ML20148T317
| ML20148T317 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Allens Creek File:Houston Lighting and Power Company icon.png |
| Issue date: | 11/22/1978 |
| From: | Hooker K AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
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| References | |
| NUDOCS 7812040361 | |
| Download: ML20148T317 (3) | |
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COR'4ISSION
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HOUSTON LIGHTING & POWER COMPANY I
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(Allens Creek Nuclear Generating X
Station, Unit 1)
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i OBJECTION TO PROPO3ED SOHFDLE
~ by~Yithryn Hooker i
On Neversber 18, ler/ rs for Mcuston lir,htinc & F-wer served petitianers 1
i with their =Metion for Onder Establishing Schedule.a I hereby object te the Order, as of benefit only to applicant, sereas the right of Houston i
citizens to effectively participate in these proceedings must also be censidered. The proceedings are legally ::andated solely to permit such participation.
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In particular, I object te these propened dates: December 1,1978, for i
j Board ruling on adtd.ssion of parties; Dece:sber 7,1978, for beginning of discovery; January 22, 1979, for end of disce very; and January 29, 1979, for the beginning of the prehearing conference.
To the present time, 1 and other petitioners have had great difficulty in i
meeting the Boardts rushed schedule; our only recourse has been to con.
plain rep eatedly in letters and ma11 grams to the board, which have be en effectively ignorede For most of us, licensing proceedings are a new f
experience; wa have been hampered by ignorance of Corission rules in l
l our efforts to participate. Additional tir:e would help to nitigate l
citi::ensi handicaps in this ragard. It would also pernit us to more 781204c% l (f
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time to study the documents needed to substantiate our arguments.
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I for one have had great difficulty in obtaining such docunents 4
and aise in fitting into try work schedule trips to the library to 1
study materials on very short notice. To sdhere to the rushed schedule applicant's lawyers proposes would make a bad situation intolerable and would call into questien the Boardts eff ective com-7 pliance with the mandate to hold hearings for public participation as required in 10 C.F.R, In fairness, I beg the Board to consider that applicant has had many months to state its case en the new pro-posal; that it has now a battery of lawyers where special expertise is in these very proceedingsj that applicpat, unlike petitioners, 0 :n i
well afford all the expert hde it needs, paid for by ratepayers; that it is not unreasonable to ask applicant to allow a small proportion of the time it has taken to state its own cace, to allow
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for those reasons, I suggest this schedule : December ih, Deard rules on adnission of parties (this providss also for late mail delivery, a recurrent problen in these proceedings); January 11, discovery begins (allowing also for Thanksgivin;; ard Christmas' blidays);
February 8, discovery ends; March 7, pr* hearing cc aference begins.
Respectfully,
/[c 0:j kik r rathryn Hoober copies to:
Rep. If ckey Leland Rep. Ron 'dators i
Earold Scarlett, Housten Post Chairman, House Connittee on l
Interior ard Insular Aff airs, i
Subcomrd.tteo en Energ7 and Covernmant, j
U.S. Congres
K CERTIFICATE OF SERVICS I hereby certify that copies of :ny friection to Proposed Schedule (Decket 50-h66) have been served on the following persons through deposit in the United States mail, first class, this 2Pnd day of Neve:aber,1978 :
Sheldon J. Wolfe, Esq., Chairman Richard Lowerre, Eng.
Atomic Safety and Licensi",g Board Panel Asst. Attorney General U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comaission P.O. Box 125L8 Washington, D.C. 20555 Capitol Station Austin, Texas 78711 Robert lovenstain, Esq.
Lowenstein, Reis, Newnan & Axelrad J. Grego n Copeland, Esq.
1025 Connacticut Ave., N.W.
Baker & Botts Washingten, D.O. 20037 1 Shell Placa Houston, Texas 77002 Docketing and Services Branch U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comnission Washington,D.C.20$$$
Respeetfully, lr)):. 7L Y
Kathryn Hooker
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