ML19309B475

Advises That Houston Lighting & Power Does Not Intend to Rely on Stagg Sys,Inc Studies as Part of Defense in Proceeding.Nrc & Central & Southwest Corp Contensions Re Stagg Study Based on Misconception.W/Certificate of Svc

ML19309B475
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Site:	South Texas, Comanche Peak
Issue date:	03/21/1980
From:	Green D LOWENSTEIN, NEWMAN, REIS, AXELRAD & TOLL
To:	Glaser M, Mark Miller, Wolfe S Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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oo ... .o.cc HAND DELIVER Marshall E. Miller, Esquire Michael L. Glaser, Esquire Sheldon J. Wolfe, Esquire Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory' Commission Washington, D. C. 20555 Re: Houston Lighting & Power Company, et al.

(South Texas Project, Units 1 and 2),

Docket Nos. 50-498A-50-499A; Texas Utilities Generating Company, et al. (Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station, Units 1 and 2),

Docket Nos. 50-445A-50-446A Gentlemen:

While Houston Lighting & Power Company elected not to

>- submit comments to the Board on the question of consolidation, there is a-matter raised in the comments submitted by.the NRC Staff ("S taf f") and Central and Southwest Corporation ("C&SW") .

which warrants a.brief response.

Both the Staff and C&SW predicate their argument for severance in-large part on the grounds that Houston intends to rely on a study performed by Stagg Systems, Inc. and that analysis of.this study will require such an extraordinary

-amount of time that moving. forward with a consolidated pro-cceding is undesirable.- The Board should be apprised that Staff's and C&SW's contentions-are based on,a misconception.

Ilouston does not intend to sponsor or rely on the Stagg Study as.part of its' defense in this proceeding.

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Marshall E. Miller, Esquire Michael L.-Glaser, Esquire Sheldon J.-Wolfe, Esquire March 21, 1980 Page Two Indeed, as Staff notes correctly: " Houston has main-tained throughout discovery that Mr. Stagg of Stagg (Staff Systems, Views Inc. was an outside, non-testifying consultant." We at 4.) That has been and remains his role in this case.

are trulylat a loss to understand how work heMr. hasStagg donehascould not precipitate a severance of the proceeding.

been designated as a witness, nor does any Houston witness in this proceeding intend to testify about or rely upon Mr. Stagg's study.

Evidently, the Staff and C&SW have misconstrued Houston's 1980.

supplementary inter rogatory answers filed February 27, Early in the case Houston received interrogatories requesting identification of all documents which analyze the effect of interstate operations on Houston's systems or which describe the policies or bases upon which Houston has justified its oppo-sition to interstate operations.1/ Since then, Stagg Systems, Inc completed in late December 1979, a study [Stagg Study II]

for Houston's counsel which counsel determined should be sub-mitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission in Docket No.

3-4951, a case which concerns C&SW's compliance with the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. As that study has been published and relied upon in the SEC proceeding, a complete supplementary response to the aforesaid interrogatories required that the Stagg Study be identified. Houston, accordingly, did so.2/ -Nothing more has transpired.

In short, Houston does not intend to call Mr. Stagg as a

" witness or rely on the Stagg Study in this proceeding, and the matters raised by the Staff and C&SW are simply based on a mis-apprehension. With this question resolved, comment upon the <

extraordinary amounts of time the Staff and C&SW suggest they would need to refute the :Stagg Study is unnecessary._J/

1/- CP&L Ints. (First Set) No. 9; Department of Justice Ints.

-(First Set) No. 4.

2/ As far back as March 28, 1979, Houston similarly identified a' previous Stagg Systems, Inc. study (Stagg Study I] in response to other interrogatories, HL&P's Ans. to CP&L Ints. (Second Set) No. 25 (b) . No one suggested then that the1cxistence of such consultant studies had the slightest effect on the structure of this proceeding, the course of discovery, or any issue herein.

3/ Indeed, since Houston's hearir.g presentation presumably will follow at least the Staff's, the Department's and C&SW's and

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JM'arshall E. Miller, Esquire

. Michael-'L.-Glaser, Esquire Sheldon J. Wolfe,-Esquire March 21,~1980 Pace Three Respectfull submitted, I

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will'not commence'for some time, those parties would plainly

.3/ ' have ample time to address this study even if Houston were

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relying'on it.. Since Houston is not, the issue never arises.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of )

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HOUSTON LIGHTING & POWER COMPANY, ) Docket Nos. 50-498A et al. ) 50-499A

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(South Texas- Project, Units 1 )

and 2) )

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TEXAS UTILITIES GENERATING COMPANY ) Docket Nos. 50-445A et al. ) 50-446A

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(Comanche Peak Steam Electric )

Station, Units 1 and 2) ) p, CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I HEREBY CERTIFY that copies of the foregoing:

Motion Of Houston Lighting & Power Company To Quash Subpoena of Mr. Glenn W. Stagg were served upon the following persons, by hand *, or by deposit in the United States Mail, first class postage prepaid, this 21st day of March 1980, s

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'* Marshall-E. Miller,-Esquire

• Frederic D. Chanania, Esquire U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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Michael B. Blume, Esquire

. Washington, 'D.C. :20555. _ Ann P. Hodgdon, Esquire U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

• Michael L. - Glaser, Esquire Washington, D.C. 20555 1150 17th Street, N.W.

Washington,.D.C. . 20555 Roff~ Hardy Chairman and Chief-Executive

• Sheldon J. Wolfe, Esquire Officer U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Central Power and Light Company

-Washington, D.C. 20555~ ' Post Office Box 2121 Corpus Christi, Texas 78403 Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal' Board Panel G.K. Spruce, General Manager U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission City Public Service Board Washington, D.C. 20555 Post Office Box 1771 San Antonio, Texas 78203

• Chase R. Stephens, Supervisor (20)

Docketing and Service Branch Mr. Perry G. Brittain U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission President Washington, D.C. 20555 Texas Utilities Generating Company 2001 Bryan Tower Mr. Jerome D. Saltzman Dallas, Texas 75201 Chief,-Antitrust and Indemnity Group G.W. Oprea, Jr.

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Executive Vice President Washington, D.C. 20555 Houston Lighting & Power Company Post Office Box 1700 J. Irion Worsham, Esquire Houston, Texas 77001 Merlyn D. Sampels, Esquire Spencer C.'Relyea, Esquire R.L. Hancock, Director

'.Worsham, Forsyth & Sampels City of Austin Electric Utility 2001 Bryan Tower, Suite 2500 Post Office Box 1086 Dallas,. Texas. 75201' Austin,- Texas 78767 Jon C. Wood, Esquire Joseph Gallo, Esquire

~Matthews, Nowlin, Macfarlane Robert H. Loeffler, Esq'dre

&.Barrett David M. Stahl, Esquire 3

. 1500 Alamo National Building. Isham, Lincoln & Beale San Antonio, Texas 78205 1120 Connecticut Avenue, Suite 325 Washington, D.C. 20036 Charles G.-Thrash, Jr., Esquire

-E.W. Barnett,~ Esquire Michael I. Miller, Esquire Theodore.F.-Weiss, Esquire James A. Carney, Esquire J. Gregory Copeland, Esquire Sarah Welling, Esquire Baker & Botts Martha E. Gibbs, Esquire 3000;One Shell Plaza Isham, Lincoln & Beale

' Houston, Texas 77002 One First National Plaza Suite 4200

-R. Gordon-Gooch, Esquire- Chicago, Illinois 60603

. Steven R. Hunsicker, Esquire Baker & Botts 1701 Pennsylvania _ Avenue

. Washington, D.C. .20006

Don'R._ Butler,. Esquire David A. Dopsovic, Esquire 211 East Seventh Street Frederick H. Parmenter, Esquire Austin, Texas 78701 Susan B. Cyphert, Esquire Nancy A. Luque, Esquire Robert Fabrikant, Esquire Mr. William C. Price- Energy Section Antitrust Division Central Power & Light Company

' Post Office Box 2121 U.S. Department of Justice Corpus (1risti, Texas 78403 P.O. Box 14141 Washington, D.C. 20044 Mr. G. Holman-King West Texas Utilities Company Morgan Hunter, Esquire Post Office Box 841 Bill D. St. Clair, Esquire Abilene, Texas 79604 McGinnis, Lockridge & Kilgore Fifth Floor Jerry L. Harris, Esquire Texas State Bank Building Richard C. Balough, Esquire 900 Congress Avenue Austin, Texas 78701 City of Austin Post Office Box 1086 W.S. Robson Austin, Texas 78767 General Manager Joseph-B. Knotts, Jr., Esquire South Texas Electric Cooperative, Nicholas S. Reynolds, Esquire Inc.

C. Dennis Ahearn, Esquire Route 6, Building 102 Victoria Regional Airport Debevoise & Liberman Victoria, Texas 77901 1200 Seventeenth Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20036 Robert C. McDiarmid, Esquire Don H. Davidson George Spiegel, Esquire City Manager Robert A. Jablon, Esquire City of Austin Marc R. Poirier, Esquire P.O. Box 1088 Spiegel & McDiarmid

' Austin, Texas 78767 2600 Virginia Avenue, N.W.

Suite 312 Jay Galt, Esquire- Washington, D.C. 20037 Looney, Nichols, Johnson & Hays 219 Couch Drive Kevin B. Pratt Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102 Texas Attorney General's Office Post Office Box 12548 Knolant J. Plucknett Austin, Texas 78711 Executive Director William H. Burchette, Esquire Committee on Power for the South-west, Inc. Frederick H. Ritts, Esquire 5541 East Skelly Drive Law Offices of Northcutt Ely Tulsa, Oklahoma 74135 Watergate 600 Building Washington, D.C. 20036 John W. Davidson, Esquire Sawtell, Goode, Davidson & Tioili Tom W. Gregg, Esquire 1100 San Antonio Savings Building Post Office Box Drawer 1032 San Antonio, Texas 78205 San Angelo, Texas 76902 Douglas.F. John,. Esquire Leland F. Leatherman, Esquire.

McDermott,_Will and Emery McMath, Leatherman & Woods, P.A.

-1101' Connecticut Avenue, N.W. -711 West Third Street Suite 1201 Little Rock', Arkansas 72201 Washington, D.C. 20036 - ,

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iPadl'W.~Eaton, Jr.,-Esquire

'llinkle, Cox, Eaton, Coffield &.Hensley

-600--Henkle Building Post-Office Box 10

Roswell, New. Mexico 88201' Robert M. Rader, Esquire Conner,. Moore &.Corber 1747. Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Wa'shington, D.C. 20006 W.N. Woolsey, Esquire Kleberg,. Dyer, Redford & Weil 1030 Petroleum Tower Corpus Christi, Texas 78474 Donald M. Clements, Esquire

' Gulf States Utilities Company Post Office Box 2951 Beaumont, Texas 77704 -

Dick Terrell Brown, Esquire 800 Milam Building.

San Antonio, Texas 78205 I

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