ML19332A838

Suppl Status Rept Per ASLB 800813 Order.Doj Reached Agreement W/Parties in Comanche Peak Proceedings Re Proposed Set of License Conditions.Agreement Reached W/Applicant in South Tx Proceeding.Certificate of Svc Encl

ML19332A838
Person / Time
Site:	South Texas, Comanche Peak
Issue date:	09/15/1980
From:	Mcmillen N JUSTICE, DEPT. OF
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ISSUANCES-A, NUDOCS 8009180460
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA V NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION '@

Before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board In the Matter of )

HOUSTON LIGHTING G POWER )

COMPANY, et al. (South ) Docket Nos. 50-498A Texas Project, Units 1 and ) 50-499A

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TEXAS UTILITIES GENERATING )

COMPANY, et al. (Comanche ) Docket Nos. 50-445A

. Peak Steam Electric ) 50-446A Station, Units 1 and 2) )

SETTLEMENT STATUS REPORT OF DEPAP,TMENT OF JUSTICE On August 13, 1980, the Licensing Board issued an order requiring the parties to file status reports on September 12, 1980, including proposed settlements on license conditions, un-resolved issues, and suggestions for hearing procedures. The Department of Justice (" Department") hereby submits this settle-ment status report in compliance with that order.

Since its last status report, filed with the Licensing Board on July 11, 1980, the Department has engaged in extensive set-tiement discussions with the parties in an effort to agree on specific license conditions for the South Texas Nuclear Project and the Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station.

I The Department is pleased to report that, with respect to the Comanche Peak proceedings, it has reached an agreement with the partles regarding a proposed set of license conditions. The Department believes that if these conditions are attached to the operating license in Comanche Peak, that the issuance of an 8009180 g g

4 5 7 operating license will not create or maintain a situation in-consistent with the antitrust laws or their underlying policies under Section'105c of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended.

With respect to the South Texas proceeding, the Department l has reached an agreement with the Applicants in that proceeding regarding a proposed set of license conditions. 1/ However, the other parties to the South Texas proceeding have not yet had the opportunity to review the settlement license conditions be-cause they were finalized only late yesterday. Accordingly, the Department believes tnat the Licensing Board should grant those parties an additional period of time in which to* review the set-tiement license conditions in order that they might fulfill their obligations under the Licensing Board's Order of August 13, 1980, which directs all of the parties, inter alia, to sub-mit their views on the proposed settlement. Thereafter, the Board should establish such procedures as it deems appropriate to determine whether it should approve the proposed settlement license conditions in the South Texas proceeding.

1/ The Department understands that the agreement of the City of Austin and.the Public Service Board of San Antonio regarding the proposed settlement license conditions is, as of this moment, a tentative agreement subject ~to the review of the final draft of the proposed conditions and necessary approvals by those

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municipalities. Attached to the Staff's Fourth Status Report on Settlement is a copy of the proposed Stipulations in these proceedings to be signed by the parties. Due'to the press of time, however, the Department believes that a fully executed Stipulat. ion cannot be presented to the Board until Monday, September'15, 1980.

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,s The proposed settlement license conditions in the South Texas and the Comanche Peak proceedings are attached to the NRC Staff's Fourth Status Report on Settlement, which is being filed today.

Respectfully submitted, dtJ"/

Na(cy~H. McMillen

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Dated: September 15, 1980 Attorney, Energy Section Washington, D. C. Antitrust Division Department of Justice (202)-724-6624 i

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e UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board In the Matter of )

HOUSTON-LIGHTING G POWER )

COMPANY, et al. (South ) Docket Nos. 50-498A Texas Project, Units 1 and ) 50-499A

2) )

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TEXAS UTILITIES GENERATING )

COMPANY, et al. (Comanche ) Docket Nos. 50-445A Peak Steam Electric ) 50-446A Station, Units 1 and 2) )

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that service of the foregoing Status Report of the Department of Justice has been made on the following parties listed hereto this 15th day of September, 1980, by depositing copies thereof in the United States mail, first class, postage prepaid.

Marshall E. Miller, Esquire Alan S. Rosenthal, Esquire Chairman Chairman Atomic Safety G Licensing Michael C. Farrar, Esquire Board Panel Thomas S. Moore, Esquire Atomic Safety and Licensing U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Appeal Board Panel Washington, D. C. 20555 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Michael L. Glaser, Esquire Washington, D. C. 20555 1150 17th_ Street, N.W.

Washington, D. C. Jerome E. Sharfman, Esquire U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Sheldon J. Wolfe, Esquire Commission Atomic Safety 4 Licensing Washington, D. C. 20555 Board Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Chase R. Stephens, Secretary Commission Docketing and Service Branch Washington, D. C. 20555 u.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Samuel J. Chilk, Secretary Washington, D. C. 20555 Office of the Secretary of the Commission Stephen H. Lewis, Esquire Washington, D. C. 20555 Ann P. Hodgdon U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

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Jerome Saltzman Michael I. Miller, Esquire Chief, Antitrust and James A. Carney, Esquire Indemnity Group Sarah N. Welling, Esquire U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Isham, Lincoln 6 Beale commission 4200 One First National Plaza Washington, D. C. 20555 Chicago, Illinois 60603 Mr. William C. Price Michael Blume, Esquire Central Power 6 Light Co. Frederic D. Chanania, Esq.

P. O. box 2121 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Corpus Christi, Texas 78403 Commission Washington, D. C. 20555 J. K. Spruce, General Manager City Public Service Board Jerry L. Harris, Esquire P. O. box 1771 City Attorney, San Antonio, Texas 78203 kichard C. Balough, Esquire Assistant City Attorney Perry G. Brittain City of Austin President P. O. Box 1088 Texas Utilities Generating Austin, Texas 78767 Company 2001 Bryan Tower Robert C. McDiarmid, Esquire Dallas, Texas 75201 Robert A. Jablon, Esquire Spiegel and McDiarmid R. L. Hancock, Director 2600 Virginia Avenue, N.W.

City of Austin Electric hashington, D. C. 20037 Utility Department P. O. Box 1088 Dan H. Davidson Austin, Texas 78767 City Manager City of Austin G. W. Oprea, Jr. P. O. Box 1088 Executive Vice President Austin, Texas 78767 Houston Lighting 6 Power Company Don R. Butler, Esquire P. O. Box 1700 1225 Southwest Tower Houston, Texas 77001 Austin, Texas 78701 Jon C. Wood, Esquire Joseph Irion Worsham, Esq.

W. Roger hilson, Esquire Merlyn D. Sampels, Esq.

Matthews, Nowlin, Macfarlane Spencer C. Relyea, Esq.

6 Barrett Robert A. Wooldridge 1500 Alamo National Building Worsham, Forsythe 6 Sampels San Antonio, Texas 78205 2001 Bryan Tower, Suite 2500 Dallas, Texas 75201 David M. Stahl, Esquire Isham, Lincoln 6 beale Joseph Knotts, Esquire Suite 325 Nicholas S. Reynolds, Esq.

1120 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Leonard W. Belter, Esq.

Washington, D. C. 20036 Debevoise 6 Liberman 1200 17th Street, N.h.

Washington, D. C. 20036 b_

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Douglas F. John, Esquire Robert Lowenstein, Esquire McDermott, Will and Emery J. A. Bouknight, Esquire 1101 Connecticut Ave., N.h. William J. Franklin, Esquire Suite 1201 Lowenstein, Newman, Reis, Washington, D. C. 20036 Axelrad 6 Toll 1025 Connecticut Avenue, N.h.

Morgan Hunter, Esquire Washington, D. C. 20036 ,

McGinnis, Lochridge 6 Kilgore 5th Floor, Texas State Bank E. W. Barnett, Esquire builuing Charles G. Thrash, Jr., Esq.

900 Congress Avenue J. Gregory Copeland, Esq.

Austin, Texas 78701 Theodore F. Weiss, Jr., Esq.

Baker 6 botts Jay M. Galt, Esquire 3000 One Shell Plaza Looney, Nichols, Johnson Houston, Texas 77002 6 Hayes 219 Couch Drive Kevin B. Pratt, Esquire Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73101 Assistant Attorney General P. O. Box 12548 Knoland J. Plucknett Capital Station Executive Director Austin, Texas 78711 Committee on Power for the Southwest, Inc. Frederick H. Ritts, Esquire 5541 East Skelly-Drive Law Offices of Northcutt Ely Tulsa, Oklahoma 74135 hatergate 600 Building Washington, D. C. 20037 John W. Davidson, Esquire Sawtelle, Goode, Davidson Donald M. Clements, Esq.

6 Tioilo Gulf States btilities Company 1100-San Antonio Savings P. O. box 2951 Building Beaumont, Texas 77704 San Antonio, Texas 78205 Mr. G. Holman King W. S. Robson West Texas Utilities Co.

General Manager P. O. Box 841 South Texas Electric Abilene, Texas 79604 Cooperative, Inc.

Route 6, building 102 W. N. Woolsey, Esquire Victoria Regional Airport Kleberg, Dyer, Redford S Weil Victoria, Texas 77901 1030 Petroleum Tower Corpus Christi, Texas 78474 Robert M. Racer, Esquire Conner, Moore 6 Corber Robert A. O'Neil 1747 Pennsylvania Ave., N.h. Miller, Balis S O'Neil, P.C.

Washington,.D. C. 20006 776 Executive Building 1030 Fifteenth Street, N.W.

R. Gordon Gooch, Fsquire Washington, D. C. 20005 John P. Mathis, F3 quire Steven R. Hunsic':er l baker 6.botts 1701 Pennsylvania-Avenue, N.W.

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