Island, Unit 1)
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NRC MOTION FOR AN EXTENSION OF TIME TO RESPOND TO THE LICENSING BOARD'S MEMORANDUM AND ORDER TO NRC STAFF REGARDING CLASS 9 ACCIDENTS DATED MARCH 31, 1Y80 On March 21, 1980, the Staff filed with the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board a document entitled " Supplement to NRC Staff Position on Need to Consider Class 9 Events" (Supplement).
In this Supplement the Staff sumarized ongoing Staff activities in relation to Class 9 events. Subsequently, in its " Memorandum and Order to NRC Staff Regarding Class 9 Events" (Memorandum), dated March 31, 1980, the Licensing Board asked the Staff for further supplementation in the form of "a specification and description" of " critical accident sequences the Staff will analyze in order to assure that the proposed short and long tenn actions necessary and sufficient to provide adequate protection to public health and safety have been taken." Memorandum at 1, 2.
Specifically, the Licensing Board asked the Staff to:
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Specify and describe each of the accident sequences (or other siinilar terminology employed) which the staff apparently is considerina under the umbrella of the very general references in the underlined portions of the attached pages 5-7 of its supple-mental response; or 2.
Explain why the staff can not or will not specify/
describe the accident sequences.
Memorandum at 2.
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The Licensing Board asked the Staff to file an answer to one of the above directives within fifteen days from the date of service of the Mercrandum, the last day of which falls upon April 20,1980.S Id. at 2.
Consistent with the Board's request, the Staff is beginning to compile the information necessary to formulate a complete, responsive answer.
Neverthe-less, in view of the inininent publication of the Staff's Safety Evaluation Report, which involves large amounts of Staff time through the final stages of its publication, and the complexity of the task involved'in responding to the Board's Memorandum, the Staff estimates that it will need 40 additional days in which to complete its answer.
Accordingly, the Staff moves the Licensing Board to extend the time set forth in its Memorandum by which the Staff was directed to file its answer until June 1, 1980.
The Staff wishes, however, to confinn its approach with the Board in order to ensure that it is complying with the intent of the Memorandum.
For this reason, S The Licensing Board also asked the Staff to explain within 10 days any reasons it may have to believe--if the Staff does indeed have such a belief--that it is inappropriate, for jurisdictional or other reasons, for the Licensing Board to make this inquiry concerning specific Class 9 sequences that relate to the long or short term items enumerated in the Commission's August 9,1979 Order and Notice of Hearing, Metropolitan Edison Company (Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit No.1), CLI-79-8, 10 NRC 141 (1979). Memorandum at 3.
3-the Staff intends to submit to the Board an outline of what the Staff expects to discuss in its response to the Memorandum. The Staff expects to file this i
preliminary outline with the Board on May 2,1980.
t Respectfully submitted,
/j3aAlBinget Lisa N. Singer Counsel for NRC Staff t
Dated at Bethesda, Maryland this 15th day of April,1980 l'
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARQ In the Matter of METROPOLITAN EDISON COMPANY, Docket No. 50-289
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l CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of "NRC MOTION FOR AN EXTENSION OF TIME TO RESPOND TO THE LICENSING BOARD'S MEMORANDUM AND ORDER TO NRC 31, 1980" in the above-caption $d proceeding have CLASS 9 ACCIDENTS DATED MARCH 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 Comission's internal mail system, this 15th day of April,1980:
- t Ellyn Weiss, Esq.
- Ivan W. Smith, Esq.
Sheldon Harmon, Roisman & Weiss Atomic Safety & Licensing Coard Panel I
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission he SO Washington, D. C.
20555 Washington, D.C.
20006 i
Dr. Walter H. Jordan Mr. Steven C. Sholly 881 W. Outer Drive 304 South Market Street Oak Ridge, Tenr.essee 37830 Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania 17055
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Dr. Linda W. Little 5000 Hermitage Drive Mr. Thomas Gerusky Raleigh, North Carolina 27612 Bureau of Radiation Protection Department of Environmental Resources George F. Trowbridge, Esq.
P.O. Box 2063 Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 1800 M Street, N.W.
Mr. Marvin I. Lewis Washington, D. C.
20006 6504 Bradford Terrace Karin W. Carter, Esq.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19149 505 Executive House P. O. Box 2357 Metropolitan Edison Company Harrisburg, Perinsylvania 17120 Attn:
J. G. Herbein, Vice President P.O. Box 542 Reading, Pennsylvania 19603 Honorable Mark. Cohen 512 E-3 Main Capital Building Ms. Jane Lee l
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 R.D. 3; Box 3521 Etters, Pennsylvania 17319 l
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c Walter W. Cohen, Consumer Advocate Holly S. Keck Department of Justice Anti-Nuclear Group Representing Strawberry Square,14th Floor York Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17127 245 W. Philadelphia Street York, Pennsylvania 17404 tis. Karen Sheldon Sheldon, Harmon, Roisman & Weiss John Levin,'Esq.
1725 I Street, H.W.
Pennsylvania Public Utilities Com.
Suite 506 Box 3265 l
Washington, DC 20006 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 Ms. Frieda Berryhill, Chatraan Jordan D. Cunningham, Esq.
Coalition for Nuclear Power Fox, Farr and Cunningham Plant Postponement 2320 North 2nd Street 2619.Grendon Drive Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17110 Wilmington, Delaware 19808 Ms.KathyMcdaughin Three Mile Island Alert, Inc.
Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board 23 South 21st Street i
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17104 Washington, D. C.
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M jorie M. Aamodt Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel R
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Coatesville, Pennsylvania 19320 Washington, D. C.
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Senator Allen R. Carter
- Docketing and Service Section i
i e islative Committee on Eneb.
o a hin n D 55 Post Office Box 142 Suite 513 Senate Gressutte Building Columbia, SC 29202 Robert O. Pollard
' 609 Montpelier Street Baltimore, Maryland 21218 Chauncey Kepford Judith H. Johnsrud Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Power 433 Orlando Avenue State College, Pennsylvania 16B01 l
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