[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 61 (Friday, March 29, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 15252]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-7603]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-390-CivP; 50-327 CivP; 50-328-CivP; 50-259-CivP; 50-
260-CivP; 50-296-CivP; ASLBP No. 01-791-01-CivP; EA 99-234]


Atomic Safety and Licensing Board; Tennessee Valley Authority 
(Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Unit 1; Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, Units 1 & 2; 
Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, Units 1, 2 & 3); Evidentiary Hearing

March 25, 2002.
    Before Administrative Judges: Charles Bechhoefer, Chairman, Dr. 
Richard F. Cole and Ann Marshall Young.

    This proceeding involves a proposed civil penalty of $110,000, 
sought to be imposed by the NRC Staff on the Tennessee Valley Authority 
(TVA) for an alleged violation of NRC's employee-protection 
requirements set forth in 10 CFR 50.7, based upon the asserted 
discrimination against a former employee for engaging in protected 
activities. In response to an Order Imposing Civil Monetary Penalty, 
published at 66 FR 27,166 (May 16, 2001), TVA on June 1, 2001, filed a 
timely request for a hearing. On June 26, 2001, an Atomic Safety and 
Licensing Board, consisting of Dr. Richard F. Cole, Ann Marshall Young, 
and Charles Bechhoefer, who serves as Chairman, was established to 
preside over this proceeding. 66 FR 34,961 (July 2, 2001).
    By Memorandum and Order dated June 28, 2001, the Licensing Board 
granted TVA's request for a hearing and, on the same date, issued a 
Notice of Hearing. 66 FR 35,467-35,468 (July 5, 2001). Parties to this 
proceeding are TVA and the NRC Staff. As set forth in the Order 
Imposing Civil Monetary Penalty, 66 FR at 27,167, issues to be 
considered are (a) whether the Licensee violated the Commission's 
requirements, as set forth in the Notice of Violation and Proposed 
Imposition of Civil Penalty, dated February 7, 2000 (NOV); and, if so, 
(b) whether, on the basis of such violation, the Order Imposing Civil 
Monetary Penalty should be sustained.
    Notice is hereby given that the evidentiary hearing in this 
proceeding will commence on Tuesday, April 23, 2002, at 9:30 a.m. EDT, 
at the United States Bankruptcy Court, Courtroom A, Historic U.S. 
Courthouse, 31 E. 11th St., Chattanooga, Tennessee 37402. The hearing 
will continue on April 24-26, 2002, beginning at 9 a.m., and, to the 
extent necessary, on April 30-May 9, 2002, also commencing at 9 a.m., 
at the same location unless otherwise announced. Members of the public 
are invited to attend any of these sessions. Hearings will extend until 
approximately 5 p.m. each day. On Friday, April 26, 2002, however, the 
hearing will adjourn no later than 12 noon; no hearing is scheduled for 
Monday, April 29, 2002 and, as the hearing proceeds, the Board may make 
changes in the foregoing schedule, modifying the times for each day's 
session or canceling a session, as deemed appropriate to allow for 
witnesses' availability and other matters arising during the course of 
the proceeding.
    Documents related to this proceeding issued prior to December 1, 
1999, are available in microfiche form (with print form available on 
one-day recall) for public inspection at the Commission's Public 
Document Room (PDR), Room 
0-1 F21, NRC One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 
Maryland 20852-2738. Documents issued subsequent to November 1, 1999 
are available electronically through the Agency wide Documents Access 
and Management System (ADAMS), with access to the public through NRC's 
Internet Web site (Public Electronic Reading Room Link, http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/ADAMS/index.html>). The PDR and many public libraries 
have terminals for public access to the Internet.
    It is so Ordered.

    For the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board.

    Dated in Rockville, Maryland, on March 25, 2002.

Charles Bechhoefer,
Administrative Judge.
[FR Doc. 02-7603 Filed 3-28-02; 8:45 am]
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