ML20076N186

Intervenors Reply to NRC Staff & Licensee Responses to 910222 Appeal Board Order.* NRC & Licensee Should File Appropriate Motions & Supply Requisite Evidentiary Basis That Will Allow Board to Make Decision.W/Certificate of Svc

ML20076N186
Person / Time
Site:	Seabrook
Issue date:	03/19/1991
From:	Backus R, Curran D BACKUS, MEYER & SOLOMON, HARMON, CURRAN, SPIELBERG & EISENBERG, LLP., NEW ENGLAND COALITION ON NUCLEAR POLLUTION, SEACOAST ANTI-POLLUTION LEAGUE
To:	Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
References
CON-#191-11589 OL, NUDOCS 9103280183
Download: ML20076N186 (6)

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Staff!s'and-Licenseas' Responses to-the: February'22', 1991 y, , Appeal- Board Order. ~-In their responses both the NRC~ Staff and-G the~ Licensees took;therposition that;the issuetrem&.ded by;the

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, %m - Columbia in Massachusetts v.- MRQ, No. 89_-1306, __. - F . 2 d __. -- ( D . C .

O ~Cir.--1991), was rendered.mootiby the: December 1990 exercise.

As: support for their. positions the ~NRC Staff and Licensees rely is , upon_the NRC inspection report'oflthe-December 1990: exercise.

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As previous 2y observ6J in the Intervenors Reply to the Appeal Board Order of February 22, 1991, the inspection report does not contain information as to specifically what stops the on-site operators took to moet tha challenges presented in the December 1990 exerciso. The Fox affidavit adds virtually no information to that provided in the inspection report. The Fox affidavit simply walks through the inspection report and references portie.9? of it as being responsive to woaknesses identified IR Ho. 50-443-88-09. The Fox affidavit does not on its face directly address the criticisms leveled in the two affidavits of Robert pollard previously sutgitted in connection with the 1928 on-sito exerciso contention. The Fox affidavit does not provido any additional specific information cs to what transp' d in the December 1990 exercine btyond what is contained in the inspection report. For examplo, in his af fidavit Fru states:

" Among the specific activition observed during a 1990 exerciso were the assessment and projection of of f-site radiological doser and consideration of protective actions. The NRC btaff listed as exerciso strengths (areas which provide strong possible indication of the ability to cope with abnormal plant conditions and implomont the plan) the ability of TSC Staf f to tron 6 and extrapolato data, anticipato problems and actually predict when conditions would be reachnd justifying the declaration of a Site Area Emergency." The Fox a f fidavit c.'. 5.

In his affidavit Mr. Fox does not provido any information as to what stops are taken by the on-site staf f to assess and project off-site radiological dosos, nor is any information provided as to what analysos were nado in considering protectivo actions.

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were taken by t'.te TSC Staf f as evidence of their ability to trend and e.s .?;apolate data. Nor, is any indicatica given as to l

k any exanples of what problema vere purportedly anticipated by them, or e*,idenco provided to show that they made accur?to predictions. In sun, the Fox affidavit provides no now information about the December 1990 exorcise that is not readily apparent from reading the exorcise report.

If the NRC Staf f and Licansees actua11 bellove that the 1990 exorcibe has rondered moot the issue resanded by the Court of Appeals, they should file the appropriato motions and supply the requisito evidentiary basis that will allow this Board to make an informed decision on the matter.

Respectfully submitted, NEW ENGLAND COALITION ON SCOTT ltARSHBARGER NUCLEAR POWER ATTORNEY GENERAL W h Diano Curran, Esq.V Iaslio Greer Harmon, Curran & Townley Assistant Attorney General Suite 430 Nuclear Safety Unit 2001 S Street, N.W. One Ashburton Place Washington, DC 20008 Boston, Massachusetts 0210d 617-727-2200 SEACOAST ANTI-POLLUTION LEAGUE M

Robert Backus, Esq. V

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Backus, Nyor & Solomon 116 Lowell Street P.O. Box 516 Manchester, NH 03106 Dato March 19, 1991 1988n

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I, Leslie Greer, hereby certify that on March 19, 1991, I made service of the enclosed Intervenors' Reply to the NRC a Staff's and Licensees' Responses to the March 22, 1991 Appeal Board' Order by fax as indicated by (*) und by first class mail to:

Ivan W. Smith, Chairman -Kenneth A. McCollom Atomic Safety & Iicensing Board 1107 W. Knapp St. '

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Stil' water, OK 74075 East West Towers Building 4350 East West Highway

.Bethesda, MD 20814-Dr. Richard F. Cole Robert-R. Pierce, Esq.

Atomic Safety &-Licensing. Board Atomic Safety & Licensing-Board U.S. Nuclear- Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

. East West Towers Building East West Towers Building _

4350' East West Highway 4350 East West Highway Bethesda, MD 20814 Bethesda, MD 20814 l

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• Docketing and Service

• Thomas G. Dignan, Jr.

i U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Ropes & Gray l Washington, DC 20555 One International Place )

Boston, MA 02110

• Elaine Chan

=Mjtzi-A. Young, Esq. Philip Ahrens, Esq.

Edwin J. Reis, Esq. Assistant Attorney General U.S. Nuclear Pegulatory Commission Department of the Attorney General Office of the General Counsel Augusta, ME 04333 11555 Rockville Pike,15th Floor

-Rockville, MD 20852 H. Joseph Flynn, Esq.

• Atomic Safety & Licensing Assistant General Counsel Appeal Board Office of General Counsel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Federal Emergency Management Washington, DC 20555 Agency 500 C Street, S.W.

Washington, DC 20472 Robert A. Backue, Esq. Atomic Safety & Licensing Board Backus,-Meyer & Solomon U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 116 Lowell Street Washington, DC 20555 P.O. Box 516 Manchester, NH 03106

.Tane Doughty Diane Curran, Esq.

Seacoast Anti-Pollution League Harmon, curran & Towsley rive Market Street Suite 430

.Portsmouth, NH .03801 2001 S Street, N.W.

Washington, DC 20008 Barbara St. Andre, Esq. Judith Mizner, Esq.

Kopelman &-Paige, P.C. 79 State Street 77 Franklin Street Second Floor Boston, MA- 02110 Newburyport, MA 01950 Charles P. Graham, Esq. R. Scott Hill-Whilton, Esq.

Murphy.& Graham Lagoulis, Hill-Whilton & Rotondi 33 Lov Street .

79 State Street Newburyport,.MA '01950 Newburypcrt, MA 01950

.Ashod N..Amirian, Esq. Senator Gordon J.- Humphrey 145 South Main Street U.S.. Senate '

P.O. Box 38 Washington,- DC 20510 Bradford, MA 01835 (Attn Tom Burack)

Senator Gordon J. Humphrey .

John P. Arnold, Attorney General-One Eagle Square, Suite 507 Office of the Attorney General Concord, NH 03301 25 Capitol Street (Attn: Herb Boynton) Concord, NH 03301 ,

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Paul McEachern, Esq. Michael sinclair Shaines & McEachern Graystone Emergency Management 25 Maplewood Avenue, Associates Portsmouth, NH 03801 13 Summer Street Hillsboro, NH 03224 G. Paul Bollwerk, Chairman

• Alan S. Rosenthal Atomic Safety & Licensing Atomic Safety & Licensing Appeal Board, 5th FL. Appeal Board, 5th FL.

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commisnirn U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Bethesda, MD 20814 Bethesda, MD 20814

• Howard A. Wilber Jack Dolan Atomic Safety & Licensing Federal Emergency Management Agency Appeal Board, 5th FI.. Region i U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission J.W. McCormack Post Office &

Bethesda, MD 20814 Courthouse Building, Room 442 Boston, MA 02109 George Iverson, Director

• Thomas S. Moore, Chairman H.H. Office of Emergency Management Atomic Safety & Licensing State House Office Park South Appeal Board 107 Pleasant Street U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Concord, NH 03301 Washington, D.C. 10555 i

Respectfully submitted, SCOTT HARSHBARGER ATTORNEY GENERAL LW d 6%

Leslie Greer Assistant Attorney General Department of the Attorney General One Ashburton Place Boston, MA 02108 (617) 727-2200 Dated: March 19, 1991

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