ML19337A374

Requests Under 10CFR2.206,submitted on Behalf of Intervenors City of Gary,In,United Steelworkers of America Local 6787, Bailly Alliance,Save the Dunes Council & Critical Mass Energy Project,To Join State of Il Petition to Suspend CP

ML19337A374
Person / Time
Site:	Bailly
Issue date:	06/05/1980
From:	Cohn D GARY, IN, PUBLIC CITIZEN LITIGATION GROUP
To:	Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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ML19337A370	List: ML19337A374 ML19337A377 ML19337A380
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NORTHERN. INDIANA PUBLIC ) Docket No.-50-367 SERVICE COMPANY ) (Request for Action)

(DAILLY GENERATING' STATION, ) 10 C.F.R. 2.206 NUCLEAR -1) )

REQUEST FOR ACTION MX) SUSPEND OR

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' Pursuant-to 10 C.F.R. 2.206, the City of Gary, Indiana, United Steelworkers of America Local 6787, the Bailly Alliance, Save-the Dunes Council and the Critical Mass Energy Project' hereby join in'the State of Illinois' request for action to suspend or revoke the construction permit for the Bailly Nuclear Power. Plant. In particular, the City of Gary, et al., submit that construction should not be resumed at the Bailly site until the. Commission considers whether the surrounding populations can be evacuated inicase of a nuclear accident.

The City of Gary, et al petitioned to intervene in,.the construction permit extension proceeding pending before the Atomic

Safety and Licensing Board, solely for the purpose of litigating the question of-whether realistic evacuation and emergency plans

.can-be implemented-to protect the populations surrounding the Bailly site. By Order dated May 30,'1980, the Board' denied their

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petitionto intervene on the ground that the question of the.

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suitability of the Bailly site, and in particular whether adequate

. evacuation plans'could ever be devised, was outside the scope of

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the extension proceeding-(Docket No.-50-367). The Board stated that while a; reconsideration of the'Bailly site would be appro-8_0.0 9 09 0. @Y.

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1priate at'some point, it concluded that the Commission's re-quirements for-siting and' emergency planning were.still suf-ficiently in flux so~as to make it inappropriate for the-Licensing Board, astopposed to the Commission, to attempt to

' resolve [this issue r.t this. time. As the Board stated:

Petitioners ha've made a persuasive-argument for reconsidering the. suitability of the Bailly site before further' resources are committed to

. construction in the event that site suitability standards are changed. We can only recommend in

'this Order.that the Staff and' Commission consider the'Bailly site in particular when the new rules are formulated, as we are certain'they will and as NUREG-0625 suggests they are doing. However, in the absence of a final statement of policy by the Commission.on'new siting requirements which .

suggest the unsuitability of the Bailly site, we do not-deem it appropriate to authorize a re-litigation of a matter that was already deter-mined by a licensing board in the construction permit proceeding on the standards in 10 C.F.R. Part 100 that have not yet been finally changed.

We disagree with the Licensing Board's conclusion that the Commission's change in policy is not sufficiently clear as.to require a reevaluation of the Bailly site at the present time.

AsLdemonstrated in the City of Gary's,et al. petition to inter-vene and supplement thereto, which are attached to and incorporated in this request, the siting and evacuation planning criteria upon which Bailly was approved have been unanimously rejected by thei Commission'in its interim rules (4 4 F.R. 75168 (Dec. 19, 19/9)),

by the GAO,-by a joint NRC-EPA task force.on emergency planning, by the House Government Operations Committee, and by the Rogovin Report. Given"the high population' density surrounding the Bailly site, it is clear that Bailly cannot meet the Commission's current.

rules requiring. workable plans for evacuation within a 10-mile emergency planning zone asfa condition for operation. See 44 F.R.

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75168.(De22. 19, 1979). Indeed, Bailly.ir'the only nuclear

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plant,soperating or under construction,.that failed to meet all

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Task, Force (NUREG-0625) .1./L Since Bailly is now only 1% complete, the public' health-and p sa'fety. demand--a reevaluation of-the.Bailly site before substantial resources'are committed to its construction. In view of the Board's decisiongto defer to the. Commission, and the Commission's recent statement that it'will give its person'al attention to.

emergency planning matters in' individual proceedings, 44 F.R.

75168-(December 19, 1979), the City of Gary, et al. recuest that, the Commission suspend or revoke the construction permit for Bailly pending a decision on whether the Bailly site remains

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feasible.from an evacuation perspective. -The City of Gary, et al.

also join in Illinois'~ request that this matter be decided by the Commission itself or-b9 an-Atomic Safety and Licens .g Board and not by the' Director'of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regu-lation or by his staff, which is acting as an adversary party in the construction permit extension proceeding 2/

Respectfully submitted, 1/See Memorandum from R. Fayne Houston, Chi'ef, Accidents Analysis Branch, Division cf Site Safety and Environmental Analysis, to Daniel R. Muller, Acting Director, Division of S.ite and Safety and' Environmental Analysis, attached to Illinois' supplement to

. its : letter of- November 21, 1979. _The City of Gary, et al. also.

' adopt and incorporate herein the additional factors f6r con-sideration cited in the state of Illinois' supplement.

2/By making this request, the City of. Gary, et al. do not waive the emergency evacuat' ion - contention raised in TEE Etension proceeding or-their right'to pursue ltheir1 claim in that proceeding.

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify this 5th day of June, 1980 that copies of the foregoing request for action to suspend or revoke construction permit were_ served by mail, first class and postage prepaid, upon the following:

Herbert Grossman, Esquire

- U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Glenn O._ Bright U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Richard F. Cole U.S.-Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555

-Docketing and Service Section Office of the Secretary U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Howard K. Shapar, Esquire Executive Legal Director U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Steven Goldberg, Esquire Office of the Executive Legal Director

(' U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Dr. George Schultz 110 California Michigan City, Indiana 46360.

! Robert J. Vollen, Esquire  !

c/o BPI 109 North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 Chicago, Illinois 60602

• Edward W. Osann, Jr., Esquire ,

l One IBM Plaza Suite 4600 l' Chicago, Illinois 60611 Robert L. Graham, Esquire i One IBM Plaza 44th Floor Chicago, Illinois 60611

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L William H. Eichorn, Esquire 5243'Hohman Avenue-1Hammond, Indiana-46320 Mr.~ Mike Olszanski-

.Mr. Clifford Mezo

.' United-'Steelworkers of America 3703 Euclid Avenue '

East Chicago, Indiana 46312; William J.. Scott-Attorney General,. State of Illinois Environmental Control Division-188 West Randolph Street Suite 2315 Chicago, Illinois 60601 Richard L.' Robbins,. Esquire 53 West Jackson Boulevard Chicago, Illinois 60604 ,

Mr. George Grabowski Ms. Anna Grabowski s.

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7413 W. 136th Lane Cedar. Lake, Indiana 46303 Stephen Laudig, Esquire 445 N. Pennsylvania Street Suite 815-816 Indianapolis, Indiana 46204 Maurice Axelrad Kathleen'Shea

', Lowenstein, Newman, Reis, Axelrad & Toll

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-Robert W. Hammesfahr, Esnuire 200 East Randolph Street Suite 7300 Chicago, Illinoir 60601

~ John Ahearne, Chairman

.U.S. Nuclear _ Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Peter Bradford, Commissioner U.S. Nuclear Regulatory ~ Commission Washington,-D.C. 20555 Joseph Hendrie, Commissioner U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington,' D.C. 20555 r e

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