ML19338C082

Suppl to Util 711105 Motion to Refer Questions to Commission Re Common or Similar Issues Raised by Parties in Other Proceedings.Motion Should Be Granted

ML19338C082
Person / Time
Site:	Vermont Yankee, Midland
Issue date:	11/09/1971
From:	Reis H CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.), LOWENSTEIN, NEWMAN, REIS, AXELRAD & TOLL
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NUDOCS 8007310665
Download: ML19338C082 (3)

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SUPPLEMENT TO APPLICANT'S MOTION TO REFER QUESTIONS TO THE COMMISSICN In the moticn of Applicant, Consumers Power Company, to ' Refer Questions to the Commission, dated tiovember 5, 19it, Applicant emphasized that the issues involved are " common or similar to issues suggested for consideration in other proceedings..." or are being " raised, with only slight varia-tions, in other contested AEC licensing proceedings." In addition, the Applicant's motion stated that it "may be appropri- I ate for the Commission to adopt a procedure permitting partici-pation (in its deliberstions concerning the questions referred]

by parties to' other proceedings which would be affected by the Commission's decision."

Thereafter, the Applicant was served with a motion entitled " Response of Environmental Defense Fund to Applicant's Motion Regarding Further Specification of Issues and Comments

~on the End of. September Submission by-Applicant and Dow".

AlthoughIha motion is dated November 8,1971, it was apparently

. prepared prior-to receipt of Applicant's motion of November 5, 19.71. The EDF's motion states, in part:

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";..weLwish'toLadvise tho' Board that on October 21.,

1971', the:ASLB-in'-the VermonteYankee proceeding *

. - .(Docket-No.iS04271, Tr.'2150-2190) . granted an-finterlocutory.: appeal.with regard to the-question-

- of- the extent to which the fuel process'(mining

- to final waste disposal)- is a. proper part of the 3

.AEC=andJASLB environmental-review in individual

.licensin proceedings. We, urge the parties here

, to L argue: that-issue in the context of the pending

. appeal"as amicae. . . We intend to file.an amicus brief in1that proceeding."*

This lsugg'estion reinforces Applicant's view that certain

. ' issues how being raised are common to more than one proceeding; that the-Commission itself should decide whether those issues should-.be included'or excluded from consideration in ASLB licens'ing. proceedings; and, if excluded, whether they should be sincludedrin. rule making. proceedings. Indeed, in its motion, lApplicantiexpressly referred to the action of the ASLB-in the Vermont Yankee proceeding; and one of the questions which' the motion requested to be referred (number 4, pages.ll-12) is 4

similar.to the-question. involved in Vermont Yankee.

Mor'eover,'the' suggestion of'the Environmental Defense Fund?thatJthe parties.to this proceeding-fi3e amicus memoranda withithe Commiss' ion inithe Vermont Yankee proceeding suggests

. ;a supplement 1to-the Applicant's motion'of November 5', 1971.

Wenowfrequestothatthe.! Board.suggest'totheCommissionthat

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(questions referred "to' the Commission both the question under 1,

direct appealJin'. the- Vermont Yankec~ case and any other question

'of similar generalL significance now, pending in other proceedings.

. Dated: November 9, 1971 Respectfully submitted, l

4 EONENSTEIN, NEWMAN & REIS

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