ML20148U500
ML20148U500 | |
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Site: | Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png |
Issue date: | 01/25/1988 |
From: | Mark Miller, Palomino F KIRKPATRICK & LOCKHART, NEW YORK, STATE OF, SUFFOLK COUNTY, NY |
To: | Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
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i . 8YN 00CKETED USkRC January 25, 1988 78 F03 -i P S:0f UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION fOCKE1m0 i. ;E;v,.yFICE Before the Atomic Safety and Licensino Board BRANCH
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LONG ISLAND LIGHTING COMPANY ) Docket No. 50-322-OL-3
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SUFFOLK COUNTY'S MOTION FOR OPDER COMPELLING LILCO TO RESPOND TO SUFFOLK COUNTY'S FIRST SET OF INTERROGATORIES AND REOUEST FOR PRODUCTION.OF DOCUMENTS Pursuant to 10 CFR S 2.740(f), Suffolk County hereby requests the Board to issue an order compelling LILCO to respond to the portions of Suffolk County's First Set of Interrogatories and Request for Production of Documents, dated January 4, 1988 (hereafter, "Interrogatories"), which are identified below, for the reasons set forth below.
I. Backaround The Interrogatories consisted of discovery requests seeking either factual information, documents, or both. Pursuant to 10 CFR SS 2.740b and 2.741, LILCO's response to the requests which were "interrogatories" was due within 14 days, while the response 8002040036 890125 PDR g
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q On January 20, 1988, LILCO filed "LILCO's Responses and
- Objections to Suffolk County's First Set of Interrogatories and Request for Production of Documents" (hereafter, the "Response").
't Counsel for Suffolk County received the Response the following day, on January 21, 1988. The Response consisted of so-called "General Answers and Objections to Interrogatories, Definitions and Instructions," responses or objections to the individual interrogatories, and the advice that LILCO "is in the process of identifying documents that may be responsive to requests," and that "[t]o the extent LILCO does not object to their production,
- all documents referenced in these answers which are not enclosed will be provided within the 30-day production period in accordance with 10 CFR 52.741." Although LILCO in some instances objected to requests for documents and indicated that i t would refuse to respond, it at other times implied that objections to document requests would be made later on, within the 30-day l
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In this Motion, Suf folk County addresses or.ly the responses to the Interrogatories which actually are included in the LILCO Response, and only those objections which are followed by a l refusal to respond to a request. That is, we do not address herein either those instances in which LILCO has indicated that it may, or intends to, object to requests in its yet-to-be-filed A
.o 30-day response,l/ or those objections which were apparently made for the record, but which are nonetheless followed by substantive responses.2/
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1 As will be demonstrated below, the inadequacy of LILCO's
! Response requires the County to seek the Board's assistance in
! obtaining the information requested by the County -- information l which is clearly relevant to this proceeding and which the County i needs if it is to litigate meaningfully the central issues relating to LILCO's proposal for resolving the outstanding issues j raised by the remanded Contention 25.C. LILCO's refusal to
] provide such information flies in the face of generally accepted rules governing the conduct of discovery, as well as in the face of NRC regulations and precedent.
f The scope of discovery in a licensing proceeding encompasses i
! any matter, not privileged, which is relevant to the subject I
matter of the proceeding. The fact that the information sought
! will be inadmissible at hearing is not grounds for objection, if the information sought appears reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence. 10 CFR S 2.740(b)(1). Put another way, pretrial discovery is liberally granted to enable 1/ Egg, rag., LILCO Response to Interrogatories 6, 8, 9, 19, j 22, 25, and 28.
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parties to ascertain the facts, to refine the issues, and to prepare adequately for a more expeditious hearing or trial. Egg Public Service Co. of New Hamoshire (Seabrook Station, Units 1 i
and 2), LBP-83-17, 17 NRC 490, 494 (1984); Texas Utilities Generatina Comoany (Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station, Units 1 and 2), LBP-81-25, 14 NRC 241, 243 (1981); Pennsylvania Power and Licht Comoany (Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Units 1 and J
2), ALAB-613, 12 NRC 317, 322 (1980); Pacific Gas and Electric
4 i Further, objections to interrogatories must be specific; general objections are insufficient. The burden of persuasion is on the objecting party to show that the interrogatory should not be answered. Egg Duke Power Co. (Catawba Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2), LBP-82-ll6, 16 NRC 1937, 1944 (1982). In any event,
"(f)ailure to answer or respond shall not be excused on the
! ground that the discovery sought is objectionable unless the eerson or oarty failine to answer or resoond has aonlied for a orotective order. . . 10 CFR S 2.740(f)(emphasis added). Thus,
, if LILCO was serious in its assertions that it had grounds for l objecting to portions of the County's Interrogatories, it was required at the very least to come forward with an explanation of the bases for its objections and to seek a protective order.
LILCO, however, did not do this.
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O Even a cursory examination of LILCO's Response reveals that LILCO has followed neither the letter nor the spirit of NRC rules and regulations governing the conduct of discovery. We turn now to such an examination.
In its December 30, 1987 Memorand' nd Order (Ruling on Applicant's Motion of October 22, 1987 f. tmmary Disposition of Contention 25.C Role Conflict of School Bus _' rivers) (hereafter, "December 30 Order"), the Licensing Board acknowledged the existence of outstanding "emergency planning issues concerning the evacuation of school children," and indicated a preference to resolve those outstanding issues in the remanded proceeding on Contention 25.C. December 30 Order at 6. To achieve that end, the Board set forth the scope of discovery for this proceeding.
In light of LILCO's new schools evacuation proposal, as first described by LILCO in its October 22, 1987 motion for summary disposition,3/ the Board stated:
It will suffice for our purposes that an opportunity to confront this plan (i.e., LILCO's new proposal) be provided and a period for discovery on the olan's dimensions be authorized.
Accordingly, the Board permits a discovery period of 30 days on LILCO's new auxiliary proposal . . .
December 30 Order at 5 (emphasis added).
Notwithstanding the Doard's clear ruling permitting discovery into the many facets of LILCO's new schools evacuation 1/ LILCO's Motion for Summary Disposition of Contention 25.C
("Role Conflict" of School Bus Drivers), dated October 22, 1987 (hereafter, "LILCO's Motion").
O proposal -- or, as the Board stated, "the plan's dimensions" --
LILCO has chosen, in its Response, to redefine the Bcard's discovery order. Indeed, LILCO unilaterally exempts itself from the scope of discovery imposed by the Board, by redefining that scope to focus only upon the very narrow and wholly abstract issue of whether there will be enough school bus drivers available in a Shoreham emergency. Egg Response at 2, 4, 7-11, 14-16, and 18-20.
As the Board recognized when it permitted discovery sufficient in scope to "confront" the "dimensions" of LILCO's new schools evacuation proposal, the "basic issue to be explored by the Board is whether, in light of the potential for role conflict, a sufficient number of school bus drivers can be relied upon to cerform emeroency evacuation duties." December 30 Order at 5 (emphasis added). Thus, a significant number of issues, i beyond the narrow and abstract issue of how many school bus drivers could potentially be available, are also raised by LILCO's new proposal. That is, as Contention 25.C itself makes clear, the availability of drivers cannot be analyzed, reviewed, or evaluated in a vacuum. Rather, whether sufficient drivers are available can only be addressed intelligently and meaningfully in the context of what duties they are expected to perform, and how, by what means and when they are to perform them. Thus, the "dimensions" of LILCO's new proposal must also be addressed in evaluating the issues raised by the remand of Contention 25.C.
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The issues raised by LILCO's new plan, then, which have never before been litigated or even addressed in the earlier
'. emergency planning litigation, include, but are not limited to:
the amount of time necessary to accomplish an evacuation of t school children under LILCO's new proposal; whether school l districts or superintendents would, or could, permit LILCO ,
employees to transport school children; whether, and how, a "single wave" evacuation could be implemented by LILCO workers, particularly in the absence of any identified reception centers i i to which the evacuated children would be taken; how LILCO '
employees responsible for transporting school children would be l
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notified and mobilized at preassigned bus yards; the impact on i i i
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i 562 additional emergency workers to mobilize, dispatch, [
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i the adequacy of facilities to accommodate these new workers; the !
- adequacy of equipment and other LERO staff to service and manage i 562 additional workers; whether there would be an adequate number f of buses available for use by LILCO's employees; the adequacy, i legality, and efficacy of LILCO's proposed training of school bus f drivers; tha value, if any, of LILCO's "commitment" to offer 1
training, equipment and compensation to school bus drivers; and I the impact of survey data and other evidence concerning role conflict on the adequacy and implementability of LILCO's new ,
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These, and potentially other, issues must be resolved in LILCO's favor, before it can be determined (a) whether the allegation of Contention 25.C -- that under the LILCO Plan, "LILCO will be incapable of implementing the . . . protective actions (of] early dismissal of schools . . . (and) evacuation of schools" -- is correct, or (b) that LILCO's proposal is workable and will adequately protect the health, safety and welfare of the school children within the Shoreham 10-mile EPZ, as required by 10 CFR SS 50.47(a)(1) and (b), as further alleged in the contention. Thus, LILCO distorts the Board's December 30 Order and the scope of discovery to be permitted in this proceeding by claiming that the only issue before the Board is the abstract and meaningless one of the number of school bus drivers which in theory could be available for duty in a Shoreham emergency. Egg, e.o., Response at 2.
Suffolk County, as well as the other parties in this proceeding, are entitled to conduct discovery into all issues relevant to determining whether LILCO's new schools evacuation proposal is implementable and workable. As will be demonstrated below, however, rather than permitting the discovery this Board has ordered and the parties are entitled to conduct, LILCO has categorically refused to provide relevant information to the County and has stonewalled its legitimate discovery requests.
Thus, for example, LILCO in its Response has frequently objected on so-called "relevancy" grounds to discovery requests which seek information that is directly relevant to LILCO's new schools
, evacuation proposal. In addition, LILCO has asserted privileges without providing adequate and required identifying information to enable the County, or this Board, to determine if the privilege is properly applicable to the materials in question; arbitrarily limited its "interpretation" of a request and thereby responded to only a part of the request; and merely
- asserted that, in its opinion, requests are "unduly burdensome,"
and thereupon refused to respond. We identify and address below the specific LILCO responses which are impcoper, and request this Board to order LILCO to respond completely and properly to each of the interrogatories as to which such improper responses were given.
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l A. LILCO's "General Answers and Obiections" l
We respond to LILCO's "General Answers and Objections to l Interrogatories, Definitions and Instructions" (Response at 1-2) as they are applied to particular interrogatoties. One general l
comment ic in order, however.
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in pertinent part, that:
! Whenever in the interrogatories there is
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-(l) his name; (2) his last known residence address; (3) his last known business address; (4) his last known employer; (5) his title or position; (6) his areas of responsibility; (7) his business, professional, or other relationship with LILCO; . . .
Attachment to Interrogatories at 3-4. LILCO's objection is that "disclosure of such information would constitute an invasion of privacy of those individuals, and may subject them to harassment and intimidation." Response at 1. LILCO reiterates this "invasion of privacy" objection, and alleges that disclosure of the requested information, "could, if used improperly, subject
[ identified persons) to harassment and intimidation" (agg Response at 4) with respect to Interrogatory 4. Sag also 1
j Response at 12 (with respect to Interrogatory 17).
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- As Suffolk County noted in footnote 1 to Interrogatory 4, 1 LILCO could protect the privacy of individuals by identifying
- them by number, or some other means, rather than by name. This would be consiotent with past practice in this case. At this time, we do not intend to seek Board intervention on this LILCO i
position, so long as LILCO somehow . identifies the persons for I
which information is sought. However, in not seeking an order
! compelling disclosure of individuals' names at this time, the county does not waive its right to seek and obtain such l
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information. In the future, it may become necessary to learn the identification of particular LILCO employees who are scheduled to participate in the implementation of LILCO's schools evacuation proposal, in order to depose them, or otherwise determine relevant facts. Presumably, counsel will be able to reach I
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information when it becomes necessary. If not, we will seek a Board order at that time. j
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! LILCO's Response is riddled with its assertions that the (
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l proceeding.1/ Such assertions, however, are wholly without merit i i j and must be fejected by this Board. As previously noted, LILCO l
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! Board in its December 30 Order. As a result, each and every i ;
j discovery request made by the County which falls outside of ;
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, e l County's legitimate discovery requests. LILCO is well aware that 1 evidence sought by discovery is considered relevant if it is reasonably likely to lead to evidence admissible at trial. Under l
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LILCO's specific objections will be discussed in Part IV of this Motion dealing with LILCO's "Specific Responses."
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this definition, all the County's interrogatory requests are ,
i relevant and must be responded to by LILCO.
LILCO has, in fact, conceded the relevance of much of the I
information sought by the County. In LILCO's "Second Set of l Interrogatories and Requests for Production of Documents Regarding Role Conflict of School Bus Drivers to Suffolk County j and New York State," dated January 13, 1988 (hereafter, "Second
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Set of Interrogatories"), LILCO requests information from the ;
i i State and the County which is virtually identical to the kind of f information sought by the County but refused to be provided by i LILCO.
, For example, in response to Interrogatories 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 regarding the training of LILCO-employed school bus i drivers, LILCO objects on relevance grounds by asserting that ;
j training of the LILCO employees who will serve as school bus ,
t drivers under LILCO's new proposal is beyond the scope of the
. i LILCO-defined issue of whether an adequate number of school bus
- drivers would be available to transport school children. ERA Responce at 9-11. Yet, in LILCO's Second Set of Interrogatories, i f
LILCO, in Interrogatories 26 and 27, requests the County to L Ii provide LILCO with information regarding the training of school l l
bus drivers not only in Suffolk County, but throughout New York
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training to evaluation of the adequacy of its proposal to evacuate school children. L f
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I The other interrogatories LILCO claims are not relevant seek information with respect to: the recruitment and qualification i
of the LILCO-employed school bus drivers;1/ the time estimates I f
for a school evacuation under LILCO's proposal;f/ the notification, mobilization, briefing, equipping, dispatching, and
. t coordination of the LILCO-employed school bus drivers;1/ the relocation centers to which school children would purportedly be
- transported by LILCO-employed school bus drivers;1/ and the routes over which the buses would travel during a Shoreham
! emergency.2/ For the reasons set forth below in connection with LILCO's "Specific Responses," these issues are all clearly relevant, and therefore discoverable, since they must necessarily l be considered and resolved in LILCO's favor before LILCO's new schools evacuation proposal can be deemed implementable or
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In the second part of its Response, LILCO provides individual answers to the County's Interrogatories. In many instances, as part of its answer to an interrogatory, LILCO
, simultaneously raises objections to, and places limitations upon, l the scope of the interrogatory being answered. For the reasons discussed below, the County submits that many of LILCO's I
objections must be overruled, and that LILCO should be directed to provide the information requested by the County's interrogatories. To aid the Board's analysis, each of the 4
interrogatories objected to by LILCO for which the County seeks to compel further answer is set forth below, along with LILCO's objection (s), and a discussion of why the objection (s) cannot be upheld.
1 A. LILCO's Response to Suffolk County Interroaatory 4
, Suffolk County Interrogatory 4 reads as follows:
- 4. Provide the following information with respect to each LILCO-employed LERO worker who l LILCO relies upon to implement its new schools
- evacuation proposal by serving as backup and i
primary school bus drivers:
(a) Name 1/
(b) Position with LILCO and
! (c) Qualifications / experience to serve as a j school bus driver.
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! of individual workers, the County has no objection to LILCO's designating, at this time, the LILCO-employed school bus drivers by l
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number (or some other means) rather than by name.
In response, LILCO stated that it objected to this Interrogatory "on the grounds that disclosure of such information could, if used improperly, subject those workers to harassment and intimidation." Response at 4. LILCO also objected to providing any identification of LERO school bus drivers on the grounda of relevancy. With respect to the experience of LILCO-employed school bus drivers, LILCO stated:
. . . it is LILCO's position that the previous experience of LERO workers who will act as school bus drivers is not relevant to this proceeding and, even if it were relevant, is Igg judicata for purposes of this remand. In the plan hearings, Suffolk County contended that LERO workers could not perform their emergency response jobs without prior experience. PID at 749. The Board found "no substantial evidence in support of the Suffolk County claim that the jobs cannot be performed properly without extensive experience." PID at 750. The Board found an even stronger case for LILCO in connection with LERO (general population) bus drivers. Id. Thus, the Board has already found that relevant prior experience is not essential for LERO Workers to perform their emergency jobs. Intervenors cannot raise the issue anew in this remand proceeding.
- Response at 5.
l LILCO's objections to Interrogatory 4 must be rejected.
Clearly, the identification of LILCO-employed bus drivers (if only by LILCO employee number) and their positions with LILCO are I
relevant to the issues of the availability of an adequate number of LILCO-employed bus drivers to implement LILCO's new schools
- evacuation proposal and the qualification of LILCO's employees 1
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to serve as bus drivers to transport school children during a Shoreham emergency. Certain positions at LILCO are, no doubt, less likely than others to adequately prepare or qualify employees to transport school children. It goes without saying that poorly qualified or inexperienced employees should not and could not be entrusted with the task of safely transporting school children.
Further, there is no basis for LILCO's refusal to provide such clearly relevant and discoverable information merely because a so-called "improper" use of such information can be conjured up by LILCO's counsel. Bald assertions of harassment and intimidation do not constitute a valid or legally cognizable objection to a perfectly proper discovery request, nor do they justify LILCO's refusal to respond to such a request, particularly since LILCO has not sought a protective order. The Board should order LILCO to respond.
With respect to LILCO's tag judicata argument made in response to Interrogatory 4(c), LILCO inaccurately references Lono Island Lichtino Co. (Shoreham Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1), LBP-85-12, 21 NRC 644, 744-56 (1985) (hereafter, the "PID"),
as support for the proposition that "the previous experience of LERO workers who will act as school bus drivers . . . is Egg iudicata for purposes of this remand." Response at 5. In the PID, the Licensing Board was not presented with the scenario faced by this Board: LILCO's proposal to use its own employees I
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to find and retrieve school buses, identify, locate and drive to particular schools in the EPZ, coordinate, as necessary, such activities with school authorities and parents, and then drive buses loaded with school children out of the EPZ during a Shoreham emergency. Thus, the PID Licensing Board neither considered nor ruled upon the issues presented in LILCO's new schools evacuation proposal, and the PID ruling referenced by LILCO in its Response has no Egg iudicata effect upon LILCO's new and unevaluated schools evacuation propoca'. The County is entitled to explore the qualifications, including the experience, of the LILCO employees who are relied upon by LILCO to implement its new schools evacuation proposal.
Moreover, contrary to LILCO's assertions (agg Response at 5), the PID did not resolve and find acceptable the adequacy of training of LILCO-employed emergency workers. The findings in the PID, referenced by LILCO, were contingent upon confirmation by a finding to be made by FEMA, after a graded exercise, that the LILCO Plan could be satisfactorily implemented with the training program submitted for review, and that LILCO possessed an adequate number of trained LERO workers. PID at 756.
Following the February 13, 1986 Exercise of the LILCO Plan, j
FEMA identified many "Deficiencies" and "Areas Requiring Corrective Action" in its Report. FEMA Post-Exercise Assessment, dated April 17, 1986 (hereafter, "FEMA Report"). Likewise, the l
NRC Staff, in its Proposed ?indings of Fact and Conclusions of l
Law on the February 13, 1986 Emergency Planning Exercise, dated September 11, 1987 (hereafter, "Staff's Proposed Findings"),
concluded tnat LERO workers had H21 been sufficiently trained to effectively deal with a radiological emergency at Shoreham.
Indeed, the Staff, like FEMA, concluded that the LILCO trainina proaram was fundamentally flawed. Staff's Proposed Findings, at 185-86. Thus, it is absurd for LILCO even to suggest that its training program has been found acceptable by the PID Licensing Board. No one has found LILCO's training program to be adequate, except perhaps LILCO.
For these reasons, the Board should direct LILCO to provide the information sought by the County in Interrogatory 4.
B. LILCO's Resoonse to Suffolk County Interroaatorv 7 Suffolk County Interrogatory 7 reads an follows:
- 7. Have any LILCO personnel declined to l participate in LILCO's new schools evacuation I
proposal? If so, please indicate the number who have declined to participate, and identify the reason (s) given for their declining to participate.
In response, LILCO contended that the information sought is not relevant, as it is beyond LILCO's interpretation of the scope of discovery permitted by the Board's December 30 Order. Egg the above discussion regarding LILCO's clain that the only issue in 1
this proceeding is whether there will be enough school bus drivers in a Shoreham emergency. LILCO further stated:
. . . the only proper inquiry will be focused on the LERO school bus drivers that LILCO has in fact recruited and trained, not on any LILCO personnel who may have declined to participate in the first place.
Response at 7.
LILCO's objections to Interrogatory 7 should be overruled, and LILCO should be ordered to provide the information sought by the County. The interrogatory is clearly reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence. There is therefore no legitimate basis for LILCO's refusal to provide the requested information.
As noted, LILCO has put into issue a new and previously unevaluated schools evacuation proposal, under which its employees are relied upon to transport school children during a Shoreham energency. LILCO conjured up this proposal, in its attempt to resolve Contention 25.C, which had been remanded to this Board for further proceedings by the Appeal Board in ALAB-832. Therefore, it is up to LILCO to prove that its proposal is workable and prcvides adequate protection of the school children within the EPZ.
This Board, in its December 30 Order, noted that LILCO's proposal "requires analysis and review." December 30 Order at 5.
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It therefore ordered that there be "an opportunity to confront" LILCO's proposal, through di;covery of the proposal's "dimensions." Accordingly, the County must be given leeway to
- inquire into whatever aspects of LILCO's proposal it chooses, so long as such inquiry is reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of evidence concerning the proposal's workability and
- l. adequacy. Viewed in this light, the County is entitled to discover whether LILCO employees have declined to participate in The County LILCO's proposal, and their reasons for doing so.
1 submits that such information could well provide support for the County's contention that persons expected to drive school buses
- during a Shoreham emergency would place family obligations ahead l of such driving obligations. The interrogatory at issue l
l certainly could lead to the discovery of relevant evidence, and therefore is clearly proper, i
Moreover, it should be noted that LILCO willingly provided
, information to the County in response to Interrogatory 8,1S/
1 l which sought the same information as Interrogatory 7, but with l respect to non-LILCO employees. By responding to Interrogatory 8, LILCO conceded the relevancy of the County's inquiry into the reasons that LILCO employees have declined to participate as I
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l lE/ Interrogatory 8 asked: Have any non-LILCO organizations or j personnel declined to participate in LILCO's new schools
, evacuation proposal? If so, please identify and, for individuals, specify the organizations which they represent or of which they are members, and identify the reason (s) given for their declining to participate.
For these reasons, the Board should direct LILCO to respond to Interrogatory 7.
C. LILCO's Response to Suffolk County Interroaatory lifa)
Suffolk County Interrogatory 11(a) requests LILCO tot
- 11. Provide a copy of all documents relating tos (a) The recruitment of LILCO employees to serve as school bus drivers under LILCO's schools evacuation proposal; In response, LILCO objected on relevancy grounds, claiming the information sought was beyond the scope of the Contention 25.C remand proceeding. Response at 9. For the reasons previously discussed, LILCO is wrong, and this Board should order LILCO to respond to the County's discovery request. How LILCO recruits its employees to serve as bus drivers is clearly relevant to the issue of whether LILCO has already or will in the future be able to find qualified employees willing to transport school children in the event of a Shoreham emergency. If LILCO's recruitment drive results in the designation of unqualified employees to serve as school bus drivers, or a number less than that which LILCO asserts is necessary, then clearly LILCC's proposal cannot adequately protect the health and safety of school children. Indeed, LILCO concedes the relevance of this issue by noting in response to a different interrogatory (Interrogatory 7) that it would be a "proper inquiry" for the
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County to "focus [] on the LERO school bus drivers that LILCO has in_fest recruited and trained . . ." Response at 7.
Nor can LILCO shield its recruitment process from discovery by claiming that the recruitment and selection of LERO workers were previously litigated issues. Egg Response at 9. LILCO's s
October 22 Motion revealed for the first time that to recruit the 562 additional LERO workers needed to implement LILCO's schools i evacuation proposal, LILCO had "(r]ecently conducted a general
" LILCO's Motion at 15, n.10.
recruitment drive . . . According to LILCO, approximately 550 LILCO employees signed up for LERO during this recruitment effort, but only about 400 of these recruits were projected by LILCO to be designated as auxiliary school bus drivers. The County is entitled to inquire into the parameters of this recent recruitment drive, which clearly differed from past LILCO efforts to recruit and select LERO workers by its sheer size and magnitude. Further, the County ,
l must be given the leeway to explore how LILCO intends to make up the shortfall in manpower which apparently exists within LERO, i particularly since 1$0 of those previously "recruited" were !
apparently deemed "unqualified" even by L'iLCO. Such info mation
! would be highly relevan';, and cannot be concealed by LILCO f rom
! the County or this Board. Accordingly, the Board should direct l LILCO to respond more fully to Interrogatory 11(a).
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LILCO employees to seryw as LERO school bun ;
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grounds, claiming that "[t]he training program was litigated previously and cannot be r0 litigated here." Response at 10. As
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respond to Interrogatory 4, a tag iudicata argument cannot l properly be raised in regard to the training of the LILCO- l employed school bus drivers. The Board did not find in the PID [
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in the PID, the issue of the training of LILCO-employed school
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subsequent to issuance of the PID, LILCO's training program was !
i found to be fundamentally flawed by not just the Governments, but ;
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f findings at 185-86. Thus, LILCO cannot serieusly claim that its ;
training program has previously been litigated and found j t
, acceptable (Ett Response at 5), thus barring the discovery sought i by the County. ,
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discovery requests relating to LILCO's training of the LERO school bus drivers. LILCO concedes that its employees relied [
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Further, as previously noted, LILCO acknowledges in its Response
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has recruited and trained would be proper. Id. at 7. Finally, i it simply cannot be seriously disputed that the adequacy of the f
training of the LILCO-employed school bus drivers is central to j l the issue of the implementability, workability and adequacy of I i
l: LILCO's new schools evacuation proposal, which are expressly i f raised by the remanded Contention 25 and subpart C. Without [
i adequate training, LILCO's employees would not be able to perform l appropriately or effectively during a Shoreham emergency. Thus, information regarding LILCO's training program is directly L i
relevant to whether LILCO's schools evacuation proposal provides l i
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Moreover, it must be kept in mind that it was LILCO itself which initially called into question the issue of the preassignment of its employees serving as school bus drivers to but yards. LILCO's Motion at 17. LILCO should not now be allowed to contest the relevancy of this issue. The Board should order LILCO to respond to Interrogatory 21(b).
F. LILCO's ResDonse to Suffolk County Interroaatory 24 Interrogatory 24 requests that LILCO:
- 24. Provide copies of all documents relating in any way to any time estimates for the evacuation of public school children from the 10-mile emergency planning zone in a single wave under LILCO's schools evacuation proposal.
In response, LILCO again objected on relevancy grounds.
How long it wo'21d take for LILCO to accomplish its proposed single-wave evacuation of public school children frem the 10-mile EPZ is clearly of paramount importance to any attempt to determine the "dimensions," not to mention the adequacy, of LILCO's new schools evacuation proposal. If the LILCO-employed school bus drivers cannot implement an evacuation of school children in a timely fashion, then LILCO's proposal is patently inadequate and must be rejected by this Board as failing to satisfy the regulatory requirements cited in Contention 25. Egg al%2 10 CFR SS 50.47(a)(1), 50.47(b)(10) and NUREG 0654 S II.J.10.1. Therefore, it is absurd for LILCO to assert that the County should be barred from the information sought in Interrogatory 24, and the Board should order LILCO to provide the requested information.ll/
11/ This conclusion is not changed by LILCO's belief that the calculation of evacuation time estimates for the schools is a matter which can be confirmed by the Staff, rather *.han this Board. Response at 17. As LILCO acknowledges in its Response, the Licensing Board directed LILCO to calcultte such time estimates in its Concluding Partial Initial Decisicn, Lono Island Lichtino Co. (Shoreham Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1), LBP-85-31, 22 NRC 410, 430 (1985). Nowhere, however, did the Board imply that this matter is to be only a Staff confirmation item.
Indeed, such would be contrary to NRC precedent, which makes clear that only minor, procedural deficiencies or issues where on-the-record proceedings would rot be helpful for resolution of the issue can properly be delegated to the Staff for resolution.
Egg Cleveland Electric Illuminatino Co. (Perry Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2), ALAB-298, 2 NRC 730, 737 (1975);
Consolidated Edison Comoany of New York (Indian Point Station, Unit No. 2), CLI-74-23, 7 AEC 947, 951-52 (1974); Washincton Public Power Sucolv System (Hanford No. 2 Nuclear Power Plant),
ALAB-113, 6 AEC 251, 252 (1973). Egg also Public Service Company
- cf Indiana (Marble Hill Generating Station, Units 1 and 2),
ALAB-461, 7 NRC 313, 318 (1978) (Staff Counsel urges that factual (footnote continued)
G. LILCO's Response to Suffolk County Interrogatory 26 Interrogatory 26 requests that LILCO:
- 26. Provide a copy of all documents, including ,
correspondence and drafts, concerning the impact on the implementability of LILCO'u offsite emerge-cy plan of LILCO's new schools evacuation proposal, including, but not limited to, the impact of having to notify, mobilize, brief, equip, dispatch, communicate with, coordinate and control, and/or manage as many as 562 additional LERO personnel.
In response, LILCO objected on relevancy grounds. In addition, LILCO claimed that to the extent Interrogatory 26 sought documents prepared by or on behalf of LILCO counsel, such documents would be protected by the attorney-client privilege and/or the attorney work product doctrine. Response at 18.
LILCO's objections are without merit and should be rejected.
First, to at least some extent, LILCO concedes the relevance of the information sought in Interrogatory 26 in its response to Interrogatory 23, which requests the identification of all persons relied upon by LILCO to notify, mobilize, brief, equip, dispatch, coordinate, control and/or manage the LILCO-employed school bus drivers during a Shoreham emergency. In committing to reveal the job titles of the persons who will perform these (footnote continued from previous page) determinations related to the issue of an applicant's financial obligatione should not be left to the Staff because "delegating open matters to the staff for post-hearing resolution is a practice frowned upon by both the Commission and this (Appeal)
Board"). The calculation of time estimate: for tne schools within the EPZ is not such an issue, particularly in light of LILCO's new schools evacuation proposal, which relies upcn LILCO employees to serve as bus drivers for the schools.
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functions, and to explain how the functions are to be performed, LILCO acknowledges the relevancy of these issues to any i evaluation of the implementability and adequacy of its schools '
avacuation proposal.
LILCO's relevancy objection should be rejected for a second reason. This Board, in determining the adequacy of LILCO's schools evacuation proposal, cannot close its eyes to the fact that LILCO's new proposal increases significantly the size of LERO and also the logistical problems invariably experienced by all organizations. More specifically, in ruling on the issues raised by contention 25.C, the Board will be required to evaluate such matters as whether 562 additional LERO personnel could be notified, mobilized, briefed, equipped, dispatched, communicated with, coordinated, controlled and managed, without adversely impacting LILCO's proposed capability to implement school evacuations, not to mention the impact of an additional 562 persons upon the effectiveness or implementability of LILCO's Plan as a whole. Suffolk County is therefore entitled to the information requested by Interrogatory 26.
I Further, LILCO's claim of attorney-client privilege nd/or t atterney work product doctrine is not a proper response to Interrogatory 26; nor is it the proper way to assert a privilege I
as the basis for refusing to respond to a valid discovery request. A party asserting either an attorney-client privilege,
! or the qualified privilege provided by the attorney work product doctrine, bears the burden of establishing the existence of the privilege. Egg Lono Island Lichtino Co._ (Shoreham Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1), LBP"82-82, 16 NRC 1144, 1153 (1982). Earlier in this proceeding the Board held that:
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privilege being asserted and (3) the precise reasons why the party believes the privilege to i apply to such documents.
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Egg also Public Service Co. of New Hamoshire, 17 NRC at 495; Duke ,
Power Comoany, 16 NRC at 1944.
Matter either in the possession of attorneys or produced by, or at the request of, attorneys may be discoverable. The l attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine cannot be
! used to shield discoverable facts. Egg Lono Island Lichtina Co., j 16 NRC at 1158, citina Uoichn Co. v. U.S., 449 U.S. 383, 395 t (1981). LILCO cannot simply make a general objection to a valid discovery request and refuse to provide the information necessary to enable the other parties, or this Board, to determine whether a privilege is properly claimed, or whether, in fact, Suffolk County is entitled to obtain the requested materials.
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- 8. LILCO's Response to Suffolk County Interroaatories 29 and 30 Interrogatory 29 reads as follows:
- 29. Identify any and all locations to which school children would purportedly be transported by LILCO-employed school bus drivers in the event of a Shoreham emergency.
Interrogatory 30 requests LILCO to:
- 30. Identify all routes which might have to be driven by LILCO-employed school bus drivers in transporting school children during a Shoreham emergency.
LILCO objected to both interrogatories on relevancy grounds. In addition, LILCO asserted that the information sought by Interrogatory 29 is "a Staff confirmation issue, not a litigation issue." Response at 19-20.
LILCO's objections should be overruled for the reasons stated above with respect to the same objections raised concerning Interrogatory 24. The information sought is clearly relevant and subject to discovery by the County. It is absurd to suggest that this Board could rule on the implementability of LILCO's schools evacuation proposal -- as required in ruling on Contention 25.C -- without knowing the locations to which school
children would purportedly be transported by LILCO employees.12/
Similarly, information regarding the routes over which the LILCO school buses would travel is essential to any meaningful appraisal of the adequacy or implementability of LILCO's proposal. Such information could lead to relevant and admissible
, evidence concerning the feasibility of LILCO's entire proposal to 1
evacuate school children in a single wave during a Shoreham emergency. For example, if LILCO has ideratified no locations to which schcol children would be transported, its proposal is obviously incapable of implementation. Moreover, if the routes over which LILCO's buses would travel would be congested by other evacuating traf fic, the adequacy and implementability of LII.CO's proposal would be seriously called into question.
Accordingly, the information sought by Interrogatories 29 and 30 is clearly relevant and necessary if the County is to j , discover and marshall the relevant facts regarding LILCO's j schools evacuation proposal. The Doard should not allow LILCO to
- avoid responding by claiming a groundless relevancy objection.
LILCO should be ordered to respond.
l 12/ It is equally absurd to assert that the identification of
! such locations is a Staff confirmation issue. The parties are entitled to know where LILCO intends to transport the school children at issue in this proceeding. Such information is relevant, since it is only when the locations are identified that inquiry can be made into the adequacy of the locations for sheltering / housing the school children, and assessment of the
- time estimates for their transportation to such locations can be j made. For the reasons previously stated in response to
- Interrogatory 24, it is baseless for LILCO to assert that such matters can be left to Staff confirmation.
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Interrogatory 31 requests LILCO tos
- 31. Provide a copy of all maps which LILCO-employed school bus drivers are purportedly to be given as part of their training.
4 LILCO objected on relevancy grounds. For the reasons previously stated, especially with respect to LILCO's response to
? Interrogatory 30, LILCO's objection should be rejected. The maps sought by the County were referenced in LILCO's October 22 Motion i
(at page 17), and presumably would provide further information
- regarding the routes over which the LILCO buses would travel in the event of a Shoreham emergency. They, in addition, apparently 1
will be relied upon by LILCO in arguing that its new schools evacuation proposal could be implemented. The information sought
! by Interrogatory 31 is therefore clearly relevant to an i
) evaluation of the workability and adequacy of LILCO's schools evacuation proposal. The Board should compel L LCO to respond, l
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LILCO's objections are insufficient, and should be rejected.
Objections to interrogatories must be specific. The objecting party bears the burden of demonstrating that the interrogatory should not be answered. Duke Power Co., 16 NRC 1937. Thus, LILCO's objections must be made with particularity, specifying the grounds, if any, for objecting, rather than claiming generally that the interrogatory is "overly broad" or "unduly burdensome."
l Further, Interrogatory 32 is specific and limited in nature.
It seeks documents relating to LILCO's new schools evacuation
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l interrogatories. Such documents clearly are relevant, as even LILCO concedes in asserting its objection. There is no basis for LILCO's assertion that the interrogatory "is a blunderbuss," and such hyperbolic assertions cannot be countenanced as the basis for refusing to respond to a legitimate discovery request. Ett Lono Island Lichtino Co., 16 NRC at 1155.
Finally, LILCO's objection on attorney-client and/or work product grounds is an improper response to Interrogatory 32 and does not constitute the proper assertion of such a privilege for
the reasons stated above with respect to LILCO's response to Interrogatory 26. Accordingly, LILCO should be compelled to respond.
IV. Reauest for Emnedited mennonse and Dispositlog Pursuant to the Board's December 30 Order, discovery in the Contention 25.C remand proceeding was to be permitted for 30 days, commencing with receipt of the Board's Order. December 30 Order at 5-6. The County's Interrogatories were filed on January 4. Thus far, LILCO has provided no documents to the County (even in response to those requests it did n21 object to) and, as demonstrated above, it has otherwise stonewalled the County's legitimate discovery requests by making unsupportable objections and refusing to produce documents altogether.
Moreover, neither the NRC Staff nor FEMA has thus far responded at all to discovery requests including interrogatories, also filed by the County on January 4.13/ With only a little over a week left before the 30-day period for discovery ordered by the Board comes to an end, this Board must realize that an extension of its discovery order will almost certainly be required.
Although the County has noticed the depositions of the three witnesses identified by LILCO at this time (but not Staff or FEMA witnesses, since they have not yet even been made known to the 13/ Counsel for the NRC Staff advised the County last week that ;
the Staff had "forgotten" the County's discovery requests and that, rather than responding on January 19, when responses were due under the NRC's rules, the Staff would "attempt to respond" sometime during the week of January 25 -- if possible, by January 26.
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County), meaningful and productive depositions cannot be taken ;
l until LILCO has produced all documents requested by the County, l and there has been sufficient time to review and analyze their 1
contents. Thus, it may be necessary to postpone the noticed depositions. In any event, additional time is needed for the j i
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.! identification of witnesses it expects to call on its behalf, i after it has received substantive responses to its legitimate
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Suffolk County is serving this Motion by Federal Express on 3 LILCO and New York State, and by hand delivery on the Board, the l I
j NRC Staff, and FEMA. In order that the depositions of LILCO's j witnesses and any other further discovery may be readily !
t completed, Suffolk County requests that the Board require 1
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i Thursday, January 28, 1988, and that the Board rule on this '
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For all the foregoing reasons, Suffolk County submits that l I i
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Respectfully submitted, ;
E. Thomas Boyle I Suffolk County Attorney Bui'. ding 158 North County Complex Veterans Memorial Highway Hauppauge, New York 11788 k
Michael S. Miller J. Lynn Taylor KIRKPATRICK & LOCKHART 1800 M Street, N.W. i South Lobby-9th Floor :
Washington, D.C. 20036-5891 Attorneys for Suffolk County 1ltHL+D hreinD C!b Fabian G. Palomino ;
Richard J. Zahnleuter Special Counsel to the Governor of the State of New York Executive Chamber, Room 229 ,
Capitol Building l Albany, New York 12224 Attorney for Mario M. Cuomo, I Governor of the State of New York
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA T8 FG -1 PS :01 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Hgipre the Atomic Safety and Licensino BoandFICE 0; Stu riAo UgCKEI N 4 SFPvicf.
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of SUFFOLK COUNTY'S MOTION FOR ORDER COMPELLING LILCO TO RESPOND TO SUFFOLK COUNTY'S FIRST SET OF INTERROGATORIES AND REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS have beer, served on the following this 25th day of January, 1988 by U.S. mail, first class, except as noted:
James P. Gleason, Chairman
- Mr. Frederick J. Shon
- Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Atomic Safety and Licensing Doard U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Washington, D.C. 20555 James P. Gleason, Chairman William R. Cumming, Esq.
- 513 Gilmoure Drive Spence W. Perry, Esq.
Silver Spring, Maryland 20901 Office of General Counsel Federal Emergency Management Agency Dr. Jerry R. Kline
- 500 C Street, S.W., Room 840 Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Washington, D.C. 20472 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 W. Taylor Reveley, III, Esq. **
Hunton & Williams Fabian G. Palomino, Esq. ** P.O. Box 1535 Richard J. Zahnleuter, Esq. 707 East Main Street Special Counsel to the Governor Richmond, Virginia 23212 Executive Chamber, Rm. 229 State Capitol Albany, New York 12224
i Joel Blau, Esq. Anthony F. Earley, Jr., Esq.
Director, Utility Intervention General Counsel l N.Y. Consumer Protection Board Long Island Lighting Company }
Suite 1020 175 East Old Country Road !
Albany, New York 12210 Hicksville, New York 11801 l i
E. Thomas Boyle, Esq. Ms. Elisabeth Talbbi, Clerk i Suffolk County Attorney Suffolk County Legislature Bldg. 158 North County Complex Suffolk County Legislature !
Veterans Memorial Highway Office Building (
Hauppauge, New York 11788 Veterans Memorial Highway l Hauppauge, New York 11788 '
1 Mr. L. F. Britt Stephen B. Latham, Esq. l Long Island Lighting Company Twomey, Latham & Shea l Shoreham Nuclear Power Station 33 West Second Street North Country Road Riverhead, New York 11901 ;
Wading River, New York 11792 [
Ms. Nora Bredes Docketing and Service Section Executive Director Office of the Secretary ;
Shoreham Opponents Coalition U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comm. j 195 East Main Street 1717 H Street, N.W. :
Smithtown, New York 11787 Washington, D.C. 20555 [
i Alfred L. Nardelli, Esq. Hon. Patrick G. Halpin i New York State Department of Law Suffolk County Executive !
120 Broadway, 3rd Floor H. Lee Dennison Building l Room 3-116 Veterans Memorial Highway New York, New York 10271 Hauppauge, New York 11788 l MHB Technical Associates Dr. Monroe Schneider [
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Suite K P.O. Box 231 San Jose, California f 95125 Wading River, New York 11792 !
"r. Jay Dunkleburger George E. Johnson, Esq.
- New York State Energy Office Edwin J. Reis, Esq.
Agency Building 2 Office of the General Counsel Empire State Plaza U.S. Nuclear Regalatory Comm.
Albany, New York 12223 Washington, D.C. 20555 f
t David A. Brownlee, Esq. Mr. Stuart Diamond I Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Business / Financial (
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