ML20076D263
| ML20076D263 | |
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| Site: | Davis Besse, Perry  |
| Issue date: | 07/22/1991 |
| From: | Fones R, James C, Rill J, Schechter M, Urban J JUSTICE, DEPT. OF, JUSTICE, DEPT. OF, ATTORNEY GENERAL, OFFICE OF |
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| CON-#391-12022 91-644-01-A, 91-644-1-A, A, NUDOCS 9107260172 | |
| Download: ML20076D263 (6) | |
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA U9eC NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ATOMIC EAFETY_hND LICENSIN_Q BOARD
'91 J123 P 4 :00 In the Matter of
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Docket Nos. 50-440-A,
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OIIIO EDISON COMPANY
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(Perry Nuclear Power Plant,
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Unit 1, Facility Operating
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(Suspension of License No. NPF-58))
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Antitrust Conditions)
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. THE CLEVELAND ELECTRIC
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ILLUMINATING COMPANY
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Ti!E TOLEDO EDISON COMPANY
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(Perry Nuclear Power Plant,
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ASLPB No. 91-644-01-A Unit 1, Facility Operating
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License No. NPF-58)
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(Davis-Besse Nuclear Power
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Station, Unit 1, Facility
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Operating License No. NPF-3)
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HQTJCE OF INTEET_TP PARTICIPATE i
Uames F.
Rill Assistant Attorney General l-
' Charles A. James Deputy Assistant Attorney General Antitrust Division Communications with. respect to this document should be addressed-to:
Mark C. S hechter Chief Roger W.
Fones Assistant Chief Ja:et R. Urban Attorneys Transportation, Energy and Agriculture Section Antitrust 1 Division Department of Justice 555 4th St. N.N.
Washington, D.C.
20001 (202) 307-6479 July 22, 1991
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p UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION AIOMIC_SMEILAUD_hlCENSING_DOARD In tho Matter of
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Docket Nos. 50-440-A
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50-346-A OHIO EDISON COMPANY
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(Perry Nuclear Power Plant,
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Unit 1, Facility Operating
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(Suspension of License._No. NPF-58))
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Antitrust Conditions)
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THE CLEVELAND ELEC7kIC
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ILLUMINATING COMPANY
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THE TOLEDO EDISON COMPANY
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(Perru Nuclear power Plant,
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ASLPB No. 91-644-01-A Unit l1, Facility Operating
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License No..NPF-58)
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(Davis-Besse Nuclear Power
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Station, Unit 3,
Facility
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Operating License No. NPF-3)
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NOILCE Or II1 TENT TO PARTICIfATE Pursuant to Section 105(c)(5) of the Atomic' Energy Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C.
S2135(c)(5) the-United States Department of Justice (" Department") files this Notice of Intention to Participate in the above captioned proceding.
The Department urges this Licensing Board to hold a non-evidentiary hearing solely on the issue of whether increases in the costs of operating a nuclear pla'it as a matter of law negate a finding that construction and' operation of the plant " creates or maintains a situation inconsistent with the antitrust laws".
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i-4 Communications concerning this matter shoilld be sent to:
Janet Urban, Esq.
Mark C.
Schechter, Esq.
U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division Room 9816 Judiciary Co 'er Building 555 4th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
20001 Applicants Cleveland Electric Illuminating ("CEI"), Toledo Edison Company ("TE") and Ohio Edison Company ("OE") have requested a hearing with respect to the denial of their Application to amend the aubject nuclear plant Jicenses to suspend the ant'itrust license conditions.
Licenseen contend that generating nuclear power has become so expensive that ownership of a nuclear plant can no longer, as a matter of law, centribute to or exacerbate an anticompetitive situation,.and therefore the Commission no longer has jurisdiction.to impose or retain antitrust license condition 1 For the reasons the Departmint stated in its advice letter of June 13, 1990 in this matter, such contentions are without merit.
Because the matter can be resolved on purely legal grounds, a
the Department urges this Licensing Board to hold a
.r.on-evidentiary hearing.
A fctmal evidentiary hearing is not required'in every matter arising under Section 189(a) of the Atomic. Energy Act, 1D_the liat10I__Qf_.KCII EcGne, 15 N.R.C.
232 (1982), and this matter is ideally suited for a non-evidentiary hearing. --
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The Department also urges this Licensing Board to reject any hearing on OE's issues 4 and 5, which hypothesize that the impartiality of the Department of Justice might have been influenced by legislative events.
The advice letter of the Department was based solely on it.? analysis of the relevant law, and was not influenced by any Congressional activity.
Respectfully submitted, 24M b. b AC James F.
Rill Assistent Attorney General Mark C. Schechter
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Antitrust Division Chief Charles James NWhM S-'
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Deputy Assistant Attorney Rogeril, Fones General Assistant Chief Antitrust Division 0 &<tW Yu(We L n.
Janet R. Urban
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Ntito rney Transportation, Energy and Agriculture Section Antitrust Division Department of Justice 555 4th St.
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Washington, D.C.
20001 (202) 307-6349 July 22,-1991
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' hereby certify that on this 22nd day of July, 19914Fh 37 copy of the foregoing Notice Of Intent To Participate was served upon each of the following by firut-class mail:
Respectfully submitted, b /t.Lbk YL M y
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Janet R.
Urban Joseph Rutberg, Esq.
John H.
Frye, Esq.
Sherwin E.
Turk, Esq.
Administrative Judge Office of the General-Counsel Atomic Safety & Licensing Dd.
U;S. Nuclear Regulatory U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comru'n Commission West-Towers Building Washington, D.C.
20555 4350 East-West Highway Bethesda, Maryland 20814 Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Gerald Charnoff, Esq.
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comm'n Shaw, Pittman, Potts &
West Towers Building Trowbridge 4350 East-n'est Highway 2300 N Street, N.W.P.C.
Bethesda, Maryland 20814 Washington, D.C.
20037 David R. Straus, Esq.
B.
Paul Cotter, Jr.
Spiegel & McDiarmid Chief Administrative Judge 1350'New York Avenue, N.W.
Atomic Safety & Licensing Bd.
Washington, D.C.
20005 West Towers Building, 4th Floor 4350 East West Highway Michael-J.4 Mishkin, Esq.
Bethesda, Maryland-20814 Squire,= Sanders & Dempsey 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Justin T. Rogers, Jr Post. Office Box 407' President Washington, D.C.-
20044 Ohio Edison Company 76 South hiain Street
? Anne Marie Gibbons, Esq.
Akron, Ohio 44308 American Public Power Association 2301 M Street, N.W.
Third Floor Washington, D.C.
-20037
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d Charles Bechhoefer, Esq.
Administrative Judge Atomic Safety & Licensing Bd.
U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Comm'n West Towers Building 4350 East-West Highway Bethesda, Maryland 20814 James P. Murphy, Esq.
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey 1201 Pennsylvania Ave.,
N.W.
Washington, D.C.
20004 John P._Coyle, Esq.
Gregg D. Ottinger, Esq.
Duncan, Allen and Talmage 1575 Eye Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
20005 Marshall E. Miller, Esq.
Chhirman 1920 South Creek Boulevard Spruce Creek Fly-In Daytona Beach, FL-32124 Samuel J. Chilk Secretary of_the Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comm'n One White Flint North Mail Stop-16 G15 11555 Rockville Pike Rockville, Maryland 20852 D.
Biard MacGuineas, Esq.
Volpe, Boske and Lyons 918 16th Street, N.W.
Suite 602 Washington, D.C.
20006 Kenneth L. Hegemann, P.E.
President, American Municipal Power-Ohio, Inc.
601 Dempsey Road P.O.
Bor 549 Westerville, Ohio 43081 Reuben Goldberg
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Channing D. Strother, Jr.
L Goldberg, Fieldman & Letham, l
1100 Fifteenth St.,
N.W.
Washington, D.C.
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