ML20071Q720

Response Opposing Applicant 830525 Request for Extension Until 830930 to Answer Motion for Summary Disposition of Contention 1.No Good Cause Demonstrated.Certificate of Svc Encl

ML20071Q720
Person / Time
Site:	Skagit
Issue date:	06/03/1983
From:	Cavanagh R National Resources Defense Council
To:	Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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NUDOCS 8306090234
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSIONg3 ,r"!-7 E0 68

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'[ \ PUGET SOUND POWER & LIGHT . ) Docket Nos. STN 50-522 N~

COMP,ANY, et al.

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INTERVENORf' ANSNER IU OPPOSITION TO APPLICANTS' REQUEST FOR EXTENSION OF TIME

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On May 25, 1983, Applicants filed a document entitled

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"Applica,nts' Faquest for Extension of Time to Answer Intervenors' s , ..

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Motion for Summary-Disposition of Contention Number 1." Applicants S ,

' sought an sxtension of 116 days, te September 30, 1983. For the O'

• g reasons set 'out below, Intervenors oppose this request.

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Applicants -s give no indication whatever that they can or s ,

'will oppos'e ' Int'ervenors ' motion. Indeed, Applicants concede the point presented as "an independently sufficient material fact" in Intervenors' motion: "[T]he final [ Northwest Conservation and Electric Power] Plan was adopted by the Regional Council on April 27 . . . [T]he final Plan does not include the S/HNP units among the resource options." Letter from F. Theodore Thomsen to

/ Jchn W. Wolfe and Nicholas D. Lewis, May 25, 1983, p.2. Cf.

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Intervenors' Statement of Material Facts as to Which There is No Genuine Issue to be Heard on Contention 1, Item 1 (May 12, 1983).

2. Under 10 C.F.R. S 1749(c), extensions of time to respond to motions for summary disposition may be granted "should it appear r306090234 830603 PDR ADOCK 05000522 *1 Q PDR

a from the affidavits of a party opposing the motion that he cannot, for reasons . stated, present by affidavit facts essential to justify his opposition." No such contention appears in Applicants' submission. The rq1e provides no other " good cause" for approving requests for extension of time.

3. As long as Applicants hold out the option of "a decision to press forward with federal and state licensing" (letter from F. Theodore Thomsen, supra, p. 2) , Intervenors' motion is not moot.

Precisely because Applicants contemplate a lengthy reassessment of their plans, a timely ruling by the Board will provide crucial guidance on the " implications of the Final Plan and the licensing alternatives now open . . . with respect to S/HNP." Id.

4. As the Appeal Board has noted, "[t]he orderly functioning.

of the administrative process scarcely would be furthered were we to allow parties to our proceedings simply to ignore our prescribed time limits whenever it suited their convenience to do so. "'

In re Metropolitan Edison Co. (three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit No. 2) , ALAB-474, Nuc. Reg. Rep. 1 30,295, p. 28,593 (1978).

Such principles have been invcked frequently against intervenors -

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Since Applicants have failed to demonstrate good cause for an extraordinary extension of time -- unprecedented in this proceed-ing -- their request should be denied.

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Respectfully submitted, i

W1' f Ralph'Cavanagh h Counsel for the Natural Resources '

Defense Council, Inc.,

Lead Party for Intervenors on ,

Contention 1 25 Kearny Street San Francisco, CA 94108 Telephone: (415) 421-6561 P

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA .O3 'gg _-[ p3 58 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY & LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of )

PUGET SOUND POWER & LIGHT ) Docket Nos. STN 50-522 COMPANY, et al. ) STN 50-523 (Skagit/Hanford Nuclear Power une 3, 1983

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Project, Units 1 and 2) )

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l CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that the following:

1. Intervenors' Answer in Opposition to Applicants' .

Request for Extension of Time in the above-captioned proceeding has been served upon the 1

persons showed on the attached list by depositing copies thereof

, in the United States mail on June 3, 1983 with proper postage affixe,d for first class mail.

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Ralph"Cavanagh I Counsel for Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.

25 Kearny Street

San Francisco, CA 94108 Telephone: (415)421-6561

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NRC Service List COMMISSION Secretary of the Commission Docketing and Service Branch U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 LICENSING BOARD Jonn F. Wolf, Esq., Chairman Administrative Judge Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 3409 Shepherd Street Chevy Chase, MD 20015 Dr. Frank F. Hooper Administrative Judge Atomic Safety and Licensing Board School of Natural Resources University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48190 Mr. Gustave A. Linenberger Administrative Judge Atomic Safety ~and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 APPEAL BOARD Stepnen F. Eilperin, Esq., Chairman Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Christine N. Kohl Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatcry Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Dr. Reginald L. Gotchy Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 NRC STAFF Lee Scott Dewey, Esq.

Counsel for the NRC Staff Office of the Executive Legal Director U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 e

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Richard D. Bach, Esq.

Stoel, Rives, Boley, Fraser & Wyse 2300 Georgia Pacific Building 900 S.W. Fifth Avenue Portland, OR 97204 -

INTERVENORS Nina Bell Coalition for Safe Power Suite 527, Governor Building 408 S.W. Second Avenue Portland, OR 97204 Ralph Cavanagh, Esq.

Natural Resources Defense Council 25 Kearny Street San Francisco, CA 94108 James B. Hovis, Esq.

Yakima Indian Nation P.O. Box 487 Yakima, WA 98907 Terence L. Thatcher, Esq.

NWF and OEC 708 Dekum Building 519 S.W. Third Avenue Portland, OR 97204 '

Robert.C. Lothrop Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission Suite 320 8383 N.E. Sandy Boulevard Portland, OR 97220 OTHER Canadian Consulate General Donald Martens, Consul 412 Plaza 600 Sixth and Stewart Streets Seattle, WA 98101 s

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