ML19332D920
| ML19332D920 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Seabrook  |
| Issue date: | 11/28/1989 |
| From: | Smith I Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
| To: | MASSACHUSETTS, COMMONWEALTH OF, NEW ENGLAND COALITION ON NUCLEAR POLLUTION, NRC OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL (OGC), PUBLIC SERVICE CO. OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, SEACOAST ANTI-POLLUTION LEAGUE |
| References | |
| CON-#489-9525 82-471-02-OL, 82-471-2-OL, ALAB-924, LBP-89-33, LBP-89-36, OL, NUDOCS 8912060040 | |
| Download: ML19332D920 (7) | |
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Dr.-Kenneth A. McCollom SERVED NOV 2 9 1989-1 In the Matter of Docket Nos. 50-443-OL 50-444-OL PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, at al.
ASLBP No. 82-471-02-OL
-(Seabrook. Station, (Offsite Emergency Units'1 and 2)
Planning)
November 28, 1989
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'In LBP-89-33, the Licensing Board concluded that ALAB-924 did not foreclose the issuance of a full power operating license for the Seabrook Nuclear Power Station because, inter alia, Intervenors' concerns regarding the hearing-impaired had been mooted due to the testing of the emergency notification siren system.
LBP-89-33, 30 NRC __ (November 20, 1989), Slip Op. at 20.
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Nuclear Power Plant), ALAB-852, 24 NRC 532, 546 (1986)), a Special Needs Survey cannot be held insufficient because it 11s conducted prior to an audible test of the sirens.. Stated another.way, a pre-license Special Needs Survey cannot logically-be found wanting due to the absence of a post-license siren' test.- We agree.
Moreover, the focus of the Intervenors' concern regarding the hearing-impaired was that some individuals 1
might not know that they cannot hear the emergency sirens because-the sirens had not bean audibly tested, and thus might not identify themselves as hearing-impaired.
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view,1this concern deals not with the adequacy of any Special Needs Survey but rather with the adequacy of the 1
siren notification system, an issue wholly distinct from any of the survey issues remanded by ALAB-924.
Finally, to the extent Intervenors appear to argue that, for pre-accident planning purposes, the Applicants must devise a survey that somehow identifies people who do not know they are either 1Applicants' Advice to the Licensing Board with Respect to LBP-89-33 (November 22, 1989).
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hearing-impaired or' selectively hearing-impaired, we hold
- that no such requirements reasonably flow from the i:
Commission's emergency planning rules or NUREG-0654.
FOR THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND
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[ ADMINISTRATIVE-LAW JUDGE IVan W.
Smitki,' Chairman Bethesda, Maryland November 28, 1989
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Docket No.(s) 50-443/444-OL HAMPSHIRE, ET AL.
1 (Seabrook Station, Units 1-ano 2) i CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 1 hereby certif y that copies of the f oregoing LB Nt0 DTD '11/20/89 have been served upon the following persons by U.S. mail, first class, except as otherwise noted and in-accordance with the requirements of 10 CFR Sec. 2.712.
Administrative. Judge-Administrative Judge
'G. Paul' Bollwerk, !!!, Chairman Alan-S. Rosenthal Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission i
Washington, DC' 20555 Washington, DC 20555 Administrative. Judge Howard A. Wilber Administrative Law Judge Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Ivan W. Smith, Chairman Board Atomic Safety and-Licensing Board U.S.' Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555_
Washington, DC 20555 Administrative Judge Administrative Judge Rj:hard F. Cole Kenneth A. McCollom Atomic Safety anc Li_ censing Board Atomte Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear-Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 Washington, DC 20555 Administrative Judge Robert R. Pierce, Esquire James H. Carpenter Atomic' Safety and Licensing Board-Alternate Technical Member U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety-and Licensing Board Washington, DC 20555 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 Edwin J. Reis, Esq.
Mitzi A.
Young Office of the General Counsel Attorney U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the General Counsel Washington, DC 20555 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555
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Diane Curran, Esc.
Thomas 6. Dignen, Jr., Esc.
'Harmon, Curran & Tousley Ropes & Gray-12001 SEStreet, N.W.,-Suite 430 One International Place Washington,-DC 20009 Boston, MA 02110 Robert A..BackusE Esc.
Paul
.McEachern, Esq.
Backus,: Meyer. & Sol omon Shatnes & McEachern 116.Lowell' Street 25 Maplewood Avenue,'P.O.1 Box'360
-Manchester, NH 03106 Portsmouth,'NH 03801-Gary W. Holmes, Esq.-
Judith H. Mitner Holmes & Ells Counsel for Newburyport
-47 Winnacunnet Road 79 State Street Hampton, NH 03842 Newburyport, MA 01950 k
Barbara J. Saint-Andre, tsq.-
Jane Doherty Konelman and.Paige, P.C.
Seacoast Anti-Pollution League 77 Franklin Street 5 Market Street Boston, MA. 02110 Portsmouth, NH 03801 L
George W. Watson, Esq.
Ashed N.'Amirtan, Esq.
Federal Emergency Management Agency 145' South Main Street,
.Brtdford, MA 01830 ^
P.O. Box 3B' 500 C Street, S.W.
Washington, DC 20472 Edward A. Thomas George D. Bisbee, Esq.
Federal-Emergency Management Agency Assistant Attorney General 442 J.W..McCormack (POCH)
Office of the Attorney General Doston,~MA 02109 25 Capitol Street Concord, NH 03301 Suzanne Bretseth John Traficonte, Esq.
Board of Selectmen Chief, Nuclear Safety Unit Town of Hampton Falls Office of the Attorney General Drinkwater. Road One Ashburton Place, 19th Floor Hampton Falls, NH 03044 Boston, MA 02100
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5 n;s Docket Noits)90-aa3/444-OL LB NLO DTD 11/28/89 The Honorable Peter J. Brann, Esq.
Edward J. Markey, Chairman Assistant Attorney General ATTN Linda Correia Office of the Attorney General.
Subcommittee on Energy-Conservation and State House Station, W6 Power Augusta, ME 04333 House Coaatttee on Energy and Commerce Washington, DC 20515 i
Richard A. Hampe, Esq.
Allen. Lampert Hampe & McNicholas Civil. Defense-Director 35 Pleasant Street-Town of Brentwood Concord, NH 03301 20 Franklin Street Exeter, NH 03B33 e
William Armstrong Sandra Gavutts, Chairman Civil Defense Director Board of Selectman Town of Exeter.
RFD #1 Box 1154 10 Fr7nt Street Kensington, NH 03B27 Exeter. NH 03833 Calvin A.
Canney-Anne Goodman, Chairman-City Manager Board of Selectmen City Hall 13-15 Newmarket Road 126 Daniel Street' Durham, NH 03024 Portsmouth, NH 03B01 William S. Lord Board of Selectmen Michael.
Santosuosso, Chairman Town Hall - Friend 6,treet Board of Selectman Amesbury, MA. 01913' South Hampton, NH 03027 R. Scott Hill-Whilton,Escuire Stanley W. Knowles, Chairman Lagoulis, Hill-Whilton & McGuire Board of Selectmen 79 State Street P.O. Box 710 tewburyport,, MA 01950 North Hampton, NH 03062 Norman C. Katner Sandra F. Mitchell Superintendent of Schools Civil Def ense Director School Administrative Unit No. 21 Town of Kensington Alumni Drive Box 10, RR1 Hampton, NH 03042 East Kingston, NH 03027 1
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= Washington'i,DC ;20510 Dated at'Rockville,-Md. this 29Eday.of November 1989.
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