ML19338E621
| ML19338E621 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 09/30/1980 |
| From: | Smith I Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
| To: | METROPOLITAN EDISON CO., NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE LEGAL DIRECTOR (OELD), UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS |
| References | |
| ISSUANCES-SP, NUDOCS 8010030465 | |
| Download: ML19338E621 (3) | |
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION g g:p, f 4 ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD Dr. Walter H. Jordan CI y kb
-2 Ivan E. Smith, Chairman Dr. Linda W. Little y
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METROPOLITAN EDISON COMPANY
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Docket No. 50-289
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(Restart)
(Three Mile Island Nuclear
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Station, Unit No. 1)
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MEMORANDUM AND ORDER Cf (Sep tember 30, 1980)
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-S The board's memorandum and order of June 17, 1980 would have required the parties to inform t:'.a board on certain matters re-lating to hydrogen control issues within ten days following the Commission's disposition of UCS notion fcr reconsideration of CLI-80-16.
By order dated Sept aber 26,1980,.he Commission denied UCS' motion and stated separate views on the issue.
Also on September 26 the Commission issued a not yet published propose.d interim rule on, inter alia, hydrogen control.
The views expressed in the Commission's September 26 issuances may bi helpful to the parties.
Moreover, the board believes that it sh,uld consider anew its quorum rulings of May 30, 1980 on hydrogen control issues.
In a telephone conference call on September 30, counsel for UCS, counsel for licensee and counsel for the NRC staff agreed to a board suggestion that the parties affected'by the hydrogen control
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y o issues confer to determine whether an agreed-upon hydrogen con-trol contention can be drafted by the parties and submitced to the board.
Mr. Sholly, who is on vacation, did not participate in the conference call.
Therefore the parties are relieved of the requirements of the board memorandum and order of June 17, and are directed to try to agree upon a hydrogen control contention.
The resuler of the parties' conference and other matters relating to the hydro-gen control issue will be considered in a conference which will be conducted during an early recess in the evidentiary hearings.
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The licensee's September 24 request for an extension of time for filing cross-examination plans is granted.
The exten-sion prejudices no one.
Parties will not be required to file cross-examination plans earlier than October 21,'1980.
A fur-ther extension will be considered at the opening conference on October 15.
3 In the board's memorandum and order of May 22, 1980 (p. 11),
the board accepted TMIA's withdrawal of its Contentions 1 and 2 on the issue of the health effects of routine radioactive emissions.
The board indicated that it might pose a related question.
How-ever, the board has decided not to submit a board question on the 4
issue.
The sponsor of any open motion or other matter still pending before the board is requested to bring the matter to the board's
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THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD d
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Evan W. SmitK, Chairman Bethesda, Maryland September 30, 1980 I
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