ML20079D242
| ML20079D242 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Palo Verde  |
| Issue date: | 05/27/1991 |
| From: | Michael Scott AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | NRC |
| References | |
| CON-#291-11857 91-633-05-OLA-2, 91-633-5-OLA-2, OLA-2, NUDOCS 9106280094 | |
| Download: ML20079D242 (4) | |
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E RE: ASLDP No. 91-633-05-OLA-2 On April 24, 1991, ALJ Smith and Judges Kline and Jordan issued an." Order Dismissing Scott / Bush / CREE Petitions to Intervene" in the above-captioned matter.
The named intervenors did not oppose that Order and therefore did not appeal to the Commission.
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Nonetheless, the Order was accompanied by at least an informal finding of " contemptuous conduct" that is both gratuitous and unwarranted.
Because the only sanction imposed was dismissal of the~. intervention request,-to which the e
intervenors had no objection having unavoidably but voluntarily defaulted, no formal reply was made.
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' historical. record, however, some response is in order.
At no time did the intervenors intentionally conduct themselves in a discourteous or contemptuous manner.
The intervenors simply voluntarily defaulted, the appropriate response to which'is simple dismissal. -As to causing unnecessary effort for the Board'and Staff,-no such result was intended.-
If the. named intervenors had been the only or even the principal.
intervenors, the claim might have more force.
In fact, however, the named intervenors made it clear from the outset that they merely sought to join in the Mitchell contentions and to offer-supporting evidence, primarily on'the non-technical issues of worker harassment and management competence raised directly or indirectly by-the Mitchells.
(The-reference to the involvement of lawyers as CREE members was limited.to courtroom decorum-in the event.such evidence
- was taken,-and was_ linked to-the statement that-CREE et al.
did not-seek to-expand the issues-beyond tMse raised by the' Mitchells.)' The Board, however, chose to.aterpret the.
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'and to demand from CREE et al._ specific allegations on technical contentions-that CREE'et al. never had addressed and had made
'it reasonably clear did not intend to address.. Itaving nothing to say on those-issues, CREE voluntarily defaulted.
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That, plus resource limitations and unavoidable difficulties that arose in attempts to communicate with the other intervenors, were the F,ule reasons for CREE's default.
14o disrespect or contempt was intended.
Nevertheless, CREE, Scott and Bush apologize to the Board and Staff for any inconvenience.
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