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Reply in Support of Application to Depose J Keppler. Requisite Showing of Exceptional Circumstances Made. Certificate of Svc Encl.Related Correspondence
ML20005A529
Person / Time
Site: Bailly
Issue date: 06/18/1981
From: Whicher J
PORTER COUNTY CHAPTER INTERVENORS, VOLLEN, R.J. & WHICHER, J.M.
To:
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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PORTE.1 COUNTY CHAPTER INTERVENORS ' REPLY IN SUPPORT OF APPLICATION PURSUANT TO 10 CFR 62.720(h)(2)(i)

The staff, in its "$RC Staff Response to Porter County Chapter Intervenors ' Application Pursuant to $2. 720(h)(2)(i)" (" Response"),

opposes PCCI's application to depose James G. Keppler on two grounds . Both are without merit, and PCCI's application should be granted.

_The staff's first ground of opposition is an assertion thit PCCI wish to examine Mr. Keppler on matters which are not relevant i

to any issue in the proceeding. (Response at p. 2) Four general topics are designated in the Notice of Deposition. The first, NIPSCO's technical incompetence, is a matter of controversy in this proceeding: PCCI's Contention 7 was admitted insofar as the delay in comnletion of Bailly "was attributable to technical incompetence which brings into question Permittee's ability to construct a safe facility."

(Order Following Prehearing Conference, dated August 7, l9GO, at p. 60.) The second topic designated in the Notice, NIPSCO's quality assurance program, is one aspect of the issue of go630d

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" ability to construct a safe facility." The third and fourth topics , the reasons for NIPSCO's failure to complete the Bailly.

plant by September 1, 1979, and the reasotaoleness of December ,

1989 as the new requested latest completion date., have r1.so been admitted by the Board. (Order Following Prehearing Conference, at pp. 52-53.) Clearly none of the designated topics is irrelevant: , each falls squarely within an admitted contention.

Thus, the staff assertion that PCCI seeks to take a deposition on a rej ected contention ignores the plain wording of the Notice of Deposition.

The staff's second ' ground for resisting PCCI's application

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is an assertion that PCCI have failed to satisfy the proper' test ,

for deposing a named NRC staff member. (Responce at pp. 4-6.)

Contrary to the staff position, 10 CFR 52.720(h)(2)(i) does not es tablish a three part tes t. It requires simply a showing of

" exceptional circumstances." The three-part " test" submitted by the staff is not a test at all, but rather the regulation's e.< ample of one circumstance under which the "e:cceptional circumstances" showing could be met. The requisite showing of exceptional circumstances has been made and PCCI's application should be granted.

DATED: June 18, 1981 Respectfully submitted, Robert J. Vollen Robert J. Vollen Jane M. Whicher Jane M. Whicher j c/o BPI l 109 North Dearborn Suite 1300 Chicago, Illinois 60602 By: -

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that I served copies of the following documents :

Porter County Chapter Intervenors' Response to General Electric's Motions for Extension of Time; Porter County Chapter Intervenors ' Notice of Depositions of Harold Ricca and James F. Purcell; Motion for Leave to File Reply Brief; and Porter County Chapter Intervenors ' Reply in Support of Application Pursuant to 10 CFR 52.720(h)(2)(i) on the persons on the attached Service List by causing them to be deposited in the U.S. mail, first class postage prepaid, on this 18th day of June, 1981; and that copies of Porter County Chapter Interveno rs ' Response to General Electric's Motions for Extension of Time were served on Edward A. Firestone, Esq., General Electric Company, 175 Curtner Avenue, M/C 323, San Jose, CA 95125, and on George L. Edgar, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Suite 700, 1800 M. St.,

. l N.W., Washington D.C. 20036; and that copies of the Notice of Depositions were served on the respective deponents at Northern Indiana Public Service Company, 5265 Hohman Avenue, Hammond, Indiana 46320, by causing them to be deposited in the U.S. mail, first class postage prepaid, on this 18th day of June, 1981.

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