ML20063M341

Urges Commission to Reject Secretary 820823 Recommendation That Separate Probabilistic Risk Assessments Be Performed by Each Party.Duplicate Studies Would Increase Number of Witnesses.Certificate of Svc Encl

ML20063M341
Person / Time
Site:	Indian Point
Issue date:	09/03/1982
From:	Bialik E NEW YORK, STATE OF
To:	Ahearne J, Asselstine J, Palladino N NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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ISSUANCES-SP, NUDOCS 8209100265
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ROBERT ABRAMS TWO WORLD TR ADC CENT MARCI A J. CLEV ELAND Attorney Genere4 MEW YO R K, N V, $004 7 '- Assistant Attorney General EnWonrnent i ro Don Bureau

"'(212) 48g;-[36?/ SECREiW' 00CKETlHG & SERVin BRANCH September 3, 1982 Nunzio Palladino, Chairman John Ahearne, Commissioner James Asselstine, Commissioner Victor Gilinsky, Commissioner Thomas Roberts, Commissioner U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Re: Indian Point Investigation; Docket Nos. 50-247-SP, 50-286-SP Gentlemen:

As a representative of an Interested State in the above proceeding, we are writing to urge the Commission to reject Secretary Chilk's letter of August 23, 1982, at least with respect to probabilistic risk assessments.

Valuable and persuasive evidence has been presented at the Indian Point hearing by this office and various Intervenors with respect to the potential consequences of a serious accident at Indian Point. Testimony of Dr. Jan Beyea and Brian Palenik.

If the Commission wants to consider what the probability of such an accident is, and if it believes that probabilistic studies are useful tools, it should not require a separate analysis by each and every Intervenor and Interested State.

It needs only one such study. Yet the Secretary's letter, for no logical reason, would require _that each party spend large sums of money for duplicative probability studies, which would needlessly increase the number of witnesses at the hearing without helping to elucidate the proceeding. Instead, the Commission should allow the Intervenors and Interested States to rely on one another's probability studies, or even on the evidence presented by NRC staff and the licensees (and the cross-examination thereof) ,

for any information on probabilities.

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This proceeding is an investigatory one, designed to provide to the commission the information it says it wants.

It is not an adversary proceeding. Unless the_ Commission permits the Intervenors and Interested States to proceed in the manner outlined above, it will be demonstrating that it does not really care about the safety of the Indian Point plants, and is interested only in excluding the public and Interested States from participating, thus making a mockery of this investigation.

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CONSOLIDATED EDISON COMPANY OF  :

NEW YORK, INC.

(Indian Point, Unit No. 2)  : Docket Nos. 50-247 SP 50-286 SP POWER AUTliORITY OF TIIE STATE OF  :

NEW YORK (Indian Point, Unit No. 3)  :

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that on the 3rd day of September, 1982, I caused a copy of the annexed letter to be served by first-class mail, postage prepaid on the following:

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. .s Louis J. Carter, Esq., Chairman Charles M. Pratt, Esq.

Administrative Judge Thomas R. Frey, Esq.

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Power Authority of the 7300 City Line Avenue- State of New York Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19151 10 Columbus Circle New York, New York 10019 Mr. Frederick J. Shon Janice Moore, Esq.

Administrative Judge Counsel for NRC Staff Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Office of the Executive U.S. Nuclear Regulatory CommisJion Legal Director Washington, D.C. 20555 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Dr. Oscar H. Paris Administrative Judge Brent L. Brandenburg, Esq.

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Assistant General Counsel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Consolidated Edison Company Washington, D.C. 20555 of New York, Inc.

4 Irving Place Docketing and Service Branch New York, New York 10003 Office of the Secretary U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Ellyn R. Weiss, Esq.

Washington, D.C. 20555 William S. Jordan, III, Esq.

Harmon and Weiss Joan Holt, Project Director 1725 I Street, N.W., Suite 506 Indian Point Project Washington, D.C. 20006 New York Public Interest Research Group Charles A. Scheiner, Co-Chairperso3 9 Murray Street Westchester People's Action New York, New York 10007 Coalition, Inc.

P.O. Box 488 John Gilroy White Plains, New York 10602 Westchester Coordinator Indian Point Project Alan Latman, Esq.

New York Public Interest Research 44 Sunset Drive Group Croton-on-Hudson, New York 10520 240 Central Avenue White Plains, New York 10606 Jeffrey M. Blum, Esq.

New York University Law School Charles J. Maikish, Esq. 423 Vanderbilt Hall Litigation Division 40 Washington Square South The Port Authority of New York New York, New York 10012 and New Jersey One World Trade Center Alfred B. Del Bello New York, New York 10048 Westchester County Executive Westchester County Andrew S. Roffe, Esq. 148 Martine Avenue New York State Assembly White Plains, New York 10601 Albany, New York, 12248

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! Marc L. Parris, Esq. Stanley B. Klimberg, Esq.

} Eric Thorsen, Esq. _ General' Counsel j- County Attorney 'New York State Energy Office County of Rockland 2 Rockefeller State Plaza 11 New Hempstead Road Albany, New York 12223 New City,.New York 10956 Atomic Safety and Licensing Pat Posner, Spokesperson Board Panel Parents Concerned About Indian U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Point Washington, D.C. 20555 P.O. Box 125 Croton-on-Hudson, New Yoth 11520 Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board Panel Renee Schwartz, Esq. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Paul Chessin, Esq. Washington, D.C. 20555 3 Laurens R. Schwartz, Esq.

Margaret Oppel, Esq. Honorable Richard L. Brodsky

Botein, Hays, Sklar and Hertzberg. Member of the County Legislature T

200 Park Avenue Westchester County New York, New York 10166 County Office Building White Plains, New York 10601

,' Honorable Ruth W. Messinger Member of the Council of the Zipporah S. Fleisher City of New York West Branch Conservation i

' District #4 Association City Hall .

443 Buena Vista Road '

New York, New York 10007 New City, New York 10956 4

Greater New York Council Mayor George V. Begany on Energy Village of Buchanan c/o Dean R. Corren, Director 236 Tate Avenue l New York University Buchanan, New York 10511 26 Stuyvesant Street New York, New York 10003 Judith Kessler,' Coordinator i

Geoffrey Cobb Ryan Rockland Citizens for Safe Energy.

300 New Hempstead Road

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Conservation Committee Chairman New City, New York 10956 Director, New York City

Audubon Society David H. Pikus, Esq.

! 71 West 23rd Street, Suite 1828 Richard F. Czaja, Esq.

j New York, New York 10010 Shea & Gould' 330 Madison Avenue j- Lorna Salzman .

New York, New York 10017

- Mid-Atlantic Representative Friends of the Earth, Inc. Amanda Potterfield, Esq.

208 West 13th' Street P.O. Box 384 l New York, New York 10011 Village Station New York, New York 10014

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Ruthanne G. Miller, Esq.

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel' U.S. Nuclear-Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Mr. Donald Davidoff Director, Radiological Emergency Preparedness Group Empire State Plaza Tower Building, Rm. 1750 Albany, New York 12237 Morgan Associates, Chartered 1899 L. Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20036 Dated: September 3, 1982 V by h EZ RAVI . BIALIK Assistant Attorney General State of New York 4

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