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Comments on Partial Response to Commission 811130,1223 & 820111 Orders Re Deferring Orders' Effectiveness Until ASLB Issues Decision in Reopened Hearing on Cheating.Certificate of Svc Encl
ML20039G771
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Issue date: 01/13/1982
From: Trowbridge G
METROPOLITAN EDISON CO., SHAW, PITTMAN, POTTS & TROWBRIDGE
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NUDOCS 8201190114
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA '82 JA!!15 P5 35 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION g .

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BEFORE THE COMMISSION .

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METROPOLITAN EDISON COMPANY ) Docket No. "" ^

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3; JAN1319823 .05 D I c A-LICENSEE'S' COMMENTS IN PARTIAL RESPONSE ds EU ^

<s COMMISSION ORDERS OF NOVEMBER 30 AND DECEMBER 23, 1981, AND JANUARY 11, 1982 Upp:.Mr \,.O '

In its Order dated November 30, 1981, as modified by its orders dated December 23, 1981, and January 11, 1982, the Commission invited the parties to the TMI-l restart proceeding (1) to comment by January 28, 1982, on whether the Licensing Board's partial initial decision of December 14, 1982, on de-sign issues, emergency planning and.s'eparasion of TMI Units 1 a'nd 2 should be made immediately effective and (2) to.ccmment by January 13, 1982, on whether the Comm'ission should defer its ,

immediate effectiveness decision until after the Licensing Board has issued its decision in the reopened hearing to consider the implications of.the cheating incident on the NRC's April, 1981 9 56 s ,3 i t!

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1 operator license examinations. This response constitutes Licensee's comments on the second of these question.1/

The reopened hearing was concluded on December 10, 1982.2/ Under procedures established by the Board, the Board's decision will not be made until after (a) the parties have filed all proposed findings and reply findings, (b) the Special Master presiding over the reopened hearing has. issued his report to the Board, (c) comments by the parties on that report have been filed with the Board, and (d) the Board has considered and issued its decision. The Board estimated in its decision of December 14, 1981, that its decision on the reopened proceeding will not issue until March or April, 1982.

(P.I.D. 5 2014)

Licensee's position is that the Commission's deci-sion on restart should not await the Scard's decision relating to the cheating incident.

1/ Parties were also invited by Memorandum dated December 23,

1981, frcm the Secretary of the Commission to comment by January 13, 1982, on certain dccuments. attached to that Memorandum relating to the water level indication issue.

.he Secretary's Memorandum indicated that the Commission' l may take the information contained in these documents into acccunt in making its decision whether to make'the Licens-ing Board's decisions on restart immediately. effective.

Licensee's comments on these documents are being separately -

filed with.the Commission.

l 2/ The Aamodts have pending before the Licens g Board a motion

to reopen the hearing which has been opposed by the Staff l

and Licensee.

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In considering this question some perspective on ,.

.the cheating incident and the reopened hearing is necessary.

It is.an acknowledged fact that two of the operator license candidates cheated on the NRC examination in April, 1981, and that both were promptly terminated by . Licensee. The Board did not suggest that the cheating by two operators was in it-self grounds ~ for reopening the hearing. The Board discerned in this incident, however, the possibility of impacts on other issues bearing on Licensee's management and technic.al capability and reopened the hearing on its own motion to con-sider these possible impacts.

The cheating incident and the Board's decision to -

reopen the hearing on the basis of the cheating incident do not. establish a presumption of inadequacy in Licensee's management and technical capability and are not in themselves a basis for continuing the suspension of TMI-l's operating authority. It is inconceivable to Licensee that.a similar

. episode and decision to hold a hearing at another operating

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p ant would be considered by the 'Comm'ission as a basis for suspending an operating license. ,

Had the reopened hearing developed evidence of seri- ,

ous management incompetence or lack of integrity, such evidence might properly be taken into account by the Commission as grounds for deferring its decision on restart. The fact is -

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that it did not.

The evidence clearly established that there was no management ccmplicity in any cheating episode; instead the evidence fully supported the thoroughness and responsible attitude with which management responded to the cheating inci-dent. The hearing also explored at length other operator irregularicies or allegations of irregularity in connection with both the NRC and Licensee operator examinations, but de- .

The veloped no evidence reflecting on Licensee's management.

evidence did confirm, and Licensee has acknowledged, past weak-nesses in the administration of its own operator examinations and in the administrative process employed by Licensee for This evi-certifying operator license candidates to the NRC.

dence included, however, the measures which Licensee has on its own initiative put in place to correct these deficiencies.

Licensee will, o# course, reply to the comments of any party to the reopened hearing who takes a different' view of the hearing evidence.

Licensee does not agree with the Licensing Board's recommendation, by a two-to-one vote,3/ that the Commission authorize restart of TMI-l at only a 5% power level-pending the Board's decision on the reopened hearing--a-level at which the Board saw no sciecy problems. The Board's' recommendation.

was not in any way based on developments in the reopened hearing.

restriction on 3/ Dr.' Jordan would authorize restart without power level provided Licensee meets its staffing commit-ments on licensed operators. .

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~ It studiously avoided instead any prejud'gment of the hearing .

before the Special Masrer on whose report the Board would'later

'have to make a decision. The Board had earlier considered the possibility of recuesting the Special Master to issue an interim report upon which the Board's restart reccmmendation could-be made, but when the issues to be' heard'in the reopened' proceed-ing were expanded an interim report turned out to be impractical'.

(P.I.D. I 2019) ,

We believe it is incumbent on the Commis,sion to make the determination which the Board was reluctant to make in ,

the absence of any Special Master's report. Unlike the Board, the Commission will have before it the views of all affected parties on the information developed in the reopened hearing and can decide whether that information raises concerns of such pro- .

portions as to justify continued suspension of the TMI-l license. .

The practical difficulty with the Board's recommend-ation is that its decision on the reopened hearing is not expected until March or April. Further time may be added for r,eceipt and consideration by the Commission of the parties' comments on that decision. The potential delay in returning

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TMI-l to commercial operation is not justified by developments in the reopened hearing.

Respectfully submitted, SEAW, PCTTS & T0"WERIDGE PI"T.v;N, d

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l Gedrge F. T owbridge Dated: January 13, 1982

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t UNITED STATES OF AMERICA '

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE COMMISSION In the Matter of )

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METROPOLITAN EDISON COMPANY ) Docket No. 50-289

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(Three Mile Island Nuclear )

Station, Unit No. 1) )

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of " Licensee's Comments in Partial Response to Commission Orders of November 30 and December 23, 1981, and January 11, 1982,", dated January 13, 1982, have been served on the persons en the attached Service List by deposit in the United States mai'1, postage prepaid, cr as indicated by an asterisk, by hand delivery, or as indicated by double asterisk by express mail, this 13th day of January, 1982.

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