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Memorandum & Order.* Informs That Encl P Pierce-Bjorklund Forwarding Town of Essex 890711 Request That Reactor Safety Issues Be Addressed Will Be Treated as 10CFR2.206 Request.Served on 900123
ML20006A366
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Site: Seabrook  NextEra Energy icon.png
Issue date: 01/23/1990
From: Tompkins B
NRC ATOMIC SAFETY & LICENSING APPEAL PANEL (ASLAP)
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CON-#190-9715 2.206, OL, NUDOCS 9001260179
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w Q. p A.1, l DOCKETED USNRC UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR' REGULATORY COMMISSION 30 JMi 23 N0:00 ATOMIC. SAFETY-AND LICENSING APPEAL BOARD Administrative Judges:

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BRANCH Alan S. Rosenthal, Chairman January 23, 1990 Thomas S. Moore Howard A. Wilber SERVED JAN 231990 l

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Docket.Nos. 50-443-OL l

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MEMORANDUM AND ORDER Wecare in receipt of the January 11, 1990, letter of j

Patricia Pierce-Bjorklund, enclosing a copy of a July 11, 1989,-letter from-the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Essex, Massachusetts, to the NRC's Advisory Committee on

...e-1 Reactor Safeguards - (ACRS).

Representing that'she had j

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-prepared the Essex letter, Ms. Pierce-Bjorklund requests i

that "the reactor safety issues cited therein be addressed

=[and] resolved prior to licensing the Seabrook Reactor."

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We are not empowered to grant that relief.

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L things, Ms. Pierce-Bjorklund (1) is not now a party to the adjudicatory proceeding involving the licensing of the L&

Seabrook facility; (2) has not attempted to satisfy the p

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- records /to consider new issues (see 10 C.F.R. S 2.734).

The Commission's Rules of Practice do, however, authorize "[a)ny person" to. request'the NRC Executive Director for Operations (EDO) to institute a proceeding "to modify, suspend, or revoke a' license,.or for such other action asimay be, proper."

10 C. F. R.'. S 2. 206 (a).

The EDO "will refer the request to the Director of the NRC Office with' responsibility,for the subject matter of the requent l

for1 appropriate action."

Ibid.

That. official must in' turn either act favorably upon the request or advise the person 1

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being.taken.

10 C.F.R. S 2.206 (b).

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Bjorklund's letter as, in effect, a section 2.206 request.

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It is so ORDERED.

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FOR THE APPEAL BOARD

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q, _d Barbara A. Tompkins Secretary to the Appeal Board

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