[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 17 (Thursday, January 25, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 2269]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-1151]



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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-255, 50-266, 50-301, 50-313, 50-368, 72-5, 72-7, 72-13, 
and 72-1007]


Consumers Power Company, Wisconsin Electric Power Company, and 
Entergy Operations, Inc.; Palisades Plant; Point Beach Nuclear Plant, 
Units 1 and 2; and Arkansas Nuclear One, Units 1 and 2; Receipt of 
Petition for Director's Decision Under 10 CFR 2.206

    Notice is hereby given that by a Petition dated November 17, 1995, 
Fawn Shillinglaw requests that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) 
prohibit the loading of VSC-24 casks at any nuclear site until a 
particular cask at the Palisades Plant, in which indications have been 
detected in a weld, is unloaded and the unloading procedure evaluated.
    As the basis for this request, the Petitioner notes that the NRC 
has determined that the unloading procedures developed by licensees 
have tended to be simplistic in that they fail to account for certain 
contingencies and assumptions and that these types of deficiencies are 
discovered through experience with the casks. She therefore asks that 
no additional casks be loaded until the defective cask at the Palisades 
Plant is unloaded. She also states that certain procedures concerning 
the casks require detailed NRC review and asks that they not be left to 
the licensees to perform without NRC oversight.
    The Petition is being treated pursuant to Section 2.206 of Title 10 
of the Code of Federal Regulations. The Petition has been referred to 
the Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR). As 
provided by Section 2.206, appropriate action will be taken on this 
Petition within a reasonable time.
    A copy of the Petition is available for inspection at the 
Commission's Public Document Room at 2120 L Street, NW., Washington, 
DC, and at the local public document rooms for Palisades Plant: Van 
Wylen Library, Hope College, Holland, Michigan; Point Beach Nuclear 
Plant: Joseph Mann Library, 1516 16th Street, Two Rivers, Wisconsin; 
and Arkansas Nuclear One: Tomlinson Library, Arkansas Tech University, 
Russellville, Arkansas.
    Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 18th day of January 1996.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
William T. Russell,
Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 96-1151 Filed 1-24-96; 8:45 am]
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