ML20138S022

Memorandum Urging Aslab Grant Petition & Relief Requested in Response to Aslab 851108 Order Directing Applicant to Supply Memo on Question of Whether 851106 Memo Affects Second Directed Certification Petition.W/Certificate of Svc

ML20138S022
Person / Time
Site:	Comanche Peak
Issue date:	11/14/1985
From:	Dignan T ROPES & GRAY, TEXAS UTILITIES ELECTRIC CO. (TU ELECTRIC)
To:	NRC ATOMIC SAFETY & LICENSING APPEAL PANEL (ASLAP)
References
CON-#485-215 OL, OL-2, NUDOCS 8511190396
Download: ML20138S022 (7)

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TEXAS UTILITIES ELECTRIC  : Docket Nos. 50-445-OL + OL-2 COMPANY et al.  : 50-446-OL + OL-2 (Comanche Peak Steam Electric  :

Station, Units 1 and 2)  :

APPLICANTS' MEMORANDUM IN RESPONSE TO APPEAL BOARD ORDER OF NOVEMBER 8,1985 On November 4,1985, the Applicants filed a petition for directed certifi ,

cation of an order issued on October 31, 1985 by the two Licensing Boards in the above-entitled proceeding. Therein, the Applicants raised the fundamental ques-tion of the scope of the respective jurisdictions of the two . separate Licensing Boards sitting in the two dockets in this matter. App!! cants contended that the Licensing Boards' order at issue in effect does away with any and all limitations or distinctions as to the scope of the individual jurisdiction of the two boards, as evidenced by three rulings contained in the order:

1) A ruling that swept into the scope of the jurisdiction of the Docket 2 Board an extensive record created before the Docket 2 Board existed.

2) A ruling that all discovery filed in either docket would be deemed filed in the other docket and therefore no objections as to discovery would be entertained which could be obviated by simply refiling in the other docket. 8511190396 851114 5 PDR ADOCK 0 a

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3) A ruling that parties wishing to incorporate evidence in one docket from the other would be allowed to do so as late as when they filed

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their proposed findings.

Thereafter the Licensing Boards issued a Memorandum entitled " Fair Warning of Citations to Other Docket," ASLBP No. 79-430-06 OL, wherein the Licensing Boards responded in part to the arguments urged by the Applicants on the basis of the third above-listed ruling. The Licensing Boards stated:

"(W)e now intend to require the parties to place each other on notice by providing a timely citation of relevant material that is already in the other docket. Similarly, when relevant technical information is expected to be filed in the other docket, an affected party should be informed of the ex-pected relevance."

By an Order dated November 8,1985, this Appeal Board directed Applicants to supply a memorandum on the question of "whether, and if so, to what extent, the November 6 memorandum affects the second directed certification petition and the relief sought therein."

The November 6 memorandum affects the petition only insofar as it is based on the third above-listed ruling. It indicated an intention on the part of the Boards no longer to adhere to the position that a party may wait until the filing of proposed findings of fact to inform the opponent of what evidence from the other docket the party is relying on. Now " timely citation" will be required. However,

" timely" is not defined; the right to respond, if any, is unarticulated; and the timing of a ruling as to admissibility is left to the indefinite future, although the Licensing Boards indicated at a prehearing conference on November 12, 1985 that at some future time the procedures for such matters will be clarified. Even assuming, however, that at some future date the necessary panoply of ad hoc procedures and rights is to be articulated, the essential fact is that the order does nothing to address the fundamental jurisdictional question raised by the petition, nor does it 4

serve, in any meaningful way, to obviate the problems that Applicants believe will lead to an unnecessarily confused and complex trial and appellate record.

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CONCLUSION In light of the foregoing, the Applicants continue to urge the granting of the petition and relief requested.

Respectfully submitted, Nicholas S. Reynolds William A. Horin BISHOP, LIBERM AN, COOK, PURCELL & REYNOLDS 1200 Seventeenth Street, N.W.

Suite 700 Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 357-9800 Robert A. Wooldridge WORSHAM, FORSYTHE, SAMPELS

& WOOLDRIDGE 2001 Bryan Tower, Suite 3200 Dallas, Texas 75201 (214) 979-3000 Roy P. Lessy, Jr.

MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS .

1800 M Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20036 -

(202) 372-5000 Thomas G. Dignan, Jr.

R. K. Gad III ROPES & GRAY 225 Franklin Street Boston, Massachusetts 02110 (617) 423-6100 s

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3 Thomas G. Degskh, Jr.

Counsel for Kpplicants

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION before the ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING APPEAL BOARD In the Matter of  :

TEXAS UTILITIES ELECTRIC  : Docket Nos. 50-445-OL + OL-2 COMPANY et al.  : 50-446-OL + OL-2

1 (Comanche Peak Steam Electric  :

Station, Units 1 and 2)  :

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of " Applicants' Memorandum in Response to Appeal Board Order of November 8,1985" in the above captioned matter were Express Mail (**), or hand delivered (***)

delivered upon the following persons on the /# - (*) day of November,1985.

either by Federal Express Mr. Peter B. Bloch, Esq., Chairman

• Atoailc Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Dr. Kenneth A. McCollom*

Dean, Division of Engineering, Architecture and Technology Oklahoma State University Stillwater, Oklahoma 74074 Elizabeth B. Johnson

• Oak Ridge National Laboratory /

P. O. Box X, Building 3500 Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37330 Dr. Walter H. Jordan

• 881 West Outer Drive Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830 Mrs. Juanita Ellis**

President, C ASE

• 1426 South Polk Street Dallas, Texas 75224 Renes Hicks, Esq.*

Assistant Attorney General Environmental Protection Division ltol Station

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Nicholas S. Reynolds, Esq.*

• William A. Horin, Esq.*

Bishop, Liberman, Cook, Purcell & Reync!ds 1200 Seventeenth Street, N.W.

Suite 700 Washington, D.C. 20036 ~

Mr. W. G. Counsil***

i Executive Vice President Texas Utilities Generating Company Skyway Tower,25th Floor 400 N. Olive Street Dallas, Texas 75201 Mr. Thomas G. Dignan, Jr.*

Mr. R. K. Gad, III*

Ropes & Gray 225 Franklin Street Boston, Massachusetts 02110 Mr. Roy P. Lessy, Jr.*

Morgan, Lewis & Bocklus 1800 M Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20036 Robert D. Martin **

Regional Administrator, Region IV U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 611 Ryan Plaza Drive, Suite 1000 Arlington, Texas 76011 Lanny A. Sinkin*

3022 Porter Street, N.W., #304 Washington, D.C. 20008 Chairman

• Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Mr. William L. Clements*

Docketing & Service Branch U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Stuart A. Treby, Esq.*

Office of the Executive Director U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 7735 Old Georgetown Road, Room 10117 Bethesda, Maryland 20814 Chairman

• Atomic Safety and Licensing Appea! Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission j Washington, D.C. 20555 i

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Ms. Ellen Ginsberg, Esq.*

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Bi!!!e Pirner Garde * --

Citizens Clinic Director Government Accountability Project 1555 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.

Suite 202 Washington, D.C. 20036 Nancy Williams

• Cygna Energy Services, Inc.

101 California Street Suite 1000 San Francisco, California 94111 James E. Cummins*

Resident Inspector Comanche Peak SES c/o U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission P. O. Box 38 Glen Rose, Texas 76043 Herbert Grossman, Alternate Chairman

• Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Anthony Roisman, Esq.*

Executive Director Trial Lawyers for Public Justice 2000 P. Street, N.W., Suite 611 Washington, D.C. 20036 Joseph Gallo, Esq.*

isham, Lincoln & Beale 1120 Connecticut Ave., N.W.

Suite 840 Washington, D.C. 20036 ,

Geary S. Mizuno, Esq.*

Office of the Executive Director U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 7735 Old Georgetown Road, Room 10105 Bethesda, Maryland 20814 Alan S. Rosenthal, Esq.*

Chairman, Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board i U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 l

l Thomas S. Moore, Esq.*

l Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Panel l U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission l Washington, D.C. 20555 l

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Dr. W. Reed Johnson * '

Atomic Safety and Licensing Appea! Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555

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