ML19340A314
| ML19340A314 | |
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| Site: | Davis Besse, Perry  |
| Issue date: | 02/26/1976 |
| From: | Duflo M NRC ATOMIC SAFETY & LICENSING APPEAL PANEL (ASLAP) |
| To: | NRC ATOMIC SAFETY & LICENSING APPEAL PANEL (ASLAP) |
| References | |
| ALAB-314, NUDOCS 8003050900 | |
| Download: ML19340A314 (7) | |
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i UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ATG1IC SAFETY AND LICENSING APPEAL BOARD A
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(Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station,
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THE CLEVELAND ELECTRIC ILLUMINATING
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COMPANY, et al.
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(Perry Nuclear Power Plant,
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Docket Nos. 50-440A Units 1 and 2)
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50-441A
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THE TOLEDO EDISON COMPANY, et. al.
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(Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station,
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Docket Nos. 50-500A Units 2 and 3)
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Messrs. Wm. Bradford Reynolds, Gerald Charnoff and Robert E.
Zahler, Washington, D. C.
for the applicants, Toledo Edison Company, et. al.
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER 26 Februa.r..yn n, - 1976 (ALAB - 314)
We summarily deny the applicants' motion for a directed certifica tion under 10 CFR 2.718 (i) of the questions decided l
by the Licensing Board in its February 9, 1976 order in this PO#
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. antitrust proceeding. 'LBP-76-5, NRCI-76/2 As applicants themselves poic out in the movon, those questions telate to "the manner in which evidence was to be received" in the now on going hearing.
Even assuming the applicants are right in their insistence that the Licensing Board decided the matter incorrectly, and further that they may suffer prejudice if the February 9 order is not promptly overturned, our inter-vention at this juncture would be improvident.
During the course of a lengthy and involved antitrust proceeding, a licensing board almost inevitably will be called upon to make' numerous determinations respecting what evidence is permissible and in what procedural framework it may be adduced.
Were we to allow ourselves to be cast in the role of a day-to-day monitor of those dete.minations, we would have little time for anything cise.
Although the applicants urge that there are exceptional circumstances present here'which warrant interlocutory involvement on our part, we do not perceive them.
The most that can be said is that, if on review of the eventual initial decision we should conclude that the Board below was wrong, a new hearing might have to be ordered.
But it is also possible that the ultimate
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As we have had occasion to stress in this case before, it would do a disservice to the entire licensing process for us to step in to the middle of a complex trial and exercise our certification powers to review sui generis _ rulings on the admission of evidence.
See ALAB-300, NRCI-75/ll, 752, 768-69 (1975).
In the last' analysis, the pot 6ntial.for an appellate reversal is always present whenever a licensing board (or any other trial body) decides significant procedural questions adversely to the claims of one of the parties.
The Com-mission must be presumed to have beer. aware of that fact when it chose to proscribe interlocutory appeals (10 CFR 2.730 (f) ).
That proscription thus may be taken as an at least implicit commission judgment that, all factors considered, there is warrant to assume the risks which attend a deferral to the time of initial decision of the appellate review of procedural rulings made during the courm of trial.
Since a like practice 7btains in the federal judicial system, that judgment cm.1 scarcely be deemed irrational.
Motion for a directed certification denied.
It is so ORDERED.
FOR THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING APPEAL BOARD
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UNITED STATES OF A! ERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY CO>D!ISSION In the Matter of
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Docket No.(s) 50-346A CLEVELAND ELECTRIC ILLDII'ATING )
50-440A CO)1PANY
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(Davis-Besse Nuclear Power.
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Station, Unit."o. 1; Perry
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CERTIFICATE Or SU." CE I hereby certify that I have this day served the foregoing document (s) upon each person designated on the official service' list cc= piled by the Office of the Secretary of the Commission in this proceeding in accordance with the require =ents of Section 2.712 of 10 CFR Part 2-Rules of Practice, of the Nuclear Regulator.y Commission's R'ules and Regulations.
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION In the Matter of
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50-441A CLEVEIAND ELECTRIC ILLUMINATING) 50-500A CO., ET AL.
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50-501A (Perry, Units 1 and 2)
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SERVICE LIST Elizabeth S. Bowers, Esq., Chairman Donald H.Hauser, Esq.
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Victor F. Greenslade, Jr., Esq.
U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Cocmission Cleveland Electric Illuminating Washington, D. C.
20555 Company P. O. Box 5000 Thomas W. Reilly, Esq.
Cleveland, Ohio 44101 Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Joseph J. Saut-ers, Esq., Chief Washington, D. C.
20555 Public Counsel and Legislative Section Edward Luton, Esq.
Antitrust Division Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U. S. Department of Justice U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C.
20530 Washington, D. C.
20555 Gerald Charnoff, Esq.
Joseph Rutberg, Esq.
Shaw, Pittman, Potts, Trowbridge Antitrust Counsel and Madden Counsel for NRC Staff 910 - 17th Street, N. W.
U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C.
20006 Washington, D. C.
20555 Lee C. Howley, Esq., Vice President Chief and General Counsel Office of Antitrust & Indemnity Cleveland Electric Illuminating Office of Nuclear Reactor Commission Company Washington, D. C.
20555 P. O. Box 5000 Cleveland, Ohio 44101 i
Benjamin H. Vogler, Esq.
Roy P. Lessy. Jr., Esq.
David C. Hjelmfelt, Esq.
Antitrust Counsel Michael Oldak, Esq.
Counsel for NRC Staff 1700 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W.
U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C.
20006 Washington, D. C.
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Reuben Goldberg, Esq.
Leslie Henry, Esq.
Arnold Fieldman, Esq.
W. Snyder, Esq.
1700 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W.
Fuller, Henry, Hodge & Snyder Washington, D. C.
20006 300 Madison Avenue Toledo, Ohio 43604 Steven M. Charno, Esq.
Melvin G..Berger, Esq.
Mr. George B. Crosby Antitrust Division Director of Utilities U. S. Department of Justice Piqua, Ohio 45350 Washington, D. C.
20530 William M. Lewis, Jr.
g Honorable Thomas E. Kauper W.M. Lewis & Associates g
Assistant Attorney General P. O. Box 1383
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Antitrust Division Portsmouth, Ohio 45662 U. S. Department of Justice Wash 10gton, D. C.
20530 Robert D. Hart, Esq.
First Assistant Law Director Mr. John C. Engle, President 213 City Hall Cleveland, Ohio 44114 AMP-0, Inc.
Municipal Building Anthony G. Aiuvalasit, Jr., Esq.
20 High Street Hamilton, Ohio 45012 Antitrust Division Department of Justice Honorable. Richard M. Firestone P. O. Box 7513 Honorable Edward A. Matto Washington, D. C.
20044 Assistant Attorneys General Susan B. Cyphert, Esq.
Antitrust Section 30 East Broad Street, 15th F1.
Antitrust Division Columbus, Ohio 43215 Department of Justice 2140 East Ninth Street Honorable William J. Brown Cleveland, Ohio 44199 Attorney General David M. Olds, Esq.
State of Ohio W1111am S. Lerach, Esq.
Columbus, Ohio 43215 Reed, Smith, Shaw and McClay Honorable Deborah P. Highsmith P. O. Box 2009 JAssistant Attorney General Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15230 Antitrust Section 30 East Broad Street, 15th F1.
Thomas A. Kayuha, Esq.
Columbus, Ohio 43215 47 North Main Street Akron, Ohio 44308 Duncan, Brown, Weinberg & Palmer 1700 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W.
Joseph A. Rieser, Jr., Esq.
Suite 777 Lee A. Rau, Esq.
Washington, D. C.
20006 Reed, Smith, Shaw and McClay Madison Building, Suite 404 John Lansdale, Jr., Esq.
Washington, D. C.
20005 Cox, Langford & Brown 21 Dupong Circle, N. W.
Terence H. Benbow, Esq.
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20036 A. Edward Grashof, Esq.
l Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam and Roberts 40 Wall Street New York, New York 10003
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Page 3 Janet R. Urban,-Esq.
Antitrust Division Department of' Justice Washington, D. C.
20530 Michael R. Gallagher, Esq.
Gallagher, Sharp, Fulton, Norman and Mollison
- 630 Bulkley Building Cleveland, Ohio 44115 Perry Public Library 3753 Main Street Perry, Ohio 44081 Director Ida Rupp Public Library 301 Madison Street Port Clinton, Ohio 43452 s
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