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Motion for Order Scheduling Outstanding Environ & Eecs Matters.Certificate of Svc Encl
ML19329F506
Person / Time
Site: Midland
Issue date: 01/15/1972
From: Reis H
CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.), LOWENSTEIN, NEWMAN, REIS, AXELRAD & TOLL
To:
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
References
NUDOCS 8006300713
Download: ML19329F506 (5)


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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

ATO.IIC ENERGY CO:GIISSION

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Docket Nos. 50-329

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50-330 (Midland Plant, Units 1 and 2)

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APPLICANT'S' MOTION FOR AN ORDER SCHEDULING OUTSTANDING ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECCS SIATTERS In its Order of December 22,,1971, the Board established a schedule for environmental matters, requiring the submissions of all parties concerning Applicant',s Environmental Report and 2

the Staff's Draft Detailed Statement and Final Detailed Statement of Environmental Considerations.

The scheduled deadline for the.last submission is April 15, 1972.

By that time all of the parties will have been given generous opportunities to familiarize themselves with the facts and issues, to obtain required information and to express and refine their positions.

Accordingly Applicant, Consumers Power. Company, moves that the Board supplement its Order of December 22, 1971, to provide for a pre-hearing. conference of counsel on April 24, 1972, and that' hearings begin on May 1, 1972.

Applicant'also-moves that' the presiding officer, pur-suant to his~ authority under 10 CFR 2.718 (e), issue an Order establishing a schedule for disposing of outstanding ECCS matters in the. instant proceeding.

Extensive discovery pro-c cedsres, including answers to interrogatories, have now been Tills DOCUMENT CONTAINS

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completed, and the ' Staff's ECCS Supplementa safety Evaluation is' anticipated within the next' few days.

Moreover, in con-

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nection rith the AEC's inminent ECCS rule making proceedings

'(Dochet No. RM-50-1), the Commission has expressly declared

~" Notice shoul'd also be taken that the conduct of a rule making hearing on -the subject matter of this notice will not affect the orderly'resolu-tion, under'the Conmission's existing regulations,-

of.the matter of emergency core cooling,in hear-ings on applications for light water-cooled power reactors pending before atomic safety and licensing boards."1,/

Accordingly, both the present. posture of this proceeding and the Commission's expressed policy make it clear that this Board should now proceed to resolution of the ECCS issue.

I,n view of_the foregoing Applicant proposes, and moves for the adoption of, the following schedule concerning out-standing ECCS matters :

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On or before February 4, 1972, opposing inter-venors will each serve and file in writing a statement of their ~ contentions concerning the adequacy. of Midland's ECCS in view of the currently effective " Interim Acceptance Criteria for Emergency 2/

Core Cooling Systems #or Light-Water Power Reactors"~

and all-written testimony and documentary evidence supporting these. contentions.

Such statements, Tlfl! Supplemental Notice of Hearing (37 Fed. Reg. 288-289,

January 8, 1972).

2f 36 Fed. _ Reg. 12247 (June 29, 1971).

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' detailed ~and specific to permit the formulation of

.the actual issues in controversy and the Board to rule on whether they may be considered in this proceeding in'the light of the Commission's exist-,

ing regulations and the impact of those regulations on applications for light water-cooled reactors pending before atomic safety and licensing boards.-

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On or-before February 18, 1972, responses, if any,

'to the opposing intervenors' submissions in A, will be filed, with the same detail and specificity as i'

required above.

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A pre-hearing conference for all Counsel of record will be held on March 3, 1972.

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Hearings on ECCS matters will commence on March 13, f

1972.

Wherefore, Applicant requests the issuance of an order

- as described above.

Respectfully submitted,

-Dated:

January 15, 1972 LOWENSTEIN, NEWMAN & REIS

Of Counsel, 1100 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D.C.

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Harold'P. Graves-

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By I/['ifd!

Robert-Lowenstein John _K._Restrick

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Harold F.

Reis Richard G. Smith-Attorneys 1for Applicant

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" UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION In the~ Matter of

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Docket Hos. 50-329

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify.that copies of " Applicant's Motion for an Order Scheduling Outstanding Environmental and ECCS Matters", dated

' January 15, 19 72, in the abovel captioned matter have been served -

on -the following in person or by deposit fin the United States mail, first class or airmail, this 15th day of January, 1972.

Arthur W. Murphy,'Esq., Chairman-Dr. David B. Hall Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Los Alamos Scientific Columbia University School of Law Laboratory Box 38, 435 West 116th Street P. O.

Box 1663 New York, New York 10027 Los Alamos, New Mexico Thomas F. Engelhardt, Esq.

David E. Kartalia, Esq.

Honorable Curtis B. Beck Robert Newton, Esq.

Assistant Attorney General Regulatory Staff Counsel State ~ of-Michigan U.S. Atomic Energy Commission 630 Seven Story Office Bldg.

525 West Ottawa Washington, D.

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Lansing Michigan 48913 William A.

Groening, Jr., Esq.

James M. O'Connor, Esq.

Anthony Z. Roisman, Esq.

Berlin, Roisman & Kessler The Dow Chemical Company 2030 Dow Center-1910 N Street, N.W.

Midland, Michigan 48640 Washington, D.C.

20036 Myron M.

Cherry, Esq.

James A. Kendall, Esq.

109 North Dearborn Street Currie and Kendall Suite 1005 135 North Saginaw Road Midland, Michigan 48640 Chicago, Illinois 60602 Honorable William H. Ward Milton R. Wessel, Esq.

Assistant Attorney General Allen Kezsbom,Esq.

J. Richard Sinclair, Esq.

Stateiof Kansas

' Topeka, Kansas 66612 Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays and Handler Dr. Clark' Goodman 425 Park Avenue

- Professor of Physics New York, New York 10022 University of' Houston c3801 Cullen Boulevard William J.

Ginster, Esq.

Houston, Texas

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Saginaw, Michigan 48602

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