ML20092M607

Georgia Power Co Response to Intervenor Addl Discovery Request Dtd 950905.* Request Granted.W/Certificate of Svc

ML20092M607
Person / Time
Site:	Vogtle
Issue date:	09/26/1995
From:	Lamberski J GEORGIA POWER CO., TROUTMANSANDERS (FORMERLY TROUTMAN, SANDERS, LOCKERMA
To:	Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
References
CON-#495-17145 93-671-01-OLA-3, 93-671-1-OLA-3, OLA-3, NUDOCS 9510030097
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION SEP 26 P4 :43 Before the Atomic Safety and Liceming Board 0FFICE OF SECRETA DOCKETltu; & sgny;RY c7' BRMCu

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In the Matter of ) Docket Nos. 50-424-OLA-3 i

)- 50-425-OLA-3 l GEORGIA POWER COMPANY, ) ,

etal. ) Re: License Amendment

) (Transfer to Southern (Vogtle Electric Generating ). Nuclear)

Plant, Units 1 and 2) )

) ASLBP No. 93-671-01-OLA-3 GEORGIA POWER COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO INTERVENOR'S ADDITIONAL DISCOVERY REOUEST DATED SEPTEMBER 5.1995

1. INTRODUCTION i I

Georgia Power Company (" Georgia Power") hereby provides its response to the discovery requests in Intervenor's Mction to Strike Expert Testimony of Hill and Ward; and to Conduct Additional Discovery, dated September 5,1995 (the " Additional Request") to the extent granted by the Board on September 19,1995. (Tr.14241-44),

11. RESPONSE A. Reauest No. 4 Intervenor requested Design Change Packages 91-VIN 0113,91-V2N0ll4 and Minor i

Deviatix ' ? 3 Design ("MDD") documents 90-V2M-193 and 90-VIM-194, which are being l l

produced. Intervenor also requested MDD document 89-VlM-194; however, no such MDD document exists. Based on the description of this MDD in NRC Inspection Report 50-424/94-12 and 50-425/94-12, MDD 89-VIM-057 appears to be the appropriate document and

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B. . Reauest No. H Intervenor requested certain Maintenance Work Order'("MWO") Packages, identified 4

in Inspection Report 50-424/94-12 and 50-425/94-12 at p. 6,12.4. The Board limited this

] request to those MWO packages issued in 1990, which are being produc'ed as follows:

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~19001576 19002289 19001537 19003510 29000182 19003164 19000016 19001435 19001511 j 19001683 19002711 j

-In addition, the inspection report listing referenced above included Deficiency Card 1-90-154 1 1

which is also being produced.

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! Intervenor requested the entire I&C Log for the period 3-9-90 to the end of 1991.

4 Georgia Power is producing the I&C Outage Log for the period March 19,1990 through November 29,1990. This is the entire record that Georgia Power is able to locate. Mr.

, James Sutphin, the I&C Representative responsible for maintaining this log, states that all other portions of the I&C Outage Log have been purged from Georgia Power's files in the normal course of business. Thus, Georgia Power is unable produce any other requested

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D. Reauest No.1I Intervenor requested the MWO that was in progress when Mr. Robert Johnston detected water in the pneumatic control system in 1995. Georgia Power is producing the two I

diesel generator control panel functional test MWO packages that Mr. Johnston indicated  !

.. were in progress when moisture was observed in the starting air pressure guage test line.

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I E. ' Reauest No.14 Intervenor requested information regarding air stan valve actuation pressure, specification sheets and associated drawings for the air stan valves and air stan distributor in:luding drawings for their air supply. Georgia Power has not located any documents responsive to this request. L Georgia Power will continue to search for such documents and provide them to the parties if any responsive documents are located.

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Intervenor requested, as limited by the Board, all documents provided to and reviewed l l

- by or relied on by Dr. Hill and Mr. Ward, v.ith respect to matters directly or indirectly related to the scope of their testimony. With the exception of certain documents which were identified as already being in Intervenor's possession (i.e., Mosbaugh's Pre-filed Testimony and Demonstrative Aids, NUREG-1410, and Board Notification 95-08) and certain standard engineering reference materials (i.e., ASME Steam Tables, a thermodynamics handbook i

providing critical velocity through an orifice, and a handbook indicating standard tube wall thicknesses), Georgia Power has provided to Intervenor all documents relied upon by Dr. Hill and Mr. Ward in preparing their testimony before they testified on September 19, 1995.

G. Discretionary Board Reauest No. 2 The Board granted Intervenor's request for a copy of the complete fax transmission of which a ponion was marked as Intervenor's Exhibit 11-215, subject to possible claims of privilege. Georgia Power is unable to locate any pages that were pan of the August 5,1994 telefax transmission other than Briney Exhibit G (GPC Ex. Il-159). In any event, Georgia 3

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Power objects to this request because the remaining pages of the telefax transmission are protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege and attorney work-product doctrine.

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The attorney-client privilege applies to communications made by corporate client-employees to the client's attorney as part of counsel's efforts to ascertain facts necessary to advise and represent the corporate client. The privilege applies in the corporate' client setting when (1) the information is necessary to supply the basis for legal advice to the corporation, (2) the information was not available from " control group" management, (3) the 3

-communications concerned matters within the scope of the employee's duties, (4) the employee was aware he was providing information in order for the corporation to obtain legal advice, and (5) the communications were considered confidential when made and kept confidential. In this case, information was gathered at the request of the attorney to provide l the corporate client with legal advice and representation in this proceeding. The employee was tasked by his management to assist the attorney in gathering this information. The employee was aware of the purpose for which he was gathering this information and the remaining pages of the telefax transmission have been kept confidential. Thus, the telefax transmission is a privileged attorney-client communication.

1 The work-product doctrine is codified in the NRC's Rules of Practice at 10 C.F.R. 6 2.740(b)(2). In essence, a party may obtain discovery of documents otherwise discoverable  ;

l and prepared in anticipation of a hearing from another party's attorney only upon a showing of substantial need for the documents and an inability to obtain the substantial equivalent by i other means. The documents requested are materials collected and transmitted by a client-employee at the specific request of the company's attorney in the course of representing the 4

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_ client in this proceeding. The document compilation itself reveals the mental impressions, conclusions, opinions, or legal theories of the attorney in that it shows what the attorney considered important for representing the client during the proceeding. Intervenor has made )

neither any showing regarding need nor any representation regarding undue hardship in

. l obtaining the substantial equivalent of this request.

H. Discretionary Board Reauest No. 4 Intervenor requested Alnor dew point instrument VP-2466 documentation created i

between 1989 and the present including travel sheets, calibration certification documents and vendor communications. Georgia Power is producing all documents it has identified which i

are responsive to this request.

Dated: September 26,1995

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f. tames E. Joi'ner John Lamberski TROUTMAN SANDERS Suite 5200 l 600 Peachtree Street, N.E.

Atlanta, GA 30308-2216 (404) 885-3360 1

Ernest L. Blake David R. Lewis SHAW, PITTMAN, POTTS & TROWBRIDGE 2300 N Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20337  ;

(202) 663-8084  !

Counsel for Georgia Power Company 5

DOCKETED USHRC UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 95 SEP 26 P4 :43 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION A

Before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board ICEgSjcR g 5 BRANCH

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In the Matter of ) Docket Nos. 50-424-OLA-3

) 50-425-OLA-3 GEORGIA POWER COMPANY, )

etal. ) Re: License Amendment

) (Transfer to Southern (Vogtle Electric Generating ) Nuclear) l Plant, Units I and 2) )

) ASLBP No. 93-671-01-OLA-3 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of Georgia Power Company's Response To Intervenor's Additional Discovery Request Dated September 5,1995, dated September 26,1995 were served by hand-delivery upon the person.c denoted by an asterisk on the attached service list; or, otherwise, by first class mail this 26th day of September,1995.

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of GEORGIA POWER COMPANY,

• Docket Nos. 50-424-OLA-3 at al.

• 5 0-4 2 5-OI A-3 (Vogtle Electric

• Re: License Amendment Generating Plant, * (Transfer to Southern Units 1 and 2)

• Nuclear)

• ASLBP No. 93-671-01-OLA-3 SERVICE LIST Administrative Judge Stewart D. Ebneter Peter B. Bloch, Chairman

• Regional Administrator

. Atomic Safety and Licensing USNRC, Region II Board 101 Marietta Street, NW U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Suite 2900 Commission Atlanta, Georgia 30303 Two White Flint North i 11545 Rockville Pike Office of the Secretary

• l Rockville, MD 20852 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Administrative Judge Washington, D. C. 20555 James H. Carpenter

• ATTN: Docketing and Atomic Safety and Licensing Services Branch Board l 933 Green Point Drive Charles Barth, Esq.* l Oyster Point Mitzi Young, Esq.*  !

Sunset Beach, NC 28468 Office of General Counsel l One White Flint North Administrative Judge Stop 15B18 Thomas D. Murphy

• U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Atomic Safety and Licensing Commission Board Washington, D. C. 20555 i i U.S. Nuclear Regulatory  !

Commission Director, l Two White Flint North Environmental Protection l i 11545 Rockville Pike Division Rockville, MD 20852 Department of Natural Resources 1 Michael D. Kohn, Esq

• 205 Butler Street, S.E.

Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, P.C. Suite 1252 517 Florida Avenue, N.W. Atlanta, Georgia 30334 Washington, D.C. 20001 Office of Commission Appellate Adjudication

• One White Flint North 11555 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852 4

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