ML22278A102

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Appeal to Judge Hawkens from Park Overall
ML22278A102
Person / Time
Site: Erwin
Issue date: 10/05/2022
From: Overall P
- No Known Affiliation
To: Hawkens E
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
SECY RAS
References
70-143-LA, RAS 56470, TBD
Download: ML22278A102 (1)


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October 5, 2022 To: Hon. E. Roy Hawkens Chief Administrative Judge Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Re: Denial of Access to Sensitive Unclassified Non-Safeguards Information - Response to Reply to Challenge of Denial of Access The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Staff (Staff) has filed a reply to my challenge of the denial of access to SUNSI in connection with the license amendment application of Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc., as announced at 87 Fed. Reg. 53507 (Aug. 31, 2022). I would like to respond to the Staffs position.

The Staff has asserted in a footnote that my challenge was submitted on September 28, 2022, and that it was due on September 26. The period allowed for submission of a challenge is five days. Normal procedures in case of such short deadlines call for the exclusion of weekend days and holidays. Under that usual procedure, my challenge was due on September 28, 2022, the day it was submitted.

In its dismissive reply, the Staff still has failed to explain how a citizen can show how SUNSI documents will assist the citizen in seeking intervention without seeing the documents themselves. The Staff has chosen simply to ignore the obvious dilemma in which its policy places a citizen who has an interest in the proceedings- outside of the process. Keeping information secret which is unclassified, and which the Staff clearly has already concluded relates to the application, while claiming that a citizen has not shown that the information relates to the application, is not only illogical but crosses the line into absurdity.

It is important to me to be able to review the SUNSI together with the publicly available information in order to formulate a position with regard to the application. Reviewing public documents without access to SUNSI deprives the review of context. Meaningful public participation requires disclosure of SUNSI to public participants.

Sincerely, Park Overall