[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 15 (Monday, January 26, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4477-4478]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-1577]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 63-001-HLW; ASLBP Nos. 09-876-HLW-CAB01, 09-877-HLW-CAB02, 
09-878-HLW-CAB03]


Department of Energy; Establishment of Atomic Safety and 
Licensing Boards

    Pursuant to delegation by the Commission dated December 29, 1972, 
published in the Federal Register, 37 FR 28,710 (1972), and the 
Commission's regulations, see 10 CFR 2.300 et seq., 2.1000 et seq., 
notice is hereby given that Atomic Safety and Licensing Boards are 
being established to preside over the Petitions to Intervene and the 
Requests to Participate in the following proceeding, and to perform all 
other duties as the Chief Administrative Judge may assign: U.S. 
Department of Energy, High-Level Waste Repository, Construction 
Authorization Application.
    This proceeding concerns Petitions to Intervene from (1) Caliente 
Hot Springs Resort LLC; (2) State of California; (3) Clark County, 
Nevada; (4) Churchill, Esmeralda, Lander and Mineral Counties, Nevada; 
(5) Inyo County, California; (6) Native Community Action Council; (7) 
State of Nevada; (8) Nuclear Energy Institute; (9) Nye County, Nevada; 
(10) Timbisha Shoshone Tribe; (11) Timbisha Shoshone Yucca Mountain 
Oversight Program Non-Profit; and (12) White Pine County, Nevada. 
Additionally, Requests to Participate as an Interested Government Body 
have been received from: (1) Eureka County, Nevada; and (2) Lincoln 
County, Nevada. The Petitions and Requests, which were submitted in 
response to an October 22, 2008 Notice of Hearing and Opportunity To 
Petition for Leave To Intervene (73 FR 63,029), challenge the June 3, 
2008 application filed by the Department of Energy seeking 
authorization to construct a geologic repository at Yucca Mountain in 
Nye County, Nevada.

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    The Licensing Boards, which shall also be referred to as 
Construction Authorization Boards (CABs), are comprised of the 
following Administrative Judges:
CAB 01
William J. Froehlich, Chair, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, 
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
Thomas S. Moore, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
Richard E. Wardwell, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
CAB 02
Michael M. Gibson, Chair, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
Lawrence G. McDade, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
Nicholas G. Trikouros, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
CAB 03
Paul S. Ryerson, Chair, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
Michael C. Farrar, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
Mark O. Barnett, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
    The allocation among the CABs of the Petitions to Intervene and/or 
the proffered contentions, as well as the Requests to Participate, will 
be announced at a later date. Until further order, all pleadings, 
correspondence, documents, and other materials shall be filed with all 
three CABs in accordance with 10 CFR 2.1013(c).

    Issued at Rockville, Maryland, this 16th day of January 2009.
E. Roy Hawkens,
Chief Administrative Judge, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel.
[FR Doc. E9-1577 Filed 1-23-09; 8:45 am]
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