ML20064N547

Motion for Order Striking Parts of Jf Meyer & W Trevor Testimony Re Use of Glow Plugs,Passive Heat Removal & Core Retention Sys.Raising Such Features After Completion of Question 2 Record Prejudices Utils.Certificate of Svc Encl

ML20064N547
Person / Time
Site:	Indian Point
Issue date:	02/07/1983
From:	Brandenburg B, Morgan C CONSOLIDATED EDISON CO. OF NEW YORK, INC., MORGAN ASSOCIATES, POWER AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (NEW YORK
To:	Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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ISSUANCES-SP, NUDOCS 8302160271
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q C&KETED UWC UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

'83 FEB 15 N0:21 ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD Before Administrative Judges: 7 p "

James P. Gleason, Chairman '

Federick J. Shon 2 A NM Dr. Oscar H. Paris l

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x 1 In the Matter of  : Docket Nos.

CONSOLIDATED EDISON COMPANY OF NEW YORK, 50-247 SP l INC. (Indian Point, Unit No. 2)  : 50-286 SP 1 POWER AUT.'IORITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK,  : February 7, 1983 (Indian Point, Unit No. 3)

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LICENSEES' MOTION FOR AN ORDER STRIKING l PORTIONS OF THE TESTIMONY OF NRC STAFF l WITNESSES JAMES F. MEYER AND W. TREVOR PRATT l ATTORNEYS FILING THIS DOCUMENT:

Brent L. Brandenburg Charles Morgan, Jr.

CONSOLIDATED EDISON COMPANY Paul F. Colarulli OF NEW YORK, INC. Joseph J. Levin, Jr.

4 Irving Place MORGAN ASSOCIATES, CHARTERED New York, New York 10003 1899 L Street, N.h (212) 460-4600 (202) 466-7000 e302160271 830207 PDR ADOCK 05000247 .

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• Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (Con Edison), licensee of Indian Point Unit 2, and the Power Authority of the State of New York (Power Authority), licensee d

of Indian Point Unit 3, hereby move the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (Board) to strike pages III B-27 through III B-68 from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Staff's Testimony of James F. Meyer and W. Trevor Pratt dated January 24, 1983. ,

These pages purport to represent the risk associated with a " Question 2" further safety feature. Among the features

. discussed are glow plugs, passive heat removal and core retention systems.

Licensees submit that such material must be stricken as not properly arising under Commission Question 1, which asks what are the risks associated with the Indian Pcint plants. The glow plug, passive heat removal and core retention systems are not installed at Indian Point, and thus have no place under I Question 1. While the licensees readily acknowledge some areas of commonality between Questions 1 and 2, the evaluation of specific features not present in the Indian Point units is clearly and solely a Question 2 matter.

For the features discussed in the Staff's testimony to be raised now in this proceeding, after completion of the I

t Question 2 record, would be incompatible with the Board's orders, entremely prejudicial to the licensees, and violative of the due process rights of the licensees.

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• Intervenors submitted contentions on December 2, 1981 concerning the filtered vent, brackish water, and separate containment systems. Following the adoption by the Board of these proposed features as contentions, licensees initiated a program to review these features from numerous engineering and risk standpoints, spending hundreds of hours preparing evalua-tions and responding to those contentions. Ultimately, defenses to the proposed new features were made, which culminated in the licensees' Question 2 testimony.

However, under the Staff's proposed testimony, entirely new and different features would be admissible before the Board 4

more than a year after all other new safety features were propcsed, and without any time for licensees to conduct the weeks and months of careful evaluation necessary for licensees to respond, as was done with all previous Question 2 materials.

The simpic fact is that licensees cannot at this late date receive testimony evaluating entirely new features -- glow plugs, heat removal systems and core retention devices -- and present a full and appropriate evaluation within the time period remaining in the hearing. Staff should have come forward long prior to the filing of Question 1 testimony with features they wished to evaluate, all of which were properly cognizable only during the earlier Question 2 phase. Staff was under an obligation to provide notice to the licensees by putting at issue at a much earlier stage of this proceeding any mitigation features it scught to have litigated. This Staff failed to do.

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i Instead, Staff has chosen to introduce these features, inappropri-ately, in their Question 1 testimony.

WHEREFORE,' licensees respectfully request that the Board strike those parts of the testimony of the NRC Staff witnesses James F. Meyer and W. Trevor Pratt which contemplate-the use of glow plugs, passive heat removal, and core retention systems.

Obviously, the licensees are not prepared to relitigato Question 2 issues during the course of risk hearings on other questions, nor should they be required to do so.

Respectfully submitted,

( O-M L bluds d4 C..m d C O N73% %) M C Ce. % tC Brent L. Brandenburg Charles Morgan', Jrs> U Paul F. Colarulli CONSOLIDATED EDISON COMPANY Joseph J. Levin, Jr.

OF NEW YORK, INC.

Licensee of Indian Point MORGAN ASSOCIATES, CHARTERED Unit 2 1899 L Street, N.W.

4 Irving Place Washington, D.C. 20036 New York, New York 10003 (202) 466-7000 (212) 460-4333 Stephen L. Baum

, General Counsel Charles M. Pratt Assistant General Counsel POWER AUTHORITY OF THE STATE

! OF NEW YORK

! 'ensee of Indian Point Unit 3 l ~- ) lumbus Circle fork, New York 10019

,_.4) 397-6200 Bernard D. Fischman l Michael Curlef Richard F. Czaja David H. Pikus SHEA & GOULD 330 Madison Avenue New York, New York 10017 (212) 370-8000 Dated: February 7, 1983

UWITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD Before Administrative Judges:

James P. Gleason, Chairman Dr. Oscar H. Paris Frederick J. Shon

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x CONSOLIDATED EDISON COMPANY OF  : Docket Nos 50-247-SP NEW YORK, INC. (Indian Point, .

50-286-SP Unit No. 2)  :

POWER AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF  :

NEW YORK, (Indian Point, Unit No. 3)  : February 7, ]983

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x CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I certify that I have served copies of L7CENSEES' MOTION FOR AN ORDER STRIKING PORTIONS OF-THE TESTIMONY OF NRC STAFF WITNESSES JAMES F. MEYER AND W. TREVOR PRATT on

, the following parties by deposit in the United States mail, postage prepaid, this seventh day of February, 1983.

i Docxeting and Service Branch ~Dr. Oscar H. Paris Office of the Secretary Administrative Judge U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Atomic Safety and Licensing Commission -

Board Washington, D. C. 20555 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Ccmmission James P. Gleason, Esq., Chairman Washington, D. C. 20555 Administrative Judge 513 Gilmoure Drive Mr. Frederick J. Shon

Silver Springs, Maryland 20901 Administrative Judge Atomic Safety and Licensing Board d.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 9

4 Janice Moore, Esq. Charles,J. Maikish, Esq.

Office of the Executive Litigation Division Legal Director The Port Authority of U.S. Nuclear Regulatory New York and New Jersey Commission One World Trade Center Washington, D. C. 20555 New York, New York 10048 Paul F. Colarulli, Esq. Ezra I. Bialik, Esq. .

Joseph J. Levin, Jr., Esq. Steve Leipsiz, Esq.

PameJa S. Horowitz, Esq. New York State Attorney Charles Morgan, Jr., Esq. General's Office Morgan Associates, Chartered Two World Trade Center 1899 L Street, N.W. New York, New York 10047 Washington, D. C. 20036 '

Alfred B. Del Bello Charles M. Pratt, Esq. Westchester County Executive Stephen L. Baum 148 Martine Avenue Power Authority of the State White Plains, New York 10601 of New York 10 Columbus Circle Andrew S. Roffe, Esq.

New York, New York 10019 New York State Assembly

, Albany, New York 12248 Ellyn R. Weiss, Esq.

William S. Jordan, III, Esq. Renee Schwartz, Esq.

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Harmon & Weiss ' Paul Chessin, Esc.

1725 I Street, N.W., Suite 506 Laurens R. Schwartz, Esq.

Washington, D. C. 20006 Botein, Hayr, Sklar & Herzberg 200 Park Avenue Joan Holt, Project Director New York, New York 10166 Indian Point Project New York Public Interest Stanley B. Klimberg Research Group New York State Energy Office 9 Murray Street 2 Rockefeller State Plaza New York, New York 10007 Albany, New York 12223 Melvin Goldberg Ruth Messinger Staff Attorney Member of the Council of the New York Public Interest City of New York Research Group District #4 9 Murray Street City Hall New York, New York 10007 New York, New York 10007 Jeffrey M. Blum Marc L. Parris, Esq.

New York University Law School County Attorney 423 Vanderbilt Hall County of Rockland Washington Square South 11 New Hempstead Road New York, New York 10012 New City, New York 10010 i

, Joan Miles Alan Latman, Esq.

Indian Point Coordinator 44 Sunset Drive New York City Audubon Society Croton-on-Hudson, New York 1052C 71 W. 23rd Street, Suite 1828 .

New York, New York 10010 Richard M. Hartzman, Esq.

Lorna Salzman Greater New York Council on Friends of the Earth, Inc.

Energy 208 West 13th Street c/o Dean R. Corren, Director New York, New York 10011 New York University -

26 Stuyvesant Street Zipporah S. Fleisher New York, New York 10003 West Branch Conservation Association Atomic Safety and Licensing 443 Buena Vista Road Board Panel New City, New York 10956 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Mayor F. Webster Pierce Washington, D. C. 20555 Village of Buchanan 236 Tate Avenue Atomic Safety and Licensing Buchanan, New York 10511 Appeal Board Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Judith Kessler, Coordinator Commission -Rockland Citizens for Safe Washington, D. C. 20555 Energy 300 New Hempstead Road Richard L. Brodsky New City, New York 10956 Member of the County Legislature Westchester County David H. Pikus, Esq.

County Office Building Richard F. Czaja, Esq.

White Plains, New York 10601 330 Madison Avenue New York, New York 10017 Phyllis Rodriguez, Spokesperson Parents Concerned About Amanda Potterfield, Esq.

Indian Point Johnston & George P.O. Box 125 528 Iowa Avenue Croton-on-Hudson, New York 10520 Iowa. City, Iowa 52240 Charles A. Scheiner, Co-Chairperson Ruthanne G. Miller, Esq.

Westchester People 's Action Coalition, Inc.

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel P.O. Box 488 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory White Plains, New York 10602 Commission Washington, D. C. 20555 Stewart M. Glass Regional Counsel, Room 1347 Federal Emergency Management Agency 26 Federal Plaza New York, New York 10278 I

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Donald Davidoff', Director Craig Kaplan, Esq.

, Radiological Preparedness National Emergency Civil -

Group Liberties Committee Empire State Plaza 175 Fifth Avenue-Suite 712 Tower Building - Room 1750 New York, New York 10010 Albany, New York 12237 David B. Duboff Jonathan D. Feinberg Westchester Peoples' New York State Public Action Coalition Sarvice Commission 255 Grove Street Three Empire State Plaza White Plains, N. Y. 10601 Albany, New York 12223 Steven C. Sholly Spence W. Perry Union of Concerned Office of General Counsel Scientists Federal Emergency 1346 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Management Agency Suite 1101 500 C Street, Southwest Washington, D.C. 20036 Washington, D.C. 20472 Dated: February 7, 1983 aim 2da}

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