ML19344A646

Response to TMI Alert Interrogatories Re Harrisburg Patriot Info Concerning High Cleanup Costs.Identifies Met Ed Employees Who Submitted Written Testimony Before PA Public Util Commission.W/Certificate of Svc & Forwarding Ltr

ML19344A646
Person / Time
Site:	Three Mile Island
Issue date:	08/14/1980
From:	Trowbridge G METROPOLITAN EDISON CO., SHAW, PITTMAN, POTTS & TROWBRIDGE
To:	THREE MILE ISLAND ALERT
References
ISSUANCES-SP, ISUANCES-SP, NUDOCS 8008210397
Download: ML19344A646 (7)

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' NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION LBEFORE'THE JTOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD

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METRO 70LITAN EDISON COMPANY ) Docket No. 50-289

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LICENSEE'S RESPONSE TO TMIA'S-INTERROGATORIES

. BASED ON INFORMATION IN THE HARRISBURG PATRIOT Interrogatory-No. 1 Provide all cost estimates and other data relied upon by Licensee in determining that it will cost "well over

$400,000,000.00" (Harrisburg Patriot, p.2) to cleanup-TMI-2.

Interrogatory No. 2 ,

On'what date did-Licensee determine that its previous cleanup' cost estimates'were too low?

Interrogatory No. 3 Provide an analysis of the factors used by Licensee in concluding _that;the cost of TMI-2 cleanup would exceed

. . previous 1 estimates.

. -Interrogatory'No. 4' Provide lthe name and position'of'each person involved

-in the analysis of TMI-2 cleanup costs.as well as a

. description of.each person's particular responsibilities.

. Response--to Interrogatory'Nos. 1 and-3 Licensee has placed a copy of the. report entitled "TMI-2 Recovery Program.. Estimate',"-dated August 1, 1980, in-Licensee's Discovery

' Reading Room.

. Supplemental responses to interrogatories Nos. 2 and 4 will be

_providediin the near. future..

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Interrogatory No. 5 Provide all_ financial data, exhibits and witness state-ments1which will be relied upon by Licensee in seeking Jan additional rate increase from the Pennsylvania

.Public Utility' Commission-(per the newspaper article

'of Julycl6, 1980).

Interrogatory No. 6

Provide the analysis used by Licensee in concluding that an additional rate increase is required.

Response

All. materials (Tariff, Statements and Exhibits) filed with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission on July 29, 1980 requesting a base rate increase will be placed in'the Licensee's Discovery Reading Room.

Interrog."4 tory No. 7 Provide the name and position of each perece involved in the analysis of Licensee's need for an additional rate increase as well as a description of each person's particular responsibilities.

Response

. The persons'who have submitted written testimony in the Met-Ed rate case:before the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission are:

- David L. Huff

- Assistant Comptroller of Met-Ed

- Testimony: Chief. accounting witness.

- Edmund Newton Jr.

- Vice President - System Operations, GPU Service Corporation

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- Testimony: Discussion of the major interconnection and bulk' power supply agreements to which Met-Ed is a party.

- Fred D. Hafer

.- Vice. President - Rate' Case Management, GPU Service Corporation

- Testimony: Overall perspective on the necessity for Met-Ed's rate-increase request.

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.E. F. Carter.

Assistant Vice President - Rates, GPU Service Corporation Testimony: Normalization computations of the base revenues and tariff design. ,

' Carl H. Seligson Vice President of Merrill Lynch, Pierca, Fenner,& Smith Inc.

- Testimony: The considerations involved with Met-Ed raising capital in the financial markets.

William D.' Garland Depreciation Manager, GPU Service Corporation TestimonJ: Depreciation.

Eugene F. Brigham.

Graduate Recearch Professor of Finance and Director of the Public Ut!.lity Research Center at the University of Florida

- Testimony:-Determination of a fair rate of return on Met-Ed's common' equity capital.

- Bernard H. Cherry-1 -

Vice President - Corporate Planning, GPU Service Corporation

- -Testimony: Met-Ed's sales forecast, load forecast and ~~

capacity plan.

- John G. Graham Vice President and Treasurer, GPU Service Corporation Testimony:' Financial plans of Met-Ed.

Respectively submitted, SHAW, PITTMAN, POTTS & TROWBRIDGE

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the' Matter of )

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METROPOLITAN EDISON COMPANY ) Docket No. 50-289

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of " Licensee's Response To TMIA's Interrogatories Based On Information In The Harrisburg Patriot" were served upon those persons on the attached Service List by deposit ia the United States mail, postage prepaid, this 14th day of Augu'at, 1980.

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SERVICE LIST Ivan W. Smith, Esquire John A. Levin, Esquire Chairman. Assistant Counsel Atomic Safety and Licensing Pennsylvania Public Utility Comm'n Board Panel Post Office Box 3265 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Harrisburg, Pennsylvania- 17120 Washington, D . C .- 20555 Karin W. Carter, Esquire Dr. Walter H. Jordan Assistant Attorney General Atomic Safety and Licensing 505 Executive House

, Board Panel Post Office Box 2357

- 881 West Outer-Drive Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830 John E. Minnich Dr. Linda W. Little Chairman, Dauphin County Board Atomic Safety and Licensing of Commissioners Board-Panel Dauphin County Courthouse 5000 Hermitage Drive Front and Market Streets Raleigh, North Carolina 27612 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17101 James R. Tourtellotte, Esquire (4) Walter W. Cohen, Esquire Office of the Executive Legal Director Consumer Advocate U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Consumer Advocate

- Washington, D.C. 2055E 14th Floor, Strawberry Square Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17127 Docketing'and Service Section (3)'

. Office of the Secretary U. S. NuclearLRegulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 i

LJordan D. Cunningham, Esquire William S. Jordan, III, Esquire Attorney for Newberry Township. Attorney for People Against Nuclea.

T.M.I. Steering Committee Energy 2320 North Second Street- .

Harmon & Weiss

• Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17110 1725 Eye Street, N.W., Suite 506 Washington, D.C. . 20006 2 Theodore A. Adler, Esquire Widoff Reager Selkowitz & Adler Robert Q. Pollard Post Office Box 1547 609 Montpelier Street Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17105 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 Ellyn R. Weiss, Esquire- Chauncey Kepford Attorney for'the Union of Concerned Judith H. Johnsrud Scientists Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Harmon &. Weiss Power 1725 Eye Street, N.W., Suite 506 433 Orlando Avenue Washington, D.C. -20006- State College, Pennsylvania.16801 Steven C. Sholly Marvin I. Lewis 304 South Market Street 6504 Bradford Terrace Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania 17055 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19149 Gail Bradford Marjorie M. Aamodt Holly S. Keck R. D. 5 Legislation' Chairman- Coatesville, Pennsylvania 19320 Anti-Nuclear Group Representing York 245 West Philadelphia. Street

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Mark P.--Widoff, Esq.

P.O. Box 1547 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17105

Dear Mark:

Enclosed is " Licensee's Response To TMIA's Interrogatories Based On Information In The Harrisburg. Patriot." Affidavits

, supporting'these responses will be forwarded soon.

Sincerely, urs, Y

George F. owbridge Enclosure cc: Service List Sy

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