[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 113 (Wednesday, June 12, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40345-40346]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-14741]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-346]


License No. NPF-3: Firstenergy Nuclear Operating Company, Davis-
Besse Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1; Receipt of Request for Action 
Under 10 CFR 2.206

    Notice is hereby given that by petition dated April 24, 2002, David 
Lochbaum (petitioner) has requested on behalf of multiple organizations 
that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) take action with 
regard to FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company, the owner of the 
Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station. Specifically, the petitioners 
request that the NRC issue an order to FirstEnergy, requiring a 
verification by an independent party (VIP) for issues related to the 
reactor vessel head problem at Davis-Besse, Unit 1.
    As the basis for this request, the petitioner states that the order 
issued by the NRC on August 14, 1996, to Northeast Nuclear Energy 
Company, the owner of the Millstone Nuclear Power Station in 
Connecticut, is a recent and relevant precedent for the action 
requested by the petitioners.
    The request is being treated pursuant to 10 CFR 2.206 of the 
Commission's regulations. The request has been referred to the Director 
of the NRC's Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR). As provided by 
Section 2.206, appropriate action will be taken on this petition within 
a reasonable time. The petitioners addressed the NRR Petition Review 
Board (PRB) on May 9, 2002, to discuss the petition. The results of 
that discussion were transcribed, considered in the PRB's determination 
regarding the petitioners' request and in establishing the schedule for 
the review of the petition, and are treated as a supplement to the 
petition. A copy of the petition and the supplements

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(Accession Numbers ML021260444 and ML021490065, respectively) are 
available for inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room 
(PDR), located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first 
floor), Rockville, Maryland. A copy of FirstEnergy's response dated May 
16, 2002, to the petition is also publicly available under Accession 
Number ML021410451. Publicly available records will be accessible from 
the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) 
Public Electronic Reading Room on the internet at the NRC Web site, 
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. Persons who do not have 
access to ADAMS or who encounter problems in accessing the documents 
located in ADAMS, should contact the NRC's PDR Reference staff by 
telephone at 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to 
[email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 4th day of June, 2002.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Samuel J. Collins,
Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 02-14741 Filed 6-11-02; 8:45 am]
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