ML20162A102
| ML20162A102 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | HI-STORE, Consolidated Interim Storage Facility |
| Issue date: | 06/04/2020 |
| From: | Curran D, Goldstein M Beyond Nuclear, Emory Univ School of Law, Harmon, Curran, Harmon, Curran, Spielberg & Eisenberg, LLP, Turner Environmental Law Clinic |
| To: | Andrew Averbach NRC/OGC, US Federal Judiciary, Court of Appeals, for the District of Columbia Circuit |
| References | |
| 1846335, 20-1187 | |
| Download: ML20162A102 (69) | |
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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT
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BEYOND NUCLEAR, INC.,
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Petitioner,
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Case No. ____________
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- v.
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR
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REGULATORY COMMISSION and the
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UNTIED STATES OF AMERICA,
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Respondents.
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PETITION FOR REVIEW Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 2239, 28 U.S.C. § 2344, 5 U.S.C. § 702, 42 U.S.C. § 10139, Fed. R. App. P. 15(a), and D.C. Cir. Rule 15(a), Petitioner Beyond Nuclear, Inc., through its undersigned counsel, hereby petitions for review of the following orders by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the NRC or Commission):
A Commission Order issued on October 29, 2018 (2018 Order) (attached as Exhibit A) and Memorandum and Order CLI-20-04, issued on April 23, 2020 (CLI 04) (attached as Exhibit B).
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2 Petitioner seeks review of the 2018 Order and CLI-20-04 on the grounds that they violate the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 10222(a)(5)(A) and 10143, and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. §§ 706(2)(A) and (C). Petitioner contends that in the 2018 Order, the NRC violated the NWPA and the APA by refusing to dismiss an administrative proceeding that contemplated issuance of a license permitting federal ownership of used reactor fuel at a commercial fuel storage facility. Petitioner also contends that the NRC violated the NWPA and the APA in CLI-20-04 by ruling that the application under review in the proceeding was lawful and by refusing to grant Petitioner a hearing on the question of whether the NRC is prohibited by the APA from issuing a license that contains provisions that would violate the NWPA if implemented.
Accordingly, Petitioner respectfully requests this Court review, reverse, and vacate the 2018 Order and CLI-20-04, order the dismissal of the license application under review, and grant any other remedies that may be appropriate.
This filing is timely because it is made within the 60-day period established by the Hobbs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2344, for bringing a petition for judicial review of an agency action. CLI-20-04 was decided within the last 60 days, and it also renders final the 2018 Order.
Venue is appropriate within the D.C. Circuit pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2343.
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3 Respectfully Submitted,
___/signed electronically by/__
Diane Curran Harmon, Curran, Spielberg, & Eisenberg, L.L.P.
1725 DeSales Street N.W., Suite 500 Washington, D.C. 20036 240-393-9285 Email: dcurran@harmoncurran.com
___/signed electronically by/__
Mindy Goldstein Turner Environmental Law Clinic Emory University School of Law 1301 Clifton Road Atlanta, GA 30322 404-727-3432 Email: magolds@emory.edu Counsel for Petitioner June 4, 2020 USCA Case #20-1187 Document #1846335 Filed: 06/04/2020 Page 3 of 69
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT
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BEYOND NUCLEAR, INC.,
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Petitioner,
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Case No. ___________
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- v.
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR
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REGULATORY COMMISSION and the
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UNTIED STATES OF AMERICA,
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Respondents.
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CERTIFICATE AS TO PARTIES, RULING, AND RELATED CASES Pursuant to D.C. Circuit Rules 27(a)(4) and 28(a)(1)(A), counsel for Petitioner Beyond Nuclear, Inc., certifies as follows:
- 1. Parties, Intervenors, and Amici Curiae Petitioner is Beyond Nuclear, Inc. Respondents are the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or Commission) and the United States of America. Currently, there are no other parties to the case.
- 2. Rulings Under Review Petitioner seeks review of two NRC rulings: Memorandum and Order CLI-20-04, issued April 23, 2020; and an Order issued on October 29, 2018. Both orders were made in Docket No. 72-1051. The Federal Register published notice of Docket No. 72-1051 on July 16, 2018 at 83 Fed. Reg. 32,919.
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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT
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BEYOND NUCLEAR, INC.,
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Petitioner,
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Case No. __________
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- v.
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR
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REGULATORY COMMISSION and the
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UNTIED STATES OF AMERICA,
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Respondents.
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PETITIONERS RULE 26.1 DISCLOSURE Pursuant to Fed. R. App. P. 26.1 and D.C. Cir. Rule 26.1, Petitioner Beyond Nuclear, Inc., states that it is a nonprofit organization that has no parent companies.
No publicly held companies have a ten percent or greater ownership interest in Beyond Nuclear.
Respectfully Submitted,
___/signed electronically by/__
Diane Curran Harmon, Curran, Spielberg, & Eisenberg, L.L.P.
1725 DeSales Street N.W., Suite 500 Washington, D.C. 20036 240-393-9285 Email: dcurran@harmoncurran.com June 4, 2020 20-1187 USCA Case #20-1187 Document #1846335 Filed: 06/04/2020 Page 5 of 69
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I, Diane Curran, hereby certify that on June 4, 2020, I served Petitioners Petition for Review; Rule 26.1 Disclosure Statement; and Certificate as to Parties, Rulings, and Related Cases on the following by first-class mail and by posting them on the Courts ECF system:
William Barr, Attorney General (registered mail, return receipt. requested)
United States Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division 950 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20530-001 Marian Zobler, General Counsel Office of the General Counsel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 Annette L. Vietti-Cook, Secretary U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Mail Stop O-16G4 Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 Jay E. Silberg, Esq. (counsel to Holtec International)
Pillsbury Winthrop, Shaw Pittman, LLP 1200 Seventeenth St. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
___/signed electronically by/__
Diane Curran Harmon, Curran, Spielberg, & Eisenberg, L.L.P.
1725 DeSales Street N.W., Suite 500 Washington, D.C. 20036 240-393-9285 Email: dcurran@harmoncurran.com USCA Case #20-1187 Document #1846335 Filed: 06/04/2020 Page 6 of 69
EXHIBIT A USCA Case #20-1187 Document #1846335 Filed: 06/04/2020 Page 7 of 69
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
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In the Matters of
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HOLTEC INTERNATIONAL
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Docket No. 72-1051
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(HI-STORE Consolidated Interim Storage
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Facility)
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INTERIM STORAGE PARTNERS LLC
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Docket No. 72-1050
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(WCS Consolidated Interim Storage Facility)
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ORDER On July 16, 2018, the NRC provided notice in the Federal Register of Holtec Internationals application to construct and operate a consolidated interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel.1 Separately, on August 29, 2018, the NRC provided notice in the Federal Register of Interim Storage Partners application to construct and operate a consolidated interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel.2 On September 14, 2018, Beyond Nuclear, Fasken Land and Minerals, and Permian Basin Land and Royalty Owners filed motions to dismiss both the Holtec and Interim Storage Partners applications.3 These groups argue that the NRC cannot, as a threshold matter, issue 1 Holtec International HI-STORE Consolidated Interim Storage Facility for Interim Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel, 83 Fed. Reg. 32,919 (July 16, 2018).
2 Interim Storage Partners Waste Control Specialists Consolidated Interim Storage Facility, 83 Fed. Reg. 44,070 (Aug. 29, 2018), corrected, 83 Fed. Reg. 44,608 (Aug. 31, 2018) (noting that the correct deadline to file intervention petitions is October 29, 2018). Interim Storage Partners is a joint venture of Orano USA and Waste Control Specialists.
3 Beyond Nuclear filed its own motion to dismiss. Beyond Nuclear, Inc.s Motion to Dismiss Licensing Proceedings for Hi-Store Consolidated Interim Storage Facility and WCS Consolidated Interim Storage Facility for Violation of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (Sept. 14, USCA Case #20-1187 Document #1846335 Filed: 06/04/2020 Page 8 of 69 licenses to Holtec or Interim Storage Partners because both applications are contrary to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA). Specifically, the groups argue that both applications contemplate the storage of Department of Energy-titled spent fuel in violation of various NWPA provisions.
The NRCs regulations allow interested persons to file petitions to intervene and requests for hearing in which they can raise concerns regarding a particular license application.
These regulations do not, however, provide for the filing of threshold motions to dismiss a license application; instead, interested persons must file petitions to intervene and be granted a hearing. I therefore deny both motions to dismiss on procedural grounds, without prejudice to the underlying merits of the legal arguments embedded within the motions.
Beyond Nuclear also filed hearing petitions in the Holtec and Interim Storage Partners proceedings that incorporated by reference the NWPA arguments that it raised in its motion to dismiss and identified those arguments as proposed contentions.4 I am separately referring these hearing requestsas well as other hearing requests challenging the applicationsto the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel (ASLBP) for the establishment of a Board to consider all hearing requests in accordance with the hearing procedures set forth in 10 C.F.R. §2.309.
And, in accordance with 10 C.F.R. § 2.346(i), I am referring the motion from Fasken Land and 2018) (ADAMS Accession No. ML18257A318). Fasken Land and Minerals joined with Permian Basin Land and Royalty Owners to file a motion to dismiss that is substantially similar to Beyond Nuclears motion. Motion of Fasken Land and Minerals and Permian Basin Land and Royalty Owners to Dismiss Licensing Proceedings for Hi-Store Consolidated Interim Storage Facility and WCS Consolidated Interim Storage Facility (Sept. 14, 2018) (ML18257A330). Both the NRC Staff and respective applicants filed oppositions to the motions, and Beyond Nuclear, Fasken Land and Minerals, and Permian Basin Land and Royalty Owners then filed replies.
4 Beyond Nuclear, Inc.s Hearing Request and Petition to Intervene (Sept. 14, 2018)
(ML18257A324) (Holtec docket); Beyond Nuclear, Inc.s Hearing Request and Petition to Intervene (Oct. 3, 2018) (ML18276A242) (Interim Storage Partners docket). Fasken Land and Minerals and Permian Basin Land and Royalty Owners have not filed related hearing petitions in either docket.
USCA Case #20-1187 Document #1846335 Filed: 06/04/2020 Page 9 of 69 Minerals and Permian Basin Land and Royalty Owners to the ASLBP for consideration under
§ 2.309.
This Order is issued under my authority in 10 C.F.R. § 2.346(c), (g), (i), and (j).
For the Commission NRC SEAL
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Annette L. Vietti-Cook Secretary of the Commission Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 29th day of October 2018 USCA Case #20-1187 Document #1846335 Filed: 06/04/2020 Page 10 of 69
EXHIBIT B USCA Case #20-1187 Document #1846335 Filed: 06/04/2020 Page 11 of 69
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Diane Curran Harmon, Curran, Spielberg, & Eisenberg, L.L.P.
1725 DeSales Street N.W., Suite 500 Washington, D.C. 20036 240-393-9285 Email: dcurran@harmoncurran.com June 4, 2020 USCA Case #20-1187 Document #1846335 Filed: 06/04/2020 Page 69 of 69