ML19331E303

Forwards Util Memorandum of Law in Response to State of Il Motion to Compel NRC Determination Re Need for EIS

ML19331E303
Person / Time
Site:	Bailly
Issue date:	09/05/1980
From:	Shea K LOWENSTEIN, NEWMAN, REIS, AXELRAD & TOLL
To:	Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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ML19331E304	List: ML19331E303 ML19331E305 ML19331E306
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ISSUANCES-CPA, NUDOCS 8009090791
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ANN E w. COf f tNGH AM RATHLE E N A. COR RO3E RT M. CULP PE TE R G. FLYNN WILLI AM J. F R Ape p LIN ST EVEN P. F R AN TE FREDEmoc S.enAV DouGL AS 0. GREE N Dav'O B. RAsn#N Mr. Harold Denton Director, Nuclear Reactor Regulation U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Re: Docket No. 50-367 Northern Indiana Public Service Company (Bailly Generating Station, Nuclear-1)

Dear Mr. Denton:

The State of Illinois has recently filed a " Motion to Compel Staff Determination" which asked the Licensing Board in the Bailly construction permit extension proceeding to require the Staff to decide whether it will prepare an environmental impact statement with respect to NIPSCO's request for the permit extension. Illinois takes the position that a new or supplemental statement is required and relies upon a letter dated August 12, 1990, from the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality to the Illinois Attorney

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On behalf of NIPSCO, we are responding separately to the Illinois Motion and have also prepared the enclosed Memorandum which addresses the substantive question of the Bool S

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& TOLL Counsel for NIPSCO By: 88/1 - M Kathleen H. Shea KHS/jg Enc losure