ML070330085

2007/02/01-Vermont Yankee - Letter from Mitzi A. Young to Administrative Judges Enclosing Supplement 3 to the Hearing File Index, Privilege Log, Affidavit of Jonathan G. Rowley, and Declaration of Pao-Tsin Kuo

ML070330085
Person / Time
Site:	Vermont Yankee
Issue date:	02/01/2007
From:	Matt Young NRC/OGC
To:	Elleman T, Karlin A, Richard Wardwell Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
SECY RAS
References
50-271-LR, ASLBP 06-849-03-LR, RAS 12965
Download: ML070330085 (12)

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February 1, 2007 Administrative Judge Administrative Judge Alex S. Karlin, Chairman Dr. Thomas S. Elleman Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Mail Stop T-3 F23 5207 Creedmoor Road, #101 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Raleigh, NC 27612 Washington, DC 20555-0001 Washington, DC 20555-0001 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.

(Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station)

Docket No. 50-271-LR; ASLBP No. 06-849-03-LR

Dear Administrative Judges:

The NRC Staff hereby provides its monthly status report and notice that it has updated the hearing file for this proceeding pursuant to 10 C.F.R. § 2.336(d). An index containing the ADAMS accession number, date, and title or description of each item in the hearing file is appended hereto as Attachment 1. The Staff is also producing, as Attachment 2, updates to its privilege logs as required by 10 C.F.R. § 2.336(b)(5), and is continuing to preserve and maintain all privileged documents during the pendency of this proceeding. Also attached are the Affidavit of Jonathan G. Rowley, as required by 10 C.F.R. § 2.336(c), and the Declaration of Pao-Tsin Kuo, Acting Director of the Division of License Renewal, formally invoking the deliberative process privilege.

The Staff hereby provides notice that the schedule is unchanged from the dates provided in the December 7, 2006 monthly status report.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Mitzi A. Young Counsel for NRC Staff

Enclosures:

Hearing File Index Privilege Log - Deliberative Process Affidavit of Jonathan G. Rowley Declaration of Pao-Tsin Kuo cc: Service List

ATTACHMENT 1 VERMONT YANKEE LICENSE RENEWAL HEARING FILE AND MANDATORY DISCLOSURES HEARING FILE INDEX Supplement 3- February 1, 2007 ID # Accession Number Document Date Title/Description:

03- ML063630029 12/22/2006 2006/12/22-Comment (3) submitted by Claire Chang on Massachusetts Attorney 001 Generals PRM-51-10 regarding to Amend 10 CFR Part 51.

03- ML063630032 12/24/2006 2006/12/24-Comment (5) submitted by Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility, 002 Rochelle Becker on Massachusetts Attorney Generals PRM-51-10 regarding to Amend 10 CFR Part 51 03- ML070190401 1/3/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - Fish Facts: Bass.

003 03- ML070190391 1/3/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - Fish Facts: Herring.

004 03- ML070190395 1/3/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - Fish Facts: Sea Lamprey.

005 03- ML070190393 1/3/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - Fish Facts: Shad.

006 03- ML070170707 1/3/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - Fish Facts: Shad.

007 03- ML070190399 1/3/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - Fish Facts: Short Nosed Sturgeon.

008 03- ML070190413 1/3/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - T&E Species Shortnosed Sturgeon.

009 03- ML070230041 1/4/2007 Letter from NOAA NMFS re: Essential Fish Habitat assessment for VYNPS SEIS 010 03- ML070110504 1/4/2007 Vermont Yankee - License Renewal Application, Amendment 23.

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ID # Accession Number Document Date Title/Description:

03- ML070170131 1/4/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - An Annotated Working List of the Inland Fishes 012 of Massachusetts - Tessellated Darter.

03- ML070080409 1/5/2007 2007/01/05-Comment (10) submitted by Lea Wood on Massachusetts Attorney 013 Generals PRM 51-10, regarding to Amend 10 CFR Part 51.

03- ML070080406 1/5/2007 2007/01/05-Comment (9) submitted by Nina Keller on Massachusetts Attorney 014 Generals Petition for Rulemaking PRM-51-10 to Amend 10 CFR Part 51.

03- ML070170125 1/9/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - American Fact Finder USCB.

015 03- ML070190405 1/9/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - Franklin County Local Unemployment 016 Statistics.

03- ML070170520 1/9/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - SchoolMatters.

017 03- ML070170588 1/9/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - US Census County Business Patterns.

018 03- ML070170591 1/9/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - US Census Glossary.

019 03- ML070170148 1/9/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - USCB Census of Governments.

020 03- ML070190403 1/10/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - Cheshire County Local Area Unemployment 021 Statistics.

03- ML070170514 1/10/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - Public School Review.

022 03- ML070170617 1/10/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - Vernon Selctboard Meeting (1).

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ID # Accession Number Document Date Title/Description:

03- ML070170612 1/10/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - Vernon Selectboard Meeting.

024 03- ML070190406 1/10/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - Windham County Local Area Unemployment 025 Statistics.

03- ML070240301 1/11/2007 EMAIL: Fwd: VYNPS License Renewal RAI Clarifications.

026 03- ML070160655 1/11/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - About Monadnock Economic Development 027 Corporation.

03- ML070170413 1/11/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - Is It Safe To Eat the Fish?

028 03- ML070170459 1/11/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - NatureServe Explorer: An Online Encyclopedia 029 of Life.

03- ML070170564 1/11/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - Species Profiles: Striped Bass.

030 03- ML070190418 1/11/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - Vermonts Wildlife Action Plan.

031 03- ML070170534 1/11/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web References - Southwest Regional Planning Commission.

032 03- ML070240299 1/12/2007 EMAIL: Fwd: VYNPS Q&A D-Base Items for Review.

033 03- ML070180513 1/13/2007 2007/01/13-Comment (5) submitted by Art Hanson on Shaws PRM-51-11 re 034 Application of National Academy of Science BEIR-VII Standard to Dose Radiation Calculation.

03- ML070180518 1/13/2007 2007/01/13-Comment (9) submitted by Sidney Goodman on Shaws PRM-51-11 035 re Application of National Aacdemy of Science BEIR-VII Standard to Dose Radiation Calculation.

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ID # Accession Number Document Date Title/Description:

03- ML070170204 1/17/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - Connecticut River Striped Bass.

036 03- ML070170710 1/17/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - Fish Fact: Atlantic Salmon.

037 03- ML070170705 1/17/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - Fish Facts: Eel.

038 03- ML070170374 1/17/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - Franklin Regional Council of Governments.

039 03- ML070170388 1/17/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - Gallery of Connecticut Wildflowers.

040 03- ML070170395 1/17/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - Impact of Channelization along the Northern 041 Connecticut River, Vermont and New Hampshire.

03- ML070170429 1/17/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - Local Area Personal Income.

042 03- ML070170437 1/17/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - Massachusetts Rare and Endangered Wildlife, 043 Alasmidonta Varicosa - Brook Floater.

03- ML070170518 1/17/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - Roaring Brook Wildlife Management Area.

044 03- ML070170252 1/17/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - USFWS Endangered Species State and 045 County Listings.

03- ML070170153 1/17/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - VDH Chapter 3 - Radiological Health.

046 03- ML070170417 1/17/2007 VYNPS - SEIS Web References - Key Businesses.

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ATTACHMENT 2 VERMONT YANKEE LICENSE RENEWAL HEARING FILE AND MANDATORY DISCLOSURES PRIVILEGE LOG - DELIBERATIVE PROCESS PRIVILEGE Supplement 3 - February 1, 2007 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 disclosure as predecisional, deliberative 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.

Doc. Accession Author Title/Description: Document Document Addressee / Comment Page No. Number Name/ Date Type Addressee Count Affiliation: Affiliation DP- ML070240393 Rowley J G, EMAIL: (NPA-LR) 1/10/2007 E-Mail Ma J S, Draft RAIs 5 03-01 NRC/NRR/ Re: Please send me NRC/NRR/ADE ADRO/DLR the WP files of 3.5 S/DE/EGCA of VY.

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February 1, 2007 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of )

)

ENTERGY NUCLEAR VERMONT YANKEE, ) Docket No. 50-271-LR LLC, and ENTERGY NUCLEAR )

OPERATIONS, INC. ) ASLBP No. 06-849-03-LR

)

(Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station) )

AFFIDAVIT OF JONATHAN G. ROWLEY CONCERNING MANDATORY DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENT OF 10 C.F.R. § 2.336(c)

I, Jonathan G. Rowley, do hereby state as follows:

1. I am employed as a Project Manager in the Division of License Renewal in the Nuclear Regulatory Commissions (NRC) Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. I serve as a project manager for the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Stations license renewal application (LRA).

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 as of the date of this certification.

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

Original Signed By:

_______________________

Jonathan G. Rowley Executed in Rockville, MD this 1st day of February, 2007

January 31, 2007 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of )

)

ENTERGY NUCLEAR VERMONT YANKEE, ) Docket No. 50-271-LR LLC, and ENTERGY NUCLEAR )

OPERATIONS, INC. ) ASLBP No. 06-849-03-LR

)

(Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station) )

DECLARATION OF PAO-TSIN KUO I, Pao-Tsin Kuo, do hereby state as follows:

1. I am employed as the Acting Director of the Division of Licensing Renewal (DLR) in the Nuclear Regulatory Commissions (NRC) Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR). My supervisory responsibilities include oversight of the NRC Staffs review and evaluation of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station license renewal application.

2. As part of their responsibilities in preparing the hearing file and mandatory disclosures for these proceedings, NRC staff members under my supervision identified several documents as privileged because they contained information concerning the Staffs deliberative process. Those documents are listed in Attachment 2 to the February 1, 2007 submission of the Staffs Hearing File.

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 predecisional information concerning the Staffs review of the license renewal application. All documents contain either the Staffs analyses, recommendations, opinions, or evaluations, and may not necessarily reflect the final agency position with respect to the matters discussed therein. Each of the documents comprises part of the deliberative process necessary to the Staffs review of the pending license renewal application.

4. Further, I have determined that disclosure of these 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 Staffs 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 each of the documents listed in Attachment 2 to the February 1, 2007 submission of the Staffs Hearing File.

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

Original Signed By:

_______________________

Pao-Tsin Kuo Executed in Rockville, MD this 31st day of January, 2007

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of )

)

ENTERGY NUCLEAR VERMONT YANKEE, ) Docket No. 50-271-LR LLC, and ENTERGY NUCLEAR )

OPERATIONS, INC. ) ASLBP No. 06-849-03-LR

)

(Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station) )

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of the NRC Staff letter dated February 1, 2007, providing notice of the availability of the hearing file, with attachments, together with the affidavit of Jonathan G.

Rowley and the declaration of Pao-Tsin Kuo in the above-captioned proceeding have been served on the following by electronic mail with copies by deposit in the NRCs internal mail system or, as indicated by an asterisk, by electronic mail with copies by U.S. mail, first class, this 1st day of February 2007.

Administrative Judge Administrative Judge Alex S. Karlin, Chair Richard E. Wardwell Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 Washington, DC 20555-0001 E-mail: ask2@nrc.gov E-mail: rew@nrc.gov Administrative Judge Office of the Secretary Thomas S. Elleman* Attn: Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Mail Stop: O-16C1 5207 Creedmoor Road, #101 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Raleigh, NC 27612 Washington, DC 20555-0001 E-mail: elleman@eos.ncsu.edu E-mail: hearingdocket@nrc.gov Office of Commission Appellate Sarah Hofmann, Esq.*

Adjudication Director of Public Advocacy Mail Stop: O-16C1 Department of Public Service U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 112 State Street - Drawer 20 Washington, DC 20555-0001 Montpelier, VT 05620-2601 E-mail: OCAAmail@nrc.gov E-mail: sarah.hofmann@state.vt.us

Diane Curran, Esq.* Anthony Z. Roisman, Esq.*

Harmon, Curran, Spielberg National Legal Scholars Law Firm

& Eisenberg, L.L.P. 84 East Thetford Rd.

1726 M Street, NW., Suite 600 Lyme, NH 03768 Washington, DC 20036 E-mail: aroisman@nationallegalscholars.com E-mail: dcurran@harmoncurran.com Matthew Brock, Esq.*

Ronald A. Shems, Esq.* Assistant Attorney General Karen Tyler, Esq. Office of the Massachusetts Attorney Shems Dunkiel Kassel & Saunders, PLLC General 91 College Street Environmental Protection Division Burlington, VT 05401 One Ashburton Place, Room 1813 E-mail: rshems@sdkslaw.com Boston, MA 02108-1598 Ktyler@sdkslaw.com E-mail: matthew.brock@ago.state.ma.us Jennifer J. Patterson, Esq.* David R. Lewis, Esq.*

Office of the New Hampshire Matias F. Travieso-Diaz Attorney General Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP 33 Capitol Street 2300 N Street, NW Concord, NH 03301 Washington, DC 20037-1128 E-mail: jennifer.patterson@doj.nh.gov E-mail: david.lewis@pillsburylaw.com matias.travieso-diaz@pillsburylaw.com Marcia Carpentier, Esq.

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Mail Stop: T-3F23 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 E-mail: mxc7@nrc.gov

/RA/

Mitzi A. Young Counsel for NRC Staff