ML082180138

LB Memorandum and Order (Regarding Corrections to the Transcript and Proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law)

ML082180138
Person / Time
Site:	Vermont Yankee File:NorthStar Vermont Yankee icon.png
Issue date:	08/05/2008
From:	Karlin A, Wendy Reed, Richard Wardwell Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
To:
SECY/RAS
References
06-849-03-LR, 50-271-LR, RAS M-156
Download: ML082180138 (6)

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION DOCKETED 08/05/08 ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD SERVED 08/05/08 Before Administrative Judges:

Alex S. Karlin, Chairman Dr. Richard E. Wardwell Dr. William H. Reed In the Matter of Docket No. 50-271-LR ENTERGY NUCLEAR VERMONT YANKEE, L.L.C., ASLBP No. 06-849-03-LR and ENTERGY NUCLEAR OPERATIONS, INC. August 5, 2008 (Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station)

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER (Regarding Corrections to the Transcript and Proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law)

The purpose of this memorandum and order is to clarify certain matters with regard to the submission of corrections to the transcript and proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law herein.

During the evidentiary hearing in this proceeding, the Board established deadlines for certain post hearing filings. The Board established August 13, 2008, as the date for submission of proposed corrections to the transcript. Tr. at 1731. The Board established August 25, 2008, as the deadline for submission of proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law. Tr. at 1727.

See also 10 C.F.R. § 2.1209. While these dates are not being changed, the Board would like to clarify two matters.

With regard to the transcript, the Board has identified those places in the evidentiary hearing transcript in which the prefiled written testimony should have been, but was not, bound.

The Board is working with the court reporting company to ensure that this prefiled written

testimony is properly bound into the transcript and we will notify the parties once these generic errata have been corrected.1 The parties need not include the insertion of the prefiled written testimony in their lists of proposed transcript corrections.

With regard to the submission of proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law, we recognize that, pending corrections to the transcript, the final and corrected version of the transcript may not be available by August 25, 2008. Accordingly, the proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law submitted on August 25, 2008, may cite to the uncorrected version of the transcripts.2 Once transcript corrections are approved by the Board, the parties should file a short "transcript corrections supplement" to their proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law, substituting the citation to the new/corrected transcript pages in lieu of the initial citation to the uncorrected transcript pages. The transcript corrections supplement may only correct prior citations. It may not add citations where none were initially provided, nor modify any other part of the proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law. The transcript corrections supplement 1

The addition of the prefiled written testimony should not significantly change the pagination of the transcript because the inserted material will not be paginated with separate transcript pages. The proper form of citation to pre-filed testimony that is incorporated into the transcript is, for example, as follows: Pre-Filed Direct Testimony of Ulrich Witte Regarding NECs Contention 4 [Witte Direct Testimony] Post Tr. 1435, at 13 (for testimony that appears at page 13 of the text of the prefiled written testimony being inserted into the transcript).

Citations to specific pages of the transcript are highly recommended. Tr. at 1739.

should be minimal and shall be filed within 10 days of the Boards approval of the corrected transcript.

It is so ORDERED.

FOR THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD3

/RA/

Alex S. Karlin, Chairman ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE Rockville, Maryland August 5, 2008 3

Copies of this order were sent this date by Internet e-mail transmission to counsel for (1) licensees Entergy; (2) intervenors Vermont Department of Public Service and New England Coalition of Brattleboro, Vermont; (3) the Staff; (4) the State of New Hampshire; and (5) the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION In the Matter of )

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ENTERGY NUCLEAR VERMONT YANKEE, LLC, )

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ENTERGY NUCLEAR OPERATIONS, INC. ) Docket No. 50-271-LR

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(Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station) )

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of the foregoing LB MEMORANDUM AND ORDER (REGARDING CORRECTIONS TO THE TRANSCRIPT AND PROPOSED FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW) have been served upon the following persons by U.S. mail, first class, or through NRC internal distribution.

Office of Commission Appellate Administrative Judge Adjudication Alex S. Karlin, Chair U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Washington, DC 20555-0001 Mail Stop - T-3 F23 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 Administrative Judge Administrative Judge Richard E. Wardwell William H. Reed Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Mail Stop - T-3 F23 1819 Edgewood Lane U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Charlottesville, VA 22902 Washington, DC 20555-0001 Lloyd B. Subin, Esq. Sarah Hofmann, Esq.

David E. Roth, Esq. Director for Public Advocacy Mary C. Baty, Esq. Department of Public Service Susan L. Uttal, Esq. 112 State Street - Drawer 20 Jessica A. Bielecki, Esq. Montpelier, VT 05620-2601 Brian Newell, Paralegal Office of the General Counsel O15D21 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001

2 Docket No. 50-271-LR LB MEMORANDUM AND ORDER (REGARDING CORRECTIONS TO THE TRANSCRIPT AND PROPOSED FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW)

Matthew Brock Diane Curran, Esq.

Assistant Attorney General Harmon, Curran, Spielberg, Environmental Protection Division & Eisenberg, L.L.P.

Office of the Attorney General 1726 M Street, NW, Suite 600 One Ashburton Place, 18th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Boston, MA 02108 Callie B. Newton, Chair Dan MacArthur, Director Gail MacArthur Town of Marlboro Lucy Gratwick Emergency Management Town of Marlboro P.O. Box 30 SelectBoard Marlboro, VT 05344 P.O. Box 518 Marlboro, VT 05344 David R. Lewis, Esq. Peter C. L. Roth, Esq.

Matias F. Travieso-Diaz, Esq. Senior Assistant Attorney General Elina Teplinsky, Esq. State of New Hampshire Blake J. Nelson, Esq. Office of the New Hampshire Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Attorney General 2300 N Street, NW 33 Capitol Street Washington, DC 20037-1128 Concord, NH 03301 Robert L. Stewart Alan A. Pemberton, Esq.

New England Coalition Derron J. Blakely, Esq.

229 Kibbee Ext. Covington & Burling LLP Brookfield, Vermont 05036 Counsel for Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Washington, DC 20004-2401 Anthony Z. Roisman, Esq.

National Legal Scholars Law Firm 84 East Thetford Rd.

Lyme, NH 03768

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Ronald A. Shems, Esq.

Karen Tyler, Esq.

Andrew Raubvogel, Esq.

Shems Dunkiel Kassel & Saunders, PLLC 91 College Street Burlington, VT 05401

[Original signed by Nancy Greathead]

Office of the Secretary of the Commission Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5TH day of August 2008