ML19309B127

Motion for Emergency Funding to Continue Depositions Re Restart Proceeding.Funding Approved by Comptroller General Jan 1980 Opinion.Requests Immediate Certification to Commission.Certificate of Svc Encl. /

ML19309B127
Person / Time
Site:	Three Mile Island
Issue date:	03/13/1980
From:	Adler T THREE MILE ISLAND ALERT, WIDOFF, REAGER, SELKOWITZ & ADLER
To:	Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
References
NUDOCS 8004030170
Download: ML19309B127 (3)

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- o UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD i

In the Matter of  :

METROPOLITAN EDISON COMPANY  : Docket No. 50-289

(Restart)

(Three Mile Island Nuclear  :

Station, Unit No. 1) 9 lig MOTION FOR EMERGENCY FUNDING _ . . . . .

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Three Mile Island Alert, Inc. (TMIA) by its attorneys, Widoff Reager Selkowitz & Adler, P.C., move the Nuclear Regulatory Commission provide emergency funding for the purpose of continuing the taking of depositions of Licensee employees, and set forth the following reasons in support thereof:

(1) TMIA, Inc. has virtually expended all the money available to it for the taking of depositions of Licensee's employees; (2) TMIA, Inc. presently has incurred financial liability in excess of $30,000 as the cost of its participating in the TMI-l Restart Hearing. Over $20,000 remains to be paid, and additional discovery, including depositions, will increase that figure substantially.

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(3) TMIA, Inc., is the only intervenor actively pursuing those areas of management and financial competency set forth in the Commission's March 7, 1980 Order.

(4) Unless TMIA, Inc. can complete all the depositions presentl'y scheduled, this Board will be deprived of information essential to a full hearing into these areas  ;

mandated by the Commission's March 7, 1.980, Order.

(5) Intervenor funding by the Commission has been expressly approved by the Comptroller General in an opinion dated January 1980, a copy of which is attached hereto.

Because of the importance of this Motion, TMIA, Inc. requests immediate certification to the Commission. Copies of this Motion are being sent directly to all Commissioners, and the Commission's General Counsel in order to expedite a review.

Respectfully submitted, WIDOFF RE ER SELKOWITZ & ADLER, P.C.

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/ TheodoreA.hdler PO Box 1547 Harrisburg, Pa. 17105 (717) 763-1383 Dated: March 13, 1980 i

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that I caused a true and correct copy .

of t:he foregoing document, Motion for Emergency Funding, to be placed in'the United States mail, first-class, postage prepaid, addressed to the persons listed below: ,,

Ivan W. Smith, Esquire U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety & Licensing Board Panel Washington, D.C. 20555 Dr. Walter H. Jordan CU N 881 West Outer Drive (- '~

Oak Ridge, Tenn. 37830 1:p.\.

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Washington, D.C. 20006 Docketing and Service Section U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commi5sion Washington, D.C. 20555 Executive Legal Director U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 j g .

Dated: March 13,'1980

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