ML20006B184

Applicant Response to Intervenors Motion to File Supplemental Brief.* Intervenors 900116 Motion for Leave to File Supplemental Brief Re 891113 & 1201 Motions Should Be Denied & Supplemental Brief Rejected.W/Certificate of Svc

ML20006B184
Person / Time
Site:	Seabrook
Issue date:	01/25/1990
From:	Trout J PUBLIC SERVICE CO. OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, ROPES & GRAY
To:	NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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APPLICANTS' RESPONSE TO INTERTENORS'  ;

f MOTION To FILE A SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEF Under date of January 16, 1990, the Attorney General of The ,

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Seacoast Anti-Pollution League, and.the How England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution (hereinafter i collectively "Intervanors") filed a document styled as ,

"Intervenors (sic) Motion for Leave to File a Supplemental Brief

-in Support of Their November 13 and December 1, 1989 Motions for Mandatory Relief" (hereinafter " Motion"). Accompanying the Motion -

was "Intervenors (sic) Supplemental Brief in Support of Their  :

November 13 and December 1, 1989 Motions for Mandatory Relief"  ;

(hereinafter " Supplemental Brief"), the document which the Motion -

seeks-to have the Commission accept for consideration. The Motion should be denied, and the supplemental Brief reiected, for the following reasons:

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1. On November 16, 1989, the Commission set the schedule for all further briefing on Intervenors' various attempts to block the issuance of the full-power operating license authorized by the Licensing Board on November 9, 1989. In its unpublished order, the Commission specifically stated that "(N)o further replies to answers will be considered." Intervenors' " Supplemental Brief" is a thinly-disguised effort to evada that order and, pursuant to the Commission's prior unambiguous statement, should not be received

-for consideration.

2. The Motion purports to be premised on the theory that the procedural order issued by the Licensing Board on January 11, 1990, in which that Board solicited the parties' views as to how it should proceed with whatever further resolution might be necessary as to the issues remanded to it in ALAB-924, suddenly revealed that "the November 9 license authorization was not made pursuant to 10 C.F.R. 50.47 (c) (1) . "1 This argument, however, is based upon a wanton misreading of the Licensing Board's order, as ,

well as a complete disregard of the decisions which preceded it '

and the agency precedent on point.2 The Licensing Boards order does not in any way retract the Board's prior detailed and ,

persuasive findings that the four remanded issues were not Motion at 1 2.

2 Moreover, the abusive and sneering tone of the brief (mag., "the Licensing Board's misleading language immediately identifies its author," Supplemental Brief at 1 2), provides an -

additional reason why it should be summarily discarded. 10 C.F.R. 2.713.

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t significant to the licensing of Seabrook,3 obviously an analysis in conformity with 10 C.F.R. 5 50.47(c) (1) (whether or not the )

regulation is mentioned iD haec verba). Moreover, in the very opinion that made those findings, the Licensing Board q unequivocally stated its intention to " seek the advice of the parties on the appropriate resolution of the remanded issues,"'

i and this is precisely what its January 11 order did. Finally, the l

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Board's January 11 order soliciting the parties' advice is consistent with prior agency actions on remand of issues deemed t

not significant under 10 C.F.R. I 50.47 (c) (1), wherein the appeal i board called upon "the Licensing Board and the carties . . . (to) act as expeditiously as possible in response to our remand."5 Respectfully submitted, hy NYY

/Inomss G. Dignan, Jr.

George H. Lewald Jeffrey P. Trout Jay Bradford Smith Geoffrey C. Cook William L. Parker Ropes & Gray One International Place Boston, MA 02110-2624 (617) 951-7000 3 Public Service Comeany of New Hamnshire (Seabrook Station, Unit 1 and 2) , LBP-89-33, 30 NRC __ (Nov. 20, 1989).

Id., slip. op. at 5; mas als.g 14. at 2 n.1.

I Philadelehia Electric Co. (Limerick Generating Station,

- Units 1 and 2), ALAB-819, 22 NRC 681, 716 (1985) (emphasis e added) ; gaA 1112 id. at 715 n. 47.

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of the within document by depositing copies thereof'V Bhederal Express, prepaid, for delivery to (or where indicated, by depositing in the United States mail, first class postage paid, addressed to) the individuals listed below Kenneth M. Carr, Chairman Thomas M. Roberts, Commissioner U.S. Nuclear Regulatory U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commission One White Flint North One White Flint North 11555 Rockville Pike 11555 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852 Rockville, MD 20852 James R. Curtiss, Commissioner U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission one White Flint North 11555 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852 Kenneth C. Rogers, Commissioner William C. Parler, Esquire U.S. Nuclear Regulatory General Counsel commission Office of the General Counsel One White Flint North One White Flint North 11555 Rockville Pike 11555 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852 Rockville, MD 20852 G. Paul Bollwerk, III, Chairman Howard A. Wilber Atomic Safety and Licensing Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Panel Appeal Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commission

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Commission East West Towers Building 4350 East West Highway Bethesda, MD 20814 ,

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East West Towers Building Washington, DC 20472 t 4350 East West Highway  :

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Mr. Richard R. Donovan Diane Curran, Esquire ,

Federal Emergency Management Andrea C. Forster, Esquire Agency Harmon, Curran & Tousley Federal Regional Center Suite 430 i 130 228th Street, S.W. 2001 S Street, N.W.

Bothell, WA 98021-9796 Washington, DC 20009 Robert R. Pierce, Esquire George Dana Bisbee, Esquire Atomic Safety and Licensing Associate Attorney General Board Office of the Attorney General i U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 25 Capitol Street Commission Concord, NH 03301-6397 East West Towers Building I 4350 East West Highway 1 Bethesda, MD 20814 Adjudicatory File Mitzi A. Young, Esquire Atomic Safety and Licensing Edwin J. Reis, Esquire Board Panel Docket (2 copies) Office of the General Counsel

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