ML092110608
| ML092110608 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Indian Point  |
| Issue date: | 07/30/2009 |
| From: | Harris B, Stuyvenberg A, Sherwin Turk Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Division of License Renewal, NRC/OGC |
| To: | Lathrop K, Lawrence Mcdade, Richard Wardwell Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
| SECY RAS | |
| References | |
| 50-247-LR, 50-286-LR, RAS E-257 | |
| Download: ML092110608 (11) | |
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL July 30, 2009 Administrative Judge Administrative Judge Lawrence G. McDade, Chair Dr. Richard E. Wardwell Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Mail Stop T-3 F23 Mail Stop T-3 F23 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washiugton, DC 20555-0001 Washington, DC 20555-0001 Administrative Judge Dr. Kaye D. Lathrop 190 Cedar Lane East Ridgeway, CO 81432 In the Matter of ENTERGY NUCLEAR OPERATIONS, INC.
(Indian Point Nuclear Generating Station Units 2 and 3)
Docket Nos. 50-247-LR and 50-286-LR
Dear Administrative Judges:
Pursuant to the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board's December 18, 2008, "Memorandum and Order (Addressing Requests that the Proceeding be Conducted Pursuant to Subpart G)," slip op. at 13, and the Licensing Board's "Order (Granting Consent Motion Regarding Mandatory Disclosures)," dated January 30, 2009, at I , the staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ("Staff") herein notifies the Licensing Board and the parties that the hearing file has been supplemented for this proceeding. Materials in the hearing file may be accessed through the Agencywide Documents Access and Management System ("ADAMS"). An index containing the ADAMS accession number, date, and title or description of each item in Hearing File Index, Supplement 6 is appended hereto as Attachment 1.
On or about August 7, 2009, the newly identified documents in the hearing file will be made available via the Electronic Hearing Docket ("EHD"), which may be accessed at the following URL: http://ehd.nrc.nov/EHD Proceedinn/home.asp. The hearing file will be contained in a sub-folder entitled, "Indian PT Hearing File, Supplement 6" in the "Indian-PT-2&3-50-247&50-286-LR" folder of the EHD.
In addition, as required by 10 C.F.R. § 2.336(b)(5), the Staff is producing an updated privilege log, identifying documents withheld under the deliberative process privilege, which are appended hereto as Attachment 2. Also, attached is the Declaration of Travis L. Tate formally invoking the deliberative process privilege with respect to each of the documents in
Judge McDade July 30, 2009 Judge Lathrop Judge Wardwell . The Staff will preserve and maintain the privileged documents identified in these logs during the pendency of this proceeding.
Further, pursuant to 10 C.F.R. § 2.336(c), attached is the Affidavit of Andrew L. Stuyvenberg, certifying that all relevant materials required by this section have been disclosed, and that the disclosures are accurate and complete as to documents identified by July 23, 2009.
Finally, the NRC Staff notes that it has made a good faith effort to identify and characterize all documents meeting the criteria of 10 C.F.R. § 2.336(b) and 10 C.F.R. 5 2.1203 in this proceeding. In identifying these documents, the Staff does not concede their relevance to the license renewal issues to be decided in this proceeding.
Sincerely,
Enclosures:
&f Attachment 1 - Hearing File Index, Supplement 6 Counsel for NRC Staff Attachment 2 - Deliberative Process Privilege Log Declaration of Travis L. Tate Affidavit of Andrew L. Stuyvenberg cc w1Encls.: Service List
Attachment 1 - lndian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Supplement 6 - July 30, 2009 Accession Document ID # Number Date Title 06-001 ML091800251 5/1/2009 2009/05/01 lndian Point LR Hearing - License Renewal letter NL-09-056
RAI 01
06-002 ML091811131 6/30/2009 2009/06/30 lndian Point LR Hearing - NHPA Section 106 Consultation Correspondence for lndian Point Proposed License Renewal 06-003 ML091820343 7/1/2009 2009/07/01 lndian Point LR Hearing - RE: NHPA Section 106 Consultation Correspondence for lndian Point Proposed License Renewal 06-004 ML091820479 7/1/2009 2009/07/01 lndian Point LR Hearing - RE: Letter NL-09-091 License Renewal - Additional Sturgeon Impingement Data 06-005 ML091870055 7/3/2009 2009/07/03 lndian Point LR Hearing - lndian Point Units 2 & 3; Water Quality Certification 06-006 ML091870061 511312009 2009/05/13 lndian Point LR Hearing - Entergy lndian Point Units 2 & 3 -
Section 401 WQC - NOlA and RFI 06-007 ML091870062 511312009 2009/05/13 lndian Point LR Hearing - Fwd: Entergy lndian Point Units 2 &
3 - Section 401 WQC - NOlA and RFI 06-008 ML091890548 6/5/2009 2009/06/05 lndian Point LR Hearing - Emailing: ML0907713413.pdf 06-009 ML091960172 711512009 2009/07/15 lndian Point LR Hearing - RE: Information Request Page 1 of 1
Attachment 2 - lndian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Deliberative Process Privilege, Supplement 6 - July 30, 2009 Certain documents otherwise subject to inclusion in the hearing file and mandatory disclosures for this proceeding have been determined by the NRC Staff to contain information subject to withholding from public disclosures as predecisional, deliberative information. Pursuant to 10 C.F.R. § 2.336(b)(5), the Staff is providing this log to identify tt e following documc nts, withheld unde the "deliberative process" privilege.
Accession Author Name1 Document Documer Page ID # Number Affliation Title Date Type Comment Count DPP ML091890551 A. Stuynenberg 2009/05/22 lndian Point LR Hearing - RE: 5/22/2009 E-Mail Internal transmission of 2 001 NRCINRR Comments comments regarding EIS DPP D. Logan 2009106103 Indian Point LR Hearing - 6/3/2009 E-Mail Internal transmission of 10 002 NRCINRRIDLR lndian Point comment binning comments regarding EIS DPP D. Logan 2009/06/29 lndian Point LR Hearing - RE: 6/29/2009 E-Mail Internal transmission of 3 003 NRCINRRIDLR FWS comment - lndian Point - bat comments regarding EIS DPP D. Logan 2009/07/02 lndian Point LR Hearing - FW: 7/2/2009 E-Mail Internal transmission of 60 004 NRCINRRIDLR Letter NL-09-091 License Renewal - comments regarding EIS Additional Sturgeon Impingement Data DPP D. Logan 2009/07/06 Indian Point LR Hearing - RE: 7/6/2009 E-Mail lnternal transmission of 005 NRCINRRIDLR We probably should add this court decision comments regarding EIS to the historical review of impingement and entrainment DPP A. Stuynenberg 2009/07/06 lndian Point LR Hearing - FW: 7/6/2009 E-Mail Internal transmission of 7 006 NRCINRR lndian Point Units 2 & 3; Water Quality comments regarding EIS DPP D. Logan 2009/07/06 Indian Point LR Hearing - FW: 7/6/2009 E-Mail Internal transmission of 2 007 NRCINRWDLR Another reference check comments regarding EIS DPP A. Stuynenberg 2009/07/06 Indian Point LR Hearing - RE: 7/6/2009 E-Mail Internal transmission of 2 008 NRCINRR Ashizawa and Cole Reference - date check comments regarding EIS DPP D. Logan 2009/07/06 lndian Point LR Hearing - FW: 7/6/2009 E-Mail lnternal transmission of 009 NRCINRRIDLR lndian Point Units 2 & 3; Water Quality comments regarding EIS Certification DPP D. Logan 2009/07/06 Indian Point LR Hearing - We 7/6/2009 E-Mail 010 NRCINRRIDLR probably should add this court decision to comments regarding EIS the historical review of impingement and entrainment DPP J. Ward PNNL 2009/07/07 Indian Point LR Hearing - Re: 7/7/2009 E-Mail Internal transmission of 2 011 Another reference check I comments regarding EIS
Attachment 2 - lndian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Deliberative Process Privilege, Supplement 6 - July 30, 2009 Accession Author Name1 Document Document Page ID# Number Affliation Title Date Type Comment Count DPP ML091890890 D. Logan 2009/07/08 Indian Point LR Hearing - FW: 7/8/2009 E-Mail Internal transmission of 13 012 NRCINRRIDLR Impingement and Entrainment Data comments regarding EIS Inconsistencies DPP ML091890891 A. Stuynenberg 2009/07/08 Indian Point LR Hearing - RE: 7/8/2009 E-Mail Internal transmission of 2 013 NRCINRR Impingement and Entrainment Data comments regarding EIS lnconsistencies DPP ML091900572 A. Stuynenberg 2009/07/09 Indian Point LR Hearing - 7/9/2009 E-Mail Internal transmission of 2 014 NRCINRR Checking in comments regarding EIS
July 29, 2009 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of 1
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ENTERGY NUCLEAR OPERATIONS, INC. ) Docket Nos. 50-247 & 50-286-LR
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1 ASLBP NO. 07-858-03-LR-BD01 (Indian Point Nuclear Generating Units 2 and 3) )
DECLARATION OF TRAVIS L. TATE I, Travis L. Tate, do hereby state as follows:
- 1. I am employed as a Branch Chief in Division of License Renewal ("DLR) in the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's ("NRC") Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation ("NRR"),
and currently serve as Acting Director of the Division of License Renewal ("DLR). My supervisory responsibilities, as the Acting Director, include oversight of the NRC Staff's review and evaluation of the Indian Point Nuclear Generating Station Units 2 and 3 license renewal application.
- 2. As part of their responsibilities in updating the hearing file and mandatory disclosures for these proceedings, NRC staff members under my supervision identified certain documents as privileged because they contained information concerning the Staff's pre-decisional deliberative process. Those documents are listed in Attachment 2 to the July 30, 2009 submission of the Staff's Hearing File Index Supplement 6.
- 3. I have personally reviewed the documents identified as privileged in Attachment 2, and have determined, in accordance with the guidance set forth in Management Directive 3.4, that they contain pre-decisional information concerning the Staff's review of the license renewal application. All documents contain either Staff's analyses, recommendations, opinions,
or evaluations, and may not necessarily reflect the final agency position with respect to the matters discussed therein. Each of the documents comprises part of the deliberative process necessary for the Staff's review of the pending license renewal application.
- 4. Further, I have determined that disclosure of these documents could result in harm to the agency, in that it would (a) prematurely disclose the preliminary views of individual Staff members and/or the Staff prior to reaching a final agency decision, and could thus create confusion as to the actual policy or views of the NRC Staff; (b) hinder the efficiency of the Staff, in that forced disclosure of its internal discussions on an unresolved issue would tend to chill all future deliberations and would interfere with the Staff's ability to engage in a free exchange of opinions and analyses prior to publishing its final review documents; and (c) imply or suggest incorrectly that the opinions of the Staff merr~bersinvolved in these communications are actually the final decisions of the agency, while no such final decision has yet been made.
- 5. Accordingly, I formally invoke the deliberative process privilege with respect to each of the documents listed in Attachment 2 to the July 30, 2009 submission of the Staff's Hearing File Index Supplement 6.
- 6. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct to the best of my knowledge, information and belief.
f'cz Travis L. Tate
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Executed in Rockville, Maryland this 29th day of July, 2009
July 30 2009 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of 1
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ENTERGY NUCLEAR OPERATIONS, INC. ) Docket Nos. 50-247' & 50-286-LR
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1 ASLBP No. 07-858-03-LR-BD01 (Indian Point Nuclear Generation Station, )
Units 2 and 3) )
AFFIDAVIT OF ANDREW L. STUWENBERG CONCERNING MANDATORY DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENT OF 10 C.F.R. 6 2.336(b]
I, Andrew L. Stuyvenberg, do hereby state as follows:
- 1. I am employed as a Project Manager in the Division of License Renewal in the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's ("NRC) Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. I serve as a project manager for the Indian Point Nuclear Generating Station, Units 2 and 3 license renewal application ("LRA). Among other things, I am managing the preparation of the hearing file and mandatory disclosures in connection with the LRA at issue in this proceeding.
- 2. I hereby certify that all relevant materials required to be disclosed pursuant to 10 C.F.R. § 2.336 (b) and (c) in the captioned proceeding have been disclosed, and that the disclosures are accurate and complete for documents identified as of July 23, 2009.
- 3. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct to the best of my knowledge, information and belief.
Andrew d. ~tuyvedljerg Executed in Rockville, Maryland this 30th day of July, 2009
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of 1 i
ENTERGY NUCLEAR OPERATIONS, INC. ) Docket Nos. 50-2471286-LR 1
(Indian Point Nuclear Generating 1 Units 2 and 3) )
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of the foregoing Letter to the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board regarding the Indian Point Hearing File, including: Attachment 1 - Indian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Supplement 6, Attachment 2 - Deliberative Process Privilege Log, Declaration of Travis L. Tate, dated July 29, 2009, and Affidavit of Andrew L. Stuyvenberg, dated July 30, 2009, have been served upon the following through deposit in the NRC's internal mail system, with copies by electronic mail, or, as indicated by an asterisk, by deposit in the U.S. Postal Service, with copies by electronic mail this 3othday of July, 2009:
Lawrence G. McDade, Chair Office of Commission Appellate Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Adjudication Mail Stop - T-3 F23 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Mail Stop: 0-16G4 Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 Washington, DC 20555-0001 E-mail: Lawrence.McDade@nrc.gov E-mail: OCAAMAIL.resource@nrc.qov Dr. Richard E. Wardwell Office of the Secretary Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Attn: Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff Mail Stop - T-3 F23 Mail Stop: 0-16G4 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 Washington, DC 20555-0001 E-mail: Richard.Wardwell@nrc.qov E-mail: Hearinq.Docket@nrc.qov Dr. Kaye D. Lathrop Zachary S. Kahn Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel 190 Cedar Lane E. Mail Stop - T-3 F23 Ridgway, CO 81432 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission E-mail: Kaye.Lathrop@nrc.qov Washington, DC 20555-0001 E-mail: Zacharv.Kahn@,nrc.qov
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Manna Jo Greene*
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Corr~mission Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc.
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Paul M. Bessette, Esq. Assistant General Counsel Martin J. O'Neill, Esq. Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.
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