adams update, page-2

The Staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC Staff) responds to the Natural Resources Defense Council’s (NRDC) and Powder River Basin Resource Council’s (PRBRC) (collectively Joint Intervenors or Intervenors) Joint Motion to Migrate or Amend Contentions, and to Admit New Contentions in Response to Staff’s Final Supplemental Draft [sic] Environmental Impact Statement (FSEIS). For the reasons set forth below, the Board should dismiss two of the Joint Intervenors’ previously admitted contentions and deny the two new contentions challenging the FSEIS.