ML20248L394
| ML20248L394 | |
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| Issue date: | 06/06/1998 |
| From: | NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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| REF-10CFR9.7 SECY-98-118-C, NUDOCS 9806110124 | |
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Title:
AFFIRMATION SESSION PUBLIC MEETING Location:
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Friday, June 6,1998 Pages:
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DISCLAIMER This is an unofficial transcript of a meeting of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission held on-June i
5, 1998, in the Comission's office at One White Flint
. North, Rockville, Maryland.
The meeting was open to public attendance and observation.
This transcript has not been reviewed, corrected or edited, and it may contain inaccuracies.
The transcript.is intended solely for general informational purposes.
As provided by 10 CFR 9.103, it is not part of the fomal or informal record of decision of the matters discussed.
Expressions of opinion in this transcript do not necessarily reflect final determination or beliefs.
No pleading or other paper may be filed with the Comission in any proceeding as the result of, or addressed to, any statement or argument contained herein, except as the Commission may authorize.
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 3
4 AFFIRMATION SESSION 5
6 PUBLIC MEETING 7
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission 10 Room 1F-16 11 One White Flint North
.12 11555 Rockville Pike 13 Rockville, Maryland 14 15 Friday, June 6, 1998 16 17 The Commission met in open session, pursuant to 18 notice, at 11:29 a.m., the Honorable SHIRLEY A. JACKSON, 19 Chairman of the Commission, presiding.
.20 21 COMMISSIONERS PRESENT:
i 22 SHIRLEY A. JACKSON, Chairman of the Commission 23 NILS J. DIAZ, Member of the Commission 24 EDWARD McGAFFIGAN, JR., Member of the Commission 25 AKN RILEY & ASSOCIATES, LTD.
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1 STAFF AND PRESENTERS SEATED AT THE COMMISSION TABLE:
2 STEVE BURNS 3
JOE COLVIN, CEO and President of the Nuclear 4
Energy Institute 5
GEORGE HAIRSTON, CEO and President of the Southern 6
Company 7
ROBIN JONES, Vice President for Nuclear Power, l
8 EPRI 9
PAT MCDONALD, Executive Director, Advanced Reactor 10 Corp.
11 JOHN TAYLOR, Vice President Emeritus for Nuclear 12 Power, EPRI 13 ANNETTE VIETTI-COOK, Assistant Secretary 14 15 16 17 18 1
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1 PROCEEDINGS l
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[11:29 a.m.]
3 CHAIRMAN JACKSON:
All right.
May we come to l
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order?
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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, this is an 6
affirmation session.
We have four items-to come before us 7
this morning.
Before I ask the Assistant Secretary to lead l
8 us through the items for affirmation, do any of my t
9 colleagues have any opening comments they wish to make?
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[No response.]
11 CHAIRMAN JACKSON:
If not, Madame Assistant 12 Secretary, please proceed.
13 MR. VIETTI-COOK:
The first item is SECY-98-118, 14 Private Fuel Storage, ruling by Chief Judge of the Atomic l
15 Safety and Licensing Board Panel to establish a second 16 board.
The Commission is being asked to act on an order l
l 17 responding to a petition by the Applicant, Private Fuel i
18 Storage for interlocutory review of a ruling by the Chief Judge of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel to 19 L
20 establish a second panel to consider all matters concerning 2.1 the physical security plan for Private Fuel Storage's 22 proposed independent fuel storage installat, ion at Skull 1
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l 24 The Commission has voted to approve the order with 25 the attached edits which grants interlocutory review and
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1 reverses the Chief Judge's decision to reassign jurisdiction 2
over the security plan contingence to a newly established 3
second board.
4 I ask that you affirm your votes.
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[A chorus of ayes.]
6 MR. VIETTI-COOK:
Commissioner Dicus previously 7
gave approval to this item and if present, she would have 8
affirmed her vote as well.
9 The second item is SECY-98-112, proposed license 10 to export high enriched uranium for production of medical 11 isotopes at the Canadian NRU and Maple Reactors.
The 12 Commission is being asked to act on an order responding to a 13 request by the Nuclear Control Institute for leave to 14 intervene in a hearing on two separate applications for 15 licenses to export highly enriched uranium to Canada.
16 The Commission has voted to approve the order with 17 the attached changes denying the request for a hearing and 18 authorizing issuance of the two export licenses.
19 I ask that you affirm your votes.
20 (A chorus of ayes.]
21 MR. VIETTI-COOK:
Again, Commissioner Dicus 22 approved the order.
23 The third item is SECY-98-109, Hydro Resources, 24.
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1 denying motions to strike and for leave to reply.
2 The Commission is being asked to issue an order 3
responding to both a petition for reviev of LBP 98-05 and 4
seprrate motion for stay which was filed directly with the 5
Commission in April.
In LBP 98-05, the presiding officer 6
denied an earlier motion filed with him in January to stay 7
the staff's grant of Hydro Resources, Incorporated materials 8
license application until the completion of a hearing in 9
this proceeding.
10 Petitioners now seek Commission review of LBP 11 98-05 and also request the Commission to stay the 12 effectiveness of staff's grant of the materials license 13 until the Commission has ruled upon their petition for 14 review of LBP 98-05.
15 On April 16th, 1998, the Commission, in CLI 98-04 16 granted a temporary stay of LBP 98-05.
The Commission has 17 voted to approve an order with the attached editorial t
18 changes denying the petition for review, dismissing the stay 19 motion as moot and lifting the temporary stay granted in CLI 20 98-04.
l 21 I ask that you affirm your votes.
l 22 (A chorus of ayes.]
23 MR. VIETTI-COOK:
Commissioner Dicus approved this 24 order as well.
25 The fourth item is SECY-98-124, Hydro Resources, ANN RILEY & ASSOCIATES, LTD.
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Incorporated, memorandum and order, denial of motion to 2
disqualify presiding officer.
The Commission is being = tsked 3
to act on an order responding to a motion by the Eastern j
4 Navajo Dine against uranium mining in the Southwest Research 5
and Information Center to disqualify the presiding officer 6
from sitting in its subpart (1) proceeding.
The presiding 7
officer referred the disqualification motion in LBP 98-11 to 8
the Commission pursuant to 10 CFR Section 2.703 (c).
9 The Commission has voted to approve the order 10 denying the Petitioner's motion to disqualify the presiding 11 officer.
12 I ask that you affirm your votes.
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[A chorus of ayes.]
f 14 MR. VIETTI-COOK:
Commission Dicus approved this 15 order as well.
16 CHAIRMAN JACKSON:
Is there anything else to come 17 before us today?
18 MR. VIETTI-COOK:
No.
19 CHAIRMAN JACKSON:
If not, we are adjourned.
20 Thank you.
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[Whereupon, at 11:34 a.m.,
the affirmation session 22 was concluded.]
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o CERTIFICATE 1
This is to certify that the attached description of a meeting of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission entitled:
TITLE OF MEETING:
AFFIRMATION SESSION PUBLIC MEETING PLACE OF MEETING:
Rockville, Maryland DATE OF MEETING:
Friday, June 6, 1998' was held as herein appears, is a true and accurate record of the meeting, and that this is the original transcript thereof taken stenographically by me, thereafter reduced to typewriting by me or under the direction of the court reporting company Transcriber:hfMM
- d Reporter:
Jon Hundlev i
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