ML15181A087

NRC Staff Hearing File Update 77

ML15181A087
Person / Time
Site:	Indian Point
Issue date:	06/30/2015
From:	Amitava Ghosh NRC/OGC
To:	Kennedy M, Lawrence Mcdade, Richard Wardwell Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
SECY RAS
References
50-247-LR, 50-286-LR, ASLBP 07-858-03-LR-BD01, RAS 27995
Download: ML15181A087 (14)

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UNITE D STATE S N UCLEAR REGULATORY C OMMI SS I ON WASHINGTON, DC 20555 - 0001 June 30, 2015 Administrative Judge Administrative Judge Lawrence G. McDade, Chair Dr. Richard E. Wardwell 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 Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 Washington, DC 20555-0001 Administrative Judge Michael F. Kennedy Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Mail Stop T-3 F23 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 In the Matter of ENTERGY NUCLEAR OPERATIONS, INC.

(Indian Point Nuclear Generating Units 2 and 3)

Docket Nos. 50-247-LR and 50-286-LR

Dear Administrative Judges:

Pursuant to the Atomic Safety and Licensing Boards December 18, 2008, Memorandum and Order (Addressing Requests that the Proceeding be Conducted Pursuant to Subpart G), slip op. at 13, the Licensing Board's Order (Granting Consent Motion Regarding Mandatory Disclosures), dated January 30, 2009, at 1, the staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Staff) herein notifies the Licensing Board and the parties that the hearing file has been supplemented for this proceeding. Materials in the hearing file may be accessed through the Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). An index containing the ADAMS accession number, date, and title or description of each item in Hearing File Index, Supplement 77 is appended hereto as Attachment 1.

On or about July 10, 2015, the documents identified in the hearing file will be made available via the Electronic Hearing Docket (EHD), which may be accessed at the following URL:

http://ehd.nrc.gov/EHD_Proceeding/home.asp. The hearing file will be contained in a sub-folder entitled, Indian PT Hearing File, Update 77 in the Indian_PT_2&3_50-247&50-286-LR" folder of the EHD.

In addition, as required by 10 C.F.R. § 2.336(b)(5), the Staff is producing a privilege log, identifying documents withheld under the deliberative process; appended hereto as Attachment

2. Also attached is the Declaration of Jane E. Marshall formally invoking the deliberative process privilege with respect to the documents in Attachment 2. The Staff will preserve and

Judge McDade June 30, 2015 Judge Kennedy Judge Wardwell maintain the privileged documents identified in these logs during the pendency of this proceeding.

Further, pursuant to 10 C.F.R. § 2.336(c), attached is the Affidavit of Michael J. Wentzel, certifying that all relevant materials required by this section have been disclosed, and that the disclosures are accurate and complete as to documents identified by June 23, 2015.

Finally, the NRC Staff notes that it has made a good faith effort to identify and characterize all documents meeting the criteria of 10 C.F.R. § 2.336(b) and 10 C.F.R. § 2.1203 in this proceeding. In identifying these documents, the Staff does not concede their relevance to the license renewal issues to be decided in this proceeding.

Sincerely,

/Signed (electronically) by/

Anita Ghosh Counsel for NRC Staff

Enclosures:

Attachment 1 - Hearing File Index, Supplement 77 Attachment 2 - Deliberative Process Privilege Log Declaration of Jane E. Marshall Affidavit of Michael J. Wentzel cc w/Encls.: Service List

Attachment 1 - Indian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Supplement 77 - June 30, 2015 Accession Document ID# Title Number Date 77-0001 ML15166A070 08/31/2014 Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) Project, Phase 2 Acoustic Survey for Indiana Bats (Myotis sodalis) and Northern Long-Eared Bats (Myotis septentrionalis), August 2014.

77-0002 ML15166A069 06/08/2015 Indian Point, Units 2 and 3 - Reply to Request for Additional Information Regarding the License Renewal Application Environmental Review.

77-0003 ML15160A030 06/09/2015 2015/06/09 Indian Point LR Hearing - Outgoing Letter NL-15-075 Reply to RAI Regarding the License Renewal Application Environmental Review 77-0004 ML15162A517 06/11/2015 2015/06/11 Indian Point LR Hearing - RE: Change in Deadline 77-0005 ML15147A199 06/11/2015 Schedule Revision For The Environmental Review Of The Indian Point Nuclear Generating Unit Nos. 2 And 3 License Renewal Application (TAC Nos. MD5411, And MD5412).

77-0006 ML15169A758 06/18/2015 2015/06/18 Indian Point LR Hearing - Draft RAI Set 2015-02 77-0007 ML15169B038 06/18/2015 2015/06/18 Indian Point LR Hearing - RE: Draft RAI Set 2015-02

Attachment 2 - Indian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Deliberative Process Privilege, Supplement 77 - June 30, 2015 Certain documents otherwise subject to inclusion in the hearing file and mandatory disclosures for this proceeding have been determined by the NRC Staff to contain information subject to withholding from public disclosures as predecisional, deliberative information. Pursuant to 10 C.F.R. § 2.336(b)(5), the Staff is providing this log to identify the following documents, withheld under the "deliberative process" privilege.

Addressee Author Name Accession Document Document Name Page ID # & Author Title Comment Number Date Type & Addressee Count Affiliation Affiliation DPP- ML15146A375 D. Wrona, 2015/05/26 Indian Point 05/26/2015 E-Mail w/ B. Wittick, Internal 25 77- NRC/NRR/DLR LR Hearing - INPUT: Attachment NRC/NRR/DLR discussion 001 Indian Point Supplement regarding draft (Cummulative impacts, FSEIS except aquatic and Supplement groundwater) input

Attachment:

draft FSEIS Supplement input DPP- ML15146A257 R. Hoffman, 2015/05/26 Indian Point 05/26/2015 E-Mail w/ D. Wrona, Internal 25 77- NRC/NRR/DLR LR Hearing - RE: Attachment NRC/NRR/DLR discussion 002 Comments IP regarding draft Cumulative FSEIS Supplement input

Attachment:

draft FSEIS Supplement input DPP- ML15147A135 M. Wentzel, 2015/05/27 Indian Point 05/27/2015 E-Mail N. Martinez, Internal 2 77- NRC/NRR/DLR LR Hearing - IP NRC/NRR/DLR discussion 003 Cumulative Impacts for regarding draft Noise FSEIS Supplement input 1

Attachment 2 - Indian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Deliberative Process Privilege, Supplement 77 - June 30, 2015 Addressee Author Name Accession Document Document Name Page ID # & Author Title Comment Number Date Type & Addressee Count Affiliation Affiliation DPP- ML15147A692 W. Ford, 2015/05/27 Indian Point 05/27/2015 E-Mail w/ D. Wrona, Internal 34 77- NRC/NRR/DLR LR Hearing - May 27 Attachment NRC/NRR/DLR discussion 004 Draft Indian Point of regarding draft "Radionuclides FSEIS Released to Supplement Groundwater" input

Attachment:

draft FSEIS Supplement input DPP- ML15147A450 N. Martinez, 2015/05/27 Indian Point 05/27/2015 E-Mail M. Wentzel, Internal 2 77- NRC/NRR/DLR LR Hearing - RE: IP NRC/NRR/DLR discussion 005 Cumulative Impacts for regarding draft Noise FSEIS Supplement input DPP- ML15148A467 K. Folk, 2015/05/28 Indian Point 05/28/2015 E-Mail M. Wentzel, Internal 2 77- NRC/NRR/DLR LR Hearing - RE: NRC/NRR/DLR discussion 006 References regarding draft FSEIS Supplement input DPP- ML15148A431 M. Wentzel, 2015/05/28 Indian Point 05/28/2015 E-Mail K. Folk, Internal 2 77- NRC/NRR/DLR LR Hearing - References NRC/NRR/DLR discussion 007 regarding draft FSEIS Supplement input DPP- ML15152A244 W. Holston, 2015/06/01 Indian Point 06/01/2015 E-Mail B. Fu, Internal 2 77- NRC/NRR/DLR LR Hearing - FW: IP NRC/NRR/DLR discussion 008 Loss of Coating Integrity regarding draft RAIs 2

Attachment 2 - Indian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Deliberative Process Privilege, Supplement 77 - June 30, 2015 Addressee Author Name Accession Document Document Name Page ID # & Author Title Comment Number Date Type & Addressee Count Affiliation Affiliation DPP- ML15152A237 W. Ford, 2015/06/01 Indian Point 06/01/2015 E-Mail w/ M. Wentzel, Internal 34 77- NRC/NRR/DLR LR Hearing - FW: May Attachment NRC/NRR/DLR discussion 009 27 Draft Indian Point of regarding draft "Radionuclides FSEIS Released to Supplement Groundwater" input

Attachment:

draft FSEIS Supplement input DPP- ML15152A243 R. Hoffman, 2015/06/01 Indian Point 06/01/2015 E-Mail w/ M. Wentzl, Internal 4 77- NRC/NRR/DLR LR Hearing - RE: May Attachment NRC/NRR/DLR discussion 010 27 Draft Indian Point of regarding draft "Radionuclides FSEIS Released to Supplement Groundwater" input

Attachment:

draft FSEIS Supplement input DPP- ML15152A515 M. Wentzel, 2015/06/01 Indian Point 06/01/2015 E-Mail w/ W. Ford, Internal 5 77- NRC/NRR/DLR LR Hearing - RE: May Attachment NRC/NRR/DLR discussion 011 27 Draft Indian Point of regarding draft "Radionuclides FSEIS Released to Supplement Groundwater" input

Attachment:

draft FSEIS Supplement input 3

Attachment 2 - Indian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Deliberative Process Privilege, Supplement 77 - June 30, 2015 Addressee Author Name Accession Document Document Name Page ID # & Author Title Comment Number Date Type & Addressee Count Affiliation Affiliation DPP- ML15152A240 M. Wentzel, 2015/06/01 Indian Point 06/01/2015 E-Mail W. Ford, Internal 2 77- NRC/NRR LR Hearing - RE: May NRC/NRR/DLR discussion 012 27 Draft Indian Point of regarding draft "Radionuclides FSEIS Released to Supplement Groundwater" input DPP- ML15152A516 W. Ford, 2015/06/01 Indian Point 06/01/2015 E-Mail M. Wentzel, Internal 3 77- NRC/NRR/DLR LR Hearing - RE: May NRC/NRR/DLR discussion 013 27 Draft Indian Point of regarding draft "Radionuclides FSEIS Released to Supplement Groundwater" input DPP- ML15152A238 W. Wentzel, 2015/06/01 Indian Point 06/01/2015 E-Mail W. Ford, Internal 3 77- NRC/NRR/LR LR Hearing - RE: May NRC/NRR/DLR discussion 014 27 Draft Indian Point of regarding draft "Radionuclides R. Hoffman, FSEIS Released to NRC/NRR/DLR Supplement Groundwater" input DPP- ML15152A242 W. Ford, 2015/06/01 Indian Point 06/01/2015 E-Mail w/ M. Wenzel, Internal 34 77- NRC/NRR/DLR LR Hearing - RE: May Attachment NRC/NRR/DLR discussion 015 27 Draft Indian Point of regarding draft "Radionuclides FSEIS Released to Supplement Groundwater" input

Attachment:

draft FSEIS Supplement input 4

Attachment 2 - Indian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Deliberative Process Privilege, Supplement 77 - June 30, 2015 Addressee Author Name Accession Document Document Name Page ID # & Author Title Comment Number Date Type & Addressee Count Affiliation Affiliation DPP- ML15153A203 M. Wentzel, 2015/06/02 Indian Point 06/02/2015 E-Mail B. Grange, Internal 2 77- NRC/NRR/DLR LR Hearing - Category 1 NRC/NRR/DLR discussion 016 Conclusions in the IP regarding draft FSEIS Supplement D. Logan, FSEIS NRC/NRR/DLR Supplement input K. Folk, NRC/NRR/DLR W. Ford, NRC/NRR/DLR N. Martinez, NRC/NRR/DLR S. Klementowicz, NRC/NRR/DLR DPP- ML15153A707 D. Logan, 2015/06/02 Indian Point 06/02/2015 E-Mail M. Wentzel, Internal 2 77- NRC/NRR/DLR LR Hearing - RE: NRC/NRR/DLR discussion 017 Category 1 Conclusions regarding draft in the IP FSEIS FSEIS Supplement Supplement input DPP- ML15153A706 S. Klementowicz, 2015/06/02 Indian Point 06/02/2015 E-Mail M. Wentzel, Internal 2 77- NRC/NRR/DLR LR Hearing - RE: NRC/NRR/DLR discussion 018 Category 1 Conclusions regarding draft in the IP FSEIS FSEIS Supplement Supplement input 5

Attachment 2 - Indian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Deliberative Process Privilege, Supplement 77 - June 30, 2015 Addressee Author Name Accession Document Document Name Page ID # & Author Title Comment Number Date Type & Addressee Count Affiliation Affiliation DPP- ML15153A204 B. Grange, 2015/06/02 Indian Point 06/02/2015 E-Mail M. Wentzel, Internal 2 77- NRC/NRR/DLR LR Hearing - RE: NRC/NRR/DLR discussion 019 Category 1 Conclusions regarding draft in the IP FSEIS FSEIS Supplement Supplement input DPP- ML15154A487 M. Wentzel, 2015/06/03 Indian Point 06/03/2015 E-Mail B. Wittick, Internal 2 77- NRC/NRR/DLR LR Hearing - IP FSEIS NRC/NRR/DLR discussion 020 Supplement Ready for regarding draft BC Review FSEIS Supplement input DPP- ML15160A042 M. Wentzel, 2015/06/09 Indian Point 06/09/2015 E-Mail w/ B. Grange, Internal 107 77- NRC/NRR/DLR LR Hearing - Indian Attachment NRC/NRR/DLR discussion 021 Point RAI Responses regarding RAI responses

Attachment:

Entergy letter NL-15-075 [See public disclosures at 77-0003, ADAMS Accession No. ML15160A030]

DPP- ML15161A497 B. Grange, 2015/06/10 Indian Point 06/10/2015 E-Mail D. Logan, Internal 2 77- NRC/NRR/DLR LR Hearing - Indian NRC/NRR/DLR discussion 022 Point biological regarding draft assessment biological assessment 6

Attachment 2 - Indian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Deliberative Process Privilege, Supplement 77 - June 30, 2015 Addressee Author Name Accession Document Document Name Page ID # & Author Title Comment Number Date Type & Addressee Count Affiliation Affiliation DPP- ML15162A957 M. Wentzel, 2015/06/11 Indian Point 06/11/2015 E-Mail B. Grange, Internal 2 77- NRC/NRR/DLR LR Hearing - Draft Email NRC/NRR/DLR discussion 023 to FWS regarding draft email to FWS DPP- ML15162A958 M. Wentzel, 2015/06/11 Indian Point 06/11/2015 E-Mail U.S. Fish & Internal inter- 2 77- NRC/NRR/DLR LR Hearing - NRC Wildlife Service agency 024 Review of the Indian discussion Point Nuclear regarding draft Generating Unit Nos. 2 biological and 3 License Renewal assessment Application DPP- ML15173A005 W. Holston, 2015/06/15 Indian Point 06/15/2015 E-Mail w/ B. Fu, Internal 4 77- NRC/NRR/DLR LR Hearing - RE: IP ISG Attachment NRC/NRR/DLR discussion 025 Followup RAI Ready for regarding draft Peer-Review RAI

Attachment:

draft RAI DPP- ML15167A430 B. Fu, 2015/06/16 Indian Point 06/16/2015 E-Mail w/ M. Wentzel, Internal 4 77- NRC/NRR/DLR LR Hearing - Follow-up Attachment NRC/NRR/DLR discussion 026 RAIs regarding Indian regarding draft Point Response to RAI RAI 3.0.3-2 Set 2014-1,, BC Concurred

Attachment:

draft RAI DPP- ML15173A003 V. Cullinan, 2015/06/19 Indian Point 06/19/2015 E-Mail D. Logan, Internal 2 77- PNNL LR Hearing - NRC/NRR/DLR discussion 027 [External_Sender] RE: regarding RAI Indian Point Aquatic RAI responses Responses: Partial transfer of files to you 7

June 29, 2015 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of )

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ENTERGY NUCLEAR OPERATIONS, INC. ) Docket Nos. 50-247-LR, 50-286-LR

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(Indian Point Nuclear Generating Units 2 and 3) )

DECLARATION OF JANE E. MARSHALL I, Jane E. Marshall, do hereby state as follows:

1. I am employed as the Deputy Director of the Division of License Renewal (DLR) in the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissions (NRC) Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR). I am serving as the Acting Director for DLR. My supervisory responsibilities include oversight of the NRC Staffs review and evaluation of the Indian Point Nuclear Generating Units 2 and 3 license renewal application.

2. As part of their responsibilities in updating the hearing file and mandatory disclosures for these proceedings, NRC staff members under my supervision identified documents as privileged because they contained information concerning the Staffs pre-decisional deliberative process. The documents are listed in Attachment 2 to the submission of the Staffs Hearing File Index Supplement 77.

3. I have personally reviewed the documents identified as privileged in , and have determined, in accordance with the guidance set forth in Management Directive 3.4, that they contain pre-decisional information concerning the Staffs review of the license renewal application. The documents contain either the Staffs analyses, recommendations, opinions, or evaluations, and may not necessarily reflect the final agency

position with respect to the matters discussed therein. The documents comprise part of the deliberative process necessary for the Staffs review of the pending license renewal application.

4. Further, I have determined that disclosure of the documents could result in harm to the agency, in that it would (a) prematurely disclose the preliminary views of individual Staff members and/or the Staff prior to reaching a final agency decision, and could thus create confusion as to the actual policy or views of the NRC Staff; (b) hinder the efficiency of the Staff, in that forced disclosure of its internal discussions on an unresolved issue would tend to chill all future deliberations and would interfere with the Staffs ability to engage in a free exchange of opinions and analyses prior to publishing its final review documents; and (c) imply or suggest incorrectly that the opinions of the Staff members involved in these communications are actually the final decisions of the agency, while no such final decision has yet been made.

5. Accordingly, I formally invoke the deliberative process privilege with respect to the documents listed in Attachment 2 to the submission of the Staffs Hearing File Index Supplement 77.

6. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct to the best of my knowledge, information and belief.

Executed in Accord with 10 CFR 2.304(d)

Jane E. Marshall Executed in Rockville, Maryland this 29th day of June, 2015

June 30, 2015 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of )

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ENTERGY NUCLEAR OPERATIONS, INC. ) Docket Nos. 50-247-LR, 50-286-LR

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(Indian Point Nuclear Generating )

Units 2 and 3) )

AFFIDAVIT OF MICHAEL J. WENTZEL CONCERNING MANDATORY DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENT OF 10 C.F.R. § 2.336(b)

I, Michael J. Wentzel, do hereby state as follows:

1. I am employed as a Project Manager in the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissions (NRC) Nuclear Reactor Regulation. I currently serve as a project manager for the Indian Point Nuclear Generating Units 2 and 3 license renewal application (LRA). Among my other duties as project manager, since September 2014, I have been assisting with the preparation of the hearing file and mandatory disclosures in connection with the LRA at issue in this proceeding.

2. I hereby certify that all relevant materials required to be disclosed pursuant to 10 C.F.R. § 2.336 (b) and (c) in the captioned proceeding have been disclosed, and that the disclosures are accurate and complete for documents identified as of June 23, 2015.

3. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct to the best of my knowledge, information and belief.

Executed in Accord with 10 CFR 2.304(d)

Michael J. Wentzel Executed in Rockville, Maryland this 30th day of June 2015

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of )

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ENTERGY NUCLEAR OPERATIONS, INC. ) Docket Nos. 50-247-LR, 50-286-LR

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(Indian Point Nuclear Generating )

Units 2 and 3) )

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE Pursuant to 10 C.F.R § 2.305 (revised), I hereby certify that copies of the foregoing Letter to the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board regarding the Indian Point Hearing File, including: - Indian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Supplement 77; Attachment 2 -

Indian Point License Renewal Hearing File Index Supplement 77 - Deliberative Process Privilege; Declaration of Jane E. Marshall, dated June 29, 2015; and Affidavit of Michael J.

Wentzel, dated June 30, 2015, in the above-captioned proceeding have been served upon the Electronic Information Exchange, the NRCs E-Filing System, this 30th day of June, 2015.

/Signed (electronically) by/

Anita Ghosh Counsel for NRC Staff U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the General Counsel Mail Stop - O-15D21 Washington, DC 20555 Telephone: (301) 415-4113 E-mail: anita.ghosh@nrc.gov Date of signature: June 30, 2015