ML11356A190

NRC Staff'S Answer to Pilgrim Watch'S Request to Supplement Petition for Review of LBP-11-20 and LBP-11-23

ML11356A190
Person / Time
Site:	Pilgrim
Issue date:	12/22/2011
From:	Uttal S L NRC/OGC
To:	NRC/OCM
SECY RAS
References
RAS 21613, 50-293-LR, ASBLP 06-848-02-LR, LBP-11-20, LBP-11-23
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December 22, 2011 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE COMMISSION In the Matter of

) ) ENTERGY NUCLEAR GENERATION

) Docket No. 50

-293-LR COMPANY AND ENTERGY NUCLEAR

) OPERATIONS, INC.

) ) (Pilgrim Nuclear Generating Station)

) NRC STAFF'S ANSWER TO PILGRIM WATCH'S REQUEST TO SUPPLEMENT PETITION FOR REVIEW OF LBP-11-20 and LBP 23 On December 12, 2011, Pilgrim Watch sought to supplement its petitions for review to includ e a December 9, 2011 report by Congressman Edward Markey ("Report").

1 The Staff of the NRC objects to the supplementation of the petition for review on the grounds that it is not relevant or material to the issue s raised by Pilgrim Watch in its petitions for review of the Board decisions in this license renewal proceeding

.2 T he Report discusses the Chairman's exercise of emergency authority, the individual

1Pilgrim Watch's Request to Supplement Petition for Review of Memorandum and Order (Denying Pilgrim Watch's Requests for Hearing on Certain New Contentions ASLBP No. 06

-848-02-LR, August 11, 2011 (Filed August 26, 2011) and Pilgrim Watch's Petition for Review of Memorandum and Order (Denying Pilgrim Watch's Request for Hearing on New Contentions Relating to Fukushima Accident) Sept. 8, 2011 (Filed September 23, 2011), (December 12, 2011) (Agencywide Documents and Access Management System Accession No. ML11346A570).

2 USEC Inc. (American Centrifuge Plant), CLI 10, 63 NRC 451, 470 (2006) (reminding parties of their obligation to inform the board, the Commission, and other parties of relevant new developments in a proceeding);

cf. Duke Power Co. (William B. McGuire Nuclear Station, Units 1 & 2), ALAB

-143, 6 AEC 623, 625 (1973) (parties are required to inform the board and other parties of new information that is relevant and material to the matters being adjudicated

). Commissioners' views and voting record s regarding the creation of the NRC Near-Term Task Force (TF) on the Fukushima accident, and the process by which the TF's recommendations will be addressed. The Report does not discuss the Pilgrim Nuclear Generating Statio n in particular or the Board's Orders that are the subject of Pilgrim Watch's petition s for review. It provides no new information or data that are relevant to any factual issue raised by Pilgrim Watch before the Board. It addresses none of the legal issues involved in the appeal of the Board's decisions. It thus provides no legal or factual basis for overturning the Board's decision s. Accordingly, the Request to Supplement the Petitions for Review should be denied.

Respectfully submitted, Susan Uttal

/Electronically signed/

Counsel for the NRC Staff U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the General Counsel Mail Stop: O15

-D21 Washington, DC 20555 Telephone: (301) 415

-1582 E-mail: Susan.Uttal@nrc.gov Dated at Rockville, Maryland This 22 nd day of December, 2011

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE COMMISSION In the Matter of

) ) ENTERGY NUCLEAR OPERATIONS, INC.

) Docket No. 50

-293-LR ) (Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station)

) ) CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of the foregoing "NRC Staff's Answer to Pilgrim Watch's Request to Supplement Petition for Review of LBP 20 and LBP-11-23" has been served upon the following by the Electronic Information Exchange, this 22nd day of December, 2011: Administrative Judge Richard F. Cole Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Mail Stop: T

-3F23 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555

-0001 E-mail: Richard.Cole@nrc.gov Administrative Judge Paul B. Abramson Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Mail Stop: T

-3F23 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555

-0001 E-mail: Paul.Abramson@nrc.gov Administrative Judge Ann Marshall Young, Chair Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Mail Stop: T

-3F23 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555

-0001 E-mail: Ann.Young@nrc.gov Office of Commission Appellate Adjudication Mail Stop: O

-16G4 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555

-0001 E-mail: OCAAMAIL.Resource@nrc.gov Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Mail Stop: T

-3F23 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555

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Office of the Secretary Attn: Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff Mail Stop: O

-16G4 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555

-0001 E-mail: Hearing.Docket@nrc.gov

Sheila Slocum Hollis Duane Morris LLP 505 9 thWashington, DC 20004 St., NW, Suite 1000 E-mail: sshollis@duanemorris.com Terence A. Burke, Esq.

Entergy Nuclear 1340 Echelon Parkway Mail Stop: M

-ECH-62 Jackson, MS 39213 E-mail: tburke@entergy.com Mary Lampert 148 Washington Street Duxbury, MA 02332 E- mail: mary.lampert@comcast.net David R. Lewis, Esq.

Paul A. Gaukler, Esq.

Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw, Pittman, LLP 2300 N Street, NW Washington, DC 20037

-1137 E-mail: david.lewis@pillsburylaw.com paul.gaukler@pillsburylaw.com Chief Kevin M. Nord Fire Chief & Director Duxbury Emergency Management Agency 668 Tremont Street Duxbury, MA 02332 E-mail: nord@town.duxbury.ma.us Town Manager Town of Plymouth 11 Lincoln St.

Plymouth, MA 02360 E-mail: marrighi@townhall.plymouth.ma.us Richard R. MacDonald Town Manager 878 Tremont Street Duxbury, MA 02332 E-mail: macdonald@town.duxbury.ma.us Matthew Brock Assistant Attorney General Commonwealth of Massachusetts One Ashburton Place Boston, MA 02108 Martha.Coakley@state.ma.us Matthew.Brock@state.ma.us

/Signed (electronically) by/

____________________

Susan L. Uttal Counsel for NRC Staff U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the General Counsel Mail Stop

- O-15D21 Washington, DC 20555 Telephone: (301) 415

-5236 E-mail: Susan.Uttal@nrc.gov Date of signature: December 22, 2011