ML19317E534
| ML19317E534 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Oconee, Mcguire, McGuire  |
| Issue date: | 04/11/1973 |
| From: | Shenefield J HUNTON & WILLIAMS, VIRGINIA POWER (VIRGINIA ELECTRIC & POWER CO.) |
| To: | US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
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| NUDOCS 7912180762 | |
| Download: ML19317E534 (5) | |
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION In the Matter of
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AEC Docket Nos.
-260
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5 - 70A DUKE POWER COMPANY
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50-287A
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50-369A (Oconee Units 1, 2, and 3;
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50-370A McGuire Units 1 and 2)
MOTION TO QUASH OR TO LIMIT SUBPOENA DUCES TECUM DATED NOVEMBER 20, 1972 Virginia Electric & Power Company ("Vepco") moves pursuant to Rule 2.720(f) of the Rules of Practice of the Atomic Energy Commission, 10 C.F.R. 5 2.720(f),to quash or, alternatively, to limit the subpoena duces tecum dated November 20, 1972 served upon it, on the following grounds:
(1)
The information sought by the Department of Justice is available from the parties, including intervenors, to this proceeding, and accordingly the request for such information directed to non-parties, without any connection to or inrerest in the matters at issue, is unnecessary.
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(2)
The subpoena, despite speculation of the Department of Justice to the contrary, requires an excessively time-consuming, expensive and burdensome search for documents dated January 1, 1940, or thereafter, a period of some 32 years.
(3)
The information sought by the Department of Justice relates to matters beyond the legitimate scope of the proceeding.
Inasmuch as Vepco does not abut the Duke system at any point, the subpoena is being utilized to inquire into matters beyond the narrow issue defined in 5105(c)(5) of the Atomic Energy Act, as amended, which is to determine whether the facility sought to be licensed may " create or maintain a situation inconsistent with the antitrust laws."
(4)
Even if the investigation is permissible, given the unraasonably broad scope of the specifications of the subpoena and the alternative and more convenient access to the same information from those already parties to the proceeding, the subpoena should be limited as follows:
(a)
Response to the subpoena should be deferred until, following discovery of the parties, the Department of Justice is able to specify more particularly the specific documents that it seeks.
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(b)
The general time period specified in definition A(2) of the subpoena, January 1, 1940 and there-after, is unreasonably lengthy and entirely unnecessary to the investigation.
It extends well beyond the period made applicable to parties to this proceeding.
The Department of Justice's speculation that only a few episodes producing such documents may exist would clearly not excuse failure to search for the documents requested throughout all relevant files.
A more reasonable point at which to begin the search would be January 1, 1970.
Wherefore, Virginia Electric & Power Company moves that the subpoena dated November 20, 1972, be quashed, or, alternatively, that'it be limited as stated herein.
Respectfully submitted, Hunton, Williams, Gay & Gibson
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION In the Matter of
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AEC Docket Nos. 50-269A
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50-270A DUKE POWER COMPANY
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50-287A
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50-369A (Oconee Units 1, 2, and 3;
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50-370A McGuire Units 1 and 2)
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of MOTION TO QUASH OR TO LIMIT SUBPOENA DECUS TECUM DATED NOVEMBER 20, 1972, dated April 11, 1973, in the above captioned matter have been served on the following by deposit in the United States mail, first class or air mail, this 12, th day of April.
Honorable Walter W. K. Bennett William Warfield Ro s s, Esq.
Chairman, Atomic Safety and George A. Avery, Esq.
Licensing Board Keith Watson, Esq.
Post Office Box 185 Toni K. Golden, Esq.
Pinehurst, North Carolina 28374 Wald, Harkrader & Ross 1320 Nineteenth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
20036 Honorable Joseph F. Tubridy J. O. Tally, Jr., Esq.
4100 Cathedral Avenue, N.W.
J. A. Bouknight, Jr., Esq.
Washington, D.C.
20016 Tally, Tally & Bouknight P. O. Drawer 1660 Fayetteville, N.C.
28302 Honorable John B. Farmakaides Troy B. Conner, Esq.
Atomic Safety and Licensing Reid & Priest Board Panel 1701 K Street, N.W.
U. S. Atomic Energy Commission Washington, D.C. 20006 Washington, D.C.
20545
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Carl Horn, Esq.
Joseph Rutberg, Esq.
President Benjamin H. Vogler, Esq.
Duke Power Company Antitrust Counsel for AEC Charlotte, N. C.
28200 Regulatory Staff U. S. Atomic Energy Commission Washington, D.C.
20545 William H. Grigg, Esq.
Mr. Abraham Braitman, Chief Vice President and Office of Antitrust and Indemnity General Counsel U. S. Atomic Energy Commission Duke Power Company Washington, D.C.
20545 422 South Church Street Charlotte, N. C.
28201 W. L. Porter, Esq.
Mr. Frank W. Karas, Chief Duke Power Company Public Proceedings 422 South Church Street Office of the Secretary of Charlotte, N. C.
28201 the Commission U. S. Atomic Energy Commission Washington, D.C.
20545 David Stover, Esq.
Chairman, Atomic Safety and Tally, Tally & Bouknight Licensing Appeals Board 429 N Street, S.W.
U. S. Atomic Energy Commission Washington, D.C.
20024 Washington, D.C. 20545 Atomic Safety and Licensing Wallace E. Brand, Esq.
Board Panel Antitrust Division U. S. Atomic Energy Commission Department of Justice Washington, D.C.
20545 Washington, D.C.
20530
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Hunt'on, Williams, Gay & Gibson P. O.
Box 1535 Richmond, Virginia 23212