ML14212A374

NRC Staff Hearing File Update 66

ML14212A374
Person / Time
Site:	Indian Point
Issue date:	07/31/2014
From:	Amitava Ghosh NRC/OGC
To:	Kennedy M, Lawrence Mcdade, Richard Wardwell Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
SECY RAS
References
50-247-LR, 50-286-LR, ASLBP 07-858-03-LR-BD01, RAS 26274
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UNITE D STATE S N UCLEAR REGULATORY C OMMI SS I ON WASHINGTON, DC 20555 - 0001 July 31, 2014 Administrative Judge Administrative Judge Lawrence G. McDade, Chair Dr. Richard E. Wardwell Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Mail Stop T-3 F23 Mail Stop T-3 F23 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 Washington, DC 20555-0001 Administrative Judge Michael F. Kennedy 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.

(Indian Point Nuclear Generating Units 2 and 3)

Docket Nos. 50-247-LR and 50-286-LR

Dear Administrative Judges:

Pursuant to the Atomic Safety and Licensing Boards December 18, 2008, Memorandum and Order (Addressing Requests that the Proceeding be Conducted Pursuant to Subpart G), slip op. at 13, the Licensing Board's Order (Granting Consent Motion Regarding Mandatory Disclosures), dated January 30, 2009, at 1, the staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Staff) herein notifies the Licensing Board and the parties that the hearing file has been supplemented for this proceeding. Materials in the hearing file may be accessed through the Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). An index containing the ADAMS accession number, date, and title or description of each item in Hearing File Index, Supplement 66 is appended hereto as Attachment 1.

On or about August 10, 2014, the documents identified in the hearing file will be made available via the Electronic Hearing Docket (EHD), which may be accessed at the following URL:

http://ehd.nrc.gov/EHD_Proceeding/home.asp. The hearing file will be contained in a sub-folder entitled, Indian PT Hearing File, Update 66 in the Indian_PT_2&3_50-247&50-286-LR" folder of the EHD.

In addition, as required by 10 C.F.R. § 2.336(b)(5), the Staff is producing a privilege log, identifying documents withheld under the deliberative process; appended hereto as Attachment

2. Also attached is the Declaration of John W. Lubinski formally invoking the deliberative process privilege with respect to the documents in Attachment 2. The Staff will preserve and

Judge McDade July 31, 2014 Judge Kennedy Judge Wardwell maintain the privileged documents identified in these logs during the pendency of this proceeding.

Further, pursuant to 10 C.F.R. § 2.336(c), attached is the Affidavit of Kimberly J. Green, certifying that all relevant materials required by this section have been disclosed, and that the disclosures are accurate and complete as to documents identified by July 24, 2014.

Finally, the NRC Staff notes that it has made a good faith effort to identify and characterize all documents meeting the criteria of 10 C.F.R. § 2.336(b) and 10 C.F.R. § 2.1203 in this proceeding. In identifying these documents, the Staff does not concede their relevance to the license renewal issues to be decided in this proceeding.

Sincerely,

/Signed (electronically) by/

Anita Ghosh Counsel for NRC Staff

Enclosures:

Attachment 1 - Hearing File Index, Supplement 66 Attachment 2 - Deliberative Process Privilege Log Declaration of John W. Lubinski Affidavit of Kimberly J. Green cc w/Encls.: Service List

Attachment 1 - Indian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Supplement 66 - July 31, 2014 Accession Document ID# Title Number Date ML14168A475 06/13/2014 Letter from M. Mattson, Normandeau Associates, to J. Bullard, National Marine Fisheries Service, 66-0001 forwarding Revision 2 of the Proposed Monitoring Plan for Sturgeon at Indian Point.

66-0002 ML14181B387 06/30/2014 2014/06/30 Indian Point LR Hearing - Draft RAI on Deletion of Condensate System Components 66-0003 ML14192A031 07/10/2014 2014/07/10 Indian Point LR Hearing - RE: Schedules for Phone Call 66-0004 ML14192A030 07/10/2014 2014/07/10 Indian Point LR Hearing - RE: Schedules for Phone Call 66-0005 ML14191A700 07/10/2014 2014/07/10 Indian Point LR Hearing - Schedules for Phone Call 66-0006 ML14192B050 07/11/2014 2014/07/11 Indian Point LR Hearing - RE: Schedules for Phone Call ML14198A229 07/15/2014 Consistency of the Indian Point Nuclear Generating Units Nos. 2 and 3 License Renewal 66-0007 Application with New York State Coastal Management Program.

66-0008 ML14198A276 07/17/2014 2014/07/17 Indian Point LR Hearing - Meeting Summary 66-0009 ML14198A278 07/17/2014 2014/07/17 Indian Point LR Hearing - RE: Meeting Summary ML14202A099 07/17/2014 D.Gouveia, NMFS, to D.Gray, Entergy, Follow-up to July 1, 2014, meeting regarding the Proposed 66-0010 Draft Monitoring Plan for sturgeon at Indian Point.

66-0011 ML14202A558 07/21/2014 2014/07/21 Indian Point LR Hearing - Draft telecon summary for 6/19 ad 7/16 ML14202A560 07/21/2014 2014/07/21 Indian Point LR Hearing - Phone Call on Draft RAI re Removal of Condensate System 66-0012 AMR Items 66-0013 ML14203A578 07/22/2014 2014/07/22 Indian Point LR Hearing - RE: Draft telecon summary for 6/19 ad 7/16 66-0014 ML14203A575 07/22/2014 2014/07/22 Indian Point LR Hearing - RE: Draft telecon summary for 6/19 ad 7/16 ML14204A220 07/23/2014 2014/07/23 Indian Point LR Hearing - RE: Phone Call on Draft RAI re Removal of Condensate 66-0015 System AMR Items ML14204A221 07/23/2014 2014/07/23 Indian Point LR Hearing - RE: Phone Call on Draft RAI re Removal of Condensate 66-0016 System AMR Items

Attachment 2 - Indian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Deliberative Process Privilege, Supplement 66 - July 31, 2014 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 disclosures 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.

Author Name Addressee Name Estimated Accession Document Document ID # & Author Title & Addressee Comment Page Number Date Type Affiliation Affiliation Count DP- ML14175A395 K. Green, 2014/06/24 Indian Point 06/24/2014 E-Mail J. Wise, Internal 2 66- NRC/NRR LR Hearing - Can you NRC/NRR discussion 001 check this? regarding SER input DP- ML14175A412 K. Green, 2014/06/24 Indian Point 06/24/2014 E-Mail w/ A. Hiser, Internal 132 66- NRC/NRR LR Hearing - Files Attachment NRC/NRR discussion 002 needed for your review regarding draft SER input Attachments:

[draft SER input; Entergy Letter NL-09-079 (ML091750166);

Entergy Letter NL-12-123 (ML12285A084);

DP- ML14175B664 J. Wise, 2014/06/24 Indian Point 06/24/2014 E-Mail w/ D. Morey, Internal 6 66- NRC/NRR LR Hearing - For BC Attachment NRC/NRR discussion 003 Review: Indian Point regarding draft SERs SER input

Attachment:

draft SER input 1

Attachment 2 - Indian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Deliberative Process Privilege, Supplement 66 - July 31, 2014 Author Name Addressee Name Estimated Accession Document Document ID # & Author Title & Addressee Comment Page Number Date Type Affiliation Affiliation Count DP- ML14177A644 J. Wise, 2014/06/26 Indian Point 06/26/2014 E-Mail w/ K. Green, Internal 6 66- NRC/NRR LR Hearing - SERs for Attachment NRC/NRR discussion 004 Indian Point regarding draft Amendments 14 and 15 Y. Diaz-Sanabria, SER input NRC/NRR

Attachment:

draft D. Morey, SER input NRC/NRR DP- ML14178B322 K. Green, 2014/06/27 Indian Point 06/27/2014 E-Mail w/ D. Morey, Internal 3 66- NRC/NRR LR Hearing - Forwarding Attachment NRC/NRR discussion 005 Predecisional Draft RAI - regarding draft RAI on Basis for A. Hiser, RAI Deleting AMR Items on NRC/NRR "Cracking -Fatigue" for

Attachment:

draft Condensate System RAI Components from Scope of the LRA DP- ML14178B328 A. Hiser, 2014/06/27 Indian Point 06/27/2014 E-Mail w/ J. Medoff, Internal 3 66- NRC/NRR LR Hearing - RE: Attachment NRC/NRR discussion 006 Forwarding regarding draft Predecisional Draft RAI - K. Green, RAI RAI on Basis for NRC/NRR Deleting AMR Items on

Attachment:

draft "Cracking -Fatigue" for RAI Condensate System Components from Scope of the LRA 2

Attachment 2 - Indian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Deliberative Process Privilege, Supplement 66 - July 31, 2014 Author Name Addressee Name Estimated Accession Document Document ID # & Author Title & Addressee Comment Page Number Date Type Affiliation Affiliation Count DP- ML14183B156 K. Green, 2014/07/02 Indian Point 07/02/2014 E-Mail J. Poehler, Internal 3 66- NRC/NRR LR Hearing - SER NRC/NRR discussion 007 suggested wording regarding draft SER input Attachments:

draft SER input DP- ML14184B285 K. Green, 2014/07/03 Indian Point 07/03/2014 E-Mail M. Marshall, Internal 100 66- NRC/NRR LR Hearing - ACTION NRC/NRR discussion 008 REQUEST: IP SSER 2 regarding draft draft D. Morey, SER input NRC/NRR Attachments:

draft SER 3

July 31, 2014 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of )

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ENTERGY NUCLEAR OPERATIONS, INC. ) Docket Nos. 50-247-LR, 50-286-LR

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(Indian Point Nuclear Generating Units 2 and 3) )

DECLARATION OF JOHN W. LUBINSKI I, John W. Lubinski, do hereby state as follows:

1. I am employed as the Director of the Division of License Renewal (DLR) in the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissions (NRC) Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR). My supervisory responsibilities include oversight of the NRC Staffs review and evaluation of the Indian Point Nuclear Generating Units 2 and 3 license renewal application.

2. As part of their responsibilities in updating the hearing file and mandatory disclosures for these proceedings, NRC staff members under my supervision identified documents as privileged because they contained information concerning the Staffs pre-decisional deliberative process. The documents are listed in Attachment 2 to the submission of the Staffs Hearing File Index Supplement 66.

3. I have personally reviewed the documents identified as privileged in , and have determined, in accordance with the guidance set forth in Management Directive 3.4, that they contain pre-decisional information concerning the Staffs review of the license renewal application. The 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. The documents comprise part of the deliberative process necessary for the Staffs review of the pending license renewal application.

4. Further, I have determined that disclosure of the 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 the documents listed in Attachment 2 to the submission of the Staffs Hearing File Index Supplement 66.

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

Executed in Accord with 10 CFR 2.304(d)

John W. Lubinski Executed in Rockville, Maryland this 31st day of July, 2014

July 31, 2014 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of )

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ENTERGY NUCLEAR OPERATIONS, INC. ) Docket Nos. 50-247-LR, 50-286-LR

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(Indian Point Nuclear Generating )

Units 2 and 3) )

AFFIDAVIT OF KIMBERLY J. GREEN CONCERNING MANDATORY DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENT OF 10 C.F.R. § 2.336(b)

I, Kimberly J. Green, do hereby state as follows:

1. I am employed as a Senior Mechanical Engineer in the Division of License Renewal in the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissions (NRC) Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. I serve as the hearing file project manager for the Indian Point Nuclear Generating Units 2 and 3 license renewal application (LRA). Among other things, I am assisting with the preparation of the hearing file and mandatory disclosures in connection with the LRA at issue in this proceeding.

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 for documents identified as of July 24, 2014.

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

Executed in Accord with 10 CFR 2.304(d)

Kimberly J. Green Executed in Rockville, Maryland this 31st day of July 2014

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

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ENTERGY NUCLEAR OPERATIONS, INC. ) Docket Nos. 50-247-LR, 50-286-LR

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(Indian Point Nuclear Generating )

Units 2 and 3) )

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE Pursuant to 10 C.F.R § 2.305 (revised), I hereby certify that copies of the foregoing Letter to the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board regarding the Indian Point Hearing File, including: - Indian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Supplement 66; Attachment 2

- Indian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Supplement 66 - Deliberative Process Privilege; Declaration of John W. Lubinski, dated July 31, 2014; and Affidavit of Kimberly J.

Green, dated July 31, 2014, in the above-captioned proceeding have been served upon the Electronic Information Exchange, the NRCs E-Filing System, this 31st day of July, 2014.

/Signed (electronically) by/

Anita Ghosh Counsel for NRC Staff U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the General Counsel Mail Stop - O-15D21 Washington, DC 20555 Telephone: (301) 415-4113 E-mail: anita.ghosh@nrc.gov Date of signature: July 31, 2014