ML19309C894

Responds to TB Conner 800312 Ltr to NRC Re Interconnection Agreement.Absence of Svc Schedule & Execution of Gulf States Util Co Indicate Agreement Not Intended to Be Operative. Requests Resolution Before OL Stage

ML19309C894
Person / Time
Site:	Grand Gulf
Issue date:	04/04/1980
From:	Mcdiarmid R SPIEGEL & MCDIARMID
To:	Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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LAW OFFICES cEORGE SPIEGEL. P C. SI'IEGEL & McDI AHMID BONNIE S. 5 LAIR 1008ERT C. McOI ARMID ROBERT HARLEY SEAR SANDRA J. STREBEL 2600 VIRGINI A AVENUE. N.W. THOMAS C. TRAUGE R ROBE RT A. JABLON WASHINGTON, D.C. 20037 JOHN MICHAEL AORAGNA JAMES N HORWOOD CTNTHIA S. BOGORAD ALAN J. ROTH TELEPHONE (202) 333 4500 GARY J. NEWELL PRANCE S E. FR ANCIS MARC R PolRIER OANIEL 1. O A)IDSON TELECOPIER (2027 333-2974 M ARTA A. MANILDI THOM AS N. MCHUGH. JR JOSEPH L VAN EATON DANIEL J GUTTMAN PETE R ( M Arf April 4, 1980 DAVID R STRAUS Mr. Harold Denton Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Stanford Litvak, Esq.

Assistant Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice Washington, D.C. 20530 Re: In The Matter of Mississippi Power & Light Company, Grand Gulf Nuclear Station Nos. 1 and 2, Docket No.

50-416A and 50-417A.

Gentlemen:

This is in response to the letter of March 12, 1980, which you have received from Troy B. Conner, Jr., Esq.,

attorney for Applicant in the above-captioned proceeding.

The Municipal Energy Agency of Mississippi ("MEAM"),would be pleased by the representations of MP&L in that letter were it not for the fact that it does not appear that the intercon-nection " agreement" (which is not agreed to by Gulf States Utilities Company) is intended to be operati.ve. Among other things, Section 6.01 of that filing providen that the inter-connection agreement shall become ef fective on the date of its execution and delivery, subject to regulatory approval.

Since Gulf States has not executed it, and apparently believes that service schedules are necessary if an intercon-nection agreement is to be necessary, it is not clear that even MP&L intends the interconnection " agreement" to become effective. In addition, there are numerous references to the service schedules in the body of the agreertent, and those service schedules are not attached.

On March 28, 1980, members of MEAM intervened in the MP&L FERC Docket No. ER80-261, the docket covering the pf filing of the interconnection " agreement". In that Petition 3 to Intervene, we raised some of these questions, and others. /[/

We attach 'a copy of that document as Attachment A. ' /)pD ', th h T. M6 DRAY I ) .

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Mr. Harold Denton Stanford Litvak, Esq. April 4, 1980 By our recent letters of January 11, and February 12, 1980, we furnished you copies of correspondence which appear to be relevant to the issues raised in this case, in response to various letters addressed to you . Subsequent to that correspondence, Clarksdale has received a response, dated February 25, 1980, from MP&L's corporate affiliate, Louisiana Power & Light Company, which responded to Clarksdale's letter of February 13, 1980, inquiring as to LP&L's letter of February 5, 1980 (attached to our correspon- 1 dence to you of February 12). We attach Clarksdale's letter of February 13, 1980, as Attachment B hereto and LP&L's response of February 25, 1980, as Attachment C hereto. This further correspondence may serve to clarify some of the issues involved.

Finally, MEAM would observe that it would be in the interests of all of the citizens of Mississippi to have these matters resolved before the operating license stage. Time may w' ell be of t.he essence here, and we would imagine MP&L would join us in our request for expeditious resolution of these matters. While these issues may not mean as much to the average ratepayer of MP&L as they do to the citizens-consumers of the MEAM members, there is nevertheless much to be lost by bo'_h parties from delay.

Yours very truly, Robert C. McDiarmid Attorney for the Municipal Energy Agency of Mississippi Enclosures cc: Troy B. Conner, Jr., Esq.

Jack Goldberg, Esq.

Richard M. Merriman, Esq.

Janet R. Urban, Esq.

David R. Hunt, Esq.

Mr. Marvin Carraway .

Mr. C. M. Matthews RCMcD:jbs