ML20058N740

Notifies That Commission Agreed to phase-out of Aslap. Forwards Staff Requirements Memo Which Provides Background for & Description of Process by Which Panel Will Be Abolished

ML20058N740
Person / Time
Issue date:	07/03/1990
From:	Rogers K NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
To:	Foley T, Quayle J HOUSE OF REP., SENATE
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The Honorable Thomas S. Foley Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Washington, D. C. 20515

Dear Mr. Speaker:

In response to the Conference Comittee Report acco.npanying the Energy a

Reorganization Act of 1974, P.L.93-438, I am writing to notify you that 4

the Commission has agreed to a phase-out of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Panel.

The enclosed staff requirements memorandum provides the background for, and description of, the process by whit.h the Panel will be i

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Dear Mr. President:

In response to the Conference Committee Report accompanying the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, P.L.93-438, I am writing to notify you that the Comission has agreed to a phase-out of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Panel.

The enclosed staff requireinents memorandum provides the background for, and description of, the process by which the Panel will be

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Kenneth C. Rogers Acting Chairman

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SE C Rit A R Y MEMORANDUM FOR:

Christine N. Kohl, Chairman Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Panel William C.

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Chilk, Secre r

SUBJECT:

COMJC-90-005 - ATCMIC S TE Y AND LICENSING APPEAL PANEL From a review of the Controller's recent evaluation of workload and resource requirements for the Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Panel, it is clear that the nature of the appellate litigation within the agency is undergoing substantial change.

Once the Appeal Panel completes its work on pending appeals in the Seabrook proceeding, appeals in construction permit and operating license proceedings for the existing generation of nuclear power plants -- the mainsta i

Within the agency for many years - ys of appellate litigation will have drawn to a close.

At tha same time, consistent with the shift in the agency's regula*ory focus from licensing new power reactors to overseein i

the day-to-day operations of reactors and materials licensees, g NRC's administrative litigation in the foreseeable future will involve reactor license amendments, materials licensing, enforcement matters, and power reactor license renewals.

The impending completion of the last major operating license proceeding, es well as the shift in the fundamental character of agency litigation, presents the Commission with an opportunity to restructure the NRC's appullate process to address some of the criticisms that have been directed to that process over the years.

In order that the commission might increase its direct involvement in agency adjudications, provide earlier regulatory and policy guidance in litigation, and remove some of the overly-judicialized layers of formal appellate procedures that have evolved over the years, the Commission, with all Commissioners concurring, has agreed to abolish the Appeal Panel and, in its place, establish a mechanism for direct review of Licensing Board decisions by the commission.

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abolishing the Appeal Panel once the rights of the parties to pending appeals have been properly accommodated.

To assist the Commission in achieving this objective, the office of the General Counsel should provide:

1) a transition plan to phase out the Appeal Panel, taking into account the procedural rights of parties to pending proceedings to pursue appeals before the Appeal Board; (OGC)

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August 15, 1990) 2)

a discussion of the options and procedures for dir6;t Commission review of Licensing Board decisions, including a discussion of such matters as the effectiveness of Licensing Board decisions during the pendency of the Commission's review, mandatory versus discretionary appeals to the Ccmmission, and possible mecnanisms for parties to comment on Licensing Board decisions in the event that the Commission does not provide an appeal as-of-right.

The discussion should also evaluate the merits of creating a commission level opinion Writing office which would work closely with the Commissioners in initially dratting decisions.

The office would also work closely with the General Counsel's office to assure the Commission receives OGC's views on the defendability of any proposed actions before acting on adjudicatory issues.

The of fice would also maintain the variety of expertise, including both legal and technical expertisc, that currently exists on the Appeal Board and; (OGC)

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recommended changes to the procedural regulations in 10 CFR Part 2 to reflect the abolition of the Appeal Panel and the establishment of a mechanism for direct Commission review of Licensing Board decisions.

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October, 1990)

OGC should coordinate its work on these evaluations and recommendations with the Appeal Panel so that the recommendations can be provided to the commission in a time-frame that would allow the Commission to terminate the Appeal Panel when the Panel's work on currently pending appeals is completed.

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OGC should work with the office of Congressional Affairs to provide notification of the Commission's intent to terminate the Appeal Panel to the appropriate Congressional Committees in accordance with the Conference Committee Report accompanying the 1974 Energy Reorgani:ation Act.

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ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING ): M., -t"4 From a preliminary review of the Controller's draft evaluation of workload and resource requirements for the Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal - panel, it is clear that the nature of the appellate litigation within the agency is undergoing substantial change.

appeals in the Seabrook proceedingOnce the Appeal Panel completes its w appeals in construction permit and operating license procee, dings for the existing generation of nuclear powerplants -- the mainstays of appel a close.

At the same time, consistent with the shift in the agency's regulatory focus trom licensing new power reactors to overseeing the day-to-day operations of reactor and materials licensees, future will involve reactor license amendments,NRC's administrative lit licensing, materials enforcement matters, and power reactor license renewals.

The impending completion of the last major operating license proceeding, agency litigation,as well as the shift in the fundamental character of presents the Commission with an excellent Opportunity to rostructure the !!RC's appellate process t some of the criticisms that have been directed to that process o address Over the years.

In order that the Commission might increase its direct involvement in agency adjudications', provide earlier

' A major finding of the Kemeny Commission in it of institutional infirmities after the TMI-2 accident was that:

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[t]he NRC commissioners have largely i themselves from the licensing process.solated Although the commissioners have adopted unnecessarily stringent ex carte rules to preserve their adjudicative impartiality, thev have also delegated most of their adjudicative duties to the Atomic Safety and Licensipg-Appeal Board d)DNU Q u

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regulatory and policy guidance in litigatien, remove some of the z

over.'y-judicialized, evolved over the years,fprmal appellate procedures that have and perhaps save some resources in the

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51.

The Rogovin Special Inquiry Group had similar criticisms:

Although the NRC itself, under the law, is the final administrative decisionmaker in the licensing and regulatory process, it has delegated substantially all of that authority to the Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board Although one might expect the NRC as a collegial body to play a substantial role in significant licensing determinations regarding individual plants, that is not the case.

In practice, NRC consideration of appeals from the appeal board is rare; the appeal board generally has the final word on issues raised before it.

Three_ Mile Island - A Report to the Commissioners and to the Public, January 1980, Vol.

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Few of the changes to the NRC's regulator TMI-2 accident addressed the criticisms. y process following the 2

boards should promptly seek Commission guidanco when the encounter significant an adjudication, Statementlegal or policy questions in the course of of Policy on conduct of Licensing Proceedinas, CLI-81-8, 13 NRC 452, 456 (1981), the boards generally have been reluctant to ask for the Commission's views on :uen issues.

early on has resulted in needless litigation,This reluctance to seek Commiss cycles of appeals, seemingly endless remands and relitigation, and substantial delay in the resolution of important legal and policy issues in a number of cases over the last ten years.

manner in which the adjudicatory boards and the CommissionA case in point is the handled the development of the " realism" doctrine in the Shoreham proceeding, with Commission guidance on this most policy question coming nearly two years years after the issue was important first identified as a significant concern in the adjudicatory proceeding.

3 The NRC's internal appellate process is prescribed in a series of procedural regulations at 10 CFR 55 2.714a, and (d), 2.718(i), 2.730(f), 2.760, 2.762, 2.763, 2.764, 2.770, 2.715(c) 2,771, 2.785, 2.786, 2.787 and 2.788.

These regulations and a very large number of interpretive rulings issued over nany years

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in its place, establish a mechanism for direct review oflong te Licensing Board decisions by the Commission.

To accesplish this, the Appeal Panel and its functions, with the ultimate objec of abolishing the Appeal Panel once the rights of the parties to pending appeals have been properly accommodated.

and orderly phase out of the Appeal Panel, To ensure a propet that we direct the office of General Coansel to providesI would propose 1.

a t.*ansition plan to phase out the Appeal Panel, taki.7g into account the procedural rights of parties to pending proceedings to pursue appeals before the Appeal Board; 2.

a discussion of the options for direct Commission review of Licensing Board decisions; and 3.

recemmended changes to the procedural regulations in 10 CFR Part 2 to reflect the abolition of tho Appeal Panel and the establishment of a mechanism for direct Commission review of Licensing Board decisions.

These evaluations and recommendations should be provided in a timeframe that would allow the Commission to terminate the Appeal Panel when the Panel's work on currently pending appeals is completed.

SECY, please track, cc:

SECY OGC have established a body of procedural requirements governing NRC appellate review that is comparable to those applicable in most appellate courts.

Interpretive rulings in particular have resulted in detailed procedural requirements on matters such as for extensions of time on-briefs and the matters to be add in motions to postpone oral arguments. See, Electric & Gas Co.

e.o.. Eublic Service (Hope Creek Generating Station, Units 1 & 2),

ALAB-394, 5 NRC 769, 771 n.2 (1977); Louisiana (Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3),

Power &_ Licht Co_._

(1973);.Philadelchia Electric Co._

ALAB-117, (

EEC 261 (Peach Bottom Atomic ruwer Station, Units 1 & 2), ALAB-165, 6 AEC 1145 (1973).

This sort of has been widely criticized -- and properly so, extreme proceduraliz in my view.

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2. The Linear Accolorator is

2. This is donc by the Physi-calibrated on-a weekly basis.

cist and records aru mintained in a log in' thc physics office.

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3. These are donc daily by tl performed on the Cobalt Unit technologists. Any,'s

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4. The cobalt and rM(< n sources

4. This is done semi-annuall) are leak tested, by tho Physicist and're-cords are maintained in tr

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2.a. Appropriate Staff

1. Must be nationally registered

1. The Physicist _ annually and current.

checks. registration.

Re-cords are nuintained in" the department's personnel folders-

2. Technic:.. in-services are

2. The Physicist and/or Chief

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Technologist coordinate-and record such in-service (See Attachment V).

4 2.b.: Appropriate report

1. An audit is performed to en-

1. The Office Manager checks-turnaround sure that turd copy reports this on a weekly basis and arc sent to referring physi-reporto data quarterly.

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carpletion of treatment.

2.c. Appropriato.moni-

1. Incident reports are filled

1. The Office Manager sends toring of patients out on INC Form #3225-A.

to appropriate areas and; i

keeps a file in the officci Problems are discussed at;!

chart rounds weekly. (See '

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2. PIcblems involving pationt prep:

2.l Problems are recorded Appropriato moni ;

transportation, waiting time, daily by the staff. Data toring of patients; etc. - are receded daily, is collected and reviewe quarterly. Recods are -

naintained in the frcnt-of fice. (Fee Attachnent VII).

2.d. Appropriato teach-

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1. The Offico Manager files ing-filo case is kept for futuro re-such cases in a teaching search and teaching.

file. These are filed by diagnosis.

2.c. Appropriato moni-

1. Chart rounds are done weekly

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Nurse Aido and technolo-gists participato. Pro-blcms are discussed and follo.e up is assigned te the apprcpriato persenne and reviewed at the next chart rounds.

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2. This is'done by the all charts.

Ph'/sicist weekly. Pro-blcms are reported to th(

Radiotherapist.

3.. Appropriate moni-

1. _ A quality control check is per-

1. A service report is fill-toring of equiprent foured weekly on the processor ed'out by the service-by the service engineers and engineer and these are problems are irmediately reviewed quarterly and correc ted.

nuintained in his off:.co.

2. Equipment is monit red daily

2. The service engineers for problems and repoeted to nuintain service roports the service engineers.

on all equipment. in thei:

office. Cuarterly sur.rar, sheets are developed to trace downtime and moni-tor parts' cost. These are reported quarterly.

(See Attachrent VIII),

3. All cassettes and screens are

3. The simulator technolo-checked and cleaned.

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the office. (See Attacreent IX).

5. Appropriate treatrrent

1. Accuracy of treatment and plans.

1. 'It:ncr Board meetings plans and accuracy within national norms as indi-are held weekly. Sub ec-J of treatment cated by acadctnac studies.

tive critique by stcff physicians.

2. Patte:ns of care study on

2. Charts are pulled monthl.

cervix cancer comnaring our en an on-going basis.

dose of radiation and ficld of They are reviewed radiation, treat ent plans and quarterly for trends and isodose distribution, survival problems,

rates and folicw up with nattonal norms.

3. Port fiLTs are taken and re-

3. Technologists take port reviewed on a weekly basis.

films on all patients (unless otherwise speci-fied) weekly. These are reviewed imediately by the therapist and if there are any abnormali-ties or changes to be trace the therapist notes this en the film and see the patient on the nuchine to verify the set up. Corrections are noted on a log and reviewed weekly at chart rounds.

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Address:

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Activity:

Identifications Date of Test Performed By:

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