ML20010E048
| ML20010E048 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Palo Verde  |
| Issue date: | 08/31/1981 |
| From: | Lazo R Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
| To: | Hourihan P AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED, ARIZONA PUBLIC SERVICE CO. (FORMERLY ARIZONA NUCLEAR |
| References | |
| ISSUANCES-OL, NUDOCS 8109030009 | |
| Download: ML20010E048 (3) | |
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Dr. Richard F. Cole Dr. A. Dixon Callihan yUS SEP 11981 In the Matter of-Docket Nos. STN-50-528-0L
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STN-50-529-OL ARIZONA PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY, ET AL.
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STN-50-530-0L
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(Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, )
Units 1, ? and 3 Operating License
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August 31, 1981
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MEMORANDUM AND ORDER The Joint Applicants have filed a motion to compel Intervenor Hourihan to answer their interrogatories 63, 64 and 65. The Intervenor objected to each of the interrogatories
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We do not have any elaboration of this objection. The Intervenor has filed neither an answer to the notion to compel nor any motion for a protective order, and the time for filing such furtl.er pleadings (including the additional time granted by the Board sua sponte in our Order of August 3,1981) has expired.
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2 Objections to interrogatories are required to be " specific enough so that the [ tribunal] can understand in what way the interrogatories are claimed to be objectionable.
General objections, such as the objection that the interregatories * *
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We have nevertheless carefully reviewed interrogatories 63, 64 and 65 to determine whether, on the basis of the very limited record before us, they appear to be in any way objectionable.
He conclude that they do not.
In her contention no. 8, the Intervenor claims that The base mats for Units 1 and 2 are not structurally able to support the systems and equipment inside containment, because some of the concrete slump tests performed by Engineering Testing Labs for Units 1 and 2 were falsified.
This al'?ged falsification is the focal point of all three interrogatories here insolved.
By way of illustration, Interrogatory 63 in effect asks the Intervenor to relate how she learned of the alleged falsification.
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view, all three interrogatories are plainly within the scope of discovery allowed by 10 CFR 52.740 (b)(1).
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(Susquehanna Steam Electric Stations (Units 1 and 2), ALAB-613, 12 NRC 317, 323 (1980) quoting 4A Moore's Federal Practice (1980 ed)
Para. 33.27 (at pp.33-151 and 33-152).
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3 It is, therefore, this 31st day of August 1981 ORDERED That not later than September 15, 1981, Intervenor Patricia Lee Ho. ihan serve her written answers, under oath or affirmation, to Joint Applicants' Interrogatories 63, 64 and 65.
F0P THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD Robert M. Lazo, Chaihnl ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE 1
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