ML20204C748

Memorandum & Order (Telcon Re Status of Discovery).* Board Requests That Lead Parties Be Prepared to Provide Estimate of Time Needed to Try Group I Contentions.With Certificate of Svc.Served on 990319

ML20204C748
Person / Time
Site:	07200022
Issue date:	03/19/1999
From:	Bollwerk G Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
To:	AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED, NRC OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL (OGC)
References
CON-#199-20116 97-732-02-ISFSI, 97-732-2-ISFSI, ISFSI, NUDOCS 9903230263
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA '

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION j ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD l '99 Ur 49 P3 :21 Before Administrative Judges: j G. Paul Bollwerk, III, Chairman b l Dr. Jerry R. Kline g,  ;

Dr. Peter S. Lam 1

1 In the Matter c I Docket No. 72-22-ISFSI l

PRIVATE FUEL i > RAGE, L.L.C. ASLBP No. 97-732-02-ISFSI (Independent Spent Fuel March 19, 1999 Storage I;'stallation) f.Q*<lGV $$ '

• W l MEMORANDUM AND ORDER (Telephone Conference Regarding Status of Discovery)

I The Board has advised the parties that it will convene a telephone conference regarding the status of formal discovery efforts on Tuesday, March 23, 1999, beginning at l

1:00 p.m. ET (11:00 a.m. MT). As has previously been the case, the Board requests that at the outset of the call, one party be prepared to provide a brief " joint" report on the status of ongoing formal discovery efforts.

As part of the conference, the Board would like the

" lead" parties supporting and opposing each contention and the NRC staff to be prepared to be able to identify, based on the parties' discovery eff rts to date, (1) any admitted contentions for which a party anticipates seeking permission to conduct discovery in excess of that provided for by the l

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Board, see LBP-98-7, 47 NRC 142, 245 (1998); and (2) how many privileged / protected documents each party anticipates i may be the subject of a motion to compel / motion for protective order. j l

In addition, as part of the conference call the Board 1

would like to discuss with the parties its ongoing efforts I to obtain space in Salt Lake City for conducting the scheduled hearing on the Group I contentions in November and December of this year. In this regard, the Board requests that the " lead" parties and the staff be prepared to provide a good faith estimate of how long they anticipate will be l needed to try the Group I contentions.

It is so ORDERED.

l FOR THE ATOMIC SAFETY

• AND LICENSING BOARD 4 L .LLL G. Paul Bollwerk, III I ADMINISTRATIVE OUDGE Pockville, Maryland March 19, 1999

• Copies of this memorandum and order were sent this date by Internet e-mail transmission to counsel for (1) the applicant Private Fuel Storage, L.L.C.; (2) intervenors Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians, Ohngo Gaudadeh Devia, Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, and the State of Utah; and (3) the staff.

m UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION In the Matter of PRIVATE FUEL STORAGE, LLC Docket No.(s) 72-22-ISFSI (Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation)

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of the foregoing TELEPHONE CONFERENCE 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 Commission Appellate G. Paul Bo11werk, III, 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 Administrative Judge Jerry R. Kline Peter S. Lam Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Mail Stop - T-3 F23 Mail Stop - T-3 F23 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission Washington, DC 20555 Washington, DC 20555 Sherwin E. Turk, Esq.

Catherine L. Marco, Esq. Diane curran, Esq.

Office of the General Counsel Harmon, Curran, Spielberg & Eisenberg

. Mail Stop 15 B18 2001 S Street, N.W., Suite 430 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20009 Washington, DC 20555 Martin S. Kaufman, Esq. Joro Walker, Esq.

Atlantic Legal Foundation Land and Water Fund of the Rockies 205 E. 42nd St. 165 South Main, Suite 1 New York, NY 10017 Salt Lake City, UT 84111

4 Docket No.(s)72-22-ISFSI TELEPHONE CONFERENCE ORDER Denise Chancellor, Esq.

Assistant Attorney General Jay E. Silberg, Esq.

Utah Attorney General's Office Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge )

160 East 300 South, 5th Floor 2300 N Street, NW P.O. Box 140873 Washington, DC 20037 Salt Lake City, UT 84114 1

John Paul Kennedy, Esq. Richard E. Condit, Esq.

Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Land and Water Fund of the Rockies Reservation and David Pete 2260 Baseline Road,.5,ite 200 1385 Yale Avenue Boulder, CO 80302 Salt Lake City, UT 84105 )

i Clayton J. Parr, Esq. Danny Quintana, Esq.

Castle Rock, et al. Skull Valby Band of Goshute Indians Parr, Waddoups, Brown, Gee & Loveless Danny Quintana & Assocs., P.C.

185 South State Street, Suite 1300 50 West Broadway, Fourth Floor Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Salt Lake City, UT 84101 i

Richard Wilson Department of Physics Harvard University ,

I Cambridge, MA 02138 Dated at Rockville, Md. this '

19 day of March 1999 7

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