ML18282A041
| ML18282A041 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Turkey Point  |
| Issue date: | 10/04/2018 |
| From: | Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
| To: | |
| SECY RAS | |
| References | |
| 50-250-SLR, 50-251-SLR, License Renewal, NRC-3929, RAS 54541 | |
| Download: ML18282A041 (11) | |
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Official Transcript of Proceedings NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Title: Florida Power and Light Company Turkey Point Units 3 and 4 Docket Number: 50-250-SLR and 50-251-SLR Location: teleconference Date: Thursday, October 4, 2018 Work Order No.: NRC-3929 Pages 1-10 NEAL R. GROSS AND CO., INC.
Court Reporters and Transcribers 1323 Rhode Island Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20005 (202) 234-4433
1 1 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 3 + + + + +
4 ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD PANEL 5 + + + + +
6 HEARING 7 ----------------------x 8 In the Matter of: : Docket Nos.
9 FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT : 50-250-SLR 10 COMPANY : 50-251-SLR 11 (Turkey Point : ASLBP No.
12 Units 3 & 4) : 18-957-01-SLR-BD01 13 ----------------------x 14 15 Thursday, October 4, 2018 16 17 Teleconference 18 19 BEFORE:
20 E. ROY HAWKENS, Chair 21 SUE H. ABREU, Administrative Judge 22 23 24 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W.
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2 1 APPEARANCES:
2 On Behalf of Florida Power & Light Company 3 Paul M. Bessette, Esq.
4 Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP 5 1111 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
6 Washington, D.C. 20004 7 202-739-5796 8 paul.bessette@morganlewis.com 9
10 Steven C. Hamrick, Esq.
11 Florida Power & Light Company 12 801 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Suite 220 13 Washington, D.C. 20004 14 202-349-3496 15 steven.hamrick@fpl.com 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W.
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3 1 On Behalf of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission 2 Sherwin E. Turk, Esq.
3 Brian G. Harris, Esq.
4 Jeremy L. Wachutka, Esq.
5 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 6 Office of the General Counsel 7 Mail Stop O15-D21 8 Washington, DC 20555 9 301-287-9194 10 Sherwin.Turk@nrc.gov 11 Brian.Harris@nrc.gov 12 Jeremy.Wachutka@nrc.gov 13 14 On Behalf of Friends of the Earth 15 Richard E. Ayres, Esq.
16 Ayres Law Group, LLP 17 1401 K Street, NW, Suite 825 18 Washington, DC 20005 19 202-452-9200 20 ayresr@ayreslawgroup.com 21 22 23 24 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W.
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4 1 On Behalf of Natural Resources Defense Council 2 Geoffrey H. Fettus, Esq.
3 Natural Resources Defense Council 4 1152 15th Street, N.W., Suite 300 5 Washington D.C., 20005 6 202-289-2371 7 gfettus@nrdc.org 8
9 On Behalf of Southern Alliance for Clean Energy 10 Diane Curran, Esq.
11 Harmon, Curran, Spielberg, & Eisenberg, LLP 12 1725 DeSales Street, N.W., Suite 500 13 Washington, DC 20036 14 240-393-9285 15 dcurran@harmoncurran.com 16 17 On Behalf of Albert Gomez 18 Albert Gomez, pro se 19 3566 Vista Court 20 Miami, Florida 33133 21 albert@icassemblies.com 22 23 24 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W.
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5 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 12:02 p.m.
3 JUDGE HAWKENS: My name's Roy Hawkens, I'm 4 a Licensing Board Chairman in this case, which is 5 entitled Florida Power & Light Company Turkey Point 6 Units 3 & 4. Docket number is 50-250-LSR and 50-251-7 LSR -- SLR.
8 I'm joined by Dr. Sue Abreu and by the 9 Board's Law Clerk, Sara Ladin. The third Board 10 member, Dr. Mike Kennedy, had an arising issue at home 11 which prevents him from joining us, but he's 12 authorized Dr. Abreu and me to go forward with this 13 teleconference.
14 Would the counsel for the parties please 15 introduce themselves for the record.
16 MR. BESETTE: Your honor, this is Paul 17 Besette on behalf of Florida Power & Light, and I have 18 with me Steve Hamrick.
19 JUDGE HAWKENS: Thank you.
20 MR. TURK: Your Honor, NRC staff. Did you 21 hear me?
22 JUDGE HAWKENS: Go ahead.
23 MR. TURK: Sherwin Turk for NRC staff, and 24 with me are Jeremy Wachutka, Brian Harris, and Manny 25 Comar, who is with the technical staff. Also, I NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W.
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6 1 believe on the line is the Project Manager for our 2 Turkey Point license, subsequent license renewal 3 review, and that is Lois James.
4 JUDGE HAWKENS: All right, thank you, Mr.
5 Turk.
6 MR. AYRES: Your honor, this is Richard 7 Ayres, I represent Friends of the Earth.
8 MS. CURRAN: Good morning, Judge Hawkens, 9 this is Diane Curran for Southern Alliance for Clean 10 Energy.
11 JUDGE HAWKENS: Thank you, Ms. Curran.
12 MR. FETTUS: And good morning, your honor, 13 this is Geoffrey Fettus and I'm representing the 14 Natural Resources Defense Council.
15 JUDGE HAWKENS: Thank you, Mr. Fettus.
16 And Mr. Gomez, are you on the line also?
17 MR. GOMEZ: Good morning, Judge, yes, this 18 is Albert Gomez.
19 JUDGE HAWKENS: All right, thank you. To 20 assist the Court Reporter, when a counsel or 21 representative wishes to speak, please introduce 22 yourself prior to speaking. The Board has determined 23 that it will be conducting an oral argument in this 24 case, and the purpose of this teleconference is to 25 establish the venue and the date for the argument.
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7 1 Prior to this teleconference, Ms. Ladin 2 polled you regarding where you would prefer the 3 argument to be held and your availability during three 4 different time periods, the week of November 5, the 5 week of November 26, and the week of December 3.
6 Regarding location, the majority of you 7 stated that you preferred or were willing to hold 8 argument near the Turkey Point facility. And the 9 Board therefore plans to hold the argument in the city 10 of Homestead at their council chambers, which is 11 located at 100 Civic Court in Homestead, FL.
12 Regarding the date of the oral argument, 13 during the timeframes that Ms. Ladin asked about your 14 availability, which was the week of November 5, 15 November 26, and December 3, there was not a time when 16 all the parties would be available. Because the 17 Board's not willing to delay oral argument beyond the 18 week of December 3, we will set argument for Tuesday, 19 December 4.
20 Now, the only entity that will not be 21 available for that date is Mr. Gomez. And by 22 targeting December 4, Mr. Gomez, that's two months 23 away, and if perhaps it will be possible for you to 24 arrange your schedule in order to attend.
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8 1 wanted to assure you you would not be prejudiced, 2 because the purpose of oral argument is for the Board 3 to ask questions of the parties arising from the 4 written pleadings.
5 And if the Board has any questions for 6 you, it can send them to you in writing prior to the 7 argument, and we'll request for you to respond to them 8 in writing prior to the argument. But at this point, 9 the Board does not contemplate having any questions 10 for you.
11 Next week, the Board will issue a 12 scheduling order that will designate the date, time, 13 and location of the argument, the order in which the 14 parties will make their presentations, and the amount 15 of time allotted to each party.
16 Mr. Gomez, if you look at your schedule 17 and determine that you will be available to 18 participate in the argument, or Ms. Ladin has advised 19 me that you informed her that you may be obtaining 20 counsel, if you find that your counsel is able to 21 participate in argument on December 4, please 22 communicate with Ms. Ladin by either telephone or 23 email before close of business on Monday.
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9 1 would like the parties to be prepared to focus on at 2 oral argument. Also prior to the oral argument, 3 likely in early November as well, perhaps late 4 October, the Board will issue an order that addresses 5 the motion to strike, as well as the alternative to 6 file supplemental pleadings.
7 Do Counsel have any questions at this 8 point, or additional matters they would like to 9 address? Let's start with Mr. Besette.
10 MR. BESETTE: Your honor, this is Paul 11 Besette from Florida Power & Light. We have no 12 further questions, thank you.
13 JUDGE HAWKENS: All right, thank you. Mr.
14 Turk.
15 MR. TURK: We have nothing for ourselves, 16 your honor.
17 JUDGE HAWKENS: All right, thank you. Ms.
18 Curran?
19 MS. CURRAN: No questions from SACE, thank 20 you.
21 JUDGE HAWKENS: Thank you, Mr. Ayres?
22 MR. AYRES: Your honor, no questions from 23 Friends of the Earth.
24 JUDGE HAWKENS: All right, thank you. And 25 Mr. Gomez, any questions?
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10 1 MR. GOMEZ: Not at this time.
2 JUDGE HAWKENS: All right, Mr. Mollen, 3 would you like any of the parties to stay on the line?
4 Do you have any questions regarding what they said or 5 spellings?
6 COURT REPORTER: Just a few. Ayres?
7 JUDGE HAWKENS: All right, Mr. Mollen, 8 I'm, the Licensing Board is going to go off, but the 9 parties will remain on and will continue talking with 10 you. The prehearing conference is terminated, we are 11 adjourned. Thank you very much.
12 (Whereupon, the above-entitled matter went 13 off the record at 12:10 p.m.)
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