ML19338B973

Response to ASLB 790409 Order Scheduling Prehearing Conference & Oral Argument on 790501 Re CPC Motion for Summary Disposition.Supports CPC Motion Re Summary Disposition of Issues Before Aslb.Certificate of Svc Encl

ML19338B973
Person / Time
Site:	Midland
Issue date:	04/25/1979
From:	Robert Davis, Nute L DOW CHEMICAL CO.
To:	Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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LUNITED STATES OF AMERICA' NUCLEAR REGULATORY' COMMISSION-D NM[j'^d s j

'BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD IN THE NATTER OF- )

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CONSUMERS' POWER: COMPANY- _)- 50-330CP

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MIDLAND PLANT, UNITS 1 and 2 ). REMAND PROCEEDING

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RESPONSE OF INTERVENOR THE DOW CHDiICAL COMPANY TO LICENSING BOARD ORDER DATED APRIL 9, 1979 1

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Intervenor The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) herewith submits its response-to-the April 9, 1979 Order of the Atomic Safety and' Licensing

. Board which was received by Dow on April. 16, 1979. -That Order' set May 1,.1979'as the date for a pre-hearing conference and for the hearing of oral argument on the Motion for. Summary Disposition filed by Consumers Power Company.(Consumers).

L Dow continues'to'believe-.that-the issues framed by the Board's Order 'Concerning- Remanded . Issues dated January 4,1979 (order) (pages 6 l through.10)( can. and should be decided - from facts on the record already before-the Board. The lengthy submissions filed with the Board consist l-

{of sworn testinony, affidavits,: voluminous briefs.and memoranda.1/

H n' addition; there are cer*:ain privileged documents which were agreed'

/ to be ; privileged. or which the -Board has ruled are privileged.

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Based upon responses (tolthe1 Board's Order'to date therelappears to be no

significant iorc important - dif f erences' asi to the - completeness ' of the

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r record.gj. Further iestimony;on- these issues would be~ redt$ndant based on-

.the1 testimonial recordialready in1 J existence. Thus,/wh'ile Dow's perception

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> of the; position taken-byJConsumers in,the meetings between Dow and-1

. Consumers-on: September 21, : 1976L and? SeptemberL 24, 1976 1s clearly; different=from the position:thatLConsumers states that it intended-to 7

' communicate, th'e differences between Dow and Consumers as to precisely the exact words spoken by the partiesaover two and one-half years ago

.has already'been amply set out in: the existing record.

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! is.obviou' sly'argeably consistent with eitherfset of-words. Dow, accordingly, l

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-- There are inevitably dif ferencess of course. For example, Consumers' l- Memoranda in - Support of c Motion forLSummary Dispositidn-(pages Bi9);and~

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• the ' Af fidavit of 'Judd ' Bacon dated. March 28,1979 (paragraph 3,- pages 1-2)'are.not accurate sith regard to the manner-in which'the so-called;

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Cctsumers' states-that the~ notes were

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'"Nute notes" were prepared.

'preparedisometime after the meeting lofxSeptembdr 21, 1976 based on Mr.

Nute's subseque'nt recollection of -what transpired at the meeting and his

review of -handwritten notes taken at1the-meeting by' Mr. A. J. Klcoparens.

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'This . version of ?the1 preparation of;the "Nute notes" reflects a mis . . _

understanding 1ofl the, statement,made by Mr. Milton Wessel regarding_ the ~

~ mannerriniwhich'the notes:wer'e prepared. :(See' transcript,~pages 2244- _

!2245)- Mr. -NutelinEf act itook handwritten ' notes duringD the . September 21', .

197 6_. meeting. lI= mediately-following th'e meeting,fhe review'ed those

- noties: together;with. notes .taken by ;Mr. A. J. Klomparens. Mr. Nute's.

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Than' d written notes'were:then typedjverbatim that same day and his hand-

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l written! notes;were discarded. Whereas, Mr.-:Nute'sinot'es do not purport

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-to r bel word-for-word transcripts, they are~" contemporaneous."'

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MIDLAND PLANT, UNITS 1 and 2 ) REMAND PROCEEDING

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CERTIFICATE.OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of the attached " Response of Intervenor The Dow Ch'mical e Company to Licensing Board Order Dated April 9, 1979" dated April 25, 1979, were served upon the individuals whose names appear on the attached Service List by deposit in the United States mail, postage prepaid and properly addressed, on the 25th day of April, 1979.

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Judith A. Suderman The Dow Chemical Company Michigan Division Legal Department 47 Building Midland, Michigan 48640 Dated: April 25, 1979 r

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esupports'theJsuggestion.of. Consumers that the' issues.now before the

, Board b'e. decided in.a' summary manner-on the record now before the. Board.

-DATED: - April'25,.1979-

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,I,eblie F..Nute,.Esq. ~ /(TM .

The De; chemical Company Milton R. Nessel, Of Counsel-

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P/ I/. Da/is, Esq.

Ja0 The/Dow' Chemical Company Michigan Division Legal Dept.

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. SERVICE LIST Marshall E. Miller,oEsq:,; Chairman Richard K. Hoefling, Esq.

Atomic' Safety and Licensing Board Counsel to NRC Staff U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission; NuclearcRegulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555' Washington, D.C. 20555

. Dr. JJ. '.Venn Leeds, Jr. Michael I. Miller, Esq.

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Ronald G. Zamarin, Esq.

.10807 Atwell Isham,' Lincoln & Beale Houston,ETexas 77096 One-First-National Plaza-Chicago, IL -60603

Dr. Emmeth A. Luebke Atomic Safety and Licensing. Board Atomic Safety and Licensing Board o U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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Panel Washington,-D.C. 20555 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington,. D.C. ' 20555 Myron M. ' Cherry, Esq.

0ne IBM Plaza ' Mr. C. R. Stephens

-Chicago, IL 60611' Docketing and Service Section ..

Office of the Secretary Judd'L. Bacon, Esq. U.S. Nuclear' Regulatory Commission '

Consumers. Power Company. Washington, D.C. 20555 212 West Michigan Avenue Jackson, MI 49201 Gerald Charnoff, Esq.

.Wm. ~ Bradford -Reynolds , Esq.

Ms. Mary Sinclair Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge

. 5711 Summerset Street 1800 M Street, N.W.

. Midland,-MI 48640- Washington, D.C. 20036 Harold-F. Reis, Esq. i

- Robert Lowenstein,1Esq.

Lowenstein, Newman, P,eis &

-Axelrad 1025 Connecticut Avenue

-Washington, D'C. 20036 Mr. Steve Gadler.

2120 Carter Avenue St. Paul, ljinnesota 551D8

.Norton Hatlie, Esq.

Attorney"a t Law

P.O. ' Box 103 Navarre, Minnesota ;55392 1

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