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Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Annual Report.Fiscal Year 1990

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Commincioner Curt. inn Comminolonor Remick FROM:

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Chief Administrativo Judge

SUBJECT:

lilliT}l All!1UAL RI: PORT OF Till: ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICEllSING POARD PAllEh:

FISCAL YEAR 1990

.The attached Ninth Annual Report of the Atomic-Safety and Liconning Board Panel (Panol) providen a general overview of the activitlen and docket of the Panel and detalla como of the more significant dnciclonn of individual Llconsing Boardo during Pincal Year 1990.

In summary, the attached Report shown that the Panol continuen to resolvo mont contentions prior to hoaring and to ahorten the time that casco remain on the docket.

In addition, the Panol has enhanced the scopo and capabilition of its electronic docket, gaining valuable experience that will bo of critical importanco in officiently managing futurn complex canon.

Dased on NRC Starf five-year projections, growing interont in advanced and standardized reactor denigna, increasing national and regional needa f or powe r, and a growing appreciation of nuclear power an an alternative to other, more environmentally coutly f orms of energy production, the Commiasion is on the threnhold of a renaisnance in nuclcar licensing and regulation.

Over the next covoral

years, the Commission will focus its attention, in particular, on licenne extension for operating reactors, advanced reactor donignu, and high level wanto.

The Panel looks forward to these challengen.

Attachment:

ASLDP Annual Report

AllSTI(ACI' In I c.cai Ye..t 1(m, the Atonne satri> and I irenunc nns n pois son,n.;u ves. hirhaphis.o.J.a.. t. -. o.ow ihe lloard l'anel (l'atuli handled 40 procceshnp itnohtny judres and thensitir hutds of the P...

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itig a liconAr front the Nuttrat lierulatory Conunraiott.

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AUSTRAct............................................................................

iii F.x t :C LU 1 Vli S U M M AR Y...................................................................

vii Overview............................................................................

vil D oc k e t Da t a......................................................................

vii Admin itt rat ion...................................

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11. ASSURING 'llll! PUlil.lC llliAllill AND sal'iirY: SIGNIFICANI 11 SCAL Y I ! AR 1990 D iiC I S I O N S.......................................................

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Panci Jurisdiction.....

11 Sig n if ican t Pa n et Decision s..........................................................

2 L Seabrook Nuclear Power Station.............

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2. NRC Juriuliction: Corporate Restructuring....

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3. General Licensecs: License Revocation.....

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4. Admissibility of Contention: Technical Specification Amendment 3

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5. Mill Tailings.............

6. Summary 1 icense Suspension Orders.

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7. 1.icense R evocation...........................

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ill. _ FISCAL Yli AR 1990 CASlil O AD AN ALYSIS....................

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'lhe Fiscal Year 1990 Dacket...

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Case Manni;cment.

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'lypes of Cases.................

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IV. Pl!RSONN1!L AND SUPPORT..................

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Panel Members 8

'.11 Professional and Support Staff.................,....,

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9 V. TiNilANCING 'illl! ADJUDICAIORY PROCliSS 9

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I l ea ri n g Pr t ud m e s.........,,,............................................

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Coordmation with the Office of I.icensing Support Splem Administrator 10 Agency Court iteporting Servicct............

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Fiscal Year 1990 in lictrospect..............

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hiceting the Mjudicatory Demands ol the Next Decade................

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Al'PENDICES A Organizational Chart...

15 l) - Atomic Safety i.icensing lioard Panel 17 C Biopaphical Sketches of Panel '.lcmbers..

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D Selected Issuances of the Atomic Safety and 1.icensing Boards..................

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FIGUllES 1.

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i Overview Complekd h ou rdinru ol 40 rnicceding on the docket during the > car,20 DO percent of all puncedinp) were After a decade of adjuthcations focused on appheations closed in 1990.

for operating licenses, l'iscal Yeat 1990 represented a transition to the adjudicatory docket in the early 1990%

I..ncd i.var IW C. nmen Of the N ino(nmqs a

Only 7 of the 40 cases on the Paners Iiscal Year 1940 canied over to hscal year 1991 Inun the IWO docket,5 (kwket r elated to applications for construction per mits or midtcued issues assocuted wah eperatmp license i

operating licenses. Other t> pes of cases accounted for 82 app adondo in unut at two diUcrent laal' ties.'the percent of the Paners cases.These cases focused on is-sues arising out of the centinumg operation of our i15 legest gamp p canaer proadnp 05 percent of au sus proncenp) mvolved applicadom fut license nucleat power plants or related facilities, or programs tunendmms and enforcement attions relecd to a500 materials licenses and other nuclear li.

censes.

In addition to the chanping nature of the PenePs docket, Adgninlqpa(lgn the total number of proceedmgs (and the correspondmg number of available full time Panel judges) teached hs lowest point in the last 10 years. 'the drop in the total Staffing: At the close of the fiscal sear, the full time J

number of cates on the docket was caused in part by the Panel staff totaled 25. Panel membership was down to 30 Panel s pmgram of active rase management. which sig-ludges (11 full-time and 19 part t.me), reDecling a nificartily reduced the average age of the cascload, one of decreast of over 55 percent in the number of muilable the Paners established goals. As in Mscal Year 1989, the judges smce 1982.

hscal Year 1990 new fihngs focused on mues typical of a mature, regulated industry, principally applications for license amendments rehearing of remanded iwoes.and Panel Alembers' Age: 'Ihe aveuge are of full time Panel i

challenges to Ni(C Staff enforcement acHons.

members is $8. 'the average are of patt time Panel members is 70. Some 80 percent of n!1 judges are clipble to retire toGay.'Ihe Panel has been working to establish Docket Data registers of qualified candidates to expedite replacement of retisces.

Case Age: The average age of all cases on the docket during the fiscal ycar (as of September 30,1990) was 20.7

'l he PaneW Electr onle Docket: 1[he Panel rnade monthr, a decrease of 23 percent over the Fiscal Year substantial progress in expanding the scope, depth, and 1986 average age.

availability of us Computer Automation Project (CAP) cicetronic docket during Fiscal Year 1990. At the close of Case Filings:'lhe number of new cmes filed in Iiscal the fiscal year, the Panel was (1) training ageng Year 4990 exceeded the number of new ohnp m 1989 personnelin other Commission offices to access full text anci reflected apprm.ately a 20 percent increase over informatioq using !NQUlitil;(2) enhancing the system by the average for the prior 6 years, adding Liyensing Panel and Appeal lloard issuances within 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> of decision; (3) briefing other State and Caseload:Of the 40 eases on the Panel's Fiscal Year 1990 Federal agencies that inquited about the CAP systern:(4) docket,19 cases involved 13 different nucicar power modtfymg existing data eternents to include inforn al;on reactors or related facilities (7 involving applications for the Office of the hecretariat requires;(5) capandmg the construction permits or operating licenses). ~lhe database to held additional caschads; (6) streamhning rernaining 21 proceedings involved other tyges of the process to prepare data for INQUllW: and-(7)

Comtnisson licenses.

conductir.g a study of personal computer-based full text systems, using iruproved information-search technology.

Prehearing Cnntention Resolution For all proceedmp, almost 90 percent of ali contentions were rcrolved during As desenbed in this summary, the Panel cimtinues to the prehearing phase of proceedings, a continuation of improve the elficiency of the Commission's hearing proc-prior experience.

ess, llarring further crosions in this adjudicatory resoarce, the Panel stands ready to meet the hearing demands of Fnihrteme nt: During Fiscal Yeas 1990, 11 of 20 the next decade to ensute the public health and salety enforcement proceedings were closed into the nen century.

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INTitODUCTION neated by the nsnumssion as authonnd by snimn 191 or een-sion should he rianted to a tuitienha archcant.

of the Atomic l_nctry Act of 19.nt, as amended, the hr.st mdnadual lioards must be more th.m incre umphes.

I in nsmr lloald w as appomtcd Nowmber 4,1%.11n the

% hete appropti,tb thi> are (hatred w.th the alfitmat. e nest quartcr (entut), nudcar n actor ht crnityt and con-duty to to bt yond the tunts plwed bt fore them by the tituction peumt heatings wnducted befor e the ljcememp pitues to tJentify. uplou. and remhc any sininhcant iloatd.i oI the AtorniC ba!ely afid I aCVn%ng Ihuld panel yncstion ticctf kit) to cln ut.'lhe p1.blE heLIth and sdlcly.

(Panc!) have been characterved as atoony the most wm-thus if the puhhis acalth or utety n unpheated. I iccrn.-

plex. lengthy, and contivversial adnumvraine hearmp mg ihurds must ensure that those mittests are fully et conduaed by the lidotal Gos ernm( nt ihn t esults pnn-phited and c!fettociv pitwnc'h cipally f rom three f acto,s.

Motemer, wlule the Panel h moung awa) from ihc latge noticar power plant opt ratmg luen c potte; hors thas l'itst, these beannp f outmely unohc (blhcult intetic-do unuted its dxit t dunng inuch of this Jeude. the i.nc lated questions of po' icy, law, enrineenny, and ask as-decontaminavon, enfurienu nt at Hons rewter opctator, sessrm, nt t!ut arc otten at the cuttmg edre of science and and mattnah license protecJmp that at: tahmg their technolag). 'lhus llo_utb inust contror!1 not utdy dis place contmue to tatse thfhcult and wincluncs unes-puted Icrat and factual mpuinents, but ako wmpetmg plored questnms of law and schnce. And in the neat tc<.hnical an.1 >cientdic thrones opinions. v.d rese.uch h.tute lauhty decomtanwnn p and h;ense senc wal pro-hnJmps Second, heatmp before a I icensmp iloard, an credap ate htHy to once aram nok enong the most indeper. dent aJjudicatm 3 dy, are the prmupal, pubhc wmplex and contested pnteedmes condutt< d by the adrnmnti..uv~ cht he it'n y ulvh mihuJnab. 0: ram-I edct al aJoum> tratne Juju uiy. I mali), pr cpa t at or) rations and $ tit c ic 1 rovernmenb un wwe their woik must benn lor the high-!cu ! wac s epotact) por conCer} s d' 'b. palU-ld1.'I it. %' (1! CrdelCClocnt Inab

(.cr dm/ t h:tt (ould beQ Cm tlic lla n( (I'm le s iltd Ci'nilli-p ters the (IoDHStu W r.c

>ldeli.f and thn't Dh whhh t et Mal a In. l@tlath e pf oiiredinP th er (t!nJus ti d by the thomoi,xins c in ne imoh(J. I hu% these ddfn uit teth-1 c& r.d ( hn ernmer.t.

nialqumbonwu obtn IcsolccJ ar unst the la;Ldrop of Nr.900, the P.u ci h:m#cd 40 pinacJmp hwal c escerns 400- the consequen.ca of seset e acci.

In l ival 4r a. n 5 0-e n tuonal deh te o.cr wh n toh. nusicar The' t eps:t sunusutifes hyhtyhts and en dya ~ bow the povxt bu!J pl) m mecimg the runon's t ro;t ry nt c1 judges and li urth..I the Panc) ashb em d '.,Jc tangmp iit 1. a duidmr wnether a htense per nut. amendment.

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SIGNil7tCANT 1/ISCAl YEAlt 1990 DI:CISIONS A. Pmiel Juris<liction Appenda It moven el the rnore msniheant of Ne toimal isuances tue suinmat unt below.'

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reguhilioes reyuiles tIMit a Iotmid hearing h chMe es to lhe heething of huhtook Ntwicat N m o archauon Nr a wnurue"on Per ait ror ime, 31,,,minog,n o,3 ine e,eps do3e, y a M w t w plant or related faedity. In add,dyn, the donny Encal Yeat UNO.The pnecedig had hcen tued

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@g 9 N grmt of an operatmg hcense or heeme MMe of New I h'anpEre, md neond, tiv: s une kinds of amendment conce;.ing a nuck ?r powtr teactor be pro-in es b. M,us,chusetn. %qv-me decis.ons were issue ('

v vided an opportunity for a formal hearing. Fimdly, ot!.et fm ed pne wh 1% %wdtnettv, dc%^ enthorir-unions of the Act or the ( anmnuon s rules provide un a 411 pm kem.

oppef unity for Q loimal hearing on antitrV1 M uei, i n-fore (ment netu.ns, ebd ;'enalues, t.nd othei inatters as tw.PouFrotlur; in iltB A9 ^. 3d NF G C% 4.

directed by the Cornmasjon. All formal procedings con-

.he kemim' Doant denied a ee m aunut ducted try the l'anel are governed by the Adm,mstn tae conterdmus id reopen the seeon M Molaung I"ocedurt Act. 5 U.E S S1, rive Eimplen ented t /

prowdun s darmg low power te,3 ting hi the faedny.

tbc Comreission's own ndes of pmtin nt out nt 10 Among other thints the lhwJ fimod that se cenful Ulv. Part 2. Virtually all hea. inp art held at or ncar 11.e compktbn of low powet uuW. n oo' a pinequ%1e to d

! ate of tht faedity' the mu;un of n fuH-power bec r%. at d, therefotc, to heating tight is attaded under the Atomic 1:cern' Act.

In natters af feding one of itt over 8500 materiah sicen.

secs. the Comtnission's tnin of 'pt actir;e authod/e the e"'

l'ull Pwtr Antbor natinn and the Manatimstth of infoimal rather than format hvaring ptocedures. Sec 1:mstrency Hespose Plam ir I hM942, Y1 NRC 37$

10 f'.F.it 5 iL12014.12$1. Whi., the adjudicatory debb.

W9). Ihe I AenMng domd lound that Iht den m x erativt process fo iudge.s renwm the Atme under either heyeccy Rcsponse Plan for the M;euchusees 13;n of hearing, mlorrnal ne.nin,tu, m.oM siemfkanti) conunur. dies withm the emergency phmmng tone inct different procedures foc desefop;ng the rewrd upon regulatory :tquirements (10 C / 10 $

50.47 and which ocenion mutt be basa.'lhe princip.d Mferences Appenda h to 10 ('.!!.1L Part 50h 'Ih Pw 1 ionnd i

inch,de the use of a smgle administntire judge,' wntten teto.onable assurance that aucquate protective measures seSmittals by the parties, arat, if the P esidmg Ol6cer un mid di be taker in the ocot of a rathologeal det /rmincsit to be necenary alter considerieg the wr men emerpney M the Seabroek Station, m acconimte with tubmittals, oral presentattom by tb pmties subject to the Commivion's emergene >!annier reculations and queriordnj by the Presid,ng Of ftect. WhFe the mfotmid preceaenn. Intervenon had Mllet:ged hot b.he plan and hearing procedures nave W r,teme l to shorten anJ the extrme of the Hnn in 0 7 tonhmtioos with multiple umphry the heat in/ procch the reahntion of out poten-supponing basef Ihe Ma%3Chuse'ts foition of the tial in large depee iuras on the Presidmg Off, 's abdity prAceuing melu&d $4 da ef cudenti.uv m. anne, to idemify, focut, ard explore the matenal f actual and generatu.g more than 12.OE0 paces of transci;pt. In technical issues

,cding in d.eision. 'he Itama scuewed pleadap thallenging the imJings el the lideral limetp.Y7 4

IL Sigitificallt hil101 DOCISIOilS Manarement Agency with respect to t he plam evacuation time estimata; traffic management plans; ciacuanot' of During l'iscal Year lWO, the PanePs lloards and Presid-tramil d< pendent perso m; perennel and trainmp; ing Officers published 46 decisions ami issued several protective acuen decisionmakmg commt:ncations and nundred memoranda and or ders in connection weh the 40 notilication; proteetn e actions for pat tn.uiar pop 9ations; pnweedmp on the Paners Ftseul Year l990 docket. See rnonitoring; reapaan and conscrate care centem ec. ordination of pvertwnental rtsoutees ana respomes; misCelhulcolB eWrC se cW&ts;1,nd the NeW llampShire excrene performance. 't he M page Pertial.'mttel

' As a nauer of Pane t pm uce, an Atonne Safety and laci neg tkord Pan-1 (ASt.HP) judge hmng eqwitae (t e legal or 2All enanons are to Hamt and pne namheo,of h icot Rotm la ory ( hmm.m imun ct ano an tasn mr, be hmnd in techmeal)complementmg ht of the smgic Prewbog( Hhces s

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lleactor lierulatan to fut.c an operating h ase for ROMnicludy Seab'nok.htion to operate at leveb init to cweed 3111 rnerantts thet tad (MW(1))

In Mc(v/ W Corp, i JiP-90 M,31 N R C 1 :6 (19910. tbc licensinyt lioard denicJ the tesbondent's tuotion to ds l(4tHand IdutB bo UJr lo 1.lttrl$e dulhofidlll Ort tun's fof (m h of jbindletion, Wntludmg that PM f.ulnre of OJAll4240 Just befo e inumg the Patual impal the enginal hum.cc to fully infonn the Commiulon of 4

licenieq haihorumg an opeta*!ng licem.e for Seabrook corporate teorgardranota and sale, of contet.lling hkicks

. Station, the Atomic Sdety and 1 ieen:mg Appcal doaid of stock tcnJered all sucem.or corporanons inole for the mued a deeMon remanding to the Seabrook Iitensing rets of demniannnanori of sites previously undet the lioard bewral issues Item the cat her decision on the New cont rol of Oic otimml licetm:e and subject to the enforce-

. llampshire portion of the Sc2:ook fimergeng ment authority of the Commission and ifn. jurisdktion of t

1(capmse 1"an.161.1114s-33,30 NRC 6% (1989), the thr: 11oard. 'the lloird Ive.ed this bokhng on Secoor 1M 11oatd opfained w hy lle penJency of thme hsues did not of the Atomic linury Act oi 19% which vonides that no j

lueelude th< mimediate suuance of the healmxA htense or ight to utshic specul nutI:ar material 1, hall bc operating lipe 'the llNrd renoned that t'.de transferred, auigned, o-doposed of m any menne, tin-adjudicatoiy inues must be rcsolved i efore authorWng leu the Comiaimion shall, afIet seeuing full mlonnation, t

i the ksuarme of a license, other inuce inay be le(* to imd that the namfer o m meordaru mth the Atomic posthcariponslJeration and, indeed, n en deler:ned to 1:nricy A t, and Shail give its ment m woting,lleran3e the Malf La cwotve, Ihe *hard found thb ponciple none of these :xplien, mamlator) at:ttutory requiruuchta appikable to certain Scabi c. v emergency planmng inues were met at any hme by any of O'c corpotate ira ties, the fot which - Ikcnsmr brds.tinditionally soy upon

. Dond cotuluded that the NitC rould dist epud t he serien i

predkti$c findmgs !b emergency plans can and wd' he of comoheated and intettelated.orpounte restructnnng tmpiennnled and 900 pAthca+g wiibcMion of the actions that fundament 11ly (Itmged the Im m athl Malnr tuoh tto9 O! open laatiett "lhe trajor question befote of thn hTnsee. 'IhuN the transfers of n atitd of the the llWrd W3 Whedle' the issue:i teamnded in licenses were uteal'd undtr Secthin IM and would be AI All 924 were amt nable to. uth ticatmemJlhe lhurd dnn7ardeu by the NHC, whkh has juru.dn tion over the i

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Mimilantavn lunes in 1 tilWH2. 31 NRC 4?7 o% the uens, noa,d mu or other ks=

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t remand"d by the Appeal lloard m AI. AIM 24. lhe WO N WnM Hoard mo;hfied an onh of the 11 aiu granted leavn to interunor Neacoast gg g

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g, Anti Pouution 1.capue w,.,

J to with&au hom the m N eMond p wNy M &WM mem e pn cedmg belote :he E omJ. Gmined, as abanL,oned by WW h ehe bm M W"<dh of 10

('a a general hcense authotind by 10 CJ A 6 40.a. A aM l. hstier con.mmng letten, of q cemen' :md the rpc(vt ner A x 1 pwvided for further n avlut.on el Of.11. P tit 20 entes the :icen:,ee also hohc. sou vc ma te-th. mM1ced hK support patient mue; and denied the w

M mda a 9 die hcense 'I he lhanj detennined that mtency 's monon to reopen the rermu on the tr,e o' my M & Wotathrn alleged by the simi as a baus hv 1

,sheltennp the bea(l' poi.utauon. i ne ihntd prouded tor revocat:an d.d not coastitute adanons of penetui1:cenw:

isther roolution of the sheltrimg mue as remanded by w

enn d um sh'm M dM m m m Al.AH424 ano soyhl forther pmo iwe from the Apped de m

m ete remedy of iewem Dourd on the matter.

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's W NW mmhnd the revoca6on ordet to proude that, subject to critain speethed conditmns appropriam thl'iled Onsite Derrise Cmdenthms th nWd; In for a gnet al licchu, the beensees could openite under a nitP,89-3S

'O NRC 725 (1%9), the f.ietmmg Haard general Ucer.se 'lhe llo.ud aho reconuncadcd that the wnudered nnamns by intc' Tenors to adnut Iwo W:11cd NHC regulatium governing general becmes he modJitd conf ertion concerning the 1989 Seahroot onsite to adude the type of chemierd proecLsing activit,es en; cmttgency plan nerubc In &nying thn motion, the ymd m by the heemets.

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i lhurd mncludcd.among mhe, d inp. that the pj ul of the

.Fyear, prehecose, onste nerciw required by

.t gjnijghjl{gy g nngengjon ypphnlpg i

Conmnumn upolatmns b to emure that eucts ney Specificatiod Amemlment resporac personn.:1 a twa sufftent homed;'e and operthe to itspond to emeinenev umd6ons, ~lhe in Cirvlanu lin wir lunannutmg fo. r' ut t Pro y Nut itat ewrcise netd aol commpw 'au ' major obsen ble Power Plant, Uni: 1), I H P 40 -l$, 31 N RC,W I (1990L pardo4I of the ')DMie t:IHel pent.y Ohd, M 15 Icastinably the I M Cmmg Doald l'u!cd on 3n Inter veli!Ln pehtion af hl athievable without ruandatory pubHe partid thon.

aJnutted a contendon on a psopsed techmcal specinea-l 3

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dispaing of it e mill tailings at another tite where the

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othe cycl >spetfic loci saformation itorn the Petry Tec h.

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Surumury Liecuse Suspension Orders i

the licem,cc to set these lima in areerd with NitC ap-proved methoid gy, On the Sasis of 10 C.F R. $ $0.36 In A6unccd Mcdical Systcms, l.Ilp-90-17,31 NHC $41 l

tutuiring the impositiot of rigid condilians or limitations (1990), the 1.icensiny licurd granted N RC Staff's motion

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in technical apecL'ications fo.t matters threatening tue for mmmary disp 3sition of a heensee's thallenge to the public health and safety, the llomd acid that the NitC lawfulness of a summary he:me suspension order under may not audicaic its responshility to review nnd approve the p.ovisions of 10 C.l?.R 2.2004206 and 10 C.F.R.

. license amendment applinitions that niisc such matters 30.61. The lloard dismined the proceedmg, holding that '

by gran ing licens.!cs substantial discietion in determin-the lawfulness of a sammarv bcense suspension order ing them. 'the limrd 4irthet found that interested per-issued undu biose regulation's is deierrnined by whether -

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. sont. must be grantto a right to a hearhg on such amend-or t ot a decision by the Director of the Office et Nuclear f

mento Hecattw it wn not possihk to ascertain f om the Reactor Hegulation to irue the order is an abuse of i

application whether the liccm.c nraendment would vest discretion ander the muiderations announced in Con-L suNtantial discretion in the licensee for determining ey

. w/idated fd: son Company ofNew WL Inc. (indian Point.

< !c-specific parameters Umits, the Umrd dete rmined that Units 1,2, and 3), CLl+754,2 NRC 173 (197$).'that case i

this contenuon wn admissible.

requires wnsideration of such factors as whether the statemcol ofIcasi"is given permits understanding of the 5.

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bashiim the DPettors demion and whether the Direc-tor's dectdonisdesnonst ably tmtenabicon the basisof all i

informdon amMle to hhn, Summary Dhewitium 1:mh onmentat. Impact 7"

I"ICCMF I C"CulIDH Statements. In KctrAkGer Chemical Corrcratimr (West Chicago Rare liarths Facility), l.BP49-35,30 NitC 677 the Licensmg floard found that, given the unetmtetted lo ruhng upm a mothui for summar) dis [mit. ion dur.mga _

i (1939), in ruling upon monous for sumn&ary dkposition.

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Policy Act (NiiPA), no med esiued to cimsider funher beheving that the permit holder.vas financially quahned c

sit-s m se remotely kicated where transpmtation cosa wnen it us n 1 and that tne holder could not have oh-necessarily would be grealet. NiiPA does not inquire

- tained from the Department of Energy (DOli)the clawi-l lar3e econoniic costs if no sh;nificant cuvironmental fied equipment upon which the project dependcJ. Such benefit is to be gained. The Bord also ruled that whuc findmgs would have pr ecluded the issuance of the permite the Staff had prepatcd and circulated a supplement toits in the fitt,t instance. The lhard concludcd that, as a mat-final environmental statement (1 US) that addressed the ter dlaw the permits.Would be revoted because Section general meas of comments tha's had been made on the Mts) of the Act tuaker licenses for nuclear facilities

- mis. the Staff would not be o.rdered in respond further to mbject to revocatkm for postlicensing r llures/thus, the a

specilie conunents ebsent some rhowing that the lloard he!d that the beense muld be revoked if post-

' supplement had overmoked imputant matters rait.ed by licensing conditions would have warranted the Cornmis-E those comments,

• don to refuse to grant a license on an original applicathm.

All Chemicalisotme Evichment, Inc.,32 N RC i2 (1990).

i Disposal Method and Cost: In Kerr4fcGrr Chenica/

l Craporarlm (West Chictyn Rarc Earthr FacilityA 31 N RC 8.

SlHHdlHR 150 (UIP-90-9,1990), the I.icensing &mrd directed the L

- Staff to issue a Decnac amendment to Kerr McGee in Ilorida Pwer und Light Company (Tur key Point, Units Chemical Corporation permittir.g the dicpmd of certam 3 and 4), l. IIP 40-24,32 NRC 12 (1990), the iJecnsing thorium rnill tailings in an er gineered disposal cell to be lhiard dismissed the sole intervenor an a pany on changed constructed on_its West Chicago, Ulinois, site. The Hard circumstances. Standing for the intervenor was based on reasoned 1, hat, ahhough 10 C.F.R. Part 40, Appendix A, one member, wha was ernployed within the zone ofinter.

requires that such goals as remoteness from population est of the plant, but who was dismissed from his job. G iven and hydrologic factors be optirnind, Appendix A also the prior history of the case, in whieh the sole intervenor

- provides for consideration of economic factors. Ilecause already had the opportumty to show that it had bases for the proposed dispos.d cell would nave only a negligible standing additional to that of this one member, the lloard effect on ground water quahty, the limrd concluded that did not alford any further opportunity 1o show new bases no justification existed for. incurring the expen e of for standing.

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111. FISCAL YEAlt 1990 CASELOAD ANAINSIS A. Overview cen0 of its Pnicecthugs. As a consequence, the total nuin-ber of pioecedings on the Panel docket was the lowest number in a decade. Indeed. as *.how n by Table 2, the last Since November 9,1962, the date the first I iecasmg 7 year s has e witaessed a steady decreasc m the number of Iloard was appointed by the Com.nission, $80 cases has e pmeedmps on the Panel docket. Ilowever, on the basis been ided,560 of which had twen closed by the end of of caeload projections, the Panel npects 'his. rend to Fiscal Year 1990 After a decade of ndjudwapons since reverse, perhaps dramaticaHy. in the coming years.

the Three Muc Island accihnt,44 tommercal nuclear power reactor units have received operating licenses fol-Tahic 2 lowing Panellicensing pniecedinp. As of the end of the Panel caseload by fimi par Fiscal Year, only one facility, the Scabnx,k Nuclear 1%wer Scanon, remained the subjcet of an active Panel FM Y m Na of m rs operating license pnicredmr.

1991 56' Dunng Fiscal Year 19nu, the ranel had 40 proceedmp on gy99 40 its docket, the averare age of w hich was 20.7 months. Of g yj,9 49 these 40 proceedmp,19 inw!vid 13 different nuclear gyg 39 power plants or related facilitics, and 21 proceedinp gqg o

f inmtved other Commission hcenses, Unhke prior years, j yg, b5 issues other than teactor operation dominated the Pr.

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'Nu"*cr of cers P" set t"i For proceedmp or the Fiscal Year 1990 docket requiring Tne dect case os er the last 7, cat s in the nutnbc r of uses the submittal of contentions, the Pancl or par ties resob ed on the docket has been accorapanied by an even r,teater 90 percent of all these contentions bef ore the heat ing and decrease in the rumber of Panel metubers) llecause of closed 20 proceedmps. In this same perial,22 new cases these decicases, the m e rare raseload per Ioll tune judge we e docketed as shown in Iable 1. The type of new has remamed relatively constant.

filing in Fiscal Yeat 1990 continued to reflect the trend identified in Fir. cal Yean,19S7 tbrough 1989 toward mor e C. Case Management numetous and focused proceedmgs of preater techntal and legal dwen.ity typical of a maturing indastry.

One measure of succus in an adjudicatoty prorram is the speed with which indwidual proceeding move f rom in-Table 1 itud fihng to final t esolution.This is generally t eflected by I M alYea 1990 docket rtcapitulation the aserare are of the cases on the docket. Averate case age, m turn. is a function of two interrelated factors: case hhnp and case closinp.'lhe average age of proceedmgs Status of Cases Datt N umber on the Panel s docket has fallen urmheantly over the last 5 cars. In Fiscal Year 1986, the averare age of the cases 3

Pendmg 10!01/89 18 on the Panel docket was appanimately 27 rnonths. In Ihketed 1 Y90 22 Fheal Years 1488 and 1989, that number had fallen to Total FY40 40 18.1 rnonths and 17.4 months, respectively. As Table 3 shon the merage ar,e of Panel proceedmp has contin-Closed FY90 20 ued to be low in i iscal Year 1990, although it is slightly Pending 10/0lN 20 higher than in 192 and 19S9 The number of *iew fdinp in 1 iscal Year PnD was the same as in Fiscal Year 19W but less than m the 3 cars 1984 through 19E A signdicantly prcater number of new Mt H.e ed of Iised w c Pm Ow P, met hM 3n Aes tii I

filinp are expected in each of the next three hscal ycat' fun tone and Ps pan nmc1 in PM2. the Panel had 68 mcm.

The Panel contmued to close a latge percentage (50 pet-ben 5

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Men age caw age b) i)pe!<otiall*

Wtale inassne, etunples, opetatmr hcense apphcation proccethngs domiruled the P.utel's docket oser the last Type and (Numbes)

All Cases Astiane 10 se.us,1490, hke 1989. teptesented a transitional) car of Cases (Months)

(htonths) l etween thme proceeding and the l'anel% (aseload of the caily IWO'r beense amendments. deceminissioning and decontamination,IKense cricwals,and enforcement 0,onstruction I,crmit (1-)

76 76.0 actions. I.or s tample, i spm c 1 t ept e. cuts, as a peteent-1)cconuniniomor (1) 75 75.0 are of totalemes on the dodet, the niis of the 1 iscal's. car F nforcement (1 %)

134 8.5 gos3 c.ndaal while iigure 2 teptesents the mn < f the 3

1 ieense Amendments (0) h7 I 4,5 hic.d M IWO codoad

• hiatcrials l icent.e (5) 60 I ?.0 Operating 1 kenses (2) 144 "70 g

itemand (4) 16 a0 Spee.al (1) l 1.0 I

s Suspended (1) 100 IW.0 "MWij C "*

Itetnevable Sterage (1) 6 0.0 lhwket Averare M4 19 2 "Aivngr twe' meam the non ber of tuonths fic u the bmc a

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onue lxenury:lhmd n Orst ap wated (usuaHy M to Niduys chcr a i"

D.N, hcc nse appbcanon a f ormaly did e tcd )tmul the rast i, doscJ or the end of the fiscat yar. whichewr 's muher Avt rarc age many wuung nme resuhme imm tawnmn of won or go,,, \\

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s unamnatuhty of hcanng de venu (except whcre n Iwensee he

,m requested that the entue practedmg be f.usps ndui, for cumple N.,~

"f Washmmr. Pubhc Ptr4er Supp'y $p' era. WPM Nadear i ms om.a u on.

Proget No 3) "Aversg age ' tlars not intlade the Ome a tay no d

may be pendmg before the / ppeal hoard or the Conunnon ngma iw ve, m n,muma ma While m large part owmg to reda: tion in the number of actise operatmg lictnse pioteedinp and the long tune periods associated with such cases, the reduction can also u

n.sli N t Ni N I bC llaCed to kbe erUp oJIncIN 01 apflopI dke UIT nmUnf

' 'l rDOnt tools imd the aClue nionttorin# of dlWoVery actisI

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ties by uties to focus and efheiently rcsohe disputed

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n; 3 w impact of the Panel 3 case management program n par-l-(!!

ticularly hiph where, as was the case in 1 beal Year 1989, the number of new fthtigs and the immber of total n'ses s,D3.

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inflatt d by the ptesence of a handiut of proceedmp t har-oun3 attenied by late desdopment of new issues,Jelays m the muance of enticalIKensing documents, or delays sought tyy the part es themselyck l[ theSe cases Qnsolving IMme 1 Nal bo M tawfund Wh i

delayed, delerred, of su.spended construenon Itrmit. op-eratmg license decommnsioning, or enfon emt nt pro.

maq rin of pucedgs y n enhuocment. deconmamon.

credmgs)are excluded It om the average age calculations, m, n.3ngn.pemtor hense) n. w hu h featr than t wo casew the asen.pe ape of the iemaimnp pn,ceedmps on the t urred tlanng a hwal cia wc1r not taken una naount in ren.

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in the nattueef the raes Dc! ort the Panc L In i t<.d Yrar i" $'n'I 1933, comtructkin perunt md < p:rahan Ir rtar procecJ-m iM [p.f,,glI_p g

ir7[J ht tounted [ttr bl 90li Ctit of the pant i docket And

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whih; acense amendmerit piacerdmp were, at ?6 pen-i ocrit a s,igmficuit ch n' cot m the Pant!'s dodeh no tg

' It n jp gjh h miscant ruanbet ef. nforcement actions oscurred in I e.

<ai Ym m %d war Pm0. in mosh m uWmi so ms no T'MO.t%[t i m2 OpCralirig IlC(nhing add conb!!UCl,on pCf!IVI ploWCOnp i

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%NQ connituting S percent and 2.$ pactnt of the Paner>

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()n the basiwi crchuJ pm,icnicos, the luttern reficoeJ nua un i enwn un en 9:

in the mis of the Hscal Year IWO caseload is expeckd to COntinUC oVCf thC 0014 )Calb Alth thC Ef adWd Illtroduc' I o

.l. Ih M b n 14M iasti ad ents tion oj incr easing unmber s el list asc CAlenMon. Sit e heleo tion, and standardtecJ deQn proccedmp, and gwibte re!)C%cd action Undet picVlously defeirCd Corulrliclkm be the base l pad pl the panc]i dodet, } {own tr,4th trb-permit (CP)and operatmg bertne (OL) appheationt For Ove impotlance wdl dummsh with the introdurdon of examp!e, I irures 3 and 4 show the projected trax of the mocasmg nmnbeis of inore Comptn stanJ,uthecd de-near term Pane!rachud for Encal Yean,1991 and W91 Ngn, dcconunissionuig, and bceno: extension procerd-respecth cly.

(nyt Like l'iscal Year 1990, enforement and inense amend g(

.gg g,g ment proceedys ain npected to donunate the Panel s liebn-term doJ ct, wah these types of pngeethon ao 9 usi to h<eptember 30, FWu. I Aensing lleards 1 :om h1 l

counting f or approumately 45 penent of the [w cucJ h"" " " *"" d "I I "'". " " " d d ' ' """" "I I " U 'P"* "

1:ise:d Year 1991 dodet and 35 pencnt of the pmnued 4

O Fed Yeat 1992 dot Let. CF and 01 pmccedinn, on the "P"1"hese muts untodo lleaver \\,allev 7,P"P"d, tom l "I

Himdwoo other hand, are nprued to dio;) to / penent of the I ""N '.,,##I

."I' omani;oe Peak 1 and 1, Diibhi()anyon 1 and,""1!'""'

panel's hual Year 1991 dodet and 10 percent (4 its o (.""

nnco Hncal Year 1942 donct, I,n.hnan:av n@tenn projec-

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tions for hwal % ar in92 theouch IIcal Year 19n4 nah.

cated tint the rawhnd mix noted ahne vul connnue to Palo Verde L ? and 3, Perry I and 2, !!ner llend I, San Onofo: I and 2 Seahmok Shoich un 1, St. l >acie 2.

hon thuns b South Tnas I and ? Sunnner 1, Sustpich mna 1 and 2. Vogde 1 and ?, Waterfoni 3, and Wo!I Citok 1. At the end of the hscal year. only one nuclear pour reactor, the scabrook Nuclear Sution ( e-tvonnu8 wo na w.,o,%..m.,%)*5

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11110 1, uW M 4 !1W K WhC idIM b b 'I b e d b t lear Rea, ku Regubten to pront a f uH poe (pcianng IF i i r-venu tot Om th My llowat r sonn-I o c nung Do.m1 pur Y

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IV. PERSONNEL, AND SUPI' ORT l

A. Pal 10I M0lllberS cuts, a special counsel was obtamed under contract to enable the Seabrook I iceramp lloaid to ineet the ex.

Commiuion appo ntment to the l'antiis tused ulun the Wodnny demanA ncate% utat beauly Mgakd pm.

appointec's recognized esperience, achiewment, and m.

'd*E dependence in his or her field of expcrtue. Once ap.

pmnted to the Panet, judges ate a,stned to indwidual 2.

Mir.lcal Supped Sink i

IJceming Itoards to use their professiond expertise to i

assist in tesohing the techniced and Iegal matters most likely to be rutsed during the proceedm, g*

Hatorically, mdwidual i icensing lloalds could obtain technical suppon html a Pand acactot safety (ngincer i

At the end of the i.sc:d year, the Panel had avai'aNe a and a health scierdist, lloactu, Imth positiom were va-cated in lW4 und were not idled because of personnel total of 30 judges (11 full time and 19 But ume). See App nda 11. Ily profevion, the judges of the Panel in' ceihng limuations. Ilowever, danng liscal Year 1990, cluded 11 lawyers.19 public health and environmental t ed meal n'ence, pmiculady in phpes and computer sesento.ts, $ engineens 5 physicists, und I toedical doctor, developns nt, was provided by the Pancrt. Senior Technt.

CoPectively, Panel members held 4 postbaccalaureate tal Advisor. In addition, the Panet used Adminbtratwe degrees in engineering, scientific, or legal disciplines <

J udges (I cchnical), w ben they w u e availabic, to per f orm Several part time members are or have been heads of then support functions.

departinents at major universities or national.laborato-ties. As a group.they represent more than eight centuries 3.

Adntinistralite Support Sinif of experience in the nuclear lichi. See Appendts C.

'lhree full time judges atired and one died dunng 17iscal "F""' S"IT"#'l lhe Pneps Progmm Support and Year 1990, decreasing the total of full time judges to

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eleven. 'the number of part time.Panet judges was re-huplemeuls imd anatpes pobeses and' pmgmms to i

duced by three in Fiscal Year 1990, with Judgo Kirk.

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Judge litight continuing as a part time svember after his N"W *

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scuttarial, and other admm?

"U istmthe hearing support to r

the Penel.Sce Appen.hx A,1Jecnsing PanelOrganiwton i

U. PrOressioiial afia support sintr Chan. + addigen. tne PsAs maintains ine paners electronic docket. which is available to indiv: dual udges l

Support f or the aethities of the Panel, indwiduallicens.

and other offices of the Commieion throu;h the Paner.;

htg Itoards, and the PancPs judges is structured along INQUIRE ystem,'the PSAS ako adtmnisters the NRC functional linet (1) legal, (2) tcchnical, and (3)adminis.

coun reponing contract (excluding the Office of the trative. 'Ihe Chief Administrative-Judge of the Panel Secretary). Sn page 11, infra manages and supervises these interrelated support activi.

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Information Processing Section: 'the Chief of the.

information Pnxessing Section reports to 'he Director L Legal Support Slaly and Assistant to the Director. 'lhe section is reponsibic for supporting the lhiard by developing and IAgal support and advice for the Panel and its.SU full, and implementing the followinq services: (1) docket part. time judges is provided by the PancPs Chief Coun-management; (2) mail dtstribum (3) automatic data sel, lie furnishes advice, legal research, drafhng support, processing (ADP) syrtems; (4) Panel administ ration and and other assistance to lh>ards in individual cases and to individual proceedmgs support (f,.tticularly INQUIRl!):

the Chief Administrative Judge on a bmad range oflegal and (5) providing training in the use of _ the PanePs and policy matters, in additio t, the Chief Connsel over-computeti/cJ systems, induding software, hardware, and sees, with the assistance of the Panel program support INQUIRE. See pages 9-10, infra In addition, this section stati, the joint Panel 1.ibrary, and panicipates in the is responsible for conducting, m consultation with Panel evaluation of computer software and har<Jware necessary members,1xgal Counsel, and the Paners Technical or appropriate to the conduct of adjudicatory proceed.

Advisor, periodic evaluations of both the Paners existing ings. While the formal law clerk component of the Panel's computer system and newly intmJuced computer i

legal support was terminated in 19M because of budget hardnre and software pmducts.

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A. General bac. In adaaionJn wiected complex an.es inc f nincit of si ruficant documentyuth as pre fded testimony and t

Due to restrictions on support personnel and concerns heanng tram.cripts, are electronicadly indexed and added over the costs of delays m the Commission's licensing to the aWalon databmc At th clow of I u. cal Kear process, the Panel has trioved rapidly toward achieving M, approximately 200,0W) pages of heating tramcupts the goat of an c!cctronic" office, particularly in managing' and related materia's had been loaded onto the Panel s its voluminous and cornplex hearing records important adjudicatory database. Where appropriate, de, crete pot.

administrative tasks such as travel and timekecping have Hons of the database etmcerning a specific proceedmg e4m been computeri/ed. All the Pancl's judges and critical be loa &d onto (W kud % W one of the Panel s l9 t.upport personnel are provided the necessary hardware

",c(('fmten for un by ju@cs condudng heanno in and sof.tware to permit the fml use of their electronic I

workstation and the Panel's computetized docket.

g: nauy, au 1.icenM y Hoard Panel deciuom are added to the adjudkatory database m full text fortn, penerally on

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the cate those Decismns are issued. 'lhe Decisions are II. Tlic ISiliel's Electroille I)ocket thus immediately avadable to all Comnnssion offics a full text.

Due to continued restrictions on support pessonnel and the Pinel s ongomg pr ogram to reduce d(lays in the Com' internaHy, INQUIRU uses a scarch and retrieval logic minion s beenung pnicess, the I anel has moved rapidly sde to me aNmd h k UM md WMu' tenard achievmg the goal of an 'clectromc, office, par-legal vescarch a 2mL llowever, to Iiermit easy accen to ticulatly in maraging its 5oluminous and complex hearing We nem h a potyah wW mnp of users we q.

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and suppnt staff mutinciv work at indnidual computer workstationt As presently' configured, judges and profes-Wm smakah tennaks ankmutes thmca

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• U' sienal support staff can, from their desks, draft, share, and W "mWmH produces formatted and mdexed reports

600, comment en proposed decisions, access and quickly search either the Paners electronic docket or the Com-pecording to the user-delmed layouts, therchy providing mh.sion's document retrieval sptem, conduct legal re-mfonnanon abst ypa of documents contamed on the scarch Ihrough IMIS or WINILAW, and communicale eMan ud domments can be downloaded for print-with each otncr er other empk eci of the NRC through ing or wod pnhno 9

the Com<ntssion't electronic mail syuem.

lhe Information Pnressing Secuon has begun conduct-iag a compoter st ndy, w hich is based on ta w ADP r equire4 in au cflon ta realire Ihe t ull rduc ofits computeri/ation, ments developed by the Panel, of personal computer-the Pand continued to crpand and irnpmve INQUIRF.,

based full text systems for possible replacement of the an clectronic doctet con:cived, devdoped, and rnain-INQUIRH system. *lhese personal computer systems in-tased by the Pauch INQUIRii, which is composed of an clude state-of art information 5. catch technokgy, includ-adtudicatory database and a compmuon scarch+and-mg CD-R O h! databases, image ret r ieval, concept unrch-t etrieval system.currer!tly operates on na iflh19370 mini-ing, natural language queries, thesauruses, and grc.phic computer physicidly h>cated at the Conanission's White interfaces that can be distributed acrow muluple devices, Flint One facihty. Several offices, including the Conm.is-media, and platforms (mainframes, minicomputers, and sion, are wired directly to the rmcomputer contmrang penonal computers). The Panet anticipates that these INQUIRii, thereby pent.itting quit.k and contmuous ac-enhanced personal computer-based systems am be budt cess to the systerm The Panci's system is directly con

• on k> cal area networks and c:m be accessed mid main-nected to the White Ilint nUnicomputer through a cor"-

tained by simultaneous users. at a haction of the cost of munications controller located at the Paners Hethe.sda maint:dning mainhame systems bAe INQUIRI' offices. Other authorized usca nny access INQUIRii from t y hication, nHng a personal cornputer equipped

'Ihe Paners electronic docket and its growing experience with a modem.

in Ihe ese of such dockets m rnanaging complex cases has been the subject of much interest by other adjudicatory By the end of the day un which any document m any bodies and legal associations tiu oughout North America.

proceedNg is received, the Jocument he been abstracted

'the Panel's electmnic docket has provided the basis for a and n

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offered annually by the National Judicial College m Imaging l'hysicimis. Order of April A 1990; Northern Reno, Nevada. Agencies and organizations requesting St.nc3 hre Gunpam (Path 0nder Atomic Plant).-

imumation and briefings on INQUIRliinclude the De-1.llP-90-19,31 NRC 5N (1990); confied Tc3 ring Labra-partmentof Agriculture,the Departmentof Housingand torics, he., Order of J une M 1990; and Obert L. DirAhci-Urban Development, the U.S. lbstrict Court for the Dis.

ber, LllP-90-28,31 NRC, (1990).

trict of Calumbia, the National lauor Relations Board, the New York Public Ut lity Commission, and the U.S.

As the era of initial operating license proceedings for Claims Court. In addition, the Office of the Sectetary of power reactors comes te.clse, the Panel is turning its this Commission recently expressed an interest in consoli-attention to the increasing number of enforcerrent and dating ccrtain aspects of the official docket, using the inf ormal proceedings on its doc ket.This caseload reflects INQUIRll application, the maturing of the nuclear industry from plant 19ensing to plant operation, and the NRC Staffs evolving over-j sight of over 8500 materials licensees. Informal proceed-ings which typicaHy innbnatuials beenwelyIman C. Henring Procedures dy on the active mvohement by a single Presiding Of ficer in creating and shaping the re' ord in the proceedmg. In In addition to its e; orts to computerize the licensing such proceedings, a hearing is conducted onh as to those process, the Panel continues to explore and irnplement ssues that the Preddmg Officer cannot resolve based on traditional case management tools and techniques to the written submu.als by the parties and any additbnal stream;ine, focus, and icsolve contested licensing mat-information the Picsiding Officer deems necessary.

ters.The hearing on a particular application for a nuclear facility license may be divided into several phases: (1)

Finally, in the case of parcedings bef ore a sinale admin.

7 health, safety, and the common defense anJ security as-istrauve judge (eg, enforce' ment pniecedings under 10 pectsof thenpolication.astequired tiy the Atomielinergy C.F.R. Part 2, Subpart II, or informal proceedings under Act: (2) environmental considerations as required by the 10 C.F.lt Part 2, Subpart !J, the Panel has adopted a NiiPA: and (3) emergency planning requtrements, policy of assigning a legal or technical administra4ve juJge from the Panel a> an assistant to the designated Where appropriate, lloards frequently structure their Preliding OffkerJihis results in obtainmg the benefits of hesiing schedule into distinct phases. each dealing with the informal pnicedures while mair.tainmg the cross-ed discrete groupings of related issues. In the case of a com-pertise of the traditional three-member Licensing floards plex proceeding that involves numerous issues under sev-to arrive at fully informed decisions.

cral distinct topics the Panel has periodically created separate, parallel Licensing Boards to handle one or more topics. Besides the time saved through parallel ad-D. Coordination with the Office of the judicatior, each Board can be assigned Panel members L.ICenSing Support byhtem whosc cx'4crtise matches the issues to be resolved.

Administrator Licensing Boards have also taken an active role h shaping the issues before them through a thorough iu.s and, if The Panel has a keen interest in the electrunic licensing appropriate, consolidation of admissible contentions, an file to be developea in connection with the proposed active involvement in monitoring the discovery portion of construction of a high level nuclcar waste reiwitory.

the proceedmg. and an affirmative attempt to foster an Fint, under the Commis: ion's curt ent adjudicatmy rules atmosphere conducive to the free exchange of views of practice, the Panel will be the adjudicatory body among the parties and to the possible setticment of dis-r sponsible for making the initialicision whether the puted issues, In this manner, the vast majonty of pro-2 ultiinately chosen and the facihty actually built satis-posed ccmtentions are resnived before a hearing. As one fies applicable safety anct environmental requirements.

consequence, an increasing percentage of the Panel's Second, the Panel has already acquired, through its own cases or the contentions raised in those cases have been electronic docket, substantial c:<perience in the develop-settled in the last 3 years.

ment and use of electronic media. Because of the former the Panel took an active supportmg role m the develop-Licensmg Boards had substantial success in settlements ment of the procedural rules and support systems before final ndjudication during Fisctd Year 1990. Sigmfi-mtended to gover n the pniecedmg. In light of the latter, cant litigation expenses were e /oided by settlements of once the Commission adopted special procedural rules docketed cases involving Combustion Engineering (Ilema-intended to govern any waste repmitory proceedmg, the tite Fuel Iabrication Facihty), Lle89-3. 30 NRC 320 Panel f>xused its attention on actively sharmg its (1989); Alebama Power Cowany (Farley Unhs 1 and 2),

experience ar ' expe:tise in " electronic dockets" with the Order of February 2,1490; Basin Testmq Laboratorv. hc..

Office of the 1.ieensing Support System Administrator, LB P-90--14,31 N RC 458 0990); Nudear and Rudiologicvl the offke created by the Commlion to oversee the NUREG-1363, Vol. 3 10

development of a st ite-ol the-art, fulisest and image.

e;using Appe.d Panel; the Advisory ('omnuttee o" Reae-i computerutd docun "nt retrieval " voi for the parto tor Saleguards the Admuy Cemnatice on o.ucler and the Panel to use.n conoacting tSe high leu t w; s

.'aste ( AUNW); and the Ulhecs of Admhustraton.

pareethng.Tlie 3ched, :c calls r the P,uu llo aJjudicah Analps t,r.u livaluation of Opcrational 1)ata, (icneral any discovery deputes dter the docuinents (estimated at Counsel; (iosetnment and Pubbe Affai;s; Inlormation up to 20 million pages) are koded in the 1.icensmg sup-lieso tret Management; Invesurations; Inspector (ien-port System', cicetronic registry. That repository will cral: Nu :Ic. r Mattnals haft ty and Saferu,uds (NMSS);

climinate the need for all but a minimal amount of dsov.

Nuclear Reactor llegulation; anJ Pett.onnel, ety in the p xetdmi,.

The Pancfs murt reportmg contract provides for com-E. Ageticy Cmtrt Reporting Services puter r eadable distettes ofine tranxenet of thc hearme m large, cernplex cases. In the appropriate case, partie> are Durieg Fiscal Year 1993, the Licensing Panel managed directed to file findings of fact, conclu'. ions of %, and the Commission's court reivirting con',ract for all pro.

pre-bled testimony on computer readable duket tes. Sach ccedings, meetmps, a 'd investie.ative intervice othet hhngs ate in ASCII (the Amenean Standard CoJe for than those of the C0mmission itself hchlanywhere in the I; formation lxhange) to osereome the problem of in-UniteJ States,The !'RC offices usmg the court reportin!;

campatible computen s and sof twat e.11ach day's lihngs at e servicendministered by the Program Senpon anJ Analy-then compiled ;md fully indmed by the PSAS's Informa-sis Staff of the Panel include the Atomie Safety and 1 i-ti.m proccamg Section.

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VI. CONCI.USIONS A. Fiscal Year 1990 in Retrospect sites of operationx ano some 2as milhon nuclear mate-nal shipments. Tius regulatory base alone creates the potential for sigmficant demands on the adjudicatory re-Fiscal Year 1990 represented a transitional car between somces of the Commimon. Ilowever, on the baiis of 3

the massive operating license proceedings 01 the 19XO's at tt more vaned, discrete enforcement and materials projected NRC Staff heensing activities, the Commiu 4

g;gn,s reymatory and licensing activities, and thus, the license proceedings of the early 1990's. As predicted, the Paners docket, will not temain static. Indeed, the Com-number of cases on the Paners docket has decreased during he past 2 years. This reduction in the Paners mission appears to be on the cusp of a new era of regula.

tory and beensing activity.

everall docket rsulted from two factors. First, a reduc-tion m the Panel's caseload, both in terms of numbers and in the coming years, the Commission will also begin to average age, width has been an overall goal of the Paners focus its :egulttory and licensmg iesources on waste han-management. The sut of the PanePr 1% cal Year 1990 dling ;md storage sues, plant license estensions, and the docket reflects, in part, the Paners success in this area by issues tssodated with the approval of advanced reactor consisten19 closing more cases than filed, by encouragmg designs. In addition, with the growing acceptance of nu-setdements, and by expediting litigation of proceedmgs clea, power in light of a balanemg of the environmental while they remain active on the Paners docket. Second, impacts of other lonus of encrpy piodaction and the need the rate and type of new filings in liscal Year 1990, w hile in thMountry for more baseload electne power,it is not still greater than many prior p ars, decreased from that in the years before 1989. This trend, expected to be transi-unreasonable to espect a new round of construction per-mit appliations employmg advanced scaetor designs or tory, when combined with the Paners case-closure rate' renewals of p:eviously deferred facihti's.The Panel also praluced the lowest Panel caseload of this decade.

g3 pe,1,to hear some new antitrust cases in the near term.

Ilowever, the Paners Fiscal Year 1990 docket aho re-Mon m er, even given the projected increase m its doc ket, flects the maturing of the nuclear in<Justry and its tmnsi-the I anel inay be an underutdited adjudicatory resource.

tion from the construction and initial operaten era of the in sescral atcas (security clearances, personnel, and 1970's and 1980's to the oper tion, hcense renewal and equal employment opportunity), the Commisuon looks waste-handling era of the 1990's. Given the increaunB to outside hearing examiners or judges to pt side over climination of f trst-generation operating license proceed-some necessaiy proceedmps. Yet, the members of the ings as a major factor in the Panel's caseload. the lheal Panel, several members of which are certihed Adnunis-Year 1990 caseload cocid reasonably be viewed as the trative Law.ludges or have specifie experience in these Commission's adjudicatory "baseload" (i e the number non licensing areas, remam an untapped soui, t of espe.

and type of cases likely to occur in any particular year

-icnced and impartial judges. The use of members of the given the current number and operations of the Com"

act to conduct such proceedmgs would not only chmi.

sion's licensecs). So viewed, the Paners Fiscal Year -

o o.: concerns about the use of non-government employ-docket can be used to gauge future demands on th-es to make discretionary policy decisions, but could also judicatory resources of the Commission in light of h-result in cost-savings by climinating duplicative adminis, tional caschiad that wculd be rencrated by new or im-trative overhead and contractor expenses.

proved regulatory programs (eg, matenals beensee ovetsight, enforcement, interim waste handling and stor-age, and decontaminationk the initiation of a second gen-C. Mceting ihe Adjudicatory Demands cration of nuclear power reactor licensing proceedmp (e g., advanced designs and renew ed CP and 01, proceed.

of tlie Next Decade ings), and license renewal cases for extending the operat-ing hfe of nuc! car reactors with 40,cr licenses.

Given the econonuc, energy, and public health and s;dely costs imposed upon Commission applicants, hcensees, and the public at large in the event of unnecessary or ll. I,.15 cal T, car 1991 and lleyond avoidable delavs in the nuclear heensing and enforcement

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pnicess, the Panel wdi continue to endeavor to irnprove its procedures and make the heanng process as etheient Currently, the Commission is responsible for the regula-as possible. Ilowever, no licensing process can reah c the tion of 110 nuch'ar power reactors. In addition, over the potential of stremnlined rules m theabsence of adequate next few years, it must license and monitor mer 50,000 numbers of expenenced judpes to interpret and apply devices manufactured per year under general nuclear those rules. No new judges were appumted to the Panel licenses, some 8500 materials bcensces (inc!udmg their dunng the years 1982 through 1990 and its total NURIE 1363, Vol. 3 12

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i authorized personnel staffing lesel was reduced hem 52 Thus, the ability of the Panel as a whole to deal elficiently as of October 1,1984, to 30 as of September 30,1990.

with the new and differeat technical issues of future pro-ceedings could be severely affected by reducing the depth Consequently, the Panel is initiating an actis e program to and range of expertisc reptesented by Ihejudges remain 4 establish registers of persons qualified for appointment to ing on the Panel, llecause "scasoned" Panel judges re-the Panel in the wide range of dixiplines required, the quire a period of on the-job training and experience to depletion. rate of the Commission's adjudicatory re-develop an appreciation for both the legal and technical sources is expected to continue as other full 4ime Panet aspects of the Commission's adjudicatory decision mak-judges exercise their retirement options. At the end of ing process, developing judicial resources with an eye

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this fiscal year, the average age of the full-time Panel towards future caseload deinands is imperative. lhe judges was $8. 'the average age of the Paners supplemen-Panel expcets its register program to bear fruit in the tal adjudicatoy resourec, the part-time judges, was 70, coming year.

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ORGANIZATIONAL CHART ATOMIC SAFI IY AND LICENSING llOARD PANEL is the statutcry office ibt per forms the hearings functko for the Co:nmi<sion and such other regulato:y funetxes as the Comraisum authorizesme Chief Adminis-trctive Judge develrps and apphes prxedures governing the activities of.%ards.

Admtnistrative Judges, and Administrat:w ter Judges and makes appropriate ree-ommendatkms to the Omrmission concersg the rules governing the conduct of hearing-CLie! Administratrve Judg (Cnairman) 11 Paul Cotter. Jr.

Robert M. Imro Deputy Chief Administratne Jedge (Execu;we)

Prea rick J. Shen Deputy Chief Administrathe Judge (Techmca:I!

TIIE PANEL Condacts sl! !icensing and o&r Maring a directed by the Commission primardy through individual Atomie Safety and licensin;;1303rds appninted h estber the Commiswc_or the Chief A&inistratne Judge. There is no f.xed number of posi-sions in the Pinet The Panet is con: prised of (1) any tismber of Adtninistrative Judges (full-time and part-t:meL who arr 'swyers. phpicists, engineers. and envi-remer:tal scientists; and O) the Administrative in Judg-s. no hear antitrust.

c7vil penalty.and other cae and serve as Atomic Safety and I Wrning Board Chair-men. One to three Adminis+ rat:ve Judges serve as Presidmg Offes akme or en Wurds for a brmd rante of proceeditxs.

3 TECIINICAL AND LEGAL SUPPORT STAFF PROGRAM SUPPORT AND ANALYSIS STAFT Prmides a!!1egal and technicalsqrport to the Chki Adminntrative Judge.The Ad-Pnmdes plannics. dewlopnent. cwdmation. impfementation and sna!yses of minkrrative 12w Judges. Boards, and Pand pohcies and programs ia n7 port of the Panel, ine!udmg budget, peract net l abor '

rebtions; professional senices; travel; space and facihttes;equipnwnt; contracts; in-C. Sebastian Alcot l

larmation management.indading ADP equipment; adjudicatory fdes and emees:

Director and Guef Counsel bbrary frihtvs. secretarial. stenographk and clerreal senices mc!udeg fiexi l, car-m g space, equipmen! management znd coordmatkan; meeting; emplyce it aining and deve!opment; I OIA: license fee data: security: safety engineetm; ava w. tms Direm Jad G Whetstin.-

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1. l'anel MemljerS 1 Omccrs

11. l'AUL COTilM JR, FRiiDl! RICK J. SIION Chief odministrative Judge (Chairman)

Deputy Chief Adniinistnttive Judge (l'echnical)

DR. ROlll!RT M. lAZO IVAN W. SMITil

Deputy Chief Administrative Judge (lixecutive)

Chief Administrative Iaw ludge Full-Time Adininistratiw Judges

-JUDGE Cli ARLES llECil!10El'ER JUDGli JiiRRY I{ ARllOUR Attorney Geologist (Retired March 31,1990)

JUDGI! PETilR b. Ill.OCl1 Attorney JUDGE fil!!.EN F IlOYT Attorriey JUDGE JAMES 11 CARPliNil!R (Retired December 1,1989)

_ Oceano_grapher NDE GUMH A m'WEGM Physicist JUDGE RICIIARD F COLE

@ cured October _, im Environmental Scientist JUDGE MOR ION 11. M ARGULillS JUDGli JOHN 11 FRYE Ill Attorney

' Attorney JUDGli OSCAR 11. PARIS

' JUDGE JIiRRY R. KI2N!!

Iinvironmental Scientist Environmental Scientist (Deceased Septeniber 26,1990)

Part-Time Administrative Jud,les

- JUDGE GEORGE C, ANDl!RSON JUDGli A. DIXON CAIJ lllAN Marine liiologht Physicist Seattle, Washington Oak Ridge, Tennessee JUDGE GLENN O. !!RIGIIT JUDGli GliORGE A. F11RGUSON Engineer Physicist Ilethesda, Maryland Washington, DC

- S All ASlJIP Off.ccrs, professional and admmatrat:ye staff,, and full-ume Panel memters are based in liethesda, Maryland.

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. JUDGE liARRY FOREMAN JIJDGl! J AMl!S C. LAMil 111 Physician Sanitary lingineer Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Chapel llill, North Carolina JUDGII RICll ARD F. FOSTliR JUDGli!!MMliTil A. l.UllHKE Environmental Scientist Physicist Sunriver, Oregon

!!cthesda, Maryland

~ JUDGli J AMl!S P. G1J!ASON JUD(Mi KliNNiiTII A. McCO!10M Attorney Electrical Enyncer Silver Sprin,, Maryland Stillwater, Oklahoma JUDGE CADl!T 11, liAND, JP, JUDGli GARY L. Mil.llOLI.IN Marine liiologist Attorney

- llodega llay, California Madison, Wisconsin JUDGlil!RNEST E.1IILL JUDGE M AltSiI AlL E.1.11LLl!R Nuclear Engineer Attorney

- Danville, California Daytona lleach, Florida

.JUDGl? FRANK F, itOOPl!R JUDGli DAVID R. SClllNK Marine Iliologist =

Oceanographer Arn Arbor, Michigan College Statica, Texas JUDGE E13ZAllETil 11. JOllNSON JUDGli M ARTIN J. STlilNDI.liR Nuclear Engineer Chemist Oak Rioge, Tennessee Argonne, Illmois JUDGE WAIXER !!. 3 7RDAN

' JUDGE SIWMOUR WENNER

' Physicist Attorney -

~ Pompano lleach, Florida Chevy Chase, Maryland (Redgned June 30,1990)

- JUDGli MICII AEL KIRK-DI 'nG AN Ecoitomist.

JUDGli SIIlil DON J. WOLFli

Austin, Texas.

Attorney (Contract expired Jt.ae ?O,1990)

Fairfax, Virginia

2. ProfcSsional Staff C. SEllASTIAN ALOOT, ROllliRT R. PfliRCli, Director and Chief Counsci, Counsel, Seabnmk Licensing kloard Technical and Legal Support Staff DR. CHARLES N. Kill.HER, SeniorTechnical Advisor

3. Adniinistrative Officers ELVA W. LEINS, Director J AMI!S M. CUTCHIN V, Chief.

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l API'ENDIX C lllOGilAPillCAL SKETCllES 01'l'ANEL AIEMilEllS ANDERSON,6EORGE C. B.S., University of British Co-laboratory in charge of caperiments for SPERT 1 and lumbia (1947): M.A., University of Ilritish Columbia SPliRT 11.

(1949); Ph.D., L>niversity of Washington (1954). Dr An-C1111H4N, A. DIXON. A.ll., Man,hal College (1928);

derson, currently Professor Emeritus at the School of M.A., Duke Univeraty(1931); Ph.D., New York Univer-Oceanography, University of Washington, has been a sity (1933); D.Sc. (llon.), Marshall Umversity (1961) Dr, part time member of the Panel since 1973. In addition to Callih n has been a part-time member of the Panel smcc authoring over 40 publications in the fields of limnology 1963. In his 54-year carect, he has held positions as a and oceanography. Dr. Anderson has held numerous physicist with the Union Catbide Corporation and 00-teaching, resectch, and administrative positions over his lumbia University, and was Assistant Professor at the 40-year career with the University of Washington, the Mege of the City of New Yor k. Dr. Callihan is currently

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Atomic linergy Commission (AliC), and the National the elcirman or member of several committees concern-Science Foundation. lie was Director of the Iiniversity's ing nuclear reactoroperations for the United States Army School of Decanography for several vears.

and the American Nuclear Society. In 1988, he was BECHNOETER, CHARLl3. A.B. mwru cum laude, liar.

awarded the American National Standants Institute's Melitorious Se vice Award.

vard College (1955); LLB., Harvard Law School (1958).

Judge Hechhoefer has been a full-time legal member of CaRTENTER, JAMES H. D.A., Urdveisity of Virrinia the Panel smec 1978. Before he was appointed to the (1949): M. A., Johns linpkins University (1951). PliD.,

Panel, his Federal service meluded positions as (ounal J ohns ilopki.a University (1957). Dr. Carpenter has been to the Atonuc Safety and Licensing Appeal Boari attorl a member of the Panel smcc 1981. In additton to numer-ney wiU the Office of the General Lounsel of the Aly_,

ous publications m the areas of manne science and envi-and attorney-adviser in the Office of t,ne General Coun' ronmental chemistry and research activities for the sel, U.S. llousmg and llome Finance Agency. He is cur' Chesapeake llay Institute, Dr. Carpenter has held teach-rently the editor of the Aininistrative J udiciary News and ing and administratis e positions with Johns ilopkins Uni-Journal and a member of the lixecutive Committec of the scaity and the Universny of Miami. During ha 31-vear National Conference of Adraimstrative I aw Judges nnd career, Dr. Carr enter has been on the editorial hoat$s of has held several leadership positions within the Section of several national iou;nals, held senior positions in several Administrative law of the Amencan Bar Association.

professional associations, and chaired or partiapated on umnous professional committees on envtronmental is-BLOCH, TE7TR il B.S., Tufts University (1962); I l_H, sues panwular h We madne msnment, Du arpenta 11arvard ! aw 3chool (1965); I LM., Darvard I aw School inemba of the Committee that issued the UtilR 1 was (1967). Judge Hkich has beca a full-time member of the

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Panel since 198L His prior positions include Assistant Director of the Office of llearings and Appeals, U.S.

Colli, RICHARD E D.S.C.l!., Drexel University 0959);

Department of linergy: Attorney-Advisor, Office of M.S.S.E, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1%)

Opinions and Review, Federal linergy Regulatory Com-Ph.D., University of Nocth Carohna (1968).11r. Colt has mission (FERC): I!xecutive Director of the Commission been a full time member of the Panel since 1973. In on Law and the Economy of the American Bar Associa*

addition to numerous articles on water, wastewater treat-tion; Senior Research Associate and Project Manager, ment, and international training of environmenM enpi-De Urban Institute; and Attorney-Adviser, U.S. Securi-neering, Dr. Cole has held t" aching, administrative, er ties and Exchange Commission. Judge Bloch has engineering positions in the United States and Guate-authored several articles on the conduct and management mala with the University of North Carolina, Pennsylvania of criminalinvestigations State University, and the State of Pennsylvania. He has held several leadership insitions and committee assign-DRIGHT, GLENN O.

B.S., Um.versity of Oklahoma ments with numerota professional associations, and is a (1949); M.S., Umversity of Oklahoma (1950). Judge Diplomate of the Amencan Academy of linvironmental Bright has been a full-time member of the Panel since fingineers, 1972. Before his appointment to the Panel, he spent 22 years with the Phillips Pc roleum Company or its succes.

COTTER,11 FAUL,JR. A.B., Princeton Univenity(1959);

sor subsidiaries in variou. techrJcal and management po-J.D., Georgetown University (1968). Judge Cotter has sitions overseeing n uclear matters, including ene year as a been the Chief Administrative Judpc of the Panel since technical consultant to the Government of Venezuela.

1980. Before his appointment to head the and several years at the Idaho National Engineering Panel, Judge Cotter was a member and then Chief 1

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Administrative Judge of the Department of Housing nnd GLl>lSON, J.OHiS P, ll.S.S., Georgetown University Urban Development floard of Contract Appeals, a trial (1948); ILll, Georgetown University (1950) Judge attorney with the U.S. Depirtment of Transportation, Gleason has been a pan. time member of the Panel since and was in private practice for 6 years, lie is a faculty 1980 and held a similar appointment from 1967-1970.

member of the National Judicial Co!!cge, a member of Dunng his 37-year career, Judge Gleason has held nu-.

i the American 1.aw Institute, and a recognued 1& der in merous elective and appointive offices at the county, the use of computers in inanaging complex cases. Ile is a State.and Federallevel, taught at the University of Many, trustee of the American Inns of Court Foundation, Chair land and Harvard Univer'ity, maintained a private law lileet of the lloard of Directors of the Supreme Court and consuhant practice, and served as an aide to two (LS.

Opinion Networ k, and holds several leadership positions Senators.

with the Americtm liar Auociation and the I edeial liar

1. 1. , ' M. A., University of Cahfornia, llerkeley (1948

1. N" 3.

S, Unwy of C,ormeeticut Association' (1946);

FERGUSON, GEORGE A ILS., lloward University Ph.D, Unwendty of Cahfornia, lierkeley (1951). Dr.

(1947); M.S., lloward University (1948); Ph.D., Catholic lland has been a part. time inember of the Panel smcc University (1965). Dr.17erguson has been a part-time 1971. Currently Emeritus Professor and Amentus Director member of the Panel since 1972. During his 38-year ca, of the Unhenity of California llodega Marine labora.

rect, he has held teaching, administrative, and research tory, Un Hand has W teagng, rewan h, and admmer positions with Howard University, the U.S. Naval Re-trative positions with Mills tollege, the Senpps Institu-search laboratory, the University of Pennsylvania, und non of Oceanography, the University of Cahfornta, Clark College where he was chairman of the Physics De-llerkeley, and the Umversity of Caliform,a, Davis, partment. Dr. Ferguson is a member of the Americar llARB(MIR, JERRT. ILA., University of New Mexico Physical Society and several teaching associations.

(1951): M.S, University of New Mexico (1958), Ph.D.,

Unisersity of Arizona (1966). Dr. liarbour has been a FORId/AN, HARRP, ILS., Antioch Coliege (1938); Ph.D.,

full time member of the Panel since 1981. In addition to Ohio State University (1942); M.D., University of Califor-publishing numerous articles in the field of geology, Dr.

nia (1947). Dr. Foreman has been a part. time member of Ilarbout has held geologist and research positions at a the Panel since 1971. In addition to authoring numerous number of Federal Government departments and agen.

professional papers in the biological and chemical fields, cies, indudmg the U.S. Geological Suncy, the Institute Dr. Forenun has held teaching, admimstrative, and re-for Defense Analyses, the A1:C, and the NRC.

search positions with the University of Minnesota and the Umversity of Cahfornia, the latter involving work in t, e linJ, ERNESTE. ILS.. University of Cahfornia,11erkeley area of radntion and biomedical research at 1.os Alamos.

(1943); M.S., Univers..y of California. llerkeley (1959).

Judge Ilill has been a part-time member of the Panel FOXTER, RICHARD F, ILS., University of Washington since 1972. Currently the president of Itill Associates, a (1938); Ph.D., University of Washington (1948). Dr. Fos.

nuclear engineering consuhing company, Judge I bil has ter has been a part time member of the Panel since 1981.

held numerous nuclear cugineer and management posi-Dr. Foster is the au: hor of numerous professional papers tions with the AliC and the lawrence !.ivermore Na-on the discharge of heat and radionuclides into water tional 12boratory.

pathways, and has headed or participated on several pan-cis and committees on radiation and the enviromnent for' gggggy,. FRANK F. ILA., Umversity of California S 939k Ph D University of Minnesota (1948). Dr.

.among others, the U.Sc Pubhc Health Service, the Na.

tional Academy of h,etences, the International Atomie Hooper has been a part-tune taen'ber of the Panel since

. linergy Agency, and the NRC Advisory Committee on 1973. Currently a Professor Emmrus at the University of Reactor Safeguards. Durmg his 46 year career, Dr. I os-

%chipn, Dr. Hooper has held teaching and administra.

ove positions at the Umversity of Michigan, the Institute ter has also held research and management positio is with

- the State of Washington, the University of Washington, h Fisheries Research, and the University of Minnesota.

and numerous laboratories and companies at the Ilan-In 1962-63 and agam in 1966. Dr. I hsoper w as an aquatic ecolog st w th the AliC. From 1979 to 19S8, he was chair.

ford, Washington, facility, man of the licology, Fisheries and Wildlife Program in the I"

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' I FRTE, JOHN H., l#. A.lk Davidson College (1953);

I LIL, Vanderbdt University (1965) J udge Fryc has been a fulbtime member of the Panel since 1981. I!cfore his HOTT, HEliN F. A.ll, University of Georgia (1949);

. appointment to the Panel,Judpc Frye was the Counsel to ILIL, limory University 0951). Judge lloyt has been a the Panu and was in pnvate practice in Washington, full-time rnember of the Panel smee 1981. llefore her D.C.; for 8 yearsL1le has held leadership positions with apjuintment to the Panel, Judge lloyt was an Adminis-numerous committees of the Federal liar Assocation, trative law Judge and Senior Tnal Attorney with the and has published in various law journals.

Intersute Commerce Commission. Judge lloyt also 1

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i served in the Air f'orce for 10 years, rising to the position IMIA JA3fES C, ///. H.S.C.li., Virginia Military Insti.

of Air Force Judge Advocate Ocneral for Ttukey. She is a tule (1947); ht.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology member of and has held vanous leadership positions in a

. (1952); Se.D., Massachusetts institute of Technology broad rangc of bar associations and professional societies.

(1953). Dr. lamh has been a part time member of the Panel since 1974. Cunently a Di:4tinguished Visiting Pro-fessor of Civil Engineenng at George Washington Uni.

101/NSON, Eu7ABETH fl H.S., Western Kentuely Uni.

s ersity and Professor of Sanitary !!ngineering at the Uni.

versity (1943); M.S., Vanderbilt University (1952). Judge venaty of North Carolma, Dr. lamb has also held Johnson has been a part-time member of the Panel since padung, engmen, management, and warch pmadons 1975. Currently 1r $e staff of the instrumentation &

m pnvate mdustry, the Unhersity of Nonh Carolina, Controls Division e Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Manachwetts inptitute of Technology, and Newark Col.

IT# "I U"E""""E-Jufge Johnso

, - Weh and engineer positions on various 1

+? ration nuclear pnyjects I.420, ROBERT Af. U.S., University of Alberta (1946);

- at Oak Ride m a research auntant M.A., Uniserbity of Hritish Columbia (1950); Ph.D., Uni.

with the Mann r her 44-year career, versity of Notre Dame (1954); J.D./ Rutgers University Judge Johnson (

\\EC and profes-(1958). Dr. Iam has been a member of t!.e Panel r.ince sional papers, prP reactor expen-1970, first in a part. time capacity and, since 1972, in a ments and nucle" full-time capacity. Iletween 1977 and 1980, he served as the lixecutive Secretary of the Panel,and since 1980, as its -

JC.? DAN, IDILTER 11 Uklahoma Deputy Chief Administrative Judpe. Ilefore joining the s.,

4 (1930); M.S., University of Oxlahoma g g Ph.D., Cali.

Panel as a fulbtime member, Dr, I am maintained a pri.

- fornia Institute of Technology (1934). Dr. Jordan has vate legal practiec and had been a member of the Patent been a part time member of the Panel since 1970. Dr.

Departments of both Standard Oil of NewJersey and Hell Jordan is the author of numerous anicles, professional Telephone laboratories.

papers, and books in the nuelcar and radar held, and is a I ellow of the Americtm Nuc! car Society and the Amen-UNENifERGER, GUSTAl'EA.,JR. ILA.wah honors, Rice can Physical Society. In adduion to teaching positions at n msdy

) udge Unenbspa hu been a full. time the_ University of South Dakota and the University of menWer of the Panel since 1972. liefore his appointment i

Tennessee, Dr. Jordan spent 27 years at the Oak Ridge to the Panel, Judge 1.inenberger was the President and Hom ainuan of &uthore Nucicar lingineecing, and National Laboratory in various research and management

positions, ending his long tenure there as its Deputy Di-held several senior management positions with Aerojet-rector

• nual r[wadon. In addition, Judge 1.inenberger wasa staff physicist with the Im Alamos Scientific! abo-ratory (1943-1956) and the Manhattan District Project of EIRK.DUGGAN,3UCHAEL <t H.S., College of the lloly the University of California Rad.iatmu labomtory.

Cross (1953); J.D., Boston College (1956): M.P.L., Geor.

getown University (1959). Judge Kirk Duggan has been a LUEBKE, EM3fETH A. P.A, Ripon College (1936);

part. time member of the Panel since 1972. Currently a Ph.D,, Umversity of Ilhnoi.s (1941). Dr. Luebke has been Professor in Business Iaw and Computer Sciences at the a full time member of the Panel since 1972. A liellow of University of Texas, Judge Kirk-Duggan has held teach.

the American Nuclear Society and recipient of a Presi-ing, engineer, and attorney positions with tiu Unhersty dential Certificate of Merit for Microwave Radar Re.

of New llampshire, Sylvania Data Systems, and the Ant;.

scarch, Dr Luebke spent 27 years in private industry trust Division of the U.S. Departm'ent of Ju:.tice. Judge involved in the design, testing, and operation of nuclear Kirk.Duggan is on the editorial staff of several national pawer plants for submarines. Before that, he held a journals and is the author of four books and over 875

,eaching position at the University of Illinois and a f e.

' articles case comments, monographs,.and reviews in the search leader position at the Massachusetts Institute of areas of ecor.omics, an titt ust, law, and computer science.

Technology.

McCOU.OM, KENNETH A, thS., Oklahoma State Uni-KUNE JERRYR. ILS., Umversity of Minnesota (1957);

versity (1948): M.S., University of Illinois (1949); Ph.D.,

M.S., University of Minnesota (1%0); Ph.D., University Iowa State University (1964), Dr. McCollom has been a of Minnesota (1964). Dr. Kline has been a full-time mem-part. time member of the Panel since 1972.1le is currently ber of the Panel since 1980. ilefore his appointment to Dean and Professor Emerim.s of the College of lingineer-I the Panel, Dr. Kline held sarious research and manage-ing, Architecture and Technology, Oklahoma State Uni.

ment [witions with the Puerto Rico Nuclear Center, the versity. During his 39 year career, he has held teaching, Argonne National Iaborptmy, the AEC. and the NRC.

research, and admirustrative positions with the Oklahoma lie is the author of humerous scientific papers and re-State Umversity, Iowa State University, and the Atomic ports in the fields 01 sadiacco9gy and sod science.

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tion, he has held numerous leadership positions with Schink has served on several advisory panels for the Na-

.several professional associations and the Oklahoma tional Science Foundation and the United Nations.

Iloard of Registration for I?ngineers and lard Surveyors.

Si(ON, IRI@ERICKJ. ILS., Columbia University (1946).

MARGUllES, MORTON B. il.A., llrooklyn College Judge Shon has been a fuh-time member of the Panel (1953); J.D., llrooklyn law School (1954). Judge Mar-since 1972 nnd currently retves as its Deputy Chief Ad.

gulics has been a full time member of the Panel since ministmtive Judge (TechnicaO. liefere his appointment 1982, liefo e his appointment to the Panc. Judge Mar-to the Panel,J udge Shon held mana;;ement positions with gulies served as an Administrative law Judge the AEC, and rerved as a physicist with the lawrence (1969-1982), Regional Counsel and Trial Attorney for Radiation I ahomtory and several corporations within the the Interstate Commerce Commission, m,d as a member nuclear indW,try. J udge Shon has also served as a consult-of sne Army Judge Advocate GeneraPs Corls ant or reactor safety to the Spanish nnd Danish Al!Cs, and taught nuclear engineering at the University of Cali Mil >/Oll1N, GARl' t. ILS., Purdue Univen:ty (1961);

fornia,11erkelev.

J.D., Georgetown University (1965); J.S.D., Columbia University (1970). Judge Milhollin, cmrently a Professor SMITil,IIMN If. Pre-Law, Ohio State University, Mexico of Iaw at the University t,I Wisconsin School of Iaw, City College, Kent State University (1946-48); J.D., Wm.

Madison, has been a part time member of the Panel smee McKinley School of Iaw (1952). Cur rently Chief Admin-1976. Previously, he held a teaching position at the Cat ho-istrative law Judge, Judge Sraith has been a full-time

= lic University of America School of law, e a Regional m mber of the Panel since 1975. liefore his appointment Attorney for the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity, to the Panel, Judge Smith served no an Administrative and engaged in the private practice of law, Iaw Judge for the Social Security Administration, md as a Trial A*torney with the Federal Trade Corimission, MI/112, M4RSHAll. E. A.ll, with honors, University of Deputy Director of the Ohio Department of Liquor Con-Illinois (1935); 1.1 IL, Universny of 711inois (1937). Judge trol, and engaged in the private practice of law.

Miller was a full-time member of the Panel (1974-1985) and has been a part tinne member since 1985. Judge STElNDll?R. M4RTIN 4 Ph.lL, University of Chicago

- Miller was an Administative law Judge for the U.S.

(1947); 1LS,, University of Chicago (1948);. M.S., Univer-Department of 1. abor for 11 years and previously a part-say of Chicago (1949); Ph.D., University of Chicago ner for 15 years in the Washington, D.C., law firm of (1952), Dr. Steindler has been a part-time member of the Danzansky & Dickey. !1e is the author of several books on Panel since 1973, in addition, he has held chemist and-icgal practice, manage neat positions during a 35mear career at the Argonne National I.aboratory. Isefore that, Dr. Stemdler htRIS, OSC4R H. A.ft, University of North "arolina was a research assistant with the UJ. Navy Inorganic (1953); M. A., University of North Carolina ( W56); Ph D, Project. Cunently, he is a member of the NRC's Advisory University of Califomia, Berkeley (1960). Dr. l'aris has Committee on Reactor Safeguards, been a full time member of the Panel since 1976. llefore his appointment to the Panel, Dr. Paris held teaching, ifENNER, SE13/Ol/R. A.lL, Harv.ml College (1933);

research, and management positions with the Unisersity Ll lL, Hanard Irv School (1937). Judge Wenner has of Wyoming. University of Cahfornia, lierkeley, and Uni-been a part-time member of the Panel since 1978. In versity of North Carolina. Dr. Paris is the author of nu, addition, he is currently a mediator foi the District of merous papers, reports and reviews on such topics as Columbia Superi( 'ourt and a meinber of the Arbitra-population ecology, radiation ecology, adjudication of sci-t;on Panel of the New York Stock lixchange, liefore his entific evidence, and the biological effects of ioniting appointment to the Panel, Judge Wenner's 44 years of radiatis.aJ government service included 25 years as a Hearing I!xam-iner, Administrative law Judge, or Chief Administtative SCHINK, DAl?D R. ILA., Pomona College (1952); M.S.,

Hearing Officer for the Interstate Commerce Commis-University of California, los Angeles (1953); M.S., Stan-sion,1:ederal Power Commission, l'ederal Reserve ford University (1958); Ph.D., University of California, lloard, and the llonneville Power Administrations.

San Diego (1962). Dr. Schink has been a part-time mem-

. ber of the Panel since 1974. Currently a Professor of FOll'E, SHELDON J A.ll, Ilarvard University (1942);

Oceanography and formerly the Associate Dean of the 1J lt, Georgetown University (1956). Judge Wolfe was a College of Geosciences at Texar A&M University, Dr..

full time member of the Panel between 1976 and 1988, Schink is the author of monographs and professional pa-when he assumed part-time status with the Panet liefore pers on marine geochemistiy, silicon, radium, radon, and hi, appointment to the Panel, Judge Wolfe was a partner early digenesis. Dr. Schink has also held teaching and in Coal Mmes. Equipment Sales Company of Terre research positions at the Palo Alto I ahoratory,Teledyne Haute, Indiana, an attorney with the Civil Aeronautics isotopes, University of Rhode Island. Scripps Institute of ihrd, and, for 20 years, a Tnal Attorney with the Civil x

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Oceanography, and Stanford University. In adJition, Dr.

Division of the U.S. Departmem of Justice.

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APPENDIX D SELECTED ISSUANCES OF Tile ATOMIC SAFE'lY AND LICENSING llOARDS l

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October 1,1989 to September 30,1990 o

ALI[ CllEMICAL : ISOTOPE IINRICilMl!NT, Memorandum and Order,1JIP-90-18,31 NRC 559 INC, (Dcaket Nos. 50-603, 50-604) (ASIJIP No.

(June 15,1990) f--

89-596-01-OM/SC) '

L Memorandum and Onter, IJIP-90-22,31 NRC 592 Memorandum and Order, IJIP 90-26,32 NRC 30 (June 29,1990)

(July 24,1990)

Memonmdum and Order,1JIP-90-23; 32 NRC 7 i

o.

ADVANCliD MEDICAL SYSTliMS, INC. (One (July 9,1990)

- Factory llow, Geneva, Ohio 44041) (Docket No.

Memorandum and Order, l. IIP-90-27,32 NRC 40 -

3-16055-SP)(ASIJ1P No. f 7-545-01-SP)

(July 30,1990)-

Memorandum and Order, LilP-90-17,31 N'!C 540 Memorandum and Onler, l.DP-90-30,32 NitC 95

- (June 12,1990) -

(August 24,1990) 0: HALTlMORE G AS AND. lill!CI'RIC COM.

e.

FLORIDA POWER AND IJGilT COMPANY PANY (Cah crt Cliffs independent Spent Fuel Stor.

('Ibrkey Point Nuclear Generating Plant, Units 3 oge, Installation) -(Docket : Nos. 72-8, 50-317, and 4)

(')ocket Nos.

50-250-OLA-4, 50-318) _.

50-251-01 A-1) (ASIJIP No. 89-584-01-01 A)

- Memorandum and Order, IJIP-90-13,31 NRC 456 Memorandum and Order, IJil'-90-4,31 NitC 54 (May 15,1990)

(January 16,1990)

Memorimdum and Order, LilP-90-5,31 NiiC 73 e

ll ASIN TESr!NG I AllOR NI'OR Y, INC. dba !! A-(January 16,1990)-

. SIN SERVICl!S, INC (Docket No.150(X)033-SC/ -

~ CiyP)(ASLile No.90401-01-SC/CivP) e FLORIDA POWER _ AND LIGilT COMI'ANY (Turkey Pcint Nuclear Genernting Plant.- Units 3 Memonmdum and Order, IJIP-90-14,31 NRC 458 and 4)

(Docket Nos.

50-25(b OLA-5, -

4

. (May 30,1990)'

5R-251-01 A-5)(ASLilP No. 90-602-01-OLA-5).

4 i

100 iCLEVELAND - ELECFRIC ILLUMINKT1NG Memonmdum and Order,1JtP-90-24,32 NRC 12 L COMPANY ct al. (Peny Nuclear Power Plant, Unit (July 18; 1990)

1) (Docket No 140-01A;2) (ASLilP No.

Memorandum and Order, IJIP40-32,32 NRC 181 90405-02-OIA)

(September 25,1990)

Memonmdum and Order.1JIP-90-! 1,31 NRC 501

- Gl!ORGIA POV,liR COMPANY et at (Vogtle (June H,1990)

I!!cctric Generating Plant. Units 1 and 2)(Docket -

Nos. 50-424-OI.A 5(b425-OIA) (ASIllP No.

Memorandum and Order, LIIP-90-25,32 NRC 21 90-617-03-OI A) _

.(July 23,1990)

Memorandum' and Order, IJIP 90-29, ~2' NRC 89 Eo ' COMUUSTION ENGINEERING, INC, (Ilcma.

(August 16,1990) tite ' Fuel Fabricathm Facility) _ (Docket No.

D' RMGEE CEMICE WRPOMTION A

70-36-MLA)(AStill No. 49-593-01-MI A)

(West Chicago Rare !!mths Facility) (Docket No.

- Prehearing Conference Order, 1JIP-89-31, 30 4(b 2061-ML) (ASI.llP Noc83-49S-01-MI.)

q NRC 320 (October 27,1989) -

Memorandum and Order, IJIP-89-35,30 NRC 677 (November 22,1989) j o

CURATORS OF TiiE UNIVliRSTTY OF MIS.

l SOURI (Docket Nos 70 410270, 30-02278-MLA)

Inillal Decision, LilP-90-09,31 NRC 150(February l-(ASlJIP No. 9(b613-02-MI A) 13, 1990) l.

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i NORTIII!RN STATliS POWER COMPANY Memorandum and Order, IllP 90-28,32 NRC 85 (Pathfinder Atomic Plant)

(Docket No.

(August 1,1990) 30-05004-MLA)(ASillP No. 90-599-01-MLA)

ROCKWEll. INTERNATIONAL CORPORA-Memorandum and Order, LllP-89-30,30 NRC 311 TION (Rocketdyne Division) (Docket No. 70-25)

(. October 24,1989)

(ASIJIP No. 89-594-01-ML)

Memorandutu and Order, LilP-90-03,3i NRC 40 Memorandum and Order,1JIP-89-27,30 NRC 2o5 (br 10,1990)

(October 5,1989)

Order Terminating Proceeding,1JIP-90-19, 31 Memorandum and Order, LHP-89-29,30 NRC 299 NRC 579 (June 21,1990)

(October 13,1989)

PORTER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. (Valparaiso.

Memorandum and Order,1 JIP-89-37,30 NRC 706 Indiana) (Docket No. 030-12150) (AS!JIP No.

(November 28,1989) 90-615-05-OM)

Memorandum and Order, LHP-90-10,31 NRC 293 Prehearing Conference Order, LUP-90-21, 31 (March 19,1990)

NRC 589 (June 26,1990)

Memorandum and Order,IJIP-90-II,31 NRC 320 PUBLIC SliRVICE COMPANY OF NiiW (March 30,1990)

H AMPSHIRE ct al. (Seabrook Stalian, Units 1 and SAFlEY IJOHT CORPORATION ct al.

2)(Dockets 50-143-01,50-444-OL)(ASLilP No.

82-471-02-OL)

(IHoomsburg Site Decontamination) (Docket Nos.

030-05980, 030-05981, 030-05982, 030-PS335, Memorande and Order, LHP-89-28,30 NRC 271 030-08444)

(ASI.llP Nos.89-590 OM, (October 17,19S9) 90 -598-01-OM -2)

Order, LHP-90-07,31 NRC ll6 (January 29,1990)

Partial' initial Decision, LilP 89-32, 30 NRC 375 (November 9,1989)

Order, LilP 9048,31 NRC 143 (February 8,1990)

Memorandum Supplementing LH P-89-32' ST. MARY MEDICAL CliNTliR - 1IOH ART 1 JIP-89-33,30 NRC 656 (November 20,1959)

AND OARY (D wket Nos. 030-31379-OM,

)I^

1. 1. )

Memorandum and Order,1JIP-89-36,30 N RC 704 (November 28,19S9)

Prehearing Conterence Order, LilP-90-21, 31 Memorandum and Order, LilP-89-38,30 NRC 725 (December il,1989)

TULSA GAMMA RAY, INC. (Docket No.

33-12319-CivP)(ASIJ1P No. 90-618-03-CivP)

Memorandum and Order, LHPJ10-01,31 NRC 19

' (January 8,1990)

Notice of ticarmg, l.HP-90-31, 32 NRC 107 (August 29,1990)

Mernorandum and Order. LilP-40-02,31 NRC 38 Vl!RMONT YANKl!!! NUClJiAR POWilR (January 9,1990)

CORPORATION (Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station) (Docket No. 50-271-OLA-4)

Mernorandom and Order, LUP412,31 NRC 427 (May 3,1990)

(ASIllP No N9-595-03-OLA)

Memorandum and Order, LHP-90-06,31 NRC 85 Memorandum und Order, IJtP-90-20,31 NRC 581

)

(June 27,1990)

W R ANGlliR I AllOR ATORIliS, 1 ARSEN ROlliiRT L DICKHERHl!R (Docket N o-I ABORATORIES, ORION CllEMICAI COM.

55-5043-SC) (ASLHP No. 90-610-01-SC) AND PANY, AND JOHN P. l ARSEN (Docket No.

COMMONWliAllGI EDISON COMPANY 9999014 (nSLUP No.89-582-01-SC)

(Quad Citics Nuclear Power Station)(Docket Nos.

50-254-O M, 50-265-OM)

( ASlJIP No.

Imtial i Unsion, I HP-89-39,30 NRC 746 (Decem-40-609-02 OM) isc 22 1989) l NURl!O-1363. Vol 3 24 2

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