ML19344A266
| ML19344A266 | |
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| Site: | Midland |
| Issue date: | 06/30/1977 |
| From: | Hoefling R NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE LEGAL DIRECTOR (OELD) |
| To: | Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8008070648 | |
| Download: ML19344A266 (5) | |
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD if.. : ~ ~'
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Docket Hos. 50-329
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1 NRC STAFF MOTION TO STRIKE By its Reply of June-23,1977, Consumers Power Company (Consumers)
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replied to various answers filed by the NRC -Staff objecting to.
Consumers' motions seeking admission into evidence of various inter-rogatory. responses and documents.
Under the Rul'es -of Practice, Consumers is not entitled to file c reply; 10 C.F.R. 52.730(c) is explicit.
"The moving party shall hcve no right to reply, 'except as permitted ~ by the _ presiding officer... ".
The Staff' moves that Consumers' reply be stricken and thus not considered by.the' Board in. ruling on Consumers' Motions. g
-Repectfullysubmitted,
$d~.(Hoefling '&4 Richard K Counsel' for NRC Staff Dated at'8ethesda, Maryland this 30th' day of June',.1977.
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. NUCLEAR. REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter. of
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NRC STAFF RESPONSE TO THE MOTION AND SUPPORTING-MEMORANDUM 0F CONSUMERS POWER COMPANY-TO STRIKE l
-PORTIONS OF THE AFFIDAVIT 0F RICHARD J. TIMM g
On May 26,-1977, Intervenors Other Than Dow (Intervenors)Jfiled in this proceeding the. " Affidavit of Richard J. Timm in Response' to Rebuttal T'stiimony Filed 'by Consumers Power Company and the Nuclear e
Regulatory Commission Staff" (Tim Affidavit). ~ The Timm Affidavit was in response to the Board's-Order (Tr. 6162) permitting the filing l
of surrebuttal testimony by Intervenors.
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- By its Motion and Supporting Memorandum.of June 21, 1977, Consumers
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seeks to strike portions of-the Timm Affidavit.
The portions sought
- to be struck are identified by Consumers in Att,achment A-to its Motion which addresses. par ~ graphs 36 and 43 of the Timm Affidavit.
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conclusions and therefore 'n'ot within the expertise of-the witness and so are appropriate subjects of a motion to strike.
- The Staff: supports Consumers' Motion.
In paragraph 36, Dr.'Timm discusses
- what, in his-view, is the appropriate treatment of " sunk costs" in an b
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The. question of the proper treatment of " sunk
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costs"'is'a legal one as'is clear from the discussion of that subject both in Aeschliman v. U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 547 F.2d 622 (D. C.- Cir.,1976) and Public Service Company of New Hampshire (Seabrook~ Station, Units-1 and 2), CLI-77-8, 5 NRC (March 31,'1977)
(Slip. Op. at 47-53).
In paragraph 43, Dr. Timm reaches a conclusion on the ultimate legal issue'in.this proceeding, namely suspension of the Midland Plant
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Furthermore, Dr. Tinn's
" testimony" in that paragraph is argumentative and far beyond any area of his proven' expertise.
The' StaffLhas supported motions by Consumers -to strike portions of Dr.
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'Timm's testimony which the Staff considered to consist of legal conclu-sions and argument.1/ The Staff-takes the same-position on the Motion
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Jpresently before the Board..With regard to the two paragraphs in question,
'[h'. Timm is reaching legal conclusions and pres <enting argument, a rcle 11/ See "NRC Staff. Answer to ' Consumers, Power-Company's Renewed Motion and Supporting Memorandum to Strike Portions of the Testimony of Dr. Richard-J. Timm'": dated June 22, 1977 and "NRC Staff Response to Licensee'sl Motion to Strike Portions of the Testimony of Dr.
LRichar.d :J. Timm"~ dated April 26, 1977.
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BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY Afl0 LICENSIflG BOARD
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Docket Nos. 50-329
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- CERTIFICATE OF' SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of "NRC STAFF MOTION TO STRIKE" and "NRC STAFF
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RESPONSE TO THE MOTI0fl AtlD SUPPORTING MEMORAtlDUM 0F C0flSUMERS POWER COMPANY TO STRIKE PORTI0flS 0F THE AFFIDAVIT OF RICHARD J. TIMM" both dated June 30, 1977 in the above-captioned proceeding, have been served on the.following by deposit in.the United States mail', first class or air mail, this 30th day of June,-1977:
Frederic J.. Coufal, Esq., Chairman
~ Atomic Safety and Licensing Board
'U..S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.'C.
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Dr. J. Venn Leeds, Jr.
Ms. Mary Sinclair Atomic Safety and. Licensing-Board 5711 Summerset Street 10807 Atwell
. Midland, Michigan 48640
-Houston,~ Texas-77096-Harold F. Reis, Esq.
- Dr. Emmeth A. Luebke Robert.Lowenstein, Esq.
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Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Lowenstein, Newman, Reis &
U. ' S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Axelrad Washington, D.
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20555 1025 Connecticut Avenue Washington, D. C.
20036 Myron M. Cherry, Esq.
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Dow Chemical, U.S.A.
Chicago, Illinois? 60611-
. Michigan Division-LJudd-L. Bacon, Esq.:
Midland, Michigan 48640
- Cor.sumers Power Company 7212 West Michigan Avenue Mr. Steve Gadler Jackson,' Michigan 49201~
2120 Carter Avenue St. Paul, Minnesota 55108 e
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R. Rex Renfrow, III, Esq.
Atomic Safety and Licensing David J. Rosso Esq.
Appeal Panel s
Isham, Lincoln & Beale U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Conmission One First flational Plaza Washington, D. C.
20555 Suite 4200 Chicago, Illinois 60603 Docketing and Service Section Office of the Secretary Atomic Safety and Licensing U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Board Panel Washinaton, D. C.
20555 L'. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C.
20555 Norton Hatlie, Esq.
Attorney-at-Law P. O. Box 103 Navarre, Minnesota 55392 b @d b
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