ML20148T065

Applicant Response to Contentions by City of Haverhill for Commonwealth of Ma Emergency Response Plan.* Haverhill Contention Should Be Rejected.Applicant Has No Objection to Admission as Interested State.W/Certificate of Svc

ML20148T065
Person / Time
Site:	Seabrook
Issue date:	04/12/1988
From:	Dignan T PUBLIC SERVICE CO. OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, ROPES & GRAY
To:	Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
References
CON-#288-6081 CLI-87-12, OL, NUDOCS 8804200308
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COLKETED 4/12788 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 30 ME 18 Ml:29 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION before the fo'$f;5dh'k BRAKii ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD

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PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY ) Docket Nos. 50-443-CL OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, EI AL. ) 50-444-OL

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(Seabrook Station, Units 1 ) (Offsite Emergency and 2) ) Planning Issues)

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APPLICANTS' RESPONSE TO CONTENTIONS BY THE CITY OF HAVERHILL FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN Under date of April 4, 1988, the City of Haverhill, Massachusetts (Haverhill) filed a document entitled "Contentions of the City of Haverhill for the Massachusetts Emergency Response Plan." The sole contention raised by Haverhill is a contention to the effect that that city should be included in the Plume Exposure Emergency Planning Zone (EPZ) for Seabrook Station.

The only reason given for the inclusion of Haverhill in the EPZ is the fact that a portion of the City is within the ten-mile radius surrounding Seabrook Station. We are unadvised how "such conditions as demography, topography, land characteristics, access routes, and jurisdictional boundaries," 10 CFR

$50.47(c)(2), dictate an enlargement of the Seabrook EPZ at this lato date. The only reasons given for doing so are safety reasons 1.g., the lack of planning for "schools, nursing homes, 8004200300 00041P 4 PDR ADOCK 05000443 g7 o enn >

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9, and day care centers or for any other related facility." It is settled that contentions seeking adjustment of an EPZ "about 10 miles in radius" for safety reasons constitute impermissible challenges to the Commission's regulations. Iona Island Lichtina C22 (Shoreham Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1), CLI-8 -12, 26 NRC 383, 395 (1987).

CONCLUSION The Haverhill contention should be reiected. Haverhill should be denied admission as a party under 10 CFR $2.714. If Haverhill desires admission as an "interested state" under 10 CFR 52.714(c), Applicants have no objection.1 By their attorneys, omas G. <0itjnan, Jr.

George H. Lewald Kathryn A. Selleck Ropes & Gray l 225 Franklin Street i Boston, MA 02110 (617) 423-6100 lit is not clear whether Haverhill, in the second paragraph of its filing,is seeking to raise a further contention or is simply noting a point of information. To the extent it is the former, it should be noted that the temporary restraining order referred to was dissolved and a preliminary injunction denied on April 7, 1988 by the Superior Court Department of the Trial Court of the Commonwealth.

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2, C OL >.L itT U3NhC CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I, Kathryn A. Selleck, one of the attorneys fhh tNE IO MI 29 Applicants herein, hereby certify that on April 12, 1988, I made service of the within document by mailing coppeqt_; , ,

thereof, postage prepaid, to: 00CKEii8c r ' 9 un BRANW Administrative Judge Ivan W. Smith, Stephen E. Merrill, Esquire Chairperson Attorney General Atomic Safety and Licensing George Dana Bisbee, Esquire Board Panel Assistant Attorney General U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Office of the Attorney General Commission 25 Capitol Street Washington, DC 20555 Concord, NH 03301-6397 Judge Gustave A. Linenberger, Jr. Dr. Jerry Harbour Atomic Safety and Licensing Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Board Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commission Washington, DC 20555 Washington, DC 20555 Robert Carrigg, Chairman Diane Curran, Esquire Board of Selectmen Andrea C. Ferster, Esquire Town Office Harmon & Weiss Atlantic Avenue Suite 430 North Hampton, NH 03862 2001 S Street, N.W.

Washington, DC 20009 Adjudicatory File Sherwin E. Turk, Esquire Atomic Safety and Licensing Office of the Executive Legal Board Panel Docket (2 copies) Director U.S. Nuclear Regulatory U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commission Washington, DC 20555 Washington, DC 20555 Atomic Safety and Licensing Robert A. Backus, Esquire Appeal Board Panel Backus, Meyer & Solomon U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 116 Lowell Street Commission P.O. Box 516 Washington, DC 20555 Manchester, NH 03105 Philip Ahrens, Esquire Mr. J. P. Nadeau Assistant Attorney General Selectmen's Office Department of the Attorney 10 Central Road General Rye, NH 03870 Augusta, ME 04333

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l Paul McEachern, Esquire Carol S. Sneider, Esquire Matthew T. Brock, Esquire Assistant Attorney General Shaines & McEachern Department of the Attorney 25 Maplewood Avenue General P.O. Box 360 One Ashburton Place, 19th Fir.

Portsmouth, NH 03801 Boston, MA 02108 Mrs. Sandra Gavutis Mr. Calvin A. Canney Chairman, Board of Selectmen City Manager RFD 1 - Box 1154 City Hall Kensington, NH 03827 126 Daniel Street Portsmouth, NH 03801 Senator Gordon J. Humphrey Mr. Angie Machiros U.S, Senate Chairman of the Washington, DC 20510 Board of Selectmen (Attn: Tom Burack) Town of Newbury Newbury, MA 01950 Senator Gordon J. Humphrey Mr. Peter S. Matthews One Eagle Square, Suite 507 Mayor Concord, NH 03301 City Hall r (Attn: Herb Boynton) Newburyport, MA 01950 Mr. Thomas F. Powers, III Mr. William S. Lord Town Manager Board of Selectmen Town of Exeter Town Hall - Friend Street 10 Front Street Amesbury, MA 01913 Exeter, NH 03833 ,

H. Joseph Flynn, Esquire Brentwood Board of Selectmen Office of General Counsel RFD Dalton Road Federal Emergency Management Brentwood, NH 03833 Agency 500 C Street, S.W.

Washington, DC 20472 Gary W. Holmes, Esquire Richard A. Hampe, Esquire Holmes & Ells Hampe and McNicholas 47 Winnacunnet Road 35 Pleasant Street ,

Hampton, NH 03841 Concord, NH 03301 Mr. Ed Thomas Judith H. Mizner, Esquire FEMA, Region I Silverglate, Gertner, Baker 442 John W. McCormack Post Fine, Good & Mizner Office and Court House 88 Broad Street Post Office Square Boston, MA 02110 Boston, MA 02109 1

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McKay, Murphy and Graham 100 Main Street Amesbury, MA. 01913

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