NUREG-0572, Response in Support of Jf Doherty Contention 46 Re Control Rods Leading to Fuel Damage.Contention Involves New Info Appearing in ACRS Review of LERs 1976-78 rept,NUREG-0572. Certificate of Svc Encl
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| Site: | Allens Creek File:Houston Lighting and Power Company icon.png |
| Issue date: | 01/28/1980 |
| From: | Sohinki S NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE LEGAL DIRECTOR (OELD) |
| To: | Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
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W 1/ 8 0 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMf11SSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of
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HOUSTON LIGHTING & POWER COMPANY Docket No. 50-466
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(Allens Creek Nuclear Generating
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Station, Unit 1)
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NRC STAFF'S RESPONSE TO JOHN F. DOHERTY'S CONTENTION NO. 46 On January 8,1980, John F. Doherty filed a cleading which is, in effect, a motion to admit an additional contention as an issue in controversy in the captioned proceeding.
The crux of Mr. Doherty's contention 46 is that:
... control rods caoable of causing a five second period on being withdrawn one notch, if uncoupled from their drives and stack in the core, could, by falling several notches moments later cause a significantly shorter oeriod leading to fuel damage.
As a basis for the contention, Mr. Doherty cites the recent publication of NUREG-0572, an ACRS report entitled " Review of Licensee Event Reports (1976-1978)."
In the referenced report, the ACRS expresses the same concern as that expressed in the contention.
Since the Staff is currently in the process of precaring a report addressing the ACRS concern, we believe that, at present, Mr. Doherty has provided an adequate basis for the contention and that it meets all of the requirements of 10 CFR 52.714.
Further, since the cenesis of the contention involves new information aopearing in a previously unavailable document, the Staff believes that the contention has been raised in a timely manner. As the Commission noted in Indiana and flichigan Electric Co., et al. (Donald C. Cook 1855 211
W Nuclear Plant Units 1 and 2), CLI-72-25, 5 AEC 14, 14 (1972):
[W]e note our longstanding practice of permitting amend-ments to petitions to intervene for good cause shown.
Unless special considerations dictate otherwise in specific circumstances, new information appearing in previously unavailable documents would generally con-stitute good cause for amendment, assuming of course that the request to amend is expeditiously presented and is otherwise proper.
For the above reasons, we support the admission of Mr. Doherty's Contention 46 as an issue in controversy.
Respectfully submitted, l
Stephen M. Sohinki Counsel for NRC Staff Dated at Bethesda, Maryland, this 28th day of January,1980.
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wr UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COM'ilSSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICEtlSING BOARD In the Matter of HOUSTON LIGHTING & POWER COMPANY Docket No. 50-466 (Allens Creek Nuclear Generating
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Station, Unit 1)
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of "NRC STAFF'S RESPONSE TO JOHN F. DOHERTY'S CONTENTION NO. 46" in the above-captioned proceeding have been served on the following by deposit in the United States mail, first class, or as indicated by an asterisk by deposit in the Nuclear Regulatory Conraission internal mail system, this 28th day of January,1980:
Sheldon J. Wolfe, Esq., Chairman
- Richard Lowerre, Esq.
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Asst. Attorney General for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission State of Texas Washington, DC 20555 P.O. Box 12548 Capitol Station Dr. E. Leonard Cheatum Austin, Texas 78711 Route 3, Box 350A Watkinsville, Georgia 30677 Hon. Jerry Sliva, Mayor City of Wallis, Texas 77485 Mr. Gustave A. Linenberger
- Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Hon. John R. Mikeska U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Austin County Judge Washington, DC 20655 P.O. Box 310 Bellville, Texas 77418 R. Gordon Gooch, Esq.
Baker & Botts Mr. John F. Doherty 1701 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
4327 Alconbury Street Washington, DC 20U06 Houston, Texas 77021 J. Gregory Cope ~ and, Esq.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Framson Baker & Botts 4822 Waynesboro Drive One Shell Plaza Houston, Texas 77035 Houston, Texas 77002 Mr. F. H. Potthoff, III Jack Newman, Esq.
1814 Pine Village lowenstein, Reis, Newman & Axelrad Houston, Texas 77080 1025 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20037 D. Marrack 420 Mulberry Lane Carro Hinderstein Bellaire, Texas 77401 8739 Link Terrace Houston, Texas 77025 1855 213
Texas Public Interest Margaret Bishop Research Group, Inc.
11418 Oak Spring c/o James Scott, Jr., Esq.
Houston, Texas 77043 8302 Albacore Houston, Texas 77074 Glen Van Slyke 1739 Marshall Brenda A. McCorkle Houston, Texas 77098 6140 Darnell Houston, Texas 770/4 J. Morgan Bishop 11418 Oak Spring Mr. Wayne Rentfro Houston, Texas 77043 P.O. Box 1335 Rosenberg, Texas 77471 Stephen A. Doggett, Esq.
Pollan, flicholson & Doggett Rosemary N. Lemmer P.O. Box 592 11423 Oak Spring Rosenberg, Texas 77471 Houston, Texas 77043 Bryan L. Baker
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Charles Andrew Perez
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Houston, Texas 77019 Houston, Texas 77019 Robin Griffith Leotis Johnston 1034 Sally Ann 1407 Scenic Ridge Rosenberg, Texas 77471 Houston, Texas 77043 Elinore P. Cummings Atomic Safety and Licensing
- 926 Horace Mann Appeal Board Rosenberg, Texas 77471 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Cormission Washington, DC 20555 Mrs. Connie Wilson 11427 Oak Spring Atomic Safety and Licensing
- Houston, Texas 77043 Board Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 Docketing and Service Section
- Office of the Secretary Carolina Conn U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Cornission 1414 Scenic Ridge Washington, DC 20555 Houston, Texas 77043 Mr. William J. Schuessler Mr. Robert Alexander 5810 Darnell 10925 Briar Forest #1056 Houston, Texas 77074 Houston, TX 77042 StE~pheri M. Sohinki Counsel for NRC Staff 1855 214
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