ML20057C078

Parties 930915 Joint Progress Rept.* Advises That Parties Will Submit Another Progress Rept on 931115.W/Certificate of Svc

ML20057C078
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Site:	Claiborne
Issue date:	09/15/1993
From:	Mcgarry J LOUISIANA POWER & LIGHT CO., WINSTON & STRAWN
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CON-#393-14308 91-641-02-OL, 91-641-2-OL, ML, NUDOCS 9309270041
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4 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DC(;nEiLO NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION l'iNF C BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD

'93 SEP 16 P3 :48 In the Matter of

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LOUISIANA ENERGY SERVICES, L.P.

Docket No. 70-3070'-ML (Claiborr.e Enrichment Center)

PARTIES' SEPTEMBER 15, 1993. JOINT PROGRESS REPORT I.

INTRODUCTION This (seventh) 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 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 NRC Staff Counsel, Citizens Against Nuclear Trash (Intervenor), and Louisiana Energy Services, L.P.

(Applicant).

II.

LICENSE APPLICATION STATUS The following information and issues related to completion of the NRC staff's Safety Evaluation Report (SER) and Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) have occurred recently or i

remain outstanding.

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The NRC staff has informed Applicant that it needs more detailed information concerning the UF Product 6

i Sampling Autoclave tilting device, and a letter regarding the additional details will be provided to Applicant by September 17, 1993.

B.

During review of Applicant's Proposed License Conditions, the NRC staff requested clarifying information concerning the alpha monitors and additional information concerning facility decommissioning.

A letter regarding the information required will be provided to Applicant by September 17, 1993.

C.

Applicant submitted revised Proposed License Conditions to the NRC staff by letter dated September 14, 1993, in response to NRC staff letters dated August 11, August 24 and September 1, 1993.

D.

Applicant revised the Safety Analysis Report (SAR),

R Environmental Report (ER), License Application (LA),

l and the Criticality Safety Engineering Report on July l

30, 1993.

The following additional revisions will be made and all changes will be distributed by September l

30, 1993:

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Correct a typographical error in SAR Table 6.2-4 regarding adsorption capability of sodium fluoride; 2.

Update SAR section 11.5 to reference the LES Security Plan for the Protection of Classified Ma'

• er and Information regarding protecting c'.ssified information at the CEC; t

3.

Update decommissioning cost estimates to include NRC confirmatory survey costs, decommissioning plan development costs, and facility and site characterization costs; and r

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Revise criticality monitoring commitments based upon comments in a September 1, 1993, NRC staff letter to Applicant.

E.

Applicant will submit a revised Fundamental Nuclear j

Haterial Control Plan to the NRC staff by September 30, 1993.

(The NRC staff previously has determined that Applicant's FNMC Plan satisfies applicable regulations; therefore, this should not impact the staff's document j

I preparation schedule.)

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Applicant submitted a minor revision to the Emergency Plan on August 20, 1993.

III.

STAFF DOCUMENTS AND HEARING SCHEDULE The NRC Staff's projected publication dates for the SER, and Draft EIS remain unchanged from those reported in the July 15, 1993, Joint Progress Report:

January 28, 1994, and November 30, 1993, respectively.

The publication date of the Final EIS, which will follow the DEIS publication date by nine months, remains August 30, 1994.

These dates, however, depend on the NRC staff being able to complete its review without the need for additional information.

Based on these projected dates and the Board's schedule from j

the May 7, 1992, Memorandum and Order, the following schedule remains unchanged:

Discovery on technical issues will end March 25, 1994 (8 weeks following issuance of SER);

Prefiled testimony on technical issues is due May 20, e

1994 (8 weeks following end of discovery);

I The hearing on technical issues will start June 10, e

1994 (3 weeks following filing of prefiled testimony);

Discovery on environmental issues will end October 25, i

1994 (8 weeks following issuance of FEIS);

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

and The hearing on environmental issues will start December 27, 1994 (3 weeks following filing of prefiled testimony).

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DISCOVERY Discovery activity involves Intervenor's responses to Applicant's Interrogatories served on Intervenor August 11,-1992, and remains unchanged from the July 15, 1993, Joint Progress l

Report.

Intervenor served the parties with answers to a number i

of Applicant's Interrogatories on March 19, 1993.

Answers to

.1 the remaining Interrogatories are due to~be filed sixty days prior to the close af discovery.

V.

CONTENTIONS r

i The status of Intervenor's Contentions has not changed in'

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the last few reports and is omitted from this report.

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

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CONCLUSIQH The parties will submit another progress report on November-1 1

15, 1993.

LOUISIANA-ENERGY SERVICES,.L.P.

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I WINSTON & STRAWN, September 15, 1993 ATTORNEYS FOR LOUISIANA ENERGY

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'iibb UNITED STATES OF AMERICA I'UCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD S[r 16 P3 :48j, ' ' ' il 'In the Matter of }. ' f. % " LOUISIANA ENERGY SERVICES, L.P. Docket No. 70-3070 (Claiborne Enrichment Center) CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of " Parties' September 15, 1993, Joint Progress Report" have been served on the following by deposit in the United States Mail, first class, this 15th day of September, 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

i Ronald Wascom, Deputy Assistant Joseph DiStefano 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 Dr. W. Howard Arnold Atomic Safety and Licensing Louisiana Energy Services, L.P. Board Panel 2600 Virginia Avenue, N.W. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Suite 608 Commission Washington D.C. 20037 Washington, D.C. 20555 LOUISIANA ENERGY SERVICES, L.P. 12 JfhnA. MacEvo$ WINSTON & STRAWN, ATTORNEYS FOR LOUISIANA ENERGY l SERVICES, L.P. 'I J}}