ML18320A195

NRC Staff Response to Aslb Order Regarding Location and Method of Oral Argument

ML18320A195
Person / Time
Site:	HI-STORE
Issue date:	11/16/2018
From:	Joe Gillespie, Hair C, Alana Wase NRC/OGC
To:	Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
SECY RAS
References
HI-STORE Fuel Storage, RAS 54631, Holtec International
Download: ML18320A195 (3)

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1 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of HOLTEC INTERNATIONAL (Consolidated Interim Storage Facility)

Docket No. 72

-1051 Response to Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Order Regarding Location and Method of Oral Argument In accordance with the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Order dated November 7 , 201 8 , 1 counsel for the NRC Staff is providing input on the location and method of oral argument.

The NRC Staff would prefer, to the greatest extent possible, for the oral argument to take place either:

i n-person or through a combination of in

-person and video teleconferencing in Rockville, MD, or at a location near the proposed facility (e.g., cities of Carlsbad and Hobbs, NM)

. The Staff also notes that at least one of the locations the Staff used to conduct its environmental scoping meetings, the Lea County Event Center in Hobbs, New Mexico, is likely suitable for conducting the oral argument.

2 1 Order (Regarding Location and Method of Oral Argument) (Nov. 7, 2018) (unpublished) (ADAMS Accession No. ML18311A188

) 2 The Staff notes that the Lea County Event Center is owned by Lea County, New Mexico, and that the Board of Commissioners for Lea County has requested to participate in the proceeding as an interested local governmental body.

See Corrected Petition by the Board of Commissioners for Lea County, NM to Participate as an Interested Local Governmental Body (Sep. 11, 2018) (ADAMS Accession No. ML18255A364

).

2 Respectfully submitted, /Signed (electronically) by/

Joe I. Gillespie III Mail Stop: O A 44 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 Telephone: (301) 287-9184 E-mail: Joe.Gillespie@nrc.gov Counsel for NRC Staff Executed in Accord with 10 CFR 2.304(d)

Alana M. Wase Christopher C. Hair Mail Stop: O A 44 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 Telephone: (301) 287

-9095 Telephone: (301) 287-9152 E-mail: Alana.Wase@nrc.gov E-mail: Christopher.Hair@nrc.gov Counsel for NRC Staff Dated in Rockville, MD this 1 6th day of November 2018

3 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of HOLTEC INTERNATIONAL (Consolidated Interim Storage Facility)

Docket No. 72

-1051 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE Pursuant to 10 C.F.R § 2.305 (as revised), I hereby certify that copies of the foregoing "Response to Atomic Safety And Licensing Board Order Regarding Location and Method of Oral Argument ," dated November 1 6, 2018, have been served upon the Electronic Information Exchange (the NRC's E

-Filing System), in the above-captioned proceeding, this 1 6 th day of November, 2018.

Respectfully submitted, /Signed (electronically) by/

Joe I. Gillespie III Counsel to the Staff Mail Stop: O A 44 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 Telephone: (301) 287-9184 E-mail: Joe.Gillespie@nrc.gov Dated in Rockville, MD this 1 6th day of November 2018