[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 235 (Tuesday, December 8, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 67714]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-32500]



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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 40-9027-MLA, ASLBP No. 99-757-01-MLA]


Cabot Performance Materials; Designation of Presiding Officer

    Pursuant to delegation by the Commission dated December 29, 1972, 
published in the Federal Register, 37 FR 28710 (1972), and Secs. 2.105, 
2.700, 2.702, 2.714, 2.714a, 2.717 and 2.1207 of the Commission's 
Regulations, a single member of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 
Panel is hereby designated to rule on petitions for leave to intervene 
and/or requests for hearing and, if necessary, to serve as the 
Presiding Officer to conduct an informal adjudicatory hearing in the 
following proceeding.
Cabot Performance Materials
(Request for Materials License Amendment)

    The hearing, if granted, will be conducted pursuant to 10 CFR 
Subpart L of the Commission's Regulations, ``Informal Hearing 
Procedures for Adjudications in Materials and Operator Licensing 
Proceedings.'' This proceeding concerns a request for hearing submitted 
by the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Reading and the City of 
Reading, Pennsylvania in response to a license amendment request by 
Cabot Performance Materials (Cabot). The proposed amendment would allow 
decommissioning of Cabot's contaminated sites located in Reading and 
Revere, Pennsylvania. A notice of the proposed amendment was published 
in the Federal Register at 63 Fed. Reg. 57715 (October 28, 1998).
    The Presiding Officer designated for this proceeding is 
Administrative Judge Peter B. Bloch. Pursuant to the provisions of 10 
CFR 2.722. Administrative Judge Richard F. Cole has been appointed to 
assist the Presiding Officer in taking evidence and in preparing a 
suitable record for review.
    All correspondence, documents and other materials shall be filed 
with Judge Bloch and Judge Cole in accordance with 10 CFR 2.701. Their 
addresses are:

Administrative Judge Peter B. Bloch, Presiding Officer, Atomic Safety 
and Licensing Board Panel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555
Dr. Richard F. Cole, Special Assistant, Atomic Safety and Licensing 
Board Panel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555

    Issued at Rockville, Maryland, this 2nd day of December 1998.
B. Paul Cotter, Jr.,
Chief Administrative Judge, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel.
[FR Doc. 98-32500 Filed 12-7-98; 8:45 am]
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