ML19344D698

Submits Westinghouse Response to TR Asher 800321 Ltr on Behalf of Ctr for Development Policy & Movement for Free Philippines.Urges Commission to Promptly Grant Applications Re Nuclear Reactor Export to Philippines

ML19344D698
Person / Time
Site:	05000574
Issue date:	03/27/1980
From:	Cowan B, Daugherty T ECKERT, SEAMANS, CHERIN & MELLOTT
To:	Bickwit L NRC OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL (OGC)
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Leonard Bickwit, Jr., Esq.

General Counsel U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C. 20555

Dear Mr. Bickwit:

Re: In the Matter of Westinghouse Electric Corporation (Exports to the Philippines); -

Docket No. 110-0495; Application No. XR-120; Application No. XCOM-0013 This letter is written on behalf of our client, Westinghouse Electric Corporation (" Westinghouse"), in response to a letter dated March 21, 1980, to you from Thomas R. Asher, Esq., representing the Center for Development Policy and Movement for a Free Philippines (the " CDP /MFP letter"). The CDP /MFP letter requests your i agreement to a proposal that "the Commission delay issuing  ;

any export license in these (the above-captioned] matters  :

for seven working days after public issuance of its opin- l ion (s) " . Most favorably construed, the letter constitutes  ;

a premature, procedurally defective and inappropriate re-  !

quest for a stay of a Commission decision not yet issued.  :

Alternatively, the letter constitutes an attempt to influ-ence improperly the Commission deliberation on the above-captioned export license applications by threatening court  ;

action. Under either interpretation Westinghouse believes that the CDP /MFP letter is completely improper and neither i

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the Commission nor you as General Counsel acting on its  !

behalf should consider or respond to the proposal. l The Commission Order dated February 8, 1980, inviting public comments on the Philippine license appli- ,

cations stated clearly and unequivocally that "[t]his l public proceeding on pending license applications for j nuclear export licenses to the Philippines will be com-pleted on February 29, 1980." The gratuitous CDP /MFP letter, three weeks after the completion of the hearing and while the Commission has this matter under review, constitutes a violation of this commission Order as wc11 as proper procedure generally. The rules governing e:d port license applications contained in 10 C.F.R. Part 110 do not provide for any such filings or letters to the Com- i mission subsequent to completion of the hearing and prior to decision. Nowhere in the rules (or in any other prac- [

tice before the Commission of which Westinghouse is aware)  :

is there provision for a petitioner to attempt to obtain ,

the type of agreement sought by CDP /MFP from the General Counsel's office with respect to what will be contained in a forthcoming Commission decision and Order. -

• Further, the CDP /MFP letter, notwithstanding its generalization about "the risks of unnecessary or unneces- ,

sarily hasty litigation" if its proposal is not adopted, totally fails to address the tests which must be met in i order to obtain a stay of a decision favorable to the issu- ,

ance of these export licenses. In any proper application l for a stay CDP /MFP would be required to demonstrate the i equities of its position, including a strong showing of  ;

likelihood of prevailing on the merits, irreparable harm  !

to it, lack of harm to other persons and where the public  !

interest lies. The CDP /MFP letter does not begin to carry this burden on any of these elements. In not considering i the CDP /MFP proposal, the Commission does not prejudice  !

any procedural recourse CDP /MFP otherwise may have availa-  ;

ble to it. i l

As you are aware, the facility export license l application before the Commission has been pending for l more than three years; the components license application l has been pending for more than eighteen months; and the

Leonard Bickwit, Jr., Esq.

March 27, 1980 ,

fuel license application has been pending for more than  :

one year. Congress, in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation i\ct of 1978, made it clear that expeditious processing i of nuclear export licenses is required. Westinghouse  !

again urges the Commission to promptly reach a deter-mination with regard to the grant of these license I applications.

Very truly yours, r

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Counsel for Westinghouse Electric Corporation cc: All Commissioners Service List i

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SERVICE LIST Samuel J. Chilk, Secretary Ronald J. Bettauer, Esq.

U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Assistant Legal Adviser for Washington, D. C. 20555 Nuclear Affairs U. S. Department of State Chase R. Stephens, Chief Washington, D. C. 20520 Docketing & Service Section U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Thomas R. Asher, P.C.

Washington, D. C. 20555 Matthew B. Bogin, Esq.

1232 Seventeenth Street, N.W.

Howard K. Shapar, Esq. Washington, D. C. 20036 Joanna Becker, Esq.

Office of the Executive Legal James E. Drew, Esq.

Director 1712 N Street, N.W.

U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C. 20036 Washington, D. C. 20555 Earl Nicholas Selby, Esq.

Carlton R. Stoiber, Esq. 2361 Columbia Street Office of the General Counsel Palo Alto, California 94306 U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C. 20555 Barton Z. Cowan, Esq. '

John R. Kenrick, Esq.

Peter Tarnoff, Executive Secretary Eckert, Seamans, Cherin & Mellott U. S. Department of State 42nd Floor, 600 Grant Street ,

Washington, D. C. 20520 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219 Lsonard Bickwit, Jr., Esq.

General Counsel U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C. 20555

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