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Transcript of 981223 Affirmation Session in Rockville,Md
ML20198G483
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Issue date: 12/23/1998
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REF-10CFR9.7 NUDOCS 9812290086
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION AFFIRMATION SESSION l

PUBLIC MEETING i

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i Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commission Hearing Room i

11555 Rockville Pike Rockville, Maryland l Wednesday, December 23,1998 l

The Commission met in open session, pursuant to notice, at 9:00 a.m.,

Shirley Ann Jackson, Chairman, presiding.

i COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: ,

SHIRLEY ANN JACKSON, Chairman of the Commission GRETA J. DICUS, Member of the Commission .

h i NILS J. DIAZ, Member of the Commission (VIA TELEPHONE)

EDWARD McGAFFIGAN, JR., Member of the Commission

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JEFFREY S. MERRIFIELD, Member of the Commission '

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2 STAFF AND PRESENTERS SEATED AT THE COMMISSION TABLE:

JOHN C. HOYLE, Secretary JOSEPH R. GRAY, Associate General Counsel for Licensing and Regulation l

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3 DISCLAIMER This is an unofficial transcript of a meeting of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission on December 23.19])H in the Commission's office at One White Flint North, Rockville, Maryland. The meeting was open to public attendance and i

observation. This transcript has not been reviewed, corrected or edited, and it may I contain inaccuracies.

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I The transcript is intended solely for general information purposes. As l l

provided by 10 CFR 9.103, it is not part of the formal or informal record of decision of i the matters discussed. Expressions of opinion in this transcript do not necessarily reflect final determination or beliefs. No pleading or other paper may be filed with the Commission in any proceeding as the result of, or addressed to, any statement or argument contained herein, except as the Commission may authorize.

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PROCEEDINGS

[9:10 a.m.]

CHAIRMAN JACKSON: Good morning ladies and gentlemen. This is an Affirmation Session. We have one item to come before us this morning. Before I ask the Secretary to lead us through the item for affirmation, do any of my colleagues have any opening comments they wish to make?

VOICE: No.

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CHAIRMAN JACKSON: If not, Mr. Secretary, please proceed.

MR. HOYLE: Thank you, Chairman Jackson. Let me reconfirm that Commissioner Diaz is on the phone.

CHAIRMAN JACKSON: Oh, good morning.

COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Good morning.

CHAIRMAN JACKSON: How are you? l COMMISSIONER DIAZ: I'm fine. (unintelligible)

COMMISSIONER MCGAFFIGAN: Good moming.

COMMISSIONER DICUS: Good morning.

1 COMMISSIONER MERRIFIELD: Good morning.

COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Good morning.

MR. HOYLE: We have one item this morning, it's SECY-98-283. It concems the Baltimore Gas & Electric Company (Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2). The Commission is being asked in this paper to act on an Order

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5 responding to an appeal of LBP-98-26 by the National Whistleblowers Center. The l Licensing Board Order had dismissed the proceeding on the ground that the Center i

had failed to submit contentions by October 1 deadline prescribed by the Board and it failed to satisfy the Commission's standards for acceptance of late filed contentions.

Each of you has voted to approve the Memorandum and Order with revisions which affirms the Board's dismissal of the proceeding. Let me have you affirm your votes, please.

l CHAIRMAN JACKSON: Aye.

i COMMISSIONER DICUS: Aye.

COMMISSIONER McGAFFIGAN: Aye.

COMMISSIONER MERRIFIELD: Aye.

j COMMISSIONER DIAZ: Aye.

l MR. HOYLE: Thank you, Commissioner Diaz.

! CHAIRMAN JACKSON. Is there anything else to come before us today?

Mr. Secretary?

MR. HOYLE. No, there isn't, Chairman Jackson.

l CHAIRMAN JACKSON: If not, we're adjourned. Thank you.

MR. HOYLE. Thank you.

[Whereupon, at 9:13 a.m., the affirmation session was adjourned.]

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l CERTIFICATE >

This is to certify that the attached description of a meeting of the U.S. Nuclear

Regulatory Commission entitled

TITLE OF MEETING: Affirmation Session l (PUBLIC MEETING) l l

PLACE OF MEETING: Rockville, Maryland

' DATE OF MEETING: Wednesday, December 23,1998 I

j was held as herein appears, is a true and accurate record of the meeting, and that this is the original transcript thereof taken stenographically by me, thereafter reduced to typewriting by me or under the direction of the court reporting company. j l

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