ML19319E312
| ML19319E312 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Rancho Seco |
| Issue date: | 07/05/1979 |
| From: | Chilk S NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY) |
| To: | OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL REGISTER |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8004040619 | |
| Download: ML19319E312 (1) | |
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July 5,1979 o o CFFICE oF THE
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Dear Sir:
Enclosed -for publication in the Federal Register are an original and two certified copies of a document entitled SACRAMEllTO MUf:ICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT (Rancho Seco ?,uclear Generating Station) i Docket No. 50-312 D In A D
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NUCLEAR ~ REGULATORY COMMISSION In the Matter-of:
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SACRAMENTO MUNICIPAL UTILlTY ~ DISTRICT
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Docket No. 50-312
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ORDER FOR FILING OF - AMENDED AND SUPPLEMENTED REQUESTS FOR AND NOTICE OF PREHEARING CONFERENCE By a confirmatory order, dated May 7,1979, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission directed that the Rancho Seco' facility, licensed to the Sacramento Munic~ipal Utility District, then in a shut-down condition,
.should remain shut down until certain actions specified in the Order were satisfactorily completed, as confirmed by the Direc. tor, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
The Order also directed the licensee
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to. accomplish as promptly as practicable the long-terr. modifications set forth in~Section II of the Order.
The Order stated further:
"Within twenty (20) days of the date of this order, the licensee 'or any person whose inter-est may be affected by this Order may request a hearing with respect to this Order.
Any such request shall not stay the immediate
-offectiveness of this Order."
Requests for a hearing were received from FrienAis of the Earth, the EnvironmentalCouncil of Sacramento and Original SMUD Ratepayers Association and from members of the Board of Directors of the Sacra-mento. Municipal Utility District.
Ey-Order. dated June 21, 1979, the Commission directed the Chair-man of the Atomic Safety and. Licensing Board Panel to select a Licens-i
!ing Board to ' determine.whether the requests for hearing meet the requi-site-personal' interest-test for intervention ~1/ and to on
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ce hearings'that may be required.
On June 22, 1979, this Licensing Board was established to carry out the proceedings ordered by the Commission.
The Licensing Board has reviewed all of the requests for hearing and associated pleadings, 'and it has determined that some or all of the requesters may be' entitled to a hearing' depending upon a more precise description of how their interests may be affected by the Commission 's Order of May 7,1979.
In this regard, the requesters for hearing may amend their requests to specifically state, pursuant to Section 2.714 of'the Commission's Regulations, 47 CFR S2.714, how their interests may be affected by the actions ordered by the Com-2/
mission's May 7, 1979, Order.-
Such amended petitions shall be filed with the Commission by July 16, 1979.
In addition, the requesters-may supplement their requests for hearing to include: (1) a list of the contentions which each seeks to have' litigated in'this proceeding; and (2) the basis for each contention set forth with reasonable specificity.
The supplement.shall be filed July 16, 1979.
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There is a substantial body of Commission precedence defining the kind of. interest required for intervention in a Commission hearing.
Kansas Gas & Electric Co., et al. (Wolf Creek Gener-ating -Station, Unit 1), ALAB-424, 6 NRC.122, 128 (1977); Tennessee
- -Valley-Authority (Watts Bar Nuclear Plan, Units 1& 2), ALAS-413, 5.NRC 1418, 1420-21 (1977); Detroit Edison Co. 426 (1977); Public Service'Co. of Oklahoma, et al.- (Black Fox Nuclear. Power Station, Units 1& 2), LBP-77-17, 5 NRC 657 (1977); Portland General Electric Company. (Pebble ' Springs Nuclear Plan, Units 1 & 2),
ALAB-333, 3 NRC 804 (1976) ; ' Louisiana Power & Light Co. (Water-ford ' Steam Electric' Station, Unit 3), ALAE-125,.6 AEC 371, 372, n.:6.(1973); Portland General Electric Co. (Trojan Nuclear Plant),
ALAB-496,L8 NRC 308 (September 12,. 1978); River Bend,-supra, 7 i AEC ' 222- (19 74 ) ; ' Virginia Electric and ' Power Cc. (North Anna Power Station', Units'1 & 2), ALAB-146, 6 AEC 631 (1973); Northern States Power'Co; '(Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant, Units
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1 ; & J 2),-. ALAB-10'7, ' 6. AEC 18 8 (19 7 3) : Waterford, supra, 6-;GC 371 L(1973);. Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (Humboldt Bay Power Plant,
. Unit.-3), ' ASLB Order 1 (May 15, 19 7 8 ).
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Pursuant to Section.2.751(a) of the Commission's Regulations,
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the Licensing Board' will hold a prehearing conference in this matter to consider the amended -and supplemented -requests for hearing which
- area o be filed. July 16, 1979, and to establish a schedule for. fur-ther actions in this proceeding, including discovery', and to further-.
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identify.-key issues -
,;. The prehearing conference will be held on August 1,1979, ' at 10: 00 a.m.,. in the Conference Rasm, West 1140, Federal Building, 2800. Cottage Way, Sacramento, California, and will proceed until it is completed.
It is so ordered.
ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD By:
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-I t shoul be recognized that-this proceeding is a show cause enforcement proc.eeding.
The-Commission has already identified
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- in'its pune 21, 1979,- Order the broad issues to be considered..
Each requester for hearing.can, of: course, assert in its' July
- 16 ' filing that - further issues should be' specified as long as l-
- they are related to' the action taken by the Commission in its -
May.7,~1979,1 Order.
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