ML19310A218

Motion to Dismiss Application W/Prejudice.Applicants Took No Steps to Pursue Application Despite Opportunity Given at 800122 Conference to Address Pending Geology & Seismology Issues.Certificate of Svc Encl

ML19310A218
Person / Time
Site:	Skagit
Issue date:	05/08/1980
From:	Leed R LEED, R.M., SKAGITONIANS CONCERNED ABOUT NUCLEAR POWER (SCANP)
To:	Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
References
NUDOCS 8006060299
Download: ML19310A218 (5)

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(Skagit Nuclear Power Proje'ct, )

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SCANP'S MOTION TO DISMISS APPLICATION SCANP has received letters dated April 14 and 15, 1980 -

from applicant and staf f, respective, which apparently were submitted pursuant to the Board's order dated March 6,1980, requiring regular status reports respecting applicant 's efforts to pursue its application. These letters demonstrate that, contrary to the Board's order, applicant is not pursuing its application diligently, and the application therefore should be dismissed with prejudice.

, The Board will recall that SCANP and Skagit County ,

pressed for dismissal of the application at the conference of January 22, 1980. At that time, the Board expressed its s reluctance to dismiss the application, on the basis that the applicant should be afforded some opportunity to address the geology and seismology issues pending, prior to Board con-sideration of dismissal. However, the Board recognized the <g 9 0 8006060ugqd

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difficulties attendant to maintaining an application under I these circumstances, where applicant and staff had no' fore-l i

seeable plans for processing the application to conclusion.

Accordingly, although the Board declined to dismiss, it did l

indicate that it would require' reasonable further progress by .

the applicant, and to that end issued its order of March 6, 1980, requiring regular reports indicating the steps being taken I

j to pursue the application.

The first of these reports has now been received, and it t

is evident that applicant is taking no steps whatsoever to pursue its application. Applicant states that there have been i

j preliminary discussions, and that additional discussions are -

1 anticipated. It has provided no details regarding the sub-stance of any actions it has taken or intends to undertake, and apparently there are none. The most specific statement made in applicant's " Report" is that applicants "are consider-ing the possibility of amending their application" to change l

the site of the project to a site on the Hanford reservation. l The staf f report of April 15 likewise demonstrates no progress.

Thus, neither applicant nor the staff has provided the

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Board with any substantive information regarding applicant's ,

pursuit of the application, nor has applicant even alleged l

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that it continuas to pursue the application. At the January l I 22 conference, both SCANP and Skagit County expressed to the i

Board their concerns about the massive irreparable injury which l

the pendency of this application inflicts upon them, includ-

ing the great uncertainty which clouds Skagit County'~s gov-ernment and all of its citizens. The reports submitted by applicant and staf f demonstrate conclusively that there is no just cause to allow this injuiy to continue. Accordingly, .

SCANP urges the Board to dismiss this application with prejudice.

DATED this day of May, 1980.

R'espect fully submitted, ROGER M. LEED By e Michael W. Gendler Counsel for SCANP -

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE -

C D gp(13 N # -12 I hereby certify that copies of: g, ces SCANP'S MOTION TO DISMISS APPLICATION \ p dated May 8,1980, have been served on the following by depositing the same in the United States mail, postage prepaid, on this 8th day of May, 1980.

1 Valentine B. Deale, Esq., Chairman Docketing and Service Section Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 0ffice of the Secretary i U.S. Nuclear Regulatory U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commission 1001 Connecticut Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 20555  :

Washington, D.C. 20036  ;

Richard L. Black, Esq. '

Dr. Frank F. liooper, Member Counsel for NRC Staff ~l Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory '

School of Natural Resources Commission Univers ity of Michigan Office of the Executive Legal Ann Arbor, MI. 48104 Director l Washington, D, C. 20555 l Gustave A. Linenberger, Member )

Atomic. Safety and Licensing Board N*cholas D. Lewis, Chairman '

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Energy Facility Site Evaluation Commission Council Washington, D.C. 20555 820 East Fifth Avenue Olymp ia , Washington 98504 Certificate - 1

Richard M. Sandvik, Esq., Russel W. Busch.

Assistant Attorney General Evergreen Legal Services Department of Justice 520 Smith Tower 500 Pacific Building Seattle, Washington 98104 520 S. W. Yamhill Portland, Oregon (7204 Thomas Moser Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Robert Lowenstein, Esq. '

Skagit County Courthouse Lowenstein, Newman, Reis & Mt. Vernon, Washington 98273 Axelrad 1025 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Warren Hastings Washington, D.C. 20036 Portland General Electric Co.

121 S.W. Salmon Street James W. Durham, Esq. TB 13 Portland General Electric Co. Portland, Oregon 97204 121 S.W. Salmon Street TB 17 Portland, Oregon 97204 CFSP and FOB E. Stachon & L. Marbet 19142 S. Bakers Ferry Road Boring, Oregon 97009 -

Canadian Consulate General Peter A. van Brakel Vice-Consul 412 Plaza 600 6th and Stewart Street Seattle, Washington 98101 F. Theodore Thomsen Perk ins , Cole, Stone, Olsen

& Willians 1900 Washington Building Seattle, Washington 98101 Alan P. O' Kelly Paine, Lowe, Coffin, Herman -

& 0' Kelly 1400 Washington Trust Financial Center Spokane, Washington 99204 DATED: .

ROGER M. LEED By } }

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