ML20059L930
| ML20059L930 | |
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| Site: | Claiborne |
| Issue date: | 11/15/1993 |
| From: | Mcgarry J LOUISIANA ENERGY SERVICES, WINSTON & STRAWN |
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| CON-#493-14470 ML, NUDOCS 9311180015 | |
| Download: ML20059L930 (7) | |
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1 In the.latter of LOUISIANA ENERGY SERVICES, L.P.
Docket No. 70-3070-ML (Claiborne Enrichment Center)
PARTIES' NOVEMBER 15, 1993. JOINT PROGRESS REPORT I.
INTRODUCTION This (ninth) 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 NRC Staff Conasel, Citizens Against Nuclear Trash (Intervenor), and Louisiana Energy Services, L.P.
(Applicant).
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LICENSE APPLICATION STATUS The following information submittals and issues related to completion of the NRC staff's Safety Evaluation Report (SER) have occurred recently or remain outstanding.
No information related
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to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) remains outstanding, and the DEIS is at the printers.
Publication and distribution is anticipated shortly.
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The NRC staff has scheduled a meeting with Applicant on November 15, 1993, to clarify technical issues concerning f
the UF Product Sampling Autoclave tilting device.
This is the only remaining outstanding issue with the potential to impact the SER schedule.
i B.
The NRC staff met with Applicant on November 2, 1993, to i
discuss Applicant's October 14, 1993, revision to the Proposed License-Conditions.
The NRC staff provided 1
comments to Applicant in a letter dated November 10, 1993.
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On November 12, 1993, Applicant submitted revisions to the l
License Application (LA) in response to an NRC staff letter dated November 10, 1993.
The NRC staff also requested revisions to the Safety Analysis Report (SAR) and Proposed
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License Conditions.
These will be submitted by Applicant on i
December 3, 1993.
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On October 14, 1993, in two separate responses to NRC staff i
comments, Applicant submitted revised sections of the:
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f Proposed License Conditions, SAR, and the Criticality Safety Engineering Report, and the Physical Security Plan.
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On October 12, 1993, Applicant submitted revised sections of the SAR, Environmental Report, and LA to the NRC staff.
These revisions responded to NRC staff letters to Applicant dated August 17, 1993, and September 1, 15, and 27, 1993, and reflected information submitted to the NRC staff by l
Applicant in letters dated September 21, 24, and 30, 1993.
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On October 7, 1993, Applicant submitted revised sections of the Fundamental Nuclear Material Control (FNMC) Plan to the NRC staff in response to a staff letter dated May 7, 1993.
III.
STAFF DOCUMENTS AND HEARING SCHEDULE The NRC Staff's projected publication dates for the SER and DEIS remain unchanged from those reported in the July 15, 1993, Joint Progress Report:
January 28, 1994, and havember 30, 1993, l
respectively.
The DEIS has been completed and is with the printer.
The publication date of the Final EIS, which will l
follow the DEIS publication date by nine months, remains August 30, 1994, but could change depending on the DEIS comments received.
The projected publication date of the SER could be impacted by resolution of technical matters associated with the sampling autoclave tilting device.
These matters will be discussed at the November 15 meeting between Applicant and the NRC staff.
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schedule impacts, if any, will be addressed in the parties' next Joint Progress Report.
Based on these projected dates and the Board's schedule from i
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);
Prefi'ci testimony on technical issues is due May 20, 1994 (8 weeks following end of discovery),
f The hearing on technical issues will start June 10, 1994 (3 weeks following filing of prefiled testimony);
l Discovery on environmental issues will end October 25, 1994 (8 weeks following issuance of FEIS);
Prefiled testimony on environmental issues is due December 6, 1994 (6 weeks following end of discovery),
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The hearing on environmental issues will start December e
27, 1994 (3 weeks following filing of prefiled testimony).
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IV.
DISCOVERY
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i 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 Report.
Intervenor served the parties with answers to a number of Applicant's Interrogatories on March 19, 1993.
Answers to the remaining Interrogatories are due to be filed sixty days prior to I
the close of discovery.
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CONTENTIONS f
The status of Intervenor's Contentions has not changed since i
the January 15, 1993, Progress Report and is omitted from this report.
Changes, if any, will be reported as they occur.
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CONCLUSION 1
The parties will-submit another progress report on January 17, 1994.
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WINSTON & STRAWN, November 15, 1993 ATTORNEYS FOR LOUISIANA ENERGY
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Docket No. 70-3070 (Claiborne Enrichment Center) i CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of " Parties' November 15, 1993, Joint Progress Report" have been served on the following by deposit in the United States Mail, first class, this 15th day of November, 1993:
i Administrative Judge Administrative Judge Morton B. Margulies, Chairman Richard F.
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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 i
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commission Washington, D.C.
20555 Washington, D.C.
20555 F
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.
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Jo n A. MacEvoy WINSTON & STRAWN, ATTORNEYS FOR LOUISIANA ENERGY
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