ML20011B261
| ML20011B261 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Seabrook  |
| Issue date: | 12/01/1981 |
| From: | Dignan T PUBLIC SERVICE CO. OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, ROPES & GRAY |
| To: | Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
| References | |
| ISSUANCES-OL, NUDOCS 8112080274 | |
| Download: ML20011B261 (4) | |
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Docket Nos. 50-443-OL HAMPSHIRE, et al.
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APPLICANTS' ANSWER TO THE
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(( A By letter of November 17, 1981,* Patti Jacobson, an individual residing in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and ten other individuals seek to intervene in this proceeding.
The petition recites that all of these individuals are " health care providers", with the exception of Ms. Jacobson, no residences are given.
The peti-tioners recite that they are concerned that the licensing of Seabrook will inc:-sase " anxiety" in their " general clientele" which may have adverse physical effects on thic clientele.
For the reacon set forth below, the Applicants, answering pursuant to 10 CFR $ 2.714(c), say that the petition should be denied.
- No copy was served upon Applicants.
Applicants first obtained the document on November 30, 1981.
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6 Prescinding from the question of whether the creation of anxiety a; a result of licensing a nuclear plant can ever be a litigable issue in NRC licensing proceedings," the anxiety here alleged is not that of the petitioners, but that of their clients.
A potential intervenor may assert only his or her own rights.
E.g.',
TVA (Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Units 1 & 2),
ALAB-413, 5 NRC 1418, 1421 (1977), affirming LBP-77-36, 5 NRC 1292, 1294 (1977).
Further, this anxiety allegation is a classic example of a generalized grievance not distinct to the petitioners.
As the Commission has stated:
"One focus of the ' injury in fact' test is the concept that a claim will not normally be entertained if the ' asserted harm is "a generalized grievance" shared in substantial equal measure by all or a large class of citizens' [ citation].
- Thus, even if there is a generalized asserted harm, the Petitioners must still show a distinct and palpable harm to them.
[Cita-tions]."
Transnuclear Inc., CLI-77-24, 6 NRC 525, 531 (1977).
By their attorneys, Thomas G.
Dignan, Jr.
Thomas G.
Dignan, Jr.
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K. Gad III Ropes & Gray 225 Franklin Street Boston, MA 02110 (617) 423-6100
- The acceptability of the anxiety created in society at large by the utilization of nuclear power presumably was settled by Congress when it permitted civilian use of nuclear technology. [
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I, Thomas G. Dignan, Jr., one of the attorneys for the applicants herein, hereby. certify that on December.1, 1981, -
I made service of the within document by mailing copies thereof, postage prepaid, to:
Robert A. Backus, Esquire Mr. Arnie Wight, Chairman 116 Lowell Street House Science and Technology P.O. Box 516 Committee Manchester, NH 03105 House of Representatives Concord, NH 03301 Mr. Tomlin P. Kendrick Executive Director E. Tupper Kinder, Esquire Coastal Chamber of Commerce Assistant Attorney General of New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General 822 Lafayette Road 208 State House Annex P.O. Box 596 Concord, NH 03301 Hampton, NH 03842 Mr. Robert F. Preston Paul A. Fritzsche, Esquire 226 Winnacunnet Road General Counsel Hampton., NH 03842 Public Advocate State House Station 112 Wilfred L. Sanders, Jr., Esquire Augusta, ME 04333 Sanders and McDermott Professional Association Philip Ahrens, Esquire 408 Lafayette Road Assistant Attorney General Hampton, NH 03842 Department of the Attorney General Boy P. Lessy, Jr., Esquire Augusta, ME 04333 Office of the Executive Legal Director Jo Ann Shotwell, Esquire U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Assistant Attorney General Washington, D.C.
20555 Environmental Protection Division Public Protection Bureau Atomic Safety and Licensing Department of the Attorney General Board Panel One Ashburton Place, 19th Floor U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Boston, MA 02108 Washington, D.C.
20555 William S. Jordan, III, Esquire Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal,
Harmon & Weiss Board Panel i
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Donald L. Herzberg, M.D.
Ms. Patti Jacobson George Margolis~, M.D.
3 orange Street Hitchcock Hospital Newburyport, MA 01950 Hanover, NH 03755 Edward J. McDermott, Esquire Sanders and McDermott Professional Association 408 Lafayette Road Hampton, NH 03842 Robert L. Chiesa, Esquire Wadleigh, Starr, Peters, Dunn & Kohls 95 Market Street Manchester, NH 03101 Rep. Nicholas J. Costello Whitehall Road Amesbury, MA 01913 Cooperative Members for Responsible Investment Box 65 Plymouth, NH 03264 Thomas G. Dignan, Jr.
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