ML20138H920

Comments on Applicant Brief in Opposition to Intervenor Appeals from Concluding Partial Initial Decision.Footnote 94 Should Ref Defect W/Crankshaft Oil Hole Plugs as Failure Instead of Simply as Crack.W/Svc List

ML20138H920
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Site:	Perry
Issue date:	12/12/1985
From:	Silberg J CLEVELAND ELECTRIC ILLUMINATING CO., SHAW, PITTMAN, POTTS & TROWBRIDGE
To:	Johnson W, Rosenthal A, Wilber H NRC ATOMIC SAFETY & LICENSING APPEAL PANEL (ASLAP)
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• December 12, 1985 Alan S. Rosenthal, Chairman Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board l U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Dr. W. Reed Johnson Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Mr..Howard A. Wilber Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Re: The Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company (Perry Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2)

Docket Nos. 50-440 and 50-4410 b Gentlemen:

Upon review of " Applicants' Brief'in Opposition to Intervenors' Appeals from the Concluding Partial Initial Decision," we are concerned that footnote 94 at page 58 may be construed as a mischaracterization of a portion of the a

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i Messrs. Rosenthal, Reed and Wilber December 12, 1985 Page Two ASLB's-Concluding Partial Initial Decision ("PID"). The footnote in question addresses a defect with crankshaft oil hole plugs at another facility, and states that the ASLB did not characterize the defect as a failure, citing PID at 65.

The ASLB did, however, in its Findings of Fact, label the potential defect as a " failure." See id. at 112 (Finding 170).

The' testimony cited by the ASLB, as well as by Applicants in their brief, indicated that the potential defect involved a crack in the plug, rather than a complete' failure. See Tr.

2263 (Christiansen), Tr. 2230 (Kammeyer). The nature of the characterization does not in any way affect the conclusions of the ASLB or the arguments in Applicants' Brief.

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