ML20066H083

Licensee Motion to Dismiss Appeal of LBP-89-38.* Appeal Should Be Dismissed Either as Moot or on Grounds That as Matter of Law,Board Correct in Denying Hearing W/Respect to Contentions at Issue.W/Certificate of Svc

ML20066H083
Person / Time
Site:	Seabrook
Issue date:	02/12/1991
From:	Dignan T PUBLIC SERVICE CO. OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
To:	NRC ATOMIC SAFETY & LICENSING APPEAL PANEL (ASLAP)
References
CON-#191-11422 LBP-89-38, OL, NUDOCS 9102200162
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a yqw DDLhiiLD ILiHRC February 12, 1991-UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 91 FEB 13 P3 '27 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION before the $h(l, .' ]fj {

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• s ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING APPEAL BOARD In the Matter of PUBLIC-SERVICE COMPANY Docket Nos. 50-443-OL OF NEW HAMPSHIRE,.11 A1 50-444-OL (Seabrook Station, Units 1 (Offsite Emergency and 2) Planning Issues)

LICENSEES' MOTION TO DISMISS

. APPEAL OF LBP-49-38 Now come the Licensees and say as follows:

1. The Appeal-Board currently has agh iudice an appeal from the decision of the Licensing Board denominated LBP-89-38.

Public Service Comoany of New Hamoshire (Seabrook. Station, Units 1 and 2), LBP-89-38, 30 NRC 725-(3989).

2.- This decirion denied three motions filed by-Intervenors

-herein which motions sought-the acceptance.for-litigation of two contentions allegedly arising out of the'onsite emergency plan exercise held at'the Seabrook Nuclear Power Station (Seabrook) cn1 September 27,~1989 ("the Exercise").

3. On January 25, 1991, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of-Columbia Circuit decided the case of-morssa.se 9102200162 910212 DR ADOCKOD00gg3 O

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J Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. HRQ, F.2d , Nos. 89-1306 j i

11 A1., (D.C. Cir. Jan. 25, 1991). .Therein, the court ruled, j with respect to'the Exerciset "We do not'believe that such an onsite  !

exercise is intended to supersede the full l participation drill, and thus we reiect the NRC's contention that the onsite exercise becomes the eleoal underoinnina' for acoroval '"

of the full Dewer license. (citation omitted)."

Slip Op. at 46.

4. This ruling by the court means that as a matter of law, -

the events which occurred at the Exercise, and the Exercise, i

itself are not material matters with respect to the issuance of

.Seabrook's operating license. . Egg Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. hrs, suora, Slip op. at 36-37, 40-41; Union of Concerned Scientists v. HRG, 735 F.2d 1437, 1443-48 (D.C. Cir.

1984). This being the case,.the Intervanors had no right to a hearing.on the contentions which they proffered with respect to

.the' Exercise.

5. In' light:of all of the foregoing,-the appeal of LBP-

-89"38 should be dismissed either assmoot or on the-grounds-that, sas a-matter of law,' the Licensing Board was correct in denying.a hearing with respect to the contentions at issue.

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gr WHEREWO3tR, Licensees move that the appeal of..LBP-89-38 be

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! - By their attorneys, Thomas G. OfgfHtfi, Jr.

George H. IAwald Kathryn!Selleck Shea.

Ropes & Gray One International Place Boston, MA 02110-2624 (617) 951-7000 k

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I, Thomas G. Dignan, Jr., one of the attorneys fM WM 13 P3 :27 Licensees herein, hereby certify that on February 12, 1991, I made service of the within document by depositing copies thereof with Federal Express, prepaid, for deliveryJto f(orsWt UM where_ indicated, by depositing in the United States}mailt3%'!"i M first class postage paid, addressed to): ""^*h Alan S. Rosenthal, Esquire Mr. Howard A. Wilber Atomic Safety and Licensing Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Panel Appeal Panel U.S._ Nuclear Regulatory U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commission Fifth Floor Fifth Floor 4350 East-West Highway 4350 East-West Highway Bethesda, MD 20814 Bethesda, MD 20814 Thomas S. Moore, Esquire Mr. Richard R. Donovan Atomic Safety and Licensing Federal' Emergency Management Appeal Panel Agency U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Federal Regional Center Commission 130 228th Street, S.W.

Fifth Floor Bothell, Washington 98021-9796 4350 East-West Highway

-Bethesda, MD -20814 Administrative Judge Ivan W. H. Joseph Flynn, Esquire Smith, Chairman, Atomic Safety Office of_ General Counsel and Licensing Board Federal Emergency Management U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Agency Commission 500 C Street, S.W.

East West Towers' Building Washington, DC 20472 4350 East West Highway Bethesda, MD 20814 Administrative Judge Richard F. Gary W. Holmes, Esquire Cole Holmes & Ells Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 47 Winnacunnet Road -

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Hampton, NH 03842 East West Towers Building 4350 East West Highway Bethesda, MD 20814 Administrative Judge Kenneth A. Judith H. Mizner,-Esquire McCollom 79 State Street, 2nd Floor 1107 West Knapp Street Newburyport, MA 01950 Stillwater, OK 74075

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