ML19338C086

Response to Environ Defense Fund to Util Motion Re Further Spec of Issues & Comments on End of Sept Submission by Util & Dow.Certificate of Svc Encl

ML19338C086
Person / Time
Site:	Midland
Issue date:	11/08/1971
From:	Roisman A BERLIN, ROISMAN, KESSLER & CASHDAN, ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND
To:	Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
References
NUDOCS 8007310668
Download: ML19338C086 (4)

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BEFORE THE UNITED STA.TES OF AMERICA ATOMICcENERGY' COMMISSION

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TO' APPLICANT'S MOTION REGARDI!iG FURTHEP SPECIFICATION OF. ISSUES AND CO?NENTS ' ON THE 9 EMD' OF SEPTEMRER SUBMISSION BY APPLICANT AND DOW ., #

Once the rhetoric is cleared away'the essence of the position taken by the Apolicant and Dow is that EDF should file a further snecification of issues at some future date. We agree. Our end of September submission was intended to state our position on the

-legally required scone and depth the environmental review and cur determination to soo that a legally suf ficient review was -

' canducte.d . We reserved our views on whether a carticular environ-rental issue (assuming all the facts had been developed) warranted our oncosition to'the'clant as designed. -

Now Apolicant has filed a voluminous environmental recort which we are revievino. By the first. Week in-Decenbar we expect to :have comcleted our review of this document which ~is the- first document filed by-any carty in this proceeding which puroorts to

_recresont a thorough review of all environmental issues and a full presentation of-all facts relevant to those issues. Our subcecuent

-submission in December will identify the. inadequacies, if any, in 800731 .

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-the' environmental.revieiand as to;those environmental issues for

.which sufficient data is.nresented,~our position:as to.those' issues, a

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Ve whall' follow'a similar rnute.with res6ect to the Draft Environmental S tatemo'rt a'nd ? the: Final Detailed _ Environmental' Statement . IDuring

theineriod of formulation cf issues '-re shall - request whatever After

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idiscovery we feel 'is ' warranted. by the issues ' we are : raising.

the Detailed Statenent ir-;f'iled and we have studied it and had

, whatever further discovery it' warrants, the issues,.if-any, which

~we contest will be clearly drawn and we.will be. ready to commence the discovery-environmental. hearing. <

As to-legal issues which develoo along the way we will be 1,renared to brief those issues and -have then resolved as soon as-i the issue is cicarly focused. For instance, if the scope or death l-of the environmental review urged by us is objectionable to any narty we ould' expect that-they will' file a legal brief on that' imue and we would resnond. Failure to object at_this tim shou 1A be_ considered to create a' rebu'ttable presumption of valver j

of the-objection. . Only a good cause showing' would' warrant rebutting Ethe cresumntion.

,,In"this regard ~we wish to-advise the Board that on October

~21,:1971, the ASLB in_the-Vernont Yankee proceeding (Docket No. 50-271, ,

-1 Tr. 2150-2190)fgrantedcan_interlocutorv'anceal:with reaard to the 4 I

questioniof the: extent to'which the fuel orocess (mining to-

' final ' waste disoosal).:.in a. procer. part of ' the 'AEC and ASLB

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.subsequentlto : c2;crarirn. this response .we = received the November .

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Proposed Order. Fhat we-.have'.said appears.to-be consistent with - the Prooosed Order ^'and :we have no - further comment on it With.rescect Ito environmental--issues. 1 l - _

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I CERTII'ICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of the foregoing Responde of Environmental Dofense rund' to Anglicant's Motion Regarding Further

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Soecification of Is ;ues and Corments on the End of September Fubmiscion By Applicant and Dow, were mailed, postage preoaid, this 8th da" of November, 1971, to the followinn:

Arthur N. ?"urphy, Esc. John K. Restrick, Esq.

Chairman Consumers Power Comoany Atomic-Safety & Licensing _ Board 212 Nect M.ichigan Avenue Columbia Universit** School of Law Jackson, Michigan 49201 ,

435 Nest li6f.h St. - Box 39 .

Now York, New York 10027 '

William J. Ginster, Esq.

Merrill Bldg. - Suite 4

nr. Da rid B. Hall Saginaw, Michigan 4A602 Lor Alartos Scientific Laborahory P. O. Boy 1663 Myron M. Cherry, Esq.

Lor Alamos, New Mexico 87544 100 N. Dearborn Chicago, Illinois Dr., Clark Goodman Professor of Ph"sicn t'ilton R. Wessel, Esq.

University of Houston Kay, Scholer, Pierman, 3801 Cullen Boulevard Hays _and Handler Houston, Texas'77004 425 Park Avenue New York, New York 10022 Robert Lowenstein, Esq.

Lovenstein and Newman James'A. Kendall, Esq.

1100 Connecticut Ave., N.N. 135 N. Saginaw Road tTashington,.D. C. 20036 Mi.cland, Michigan-48640 Pichard G. Smith, Esq. James N. O'Connor, Esq.

Smith & Brooker, P.C.- The Dow Chemical Co.

703 Washincton Avenue 2030 Dow Center Bav City, Michigan 48706 riidland, Michican 49640

'r. Stanl e'r T. 9ebinson, Jr.

David E. Kartalia, Esq.

' Chief, Dublic Proceedinns Franch' U. S. Atomic Energy Commission-office of the Secretarv Nashington, D. C. 20545 -

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission o Nash i.nc F.on , D . C. 20'345 .

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