ML19338C077

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Util Motion for Order Requiring Intervenors,Saginaw,Mapleton & Environ Defense Fund to State Contentiona & Bases for Preclusion Order.Intervenors Should Be Required to Set Forth Contentions by 711110,per ASLB 710930 Order
ML19338C077
Person / Time
Site: Midland
Issue date: 10/23/1971
From: Lowenstein R
CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.), LOWENSTEIN, NEWMAN, REIS, AXELRAD & TOLL
To:
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
References
NUDOCS 8007310660
Download: ML19338C077 (3)


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' UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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Docket Nos. 50-329

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50-330 (Midland Plant, Units 1 and.2)

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APPLICANT'S; MOTION FOR-ORDER REQUIRING INTERVENORS TO STATE'THEIR CONTENTIONS, AND THE BASES THEREFOR, AND FOR A PRECLUSION ORDER i

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As is more fully. set forth in Section I of Applicant's

. Memorandum dated October 23, 1971 "In Response to the End-of-

' September. Submissions" of the opposing intervenors, the

. opposition intervenors' (Saginaw, Mapleton, and EDF) have failedito comply with the Board order of August 26, which

. required them'to fileEby September 30, 1971'"a preliminary.

l statement of.their-views on environmental questions".*

As-set 1forth in'the Board's Order of August 26,11971, intervenors' statements were to cover the following:

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Identify those1 aspects of the environment,:

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air quality,-water quality, land use, etc.

which they presently believe would be~ adversely.

affected by the proposed plant and specify'in detail the nature-of each adverse effect~as.they_

presently perceive ~it.-

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The1 alternatives'to'the proposed plant _which

-should be considered by the-Board-and the, reasons,-

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in$ detail, why theyfconsider any of those'alterna-tives?to be preferable to*the proposed plant.
3.: >Identifylthe' facts which should'be' considered
by the Board-in its " risk-benefit" analysis with-e particularDattention to'the importance tolbe attached
by-: the. Board to; theE ef fect of the decision."

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For' reasons more fully' set forth in Section I of Applicant's Memorandum of October-23, 1971, the various int'ervenors should each be required -to set forth, by November 10, 1971,- their contentions, if they have any, as to any 2

- adverse environmental effects from the proposed plant, together with~the bases for such-contentions.

The order should~ preclude the_ assertion ~of~any contentiens regarding alleged adverse environmental-effects with respect to any matter not'so set forth, without prejudice to a future determination.as to~whether there is any violation of pro-ceduralirequirements of'NEPA or of Appendix D (10 CFR Part 50)'as to-which--intervenors may. complain.

-3. ~Intervenors have had ample opportunity to familiarize themselves with the plant.and with environmental effects from the plant as a-resultiof their participation in this case for almost one year, the -filing of Applicant's environmental

_ report,-the-filing of Applicant'-s comments'on: agency comments, the-filing by Applicant of a supplement-environmental report, the materials.previously. furnished to intervenors in pre-hearingiproceedings, - and thef evidence adduced at the hearing.

- Clearly.there has been.no showing of:cause by the intervenors

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i =4.. Wherefore,l Applicant requests the issuance.of an

-order as~ described in paragraph 2, above.

-Dated:

October:23, 1971'

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' Respectfully submitted,

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LOWENSTElli AND NEWMAN 1100~ Connecticut Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D.C.

20036 Attorneys for Applicant Consumers Power Company Of Counsel, Harold P. Graves' Robert Lowenstein

John K. Restrick Jerome E. Sharfman Richard ~G. Smith-

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