ML19350B729
| ML19350B729 | |
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| Site: | Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png |
| Issue date: | 03/03/1981 |
| From: | Kammerer C NRC OFFICE OF CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS (OCA) |
| To: | Carney W HOUSE OF REP. |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8103230538 | |
| Download: ML19350B729 (2) | |
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Subcomittee on Energy and Water Development estimated issuance of the SER in June 1981. The tar'get dates for Shoreham and for all pending operating license applications are reviewed regul-arly, and' any changes resulting from subsequent devel,opments are reported in the following monthly report.
The second monthly report advanced the Shoreham SER target date to January 1981 to better accorxnodate a longer hearing, which is anticipated in this case. However, the SER issuance date for Shoreham is dependent on the Last year, review status for the LaSalle-1 plant for the following(reason.BWR) operating the applicants for the near-term toiling water reactor licenses, which. included Shoreham, reouested that the NRC staff resolve the connon BWR-related issues on a lead SWR 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 i
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the LaSalle SER is now projected during March 1981. The third monthly report reflected this delay by targeting issuance of the Shoreham SER for Par:h 1981.
I should point o'ut that the time which could be saved in issuing the Shoreham-SER before June 1981 is more than offset by the MRC staff's most recent estimate of the time which will be required to begin the hearing. The staff's most recent estimate from the third monthly report is that the hearing will start in January 1982 with licensing complete in October 1982
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or one month after the projected comoletion of the ' faci.lity.' The reason for l
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 all.ocate sufficient time for the prehearing process.
Recent experience has shown that time between issuance of the SER and the beginning of the hearings (or prehearing stage during which time the disenvery and final particularization of the issues and contentions is completed as well as the writing o.f testimony and holding of the Final Prehearing Conference),
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During the last two weeks in February, the Comission met several times to discuss licensing schedules, the impact of HRC-induced delays, and possible actions to be taken to recuce or eliminate projected delays. Additional meetings are scheduled for this week on the same subject, ard after those meetings we will be able to more fully respond to your inquiry.,
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Enclosure:
Third NRR Monthly Status Report (Bevill Report)
Identical letters snet to:
Rep. Norman Lent Rep. Tom Downey Rep. Ray McGrath Rep. Gregory Carman Rep. John Soutillier Sen. Alfonse D' Amato i
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