ML21062A258
| ML21062A258 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Palisades, Big Rock Point File:Consumers Energy icon.png |
| Issue date: | 03/03/2021 |
| From: | Annette Vietti-Cook NRC/SECY |
| To: | NRC/OCM |
| SECY RAS | |
| References | |
| License Transfer, RAS 55998, Palisades & Big Rock Point-LT-2 | |
| Download: ML21062A258 (4) | |
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
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In the Matter of )
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Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., Entergy ) Docket Nos. 50-255-LT-2 Nuclear Palisades, LLC, Holtec ) 72-007-LT International, and Holtec Decommissioning )
International, LLC )
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(Palisades Nuclear Plant) )
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ORDER On February 23, 2021, Dont Waste Michigan, Beyond Nuclear, and Michigan Safe Energy Future (collectively, Petitioners) filed a motion seeking a 60-day extension of the deadline for requesting a hearing, and for submitting written comments, with respect to the proposed license transfers for the Palisades Nuclear Plant and Big Rock Point Plant.1 By Federal Register notice, the NRC previously established a deadline of February 24, 2021, for the submission of hearing requests, and a deadline of March 8, 2021, for the submission of written comments.2 Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., on behalf of itself and the other applicants for the proposed license transfers, opposes the extension request.3 1 Motion to Extend Deadlines for Filing of Intervention Petitions and Public Comments in Palisades License Transfer Proceeding (Feb. 23, 2021) (ML21054A212) (Extension Request).
2 Palisades Nuclear Plant and Big Rock Point Plant Consideration of Approval of Transfer of Control of Licenses and Conforming Amendments, 86 Fed. Reg. 8225 (Feb. 4, 2021).
3 Applicants Opposition to Dont Waste Michigan, et al.s Motion to Extend Filing Deadline (Feb. 23, 2021) (ML21054A320). Petitioners also filed a reply in response to the applicants opposition. Reply in Support of Motion to Extend Deadlines for Filing of Intervention Petitions and Public Comments in Palisades License Transfer Proceeding (Feb. 24, 2021)
(ML21055A411).
The Petitioners request is denied, as Petitioners have not demonstrated good cause for an extension of time as required by 10 C.F.R. § 2.307. Petitioners request is based on their asserted discovery of a significant number of historic documents recently added to ADAMS, the NRCs online collection of publicly available documents. Petitioners state that these documents are potentially important or may be highly relevant to issues relating to a hearing request or written comments.4 Petitioners further state that these documents were not previously available to them prior to their recent placement in public ADAMS (which the applicants contest).
However, NRC regulations afford Petitioners the opportunity to submit a hearing request, or new or amended contentions, after the relevant deadline has passed where the criteria in 10 C.F.R.
§ 2.309(c) are met. An extension request is not warranted to provide Petitioners with time to determine the relevance or materiality of these documents.
With respect to the request to extend the deadline for the submission of written comments, per 10 C.F.R. § 2.1305, the Commission may consider, as appropriate, written comments received after the March 8, 2021 deadline, though written comments do not constitute part of the decisional record.
This Order is issued under my authority in 10 C.F.R. § 2.346(b).
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Annette L. Vietti-Cook Secretary of the Commission Dated at Rockville, Maryland This 3rd day of March 2021.
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION In the Matter of )
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Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., Entergy ) Docket Nos. 50-255-LT-2 Nuclear Palisades, LLC, Holtec ) 72-007-LT International, and Holtec Decommissioning )
International, LLC )
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(Palisades Nuclear Plant) )
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of the foregoing Order (Denying Petitioners Extension Request) have been served upon the following persons by Electronic Information Exchange.
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Environmental Law & Policy Center Office of Commission Appellate Adjudication 35 E. Wacker Dr. Suite 1600 Mail Stop: O-16B33 Chicago, IL 60601 Washington, DC 20555-0001 Caroline Cox, Esq.
ocaamail@nrc.gov Margrethe Kearney, Esq.
ccox@elpc.org mkearney@elpc.org U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the Secretary of the Commission Mail Stop: O-16B33 Michigan Department of Attorney General Washington, DC 20555-0001 525 W. Ottawa St.
hearingdocket@nrc.gov Lansing, MI 48906 Michael Moody, Esq.
moodym2@michigan.gov U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the General Counsel Mail Stop: O-14A44 Counsel for Dont Waste Michigan, et al Washington, DC 20555-0001 Terry Lodge, Esq.
Tison A. Campbell, Esq. 316 N. Michigan Street David E. Roth, Esq. Suite 520 Anita G. Naber, Esq. Toledo, OH 43604 Jeremy L. Watchutka, Esq. E-mail: tjlodge50@yahoo.com Jennifer Scro, Esq.
Mary F. Woods, Esq.
Brian Newell, Senior Paralegal tison.campbell@nrc.gov david.roth@nrc.gov anita.goshnaber@nrc.gov jeremy.watchutka@nrc.gov mary.woods@nrc.gov brian.newell@nrc.gov
Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc, Holtec International (Palisades Nuclear Plant)
Docket No. 50-255-LT-2 & 72-007-LT Order (Denying Petitioners Extension Request)
Counsel for Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP 1200 Seventeenth Street, NW Washington, DC 20036 Anne R. Leidich, Esq.
David R. Lewis, Esq.
anne.leidich@pillsburylaw.com david.lewis@pillsburylaw.com Susan H. Raimo, Esq.
Entergy Services, LLC 101 Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001 sraimo@entergy.com Counsel for Holtec International Balch &Bingham LLP 1710 Sixth Avenue North Birmingham, AL 35203-2015 Alan D. Lovett, Esq.
Nick Theodore, Esq.
alovett@balch.com ntheodore@balch.com Digitally signed by Krupskaya T. Castellon Krupskaya T. Castellon Date: 2021.03.03 15:07:13
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this 3rd day of March 2021 Office of the Secretary of the Commission 2