[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 138 (Wednesday, July 18, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37494-37495]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-17952]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel

[Docket No. 50-213-OLA ASLBP No. 01-787-02-OLA]


Before Administrative Judges: Ann Marshall Young, Chair, Dr. 
Peter S. Lam, Thomas D. Murphy; In the Matter of Connecticut Yankee 
Atomic Power Company (Haddam Neck Plant); Notice of Hearing

July 12, 2001.
    This proceeding concerns a license amendment application of 
Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Company (CYAPCO), seeking to add a new 
license condition to approve a License Termination Plan (LTP) for its 
Haddam Neck Plant pursuant to 10 CFR 50.82(a)(9), (10), and allow 
CYAPCO to make changes to the approved LTP without prior NRC approval 
if certain criteria specified in the license condition are met. After a 
public meeting held October 17, 2000, NRC Staff proposed to determine 
that the amendment request involves no significant hazards 
consideration under 10 CFR 50.92(c), and provided notice of this 
finding and of the opportunity for a hearing with regard to the 
amendment request. 65 FR 77913 (Dec. 13, 2000). In response to this 
notice, the Citizens Awareness Network (CAN) and the Connecticut 
Department of Public Utility Control (CDPUC) filed requests for hearing 
dated January 11 and 17, 2001, respectively. On January 31, 2001, an 
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, consisting of the members listed 
above, was established to preside over this proceeding. 66 FR 9111 
(Feb. 6, 2001).
    Notice is hereby given that, by Memorandum and Order dated July 9, 
2001, the Board granted Petitioners CAN and CDPUC a hearing, after 
holding oral argument in a series of prehearing conferences on the 
contentions and arguments of the Petitioners, CYAPCO and the NRC Staff. 
In this Memorandum and Order, the Board found that both CAN and CDPUC 
have standing to proceed, and admitted contentions relating to adequacy 
of the site characterization, scope of work required to meet the 
requirements of the rules, dose calculations, and water contamination.
    This proceeding will be conducted under the Commission's hearing 
procedures set forth in 10 CFR part 2, subpart G. During the course of 
the proceeding, the Board may conduct additional oral argument as 
provided in 10 CFR 2.755, hold additional prehearing conferences 
pursuant to 10 CFR 2.752, and conduct an evidentiary hearing in 
accordance with 10 CFR 2.750-.751. The time and place of these sessions 
will be announced in Licensing Board Orders. Except as limited by the 
parameters of telephone conferences (which will in any event be 
transcribed), members of the public are invited to attend any such 
sessions.
    Additionally, as provided in 10 CFR 2.715(a), any person not a 
party to the proceeding may submit a written limited appearance 
statement setting forth his or her position on the issues in the 
proceeding. Persons wishing to submit a written limited appearance 
statement should send it to the Office of the Secretary, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555, Attention: Rulemakings and 
Adjudications Staff. A copy of the statement should also be served on 
the Chairman of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board. At a later date, 
the Board will entertain oral limited appearance statements at a 
location or locations in the vicinity of the Haddam Neck Plant, which 
is located

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approximately 21 miles southeast of Hartford, Connecticut, on the east 
bank of the Connecticut River. Notice of these oral limited appearance 
sessions will be published in the Federal Register and/or made 
available to the public at the NRC Public Document Room.
    Documents related to this proceeding are available electronically 
through the Agencywide Documents access and Management System (ADAMS), 
with access to the public through the NRC's Internet Web site (Public 
Electronic Reading Room Link, http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/ADAMS/index.html). 
The NRC Public Documents Room (PDR) and many public libraries have 
terminals for public access to the Internet. Documents that may relate 
to this proceeding that are dated earlier than December 1, 1999, are 
available in microfiche form (with print form available on one-day 
recall) for public inspection at the PDR, Room 0-1 F21, NRC One White 
Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852-2738.

    Dated: July 12, 2001.

    For the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board.
Ann Marshall Young,
Chair, Administrative Judge.
[FR Doc. 01-17952 Filed 7-17-01; 8:45 am]
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