ML20248B491

Order.* Advises That Oral Argument on Appeal of Seacoast Anti-Pollution League & Atty General of Commonwealth of Ma Will Be Heard on 890712 in Bethesda,Md.W/Certificate of Svc. Served on 890607

ML20248B491
Person / Time
Site:	Seabrook
Issue date:	06/07/1989
From:	Tompkins B NRC ATOMIC SAFETY & LICENSING APPEAL PANEL (ASLAP)
To:	MASSACHUSETTS, COMMONWEALTH OF, NRC OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL (OGC), PUBLIC SERVICE CO. OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, SEACOAST ANTI-POLLUTION LEAGUE
References
CON-#289-8723 LBP-89-10, OL, NUDOCS 8906090073
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E R;E-Alan S. Rosenthal, Chairman June 7, 1989 Thomas S. Moore

i. Howard A. Wilber SERVED JUN 071989 In the Matter of )

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PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF ) Docket Nos. 50-443-OL NEW HAMPSHIRE, et al.

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ORDER Oral argument on the appeals of the Seacoast Anti-Pollution League and Attorney General of Massachusetts from the Licensing Board's March 8, 1989, memorandum and order will be heard at 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, July 12, 1989, in the NRC Public Hearing Room, Fifth Floor, East-West Towers Building, 4350 East-West Highway, Bethesda, Maryland.

The argument will encompass not merely the issues raised by the appeals but, additionally, the issue presented by the motion of the NRC staff to strike the notices of appeal (i.e., to dismiss the appeals) on the ground that the March 8 order is interlocutory in character and, as such, not appealable at this time.

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on the' appealability matter,.each party is to be prepared to address these questions: Should the consideration of a petition under 10 CFR 2.758(b) seeking the waiver of the application of a specified Commission regulation in a particular proceeding be deemed ancillary to that proceeding? If'so, does the Licensing Board's denial' of such a petition have the ' requisite finality for appeal purposes irrespective of the then status of the proceeding?

On the merits, the parties will undoubtedly find it advisable to focus upon the rationale underlying the Commission's disposition in its December 21, 1988, decision of the then pending petitions to waive its rule that makes a finding of financial qualification unnecessary in the case of operating license applicants such as the owners of the Seabrook facility. In this connection, specific attention appropriately will be paid to the significance attached by the Commission to the operation of the New Hampshire statute concerned with the preclusion of the grant of certain rate relief to an electric utility in advance of full-power commercial operation.4 We intend to explore the parties' views on the relevance of the Commission's discussion of 2

i See CLI-88-10, 28 NRC 573, 592-602.

3 See 10 CFR 50.57 (a) (4) .

4 See CLI-88-10, 28 NRC at 597-99.

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3 that statute to the. petition now at hand, as well as their views on other portions of the analysis of the waiver question to be found in the December 21 decision.

Each side will have 50 minutes for the presentation of' argument.5 The'appel'lants may reserve a reasonable portion of their time for rebuttal.

The Secretary to this Board shall be provided, by letter mailed no later than July 3, 1989, with the name of the person who will present argument on behalf of the particular party..

It is so ORDERED.

FOR THE APPEAL BOARD r A es J v e_f k' "_. '

Barbara A. Tompkins Secretary to the Appeal Board 5

For this purpose, the applicants and the NRC staff shall constitute one side even if they should be in  !

disagreement on the appealability question.

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UNiiES STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION In the Matter of I I

PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NEW l Docket No.(s) 50-443/444-OL HAMPSHIRE. ET AL. 1 (Seabrook Station. Units 1 and 2) I i

i CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of the foreacino AB ORDER (RE ORAL ARSUMENT) have been served upon the followino persons by U.S. mail, first class, except as otherwise noted and in accordance with the requirements of 10 CFR Sec. 2.712.

Administrative Judae Administrative Judae Alan S. Rosenthal. Chairman Thomas S. Moore Atomic Safety and Licensino Appeal Atomic Safety and Licensino Appeal Board Board U.S. Nuclear Reculatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Reculatory Commission Washington. DC 20555 Washington. DC 20555 Administrative Judas Howard A. Wilber Administrative Law Judas Atomic Safety and Licensino Appeal Ivan W. Smith. Chairman Board Atomic Safety and Licensino Board U.S. Nuclear Raoulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Reculatory Commission Washinoton, DC 20555 Washinoton. DC 20555 Administrative Judas Administrative Judae Richard F. Cole Kenneth A. McCollom Atomic Safety and Licensino Board Atomic Safety and Licensino Board U.S. Nuclear Recu14 tory Commission U.S. Nuclear Reculatory Commission Washinoton. DC 20555 Washington. DC 20555 Administrative Judae Robert R. Pierce. Escuire James H. Carpenter Atomic Safety and Licensino Board Alternate Technical Member U.S. Nuclear Raoulatory Commission Atomic Safety and Licensino Board Washincton, DC 20555 U.S. Nuclear Raoulatory Commission Washington. DC 20555 Edwin J. Reis. Esc. Lisa B. Clark Office of the General Counsel Attorney U.C. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the Seneral Counsel Washington, DC 20555 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washincton. DC 20555

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Docket No.(s)50-443/444-OL 3 AB ORDER (RE ORAL AR6UMENT) t 1.

Diane Curran. Esc. Thomas 8. Dignan. Jr.. Esa, j Harmen Curran & Tousley Ropes & Gray 1 2001 S Street. N.W., Suite 430 One International Place 1 Washinocon. DC 20009 Boston, MA 02110 l Robert A. Backus. Esq. Paul McEachern. Esa.

Backus. Meyer & Solomon Shaines & McEachern 116 Lowell Street 25 Maplewood Avenue. P.O. Box 360 Manchester NH 03106 Portsmouth. NH 03801 Bary W. Holmes. Esc. Judith H. Mirner Holmes & Ells Silverglate. Gernter. Baker. Fine.

47 Winnacunnet Road Good and Mittner Hampton. NH 03B42 88 Broad Street Boston. MA 02110 Charles P. Graham. Esq. Jane Doherty McKav. Murphy and Graham Seacoast Anti-Pollution League 100 Main Street 5 Market Street Asesbury. MA 01913 Portsecuth. NH 03801 Leonard Kapelman. Esc.

Ashed N. Amirian. Esc. Kopelman and Paice. P.C.

376 Main Street 77 Franklin Street Haverhill. MA 01830 Boston. MA 02110 Georae W. Watson. Esc. Edward A. Thomas Federal Esercancy Management Agency Federal Emergency Manacement Agency 500 C Street. S.W. 442 J.W. McCormack (PDCH)

Washington. DC 20472 Boston. MA 02109 Georce D. Bisbee. Esc. Suzanne Breiseth Assistant Attorney General Board of Selectmen Office of the Attorney General Town of Haspton Falls 25 Capitol Street Drinkwater Road Concord. NH 03301 Haspton Falls. NH 03B44

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Docket No.(s)30-443/444-OL AB ORDER (RE ORAL ARGUMENT) l l

John Traficente. Esc. Peter J. Brann Esq. l l

Chief. Nuclear Safety Unit Assistant Attorney General Office of the Attorney General Office of the Attorney Beneral One Ashburton Place, 19th Floor State House Station. #6 Boston, MA 02108 Aucusta, ME 04333 The Honorable Edward J. Markey, Chairman Richard A. Hampe Esc.

ATTN: Linda Correia Haspe & McNicholas Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and 35 Pleasant Street Power Concord. NH 03301 House Committee on Eneroy and Commerce Washington. DC 20515 J. P. Nadeau Allen Lampert Board of Selectmen Civil Defense Director 10 Central Street Town of Brentwood Rye. NH 03870 20 Franklin Street Exeter, NH 03033 William Armstrong Sandra Gavutis, Chairman Civil Defense Director Board of Selectmen Town of Exeter RFD #1 Box 1154 10 Front Street Kensinnten. NH 03B27 Exeter. NH 03033 Calvin A. Canney Anne Goodman, Chairman City Manacer Board of Selectmen City Hall 13-15 Newmarket Road 126 Daniel Street Durham. NH 03824 Portsmouth. NH 03801 Willias S. Lord Peter J. Matthews Board of Selectmen Mayor of Newburyport Town Hall - Friend Street City Hall Amesbury, MA 01913 Newburyport, MA 01950 R. Scott Hill-Whilton,Escuire Michael Sectosuosso, Chairman Lagoulis, Hill-Whilton & McGuire Board of Selectmen 79 State Street South Hampton, NH 03B27 Newburyport., MA 01950

Docket No.(s)50-443/444-OL AB ORDER (RE ORAL ARBUMENT)

Stanley W. Knowles, Chairman Norman C. Katner Board of Selectmen Superintendent of Schools P.O. Box 710 School Administrative Unit No. 21 North Hampton. NH 03862 Alumni Drive Hampton, NH 03B42 Sandra F. Mitchell The Honorable Civil Defense Director Gordon J. Humphrey Town of Kensincton ATTN Janet Coit Box 10. RR1 United States Senate East Kingston, NH 03B27 Washington, DC 20510 Dated at Rockville. Md. this 7 day of June 1989

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