ML19326A587

Motion to Strike App a to Applicants' Reply Brief. Certificate of Svc Encl

ML19326A587
Person / Time
Site:	Davis Besse, Perry
Issue date:	08/05/1977
From:	Douglas M, Goldberg R, Hjelmfelt D CLEVELAND, OH, GOLDBERG, FIELDMAN & HJELMFELT
To:	NRC ATOMIC SAFETY & LICENSING APPEAL PANEL (ASLAP)
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NUDOCS 8002250905
Download: ML19326A587 (7)

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board g' {

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THE TOLEDO EDISON COMPANY and ) Docket Nos. W THE CLEVELAND ELECTRIC ) 50-550A ILLUMINATING COMPANY ) 50-501A (Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, )

Units 1, 2 and 3) )

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THE CLEVELAND ELECTRIC ILLUMINATING ) Docket Nos. 50-440A COMPANY, et al. ) 50-441A (Perry Nuclear Power Plant, )

Units 1 and 2) )

CITY OF CLEVELAND'S MOTION TO STRIKE APPENDIX TO APPLICANTS' REPLY BRIEF City of Cleveland (City) moves to strike Appendix A to Applicants' Reply Brief filed with the Atomic Safety and Licen-sing Appeal Board (Appeal Board) on August 4, 1977 in the above entitled matter.

By' order of January 19, 1977, the Appeal Board established a limit of 100 pages for Applicants' Reply Brief. By order of January 27, 1977, the Appeal Board reaffirmed the page limitations previously established by its January 19, 1977 order and pointing out that the Commission's Rules of Practice do not sanction the ,

1 filing of reply briefs as a matter of course. Further, the Appeal Board said at page 4:

We wish to make clear now, however, that we I will not countenance the filing of briefs in l excess of the page limits we have set. Any such non-complying documents received will be returned unread to the party submitting them.

(Footnote omitted.)

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m On August 4, 1977, Applicants submitted a 100-page Reply Brief. Attached to Applicants' Reply Brief is a 16-page Appen-dix A, which Applicants have characterized as (Reply Br. fn. 1) :

A series of charts which show by page reference where each of the parties discussed the find-ings of fact ("F/F") set forth in the Initial Decision. The similarity in the Licensing Board's language and record citations, on the one hand, and the language and record citations used by our adversaries, on the other hand, is striking. In those few instances where the opposing parties have ventured beyond the four corners of the Initial Decision to make a sup-porting argument, we have so indicated in the Appendix by footnote reference and marginal comment.

Even the most cursory examination of Appendix A to Appli-cants' Reply Brief reveals that it is much more than a mere table of parallel citations. Rather, in Appendix A, Applicants have undertaken to discuss, analyze and argue, the factual argu-ments made by City,the Department of Justise and NRC Staff in their briefs. By this transparent subterfuge, Applicants' seek to evade the page limitations established by this Appeal Board.

In doing so, they make a mockery of its January 19 and 27 Or-ders.1/

The other parties to this proceeding have complied with the i page limitations established for this proceeding. It would be unfair and prejudicial to City to permit Applicants to evade those

-limitations through artifice.

l 1/ This Appeal Board need not be reminded that Applicants j avoided the page limitation for their initial brief I through the strategem of incorporation by reference.

Moreover, the excessive argumentation placed in footnotes

! is' clearly contrary to the intent of the Commission's rules. 10 C.F.R. S2.708(b).

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WHEREFORE, City prays that the Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board strike Appendix A to Applicants' Reply Brief.

Respectfully submitted, Reuben Goldberg David C. Hjelmfelt Goldberg, Fieldman & Hjelmfelt, P.C.

1700 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20006 Telephone (202) 393-2444 Malcolm Douglas Director of Law Robert D. Hart First Assistant Director of Law City of Cleveland 213 City Hall Cleveland, Ohio 44114 Telephone (216) 694-2737 Attorneys for City of Cleveland, Ohio August 5, 1977 l

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that I have served a copy of the foregoing

" City Of Cleveland's Motion To Strike Appendix To Applicants' a-Reply Brief" on the parties listed on the attachment hereto, this 5th day of August, 1977, by depositing copies th'ereof in the United States mail, first class postage prepaid.

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• 7 ATTACHMENT Christopher R. Schraff, Esq.

Douglas V. Rigler, Esq. Assistant Attorney General Foley, Lardner, Hollabaugh and Jacobs Environmental Law Section 815 Connecticut Avenue, N. W. 361 East Broad Street, 8th floor Washington, D. C. 20006 Columbus, Ohio 43215 Alan S. Rosenthal, Chairman Ivan W. Smith, Esq.

Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board John M. Frysiak, Esq.

U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Washington, D. C. 20555 U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C. 20555 Richard S. Salzman Jerome E. Sharfman Andrew C. Goodhope, Esq.

Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board 3320 Estelle Terrace U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Wheaton, Maryland 20906 Washington, D. C. 20555 Robert M. Lazo, Esq. , Chairman Howard K. Shapar, Esq. Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Executive Legal Director U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C. 20555

, Washington, D. C. 20555 Daniel M. Head, Esq. , Member Mr. Frank W. Karas, Chief Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Public Proceedings Branch U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the Secretary Washington, D. C. 20555 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C. 20555 s Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board Panel Abraham Braitman, Esq. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Antitrust and Indemnity Wa shington, D. C. 20555 U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C. 20555 Joseph Rutberg, Esq.

Jack R. Goldberg, Esq.

Frank R. Clokey, Esq. Office of the Executive Legal Director Special Assistant ~ Attorney General U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Towne House Apartments, Room 219 Washington, D. C. 20555 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17105 Benjamin H. Vogler, E sq.

Edward A. Matto, Esq. Roy P. Lessy, Jr. , Esq.

Assistant Attorney General Office of the General Counsel Chief, Antitrust Section R egulation 30 East Broad Street, 15th floor U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Columbus, Ohio 43215 Washington, D. C. 20555

ATTACHMENT (continued)

David McNeill Olds, Esq.

Melvin G. Berger, E sq. William S. Lerach, Esq.

Joseph J. Saunders,~ Esq. Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay David A. Leckie, Esq. Post Office Box 2009 Janet R. Urban, Esq. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15230 Antitrust Division Department of Justice Terrence H. Benbow, Esq.

Post Office Box 7513 Steven B. Peri, Esq.

Washington, D. C. 20044 Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts 40 Wall Street Karen H. Adkins, Esq. New York, New York 10005 Richard M. Firestone, Esq.

Ascistant Attorneys General Alan P. Buchmann, Esq.

Antitrust Section Squire, Sanders & Dempsey 30 East Broad Street, 15th floor 1800 Union Commerce Building Columbus, Ohio 43215 Cleveland, Ohio 44115 Russell J. Spetrino, Esq. Leslie Henry, Esq.

Thomas A. Kayuha, Esq. Michael M. Briley, Esq.

Ohio Edison Company Roger P. Klee, Esq.

47 North Main Street Fuller, Henry, Hodge & Snyder Akron, Ohio 44308 Post Office Box 2088 Toledo, Ohio 43604 John Lansdale, Jr. , Esq.

Cox, Langford & Brown James R. Edgerly, Esq.

21 Dupont Circle, N. W. Secretary and General Counsel Washington, D. C. 20036 Pennsylvania Power Company One East Washington Street Richard A. Miller, Esq. New Castle, Pennsylvania 16103 Vice President and General Counsel The Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. Donald H. Hauser, Esq.

Post Office Box 5000 Victor A. Greenslade, Jr. , Esq.

Cleveland, Ohio 44101 The Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co.

Post Office Box 5000 Gerald Charnoff, Esq. Cleveland, Ohio 44101 Wm. Bradford Reynolds, Esq.

Robert E. Zahler, Esq. Thomas J. Munsch, Jr. , Esq.

Jay H. Berstein, Esq. General Attorney Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge Duquesne Light Company 1800 M Street, N. W. 435 Sixth Avenue Washington, D. C. 20036 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219 Atomic Safety and Licensing Bose.d Panel Docketing and Service Section U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Corraission Office of the Secretary Washington, D. C. 20555 U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C. 20555

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Joseph A. Rieser, Esq.

Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay 1150 Conneeticut Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D. C. 20036 John C. Engle, President AMP-O, Inc.

20 High Street Hamilton; Ohio 45012 Michael R. Gallagher, Esq.

630 Bulkley Building 1501 Euclid Cleveland, Ohio 44115 I

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