ML20204C972
| ML20204C972 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Harris  |
| Issue date: | 03/15/1999 |
| From: | Oneill J CAROLINA POWER & LIGHT CO., SHAW, PITTMAN, POTTS & TROWBRIDGE |
| To: | Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
| References | |
| CON-#199-20120 99-762-02-LA, 99-762-2-LA, LA, NUDOCS 9903240047 | |
| Download: ML20204C972 (5) | |
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s 2'6 / 2D DOCKETED USNRC 9 tim 22 P3 :53 March 15,1999 OF' UNITED STATES OF AMERICA RL NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSIOADJ Before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board In the Mr.tter of
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ASLBP No. 99-762-02-LA APPLICANT'S RESPONSE TO BCOC'S MOTION TO RELOCATE PREHEARING CONFERENCE Applicant Carolina Power & Light Company (" Applicant" or "CP&L") hereby submits its response to petitioner Board of Commissioners of Orange County, North Carolina's ("BCOC") " Motion to Relocate Prehearing Conference" (" Mot. Rel.") dated March 9,1999. In its motion, BCOC requests the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board
(" Board") to relocate the prehearing conference from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's offices in Rockville, Maryland to a site in the vicinity of the Harris Nuclear Plant ("HNP"). BCOC offered two potential locations for the prehearing conference during the week of May 10,1999: the Old Courthouse in Hillsborough, and the Orange County Southern Human Savices Building in Chapel Hill. Both facilities are located in Orange County, North Carolina, and HNP is located in adjoining Wake County, North Carolina.
Applicant supports BCOC's request to relocate the prehearing conference to a site 1
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in the vicinity of HNP.' CP&L believes that members of the public who wish to view the prehearing conference should be afforded an opportunity to do so. Relocating the prehearing conference to a site in the vicinity of HNP will afford both members of the public as well as representatives and employees of CP&L a readily available opportunity 1
to observe the prehearing conference.
l In the event the Board's schedule does not permit accommodation of BCOC's Motion to Relocate, in the alternative, Applicant suggests that arrangements be made for j
a videoconference of the prehearing conferenc: by connecting one or more of the locations recommended by BCOC or other locations in the vicinity of HNP. Applicant is aware that videoconferencing has been used successfully in other agency proceedings to provide the public with a first-hand view of the proceeding.
i Applicant requests that the prehearing conference, if relocated, be held on May 13,1999. This date will permit senior representatives of CP&L to attend the proceeding who otherwise would be unable to attend because of previous commitments and conflicts prior to that date. CP&L believes that attendance by senior representatives is appropriate and important if the prehearing conference is held in North Carolina. C_f.10 C.F.R. Part f
2, Appendix A.l(b)(discussing interest of the parties in setting time and place for conferences in initial construction and operating license proceedings). Counsel for I CP&L does take issue with the predicate for the request that the " proposed license amendment.. ha[s]
significant implications for the health and wedare of the r, ents of the Shearon liarris EPZ." Mot. Rel. at
- 1. CP&L has shown, and will continue t, show in this proceeding, that spent fuel storage at ilNP is consistent with the health and welfare of the citizens living in the vicinity of HNP. In fact, the NRC itself has recently recched the same conclusion, determining that storage of old spent fuel has " greatly reduced off-site radiological consequences" and, from a public health and safety standpoint, requires no off-site emergency planning at all. M 63 Fed. Reg. 48,768,48,770 (1998).
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r Applicant has discussed this request with counsel for t 1COC and the NRC staff.
Neither has any objection to Applicant's request that the prehearing conference, if relocated, be held on May 13,1999.
Applicant prefers that the prehearing conference, if relocated, be held at the Old Courthouse in Hillsborough, North Carolina. As a courthouse, the Old Courthouse will I
provide the appropriate logistics and decorum to host an adjudicatory proceeding of this nature. Counsel for CP&L has discussed this request to use the Old Courthouse with counsel for BCOC and the NRC staff. Neither BCOC nor the NRC staff have any objection to this request, and counsel for BCOC has determined that the Old Courthouse is available to hold the prehearing conference on May 13,1999.
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411 Fayetteville Street Mall Washington, D.C. 20037-1128 Post Office Box 1551 - CPB 13A2 (202) 663-8148 Raleigh, North Carolina 27602-1551 Counsel for Carolina Power &
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of the foregoing " Applicant's Response to BCOC's Motion to Relocate Prehearing Conference dated March 15,1999, was served on the persons listed below by U.S. mail, first class, postage prepaid, and by electronic mail transmission, this 15th day of March,1999.
G. Paul Bollwerk, III, Esq., Chairman Frederick J. Shon Administrative Judge Administrative Judge Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555-000i Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 e-mail: gpb/ftnre. gov e-mail: fjs@nrc. gov Dr. Peter S. Lam Office of the Secretary Administrative Judge U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Wr.shington, D.C. 20555-0001 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Attention: Rulemakings and Adjudicuions Washington, D.C. 20555-0001-Staff e-mail: psl@nrc. gov e-mail: hearingdocket@nrc. gov (Original and two copies)
Marian Zobler, Esq.
Richard G. Bachmann, E.;q.
- Adjudicatory File Office of the General Counsel Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Mail Stop O-15 B18 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 Washington, D.C. 20555 e-mail: miz@nrc. gov rgb@nrc. gov l
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Diane Curran Esq.
James M. Cutchin, V, Esq.
Harmon, Curran, Spielberg &
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Eisenberg, L.L.P.
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 Washington, D.C. 20009 e-mail: jmc3@nrc. gov e-mail: DCurran.HCSE@zzapp.org 1
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