ML110750191

Letter to ASLB from Counsel for NRC Staff Providing Responses to Issues 3 - 5 in Board'S February 24, 2011 Order

ML110750191
Person / Time
Site:	Seabrook
Issue date:	03/16/2011
From:	Mary Spencer NRC/OGC
To:	Kennedy M, Paul Ryerson, Richard Wardwell Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
SECY RAS
References
RAS 19794, 50-443-LR, ASLBP-10-906-02-LR-BD01
Download: ML110750191 (5)

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March 16, 2011 Administrative Judge Administrative Judge Paul S. Ryerson, Chair Dr. Richard E. Wardwell Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Mail Stop: T-3F23 Mail Stop: T-3F23 Washington, DC 20555-001 Washington, DC 20555-0001 Administrative Judge Dr. Michael F. Kennedy Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Mail Stop: T-3F23 Washington, DC 20555-0001 In the Matter of NEXTERA ENERGY SEABROOK, LLC (Seabrook Station, Unit 1)

Docket No. 50-443-LR RE: Follow-up to March 14, 2011 Scheduling Conference

Dear Administrative Judges:

As requested during the March 14, 2011 scheduling conference, the attached document contains language acceptable to the parties in response to issues 3-5 in the Boards February 24, 2011 Order (Scheduling Initial Scheduling Conference).

Sincerely, Signed (electronically) by Mary B. Spencer Counsel for NRC Staff U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the General Counsel Mail Stop - O-15D21 Washington, DC 20555 Telephone: (301) 415-1324 E-mail: mary.spencer@nrc.gov

3. Suggested time limits for motions for leave to file new or amended contentions under 10 C.F.R. § 2.309(f)(2)(iii).

A motion and proposed new contention shall be deemed timely under 10 C.F.R.

§ 2.309(f)(2)(iii) if it is filed within thirty (30) days of the date when the new and material information on which it is based first becomes available to the moving party through service, publication, or any other means. If filed thereafter, the motion and proposed contention shall be deemed nontimely under 10 C.F.R. § 2.309(c). If the movant is uncertain, it may file pursuant to both sections.

4. Specification of pleading rules for motions for leave to file new or amended contentions that reconcile 10 C.F.R. §§ 2.309(c), 2.309(f)(2), and 2.323 (motions and answers to motions) with 10 C.F.R. § 2.309(h) (answers and replies to contentions).

A party seeking to file a motion or request for leave to file a new or amended contention shall file such motion and the substance of the proposed contention simultaneously. The pleading shall include a motion for leave to file a timely new or amended contention under 10 C.F.R. § 2.309(f)(2), or a motion for leave to file an untimely new or amended contention under 10 C.F.R. § 2.309(c) (or both), and the support for the proposed new or amended contention showing that it satisfies 10 C.F.R. § 2.309(f)(1). Within twenty-five (25) days after service of the motion and proposed contention, any other party may file an answer responding to all elements of the motion and contention. Within ten (10) days of service of the answer, the movant may file a reply.

5. Suggested regularized time frames for the updating of mandatory disclosures under 10 C.F.R. § 2.336(d) and for the updating of the hearing file under 10 C.F.R. § 2.1203(c).

Updates to mandatory disclosures and the NRC Staffs hearing file shall be filed the first Thursday of every month, including documents identified by the 15th of the prior month.

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

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NEXTERA ENERGY SEABROOK, LLC ) Docket Nos.

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(Seabrook Station, Unit 1, ) ASLBP No. 10-905-02-LR-BD01

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of the foregoing Letter: Follow-Up to March 14, 2011 Scheduling Conference, dated March 16, 2011, have been served upon the following by the Electronic Information Exchange, this 16th day of March, 2011:

Administrative Judge Office of Commission Appellate Paul S. Ryerson, Chair Adjudication Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Mail Stop - T-3 F23 Mail Stop - O-16G4 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 Washington, DC 20555-0001 E-mail: ocaamail@nrc.gov E-mail: Paul.Ryerson@nrc.gov Office of the Secretary Administrative Judge Attn: Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff Dr. Michael F. Kennedy Mail Stop: O-16G4 Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Mail Stop - T-3 F23 Washington, DC 20555-0001 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission E-mail: HEARINGDOCKET@nrc.gov Washington, DC 20555-0001 E-mail: Michael.Kennedy@nrc.gov Hillary Cain, Law Clerk Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Administrative Judge Mail Stop: T-3F23 Dr. Richard E. Wardwell U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Washington, DC 20555-0001 Mail Stop - T-3 F23 E-mail: Hillary.cain@nrc.go U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 E-mail: Richard.Wardwell@nrc.gov

Steven Hamrick, Esq. Mitchell Ross, Esq.

NextEra Energy Seabrook, LLC Antonio Fernandez, Esq.

801 Pennsylvania Ave NW Suite 220 NextEra Energy Seabrook, LLC Washington, DC 20004 700 Universe Boulevard Steven.hamrick@fpl.com Juno Beach, FL 33408 E-mail: mitch.ross@fpl.com Raymond Shadis E-mail: antonio.fernandez@fpl.com Friends of the Coast New England Coalition Doug Bogen Post Office Box 98 Executive Director Edgecomb, Maine 04556 Seacoast Anti-Pollution League E-mail: shadis@prexar.com PO Box 1136 Portsmouth, NH 03802 Kurt Ehrenberg E-mail: dbogen@metrocast.net\

New Hampshire Sierra Club 40 N. Main Street Paul Gunter Concord, NH 03301 Beyond Nuclear E-mail: kurt.ehrenberg@sierraclub.org 6930 Carroll Avenue, Suite 400 Takoma Park, MD 20912 Matthew Brock E-mail: paul@beyondnuclear.com Assistant Attorney General Environmental Protection Division Office of the Attorney General One Ashburton Place, 18th Floor Boston, Massachusetts 02108 E-mail: matthew.brock@state.ma.us Signed (electronically) by Mary B. Spencer Counsel for NRC Staff U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the General Counsel Mail Stop - O-15D21 Washington, DC 20555 Telephone: (301) 415-1324 E-mail: mary.spencer@nrc.gov Date of signature: March 16, 2011

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