[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 25 (Wednesday, February 6, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5622-5623]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel

[Docket No's. 50-369-LR, 50-370-LR, 50-413-LR, and 50-414-LR; ASLBP No. 
02-794-01-LR]


In the Matter of Duke Energy Corporation, (McGuire Nuclear 
Station, Units 1 and 2, Catawba Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2); Notice 
of Hearing Before Administrative Judges: Ann Marshall Young, Chair, Dr. 
Charles N. Kelber, Lester S. Rubenstein

January 31, 2002.
    This proceeding concerns the license renewal application (LRA) of 
Duke Energy Corporation (Duke), seeking approval under 10 CFR part 54 
to renew the operating licenses for its McGuire Nuclear Station, Units 
1 and 2, and Catawba Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2, for additional 
twenty-year periods commencing in 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2026, 
respectively. After noting receipt of the application, see 66 FR 37,072 
(July 16, 2001), the NRC Staff determined it to be complete and 
acceptable for docketing and on August 15, 2001, provided a notice of 
opportunity for hearing with regard to the application. See 66 FR 
42,893 (Aug. 15, 2001). In response to this notice, Petitioners Nuclear 
Information and Resource Service (NIRS) and Blue Ridge Environmental 
Defense League (BREDL), both appearing through non-attorney 
representatives, timely filed petitions to intervene and requests for 
hearing on September 14, 2001. By Order dated October 4, 2001, the 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission referred the hearing requests and 
intervention petitions to the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, 
CLI-01-20, 54 NRC 211 (2001), and on October 5, 2001, an Atomic Safety 
and Licensing Board, consisting of the members listed above, was 
established to preside over the proceeding. See 66 FR 52,158 (Oct. 12, 
2001).
    Notice is hereby given that, by Memorandum and Order dated January 
24, 2002, the Board granted Petitioners NIRS and BREDL a hearing, after 
holding oral argument in Charlotte, North Carolina, on December 18-19, 
2001. LBP-02-04, 54 NRC (Jan. 24, 2002). In this Memorandum and Order, 
the Board found that both NIRS and BREDL have standing to proceed, 
admitted contentions relating to the anticipated use of plutonium mixed 
oxide (MOX) fuel in the Duke plants and to ice condensers and station 
blackout risks, and certified one question relating to terrorism risks 
to the Commission for its consideration.
    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 Chair of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board. At a later date, 
the Board will entertain oral limited appearance statements at a 
location in the vicinity of the Duke plants, which are both situated 
within a 20-mile radius of Charlotte, North Carolina. 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 (PDR).
    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/reading-rm/adams.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.

    Rockville, Maryland.
    Dated: January 31, 2002.

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    \1\ Copies of this Notice of Hearing were sent this date by 
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Ann Marshall Young,
Chair, Administrative Judge.
[FR Doc. 02-2810 Filed 2-5-02; 8:45 am]
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