ML19338C149

Responds to Saginaw Intervenors' 740422 Motion for Extension of Time to File Requests for Document Production.Extension Unwarranted.Applicant Document Production Nearly Complete

ML19338C149
Person / Time
Site:	Midland
Issue date:	04/30/1974
From:	Mark Miller, Renfrow R, Reznick S CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.), ISHAM, LINCOLN & BEALE
To:
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NUDOCS 8008050600
Download: ML19338C149 (2)

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' RESPONSE'OF LICENSEE'CO$SUMERS-PONER COMPANY.

TO MOTICH FOR EXTENSION OF TIME WITIIIN WIIICH

'TO FILE ~REQUESTSfFORl PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS BY~SAGINAW INTERVENORS~

, ;On- April. '2 2, .19 7 4, the Saginaw Intervenors moved' thel Atomic Safety land ' Licensing Board for the ' entry .of :an

' order extending the.. time within which it may file a request-

.forLproduction of documents until ten' days after all parties

.have. answered the Saginaw Intervonors' interrogatories. The present due'date for document production requests is.Ispril.29, 1974,.atdate which'was established at'the request of Saginaw Intervenors f(see Tr. p. 79). Licensec believes that any such R extencion<of time torinitiate document production rcquests

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-islunnecoccary and unwarranted. As Exhibit 1 A to the Sagin~cu l; . Intervenors' . r.iction makes clear, LLicensee has' begun. to collect s

'documentsJrecponsive in;part to theJIntervencrs?~ informal requests'.

That' proc'ess is nsarly fcompleted, ;and . it is anticipat'ed that the:-

Lf irs LHins tdllment cG tihese documente wills be inade available ' to - the;

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l22,.J1974.- Suchiprocedure, while not~ explicitly authorized by the.

' Atomic Energy'Commissidn's? Rules-of Practice, is_in accprd1with-current practic^' in federal district courts (see Rule 33 (c)? F.R.C.P.:

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