ML19343C594
| ML19343C594 | |
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| Site: | Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png |
| Issue date: | 02/23/1981 |
| From: | Ahearne J NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Udall M HOUSE OF REP., INTERIOR & INSULAR AFFAIRS |
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| NUDOCS 8103240572 | |
| Download: ML19343C594 (2) | |
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d un-FEB 2 31981 The Honorable Morris K. Udall, Chainnan Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment Comittee on Interior and Insular Affairs United States House of Representatives Washington, D. C.
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Dear Mr. Chairman:
In your letter of January 19, 1981, you expressed concern over the NRC staff's slippage of the date of issuance for the Shoreham Safety Evaluation Report (SER). As you point out, our first monthly status report to the Subcomittee on Energy and Water Development estimated issuance of the SER in June 1981.. The target dates for Shoreham and for all pending operating license applications are reviewed regularly, and any changes resulting from subsequent developments are reported in the following monthly report.
The second monthly report advanced the Shoreham SER target date to January 1981 to better acconinodate a longer hearing, which is anticipated in this case. However, the.SER issuance date for Shoreham is dependent on the review status for the LaSalle-1 plant for the following reason. Last year, the applicants for the near-tenn boiling water reactor (BWR) operating
- licenses, which included Shoreham, requested that the NRC staff resolve the comon BWR-related issues on a lead BWR plant. LaSalle was chosen as the
. lead plant since it was closest to construction completion. The staff has been proceeding on this basis and, due to delays in receiving the necessary inputs from the LaSalle applicant to complete the staff review, issuance of che LaSalle SER is now projected. duri.ng February 1981. The third monthly report reflected this delay by targeting issuance of the Shoreham SER for March 1981.
I should point out that the time which could be saved in issuing the Shoreham SER befcre June 1981 is more than offset by the NRC staff's most recent estimate of the time which will be required to begin the hearing. The staff's mos* recent estimate from the third monthly report is that the hearing wib start in January 1982 with licensing complete in October 1982 or one month after the projected completion of the facility. The reason for the slippage.in the hearing start from the November 1981 target date in the first monthly report is that the schedule was based on standard time intervals and did not allocate sufficient time for the prehearing proce:is. Recent experience has shown that time between issuance of the SER and the beginning of the hearings (or.prehearing stage during which time the discovery and 9103240 WId-
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was underestimated in the previous conthly status reports.
In addition, the time necessary to issue an Initial Decision after the end of the hearing and for the Appeal Board / Comission review were also underestimated.
I am enclosing a copy of the latest monthly report which discusses the generic change in more details.
The Comission has not reviewed in detail the staff's schedules for completing the Shoreham review.
However, the Comission will meet with the tiRC staff on February 25, 1981 to discuss the hearing process in pending proceedings and on February 26, 1981 to discuss the licensing schedules. After those two meetings we will be able to more fully respond to your inquiry.
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Dear Mr. Chairman:
The Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO) has informed me cf slippage in the schedule for completion of the Shoreham Safety Evaluation Report (SER).
As you may know, LILCO has recently expressed its concern to Dr. Denton that slippage in the SER issuance'date from December 1980 to June 1981 could result in the plant being ready to operate pricr to completion of the licensing process.
LILCO disagrees in particular with the NRC staff's estimate that the hearings might be completed in - the five-month period between November 1981 and March 1982.
LILCO believes that there is no reason why the SER could not be issued within the next month, leaving certain issues to be addressed in supplements to the SER, such as has been done in the case of other plants.
In LILCO's view, such a-procedure would expedite the conduct of the licensing process without in any way detracting from the public health and safety or compromising the rights of interested parties to a full-hearing of their views.
I am calling this matter to your attention because I believe it is a case ut a utility believing rightly or wrongly that regulatory inefficiencies have the potential for forcing it to incur a major unnecessary expense.
While I recognize that there may in fact be good reasons for having delayed the SER issuance, I believe this is something the Commission should address'as soon as possible in order to determine whether the slippage is warranted and if not, what action might be taken to eliminate it.
. I look. forward to receiving the results of your review.
Sincerely, MORRIS K.
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