ML20207Q306
| ML20207Q306 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Seabrook  |
| Issue date: | 01/20/1987 |
| From: | Brook M, Mceachern P HAMPTON, NH, SHAINES & MCEACHERN |
| To: | NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| References | |
| CON-#187-2250 ALAB-853, OL-1, NUDOCS 8701270143 | |
| Download: ML20207Q306 (9) | |
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Lando W. Zech, Jr., Chairman h[th Thomas M. Roberts James K. Asselstine Frederick M. Bernthal Kenneth M. Carr In the matter of PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF Docket No. 50-443-OL-1 NEW HAMPSHIRE, et al.
50-444-OL-1 (Seabrook Station, Units 1 (Onsite Emergency Planning and 2) and Safety Issues)
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TOWN OF HAMPTON RESPONSE TO COMMISSION ORDER DATED JANUARY 9, 1987 Now comes the Town of Hampton, in response to the Commission's ORDER of January 9, 1987, and states:
1.
In ALAB-853, the Appeal Board affirmed that an operating license to load fuel and to conduct precriticality testing of a reactor may issue, even if Applicant has failed to submit a radiological emergency response plan for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
2.
The Appeal Board decision should be reversed since it contravenes the plain meaning of 50.33(g) which provides:
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state and local governmental entities in the United States that are wholly or partially within the plume exposure pathway Emergency Planning Zone (EPZ) as well as the plans of state-governments wholly or partially within the ingestion pathway EPZ.
See Duke Power Company (Catawba Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2), ALAB-687, 16 NRC 460, 469 (1982) (plain meaning of regulation generally controls).
3.
The Appeal Board decision should be reversed since Applicant's challenge to the " logic" of the requirements of 50.33(g) represents an impermissible collateral attack, in this adjudicatory-proceeding, on the merits of a Commission regulation.
Carolina Power and Light Company (Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plants, Units 1 and
- 2), LBP-82-119A, 16 NRC 2069, 2073 (1982).
Even considering the merits of 50.33(g), it is wholly logical to prohibit low power testing, with its associated costs and irradiation of the facility,-
when Applicant has presented no EPZ governmental emergency plans, may never be able to satisfy this mandatory licensing requirement, and has failed to demonstrate that any " adequate interim compensating actions have been or.will be taken" to mitigate the absence of governmental plans.
4.
The Appeal Board decision should be reversed since that Board lacked authority to effectually amend 50.33(g), Baltimore Gas and Electric company (Calvit Cliff's Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and
- 2), Commission 's Memorandum and Order, 2 CCH At.
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5.
The Appeal Board decision should be reversed since, once the Commission validly adopted 50.33(g), the Commission, and its subsidiary boards, are bound to conform to the unambiguous requirements of that regulation.
See Union of Concerned Scientists v.
AEC, 499 Fd, 1069, 1082 (DC Circuit 1974) citing Service v. Dulles, 354 US 363, 372 (1957).
6.
By way of further support for its position, the Town of Hampton relies upon, and incorporates by reference herein, ATTORNEY L
GENERAL FRANCIS X. BELLOTTI'S PETITION FOR REVIEW OF THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING APPEAL BOARD'S NOVEMBER 20, 1986 ORDER DENYING THE APPEAL OF THE ORDER OF THE LICENSING BOARD AUTHORIZING ISSUANCE OF OPERATING LICENSE TO CONDUCT FUEL LOADING AND PRECRITICALITY TESTING, dated December 5, 1986, and SEACOAST ANTI-POLLUTION LEAGUE'S BRIEF IN SUPPORT OF APPEAL OF LICENSING BOARD ORDER AUTHORIZING ISSUANCE OF OPERATING LICENSE TO CONDUCT FUEL LOAD AND PRECRITICALITY TESTING, dated October 29, 1986.
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I WHEREFORE, the Town of Hampton respectfully requests the Commission to reverse and vacate ALAB-853 as requested herein.
Dated:
January 20, 1987 Respectfully submitted TOWN OF HAMPTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE By Their Attorneys SHAINES & McEACHERN
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l NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION COMMISSIONERS:
Lando W. Zech, Jr., Chairman CFFlu Thomas M Roberts 00CM]*,-.
James K. Asselstine Frederick M. Bernthal Kenneth M. Carr In the matter of PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF Docket Nos. 50-443 OL-1 NEW HAMPSHIRE, et al.
50-444 OL-1 (Seabrook Station, Units 1 and 2)
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of Town of Hampton Response to commission Order Dated January.9. 19"" in the above-captioned proceeding have been served on the i
.owing by deposit in the United States mail, or as otherwise indicated, on this 20th day of January, 1987.
Lando W. Zech, Jr, Chairman U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1717 H Street Washington DC 20555 James K. Asselstine, Commissioner U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
' Commission 1717 H Street Washington, DC 20555 Thomas M. Roberts, Commissioner U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1717 H Street Washington, DC 20555 i
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- Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555
- Docketing and Service U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.
20555 Mrs. Anne S. Goodman Board of Selectmen 13-15 Newmarket Road Durham, NH 03842 William S. Lord, Selectman Town Hall Friend Street Amesbury, MA 01913 Jane Doughty Seacoast Anti-Pollution League 5 Market Street Portsmouth, NH 03801 Rep. Roberta C. Pevear Drinkwater Road Hampton Falls, NH 03844 Philip Ahrens, Esq.
Assistant Attorney General Office of the Attorney General State House Stetion 6 Augusta, ME 04333
- Thomas G. Dignan, Esq.
R.K. Gad II, Esq.
Ropes & Gray 225 Franklin Street Boston, MA 02110 2
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Robert A. Backus, Esq.
Backus, Meyer & Solomon 111 Lowell Street Manchester, NH 03105
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- Robert G. Perlis, Esq.
Sherwin E. Turk, Esq.
Office of the Executive Legal Director U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Tenth Floor 7735 Old Georgetown Road Bethesda MD 20814 Mr. Angie Machiros, Chairman Board of Selectmen Newbury, MA 01950
- H. Joseph Flynn, Esq.
Office of General Counsel Federal Emergency Management Agency 500 C Street, S.W.
Washington, D.C.
20472 AGeorge Dana Bisbee, Esq.
Stephen E. Merrill, Esq.
Office of the Attorney General State House Annex Concord, NH 03301
- Carol S. Sneider, Erq.
Assistant Attorney General Department of the Attorney General One Ashburton Place 19th Floor Boston, MA 02108 Stanley W. Knowles Board of Selectmen P.O. Box 710 North Hampton, NH 03826 J.P. Nadeau, Selectman Town of Rye 155 Washington Road Rye, NH 03870 Richard E. Sullivan, Mayor City Hall Newburyport, MA 01950 3
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Michael Santosuosso, Chairman Board of Selectmen Jewell Street RFD 2 South Hampton, NH 03842 Allen Lampert Civil Defense Director Town of Brentwood Exeter, NH 03833 Richard A. Hampe, Esq.
Hampe and McNicholas 35 Pleasant Street Concord, NH 03301 Gary W. Holmes, Esq.
. Holmes & Ellis 47 Winnacunnet Road Hampton, NH 03842 William Armstrong civil Defense Director 10 Front Street Exeter, NH 03833 Calvin A. Canney City Manager City Hall 126 Daniel Street Portsmouth, NH 03801
- Edward A. Thomas Federal Emergency Management Agency 442 J.W. McCormack (POCH)
Boston, MA 02109 Sandra Gavutis Town of Kensington RFD 1, Box 1154 East Kensington, NH 03827 4
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