ML20093M150

Forwards Affidavit of Do Foster in Response to Georgians Against Nuclear Energy & Citizens for Prosperous Georgia 841011 Proposed Rev to Contention 8 Re QA

ML20093M150
Person / Time
Site:	Vogtle
Issue date:	10/18/1984
From:	Trowbridge G GEORGIA POWER CO., SHAW, PITTMAN, POTTS & TROWBRIDGE
To:	Linenberger G, Margulies M, Paris O Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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ML20093M154	List: ML20093M150 ML20093M159
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CON-#484-592 OL, NUDOCS 8410190418
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JOMeeF.oEALv' * .eweveas w womewia S. SCOTT Cusvam se m*CMANO S. SEATTY CowhSEL WRITER S osatC? OSAL Nu.eSte (202) 822-1026 October 18, 1984 Morton B. Margulies, Esq., Chairman Mr. Gustave A. Linenberger, Jr.

Dr. Oscar H. Paris Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 l

In the Matter of Georgia Power Company, et al.

(Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2 Docket Nos. 50-424 and 50-425 WL

Dear Administrative Law Judges:

In accordance with the Board's Memorandum and Order dated September 5, 1979, Applicants and GANE/ CPG have filed with the l Board their respective proposals for revision of GANE/ CPG Con-tention 8 (Quality Assurance). However, GANE/ CPG in their fil-ing of October 11, 1984, not only submitted new wording for Contention 8, but have sought, in Applicants' view improperly, to amend the basis for their contention.

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Mr. Gustave A. Linenberger, Jr.

Dr. Oscar H. Paris October 18, 1984 Page 2 f

The amendment to the basis consists of a single paragraph referencing two newspaper accounts which report the firing of seven Georgia Power Company workers and the end of dealings with one vendor following the alleged unauthorized release of bid information at the Vogtle plant. The added paragraph does not provide or even allege any connection between the procure-ment irregularities and Applicants' quality assurance program.

It simply jumps to the conclusion that the irregularities re-

-quire an investigation "to ascertain if this alleged favoritism extended to quality of materials, and to ascertain why the quality assurance program did not uncover this program defficiency (sic) long ago."

l l Applicants note at the outset that the amendment to the i

basis for Contention 8 is inexcusably late. Intervenors have waited until the eleventh hour to file an amendment based on newspaper accounts which received wide publicity and which first appeared more than six weeks earlier. Further, Interve-nors' representatives made no mention of this proposed amend-ment at the meeting with representatives of the Applicants and

Staff on October 3, 1984. The amendment should be rejected as untimely.

In any event Applicants are at a minimum entitled to re-spond to the proposed amendment. By way of response Applicants enclose herewith the affidavit of D. O. Foster, Vice-President and Project General Manager, Vogtle Project, demonstrating that the procurement irregularities do not provide a basis for a quality assurance contention.

Respectfully submitted, SHAW, PITTMAN, POTTS & TROWBRIDGE 5 *

//pw /d Ge5rge 4. Trowbridge, P.K.

Ernest L. Blake, P.C. /

David R. Lewis Counsel for Applicants '

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