ML20078S100

Response Opposing Seacoast Anti-Pollution League 831028 Contentions on State of Nh Evacuation Time Study.Contentions Unrelated to Study.Certificate of Svc Encl

ML20078S100
Person / Time
Site:	Seabrook
Issue date:	11/10/1983
From:	Dignan T, Gad R PUBLIC SERVICE CO. OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, ROPES & GRAY
To:	Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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NUDOCS 8311150401
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PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NEW ) Docket Nos. 50-443 HAMPSHIRE, et al. ) 50-444

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(Seabrook Station, Units 1 & 2) )

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l APPLICANTS' RESPONSE TO SAPL'S CONTENTIONS ON NEW HAMPSHIRE EVACUATION TIME STUDY Under date of October 28, 1983, SAPL has submitted a set of contentions on the New Hampshire Evacuation Time Study (the so-called C.E. McGuire study) which has been forwarded to FEMA for review by the State of New Hampshire. SAPL premises its theory that New Hampshire's evacuation time studies are a fit subject for litigation in this operating license proceeding on SAPL's assertion that: "The Study was prepared specifically in accordance with the requirements of NUREG-0654. . . ." SAPL Contentions at 1.

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The implication, if it be one, that NUREG-0654 requires

_, a state to prepare evacuation time estimates is, we submit, in error.Section II.J.8 of NUREG-0654 provides:

"Each licensee's plan shall contain time

, estimates for evacuation within the plume exposure EPZ. These shall be in accordance with Appendix 4."

The " Applicability and Cross-Reference to Plans" column specifically does not make this evaluation criteria applicable to a state plan. This is, of course, consistent with the regulations which also require such estimates only from applicants. 10 CFR 50, App. E, S IV, Preamble.

It is true that NUREG-0654 references a need for time estimates for evacuation to be included in state

-implementation plans. NUREG-0654, 5 II.J.10.1.. But implementation procedures are not a subject for litigation in an operating license hearing. Louisiana Power & Light .

Co. (Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3), ALAB-732, 17 NRC 1076, 1106-07 (1983).

l Since there is no regulatory requirement that New l-j Hampshire have an estimate of its own, the fact that it has gratuitously supplied one does not mean that a round of litigation with respect to it is necessary. Indeed, such

! litigation would be an academic exercise and no more, for if l

l. the Board found the New Hampshire estimates to be deficient for some reason this would have no effect on the question of 1

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Prescinding from the foregoing, a number of the contentions put forth by SAPL have nothing to do with the ,

evacuation time studies as such. Contention I raises the feasibility of~ notification within 15 minutes. A state evacuation time study is not the place for setting out the. [

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' design of a notification system. The McGuire study simply '

assumes the required 15 minute time. Similarly, the issue raised by Contention II (lack of arrangements for emergency vehicles) is not properly part of an evacuation time study.

CONCLUSION i

For the reasons set forth above all of SAPL's f I

contentions on New Hampshire's Evacuation Time Study should

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be rejected.

Respectf ly ubmitted, i w &

Thomas G. pignan, Jr.

R. K. Gad III Ropes & Gray 225 Franklin Street Boston, MA 02110 (617) 423-6100 e:

CERTIFICATE OF-SERVICE

~I, Thomas G. Dignan, Jr., one of the attorneys for the Applicants herein,-hereby certify that:on November 10, 1983, I made service of the within document by mailing copies thereof, postage prepaid, to:

-Helen 'Hoyt,. Chairperson Ms. Diana P. Randall

. Atomic ~ Safety and Licensing 70 Collins Street Board Panel Seabrook, NH 03874 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 Dr. Emmeth A. Luebke William S. Jordan, III, Esquire Atomic Safety and Licensing. Harmon & Weiss Board Panel 1725 I Street, N.W.

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Suite 506 Commission Washington, DC 20006 Washington, DC 20555 Dr. . Jerry Harbour G. Dana Bisbee, Esquire Atomic Safety and Licensing Assistant Attorney General Board Panel Office of the Attorney General

.U.S. Nuclear Regulatory ,

208 State House Annex Commission Concord, NH 03301

. Washington, DC.20555 Atomic Safety and Licensing Roy P. Lessy, Jr., Esquire .

' Board Panel Office of the Executive Legal s U.S.: Nuclear Regulatory Director Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Washington,LDC 20555 Commission Washington, DC 20555 Atomic-Safety and Licensing Robert A. Backus, Esquire Appeal Board Panel 116 Lowell Street U.S. Nuclear Regulatory P.O. Box 516 Commission Manchester, NH 03105-Washington, DC 20555.

Philip Ahrens, Esquire Anne Verge, Chairperson Assistant' Attorney General Board of Selectmen Department of the Attorney Town Hall

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South Hampton, NH 03827 Augusta,.ME 04333 David R. Lewis, Esquire Jo Ann Shotwell, Esquire Atomic Safety and Licensing Assistant Attorney General Board Panel' Environmental Protection Bureau U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Department of the Attorney General Commission- One Ashburton Place, 19th Floor Rm. E/W-439. Boston, MA 02108 Washington, DC 20555-t f

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, Charlos Croc$e, Egquire Brentwood Board of Salectmen Shninas,'Mrdrigen & McE charn R.F.D. 1, Dalton Road 25 Maplewood Avenue Brentwood, NH 03833 P. O. Box 366 ,

Portsmouth, NH 03801 Ms. Roberta C. Pevear Mr. Patrick J. McKeon Designated Representative of Selectmen's Office the Town of Hampton Falls 10 Central Road Drinkwater Road Rye, NH 03870 i Hampton Falls, NH 03844 '

Mrs. Sandra Gavuti: Mr. Calvin A. Canney I Designated Representative of City Manager ,

.the Town of Kensington City Hall  ;

RFD 1 126 Daniel Street  ;

. East Kingston, NH 03827 Portsmouth, NH 03801 ,

Senator Gordon J. Humphrey Mr. Angie Machiros U.S. Senate Chairman of the Washington, D.C. 20510 Board of Selectmen (Attn: Tom Burack) Town of Newbury ,

Newbury, MA 01950 Senator Gordon J. Humphrey Mr. Richard E. Sullivan

1 Pillsbury Street Mayor .

- Concord, NH 03301 City Hall s*- ,

(Attn: Herb Boynton) Newburyport, MA 01950

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Mr. Donald E. Chick Town Manager's Office Town Manager Town Hall Town of Exeter Friend Street i 10 Front Street Amesbury, MA 01913 '

Exeter, NH 03833 Brian P. Cassidy, Esquire Regional Counsel Federal Emergency Management Agency - Region I -

442 POCH Boston, MA 02109 i

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