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Second Set of Interrogatories Directed to Mm Aamodt.Requests Statements on Technician Test Performance & Identification of All Pertinent Info Intended to Be Used in Intervenor Direct Case & cross-examination on Contentions 2,4,5 & 8
ML19326D792
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Issue date: 07/01/1980
From: Swartz L
NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE LEGAL DIRECTOR (OELD)
To: Aamodt M
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t UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION u

BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD

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In the Matter of METROPOLITAN EDISON COMPANY, Docket No. 50-289 ET AL.

(Three Mile Island, Unit 1)

SECOND SET OF NRC STAFF INTERR0GATORIES OF MARJ0RIE M. AAMODT Pursuant to 10 C.F.R. 9 2.740b. the following interrogatories cre directed to Mamorie M. Aamodt.

Each interrogatory is to be answered sep<rately and fully in writing under oath or affinnation by individuals having personal knowledge of the answers.

The Licensing Board in this proceeding has directed that all responses to interrogatories must be in the hands of the discovering party 35 days after the issuance of the SkR (July 21,1980).

(The Memorandum and Order on Prehearing Conference of May 13,1980 (May 22, 1980), at 7.)

All parties are reminded that 5 2.740(e) of the Commission's regulations requires parties to amend their responses when they are r.o longer true.

Thus, intervenors who were not. able to answer the general interrogatories submitted in the."First Set of NRC Staff Interrogatories to Intervenors" dated December 27, 1979 or the interrogatories submitted in this pleading are obligated to respond to the interrogatories upon receipt of the

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s All of the specific interrogatories attached refer to infonnation contained in the Staff's "TMI-1 Restart Evaluation of Licensee's Compliance with the Short-and Long-Tenn Items of Section II of NRC Order dated August 9,1979"

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(SER) which was served on all parties to this proceeding on June 16, 1980.

Page number:; in the interrogatories refer to the SER.

The general interroga-tories inquire into how the parties intend to use documents, including the SER, in their presentations of evidence.

Res.ectfully submitted,

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Lucinda low Swartz

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Counsel for NRC Staff Dated at Bethesda, Maryland this 1st day of July, 1980

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MARJ0RIE M. AAMODT GENERAL _INTERROGATORJES 1.

Identify by author, title, date of publication and publisher, all books, documents, and papers you intend at this time to employ or rely upon in presenting your direct case on:

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Contention 2 b.

Contention 4 c.

Contention 5 d.

Contention 8 2.

Identify by author, title, date of publication, and publisher all books, documents, or papers that you intend at this time to employ or rely upon in' conducting your cross-examination of prospective NRC witnesses testifying in connection with:

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Contention 2 b.

Contention 4 c.

Contention 5 d.

Contention 8 3.

If the representations made in:

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Contention 2 b.

Contention 4 c.

Contention 5 d.

Contention 8

, are based in whole or in part on any documents prepared by the NRC Staff or the licensee which you contend are deficient, specify which documents (and the particular portions) you regard as deficient and explain why they are deficient.

1 SPECIFIC If!JLLR_0_GATORIES On pages Cl-16 and C6-5 through C6-7 (including references), the Staff-evaluates licensee's program for operator training. After reviewing this evaluation, please answer the following questions:

Contention 2 2-1 Do you still contend that a 100% test performance of technicians and management by an independent engineering firm is necessary for the safe operation of TMI-l? If so, explain in detail the reasons for your belief and provide relevant documentation specifying your contention that: (1) a 100% test performance and (2) the test must be performed by an independent engineering firm.

2-2 If the answer to 2-1 is "yes," what type of a.

technicians

b. _ management personnel do you believe should be tested for adequate performance of job description?

2-3 Do you believe that the operator training program initiated at TMI-l since the accident at THI-2 as described in the Restart Report and analyzed by the Staff in the SER is adequate to ensure that TMI-l can be operated safely? If not, explain in detail the reasons for your belief and identify the documents which support your position.

2-4 Do you believe the Staff's evaluation of the licensee's compliance with the Order items concerned with operator training (refer to pages C6-5 and C6-6) is inadequate in any way? If so, describe in detail each of those inadequacies and identify the documents which support your position.

I t Coatention 4 On pages C3-1 through C3-5 the Staff discusses the licensee's emergency plan.

Af ter reviewing this evaluation, please answer the following questions:

4-1 Do you stili believe that licensee has not made provisions for the timely dissemination of information in the event of a release of radioactive particulates? (Refer to pages C3-1 and C3-2.)

If so, explain in detail the reasons for your belie) and identify the documents which support your position.

4-2 What time period do you consider " timely?" Provide the basis for your response.

4-3 What measures, other than those described in the emergency plan and evaluated in the SER, do you believe the a.

NRC b.

Licensee c.

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania d.

Counties of Dauphin, York, and Lancaster should take to ensure timely information is made available to the public in the event of a release of radioactive particulates? Provide the basis for your response.

4-4 Do you believe the Staff's evaluation of licensee's emergency plan is inadequate in any way? If so, describe in detail each of those inadequacies and ider.tify the documents which support your position.

Contention 8 On pages C4-1 through C4-ll and C5-1 through C5-8, the Staff discusses the waste management systems at TMI and the separation of Unit 1 from Unit 2.

Af ter. reviewing this evaluation, please answer the following questions:

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a 8-1 Do you agree with the Staff's conclusions on pages C5-6, C5-7 and C5-8 that the waste management systems (liquid, gaseous, and solid systems and effluent monitoring system) at TMI-1 do not rely on operations at THI-27 If not, explain in detail all of your points of disagreement and identify the documents which support your position.

8-2 Do you believe the waste handling capability at TMI-1 as described in the Restart Report and analyzed in the SER is adequate to ensure the safe operation of TMI-17 If not, explain in detail the reasons for your belief and identify the documents which support your position.

8-3 Do you believe the Staff's evaluation of licensee's compliance with Order item 5 is inadequate in any way?

If so, describe in detail each of those inadequacies and identify the documents which support your posi tion.

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