ML20004F700
| ML20004F700 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Midland |
| Issue date: | 06/15/1981 |
| From: | Farnell A CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.) |
| To: | Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
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| ML20004F696 | List: |
| References | |
| ISSUANCES-OL, ISSUANCES-OM, NUDOCS 8106220199 | |
| Download: ML20004F700 (5) | |
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Before the Atomic Safaty and Licensing Board.
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In.the Matter of
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CONSUMERS POWER COMPANY
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Docket Nos.-50-329-OM
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50-330-OM (Midland Plant, Units 1 and 2)
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50-329-OL
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50-330-OL'
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CONSUMERS POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO MAPLETON INTERVENOR'S REQUEST FOR THE SUSPENSION OF CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES Consumers Power Company (" Consumers Power"), pursuant to'10 CFR 32.730(c), hereby objects to the Pbpleton Intervenor's apparent motion to suspend construction activity at the Midland Nuclear Power Station site for the following reasons:
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This Licensing Board is ' dot the appropriate forum for a request to suspend a construction permit.
"[T]he appropriate remedy for those seeking to modify, amend, suspend, or revoke the construction permits is by.means of a requert for enforcement action..." under the Commission's regulations.
Carolina Power and Light Company (Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1, 2, 3 and 4) CLI-79-5, 9 NRC 607, 610 (1979)
(emphasis added) '.
Accordingly, this request for an enforcement action to suspend Consumers Power's construction permit must be filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Staff pursuant 1
to 10 CFR S2.206.
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Moreover, Mapleton Intervenor has failed to 1
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Suspension of construction permits is generally only warranted when necessary to protect the public's. health and safety.
See, Union Electric Company (Callaway Plant, Units 1 and 2), LBP-78-31, 8 NRC 366, 378 (1978).
Mapleton Intervenor has not raised any facts which establish a present threat to the public's health and safety.
None of.the twelve items raised by Intervenor's motion demonstrate deficiencies which either (1) pose a hazard during construction, (2) need to be corrected before construction takes place, or (3) will cause significant environmental harm due to continued construction.
In the absence of these conditions, there is no justification for suspending construction.
Southern California Edison Company (San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, Units 2 and 3), ALAB-268, 1 NRC 383, 401 (1975).
- Thus, this request for suspension must be denied.
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Finally, under the guise of this motion, Intervenor attempts to raise twelve additional contentions in this proceeding.
This is impermissible.
Pursuant to 10 CFR S2. 714 (a) (3), Intervenor may only add or amend their contentions upon approval by the Licensing Board, based on a balancing of the factors specified in 10 CFR 52.714 (a) (1).
Intervenor has made no showing with respect to these factors.
Furthermore, many of the purported " reasons" set forth in Intervenor's motion raise issues not proper subjects for adjudication in this proceeding.
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-For these aforementioned reasons Consumers Power objects to Mapleton Intervenor's apparent motion and moves for this motion's denial.
Respectfully submitted, b.
Alan S. Farnell Attorney for~ Consumers Power Company 1
ISHAM, LINCOLN-& BEALE
- Suite 4200 One First National Plaza Chicago, Illinois 60603 312/558-7500
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. UNITED-STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board
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In the Matter of
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CONSUMERS POWER COMPANY
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Docket Nos. 50-329-OM
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50-330-OM (Midland Plant, Units 1 and 2)
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50-329-OL
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50-330-OL
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I, Alan S. Farnell, hereby certify that a copy of Consumers Power Company's Response to Mary Sinclair's Pleading Captioned " Testimony Based on the Brief of Patrick J. Devlin of the Attorney General's Office of Michigan, and Alan J. Barak, Attorney for Michigan Citizens' Lobby on the Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Midland N-Plants that is Directly Related to Data Developed Thus Far in the OM-OL Proceedings on the Soil Remediation Issues," and a copy of Consumers Power Company's Response to Mapleton Intervenor's Request for the Suspension of Construction Activities were served upon all persons shown in the attached service list by deposit in the United States mail, first class, this 15th day of June, 1981.
5-Alan S. Farnell
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SERVICE LIST Steve Galdler, Esq.
Frank'J..Kelley, Esq.
2120 Carter Avenue.
Attorney General of the St. Paul, Minnesota 55108
. State of-Michigan
- Stewart H. - Freeman, : Esq.
Atomic Safety & Licensing Appeal Pnl.
Assistant Attorney General U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Gregory.T. Taylor, Esq.
Assistant Attorney General Washington, D.C.
20555 Environmental Protection Div.
720 Law Building-Mr. C. R. Stephens Lansing,-Michigan 48913 Chief, Docketing & Service Section Office of the Secretary U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
.Myron M. Cherry, Esq.
Washington, D.C.
20555 One IBM Plaza Suite 4501 Chicago, Illinois 60611 Ms. Mary Sinclair 5711 Summerset Street Mr. Wendell H. Marshall Nddland, Michigan 48640 RFD 10' Midland, Michigan 48640 William D. Paton, Esq.
Counsel for the NRC Staff U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Charles Bechhoefer, Esq.
Atomic Safety & Licensing Bd. Pnl. Washington, D.C.
20555 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Com.
Atomic Safety & Licensing Bd. Panel Washington, D.C.-20555 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Dr.-Frederick P. Cowan Washington, D.C.
20555 6152 N. Verde Trail Barbara Stamiris Apt. B-125 Boca Raton, Florida 33433 5795 North River Road Route 3 Admin. Judge Ralph S. Decker Freeland, Michigan 48623 Route No.
4, box 190D Cambridge, Maryland 21613 Carroll E. Mahaney Babcock & Wilcox P. O.
Box 1260 Lynchburg, Virginia 24505 James E.
Brunner, Esq.
Consumers Power Company 212 West Michigan Avenue Jackson, Michigan 49201