ML19331A981

Opposes Saginaw Intervenors' 730107 Motion to Recall on Grounds That Columbia Law Review Oct 1972 Article Is Not Newly Discovered Evidence.Urges ASLB to Dispose of Motion W/O Delaying Progress of Appeal.Certificate of Svc Encl

ML19331A981
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Site:	Midland
Issue date:	01/16/1973
From:	Burka R, Oconnor J, Wessel M DOW CHEMICAL CO., KAYE, SCHOLER, FIERMAN, HAYS & HANDLER
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%d UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ATOMIC ENERGY C0l! MISSION In the Matter of )

) Docket Nos. 50-329-CONSUMERS POWER COMPANY ) 50-330

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Midland Plant, Units 1 and 2 )

DOW MEMORANDUM IN OPPOSITION TO SAGINAW MOTION TO RECALL The sole stated factual basis for the SAGINAW Motion to Recall is the allegedly newly discovered evi-dence (in late December, 1372) of the Ilearing Board Chair-man's Columbia Law Review article, As the Dow opposing affidavit makes clear, the a

Columbia Law Review article is not newly discovered evidence.

Irrespective of the knowledge of.the single , attorney involved, (a) other SAGINAW.or MAPLETON counsel or their clients undoubtedly had long ,

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(b) even this attorney :as well as the others (including EDF) and their clients, (i) had undoubtedly known of the substance of the views ex-pressed in the Columbia Law Review article in its earlier version; and (ii) from the inception had also kncun the Chairman's views as exprenced in other scholarly works which he had uritten and from connents during the IIcaring herein itself.

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- Accordingly, even if the AEC rules justified the present notion, the failure to make timely application based on the Columbia Lau Revieu article is inexcusabic and is alone a sufficient basis on which to reject the SACINAU motion. Safeway Stores. Inc. v. FTC, 366 F.2d 795 (9th Cir. 1966), cert. denied, 386 U.S. 932 (1967);

Gilligan, Will.& Co. v. SEC, 267 F.2d 461 (2d Cir.), cert.

denied, 361 U.S. 896 (1959).

The SAGINAW 1egal contention that a part-time . __

administrative Hearing Chairman is barred from having or expressing views of the kind considered in the Columbia Law Revieu article,,is similarly without validity. FTC v. _ ,,

Cement Institute, 333 U.S. 683 (1948), NLRB v. Donnelly Garment Co., 330 U.S. 219 (1947)', U.S. v. Morgan, 313 U.S.

409 (1941); Skelly 011 Co. v. FPC, 375 F.2d 6 (10th Cir.

1967), modified on other grounds sub nom Permian Basin l.

.,- Ra t e - Ca s e s , 3 9 0 U . S , .7.4.7.. (19 6 8 ).g S a f.eway S t o re s ,. I n c.. v . I T C.s n.. ,, . ,g supra. See, American Cyanamid Co. v. FTC, 363 F.2d 757 (6th Cir. 1966); W. Gelhorn and C. Byse, Administrative Law j

(4th Ed. 1960), 936, 938-39, 2 Davis, Administrative Law Treatise (1958) $ 12.01 at 131, 144, 145-6.

The final SAGINAW charge (that the Chairman and the other Members of the Board were personally prejudiced i

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against' Opposing Intervenors), flies in the face of the mass of contrary evidence in the record. The quotations submitted by SAGINAN are taken out of context, and are largely responsive to Intervenors' own requests and conduct.

CONCLUSION The SAGINAW motion is without foundation in law or fact. Although the temptation may be to cross-examine the SAGINAW affidavit to inquire into the knowledge of all Opposing Intervenors' counsel and their citents (such.as

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the person who sent the article to tre SAGINAU af~fiant),

we hope the Bo'ard vill dispose of the application,without '.]~

steps which might delay progress of the appeal on its way to ultimate final proper adjudication on the =erits.

Dated: New York, New York January 16, 1973.

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