ML20132E322

Order Directing Negotiations on 850809,unless Applicants Otherwise Agree,Re Objections to Rorem QA Interrogatories. Parties Should Agree on Submittal Date for Rept of Agreement & Rorem Answer to Remaining Objections.Served on 850801

ML20132E322
Person / Time
Site:	Braidwood
Issue date:	07/31/1985
From:	Brenner L Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
To:	COMMONWEALTH EDISON CO., NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE LEGAL DIRECTOR (OELD), ROREM, B.
References
CON-#385-038, CON-#385-38 NUDOCS 8508010774
Download: ML20132E322 (2)

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' 635 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD Before Administrative Judges: L DOLMETCP Lawrence Brenner, Chairman N Dr. A. Dixon Callihan ,

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In the Matter of l DocketNos.50khd*

50-457 COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY (Braidwood Nuclear Power Station, Units 1 and 2) July 31, 1985 i

ORDER DIRECTING NEGOTIATIONS ON OBJECTIONS TO ROREM'S QA INTERROGATORIES The Applicant has timely served, by the required received date (Tr.

! 197,205-06) of July 30, 1985, its objections to Rorem's July 2, 1985 1 "First Set" of Quality Assurance interrogatories. The NRC Staff, missing the received deadline by one day, has placed its own objections to some of Rorem's interrogatories in the express mail on July 30, 1985.

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.l - Applicant's pleading properly states (at 2), that it will attempt j to negotiate its objections with Intervenors Rorem g al. The Board i

l directs the Applicant, NRC Staff and Rorem to hold such negotiations,

! and agree on a date by which a report of agreement shall be received by the Board, along with, if still necessary, Rorem's answer (motion to compel discovery) to those ot'jections still in dispute. Unless the t

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,. . o i i parties otherwise agree, and advise the Board, that date shall be August 9, 1985. Discovery negotiations shall be governed by pragmatism i

on the part of all parties, rather than by technical legal rights and l-1 posturing.

The NRC Staff's concluding paragraph (" Motion for a Protective Order") does not correlate fully with its preceding objections. No Staff objections were made to Rorem's interrogatories 52, 53 or 55, yet

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those three are listed in the Staff's concluding paragraph. Conversely,

.i the Staff did object to interrogatories 30 and 40, but did not include those two in its concluding paragraph.

This order was read to the affected parties on July 31, 1985.

IT IS 50 ORDERED.

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> Lawrence Brenner, Chairman ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE Bethesda, Maryland July 31, 1985 i.

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