ML19338B962

Responds to Saginaw Intervenors' 731129 Request for Reply to Responses to Motion to Clarify ALAB-123.Opposes Request Which Would Further Delay Resolution of Issues & Is W/O Adequate Grounds.Certificate of Svc Encl

ML19338B962
Person / Time
Site:	Midland
Issue date:	12/03/1973
From:	Reis H LOWENSTEIN, NEWMAN, REIS, AXELRAD & TOLL
To:	Bender P US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
References
ALAB-123, NUDOCS 8007291092
Download: ML19338B962 (3)

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Mr.. Paul C. Bender Secretary.of.the-Commission U. S..' Atomic' Energy.-Commission

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Together with a-letter to you dated November 29, 1973, counsel for the Saginaw.Intervenors in this proceeding for-warded a request for permission to reply to 'any responses" to Sagin'aw's; motion, now before the Commission, to " clarify" ALAB-123. The purpose of this letter..is to express"the strong opposition of Consumers Power Company to the granting of that l ' request.

.The purported basis of the request.is~thc.t "the Commission has granted those parties who may oppose the Motion a period of

, almost two weeks to respond . . .. . " In view of'the importance l~ of~the. issue, Saginaw requests a similar period of time.

Under the rules of-the Commission relating to motions (1C

'CFR S 2.730(c)), it is expressly provided that'"The moving party shall have no rightito reply, except'as permitted by the pre-siding officer-or the Commission." It is unusual for such re-l quests to be'made, let alone granted; and there is.no basis for the grant.of the request in the instant proceeding.

r-The Saginaw Intervenors filed an exhaustive, twenty-three page motion fully setting forth their views on the issue presen'.ed.

The implication that other. parties..are afforded an unusually long v- time-to" respond,to the motion is unwarranted. The operation of the. .

Commission's rules gelating to the times.within'which. motions must

'be answered-_(10 CFR.5-2.730(c),' supra,'and 10 CFR S 2.710) fre-

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in a period of almost.two. weeks'before answers need be filed;cindeed,-if the~ instant' motion had been' handled by a i q- j

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the Appeal Board,Janswers-would not.under the rules,.have had to be filed until after.the' expiration of 13. calendar: days.. And, of : course, motions' f requently .' involve issues of "importance. "

iSaginaw Intervenors have requested the--United' States Court of Appeals fo'r the: District of Columbia' Circuit'to defer pro-

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ceedings on judicial review of ALAB-123 by permitting-~Saginaw IntervenorsLto file their-brief 40: days after the Commission-acts on:the.pending motion. ' The Solicitor of this Commission-has concurred in' deferring proceedingsibefore the Court, but  :

has suggested;a 10-day interval ~in lieu of.the 40-days suggested by Saginaw.Intervenors. If the Court adoptm such a procedure of deferral,-judicial' review;will be delayed-to the same extent as action-on the motion;pending before the Commission,and further delay in Commission action will result in equal delay'in the

' Court proceeding.

'However viewed, the grant' of . the instant request can only.

further. delay. ultimate resolution of this matter. .No adequate

. grounds for such--further delay-have been demonstrated and the

~ Commission should not grant the request.

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' CERTIFICATE OF SERVICEi

IJhereby certify that' copies.of.the attached letter-to Paul C. Bender,

, Secretary ofrthe.Commis'sion;/ dated'.Decembe,r 3,.1973,~in the above-

. captioned-matter,'havetbeen. served on theifollowing in person or by-

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(deposit ~inDthe: United 1 States mail,-first-class ~or airmail, this 3rd day;of? December, 1973...

~ AlaniS.'Rosenthal,;Esq., Chairman David'E. Kartalia, Esq. 4

' Atomic Safety.and Licensing- U.- Si.. Atomic Enargy' Commission' i Appeal-^ Board:- .

Washington,.D. C. 20545 U.-S. Atomic.: Energy:Ccamission .

Washington', 'D.-C..- 20545- .

. Milton R. Wessel, Esq.

- Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays.

.Dr. John H. Buck, Member-and Handler

= Atomic Safety.and Licensing  :.425 Park-Avenue -

(AppealLBoard . . New York, New'Yorc .10022 U..S.gAtomicfEnergy Commission Washington, D.JC. :20545' Myron M. Cherry, Esq.

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William-C. Parl'er,sEsq.,. Member- One'. IBM Plaza.

< . Atomic Safe'ty)and Licensing Chicago,; Illinois 60611-Ap'eal_ p Board ~. _

~U. S'. Atomic Energy Commission' .Howard J. Vogel, Esq. -

Washington, D. C. -20545-Knittle-&-Vogel 1154 East Grain Exchange Bl'g.- d Mr. ' Paul: C.~ Bender ' . 412 South-4th Street . .

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Minneapolis, Minnesota- 55415 U.:S.: Atomic Energy. Commission WashingtonAD..C.. 20545 Mr. Frank W. Karas -

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