ML20140E597
| ML20140E597 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Comanche Peak  |
| Issue date: | 01/09/1985 |
| From: | Bloch P Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
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| References | |
| CON-#185-116 OL, NUDOCS 8501110157 | |
| Download: ML20140E597 (8) | |
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ORIGINAL UMIED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION O
IN THE MATTER OF:
DOCKET NO: 50-445-OL 50-446-OL TEXAS UTILITIES GENERATING COMPANY, et al.
(Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station, Units 1 and 2)
STATEMENT BY CHAIRMAN PETER BLOCH Atomic Safety and Licensing Board LOCATION: BETHESDA, MARYLAND PAGES:
1-5 DATE:
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1985
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 3
BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of:
5 TEXAS-UTILITIES GEliERATING COMPANY, Docket No. 50-445-OL 6
et'al.
50-446-OL 7
(Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station, Units 1 and 2) 8 9
Nucl~ ear Regulatory Commission Fifth Floor Hearing Room 10 4350 East-West Highway Bethesda, Maryland 11 Wednesday, January 9, 1985 12 A Statement by Chairman Bloch was made for the 13
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14 BEFORE:
15 JUDGE PETER BLOCH, Chairman 16 Atomic Safety and Licensing Board JUDGE WALTER'H. JORDAN, Member I7 Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 18
-JUDGE HERBERT GROSSMAN,-Member Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 19 APPEARANCES:
20 On behalf of Applicants:
McNEILL.WATKINS, ESQ.
122 NICHOLAS S. REYNOLDS, ESQ.
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23 Purcell & Reynolds 1200 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
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I APPEARANCES (Continued):
2 On behalf of Nuclear Regulatory 3
Commission Staff:
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4 STUART A TREBY, ESQ.
Office of Executive Legal Director U.
S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 5
Washington, D.
C.
6 On behalf of Citizens Association 7
for Sound Energy:
8 ANTHONY Z.
ROISMAN, ESQ.
BILLIE GARDE, ESQ.
9 Trial Lawyers for Public Justice 2000 P Street, N.W.
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10 Washington, D.
C.
20036 11 On behalf of Oliver B.
Cannon & Sons, 12 Joseph Lipinski, and John J.
Norris:
13 JOSEPH GALLO, ESQ.
'~D PETER THORNTON, ESQ.
l Isham, Lincoln & Beale I4 1120 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.
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JUDGE BLOCH:~ The purpose of this statement is
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3 to issue a request for information and to temporarily stay 4-the obligation, or the opportunity of the parties to 5
respond to Applicants' motion for reconsideration of 6
Licensing Board's memorandum dated January 7, 1984, and 7
the accompanying affidavit of Robert C.
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9 On this particular matter I would like to make it clear
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10 that there's no indication that the Applicants have done 11 anything intentionally wrong, but the matter is a matter 12 of lack of communication.
13-We had mentioned that we were concerned about the 14 extent to which the tests that were done on U-bolts could 15 be generalized to the actual configurations found in the 16 plant.
What we are concerned with there, for example, is-17 with variations that might occur in the dimensions of the 18 pipen, the configurations of the pipes, or the size of the 19 base plate or the spacing of the holes.
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20 the answer, the Applicants just having addressed the 21
.possible problem, the answer. appears to state that the U 22 bolts themselves are somewhat standardized items and that 23 the dimensions of the supports were taken from support 24i -drawings, and, thus, "were typical of field configurations."
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The concern is that unless we know what the variation 2
in field configurations were, then all we know is that 3
these configurations existed in the field, but we don't 4
know that they were typical or representative of the range 5
of conditions under which the U bolts have to perform.
6 There's no response necessary at this time.
7 MR. TREBY:
Can I just clarify just what it was 8
that you said at the very beginning?
What is the impact 9
of this notice?
10 JUDGE BLOCH:
Until the Applicants file a 11 supplementary statement or a statement that they don't 19 think it's necessary, there's no need to respond to the 13 filing; should respond after the supplementation and
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14 response to the board's request is made.
15 MR. ROISMAN:
Does it mean the time for response 16 will begin to run at some date in the future?
17 JUDGE BLOCH:
When the information is filed.
18 MR. WATKINS:
Mr. Chairman, will it be clear 19 from your statement exactly what it is you are requesting 20 Applicants to produce?
21 JUDGE BLOCH:
I sure hope so.
22 MR. WATKINS:
It was all Greek to me.
23 MR. TREBY:
Does your statement have any impact l
24 on the timing that was set out in your order, which I 25 believe set February 28th as the ending date of discovery?
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JUDGE BLOCH:
No.
Because there's no stay 2-related to this motion for reconsideration.
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3' obligation to respond and the opportunity to file "4
discovery is in effect until we should rule on the motion.
5 MR. WATKINS:
Mr. Chairman, when would you like
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' Applicants to produce the additional information?
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JUTGE BLOCH:- There is no deadline.
The only 8
problem for Applicants is, if they want a ruling before 9
the period for responding to requests runs out, they might 10 want to do it promptly.
-11 MR. WATKINS:
I take it this order is the 12 Chairman and Dr. Jordan sitting as a quorum?-
13 JUDGE BLOCH:
No, it's the Chairman sitting in 14 under the condition that the other board is not in session.
15 The Chairman acting for the board.
16 Dr.' Jordan has in fact not conferred with me on this fl7
-because he hasn't yet received the documents which were 18 sent to him in Florida.
19 MR. WATKINS:.Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
20 (Whereupon, at 12:48 p.m.,
the statement was 21-concluded.)
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a CERTIFICATE OF OFFICIAL REPORTER This is to certify that the attached proceedings before O
the uNrTED STATES NuCtEiR REcutATORY COMM1SS10N in the matter of:
N.V'E OF PROCEEDING: TEXAS UTILITIES GENERATING COMPANY, et al.
(Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station, Units 1 and 2)
STATEMENT BY CHAIRMAN PETER BLOCH Atomic Safety and Licensing Board DOCKET NO.:
50-445-OL 50-446-OL PLACE:
BETHESDA, MARYLAND DATE:
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1985 were held as herein appears, and that this is the original transcript thereof for the file of the united States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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