ML11364A101

NRC Staff Transmittal of Indian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index, Supplement 35 - December 29, 2011 and Indian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Deliberative Process Privilege, Supplement 35 - December 29, 2011

ML11364A101
Person / Time
Site:	Indian Point
Issue date:	12/30/2011
From:	Sherwin Turk NRC/OGC
To:	Lathrop K, Lawrence Mcdade, Richard Wardwell Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
SECY RAS
References
RAS 21663, 50-247-LR, 50-286-LR, ASLBP 07-858-03-LR-BD01
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December 30, 2011

Administrative Judge

Lawrence G. McDade, Chair Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel

Mail Stop T-3 F23 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001

Administrative Judge Dr. Kaye D. Lathrop

190 Cedar Lane East Ridgeway, CO 81432 Administrative Judge Dr. Richard E. Wardwell Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel

Mail Stop T-3 F23 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001

In the Matter of ENTERGY NUCLEAR OPERATIONS, INC. (Indian Point Nuclear Generating Station Units 2 and 3) Docket Nos. 50-247-LR and 50-286-LR

Dear Administrative Judges:

Pursuant to the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board's December 18, 2008, "Memorandum and Order (Addressing Requests that the Proceeding be Conducted Pursuant to Subpart G)," slip op. at 13, and the Licensing Board's "Order (Granting Consent Motion Regarding Mandatory Disclosures)," dated January 30, 2009, at 1, the staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ("Staff") herein notifies the Licensing Board and the parties that the hearing file has been supplemented for this proceeding. Materials in the hearing file may be accessed through the Agencywide Documents Access and Management System ("ADAMS"). An index containing the ADAMS accession number, date, and title or description of each item in Hearing File Index, Supplement 35 is appended hereto as Attachment 1.

On or about January 8, 2012, the documents identified in the hearing file will be made available via the Electronic Hearing Docket ("EHD"), which may be accessed at the following URL: http://ehd.nrc.gov/EHD_Proceeding/home.asp. The hearing file will be contained in a sub-folder entitled, "Indian PT Hearing File, Supplement 35" in the "Indian_PT_2&3_50-247&50-286-LR" folder of the EHD.

In addition, as required by 10 C.F.R. § 2.336(b)(5), the Staff is producing a privilege log, identifying documents withheld under the deliberative process privilege, which is appended hereto as Attachment 2. Also attached is the Declaration of Melanie A. Galloway formally invoking the deliberative process privilege with respect to the documents in Attachment 2.

The Staff will preserve and maintain the privileged documents identified in the log during the pendency of this proceeding.

UNITED STATESNUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSIONWASHINGTON, DC 20555 - 0001

Judge McDade December 30, 2011 Judge Lathrop Judge Wardwell Further, pursuant to 10 C.F.R. § 2.336(c), attached is the Affidavit of Kimberly J. Green, certifying that all relevant materials required by this section have been disclosed, and that the disclosures are accurate and complete as to documents identified by December 23, 2011.

Finally, the NRC Staff notes that it has made a good faith effort to identify and characterize all documents meeting the criteria of 10 C.F.R. § 2.336(b) and 10 C.F.R. § 2.1203 in this proceeding. In identifying these documents, the Staff does not concede their relevance to the license renewal issues to be decided in this proceeding.

Sincerely, Signed (electronically) by Sherwin E. Turk Counsel for NRC Staff

Enclosures:

Attachment 1 - Hearing File Index, Supplement 35 Attachment 2 - Deliberative Process Privilege Log Declaration of Melanie A. Galloway Affidavit of Kimberly J. Green

cc w/Encls.: Service List - Indian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Supplement 35 - December 29, 2011 ID# Accession Number Document Date Title 35-01 ML11339A146 12/5/2011 2011/12/05 Indian Point LR Hearing - RE: OAR - Forwarding Of Supplement 1 To NUREG-1930...To The Advisory Committee On Reactor Safeguards

35-02 ML11339A147 12/5/2011 2011/12/05 Indian Point LR Hearing - RE: OAR - Forwarding Of Supplement 1 To NUREG-1930...To The Advisory Committee On Reactor Safeguards

- Indian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Deliberative Process Privilege, Supplement 35 - December 29, 2011 1 Certain documents otherwise subject to inclusion in the hearing file and mandatory disclosures for this proceeding have been determined by the NRC Staff to contain information subject to withholding from public disclosures as predecisional, deliberativ e information. Pursuant to 10 C.F.R. § 2.336(b)(5), the Staff is providing this log to identify the following documents, withheld under the "deliberative process" privilege.

ID. # Accession Number Author Name

& Author Affiliation Title Document Date Document Type Addressee Name & Addressee Affiliation Comment Estimate d Page Count DPP

-035-01 ML11336A389 K. Green, NRC/NRR 2011/12/02 Indian Point LR

Hearing - Can you stop by on Monday, if you're in 12/02/2011E-Mail D. Logan, NRC/NRR/DLR Discussion regarding NRC Staff review of

additional information related to

supplement to

the FSEIS 2 DPP 02 ML11349A531 B. Balsam, NRC/NRR 2011/12/15 Indian Point LR

Hearing - RE:

Letter and Supplement for

IP 12/15/2011E-Mail D. Logan, NRC/NRR/DLR;

J. Ward, B.

McDowell, V. Cullinan, PNNL Discussion regarding NRC

Staff draft supplement to FSEIS 2 DPP 03 ML11349A532 D. Logan, NRC/NRR/DLR

2011/12/15 Indian Point LR

Hearing - RE:

Letter and Supplement for IP 12/15/2011E-Mail B. Balsam, NRC/NRR; J.

Ward, B.

McDowell, V. Cullinan, PNNL Discussion regarding NRC

Staff draft

supplement to FSEIS 2 December 29,2011 UNITED STATES OF NUCLEAR REGULATORY BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING In the Matter of ) ) ENTERGY NUCLEAR OPERATIONS, INC. ) Docket Nos. 50-247 & 50-286-LR ) ) (Indian POint Nuclear Generating Units 2 and 3) ) DECLARATION OF MELANIE A. GALLOWAY I, Melanie A. Galloway, do hereby state as follows: 1. I am employed as the Deputy Director of the Division of License Renewal ("DLR") in the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's

("NRC") Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

("NRR"). I am serving as the Acting Director for DLR. My supervisory responsibilities include oversight of the NRC Staff's review and evaluation of the Indian Point Nuclear Generating Station Units 2 and 3 license renewal application.

2. As part of their responsibilities in updating the hearing file and mandatory disclosures for these proceedings, NRC staff members under my supervision identified documents as privileged because they contained information concerning the Staff's pre-decisional deliberative process. The documents are listed in Attachment 2 to the submission of the Staff's Hearing File Index Supplement

35. 3. I have personally reviewed the documents identified as privileged in Attachment 2, and have determined, in accordance with the guidance set forth in Management Directive 3.4, that they contain pre-decisional information concerning the Staff's review of the license renewal application.

The documents contain either the Staff's analyses, recommendations, opinions, or evaluations, and may not necessarily reflect the final agency position with respect

-2 to the matters discussed therein. The documents comprise part of the deliberative process necessary for the Staff's review of the pending license renewal application.

4. Further, I have determined that disclosure of the documents could result in harm to the agency, in that it would (a) prematurely disclose the preliminary views of individual Staff members and/or the Staff prior to reaching a final agency decision, and could thus create confusion as to the actual policy or views of the NRC Staff; (b) hinder the efficiency of the Staff, in that forced disclosure of its internal discussions on an unresolved issue would tend to chill all future deliberations and would interfere with the Staff's ability to engage in a free exchange of opinions and analyses prior to publishing its final review documents; and (c) imply or suggest incorrectly that the opinions of the Staff members involved in these communications are actually the final decisions of the agency, while no such final decision has yet been made. 5. Accordingly, I formally invoke the deliberative process privilege with respect to the documents listed in Attachment 2 to the submission of the Staff's Hearing File Index Supplement

35. 6. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct to the best of my knowledge, information and belief.

Melanie A. Galloway U Executed in Rockville, Maryland this 29 th day of December, 2011 December 29, 2011 UNITED STATES OF NUCLEAR REGULATORY BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING In the Matter ) ) ENTERGY NUCLEAR OPERATIONS, ) Docket Nos. 50-247 &50-286-LR ) ) ASLBP No. 07-858-03-LR-BD01 (Indian Point Nuclear Generation Station, ) Units 2 and 3) ) AFFIDAVIT OF KIMBERLY J. GREEN MANDATORY DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENT OF 10 C.F.R. § I, Kimberly J. Green, do hereby state as follows: 1. I am employed as a Project Manager in the Division of License Renewal in the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's

("NRC") Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

I serve as a project manager for the Indian Point Nuclear Generating Station, Units 2 and 3 license renewal application

("LRA"). Among other things, I am assisting with the preparation of the hearing file and mandatory disclosures in connection with the LRA at issue in this proceeding.

2. I hereby certify that all relevant materials required to be disclosed pursuant to 10 C.F.R. § 2.336 (b) and (c) in the captioned proceeding have been disclosed, and that the disclosures are accurate and complete for documents identified as of December 23, 2011. 3. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct to the best of my knowledge, information and belief.

Kimberly J. e Executed in Rockville, Maryland this 29 th day of December, 2011 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD

In the Matter of )

)

ENTERGY NUCLEAR OPERATIONS, INC. ) Docket Nos. 50-247/286-LR ) (Indian Point Nuclear Generating ) Units 2 and 3) )

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I hereby certify that copies of the foregoing Letter to the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board regarding the Indian Point Hearing File, including: Attachment 1 - Indian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Supplement 35, Affidavit of Kimberly J. Green, dated December 29, 2011, Attachment 2 - Indian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Supplement 35 - Deliberative Process Privilege, and Declaration of Melanie A. Galloway, dated December 29, 2011, in the above-captioned proceeding have been served on the following by Electronic Information

Exchange this 30 th day of December, 2011.

Lawrence G. McDade, Chair Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel

Mail Stop - T-3 F23 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 E-mail: Lawrence.McDade@nrc.gov Office of Commission Appellate Adjudication U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Mail Stop: O-16G4 Washington, DC 20555-0001 E-mail: OCAAMAIL.resource@nrc.gov Dr. Richard E. Wardwell Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel

Mail Stop - T-3 F23 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 E-mail: Richard.Wardwell@nrc.gov Office of the Secretary Attn: Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff Mail Stop: O-16G4 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 E-mail: Hearing.Docket@nrc.gov Dr. Kaye D. Lathrop Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel 190 Cedar Lane E.

Ridgway, CO 81432

E-mail: Kaye.Lathrop@nrc.gov Josh Kirstein, Esq. Anne Siarnacki, Esq. Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Mail Stop - T-3 F23 U. S, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555-0001

E-Mail: Josh.Kirstein@nrc.gov E-Mail: Anne.Siarnacki@nrc.gov

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Mail Stop: T-3 F23 Washington, DC 20555-0001 Melissa-Jean Rotini, Esq. Assistant County Attorney

Office of Robert F. Meehan, Esq.

Westchester County Attorney 148 Martine Avenue, 6th Floor

White Plains, NY 10601

E-Mail: MJR1@westchestergov.com Kathryn M. Sutton, Esq. Paul M. Bessette, Esq.

Jonathan Rund, Esq.

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP

1111 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20004 E-mail: ksutton@morganlewis.com E-mail: pbessette@morganlewis.com E-mail: jrund@morganlewis.com John J. Sipos, Esq. Charlie Donaldson, Esq. Assistants Attorney General New York State Department of Law Environmental Protection Bureau

The Capitol Albany, NY 12224 E-mail: John.Sipos@ag.ny.gov Martin J. O'Neill, Esq.

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP

1000 Louisiana Street, Suite 4000

Houston, TX 77002 E-mail: martin.o'neill@morganlewis.com Elise N. Zoli, Esq.

Goodwin Procter, LLP Exchange Place

53 State Street Boston, MA 02109 E-mail: ezoli@goodwinprocter.com

Janice A. Dean, Esq. Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of the State of New York

120 Broadway, 25 th Floor New York, NY 10271

E-mail: Janice.Dean@ag.ny.gov Joan Leary Matthews, Esq.

Senior Attorney for Special Projects New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Office of the General Counsel 625 Broadway, 14 th Floor Albany, NY 12233-1500

E-mail: jlmatthe@gw.dec.state.ny.us William C. Dennis, Esq. Assistant General Counsel Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.

440 Hamilton Avenue

White Plains, NY 10601

E-mail: wdennis@entergy.com John Louis Parker, Esq. Office of General Counsel, Region 3 New York State Department of Environmental conservation

21 South Putt Corners Road

New Paltz, NY 12561-1620 E-mail: jlparker@gw.dec.state.ny.us Daniel E. O'Neill, Mayor James Seirmarco, M.S.

Village of Buchanan Municipal Building Buchanan, NY 10511-1298 E-mail: vob@bestweb.net E-mail: smurray@villageofbuchanan.com Manna Jo Greene Karla Raimundi

Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc.

724 Wolcott Avenue Beacon, NY 12508 E-mail: mannajo@clearwater.org E-mail: karla@clearwater.org

Robert Snook, Esq. Office of the Attorney General State of Connecticut 55 Elm Street P.O. Box 120

Hartford, CT 06141-0120

E-mail: robert.snook@ct.gov Daniel Riesel, Esq.

Thomas F. Wood, Esq.

Victoria Shiah, Esq. Sive, Paget & Riesel, P.C.

460 Park Avenue

New York, NY 10022 E-mail: driesel@sprlaw.com E-mail: vshiah@sprlaw.com Phillip Musegaas, Esq. Deborah Brancato, Esq.

Riverkeeper, Inc.

20 Secor Road

Ossining, NY 10562 E-mail: phillip@riverkeeper.org E-mail: dbrancato@riverkeeper.org Michael J. Delaney, Esq. Director, Energy Regulatory Affairs New York City Department of Environmental Protection

59-17 Junction Boulevard Flushing, NY 11373 E-mail: mdelaney@dep.nyc.gov

Signed (electronically) by

Sherwin E. Turk Counsel for NRC Staff U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the General Counsel Mail Stop - O-15D21 Washington, DC 20555 Telephone: (301) 415-1533 E-mail:

sherwin.turk@nrc.gov Date of signature: December 30, 2011