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Official Transcript of Proceedings NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Title:

Petition Review Board Docket Number: N/A Location: (teleconference)

Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 Work Order No.: NRC-1016 Pages 1-26 NEAL R. GROSS AND CO., INC.

Court Reporters and Transcribers 1323 Rhode Island Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20005 (202) 234-4433

1 1 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 3 + + + + +

4 PETITION REVIEW BOARD (PRB) 5 CONFERENCE CALL 6 + + + + +

7 WEDNESDAY 8 APRIL 26, 2006 9 + + + + +

10 The conference call was held, Margaret 11 Federline, Deputy Director, Office of Nuclear 12 Materials Safety and Safeguards, presiding.

13 NRC HEADQUARTERS STAFF:

14 MARGARET FEDERLINE, Deputy Director 15 Office of Nuclear Materials Safety and 16 Safeguards 17 RAY WHARTON, Petition Manager for 2.206 petition 18 JENNY LONGO, Senior Attorney, Office of 19 General Counsel 20 BILL RULAND, Deputy Director of Inspection; 21 and Licensing Project Director for 22 the Spent Fuels Project Office 23 DOUG STARKEY, Senior Enforcement Specialist, 24 Office of Enforcement 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W.

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2 1 NRC HEADQUARTERS STAFF (continued) 2 PAUL GOLDBERG, Petition Coordinator, 3 Office of Nuclear Materials Safety and 4 Safeguards 5 ROBERT NELSON, Chief of the Licensing Section, 6 Spent Fuels Project Office.

7 NRC REGION III 8 JAMES CAMERON 9 PETITIONER, DON'T WASTE MICHIGAN:

10 MICHAEL KEEGAN 11 GARY KARCH 12 NUCLEAR MANAGEMENT COMPANY (NMC) 13 LAURIE LAHTI 14 WEST MICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION COUNCIL 15 ALICE HIRT 16 NUCLEAR INFORMATION AND RESOURCE SERVICES (NIRS) 17 KAY TREMBLE 18 APPEARANCES:

19 On Behalf of Nuclear Management Company:

20 DAVID LEWIS, ESQ.

21 PAUL GAUKLER, ESQ.

22 of: Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw, Pittman.

23 2300 N Street, Northwest 24 Washington, D.C. 20037 25 (202) 663 DRL-8474 and PAG -8304 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W.

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3 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 (time not provided) 3 PARTICIPANT: Is there a monitor on the 4 line please?

5 PARTICIPANT: Good question.

6 PARTICIPANT: Is there an Alice on the 7 line please?

8 PARTICIPANT: I am and no one has 9 volunteered to coordinate it or maybe there isn't one.

10 PARTICIPANT: Anybody else on?

11 MS. TREMBLE: I am, Kay.

12 PARTICIPANT: There's about 10 callers on 13 the line right now.

14 HQ OPS CENTER: This is Headquarters Ops 15 Center. Is Ray Wharton on the line?

16 (No response.)

17 HQ OPS CENTER: This is Headquarters Ops 18 Center. Is Ray Wharton on the bridge?

19 (No response.)

20 PHONE SYSTEM: Someone has entered the 21 conference.

22 PARTICIPANT: Hello?

23 MR. WHARTON: Ray Wharton, Spent Fuels 24 Project Office.

25 PARTICIPANT: Hello?

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4 1 MR. CAMERON: This is James --

2 PHONE SYSTEM: Someone has entered the 3 conference.

4 MR. CAMERON: This is James Cameron, NRC 5 Region III.

6 MS. FEDERLINE: Region III is on the line.

7 Headquarters is on the line. My name is Margaret 8 Federline. I'm Deputy Director in the Office of 9 Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards. I just 10 wanted to mention that this phone call is being 11 recorded so that we can make a transcript.

12 Could we go through introductions? I'd 13 like to start with those people on the call please.

14 MS. LAHTI: Laurie Lahti, Nuclear 15 Management Company.

16 MS. FEDERLINE: Thank you.

17 MR. CAMERON: James Cameron, Region III.

18 MS. FEDERLINE: Thank you.

19 MR. LEWIS: Dave Lewis, Pillsbury, 20 Winthrop, Shaw Pittman, counsel for NMC.

21 MS. FEDERLINE: Thank you.

22 MR. GAUKLER: Paul Gaukler, Pillsbury, 23 Winthrop, Shaw Pittman, counsel for NMC.

24 MS. FEDERLINE: Could you say your name 25 again please?

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5 1 MR. GAUKLER: Paul Gaukler, G-A-U-K-L-E-R.

2 MS. FEDERLINE: Thank you. Anyone else on 3 the line?

4 MS. TREMBLE: Kay Tremble, I'm a member of 5 NIRS that lives Michigan.

6 MS. FEDERLINE: Okay.

7 MR. KEEGAN: I'm Michael Keegan, Don't 8 Waste Michigan.

9 MS. FEDERLINE: Thank you.

10 MS. HIRT: Alice Hirt, West Michigan 11 Environmental Action Council.

12 MS. FEDERLINE: Thank you.

13 MR. KARCH: Gary Karch, Don't Waste 14 Michigan.

15 MS. FEDERLINE: Anyone else on the line?

16 (No response) 17 MS. FEDERLINE: Could I ask who will be 18 the lead speaker for the Petitioner?

19 PARTICIPANT: Mike, do you want to do 20 that?

21 MR. KEEGAN: Yes, I'll take the lead role, 22 Michael Keegan, Don't Waste Michigan, but we're taking 23 a listening profile this morning.

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6 1 just came on. Did someone just enter the line?

2 (No response.)

3 MS. FEDERLINE: Okay, let's go around.

4 We'll introduce ourselves here at Headquarters. My 5 name is Margaret Federline. As I said, I'm Deputy 6 Director of NMS and I'll turn to Ray Wharton who is 7 our Petition Manager next.

8 MR. WHARTON: Ray Wharton, Petition 9 Manager, Spent Fuels Project Office in the Office of 10 NMSS.

11 MS. LONGO: Jenny Longo, Office of General 12 Counsel, Senior Attorney.

13 MR. RULAND: Bill Ruland, Deputy Director 14 of Inspection and Licensing Project Director for the 15 Spent Fuels Project Office.

16 MR. STARKEY: Doug Starkey, Senior 17 Enforcement Specialist, Office of Enforcement.

18 MR. GOLDBERG: Paul Goldberg. I'm the 19 Petition Coordinator for the Office of Nuclear 20 Materials Safety and Safeguards.

21 MR. NELSON: Bob Nelson, Chief of the 22 Licensing Section, Spent Fuels Project Office.

23 MS. FEDERLINE: Okay, is there anyone that 24 has not had an opportunity to introduce themselves?

25 (No response.)

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7 1 Good. I just want to welcome everyone to 2 the call today. I really appreciate your 3 participation. The subject of the phone call is the 4 2.206 Petition received from Terry J. Lodge (phonetic) 5 counsel for Petitioners. There are five 6 organizational and 30 individual petitioners.

7 The parties request NRC take enforcement 8 action against Palisades Nuclear Plant by terminating 9 the use of two independent spent fuel storage 10 installation concrete pads. The Spent Fuel Project 11 Office is responsible for review of the petition and 12 Ray Wharton, as we mentioned, is the petition manager.

13 The 2.206 process is a mechanism in NRC 14 regulations for members of the public to request NRC 15 action when theres an issue involving safety. We 16 have a management directive, thats Management 17 Directive 8.1 that we follow in implementing the 18 process. And the purpose of this meeting is to allow 19 the petitioners to address the petition review board.

20 This is an opportunity for the petitioners to provide 21 additional explanation or support for their petition.

22 The representatives of the licensees, subject of the 23 petition, may ask questions of the petitioner to 24 clarify their understanding of the petition and allow 25 them to respond to it in writing.

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8 1 Any of the parties may ask questions of 2 the PRB concerning the process. We will not discuss 3 the merits of the petition. Following the phone call 4 today, the PRB will meet to determine whether the NRC 5 accepts the petition under the 2.206 process or 6 whether it will be dealt with under another mechanism.

7 The PRBs meeting today will. Not determine whether we 8 agree or disagree with the petition. That will just 9 come later in our process.

10 The phone call, as I mentioned, is being 11 recorded and will be converted to a transcript and 12 treated as a supplement to the petition. Now, wed 13 really appreciate limiting questions to those that are 14 clarifying in nature. We do not want debates on the 15 merits of the petition today. If the PRB decides that 16 the petition will be considered on 2.206, then what 17 will follow is an acknowledgment letter. If we do not 18 accept the petition, we will document that decision in 19 a letter to the petitioner.

20 The Petition Manager will keep the 21 petitioners and subjects periodically informed on the 22 progress of the petition and I invite you to comment 23 or ask any questions on the process that Ive just 24 discussed. I believe the Petition Manager will have 25 provided you information on this process already.

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9 1 MR. KEEGAN: Michael Keegan. Let me 2 state for the record that we just got informed late 3 yesterday of the phone bridge, so the expectation that 4 were going to be participating and adding additional 5 items is quite shortly. I mean, weve had less than 6 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> notification on this.

7 MS. FEDERLINE: Okay, Im sorry about 8 that.

9 MR. WHARTON: For the record, Michael, let 10 me just state that Ive been trying to reach Terry 11 Lodge for the last week. Ive called him every day, 12 sometimes multiple times a day since last Tuesday and 13 he returned my phone call yesterday afternoon and 14 thats the reason that youre only finding out about 15 this, its because I had no contact with the counsel 16 for the Petitioners.

17 MS. FEDERLINE: Well, I dont want to put 18 anybody at a disadvantage, ff theres not been time to 19 prepare for this call. Michael, how would you like to 20 proceed? Would you rather that we -- we would like 21 to go ahead, if at all possible, but if you feel you 22 havent had time to prepare --

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10 1 sided here -- youre asking us to make our case and we 2 just were alerted to is yesterday. There is certified 3 mail, there is e-mail, there is phone calls. So there 4 are ways of making contact with an attorney.

5 MR. WHARTON: And I tried two of those 6 three.

7 MR. KEEGAN: Okay, but I guess I would go 8 forward under protest basically.

9 MR. WHARTON: Let me just say, when I 10 spoke to Terry yesterday and I tried to walk him 11 through the process, and I explained to him what the 12 purpose of the phone call was, well, I told him we 13 were having a meeting and I invited him to participate 14 by way of a telecon if he felt a need to. And I told 15 him the purpose of it was to provide any clarifying 16 type of information that he felt might be needed for 17 the petition or the accompanying declaration and he 18 stated that he thought the declaration was very, very 19 clear and he thought that the petition was also 20 pointed and he really did not think that there would 21 be any clarifying information that he would need to 22 provide.

23 However, he did want to have an 24 opportunity to participate in the telecon. And for 25 that reason, were holding it.

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11 1 MS. FEDERLINE: Yeah, let me be clear, 2 that the reason for todays meeting is really not to 3 discuss or debate the petition, but really to provide 4 an opportunity for everyone to add any additional 5 information. The board will be meeting after this 6 call just to decide if it meets the requirements of a 7 petition.

8 MR. KEEGAN: Well, again, we dont have 9 the opportunity to have our attorney here. He is in 10 court and I would proceed with this proceeding under 11 protest that we would like to be able to add at a 12 later time, to this conversation.

13 MR. GOLDBERG: You will have that 14 opportunity. You can add material in writing. If 15 necessary, we can have another meeting by phone and 16 youll be able to discuss matters.

17 MR. KEEGAN: Prior to the decision?

18 MR. GOLDBERG: Yes.

19 MS. LONGO: There are two decisions.

20 First of all, theres a decision whether to accept the 21 petition and if it is accepted, a decision on the 22 merits.

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12 1 opportunity to provide any additional information you 2 wish to provide before it is decided whether or not 3 the petition meets the criteria for acceptance of the 4 2.206.

5 MR. KEEGAN: And what Im saying is that 6 we would like the opportunity to add to the record 7 prior to you making a decision whether its picked up 8 or not and we dont have that opportunity now because 9 of the late informing.

10 MS. FEDERLINE: Could we agree that any 11 materials supplementing this call would be provided in 12 the next week?

13 MR. KEEGAN: Yes, we can agree to that.

14 MS. FEDERLINE: Okay, that sounds very 15 reasonable. Again, you know, this is a process that 16 we feel we want the process to be fair to all parties.

17 So lets proceed with the call.

18 MR. HIRT: Could I ask one question, 19 please? How soon would we receive a transcript of 20 this phone conversation?

21 MR. GOLDBERG: It should be in less than 22 a week.

23 MR. WHARTON: Who is speaking? Who asked 24 the question?

25 MS. HIRT: Alice Hirt, I asked --

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13 1 MR. WHARTON: No, I heard the question.

2 I just wanted to identify who it was. Okay.

3 MR. KEEGAN: Well, again, Keegan here.

4 Id like to have the transcript in hand before we 5 close the record because were going forward without 6 legal counsel at this moment.

7 MR. WHARTON: Well, is it possible, do I 8 need -- this is Ray Wharton, the Petition Manager 9 again. So I need be interfacing exclusively with your 10 counsel or should I be potentially trying to give 11 someone else some information?

12 MR. KEEGAN: Our counsel is our counsel 13 and thats who information should be going to, but --

14 MS. HIRT: E-mail is the best way to 15 communicate.

16 MR. WHARTON: And I have done that. Were 17 going to caucus for just a moment.

18 (Pause) 19 MR. KEEGAN: Alice, are you there?

20 MS. HIRT: Yeah, do we have an opportunity 21 to caucus also?

22 MR. KEEGAN: Yeah, I guess so.

23 MR. KARCH: Id like to suggest that we 24 have a week after we receive the transcript.

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14 1 transcript.

2 MALE PARTICIPANT: Hes saying the 3 transcript would be available within a week. That 4 could mean five or six days of the week that theyre 5 giving us. So we need a week after we receive the 6 transcript.

7 MS. HIRT: And Im sorry, but I do not 8 believe that Terry had overlooked this for a whole 9 week.

10 MS. TREMBLE: No, we need to make sure 11 that that guys got the right e-mail address.

12 MS. HIRT: Yes, or -- yes, thats a good 13 way of putting it, Kay.

14 MR. KEEGAN: Shall I raise that, then?

15 MR. KARCH: Yeah.

16 MS. FEDERLINE: Hello.

17 FEMALE PARTICIPANT: Hello?

18 MS. FEDERLINE: Yes, we want you to be 19 comfortable with the process. We have two options.

20 Would you prefer us to reschedule the call or the 21 other option is we can agree to give you a week to 22 provide additional information after you receive the 23 transcript.

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15 1 after we receive the transcript?

2 MS. FEDERLINE: Yes.

3 MR. KEEGAN: Okay, thats acceptable.

4 MS. FEDERLINE: Yes, okay, well, we want 5 you to be comfortable with the process.

6 MS. HIRT: Thank you.

7 MS. FEDERLINE: Okay. Lets proceed. Let 8 me ask the spokesman for the Petitioners if you have 9 any points related to whether this should qualify as 10 a petition that you would like to make in todays 11 call.

12 MR. KEEGAN: I have no additional points 13 at this point. Were taking a listening posture, as 14 I say. We were just informed last night.

15 MS. FEDERLINE: Okay. Does anyone else on 16 the call have any questions, clarifying questions?

17 MR. LEWIS: Dave Lewis, NMCs counsel. I 18 dont.

19 MR. GOLDBERG: Let me ask the 20 representatives of the Petitioners, have you had a 21 chance to look at our Management Directive that Ms.

22 Federline mentioned that describes the process so that 23 youll know what were actually looking for in a 24 petition?

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16 1 documents to that effect.

2 MR. GOLDBERG: All right, well, well make 3 sure we get you copies of that. If there are people 4 other than Mr. Lodge that we should send these things 5 to, please let us know, give us postal addresses and 6 e-mail addresses and if necessary, phone numbers and 7 well see if we can get the material to them.

8 MR. KEEGAN: Well provide those for you.

9 MS. LAHTI: That information is on the NRC 10 web page. Thats where I saw it.

11 MR. GOLDBERG: Yes, it is, thats true.

12 MS. FEDERLINE: If it would be useful to 13 you, I can ask that the criteria be summarized here.

14 MR. KEEGAN: Certainly. Well, a summary 15 would be good but the full text would be better.

16 MS. FEDERLINE: Absolutely, well point 17 you -- well send you an e-mail and point you to it on 18 the web but for now Im going to ask Paul Goldberg 19 just to briefly summarize the criteria.

20 MR. KEEGAN: Okay.

21 MR. GOLDBERG: Okay, this if from 22 Management Directive 8.11, Review Process for a 10 CFR 23 2.206 Petitions. And the criteria for reviewing 24 petitions under this rule are as follows. The 25 petition contains a request for enforcement related NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W.

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17 1 action such as issuing an order, modifying, suspending 2 or revoking a license, issuing a notice of violation, 3 with or without a proposed civil penalty, et cetera.

4 So your petition has to contain that.

5 The facts that constitute the bases for 6 taking the particular action are specified. The 7 petitioner must provide some element of support beyond 8 the bear assertion. The supporting facts must be 9 credible and sufficient to warrant further inquiry.

10 Next one, there is no NRC proceeding available in 11 which the petitioner is or could be a party and for 12 which the petitioners concerns could be addressed.

13 If theres a proceeding available, for example, if a 14 petitioner raised an issue that he or she has raised 15 or could raise in an ongoing licensing proceeding, the 16 staff will inform the petitioner of the ongoing 17 proceeding and will not treat the request under 10 CFR 18 2.206.

19 Now, on the other side, we have criterias 20 for rejecting petitions and Ill summarize those also.

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18 1 concerns. Next, if the petitioner raises issues that 2 have already been the subject of NRC staff review and 3 evaluation, either on that facility or other similar 4 facilities, or on a generic basis for which a 5 resolution has been achieved, the issues have been 6 resolved and the resolution is applicable to the 7 facility in question.

8 Next, the request is to deny a license 9 application or amendment. This type of request should 10 be addressed in the context of the relevant licensing 11 action. And the final criteria for rejecting 12 petitions is if the request addresses deficiencies 13 within existing NRC rules, this type of request should 14 be addressed as a petition for rulemaking.

15 MS. FEDERLINE: So that summarizes the 16 criteria that we will be using. Paul was reading 17 directly from the Management Directive, so I think 18 that gives you a fairly good idea. We will e-mail you 19 the link on the website so that you can have that to 20 look at more carefully.

21 Okay, if theres no other discussion, I 22 think thats probably all we can accomplish for today, 23 but as I say, we will mail you that link and as we 24 agreed, well provide you a copy of the transcript and 25 youll have a week beyond that to submit any NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W.

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19 1 additional information that you would like.

2 MS. HIRT: Do you have e-mails and 3 addresses for us?

4 MR. GOLDBERG: No, we dont. We just have 5 information for Mr. Lodge.

6 MR. KEEGAN: Well tell Mr. Lodge to 7 provide you with the information on the Petitioners.

8 MS. FEDERLINE: That would be helpful.

9 MR. KEEGAN: Okay, but Im not clear on 10 anything thats occurred. I thought we were going to 11 discuss whether it met criteria or not.

12 MS. FEDERLINE: This was your opportunity 13 to address the criteria. I apologize if there was any 14 misunderstanding but it was an opportunity for the 15 petitioners to provide any additional information. We 16 realize you have already done that in the petition, 17 but this is just an opportunity. Its a courtesy to 18 all the parties involved to have an opportunity to 19 express any additional information or to ask any 20 clarifying questions for the other parties.

21 MR. KEEGAN: Well, could you inform me if 22 there are any criteria that we have not met?

23 MR. GOLDBERG: Well, we havent made that 24 decision yet. We havent looked at it in those terms.

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20 1 for you to provide any information addressing the 2 criteria in addition to the written information that 3 weve received so that we could consider it in our 4 discussion.

5 MS. HIRT: Could I request that you put 6 this, what you just said in writing to us so that we 7 could see what the purpose of this phone call was, 8 please, so that we could respond completely?

9 MS. FEDERLINE: That is -- you will find 10 that in the process, in our Management Directive and 11 were going to send you a link on the -- to the 12 website where you can read about our complete process, 13 2.206 process.

14 MR. RULAND: Could I add one thing? This 15 is Bill Ruland speaking. Often -- let me not say 16 often, sometimes when we afford the petitioner the 17 opportunity for this phone call, they dont take it 18 up, dont take us up on it. They feel that theyve 19 provided sufficient information their application 20 that, in fact, makes the case that there is -- this is 21 a valid 2.206.

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21 1 you to get the impression that somehow were trying to 2 put you on the spot. Rather, its just an additional 3 safeguard that the NRC has placed in this process to 4 go beyond what youve already provided in writing.

5 And its unfortunate that this 6 communication between -- you know, your own 7 communication -- you know, we havent been able to 8 communicate effectively in this matter. So Id just 9 ask you to consider the way these phone calls work and 10 consider them in the spirit theyre intended.

11 MR. KEEGAN: But the record is still open.

12 This is Keegan speaking.

13 MS. FEDERLINE: Yes, yes, we agreed that 14 you can provide any additional information with 15 respect to whether you meet the criteria to be 16 considered as a petition for a week beyond the time 17 you receive this transcript.

18 MR. KEEGAN: Well, thats acceptable with 19 myself. Let me check with my other parties.

20 Ms. Hirts?

21 MS. HIRTS: Yes.

22 MR. KEEGAN: Ms. Tremble?

23 MS. TREMBLE: Yes.

24 MR. KEEGAN: Mr. Karch?

25 MR. KARCH: Yes.

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22 1 MR. KEEGAN: Very good, then well accept 2 that and keep the record open.

3 MS. FEDERLINE: Okay, good.

4 MS. HIRTS: Mike, lets just make sure 5 they know how to communicate with Terry from this 6 point forward, with our counsel.

7 MR. KEEGAN: Okay, very good.

8 MS. FEDERLINE: If your counsel could send 9 us an e-mail with the pertinent information about how 10 to reach him and also who additionally needs to be 11 copied on any information thats sent.

12 MS. TREMBLE: Who should he send it to?

13 MS. FEDERLINE: The Petition Manager, Ray 14 Wharton.

15 MR. KEEGAN: Very good.

16 MR. WHARTON: My e-mail address is 17 lrw@nrc.gov.

18 MR. KEEGAN: Very good.

19 MR. WHARTON: My phone number is 301-415-20 1396.

21 MS. KEEGAN: Very good.

22 MS. FEDERLINE: Let me ask if any other 23 participants in the call would like to make any 24 comments or ask any questions.

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23 1 counsel. Could I ask the petitioners if they could 2 copy NMC on any further submissions they make to just 3 save us the burden of trying to dig them up and have 4 the delay. If its possible when you e-mail anything 5 to the NRC, if could copy Jonathan Rogoff (phonetic) 6 and myself, it would be very much appreciated and 7 Terry Lodge has those e-mail addresses.

8 MR. KEEGAN: I cant commit to that, I 9 dont know the legal implications, but I can make that 10 request of Terry Lodge.

11 MR. LEWIS: Just my request, please.

12 MR. KEEGAN: Okay, this again was --

13 MR. LEWIS: David Lewis.

14 MR. KEEGAN: -- David Lewis requests --

15 MR. LEWIS: Just a copy, myself and 16 Jonathan Rogoff on anything you submit, if its 17 possible.

18 MS. FEDERLINE: And, of course, we will 19 make materials publicly available.

20 MR. KEEGAN: Pertaining to this 2.206 21 petition.

22 MR. LEWIS: Yes, please.

23 MR. KEEGAN: I just wanted to clarify 24 that, okay.

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24 1 comments or questions?

2 MS. HIRT: Could I ask, where did you say 3 the criteria that you summarized this morning, where 4 is that available now today on the web?

5 MR. GOLDBERG: Its in the Management 6 Directive 8.11. Had you found that already on the 7 web? You said youd seen some of the material.

8 MS. LAHTI: This is Lauri Lahti. I was 9 the one that mentioned it.

10 MR. GOLDBERG: Oh, Im sorry. Yeah, its 11 on our website. As Ms. Federline said, well send you 12 the link for that. Its Management Directive 8.11.

13 MS. HIRT: Okay.

14 MR. GOLDBERG: Our website, our general 15 website is nrc.gov.

16 MS. FEDERLINE: If you go to the home page 17 it will give you a selection of -- I believe if you 18 select NRC documents or NRC guidance, youll be able 19 to find it.

20 MS. HIRT: Okay, thank you.

21 MS. FEDERLINE: Anybody else? Well, once 22 again, I want to thank everybody for participating in 23 the call today. Sorry for any confusion but I think 24 were on a path now. So thank you very much for your 25 participation.

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25 1 MR. KEEGAN: Thank you.

2 MS. HIRT: Thank you.

3 MS. FEDERLINE: Region III.

4 MR. CAMERON: Yes, Im still here.

5 MS. FEDERLINE: Good. Yes, we would like 6 you to call back if you could, so we can get off the 7 recorded line.

8 MR. CAMERON: Okay.

9 MS. FEDERLINE: Let me get you the number.

10 MS. TREMBLE: Do the petitioners still get 11 to listen in?

12 MR. GOLDBERG: No, weve finished our 13 petition review board meeting.

14 MS. LAHTI: Oh, okay, thank you.

15 MR. GOLDBERG: Okay, bye.

16 OPERATIONS OFFICER: This is headquarters 17 op center, Ray, are you there?

18 MR. CAMERON: It sounded like they just 19 dropped off. This is James Cameron, Region III.

20 OPERATIONS OFFICER: Okay, Jim.

21 MR. CAMERON: Oh, theyre going to call 22 me?

23 OPERATIONS OFFICER: Okay, so the call --

24 OPERATIONS OFFICER: This is headquarters 25 op center.

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