ML20099C679

Motion for Suspension of Low Power License NPF-27.Limerick Ecology Action (Lea) Members Among Population Exposed to Risk & Lea Will Be Irreparably Damaged Unless Suspension Granted.Certificate of Svc Encl

ML20099C679
Person / Time
Site:	Limerick
Issue date:	11/15/1984
From:	Elliott C ELLIOTT, C.W., LIMERICK ECOLOGY ACTION, INC.
To:	NRC ATOMIC SAFETY & LICENSING APPEAL PANEL (ASLAP)
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FACILITY: OPERATING' LICENSE NPF-27' Limerick.Ecblogy' Action, Inc. (LEA), - intervenor in the labove -

captioned licensing proceeding, moves the Appeal-Board.for;.an, Order suspending the authorization for'a' low-power operating; y

license for the above facility, and sets forth the:followingsin.

support thereof:

On or about. September 3, 1984, LEA filedLa-timely appeal to this Board. from the Partial Initial Decisionf(PID),' of the V

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board - (ASLB), which, inter 'alia, authorized the Director of the Office of Nuclear. Reactor Regu-lation.to issue the operating license.

.On or about October'3, 1984 LEA filed-a briefsin'~ support

'of its appeal, setting forth in detail-various errors in-law, and.' violations of the_ National Environmental Policy'Act, the Administrative Procedure Act and Commission regulations by the-8411200022 841115 PDR ADOCK 050003S2

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lieves<that it'has-made-.a " strong showing"-thatLitzis~likelyEto prevail on the' merits ofJitsiposition..

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LEA will be' irreparably. injured unlessgthe suspension is.

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Among.the bases which' LEA set forth for. reversal;of the ASLB partial initial: decision below is-the failure of; the environmental' review.for Limorick.to considor design alternativos;

-to mitigato the risk of sevoro accidents.

LLA's-membership is among the population exposed to this risk, and'would be among I

the beneficiaries of a reduction of this risk..

Hidden.from NEPA review and excluded from licensing con-sideration are Staff analyses of a range of potential risk re-

. duction measures which may be available for implementation at Limerick.

However, the cost-effectivencss of such' measures, the~

practicability of backfitting.such measures into the Limerick

' design and the radiation exposure of workers involved inthe

' implementation of such measures will all-be adversely affected by low-power operation of the facility-which will contaminate l

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of Indian ' Point in New ' York.c See NUREG--0974,. f Final rEnvironmental[

4 Statement' related' tio-the operation of the ~ Limerick Generating '.

Station, pp.; 5-116_- 5-124..

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reasonablyLbeisaid toibe}adversel/ affected byfsuch aLsusoensi5nt Yet the'oniv such interests ~ah d5'acteh, V

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are solely.. economic Lin' nature: - concerns.which,T as this1 Appeal '

~1 Board has~' expressly 1noted, are'"not withinLthe properfscope of' i~ssues litigatedLin NRC proceedings"

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and private interests of~the utility.

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ultimate full-power and.commerical operation of Limerick cannot now be presumed, in the face of extant challenges-to the adequacy of off-site emergency planning which remain to be litigated as Indeed, it would be arbitrary and capricious.fo'r th'e Commission to consider claims of economic harm to the utility caused by a licensing delay,'yet exclude claims of economic harm-to the rate-payers and the public occasioned by the licensing of a nuclear

~ facility, which like Limerick, the need for which is dubious at best. ~If the Appeal Board. intends to consider such claims of economic harm to the utility, LEA respectfully requests an oppor-tunity to set-forth the economic harm to its membership and the public resulting.from facility' licensing and operation.

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by-deposit'in.the' United State's mail this 16th day-of November, 1984:

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Commission Commission...

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20555 Gary J.

Edles Dr.' Jerry. Harbour Atomic Safoty and Atomic,Safoty and

'Licensiny Appcal Board Licensing Board U.S.

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commission Commission Washington, D.C.

20555 Washington, D.C.

20555-Dr. Reginald L. Gotchy Atomic Safety and Licensing

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' Philadelphia Electric Company Hellegers ATTN:

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101 North Broad Stroet' General Counsel Philadelphia, PA_:19107<

2301. Market Street Philadephia, PA 19101 Director, Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency Mr. Frank R. Romano-Basement, Transportation 61 Forest Avenue-Amblor, Ponnsylvania 19002 II$and. Safety Building rrinburg, PA '17120 Mr. Robert L. Anthony.

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Friends of the Earth of.

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the Delaware Valley City of Phi'ladelphia-106 Vernon Lane, Box 186 Moylan, Pennsylvania 19065-.

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- Philadelphia, PA 19107 Miss Phyllis Zitzer Limerick Ecology Action Spence W. Perry, Esq.

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