ML20212K676
| ML20212K676 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Seabrook  |
| Issue date: | 01/21/1987 |
| From: | Goren J HUNTON & WILLIAMS, NEW ENGLAND COALITION ON NUCLEAR POLLUTION |
| To: | Grimsley D NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION (ADM) |
| References | |
| FOIA-87-51 NUDOCS 8703090386 | |
| Download: ML20212K676 (3) | |
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HARMON & WEISS 2008 $ STREET, N.W.
suite 430 WASHINGTON, D.C. aoooo-itas GAIL MCGREEvY H ARMON TELEPHONE ELLYN R. WEISS (202)328 3500 DIANE CURRAN DEAN R. TOUSLEY ANDRE A C. fERSTER January 21, 1987 HAND DELIVERED Donnie H. Grimsley, Director Division of Rules and Records ygg y g.7py g g of fice of Administration ACT REQUEST
- U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
[Q 7A -f 7.D 7735 Old Georgetown Road kid /~22-f y Be thesda, MD 20814
Dear Mr. Grimsley:
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. Section 552, et seq., the New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution ("NECNP")
requests that you make available copies of:
1) all documents reflecting the application for or issuing of any regulatory exemptions, waivers, or deviations with respect to the construction or operation of the Seabrook nuclear power plant (Docket Nos. 50-443,444); and 2) all documents concerning any staff review of Seabrook regulatory exemptions or the safety of the Seabrook plant as described in the enclosed article from the Boston Globe (December 23, 1986) that were referred to by Vincent Noonan of the Nuclear i
Regulatory Commission.
For each document identified in response to this request, please identify the title and date of the document, the author, the author's title, and the recipient of the document.
Under the statute, your response to this request is due within l
ten working days.
Please note that these documents are highly relevant to a pending application by Public Service Company of New Hampshire for a reduction in the size of the Seabrook emer-gency planning zone.
We have made repeated efforts to locate this information on our own; however, we have found it impossible to identify all of these documents.
We would appreciate receiv-ing a timely response so that we may review these documents in connection with our participation in the proceeding on PSNH's petition.
NECNP is an intervenor in the Seabrook operating license proceed-ing.
The organization intends to use this information in the 8703090386 870121 l
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d HARMON & WEISS Donnie H. Grimsley January 21, 1987 page2 licensing hearings to further the public's interest in the safety of operation of the Seabrook plant.
Therefore, we request that you waive any copying and search fees pursuant to 10 C.F.R.
9.14(c).
Thank you for your prompt attention to this request.
Sin,c rely, f
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e Je'nnifer Goc'n e
j9 Encl.
cc:
Vincent Noonan Robert G.
Perlis Robert A. Backus i
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Seabrook may need improvements, says TRC safet 7 official ey larry Tye
~,;abe Staff The Seabrook nucicar power The report lists several areas "We will co back and re-!ock at o.a nt probably would have to where Seabrook was granted everything we granted wa: vers
.ne e.spenstse improvements to
" waivers" from NRC require.
on.
Noonan said. "We m:cht
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ts sase:y systems trfore it would ments that it test key safety sys.
chance our mind. basaa on tne cr!
- r allowed to shr1nk its evacua-tems. It savs the NRC granted the way of dotnc busmess tnese ti.sts
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2: :cne. a senter federal safety waivers tNeause comoltance wtth are nct necessary but they pror-emercency-olann:ng zon*, bm
- .f:a sa! said yesterday, the rutes "would reiult in hard-ably would be it you hau a Seabrook said last week that it shto cr unusual difficultles with.
- . ; cat by witn a smai!c evacus-out' a cornnensat:ng increase in Jucc!r.c : rom tce NFC,s Jar n :cr:e because it is safer tt an the level of quality and safety."
safety rencr!. tnose enar:"es r u.
- er reacters so "we need in ad-In one case. Seabrook was al.
tr evn ive it said tn..t to - ~.-
- rass wnere we want this ut!!:ty to lowed to forco t-st:ng welcs en pi: w:t!. testinc requeen:-n::.
- tet:er than the averace piant."
ospes in the contatnment but'emc Yane.-e would have to "r-cer:n '
+ 3.d '/.ncent Noonan, wt;o os er*
th:t surr:unrfs tr e r: ant.' One rea.
s:cn:1: cant numoer cf p. ant sy"
-s Wornox ufety reviews at v.n tsr tra esemet:en :s that the te m ot,:a:n sufficient r ars.r --
- r.e Nuc! car he;ulatory Ccmmis-p::+ ! m r-a:e r:r.rma;iv erns::.
ment comocnents and retr t it~
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and are r-:u: red :o f unenon enty preserw examination c: thew
'We probably would ask Sr.a-
- n tne umtner. event ci a maict componen:m Itadcedtnat even
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- cht not loss ct u,r.unt'acc:nent er a m$m af ter the recestcn ettorts. coni.*'e es.nect etner plants to co." he sod-steam ;:ne crea ; the ret 3crt sa:d comunance with the pres-m*- er e in an miemew.
but *.Lirv :e't Gent:rman. av aminat:.n raquirements prwat.
Noonan sa:d Seabrook aircady s:stan. ccret tr. r I entrrc.. sa::
creu c ne,t ce acn:eved.
- 3 comm: un::-r he:rnt(ned scru-Inat we cues::on wnetner testmc
's anne + suoxesman J<.nn r,.v'*
-. at tre NRC because ofits b:d r~:u: em *.tc shaufd tr waived for said sast nient that it:e n!tra anc
.- radu't its evacuatten zone from-svhe.m in it A <m:1 tr u-: :n t r,.
ctt:er ~2u:: ment were "!us'v **s't :
. ', m:.as arcund the plae to I ei-nt c.:.i mamr ace: cent t r.e dui "Vaiuate !" tr: ore ti re were inc an;!:ca!!cn a v. com;,ir-NR _ r.
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- e; s..nrN:uie r,uti:ntng wt at we have ene: ' r.. Na t.tre.n s tv cuest hr s ment. may ne-J upcr;ad:n.:. F..
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%"lJst have to w a:t.irm 9. w nar New lia rn pshire Yankee.
same, tr e piant n,.s an extraorrn.
happen.
w hicn runs Se.tcrock, says it was n.ir:: h::n cual:tv
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! reed to ask for the smalier zone ttor. " ! r:e state will tare a nuclear w ren Gov. trakakts of Massachu-ene:n-r to stuov the waiver re-n:ts announced Sept. 20 tnat 2 9 cuests... :nnets in tne.laiv report w '.uio not partterpate tn an evacu-aion witn otners tne pant mas a
at;,,n p an. Dukakts said it would nave t,een c, ranted. Gentleman tr smoossible to move people safe-said.
13 A l mtle zone would exclude Nocnan defended letting Sea-the s:x Massachusetts tnwns that brook cut of certain safety tests.
a-e part of the current IG mtle sa vmc. "Over the years we just zene.
friuna >no didn't have to do every-The NRC is not the only one thinc 11he the regulations called cr tically evaluating Seabrook s for.', waivers usually are based b:d.
on the hardship of cettinc a work-The commonwealth of Mass-man in there to run the test.'
achusetts, the towns of Ames-But the NRC official said that t arv. Mass.. and Hampton. N.H.
reasonmc mtcht chance now that anc two envircnmental groups -
beabrn;r. is claiming to base the all crittes of the plant - yesterday "satest nucicar power plant in the a LKed the five NRC commissioners worldf iankee ofitetals sal.1 last tc, overset directly the review of week that their contatnment is so Seabrook s application. The re-stronc and other safety systems Wed normally would be handled are so reliable that people outside first by an agency licensmg board.
a 1 mile radius could not be hurt then by the enmmissioners.
by radiation released after an ac-Tne Massachusetts linergy ctdent.
Polter Ofbre also has launched an l
tr veditcation of the plant and is arried about a safety evaluation
-! prepar*1 by the NRC in 1