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Amended Motion to Disqualify ASLB Consisting of C Bechhoefer,G Anderson & R Decker in Matter of Expansion of Spent Fuel Storage Capacity at La Crosse Boiling Water Reactor Owned by Dairyland Power Cooperative
ML20057B628
Person / Time
Site: La Crosse File:Dairyland Power Cooperative icon.png
Issue date: 08/20/1980
From: Olsen F
DAIRYLAND POWER COOPERATIVE
To:
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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FOIA-92-436 NUDOCS 9309230030
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{{#Wiki_filter:__ ~ _. t a A i m DO N ii ~ UNITED STAT 5 0F MERICA - tmme 3.5 uvCLEAR REGutaron CalacssION ~,, AUG 2 6 @ > 6 O!!im ofits Seestery [ In the Matter of ) M3*",y, ) r ,g/- 'y rumnD pct,;IR COOPERATIVE ) Docket No. 50-409 i.q pj f (La Crosse Soiling 'Jater Reacter) J i:i AME'OED MO* ION The Motics to Disqualify the ASL3 consisting of Charles 3echhoefer, j Geo ge 1Merson, and Ralph Decker, of 19 August 1980 sban be i emeded to reflect the fo11cving: I. E: AS, that du-1=g the Atcs.ie Safety and Liscensing Board ~ hearings of October,1979, concerning the expe.nsion of spent fuel storage capacity at the La Crosse So4 g "Jeter Reactor,. owned by i Dairyland Power Cooperative ad loccted at Gence, Visconsin, in the i County of Vernon, the Atccic Sa.fety ad Liscensing Socrd ' consisting l of Charles 3echhoefer, Gecrge inderson, aM Ralph Decker, did fail + to take into their collection of evidence the largest nonets.:-- iten of evidence, excluding de--cc=issiong and vaste ste-age, re-aly, Three File Island-Unit n accicent rela.ei cests, eene.*****ns nue i H., In., IV., ani V. renain as subnitted in the criginal Motion I to Lisqualify of 19 August 1980. .MY kAS ^ s / r.wEP. ICE MILTON OLSE : In, moving party Subscribed and svorn to befcry;ne this _ da7 cf Neuo/* 1980 I 9309230030 930504: [d# PDR FOIA MLNW2-G3A Mdfft

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-see: ~f.: -4sc ~ The Ihree l'ile Islam-Unit II accident related retrofit 4, up. J,'.,-""..f,.' \\' costs vere the hrgest nonetary ec=siderations brcught up at f,.,, g t o the Atc=ic Safety aM Liscensing Ecari hearings of Cetober, 1979, at La Oresse, EICLIDING DE-CC12CSSIO:*I:iG AHD WASTE. STOP. AGE. The back end of the ::aclee.r fuel cycle vin always I involve the largest costs in the utilization of atacie energy for so-called " peaceful pu peses." _J!b f J FEDIRICE }'ILTO:* 015E3 III, affiant Subscribed aM sworn ta before r.e this E4 day of _ c9ar/ . 1980. 5.- / l s Nota:- Public My ca==ission is pe:-mnt. =_E=_ = i I

1 i i __=== 1 = i 7:e board, in f1. grant derelictics of their dut; to gather .via,.,...,., efesad te even certain r. rance into i.11ch j these WI-2 cest cight fall. The beari nttanpted to do;; their responsibilities 'c-sayi:q th:t, "It (:"0R20-0575) l I is just reccccanir. tion." (reference : ASD :1ee. ring tra.ns-cript, 5 Oct 79, in the natter of DFO's LACI.2, ;::se 754) i I specific '17 pointed out the rule-cahing histe:/ of these proposed requi 2=ents. (reference: ASD hearing trnnscript J 5 Oct 79, pages 409-410) These requirenents becsr.e binM g ct c date before the bor.d's. final decision, as can be seen EE: = in ~ etters fron Ereld R. Denton, Directer, Offica cf f 2d in Znelear React.o-Regulation, U.S.:7.R.C., as referen i an Crier To Sheu Canse, issusd to ?PC cn 2 Jams.:q 1?8C, t the aforementioned Tr. Denton. In i.he public racerd, by on Ja mary 10, 1900, P.c. Rich-d Shi-.shak, LiCY2 plant rnnaEer, r forred to the ecet estinates cf ":EC cfficicle" t'.ut ranged free fifteen (15) to tuenty-five (25) r417'on delletes fer 7.C-2 ret ofits. (reference: la Creste Tribuns, 10 Jan 50, page 2) I maid like te point out th t 10 Jan-uar-1930 was also the date that the board's fin:.1 decisi:n l tec:=2 pub ic'J a.m. T'.erefcre, logicall;, tic Locri eculd 3 hav gathered hcu1R-e, and ::.s in ft.ct p-itf to r.uch her-s c:re.16 have been u:ed to er-ive at r.n sec:et:ble rTt led,7

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6id n:t tche ths:e cc:t: inte neer.: t in thi-dslibratio= evidencef b; the decirien tie t th ; ::.:'ed de:r., for s. ts17, c.: had they tr. hen the i~.*I : retrefit ecst into no:::::t, their deeici: uculd Mvs been diff arset. C: 5 Cetcher M, l durin-the aftsreces session of A313 h: rin; in L: Cro::e, 1 the bocrd refused to allo.: c,nestic 'n; and dicen::ien of 1: citernative design concept proposal ta ev'+ :;ing ths spent fuel storage capacity at LiC3.a. (referenca: !5L3 herrin; trz: script, 5 cet 79, in the stter cf D C's Lic3'.G, pr.ge 746) Eci the board ancr. ed further discussion c. d questic:irg, ressens tht converries cf the LC~C re.cto-vessel to a m 2._=.

==_ spent feel storage vessel uculd be se.fer cmd =cre ecenc-Ice 1 j fer t.rea resident: vo.C.i have b:-e: p::v.sented s.:xi suppertad. If tha bosrd t:.dy held the s:Setf, hselth, d v:1ftre cf the America pu~clic forencet in tisir ri=is, uccli they not l have heard testinct, dizeursien, :mi : nestic ' to gat":sr infe:=2 tion sbeut this Ctar :.tive to spect _'tel : tern;e l cape:ity i=:rease at LAC 3 G7 I =c7 yes, Ec.:ever, the bocri chess =ct te, pir. inly i.T.icat':g that the public 'atarcst-v: =ct upper cst in their ri f.. Aft 2r cetics: cuch s I aff de.v.t. I cc: nc icager believe d hs.ve delineated in thi: the.t ths itc.ic Safaty : d Liecs: sin; Coard corrist'.r.; cf Charles 3echhoefer, George Ic.dar:en, :. d ?11pi Dec~.:ar is cap:ble of conside-in; criione: cri ranierin;- ?.ccici:=

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s.-- x .* s i ar'op1 ' j ci = EG s ( s-UNITED STATES OF AMERICA -: m 5: NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION x:nt 4 I SEP - 5198() > h 03 ,~ ::.'th Seatter T .. a-a % f / In the Matter of ) N ) DAIRYLAND POWER COOPERATIVE ) Docket No. 50-409 ) -(Liquefaction) (La Crosse Boiling Water ) (Show Cause) Reactor) ) t LICENSEE'S RESPONSE TO FREDERICK OLSEN'S MOTION TO DISQUALIFY THE LICENSING BOARD _ E= Ei# Dairyland Power Cooperative (Dairyland or DPC),-the holder of Provisional Operating License No. DPR-45 for the La Crosso Boiling Water Reactor (LACBWR) and the licensee in the above-captioned proceeding, hereby submits its response in t opposition to the motion filed by Frederick M. Olsen, III, to disqualify the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board sppointed by the Comission to rule on the requests for a hearing in this proceeding. In support of its position, Dairyland states as follows: 1. As noted in Dairyland's August 28, 1980 Response to Requests For Hearing, Frederick M. Olsen, III, is a member of l the coulee Region Energy Coalition (CREC) who has, acting on his 3, own behalf, requested that a hearing be held in this proceeding. ~~ g l Ms. Ann Morse, who is also a member of CREC and who is 1/ acting on behalf of CREC, has likewise requested that a hearing be held in this proceeding. i + '. j f ~.

-2 55E 2. The sole ground advanced by Mr. Olsen in support of his motion to disqualify the Licensing Board is that this Board is somehow biased because of certain evidentiary rulings which the same Board made during hearings in an earlier proceeding involving an application by Dairyland to amend the LACBWR operating license to expand the capacity of the spent fuel pool. 3. It is well settled that the mere fact that a Licensing Board has issued a large number of unfavorable, or even erroneous, rulings with respect to a given party is not evidence of _ gg bias on the part of the Board. See e.g., Northern Indiana Public j Service Co. (Bailly 1), ALAB-224, 8 AEC 244, 246 (1974). A claim of bias is even more attenuated in situations where, as here, only a few rulings are involved and they are clearly not erroneous. There was no need for the Board to hold hearings at all in the spent fuel expansion proceeding once the Board summarily disposed of all of CREC's contentions. The fact that the Board nevertheless elected to hold hearings on the issue of the need for power from LACBWR during the period prior to a decision in the pending full term operating license (FTOL) proceeding and permitted CREC to participate as a full party in those hearings would suggest that, if anything, the Board was biased in favor of the intervenor in that proceeding. The evidentiary rulings which the Board later rendered in that proceeding and on which Mr. Olsen iss EZ' relies in support of his motion for disqualification were entirely proper and in keeping with the limited scope of the proceeding.

i t ih -3 While Mr. Olsen may be displeased with these evidenciary rulings, this displeasure is actually rooted in Mr. Olsen's misperception of the purpose and scope of the spent fuel expansion proceeding. i In any event, these rulings hardly constitute evidence of bias and provide insufficient grounds for disqualification. 4. Moreover, Mr. Olsen was not even a party to the spent fuel pool expansion proceeding. Rather, he merely made a e limited appearance in that proceeding under 10 C.F.R. I 2.715. Nevertheless, in his motion for disqualification and supporting gB; affidavit, Mr. Olsen attempts to take much of the fact that during. 1 - =. one of his limited appearances he urged the Board to adduce addi-tional evidence on the cost of reactor retrofits arising out of the TMI-2 incident. Once again, Mr. Olsen appears to have mis-perceived the actual significance of a limited appearance state-1 =ent. "A limited appearance statement is not evidence" and need not be treated as such by a Licensing Board. Iowa Electric Light 6 Power (Duane Arnold), ALAB-108, 6 AEC 195, 196, n. 4 (1973). While a Licensing Board may elect to adduce additional evidence on an issue raised in a limited appearance statement, a Board is obligated to do so -- particularly where, as here, considera-not tion of the issue would go beyond the scope of the proceeding, would not be necessary to a decision in this proceeding, and would involve considerable speculation on the Board's part. In any REh

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v l-t l ~ r7:~E ,4 ts:+- For all the foregoing reasons, Dairyland respectfully submits that the Licensing Board should deny Mr. Olsen's Motion to l Disqualify the Licensing Board in its entirety, f Respectfully submitted, 1 i f } [ti O. S. Hiestand l Attorney for Dairyland Power Cooperative l OF COUNSEL 1 {i Kevin P. Gallen Morgan, Lewis & Bockius 1800 M Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 Dated: September 5, 1980 b?=*

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