ML20197C479

Memorandum & Order (Initial Order).* Board Decided That Staff & Naesco Should Not File Responses to Sapl/Necnp Petition Until 30 Days After Board Has Ruled on Contention 4.With Certificate of Svc.Served on 980911

ML20197C479
Person / Time
Site:	Seabrook
Issue date:	09/10/1998
From:	Cotter B Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
To:	NEW ENGLAND COALITION ON NUCLEAR POLLUTION, NORTH ATLANTIC ENERGY SERVICE CORP. (NAESCO), NRC OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL (OGC), SEACOAST ANTI-POLLUTION LEAGUE
References
CON-#398-19505 98-751-07-LA, 98-751-7-LA, LA-2, LBP-98-23, NUDOCS 9809140034
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DOCKETED USHRC UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 98 SEP 10 PS 53 ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD PANEL.. m g(y OFFG 2 '=: :

Before Administrative Judges: -o II. i F B. Paul Cotter, Jr., Chairman l

Dr. Charles N. Kelber Dr. Linda W. Little BERVED SEP 111998 In.the Matter of Docket No. 50-443-LA-2 NORTH ATLANTIC ENERGY ASLBP No. 98-751-07-LA SERVICE CORPORATION (Seabrook Station Unit No. 1) September 10, 1998 MEMORANDUM AND ORDER (Initial Order)

Petitioners, Seacoast Anti-Pollution League (SAPL) and the New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution (NECNP), seek to intervene in the issuance of a license amendment for the Seabrook j i

Station, Unit No. 1, (Seabrook) operated by North Atlantic Energy j

Service Corporation (NAESCO). The amendment would revise technical specifications on the frequency of surveillance requirements to accommodate 24-month fuel cycles that are currently performed at 18-month or other specified outage intervals. SAPL's and NECNP's requests for intervention in this proceeding are made in an August 18, 1998 letter to the licensing board in another Seabrook proceeding concerning steam generator tube inspection. Eg_g North Atlantic Enerov Service Corocration (Seabrook Station, Unit No. 1), LBP-98-23, Slip Opinion at 23-24 (September 3, 1998). Their August 18, 1998 petition is in 9809140034 980910 PDR ADOCK 05000443 O PDR Ch

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response to an opportunity for a hearing published in the Federal Recister on August 12, 1998. Sag 63 Fed. Reg. 43200, 43205.

.SAPL and.NECNP have advised in its letter that intervention in this proceeding may not be necessary if surveillance issues for a 24-month fuel cycle are allowed in the steam generator tube

1. inspection proceeding. Because that board (which is made up of the same Panel members as this board) will soon determine whether surveillance contentions should be allowed, we have decided that in order to spare time and expense for the parties, that staff and NAESCO should not file responses to the SAPL/NECNP petition 4

l- .until 30 days after we have ruled on Contention 4 in the steam

{ tube' proceeding. SAPL and NECNP subsequently will have an i

l' opportunity to amend its petition pursuant to 10 C.F.R.

S 2.714 (a) (3) .

IT IS SO ORDERED.

1 j FOR THE ATCMIC SAFETY AND 1

LICENSING BOARD

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, B.[Paui Cottsr, J:r l Administrative Jud

- Rockville, MD September 10, 1998

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA j NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION i' In the Matter of ,

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NORTH ATLANTIC ENERGY SERVICE Docket No.(s) 50-443-LA-2 i CORPORATION (Seabrook Station, Unit No. 1)

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of the foregoing LB M&O (INITIAL ORDER) have been served upon the following persons by U.S. mail, first class, except as otherwise noted and in accordance with the requirements of 10 CFR Sec. 2.712.

Administrative Judge Office of Consission Appellate B. Paul Cotter, Chairman Adjudication Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Mail Stop - T-3 F23 Washington, DC 20555 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 Administrative Judge ,

Charles N. Kelber Administrative Judge l Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Linda W. Little Mail Stop - T-3 F23 ASLBP U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 5000 Hermitage Drive Washington, DC 20555 Raleigh, NC 27612 l Lawrence J. Chandler, Esq. Robert A. Backus, Esq. j Office of the General Counsel Backus, Meyer, Solomon, Rood & Branch ,

Mail Stop 15 B18 P.O. Box 516 l U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Manchester, NH 03105 Washington, DC 20555 Lillian M. Cuoco, Esq.

Northeast Utilities Service Company P.O. Box 270-Hartford, CT 06141 Dated at Rockville, Md. this 11 day of September 1998 f) vA l<- ht/MkzwL Office of the Secreta 1fy of the fommission

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