[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 110 (Thursday, June 8, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33321-33322]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-8922]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-361 and 50-362]


Southern California Edison Company; San Diego Gas and Electric 
Company; the Cities of Riverside and Anaheim, CA; San Onofre Nuclear 
Generating Station, Units 2 and 3; Notice of Consideration of Approval 
of Transfer Facility Operating Licenses and Conforming Amendments and 
Opportunity for a Hearing

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) is 
considering the issuance of an order under 10 CFR 50.80 approving the 
direct transfer of the Facility Operating Licenses, which are numbered 
NPF-10 and NPF-15, for the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, Units 
2 and 3 (SONGS 2 and 3), currently held by Southern California Edison 
Company (SCE), San Diego Gas and Electric Company, the City of 
Riverside, California, and the City of Anaheim, California (Anaheim), 
as owners; and Southern California Edison Company as licensed operator 
of SONGS 2 and 3. The request is to transfer Anaheim's 3.16 percent 
undivided ownership interest in SONGS 2 and 3 to SCE, excluding 
Anaheim's interest in its spent fuel and in the SONGS 2 and 3 
independent spent fuel storage installation (ISFSI). The Commission is 
also considering amending the license for administrative purposes to 
reflect the proposed transfer.
    According to the application for approval filed by SCE, acting on 
behalf of itself and Anaheim, SCE would acquire Anaheim's 3.16 percent 
ownership interest in the facility, excluding Anaheim's interest in its 
spent fuel and in the SONGS 2 and 3 ISFSI located on the SONGS site, 
following approval of the proposed license transfer. SCE would retain 
exclusive responsibility for the operation and maintenance of SONGS 2 
and 3.
    No physical changes to the SONGS 2 and 3 facility or operational 
changes are being proposed in the application.
    The proposed amendments would state that the City of Anaheim has 
transferred its ownership interests in the facility, and entitlement to 
generating output, to Southern California Edison Company, except that 
it retains its ownership interests in its spent nuclear fuel and the 
facility's ISFSI located on the facility's site. In addition, the 
proposed amendments would state that the City of Anaheim retains 
financial responsibility for its spent fuel and for a portion of the 
facility's decommissioning costs, and it remains a licensee for the 
purposes of its retained interests and liabilities.
    Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.80, no license, or any right thereunder, 
shall be transferred, directly or indirectly, through transfer of 
control of the licenses, unless the Commission shall give its consent 
in writing. The Commission will approve an application for the direct 
transfer of the licenses, if the Commission determines that the 
proposed transferee is qualified to hold the licenses, and that the 
transfer is otherwise consistent with applicable provisions of law, 
regulations, and orders issued by the Commission pursuant thereto.
    Before issuance of the proposed conforming license amendments, the 
Commission will have made findings required by the Atomic Energy Act of 
1954, as amended (the Act), and the Commission's regulations.
    As provided in 10 CFR 2.1315, unless otherwise determined by the 
Commission with regard to a specific application, the Commission has 
determined that any amendment to the license of a utilization facility 
which does no more than conform the license to reflect the transfer 
action involves no significant hazards consideration and no genuine 
issue as to whether the health and safety of the public will be 
significantly affected. No contrary determination has been made with 
respect to this specific license amendment application. In light of the 
generic determination reflected in 10 CFR 2.1315, no public comments 
with respect to significant hazards considerations are being solicited, 
notwithstanding the general comment procedures contained in 10 CFR 
50.91.
    The filing of requests for hearing and petitions for leave to 
intervene, and written comments with regard to the license transfer 
application, are discussed below.
    Within 20 days from the date of publication of this notice, any 
person whose interest may be affected by the Commission's action on the 
application may request a hearing and, if not the applicant, may 
petition for leave to intervene in a hearing proceeding on the 
Commission's action. Requests for a hearing and petitions for leave to 
intervene should be filed in accordance with the Commission's rules of 
practice set forth in Subpart C ``Rules of General Applicability: 
Hearing Requests, Petitions to Intervene, Availability of Documents, 
Selection of Specific Hearing Procedures, Presiding Officer Powers, and 
General Hearing Management for NRC Adjudicatory Hearings,'' of 10 CFR 
part 2. In particular, such requests and petitions must comply with the 
requirements set forth in 10 CFR 2.309. Untimely requests and petitions 
may be denied, as provided in 10 CFR 2.309(c)(1), unless good cause for 
failure to file on time is established. In addition, an untimely 
request or petition should address the factors that the Commission will 
also consider, in reviewing untimely requests or petitions, set forth 
in 10 CFR 2.309(c)(1)(i)-(viii).
    Requests for a hearing and petitions for leave to intervene should 
be served upon Douglas K. Porter, 2244 Walnut Grove Avenue, Rosemead, 
CA 91770, telephone number: 626-302-3964; the General Counsel, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001 (e-mail 
address [email protected]); and the Secretary of the Commission, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, Attention: 
Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff, in accordance with 10 CFR 2.302 
and 2.305.
    The Commission will issue a notice or order granting or denying a 
hearing request or intervention petition, designating the issues for 
any hearing that will be held and designating the Presiding Officer. A 
notice granting a

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hearing will be published in the Federal Register and served on the 
parties to the hearing.
    As an alternative to requests for hearing and petitions to 
intervene, within 30 days from the date of publication of this notice, 
persons may submit written comments regarding the license transfer 
application, as provided for in 10 CFR 2.1305. The Commission will 
consider and, if appropriate, respond to these comments, but such 
comments will not otherwise constitute part of the decisional record. 
Comments should be submitted to the Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, Attention: Rulemakings and 
Adjudications Staff, and should cite the publication date and page 
number of this Federal Register notice.
    For further details with respect to this action, see the 
application dated March 10, 2006, as supplemented by the electronic 
mail from the licensee dated May 16, 2006, available for public 
inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room (PDR), located at 
One White Flint North, Public File Area O1 F21, 11555 Rockville Pike 
(first floor), Rockville, Maryland. Publicly available records will be 
accessible electronically from the Agencywide Documents Access and 
Management System's (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 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 30th day of May 2006.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
N. Kalyanam,
Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch IV, Division of Operating 
Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
 [FR Doc. E6-8922 Filed 6-7-06; 8:45 am]
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