ML20249C548

Memorandum (Notice Re Issuance of Decision on Admissibility of PSP Contentions).* Board Will Make Final Determination Whether PSP Contentions Decision Can Be Made Part of Public Record.Served on 980629

ML20249C548
Person / Time
Site:	07200022
Issue date:	06/29/1998
From:	Bollwerk G Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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References
CON-#298-19261 97-732-02-ISFSI, 97-732-2-ISFSI, ISFSI, NUDOCS 9806300287
Download: ML20249C548 (3)

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j /fzu N 00CKETED f UNITED STATES OF AMERICA USHR7 l NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD 1s Jm 29 P2 55 )

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! G. Paul Bollwerk, III, Chairman

((kyr,$jiAFF Dr. Jerry R. Kline 4 l' Dr. Peter S. Lam SERVED 'JtR2 9 1996 In'the Matter of Docket No. 72-22-ISFSI PRIVATE-FUEL STORAGE, L.L.C. ASLBP No. 97-732-02-ISFSI (Independent-Spent Fuel June 29, 1998 ,

Storage Installation) l MEMORANDUM (Notice Regarding Issuance of Decision on Admissibility of Physical Security Plan Contentions)

Previously, the parties to this proceeding were provided with a listing of the'nine contentions filed by l intervenor State of Utah (State) challenging the adequacy of )

the physical-security plan (PSP) submitted by applicant l

Private Fuel Storage, L.L.C. (PFS), for its proposed Skull D -

Valley, Utah, independent spent fuel. storage installation.

! Egg Licensing Board Memorandum (Status Conference and Security Contentions) (June 16, 1998) attach. A L

(unpublished). By memorandum and order issued this date, i

the Licensing Board has ruled on the admissibility of those contentions. Egg LBP-98-13,_47 NRC (June 29, 1998). In .

that decision, the Board admitted one of the State's PSP contentions, Security-C.

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At present, the Board's PSP contentions decision is being treated as not sutject to public release.

Accordingly, copies are being provided only to the State, PFS, and the NRC. staff.2 In crafting its decision, however, the Board has attempted to avoid the use of 10 C.F.R.

Part.73 " safeguards information" so that this issuance can be made part of the public record of this proceeding. To confirm there are no problems in this regard, we have requested'that these three parties inform the Board in a joint filing to be submitted by Monday, Julv 6, 1998, of their view as to whether any portion of the decision is not subject to public disclosure.

Once the Board has received a response from these parties, it will make a final determination about whether  !

the PSP contentions decision, or portions of that decision, 1

can be made part of the public record of this proceeding. l In accordance with the Board's previous orders on dissemination of documents containing 10 C.F.R. Part 73 safeguards information, the State and PFS are being sent' copies of the decision by overnight / express mail while the staff's copy is being sent through the agency's internal mail' system.

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The parties will be advised of the Board's ruling in this

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FOR TIIE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD' l- 1 l -.

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.G. Paul Bollwerk, III '

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. Copies of this memorandum were sent this date to i counsel for the applicant PFS, and to counsel for interveners Skull Valley Band of Goshute-Indians, Ohngo Gaudadeh Devia, Confederated Tribes of the.Goshute-Reservation, Castle. Rock Land and Livestock, L.C./ Skull

! Valley Company, LTD., and the State by Internet e-mail transmission; and to counsel:for'the staff by e-mail through the agency's wide. area network system.

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