ML19351F150

Joint Response of NRC & Applicant to ASLB 801202 Order to Submit Proposed Schedule for Commencement of Hearings on Health & Safety Issues.Lists 30 Issues & Requests 810501 Hearing on 16 Issues.Certificate of Svc Encl

ML19351F150
Person / Time
Site:	Comanche Peak, Allens Creek
Issue date:	12/08/1980
From:	Copeland J, Newman J BAKER & BOTTS, HOUSTON LIGHTING & POWER CO., LOWENSTEIN, NEWMAN, REIS, AXELRAD & TOLL
To:	Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
References
NUDOCS 8012290641
Download: ML19351F150 (6)

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JOINT RESPONSE OF NRC STAFF AND APPLICANT TO ASLB 0" DER AT PREHEARING CONFERENCE TO SUBMIT A PROPOSED SCHEDULE FOR COMMENCEMENT OF HEARINGS ON HEALTH AND SAFETY ISSUES At the prehearing conference held in this proceeding on.)

December 2, 1980, the Board directed the NRC Staff and Applicant to submit to the Board and parties within 5 days a proposed schedule for commencement of evidentiary hearings on health and safety issues. In response to the Board's Order, the Staff and Applicant have conferred, and submit the following proposed schedule.

The Staff and Applicant have identified thirty health and safety issues which are neither the subject of pending motions for summary disposition, nor are issues related to post-TMI proposed licensing requirements. Accordingly, these issues are now ripe for trial. A list of these thirty issues is set forth' in Attachment A to this response.

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Applicant is prepared to commence hearings on all of these issues beginning May 1, 1981. Based upon current estimates of manpower resources, the Staff has identified sixteen of the thirty issues listed on Attachment A as to which the Staff can support a hearing date of May 1, 1981.

These sixteen issues are set fcrth in Attachment B. The Staff and Applicant request the Board to establish a date of May 1, 1981, for commencement of the evidentiary hearings on the sixteen issues listed in Attachment B, with the date of April 10, 1981, for filing of testimony on these issues.

With respect to the remaining fourteen issues listed in Attachment A, the Staff and Applicant anticipate that the hearings on these issues would commence shortly after the completion of the hearings on the first sixteen issues.

A more definite schedule for hearings on these issues can be discussed among the Board and the parties in January, 1981.

Respectfully submitted, bf ack R. Ne y n Robert H. Culp David B. Raskin 1025 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036 J. Gregory Copeland C. Thomas Biddle Darrell Hancock 3000 One Shell Plaza OF COUNSEL: Houston, Texas 77002 LOWENSTEIN, NEWMAN, REIS ATTORNEYS FOR APPLICANT

& AXELRAD HOUSTON LIGHTING & POWER COMPANY 1025 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036 BAKER & BOTTS 3000 One Shell Plaza Houston, Texas 77002

, Attachm:nt A LIST OF HEALTH AND SAFETY ISSUES RIPE FOR HEARING Doherty 9 -

Containment buckling TexPirg 36(McCorkle 17) - Charcoal adsorber Doherty 32 -

ECCS vaporization TexPirg AC 41 -

Reactor pressure limits / relief valves TexPirg AC 55 -

Rapid depressurization/ steam break Bishop 4&S -

Pipeline rupture /24" gas line Bishop 7 -

Pipeline rupture / dam breach Bishop 9 -

Pipeline rupture /non-methane Bishop 10 -

Pipeline rupture /Brazos River Doherty 29 -

Blockage of intake canal Doherty 20(a)- Gap conductance Doherty 39 -

Fuel swelling Doherty 14, 25 -

Fuel failure /MSLRM Doherty 3 -

Fuel specific enthalpy Doherty 6 -

Recirculation pump overspeed Doherty 7 -

LPCI cold-slug Doherty 48 -

CRD return line Doherty 26(a)- Stud bolts Doherty 50 -

Jet pump beam Doherty 41 -

Water level indicators (and TexPirg AC 54)

ASLB 11 -

RHR single failure TexPirg 39 -

Fracture toughness (generic issue A-ll)

Doherty 27 -

Reactor pedestal .

ASLB 10 -

Bypass leakage TexPirg 26 -

Computer code error Doherty 30 -

Interconnection / grid stability TexPirg AC 21 -

Occupational exposure ASLB 8 -

Seismic category 1 - control rods, control rod drives and control units TexPirg 6 (Bishop 18) - Aircraft hazards

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) LIST OF HEALTH AND SAFETY ISSUES FOR HEARING ON Z1AY 1, 1981 i

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Containment buckling e 5

Bishop 4&5 -

. Pipeline rupture /24" gas line Bishop 7 -

Pipeline rupture / dam breach Bishop 9 -

Pipeline rupture /non-methane i Bishop 10 -

Pipeline rupture /Brazos River I Doherty 29 -

Blockage of intake canal 1

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Gap conductance .

Doherty 39 - Fuel swelling i

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Fuel specific enthalpy .

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LPCI cold-slug Doherty 26(a) -

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Reactor pedestal i 1 TexPirg 26 -

Computer code error Doherty 30 -

Interconnection / grid stability l TexPirg 6 (Bishop 18) - Aircraft hazards 4

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Richard Black, Esq. 13935 Ivy Mount U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Sugar Land, Texas 77478 Commission Washington, DC 20555 William Schuessler 5810 Darnell John F. Doherty Houston, Texas 77074 4327 Alconbury Street Houston, Texas 77021 Stephen A. Doggett, Esq.

P. O. Box 592 Rosenberg, Texas 77471 Att: Clarence Johnson Bryan L. Baker Executive Director 1923 Hawthorne Box 237 U.S. Houston, Texas 77098 University of Houston Houston, Texas 7704 J. Morgan Bishop Margaret Bishop Carro Hinderstein 11418 Oak Spring 609 Fannin Street Houston, Texas 77043 Suite 521 Houston, Texas 77002 W. Matthew Perrenod 4070 Merrick D. Marrack Houston, Texas 77024 420 Mulberry Lane Bellaire, Texas 77401 Brenda McCorkle 6140 Darnell Houston, Texas 77074 F. H. Potthoff, III 7200 Shady villa, #110 Houston, Texas 77080

( Wayne E. Rentfro P. O. Box 1335 Rosenberg, Texas 77471 I

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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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HOUSTON LIGHTING & POWER COMPANY ) Docket No. 50-466,

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(Allens Creek Nuclear Generating )

Station, Unit 1) )

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of Joint Response of NRC Staff and Applicant to ASLB Order at Prehearing Conference to Submit a Proposed Schedule for Commencement of Hearings on Health and Safety Issues were served on the following by deposit in the United States mail, postage prepaid, or by hand delivery this 8th day of December, 1980:

Sheldon J. Wolfe, Esq., Chairman Susan Plettman, Esq.

Atomic Safety and Licensing David Preister, Esq.

Board Panel State Attorney General's Office U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Conmission P.O. Box 12548 Washington, DC 20555 Austin, Texas 78711 Dr. E. Leonard Cheatum Route 3, Box 350A Watkinsville, Georgia 30677 Hon. Charles J. Dusek Mayor, City of Wallis Mr. Gustave A. Linenberger P. O. Box 312 Atomic Safety and Licensing Wallis, Texas 77485 Board Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Hon. Leroy H. Grebe Washington, DC 20555 County Judge , Austin County P. O. Box 99 Chase R. Stephens Bellville, Texas 77418 Docketing and Service Section Office of the Secretary of Atomic Safety and~ Licensing the Commission Board Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 Washington, DC 20555 Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555

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