ML18025A738

Citizens Against Nuclear Dangers' Motion for Board Ruling on Revision of Preliminary Timetable

ML18025A738
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Site:	Susquehanna
Issue date:	06/22/1979
From:	Lemanowicz I Citizens Against Nuclear Dangers
To:	Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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In the Mat ter of UNITED STATES'F AMERICA NUCL'EAR REGULATORY COlmISSION ale/P1 PENNSYLVANIA PO"KR AND LIGHT CO.ALLEGHENY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC.(Berwick Atom1c Power Plant)(Susquehanna Unit,s 1 and.2)DOCKET Nos.50-387 50-388 CITIZENS AGAINST NUCLEAR DANGERS'OTION FOR BOARD RULING ON REVISION OF PRELL~IINARY TI'%TABLE The citizens of the Berwick area, since the Three Mile Island d1saster, are Justifiably alarmed over the poss1ble consequences of a similar type accident occurring at the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company'Berwick atomic power plant sometime in the future.The problems of TMI will wot go away.It can never be business-as-usual aga1n for the atomic industry anywhere in the Susquehanna Valley.Therefore, a meaningful updating of the schedule for this NRC Docket case is definitely now in order.;fhereas, in the first place, the intervencrs uere never presented the preliminary timetable, in uriting or otherwise, for their imput or concurrence, by the".,other part1es prior to its adoption;Vhereas, some of the affected parties do not, appear to be responding to the present timetable anyway;Mhereas, the United States Congress is presently considering a six months, or possibly longer, moratorium on the 11censing of commercial r eactor s by the NRC, in the aftermath of TMI;Mhereas, reacting to this threat of congressional action, the NRC, on i~'.ay 21, 1979, declared an informal 90 day'uspension on some licensing proceedings

'because of the Three Mile island disaster;

'Thereas, on May 21, 1979, the NRC Director of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Harold N.Denton, outlined a staf f reorganization that will delay so-called=routine casework and the issuance of operating licenses;and will almost, totally stop the processing of other li cen se application s for.several months;Sfhereas, during this period of suspended animation, the NRC/Lesson Learned Task Force will"recommend changes to licensing requirement,s and the licensing process for nuclear power plants based on the lessons learned." This Task Force will, in due course, notify the licensing boards and the intervening parties of"all new information

'developed," from their study.of TÃI,"which may be relevant and material to any of the issues being adJudicated in presently pending cases.")lhereas, on June lg, 1979, the NRC Division of ProJect I~management at Bethesda, Nd.conferred with the Applicants, and all other utilities having operating license applications, to esta'olish"priorities for the review of those applicat,ions," presumably, among other things, to r'evise their timetables in the aftermath of TNI, and the NRC response to congressional pressure and public reaction;Therefore, it would be prudent, and reasonable for the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board to promugate an order revising the preliminary timetable in the Berwick case to coincide with TNI developments and t,he forthcoming NRC Task Force recommendat,ions.

CaccTIFICATE OF SEFVTICE I hereby certify that copies of Citizens A ainst Nuclear Dan ers'otion For Board Rulin On Revision Of Prelimina Timetable have been-served on the following by deposit in the United States mail, first class, this AP-day of June, 1979.Charles Bechhoe f er, Esq., Cha i rman Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel U.S.Nuclear Regulatory Commission Mashington,'O.C.20555 Mr.Glenn 0.Bright Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel U.S.Nuclear-Regulatory Commission Mashington, O.C.20555 Or.Oscar H.Paris Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel U.S.Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, O.C.20555 James M.Cutchin, IV, Esquire Office of the Executive Legal Director U.S.Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.20555 Jay Silberg, Esq.Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge 1800 M Street, N.W.Washington, D.C.20036 Dr.Judith H.Johnsrud Co-Director Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Power 433 Orlando Avenue State College, PA 16801 Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel U.S.Nuclear Regulatory Comoission Mashington, D.C.20555 Docketing and Service Section Office of the Secretary U.S.-Nuclear Regulatory Commission Mashington, D.C.20555 Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Hoard Panel U.S.Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.20555 l<<r Harold N.Denton, Director Nuclear Reactor Regulation U.S.Nuclear Regulatory Comm.washington, D.C.20555 Mr.Thomas M.Gerusky, Director Bureau of Radiation Protection Department of Environmental Resources Commonwealth of Pennsylvania P.O.Box 2063 Harrisburg, PA 17120 Hs.Colleen Marsh Box 538A, R084 Mountain Top, PA 18707 0 Susquehanna Environmental Advocates c/o Gerald Schultz, Esq.500 South River Street Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702~~g5s 7S>0 gc goc jcc6 Irene Lemanowicz Chairperson