[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 147 (Monday, August 3, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 38475]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-18437]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-391; ASLBP No. 09-893-01-OL-BD01]


Establishment of Atomic Safety and Licensing Board; Tennessee 
Valley Authority

    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 2.104, 2.300, 2.313, 2.318, and 
2.321, notice is hereby given that an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 
(Board) is being established to preside over the following proceeding: 
Tennessee Valley Authority (Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Unit 2)
    This proceeding concerns a request for hearing from petitioners 
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, Tennessee Environmental Council, We 
the People, the Sierra Club, and the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense 
League. The hearing request was submitted in response to a May 1, 2009 
Notice of Receipt of Update to Application for Facility Operating 
License and Notice of Opportunity for Hearing for the Watts Bar Nuclear 
Plant, Unit 2 (74 FR 20350). Petitioners challenge the updated 
application filed by Tennessee Valley Authority for a facility 
operating license for the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Unit 2, to be 
located in Rhea County, Tennessee.
    The Board is comprised of the following administrative judges:

Lawrence G. McDade, Chair, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, 
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
Paul B. Abramson, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
Gary S. Arnold, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.

    All correspondence, documents, and other materials shall be filed 
in accordance with the NRC E-Filing rule, which the NRC promulgated in 
August 2007 (72 FR 49139).

    Issued at Rockville, Maryland, this 28th day of July 2009.
E. Roy Hawkens,
Chief Administrative Judge, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel.
[FR Doc. E9-18437 Filed 7-31-09; 8:45 am]
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