ML20056C190

Parties 930315 Joint Progress Rept.* Parties Will Submit Another Progress Rept by 930517.W/Certificate of Svc

ML20056C190
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Site:	Claiborne
Issue date:	03/15/1993
From:	Mcgarry J LOUISIANA ENERGY SERVICES, WINSTON & STRAWN
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E IIC 17 o 3 72 BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of LOUISIANA ENERGY SERVICES, L.P.

Docket No. 70-3070-ML (Claiborne Enrichment Center)

PARTIES' MARCH 15. 1993. JOTNT PROGRESS REPORT This (fifth) joint progress report responds to the Licensing Board's request in its May 7, 1992, Memorandum and Order (Memorializing Prehearing Conference), ASLBP No. 91-641-02-ML, that "the parties should provide the Board with a [ bimonthly) joint progress report on their activities for meeting the prehearing schedule."

This report has been reviewed, and found acceptable, by Citizens Against Nuclear Trash (Intervenor), NRC Staff Counsel, and Louisiana Energy Services, L.P.

(Applicant).

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License Application Status i

The following information and issues related to completion of the NRC staff's Safety Evaluation Report (SER) and Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) remain outstanding.

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On March 15, 1993, LES submitted responses to requests for additional information dated December 23, 1992 concerning the Criticality Safety Engineering Report (CSER), except for the Mobile Pump Cart criticality 9303300227 930315 i

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safety analysis.

This analysis will be submitted by LES to the Staff by April 8,

1993.

B.

Seismic and accident analysis information, including classification of structures, systems, and components, in addition to the information supplied in LES' responses dated December 10, 1992, will be submitted by March 31, 1993.

C.

The NRC staff is reviewing plans, detailed in LES' letter to the NRC dated December 14, 1992, for the depleted uranium hexafluoride that will be produced at the Claiborne Enrichment Center.

D.

The NRC staff is reviewing LES' revised Emergency Plan, submitted in annotated form to the NRC staff on January 29, 1993, and formally distributed on February 11, 1993, in response to requests for additional information dated November 20, 1992.

Minor corrections and clarifications will be made to the Emergency Plan by April 2, 1993, as discussed with Dr.

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Roch6 on March 11, 1993.

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The NRC staff is reviewing LES' revised License Application Section j, submitted March 10, 1993, which

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carried by LES from $120 million to $200 million.

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The NRC staff is reviewing LES' revised Fundamental e

Nuclear Material Control (FNMC) Plan, submitted on f

February 26, 1993, in response to requests for additional information dated August 14 and 17, 1992.

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STAFF DOCUMENTS AND HEARING SCHEDULE i

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The NRC staff's projected publication date for the Final Environmental Impact Statement remains May 16, 1994.

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projected publication date for the SER 1s revised from July 9, i

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1993, to September 9, 1993, to reflect submission and review I

delays.

These dates are, however, subject to change if current submission and review schedules are not met.

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Based on those projected dates and the Board's schedule from the May 7, 1992, Memorandum and Order:

Discovery on technical issues will end November 4, 1993 4

(8 weeks following issuance of SER);

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Prefiled testimony on technical issues is due December 30, 1993 (8 weeks following end of discovery);

The hearing on technical issues will start January 20, 1994 (3 weeks following filing of prefiled testimony);

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Discovery on environmental issues will end July 11, e

1994 (8 weeks following issuance of FEIS);

Prefiled testimony on environmental issues is due August 22, 1994 (6 weeks following end of discovery);

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The hearing on environmental issues will start September 12, 1994 (3 weeks following filing of

-profiled testimony).

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DISCOVERY 4

Discovery activity involves Intervenor's responces to Applicant's Interrogatories served on Intervenor August 11, 1992.

December 2, 1992:

Intervenor answered some of Applicant's August 11 Interrogatories and objected to f

others.

December 24, 1992:

Applicant filed a Motion to Compel Discovery I

from Intervenor.

February 2, 1992:

The Licensing Board ordered Intervenor to answer some interrogatories and ordered the parties to establish a schedule to answer other interrogatories which were the subject of Applicant's Motion to Compel.

February 17, 1993:

Intervenor proposed to answer some interrogatories by March 19, 1993, and the remaining interrogatories by sixty days prior to the close of discovery.

February 22, 1993:

The Licensing Board ordered Intervenor to answer interrogatories in accordance with the proposed schedule. 9

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CONTENTIONS l

i The status of Intervenor's Contentions has not changed in the last few reports and is omitted from this report.

Changes, if any, will be reported as they occur.

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CONCLUSION The parties will submit another progress report on May 17,

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LOUISIANA ENERGY SERVICES, L.P.

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Docket No. 70-3070 (Claiborne Enrichment Center)

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of " Parties' March 15, 1993, Progress Report" have been served on the following by deposit in the United States Mail, first class, this 15th day of March, 1993:

Administrative Judge Administrative Judge Morton B. Margulies, Chairman Richard F.

Cole Atomic Safety and Licensing Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commission Washington, D.C.

20555 Washington, D.C.

20555 (2 copies)

. Administrative Judge Secretary of the Commission Frederick J.

Shon U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Atomic Safety and Licensing Commission Board Washington, D.C.

20555 U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Attention: Chief, Docketing and Commission Service Section Washington, D.C.

20555 (Original plus 2 copies)

Office of Commission Appellate Eugene Holler, Esq.

Adjudication Office of the General Counsel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commission Washington, D.C.

20555 Washington, D.C.

20555

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d Ronald Wascom, Deputy Assistant Joseph Distofano Secretary Louisiana Energy Services, L.P.

Office of Air. Quality &

2600 Virginia Avenue, N.W.-

-Radiation Protection Suite 610 P.O.

Box 82135 Washington, D.C.

20037 Baton Rouge, LA 70884-2135 Peter G.

LeRoy Marcus A. Rowden Duke Engineering and Services, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver &

Inc.

Jacobsen 230 South Tryon Street 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue,-N.W.

P.O. Box 1004 Suite 900 South Charlotte, NC 28201-1004 Washington, D.C.

20004 Diane Curran Nathalie Walker Harmon, Curran, Gallagher &

Sierra Club Legal Defense-Fund-Spielberg 400 Magazine St.

2001 S Street, N.W.

Suite 401 Suite 430 New Orleans, LA 70130 Washington, D.C.

20009-1125 Adjudicatory File Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.

20555 LOUISIANA ENERGY SERVICES, L.P.

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