[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 183 (Wednesday, September 22, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56797-56798]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-21256]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-271; ASLBP No. 04-832-02-OLA]


Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, LLC, and Entergy Operations, 
Inc.; Establishment of Atomic Safety and Licensing Board

    Pursuant to delegation by the Commission dated December 29, 1972, 
published in the Federal Register, 37 Fed. Reg. 28,710 (1972), and the 
Commission's regulations, see 10 CFR 2.104, 2.300, 2.303, 2.309, 2.311, 
2.318, and 2.321, notice is hereby given that an Atomic Safety and 
Licensing Board is being established to preside over the following 
proceeding: Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, LLC, and Entergy 
Operations, Inc. Vermont Yankee

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Nuclear Power Station (Operating License Amendment).
    This proceeding concerns hearing requests submitted on August 30, 
2004, by the Vermont Department of Public Service and the New England 
Coalition of Brattleboro, Vermont. Those requests, which were filed in 
response to a June 15, 2004 notice of consideration of issuance of 
facility operating license amendment and opportunity for hearing 
published in the Federal Register on July 1, 2004 (69 FR 39976), 
challenge the request of Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, LLC, and 
Entergy Operations, Inc., to change the operating license for the 
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station to increase the maximum authorized 
power level from 1593 megawatts thermal (MWt) to 1912 MWt, an increase 
of approximately twenty percent above the current maximum authorized 
power level.
    The Board is comprised of the following administrative judges:

Alex S. Karlin, Chair, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
Dr. Anthony J. Baratta, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
Lester S. Rubenstein, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.

    All correspondence, documents, and other materials shall be filed 
with the administrative judges in accordance with 10 CFR 2.302.

    Issued at Rockville, Maryland, this 14th day of September 2004.
G. Paul Bollwerk, III,
Chief Administrative Judge, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel.
[FR Doc. 04-21256 Filed 9-21-04; 8:45 am]
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