ML20006B791
| ML20006B791 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Seabrook  |
| Issue date: | 01/06/1990 |
| From: | Carr K NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Kostmayer P HOUSE OF REP., INTERIOR & INSULAR AFFAIRS |
| Shared Package | |
| ML20005H003 | List: |
| References | |
| CCS, KOSTMAYE-900106, NUDOCS 9002050358 | |
| Download: ML20006B791 (1) | |
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.a If yes - please list the person affected. and the nature of-
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- We previously answered this question in our December 20, 1989 response to you. A copy of that response is attached.
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The Honorable-Peter H. Kostmayer, Chairman L
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United States House of Representatives-g Washington, D. C. 20515 D
Dear Chairman Kostmayer:
u ThisLletter responds to your letter dated December li. 1989..
That letter informed the Commission that the Oversight and L
Investigations Subcommittee is initiating an inquiry,S.to NRC licensing proceedin L
those proceedings. gs and interpretations of law that. govern Your. letter suggests that we have per--
mitted an erotion of safety standards enacted by Congress i
with respect to requirements for emergency planning;at nuclear power plants.
Most particularly you. express concern about_recent actions taken by the Commission and.its Licensing. Board concerning the application for a full power j
operating license for Seabrook Station in-New Hampshire; In.
this connection, you sent eleven questions. some with multiple parts, for-our response by December 20, 1989.
At the outset, let me state that the Commission is committed to the protection of the public health and safety through emergency planning.
Protective responses must be planned and avai able in the unlikely event that, despite the redundancy of our safety requirements, there should be a serious radio-logical emergency at a nuclear power plant.
As you are aware, the-Commission is currently and actively engaged in considering whether the emergency. planning for Seabrook satisfies the Commission's standards for the grant of a full power license.
That consideration is a part of the formal adjudicatory proceeding.that is required by our regulations issued to implement Section 189 of the Atomic Energy Act.
As your letter acknowledges your inquiry-is directed in significant part to the very, question certified i,.
to the Commission by the Appeal Board in ALAB-922, issued October 11, 1989, as well as to other matters before it on motion of a party or parties or in the course of the regulatory process.
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For those reasons'the Commission is not ab'e to
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directly respond to your~ questions.
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suggested that some questions. are not Seabrook-specific but rather are' generic in nature, even those questions-are so
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' intertwined with the Seabrook issues that-it.would be improper ~ for us 'to respond, especially in the context of. your letter which explicitly referred to your interest in the Seabrook proceeding.
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Seabrook issues, it will' publish its-decisions.
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course, promptly provide you with a copy of any such decition.
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forthcoming decisions on the issues in Saabrook obviously will encompass answers to many, if not s'1, of the questions'you set forth.
However, no Commistion decision was issued before December 20', 1989.
~In addition, your letter along with this response will be served on the participants of this proceeding and placed in l
our_public document room for informational purposes.
In response to Question 11, Commissioners Curtiss and Remick have enclosed materials regarding their participation in certain Seabrook matters.
Sincerely, a
eh. h Kenneth M. Carr
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This letter is la response to the concerns whqpingen egepnsed la sur.
. meetinge: et Oetsber 24, 1989 and November 15.198Frelating to my mondmaticaLts serve.es a member of the Nuolaar Regulatory Caesmission.
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Reester Safeguards, I.have signed em of the Canadttee a letter to the t'h=s espressing the Canadttee's view en amargemey at the-sembreak Statism (Seabrook). That letter was developed on-heads.af.
preonatatisas made to the Canadttee by laterested persons and representatives.et i;
engaisant agencias and espresses the eeDegint and advisesy views af.the.
J Commuittee.. -I de not believe that my tism sa a member of the Canadttee would necessarity disqualify as fWen asting en Seabrook issues eaming
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'to me for' estles in an adjudicatory esatsat es a che.
I have ao denkt that I could and would'est sa Seabrook matters as an 1
lupartist adltullaster and would make my-deedslam solely on the basis of the adladdentary record.
Nonetheless, I-een understnad why some members of the' publie might questles whether I,would be elds' to consider opeamindedly the.
Seabreak issues new pendlag before the Canademien.
Consequeatty -I have renohed~the h that I should disqualify myself from vettag on osatested R
issues in the matter of the lattial authestsation for fun power operation of the j
8eabrook Station. In resoldag my comelusies, I have been particularly sensitive to r
the pesellde perception of some members of the pubtle of the need for my; disquallfloation en-8eabrook rather than any reauty.of bias or lack of objectivity
- en my part.
I have reached this conclusion after consultation with the Nuclear Regulatory ca==de=8an's Genesul Counsel.
- I appreciate the opportunity to set forth my views on this matter.
Sincerely yours,
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