[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 86 (Friday, May 4, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25336-25337]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-8549]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

 [Docket No. 50-255-LT; ASLBP No. 07-853-01-LT-BD01]


Consumers Energy Company, Nuclear Management Company, LLC, 
Entergy Nuclear Palisades, LLC, and Entergy Nuclear Operations, INC.; 
Designation of Presiding Officer

    Pursuant to delegation by the Commission, see 37 FR 28,710 (Dec. 
29, 1972), and the Commission's regulations, see 10 CFR 2.313(a)(2),

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2.318, 2.1300, and 2.1319(a), notice is hereby given that a member of 
the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel is being designated as 
Presiding Officer in the following proceeding in compliance with the 
Commission's directions in its Memorandum and Order dated April 26, 
2007 (CLI-07-18):

Consumers Energy Company, Nuclear Management Company, LLC, Entergy 
Nuclear Palisades, LLC, and Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. (Palisades 
Nuclear Power Plant)

    This proceeding, which will be conducted pursuant to 10 CFR Part 2 
Subpart M of the Commission's Regulations, ``Procedures for Hearings on 
License Transfer Applications,'' concerns a Notice of Consideration of 
Approval of Transfer of Facility Operating License and Conforming 
Amendment and Opportunity for a Hearing published in the Federal 
Register at 71 FR 66,805 (Nov. 16, 2006). The Commission is considering 
issuing an order approving the transfer of Facility Operating License 
No. DPR-20 for Palisades Nuclear Plant currently held by Consumers 
Energy Company and Nuclear Management Company, LLC to Entergy Nuclear 
Palisades, LLC and Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. As relevant here, 
in CLI-07-18 (slip op. at 4), the Commission determined that 
petitioners Van Buren County and Covert Township have standing in this 
proceeding. The Commission deferred ruling on the admissibility of the 
contentions proffered by the County and the Township, but it granted 
their request for access to proprietary information redacted by the 
applicants from the license transfer application (id. at 14). The 
Commission directed the applicants to provide the County and Township 
access to the unredacted version of the application pursuant to a 
confidentiality agreement (id. at 16-17). Unless and until directed 
otherwise by the Commission, the Presiding Officer's responsibilities 
shall be limited to resolving any disputes regarding the County's and 
Township's access to proprietary information in the application (id. at 
17, 18).
    The Presiding Officer is: Administrative Judge Michael C. Farrar, 
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
    All correspondence, documents, and other materials relating to 
disputes regarding the County's and Township's access to proprietary 
information in the application shall be filed with the Presiding 
Officer in accordance with 10 CFR 2.302.

    Issued at Rockville, Maryland, this 30th day of April 2007.
E. Roy Hawkens,
Chief Administrative Judge, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel. .
 [FR Doc. E7-8549 Filed 5-3-07; 8:45 am]
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