ML20099C679

Motion for Suspension of Low Power License NPF-27.Limerick Ecology Action (Lea) Members Among Population Exposed to Risk & Lea Will Be Irreparably Damaged Unless Suspension Granted.Certificate of Svc Encl

ML20099C679
Person / Time
Site:	Limerick
Issue date:	11/15/1984
From:	Elliott C ELLIOTT, C.W., LIMERICK ECOLOGY ACTION, INC.
To:	NRC ATOMIC SAFETY & LICENSING APPEAL PANEL (ASLAP)
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CON-#484-213 OL, NUDOCS 8411200022
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MOTION FOR SUSPENSION OF.. LOW-POWER t FACILITY: OPERATING' LICENSE NPF-27' Limerick.Ecblogy' Action, Inc. (LEA) , - intervenor in the labove -

captioned licensing proceeding, moves the Appeal-Board.for;.an, Order suspending the authorization for'a' low-power operating; y license for the above facility, and sets forth the:followingsin.

support thereof:

On or about. September 3, 1984, LEA filedLa-timely appeal to this Board. from the Partial Initial Decisionf(PID) ,' of the V Atomic Safety and Licensing Board - (ASLB) , which, inter 'alia, .

authorized the Director of the Office of Nuclear. Reactor Regu-lation.to issue the operating license. .

.On or about October'3, 1984 LEA filed-a briefsin'~ support

'of its appeal, setting forth in detail-various errors in-law, and.' violations of the_ National Environmental Policy'Act, the Administrative Procedure Act and Commission regulations by the-8411200022 841115 PDR ADOCK 050003S2

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LEA will be' irreparably. injured unlessgthe suspension is. e granted. Among.the bases which' LEA set forth for. reversal;of the ASLB partial initial: decision below is- the failure of; the environmental' review.for Limorick.to considor design alternativos;

-to mitigato the risk of sevoro accidents. LLA's-membership is among the population exposed to this risk, and'would be I among the beneficiaries of a reduction of this risk.. ,

Hidden.from NEPA review and excluded from licensing con-sideration are Staff analyses of a range of potential risk re-

. duction measures which may be available for implementation at Limerick. However, the cost-effectivencss of such' measures, the~

practicability of backfitting.such measures into the Limerick

' design and the radiation exposure of workers involved inthe

' implementation of such measures will all-be adversely affected by low-power operation of the facility-which will contaminate '

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~1 Board has~' expressly 1noted, are'"not withinLthe properfscope of' i~ssues litigatedLin NRC proceedings"  ; Philadelphia:-Electrici

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ultimate full-power and.commerical operation of Limerick cannot now be presumed, in the face of extant challenges-to the adequacy of off-site emergency planning which remain to be litigated as Indeed, it would be arbitrary and capricious.fo'r th'e Commission to consider claims of economic harm to the utility caused by a licensing delay,'yet exclude claims of economic harm-to the rate-payers and the public occasioned by the licensing of a nuclear

~ facility, which like Limerick, the need for which is dubious at best. ~If the Appeal Board. intends to consider such claims of economic harm to the utility, LEA respectfully requests an oppor-tunity to set-forth the economic harm to its membership and the public resulting.from facility' licensing and operation. .

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to delay in testing and commerical operation. -Thoroforo,.wo reiterate the Appeal Board's-rejection of the'cognizability of

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to tho ApplicantSpending?:~ adjudication 6f; LEA's*appealion the' '

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

.. LI hereby certify _that copies ofl LEAfsi"Motionjfor Suspension- =

of Low-Power Facility. Operating License NPF-27" dated 1 November 15, o c _1984 in the'captionedLmatter-have been served;upon'theifollowing I by-deposit'in.the' United State's mail this 16th day-of November, l

1984:

z Christine N. Kohl, Esquire Dr. . Richard: F. Cole

~ Chairman,. Atomic Safety and Atomic Safety'and. ,

Licensing Appeal Board Licensing' Board . .

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory U.S. Nuclear Regulatory.

Commission Commission. . . , ,

Washington, D.C. 20555 Washington, D.C.. 20555 Gary J. Edles Dr.' Jerry. Harbour Atomic Safoty and Atomic,Safoty and

'Licensiny Appcal Board Licensing Board .

U.S. Nuclcar Regulatory U.S. Nuclcar Regulatory i commission Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Washington, D.C. 20555-Dr. Reginald L. Gotchy Atomic Safety and Licensing

' Atomic Safety and Appeal Board l Licensing Appeal. Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory; U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

,_ Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 l Washington, D.C. 20555 l Docketing and Service Section g l -Helen F. Hoyt, Esquire Office of the Secretary Chairperson :U.S. Nuclear Regulatory ,

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' Philadelphia Electric Company Hellegers ATTN: Edward G. Baueri-Jr.- 16th Floor, Center Plaza-Vice President & 101 North Broad Stroet' General Counsel Philadelphia, PA_:19107<

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.. Mr. Robert L. Anthony. ' Martha W. Bushi Esq.

Friends of the Earth of. Kathryn S. Lewis, Esq.

the Delaware Valley City of Phi'ladelphia-106 Vernon Lane, Box 186 Municipal Services Bldg. ',

Moylan, Pennsylvania 19065-. 15th and'JFK Blvd.

- Philadelphia, PA 19107 Miss Phyllis Zitzer .

Limerick Ecology Action Spence W. Perry, Esq.

P.O.- Box'761 Associate General Counsel 762 Queen Street Federal Emergency .

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