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NextEra Energy Seabrook LLCs Objection to Filing of Rulemaking Petition and Suspension Request Before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board
ML11234A078
Person / Time
Site: Seabrook NextEra Energy icon.png
Issue date: 08/22/2011
From: Hamrick S
NextEra Energy Seabrook
To:
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
SECY RAS
References
RAS 20800, 50-443-LR, ASLBP 10-906-02-LR-BD01
Download: ML11234A078 (4)


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August 22, 2011 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board In the Matter of )

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NextEra Energy Seabrook, LLC ) Docket No. 50-443-LR

) ASLBP No. 10-906-02-LR (Seabrook Station, Unit 1) ) NextEra Energy Seabrook LLC's Objection to Filing of Rulemaking Petition and Suspension Request Before the At omic Safety and Licensing Board On August 11, 2011, Friends of the Coast and the New England Coalition ("Friends/NEC") filed before both the Secretary and the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board ("Board") a Rulemaking Petition to Rescind Prohibition Against Consideration of Environmental Impacts of Severe Accidents and Spent Fuel Pool Accidents and Request to Suspend Licensing Decisions ("Petition").

1 The Petition requests that the NRC rescind regulations in 10 C.F.R. Part 51 that make generic conclusions about the environmental impacts of severe reactor and spent fuel pool accidents, and also requests that the NRC suspend the Seabrook license renewal proceeding while the NRC considers this petition and the environmental issues raised in a proposed new contention alleging a requirement to address the implications of the Fukushima Task Force Report. Petition at 1. To the extent that this Petition seeks any action by the Board, NextEra Energy Seabrook, LLC ("NextEra") objects to Friends/NEC's placing the Petition before the Board, because the Board has no authority to grant it. 10 C.F.R. § 2.802(a) provides that a rulemaking petition should be addressed to the Secretary, and the Board has been delegated no authority to rescind the NRC's rules. Further, 10 C.F.R. § 2.802(a) provides that a petitioner for rulemaking may request the Commission (not the presiding officer) to suspend a proceeding to which the petitioner is a party pending disposition of the rulemaking petition. In addition, Friends/NEC and other entities have already submitted a request to the Commission to suspend all licensing proceedings proceeding pending consideration of the environmental implications of the Fukushima Daiichi accident, 2 so any attempt to put a duplicative request before the Board is inappropriate. For all these reasons, Friends/NEC's Petition is not properly before the Board, 3 and NextEra will address its opposition to the Commission. Respectfully Submitted, /Signed electronically by Steven Hamrick/

Mitchell S. Ross James M. Petro, Jr.

NextEra Energy Seabrook, LLC

700 Universe Blvd.

Juno Beach, Florida 33408

Telephone: 561-691-7126 Facsimile: 561-691-7135 E-mail: mitch.ross@fpl.com james.petro@fpl.com

Steven Hamrick NextEra Energy Seabrook, LLC 801 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Suite 220

Washington, DC 20004

Telephone: 202-349-3496 Facsimile: 202-347-7076 E-mail: steven.hamrick@fpl.com

Counsel for NextEra Energy Seabrook, LLC Dated: August 22, 2011

1 Beyond Nuclear filed a similar petition on the same date, but addressed it only to the Secretary.

2 Emergency Petition to Suspend All Pending Reactor Licensing Decisions and Related Rulemaking Decisions Pending Investigation of Lessons Learned From Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Accident (April 18, 2011).

3 NextEra does not object to the suspension request being submitted on the docket of this license renewal proceeding. NextEra only objects to its being filed as a request before the Board.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board In the Matter of )

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NextEra Energy Seabrook, LLC ) Docket No. 50-443-LR

) ASLBP No. 10-906-02-LR (Seabrook Station, Unit 1) ) CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that "NextEra Energy Seabrook LLC's Objection to Filing of Rulemaking Petition and Suspension Request Before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board,"

dated August 22, 2011, was provided to the Electronic Information Exchange for service on the individuals listed below, th is 22nd day of August, 2011.

Secretary Att'n: Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001

hearingdocket@nrc.gov Office of Commission Appellate Adjudication

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 E-mail: OCAAMAIL@nrc.gov Administrative Judge Paul S. Ryerson, Esq., Chair Atomic Safety and Licensing Board

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 Email: psr1@nrc.gov

Administrative Judge Dr. Richard E. Wardwell Atomic Safety and Licensing Board

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 Email: richard.wardwell@nrc.gov

Administrative Judge

Dr. Michael Kennedy Atomic Safety and Licensing Board

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 Email: michael.kennedy@nrc.gov Mary Spencer, Esq. Maxwell C. Smith, Esq.

Richard S. Harper, Esq.

Office of the General Counsel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 E-mail: mary.spencer@nrc.gov; maxwell.smith@nrc.gov;

Richard.Harper@nrc.gov

Raymond Shadis

New England Coalition

Post Office Box 98 Edgecomb, Maine 04556 E-mail: shadis@prexar.com

Kurt Ehrenberg New Hampshire Sierra Club

40 N. Main Street

Concord, NH 03301 E-mail: Kurt.Ehrenberg@sierraclub.org 2 Paul Gunter Beyond Nuclear

6930 Carroll Avenue, Suite 400 Takoma Park, MD 20912 E-mail: paul@beyondnuclear.com

Doug Bogen Executive Director Seacoast Anti-Pollution League

PO Box 1136 Portsmouth, NH 03802 E-mail: dbogen@metrocast.net

Matthew Brock, Esq.

Assistant Attorney General Environmental Protection Division Office of the Attorney General One Ashburton Place, 18th Floor

Boston, Massachusetts 02108 matthew.brock@state.ma.us

/Signed electronically by Steven Hamrick /

Steven Hamrick