ML19345E951
| ML19345E951 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Palo Verde  |
| Issue date: | 12/11/2019 |
| From: | Annette Vietti-Cook NRC/SECY |
| To: | Alejandro Rodriguez State of TX, Senate |
| SECY RAS | |
| References | |
| 50-528-LT, 50-529-LT, 50-530-LT, 72-044-LT, License Transfer, RAS 55458 | |
| Download: ML19345E951 (3) | |
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 SECRETARY The Honorable Jose Rodriguez Texas Senate District 29 P.O. Box 12068 Capitol Station Austin, TX 78711
Dear Senator Rodriguez:
December 11, 2019 On behalf of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), I am responding to your letter of November 18, 2019, addressed to Siva Lingam of the NRC's Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation regarding the application by El Paso Electric Company for transfer of its Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station and Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation licenses. Your letter expresses support for the hearing request submitted by Public Citizen.
Your letter was forwarded to the NRC's Office of the Secretary. The Office of the Secretary is comprised of "adjudicatory employees" who advise. the Commission on various matters, including those such as the Palo Verde license transfer proceeding. Because, as you note in your letter, the NRG has received a request for hearing on the license transfer application and your letter relates to subjects that may be raised during any resultant adjudication, it would be inappropriate for the NRC to comment on the matter at this time.
A copy of your letter and this acknowledgment will be served on the parties in the Palo Verde proceeding.
Sincerely,
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Annette L. Vietti-Cook
JOSE RODRIGU z STATE SENATOR SENATE DISTRICT 29 EL PASO, CULBERSON, HUDSPETH, PRESIDIO 8c EFF DAVIS COUNTIES Siva P. Lingam Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington. D.C. 20555-0001 November 18, 2019 RE: Request for public hearing on Docket ID NRC-2019-0214
Dear Mr. Lingam:
I am the state Senator representing not only El Paso in the Texa Senate, but also four other West Texas Counties - Hudspeth, Culberson, Jeff Davis and Presidio. My d strict, Texas Senate District 29, is home to more than 800,000 people and hundreds of thousands of El Pas Electric (EPE) Company business and residential customers and ratepayers. IIF US Holdings 2 seeks t purchase EPE, which is of compelling public interest for Texas Senate District 29.
EPE is a partial owner of the Palo Verde nuclear power station. As part of a proposed purchase, EPE seeks approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NR ) for "Indirect Transfer of Control of Licenses" for Palo Verde to IIF US Holdings 2.
I understand that you have received a request for public hearin from Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group that has members in El Paso and Arizona, whe e Palo Verde is sited. Public Citizen has raised credible issues of fact regarding who owns and controls US Holdings 2, which it seeks to resolve through a hearing.
EPE is too important to the constituents of Texas Senate Distri not within my district, for such a substantive question to be in Public Citizen request, and ask that you grant a public hearing 29, and to those in the region who are ubt. Therefore, I am in full support of the n the matter.
CC:
Tyson Slocum, Public Citizen Patrick Reinhart, El Paso Electric CAPITOL OFFICE ROOM El.610 P.O. Box 12068 AUSTIN, TEXAS 78711 (512) 463-0129 (512) 463-7100 FAX EL PASO OFFICE 100 N. OCHOA ST., SUITE A EL PASO, TEXAS 79901 (915) 351-3500 (915) 351-3579 FAX MISS! N VALLEY OFFICE 206 S.. 8TH ST., SUITE 201 FAB NS, TEXAS 79838
( 15) 765-2000 (915) 764-1555 FAX MARFA OFFICE 300 W. COLUMBIA, ROOM 102 ELEMENTARY BLDG.
P.O. Box 1105 MARFA, TEXAS 79843 (432) 729-4800 (432) 729-4803 FAX
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION In the Matter of
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EL PASO ELECTRIC COMPANY
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Docket Nos. 50-528, 50-529, 50-530
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and 72-44-LT Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station
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(Units 1, 2, and 3 and ISFSI)
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of the foregoing Letter from NRC Secretary, Annette Vietti-Cook, to Senator José Rodríguez have been served upon the following persons by Electronic Information Exchange.
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Commission Appellate Adjudication Mail Stop: O-16B33 Washington, DC 20555-0001 ocaamail@nrc.gov U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the General Counsel Mail Stop: O-14A44 Washington, DC 20555-0001 Reginald Augustus, Esq.
Tyson Campbell, Esq.
David E. Roth, Esq.
Jeremy Wachutka, Esq.
reginal.augustus@nrc.gov tyson.campbell@nrc.gov david.roth@nrc.gov jeremy.wachutka@nrc.gov U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the Secretary of the Commission Mail Stop: O-16B33 Washington, DC 20555-0001 Hearing Docket hearingdocket@nrc.gov Public Citizen, Inc.
215 Pennsylvania Ave., SE Washington, DC 20003 Tyson Slocum tslocum@citizen.org Counsel for El Paso Electric Company Robert Warnement, Esq.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, et al 1440 New York Ave., NW Washington, DC 20005 robert.warnement@skadden.com
[Original signed by Herald M. Speiser ]
Office of the Secretary of the Commission Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day of December, 2019.