ML20004F478
| ML20004F478 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Perry  |
| Issue date: | 06/11/1981 |
| From: | Alexander J OHIO CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8106180424 | |
| Download: ML20004F478 (2) | |
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s As an Intervenor b the operating licens J.ng for the Perry, Ohio plant (Docket Nos. 50-W O and 50 441), the Ohio Citizens for Responsible Energy ("0CRE") is vitally concerned with the rule proposed on or about June 2, 1981 l
regarding procedural changes in such proceedings.
OCRE is greatly dism'yed with the proposed rule.
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OCRE's first point of dismay is with the limitation on the number of interrogatories to fifty (50).
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izations;such as- 0CRE that can in no way afford the pre-trial I
deposition of witnesses.' While abuse has -no doubt occurred, r
to statutorily limit this discovery to all proceedings a
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triori can easily vitiate this Intervenor's ability to obtain all the facts and clarify all the issues.
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best left with the individual Licensing Boards.
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at anytime prior to the hearing will place an onerous burden CC~,5C...and a-well,nigh.fmpossible; task of(addressing any such dis-
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1 position motions in a comprehensiye manner-upon this Inter-43.- -wh
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,lF The nuclear ~ industry has no room to lament of delay attrib-ib utable to it.
The driver of a car with a prototype engine can look only to himself and wait patiently until assistance
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March 28, 1979.
Now TMI has cent it back to the drawing board but it may not slice into the rights of citizens to i
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relinquish those rights most reluctantly.
OCRE further asserts that the Licensing Board, through 10 CFR sections 2 717, 2 713, already has the power to avoid delay by "regulat(ing) the course of the hearing and
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the conduct of the participants."
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- This writer has had access only to a June 3 AP article on the new rule,-
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" fair and impartial hearing according to law." l'0 CFR sec. 2.718.
To remove that discretion, which the new rule does, amounts to castration of this Intervenor's ability to contribute meaningfully, let alone protect
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OCRE hopes that further discussion on and a much-needed re-examination of this rule follow.
Respectfully, Jeff Alexander OCRE Representative
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