ML19331A773
| ML19331A773 | |
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| Site: | Midland, Seabrook |
| Issue date: | 08/27/1976 |
| From: | Head D Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE LEGAL DIRECTOR (OELD) |
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| NUDOCS 8007230801 | |
| Download: ML19331A773 (8) | |
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MEMORANCUM AND ORDER The purpose of this Memorandum and Order is for the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (the Board) to rule upon the request by the NRC Staff for an extension of time from September 7,1976, until September 17, 1976, to file briefs. The Staff asserts as the basis for this request that the Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board has before it a request by the intervenor New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution (NECNP) to suspend the construction permits in Public Service Company of New Hampshire, et al. (Seabrook Station), Units 1 and 2), Docket Nos. 50-443 and 50-444, because further construction in Seabrook would cause prejudice to NECNP. The Staff suggests that the legal questions are similar and that a stay of filing briefs in this case would be appropriate since the Appeal Board decision in Seabrook may offer guidance to this Licensing Board in the instant proceeding.
The Staff advises that counsel for the Applicant has no objection to the extension of time, but counsel for the intervenors objects on the
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This Board has secured a copy of the August 24, 1976, Order by the Appeal Board in Seabrook calling for the responsive briefs and set-ting oral argument in that case for September 8,1976. The Board notes that the issue raised by the NECNP motion in Seabrook is whether the construction pemits for that facility should be suspended until the licensing board, on remand, can factor into the NEPA and safety analyses proper consideration of the incremental effects of reprocessing and/cr disposal of waste to be produced by the Seabrook plant.
However, in our proceeding, this Board is charged by the Commission's Memorandum and Order of August 16, 1976, with determining whether the construction permits for Midland should be continued, modified or suspended until an interim fuel cycle rule has been made effective. The guidelines on which we must base this decision are generally contained on page 9 of the Coninission's General Statement of Policy of August 16, 1976, cover-ing this matter.
In the Board's view, the issue before the Appeal Board and the issue to be covered by the briefs in this proceeding are sub-stantially different. In light of this, it does not appear that the
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Accordinoly, since the NRC Staff has not set out any alternate grounds that would justify deferral of the briefing schedule, the Board hereby denies the Staff's request for an extension of time to file briefs.I/
Since the time for filing briefs continues to run, the Board advised the parties of its ruling herein by telephone this date.
FOR THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICEF ING BOARD
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II e Board normally would await responses by the other parties before Th ruling on this motion. However, in view of the Staff's representation of the positions of the Applicant and intervenors.and the Board's resolution of the issue, it is unnecessary to await any such replies.
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s INITED STATES OF AVERICA FUCLEAR REGUIMORY CCBMISSION In the Matter'of
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Docket No. (s) 50-329 CONSlMERS POKER CCMPANY 3
50-330 (Midland Plant, Units 1 and 2)
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SERVICB LIST Daniel M. Head, Esq., Chai=an Howard J.'Vogel, Esq.
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Knittle 6 Vogel Panel 814 Flour Exchange Building U.S. hbclear Regulatory Comission Minneapolis, Minnesota 55415 Washington, D.C.
20555 Jmnes A. Kendall, Esq.
Dr. Emeth A. Luebke, Esq.
Currie and Kendall Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 135 North Saginaw Road Panel Midland, Michigan 48640 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission Washington, D.C.
20555 Judd L. Bacon, Esq.
Consumers Power Ccmpany Dr. J. Venn Leeds, Jr., Esq.
212 West Michigan Avenue 10807 Atwell Jackson, Michigan 49201 Houston, Texas 77096 William J. Ginster, Esq.
James Tourte11otte, Esq.
Merrill Building, Suite 4 Saginaw, Michigan 48602 Counsel for NRC Staff U.S. Nucicar Regulatory Co= ission Washington, D.C.
20555 Milton R. Wessel, Esq.
J. Richard Sinclair, Esq.
Myron M. Cherry, Esq.
Kaye, Scholer, Fieman, Hays 6 Handler 1 IBM Plaza 425 Park Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60611 New York, New York 10022 Harold F. Reis, Esq.
Honorable Curtis G. Beck Lowenstein, Newnan, Reis 6 Axelrad Assistant Attorney General 1025 Connecticut Avenue Seven Story Office Building Washington, D.C.
20036 525 West Ottawa Lansing, Michigan 48913 Honorable William H. Ward Lee Nute, Esq.
Assistant Attorney General Michigan Division State of Kansas The Dow Chemical Company Topeka, Kansas 66612 47 Building an.
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Reilly, Like and Schneider Anthony Z. Roisman, Esq.
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