ML20237L693

Decision.* Review of Licensing Board 870513 & 0706 Partial Initial Decisions Revealed No Error Necessitating Corrective Action.Result Reached by Licensing Board Re Decision LBP-87-13 Affirmed.Served on 870831

ML20237L693
Person / Time
Site:	Braidwood
Issue date:	08/28/1987
From:	Shoemaker C NRC ATOMIC SAFETY & LICENSING APPEAL PANEL (ASLAP)
To:	COMMONWEALTH EDISON CO., NEINER, B. (BOB NEINER FARMS, INC.), NRC OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL (OGC)
References
CON-#387-4293 ALAB-871, LBP-87-13, OL, NUDOCS 8709090039
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,87 AUG31 Ali :35 ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING APPEAL BOARD e,r :

Administrative Judges: D00 Gary J. Edles, Chairman August 28, 1987 Dr. W. Reed Johnson (ALAB-871)

Christine N. Kohl In the Matter of )

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COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY ) Docket Nos. 50-456-OL

) 50-457-OL (Braidwood Station, Unit )

Nos. I and 2) ) (Emergency Planning)

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DECISION The' Licensing Board has issued two partial initial decisions in this operating license proceeding.1 In addition, it issued a memorandum and order denying both a motion for reconsideration and a motion to admit a .

I late-filed contention.2 Appeals from the second of the f

partial initial decisions and the Board's memorandum and i order are pending before us. No appeal from the first of the partial initial decisions was filed, he ever, and, as a 1

l LDP-87-13, 25 NRC (May 13, 1987) and LDP-87-14, 1 25 NRC (May 19, 1987), as amended, LBP-87-14A, 25 NRC f (May ?2, 1987).

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See LBP-87-22, 26 NRC (July 6, 1987).

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consequence, we announced our intent to review that decision sua sponte in accordance with our standard practice.

l Our review of the Licensing Board's decision and j pertinent portions of the underlying record reveals no error  ;

necessitating corrective actian. Accordingly, we affirm the result reached by the Licensing Board.

One matter is nonetheless worthy of note. The j development of plans for disseminating emergency information, including the production of accurate and meaningful emergency information brochures or pamphlets, is generally an evolvina process in which members of the public have at times played a useful role.4 In the instant case, certain of the incervenors' concerns were endorsed by the Licensing Board and the applicant voluntarily committed itself to improve its emergency information booklet in its i next revision.5 As we see it, this cooperative approach Appeal Board June 9, 1987 Order (unpublished) . See generally Consurners Power Co. (Big Rock Point Plant),

ALAB-795, 21 NRC 1 (1985).

See, e.g., Louisiana Power & Light Co. (Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3), ALAB-753, 16 NRC 1321, 1331 '

(1983), aff'g sua sponte LBP-83-27, 17 NRC 949 (1983), and Metropolitan E3Tson Co. (Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, linit No. 1) , ALAB-697, 16 NRC 1265, 1274 (1982).

5 The Board required the fulfillment of that commitment j as a license condition.

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1 contributed significantly to a better public information program while avoiding the need for additional litigation.

LBP-87-13 is affirmed.

It is so ORDERED.

FOR THE APPEAL BOARD O. d ewe C. Jc(( Sifoemaker SecreYary to the Appeal Board Ms. Kohl did not participate in this decision.

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