ML20062F768
| ML20062F768 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Summer  |
| Issue date: | 08/11/1982 |
| From: | Goldberg S NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE LEGAL DIRECTOR (OELD) |
| To: | Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
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| NUDOCS 8208120135 | |
| Download: ML20062F768 (5) | |
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i 8/11/82 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD Inthefiatterof SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC & GAS COMPANY
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Docket No. 50-395
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(Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station,
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Unit 1)
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NRC STAFF RESPONSE TO APPLICANT'S MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION INTRODUCTION On July 30, 1982, the Applicant filed a motion for Board reconsideration of certain passages in its July 20, 1982 Partial Initial Decision (PID) in this proceedingIl wherein it is suggested that either the Applicant or Staff or both did not report certain accelerometer records, furnished by both parties in October 1981, to the Board on a timely basis. This suggestion is erroneous and should be eliminated from the decision.
II. DISCUSSION As the relevant documents of record (namely, the Applicant's October 9, 1961 letter and Staff Board Notification BN-81-32 of October 20, 19812/)
If See PID, Opinion at 16, and Appendix at 84,85,86 n. 11.
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See NRC Staff Updated Supplemental Testimony on Seismicity, following Tr. 5758, at 58.
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demonstrate, unprocessed U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) accelerometer records of an October 1979 seismic event at Monticello Reservoir were not made available to the Staff until October 9, 1981 by the Applicant, to whom they had just been provided directly by the USGS. The Staff had a standing request for any such relevant records but did not learn of the existence of the records in question until this time. As explained in BN-81-32, though it knew of the occurrence of the October 1979 seismic event, the Staff had no reason to expect the range of peak acceleration values eventually associated with that event since the higher magnitude August 1976 event yielded lower peak acceleration values. The Staff did not learn of the peak acceleration values for the 1979 event until provided with the associated USGS accelerometer records on October 9, 1981 after which the Staff promptly notified the Board and parties in BN-81-32 of the peak acceleration values and the possible implication of such values in the case. The Board's intimation that the information in this record was known by and available to the Staff beforehand is incorrect and should be removed from the PID. Accordingly, the Staff supports the Applicant's request that portions of the July 20, 1982 PID suggesting that the Staff and Applicant failed to report these accelerometer records in a timely manner be stricken from the PID.
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o III. C0fiCLUSION In light of the foregoing, the Staff joins the Applicant's request to reconsider passages in the PID regarding Board notification of the above-rdferencedaccelerometerrecords.
Respectfully submitted, A U Steven C. Goldberg Counsel for NRC Staff Dated at Bethesda, Maryland 1
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o UNITED STATES OF A> ERICA NUCIZAR REGUIAIORY CQtfISSICN BEFORE THE A'IntIC SAFETY M O LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of
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CCMPANY
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Docket No. 50-395
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(Virgil C. Sucmer Nuclear Station,
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Unit 1)
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of "NRC STAFF RESPONSE TO APPLICANT'S MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION", dated August 11, 1982 in the above-captioned proceeding, have been served on the following by deposit in the United States mail, first class, or as indicated by an asterisk through deposit in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's internal mail system, this lith day of August,1982:
141erbert Grossman, Esq., Chairman Richard P. Wilson, Esq.
Administrative Judge Assistant Attomey General Atomic Safety and Licensing Board S. C. Attorney General's Office U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Conmission P. O. Box 11549 Washington, DC 20555 Columbia, South Carolina 29211 Dr. Frank F. Hooper Joseph B. Knotts, Jr.
Administrative Judge Debevoise & Liberman School of Natural Resources 1200 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
University of Michigan Washington, DC 20036 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 Randolph R. Mahan, Esq.
VHr. Gustave A. Linenberger S. C. Electric & Gas Company Administrative Judge P. O. Box 764 Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Columbia, SC 29218 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Conmission Washington, DC 20555
- Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel George Fischer, Esq.
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comnission Vice President and General Counsel Washington, DC 20555 South Carolina Electric and Gas Company P. O. Box 764
- Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Cohimbia, South Carolina 29202 Board Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Ccruission Brett Allen Bursey Washington, DC 20555 Route 1, Box 93-C Little Mountain, South Carolina 29076
- Docketing and Service Section Office of the Secretary U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Carmission Washington, DC 20555 John C. Ruoff P. O. Bot 96 Jenkinsville, SC 29065 A
Lw Steven C. Goidberg &
Counsel for NRC Staff
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