ML19327B687

Brief of Town of Hampton.* Adopts & Incorporates Brief Filed by Commonwealth of Ma Atty General Re Emergency Planning,Per Commission 891013 Order.W/Certificate of Svc

ML19327B687
Person / Time
Site:	Seabrook
Issue date:	10/27/1989
From:	Mceachern P HAMPTON, NH, SHAINES & MCEACHERN
To:	NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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CON-#489-9387 OL, NUDOCS 8911060288
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA M NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION , , ", }, ,

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COMMI5SIONERS ,

Kenneth M. Carr, Chairman Thomas M.' Roberts K&nceth C. Rogers ~

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'PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF )  ;

NEW HAMPSEIRE ) Docket Nos. 50-443-OL

) 50-444-OL l (seabrook station, Units ) (Offsite Emergency.

1 and 2) ) Planning Issues) *

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BRIEF OF TOWN OF HAMPTON This paper is. filed pursuant to the Order of the Commission dated October 13, 1989. It responds to the certification of the l Appeal Board dated October 11,. 1989.

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Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland i and Throuah the Lookina class, surely had the present matter in -

mind when he wrote:

"There's glory for you!"

"I don't know what you mean by ' glory'," Alice said.

Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't--till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!"

"But glory doesn't mean a ' nice knock-down argument," Alice objected.

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less."

"The question i s , said Alice, "whether you _cAn make words mean so many different thirigs."

"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is ,

to be the master--that's all."

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The - words used by the - Tribuna.ls in this matter mean that h

'Seabrook will be licensed.

For an agency charged with safety to uphold the exclusion of i testimony which relates, on its face, directly to the safety 2

issues of evacuation is reprehensible in the view of the Town of Hampton.

Tha semantic conundrum is most certainly ' answered in the transcript cf the Commission dated July 23, 1980, in the matter ,

of Discussion and Vote on Emercency Frenar'et_ ness Rula. The word

" appropriate" lost out to " adequate". It is clear from the transcript that " adequate" protection mean " effective" protection.

When the chapter on the history of Emergency Planning is written, surely historians or for that matter, a commission of inquiry, will have trouble sorting out the safety issue from the political exigencies. The inhabitants of the Town of Hampton 1

will live each day with the risk created on the ground by the

' semantice of this Tribunal written on the page. Tnat's a real difference.

I II i The Town of Hampton adopts and incorporates the Brief filed by the Massachusetts' Attorney General.

Respectfully submitted, TOWN OF HAMPTON By Its Attorneys Shaines & Eachern Profess /alAssociatioy Dated: October 27, 1989 By:

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[ UNITED STATE 8 OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REG *JLhTORY CONNIs8 ION l

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PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NEW )

RAMPSRIRE,.ET AL. ) Docket No. (s) 50-443/444-OL ,

(Seabrook station, Units )

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CERTIFICATE.0F SERVICE

'I hereby certify that copies of the foregoing COMMISSION ORDER DATED. 10/13/89 have been served upon the following persons by U.S. Mail, first class, except as otherwise noted and in accordance with the requirements of 10 CFR Sec. 2.712.

L Administrative Judge Admiristrative Judge

! G. Paul Bollwerk, III, Chairman Alan S. Rosenthal Atomic ~ Safety and Licensing Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board Appeal Board l U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissi,,n U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission l

Washington, DC 20555 Washington, DC 20555 1 '.

l Administrative Judge Administrative Law Judge l Howard A. Wilber Ivan W. Smith, Chairman l Atomic Safety and Licensing Atomic Safety and Licensing L Appeal Board- Board 1 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 Washington, DC 20555 1

l Administrative Judge Administrative Judge Richard F. Cole Kenneth A. McCollom '

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Atomic Safety and Licensing Boara U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 Washington, DC 20555 Robert R. Pierce, Esq. Administrative Judg9 Atomic Safety and Licensing Board James H. Carpenter U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Alternate Technical Member Washington, DC 20555 Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555

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c ;Edwin:J. Reis, Esq.. . Mit'zi A. Young, Esq.

Office of the General Counsel Office of the General Counsel TU.S. Nuclear Regulatory' Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Q. S. ' Washington, DC. 20555 Washington, DC 20555

• Diane Curran, Esq.

• Thomas ~ G. _ Dignan, Jr. , Esq. I Harmon, curran & Tousley Ropes & Gray 2001 S Street, NW, Suite 430 One International Place WaLhington, DC 20009 '

Boston, MA 02110

• Robert A. Backus, Esq. The Hon. Gordon J. Humphrey

-Backus,.Meyer & Solomon ATTN: Janet Coit -

116 Lowell Street United States Senate

' Manchester, NH 03106 Washington, DC 20510 Judith'H. Mizner, Esq.

Gary W. Holmes, Esq.

' Holmes & Ells- Silverglate, Gernter,' Baker, 47 Winnacunnct Road Fine, Good & Miznor-Hampton, NH 03842 88 Broad Street Boston, MA 02110 Barbara J. Saint Andre, Esq. Jane Doughty Kopelman & Paige, P.C. Sekcoast Anti-Pollution League .

77 Franklin Street 5 Market Street Boston, MA 02110 Portsmouth, }Ui 03801 ,

Ashod-N. Amirian,'Esq. George W. Watson, Esq.

376 Main Street Federal Emergency Management Agency Haverhill, MA 01830 500 C Street, SW

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l Washington, DC 20472 Edward A. Thomas George D. Bisbee, Esq.

Federal Emergency Management Assistant Attorney General Agency Office of the Attorney General 444 J.W. McCormack (POCH) 25 Capitol Street ,

Boston, MA -02109 Concord, NH 03301 '

Suzanne Breiseth

• John Traficonte, Esq, I

Board of Selectmen Chief, Nuclear Safety Unit L Town of Hampton Falls Office of the Attorney General Drinkwater Road l One Ashburton Place, 19th Floor Hampton Falls, NH 03844 Boston, MA 02108 i.

j. Peter J. Brann, Esq. The Hon. Edward J. Markey l Assistant Attorney General ATTN: Linda Correia E Office of the Attorney General Subcommittee on Energy l

State House Station, #6 Conservation and Power Augusta, ME 04331 House Committee on Energy and

Commerco Washington, DC 20S15 <

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Richard.A. Hampe, Esq. J.P.'Nadeau Hampe & McNicholas Board of Selectmen m '

35 Pleasant Street 10 Central Street

. Concord, NH- 03301 Rye, NH 03870 Allen Lampert . William Armstrong Civil. Defense Director. Civil Defense. Director Town of.Brentwood Town of Exeter 20 Franklin Street- 10 Front Street g; Exeter, NH 03833 Exeter, NH 03833 SandraEGavutis, Chairman Calvin A..Canney, City Manager

' Board of Selectmen City Hall RFD;#1, Box 1154 PO Box 628 Kensington, NH 03827- Portsmouth, NH 03801

-Anne Goodman, Cnairman- William S. Lord i

! Board of Selectmen Board of Selectmen 13-15 Newmarket Road Town' Hall - Friend Street Durham, NH 03824' Amesbury, MA 01913

^Michael Santosuosso,. Chairman R. Scott Hill-Whilton, Esq.

Board of Selectmen. Lagoulis, Hill-Whilton & McGuire South Hampton, NH 03827 79 State Street Newburyport, MA 01950 C

Stanley W..Knowles, Chairman Norman C. Katner L Board of Selectmen Superintendent of Schools .'

L PO Box 710 School Administrative Unit No. 21 North Hampton, NH 03862 Alumni Drive Hampton, NH 03842 Sandra F. Mitchell '

L Civil Defense Director i

Town of Kensington l Box 10, RR 1 h East Kingston, NH 03827 , pf f

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& t' Dated: October 27, 1989 Padl McEachern, Esq.

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