ML20070D000

Motion for Delay of 830119 & 20 Prehearing Conference. Schedule Burdensome Due to Two Major Holiday Periods.Four Days of Preparation Lost.Certificate of Svc Encl

ML20070D000
Person / Time
Site:	Columbia
Issue date:	12/09/1982
From:	Bell N NORTHWEST ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES (FORMERLY COALITION
To:	Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
References
ISSUANCES-CPA, ISSUANCES-OL, NUDOCS 8212140418
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MOTION FOR DELAY OF PREHEARING CONFERENCE SCHEDULED FOR JANUARY 19 and 20, 1983 On November 30, 1982 and December 1, 1982, the Atomic Safety

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and Licensing Board (ASLB) in the above-captioned proceedings issued Orders setting January 19 and 20, 1983 for a pre-hearing conference.

In those same Orders the ASLB directed the Intervenor, Coalition for Safe Power (hereinafter refered to as " Coalition") to file contentions as set forth in 10 CFR 2.714(b), adding that the organization should assure delivery of these contentions to the NRC Staff by January 4,1983.

The Coalition requests a delay in this schedule because it is burdensome and, in light of current circumstances surrounding construction of the plants, unnecessary.

The schedule as it is presently conceived is burdensome to intervenors due to several factors. First, encompassed in the time period allocated to the production of contentions are two major holiday periods:

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@ Christmas and New Years. Each holiday falls on a Saturday, thus making the preceeding Friday also a holiday. A total of four days are lost 75 to intervenors in which to prepare.

hm Complicating this loss of days is the fact that the Coalition oro og must rely on certain experts in framing contentions. All mail to and from these experts will be slowed given the normal state of postal service during the holiday season. Additionally, because the Applicant has re-

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f to the Local Public Document Room located in Richland, Washington. The Library, where the LPOR is housed, is normally close on Fridays and will be closed on the additional two Saturday holiday days thus further limiting access to necessary documents. Intervenors further note that ,

the U.S. Postal Service will not guarantee next-day service (using Express Mail) from Portland to Washington D.C. making it difficult to meet the Board's service requirement.

Intervenors do not believe the requested. schedule change will in any way delay these proceedings. Currently a five-year moratorium has been imposed on construction work at the WNP-1 and the final date of completion has been moved to the year 1990. It is clear that a week or two delay in this pre-hearing conference will not adversly affect the Applicant's schedule for plant operation. Regarding the possible delay in the schedule for WNP-2, Intervenors point out that construction will continue despite these proceedings. Furthermore, the Comission has already taken seven months in which to rule upon the Request for Hearing and Petition for Leave to Intervenor filed by the Coalition.

A few weeks delay, at the very most, cannot adversly affect any party any more than may have already occured.

WHEREFORE, Intervenor Coalition for Safe Power prays for an Order granting this motion and causing a delay of at least one weel.

in the pre-hearing conference schedule, and extending the deadline for the framing of contentions. ,

Respectfully submitted,

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Dated this day the ninth - > >tM / -

of December, 1982 Nina Bell, Staff Intervanor Coalition for Safe Power

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) 50-397 CPA (WPPSS Nuclear Projects 1 and 2) )

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I Hereby certify that copies of:

MOTION FOR DELAY OF PREHEARING CONFERENCE SCHEDULED FOR JANUARY 19 and 20, 1983 filed by the C0alition for Safe Power in the above-captioned proceeding have been served on the following parties by deposit in the United States Mail, postage prepaid and first class, on the 9W of AWmbw , 198d. _

Secretary of the Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission Washington D.C. 20555 0 Q Executive Legal Director /

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Herbert Grossman, Chairman

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Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission Washington D.C. 20555 Glenn 0. Bright Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission Washington D.C. 20555 Dr. Jerry Harbour Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission Washington D.C. 20555 m3 Nina Bell, CFSP

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