[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 137 (Tuesday, July 16, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37095-37096]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-18003]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-390]


Tennessee Valley Authority, Watts Bar Nuclear Plant; Issuance of 
Director's Decision Under 10 CFR 2.206

    Notice is hereby given that the Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation (NRR), has taken action on a Petition of February 14, 1996 
(Petition), for action under Section 2.206 of Title 10 of the CODE OF 
FEDERAL REGULATIONS (10 CFR 2.206) filed by Ms. Faith Young 
(Petitioner) of Dixon Springs, Tennessee. The Petitioner asks that the 
NRC rescind Watts Bar's license to operate until the alleged issue of 
increased radioactive contamination of the plant's emission is 
resolved.
    Petitioner believes that the lake containing the water used to cool 
Watts Bar's core contains sediment previously contaminated by 
radioactive material. Over the lifetime of Watts Bar's operation, 
according to Petitioner, uncontrolled access to the lake will disturb 
this sediment, which will in turn contaminate water drawn into the 
plant's cooling system. Petitioner believes that the issue of 
heightened radioactive contamination of nuclear power plant emissions 
has not been previously addressed. The Notice of Receipt of Petition 
Under 10 CFR 2.206 was published in the Federal Register on April 4, 
1996 (61 FR 15151).
    The Director of NRR determined that the Petition should be denied 
for the reasons explained in the ``Director's

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Decision under 10 CFR 2.206'' (DD-96-10), the complete text of which 
follows this notice and is available for public inspection at the 
Commission's Public Document Room at 2120 L Street, NW., Washington, D. 
C., and at the Local Public Document Room for the Watts Bar Nuclear 
Plant at the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Library, 1001 Broad Street, 
Chattanooga, Tennessee.
    A copy of this Director' Decision will be filed with the Secretary 
of the Commission for the Commission's to review in accordance with 10 
CFR 2.206(c). As provided by this regulation, this Decision will 
constitute the final action of the Commission 25 days after the date of 
issuance, unless the Commission, on its own motion, institutes a review 
of the Decision within that time.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day of July 1996.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
William T. Russell,
Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 96-18003 Filed 7-15-96; 8:45 am]
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