[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 7 (Wednesday, January 11, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1748-1749]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-335]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 52-016-COL; ASLBP No. 09-874-02-COL-BD01]
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board; Calvert Cliffs 3 Nuclear
Project, LLC, and UniStar Nuclear Operating Services, LLC; Combined
License Application for Calvert Cliffs Unit 3
November 9, 2011.
Before Administrative Judges: Ronald M. Spritzer, Chairman, Dr. Gary
S. Arnold, Dr. William W. Sager.
Notice
Notice of Evidentiary Hearing and Opportunity To Provide Oral and
Written Limited Appearance Statements
The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board hereby gives notice that it
will convene an evidentiary session to receive testimony and exhibits
in the contested portion of this proceeding regarding the application
(COLA) by Calvert Cliffs 3 Nuclear Project, L.L.C., and UniStar Nuclear
Operating Services, L.L.C. (Applicants) for a combined license (COL) to
construct and operate one U.S. Evolutionary Power Reactor (U.S. EPR) to
be located adjacent to the existing Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant
(CCNPP), Units 1 and 2, near Lusby, Calvert County, Maryland. In
addition, the Board gives notice that, in accordance with 10 CFR
2.315(a), it will entertain oral and written limited appearance
statements from members of the public in connection with this
proceeding.
I. Matter To Be Considered
This evidentiary hearing will consider one environmental
contention, Contention 10C. Contention 10C, as restated by the Board,
alleges that:
The DEIS discussion of a combination of alternatives is
inadequate and faulty. By selecting a single alternative that under
represents potential contributions of wind and solar power, the
combination alternative depends excessively on the natural gas
supplement, thus unnecessarily burdening this alternative with
excessive environmental impacts.\1\
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\1\ LBP-10-24, 72 NRC ---- , ---- (slip op. at 54) (Dec. 28,
2010).
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II. Date, Time, and Location of Environmental Portion of the Contested
Hearing
The evidentiary hearing will commence at 9:30 a.m., Eastern
Standard Time (EST) on Thursday, January 26, 2012, at the Albright
Building, 205 Main Street, Prince Frederick, Maryland 20678. The
hearing will resume at 9:30 a.m. EST on Friday, January 27, 2012, if
necessary. Parties and members of the public are requested to park in
the offsite parking lot, which is within walking distance of the
hearing venue, located at 200 Duke Street, Prince Frederick, Maryland
20678.
Members of the public and representatives of the media are welcome
to attend and observe this evidentiary hearing. However, all signs,
banners, posters, demonstrations, and displays are prohibited in
accordance with NRC policy.\2\
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\2\ See Procedures for Providing Security Support for NRC Public
Meetings/Hearings, 66 FR 31,719 (June 12, 2001) [hereinafter Meeting
Security Guidelines].
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All individuals attending the evidentiary hearing are advised that
security measures will be employed at the entrance to the facility. As
such, all individuals attending the evidentiary hearing should bring at
least one form of government issued photo identification, refrain from
bringing any unnecessary hand-carried items that might need to be
examined individually, and allow sufficient time for security
screening.
III. Date, Time, and Location of Oral Limited Appearance Statement
Session
An oral limited appearance statement session regarding this Calvert
Cliffs evidentiary hearing proceeding will be held on Wednesday,
January 25, 2012, from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. EST and from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
EST at the Calvert Marine Museum, 14150 Solomons Island Road, Solomons,
MD 20688.
Members of the public and representatives of the media are welcome
to attend, observe, and participate in this oral limited appearance
statement session, as outlined below. As required by NRC policy, signs,
banners, posters, and displays not larger than 18 x
18 will be permitted at the oral limited appearance
statement session, but may not be waved or held over one's head. Any
sign, banner, poster or display affixed to a stick, or similar device,
will not be permitted at the oral limited appearance statement
session.\3\
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\3\ See Meeting Security Guidelines.
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All individuals attending the oral limited appearance statement
session are advised that security measures will be employed at the
entrance to the facility. As such, all individuals attending the oral
limited appearance statement session should bring at least one form of
government issued photo identification, refrain from bringing any
unnecessary hand-carried items that might need to be examined
individually, and allow sufficient time for security screening.
IV. Participation Guidelines for Oral Limited Appearance Statements
Any person not a party, or the representative of a party, to this
mandatory hearing proceeding will be permitted to make an oral
statement setting forth his or her position on matter of concern
relating to the proceeding. Though these statements do not constitute
testimony or evidence, they nonetheless may aid the Board and/or the
parties in their consideration of the issues involved in this
evidentiary hearing.
Oral limited appearance statements will be entertained during the
hours specified above. In the event that all scheduled and unscheduled
speakers present at the session have made a presentation, the Board
reserves the right to terminate the session prior to the ending time
listed above.
The time allotted for each limited appearance statement will be
five minutes, but may be further limited depending on the number of
written requests to make an oral statement that are submitted in
accordance with section V below and/or the number or persons present at
the designated time, so as to ensure that everyone will have an
opportunity to speak.
V. Submitting a Request to Make an Oral Limited Appearance Statement
A person wishing to make an oral statement who has submitted a
timely written request to do so will be given priority over those who
have not filed such a request. To be considered timely, a written
request to make an oral statement must either be mailed, faxed, or sent
by email so as to be received by 5 p.m. EST on Friday, January 13,
2012. Written requests to make an oral statement should be submitted
to:
Mail: Administrative Judge Ronald M. Spritzer, Atomic Safety and
Licensing Board Panel, Mail Stop T-3F23, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
Fax: (301) 415-5599.
Email: [email protected] and [email protected].
VI. Submitting Written Limited Appearance Statements
As provided in 10 CFR 2.315(a), any person not a party, or a
representative of a party, to the proceeding may submit a written
statement setting forth his or her position on matters of concern
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relating to this proceeding. Although these statements do not
constitute testimony or evidence, they nonetheless may assist the Board
or the parties in their consideration of the issues in this proceeding.
A written limited appearance statement may be submitted at any time
and should be sent to the Office of the Secretary using one of the
methods prescribed below:
Mail: Office of the Secretary, Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20444-0001.
Fax: (301) 415-1101.
Email: [email protected].
In addition, using the same method of service, a copy of the
written limited appearance statement should be sent to the Chairman of
this Licensing Board as follows:
Mail: Administrative Judge Ronald M. Spritzer, Atomic Safety and
Licensing Board Panel, Mail Stop T-3F23, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
Fax: (301) 415-5599.
Email: [email protected].
VII. Availability of Documentary Information Regarding the Proceeding
Applicants' application, along with various NRC Staff documents
relating to the application, are available on the NRC Web site at
http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/col/calvert-cliffs.html. These
and other documents relating to this proceeding are available for
public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room (PDR),
located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor),
Rockville, Maryland, 20352, or electronically from the publicly-
available records component of the NRC's document system (ADAMS). ADAMS
is accessible from the NRC web site at www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams/html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).\4\ 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 (800) 397-4209 or (301) 415-4737 (available between 8 a.m.
and 4 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday except federal holiday),
or by email to [email protected].
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\4\ Some documents determined by the staff to contain
``sensitive'' information are publicly available only in redacted
form; non-sensitive documents are publicly available in their
complete form. In addition, some documents that may contain
information proprietary to AES are publicly available only in
redacted form.
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VIII. Conference Call
The Board intends on holding a conference call with the parties in
early January to discuss further administrative details regarding this
evidentiary hearing.
It is so ordered.
Dated in Rockville, Maryland, November 9, 2011. For the Atomic
Safety And Licensing Board.\5\
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\5\ Copies of this order were sent on this date by the agency's
E-Filing system to the counsel/representatives for: (1) Joint
Intervenors Nuclear Information and Resource Services, Beyond
Nuclear, Public Citizen Energy Program, and Southern Maryland
Citizens Alliance for Renewable Energy Solutions; (2) UniStar
Nuclear Operating Services, LLC and Calvert Cliffs-3 Nuclear
Project, LLC; (3) NRC Staff; and (4) State of Maryland.
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Ronald M. Spritzer,
Chairman, Administrative Judge.
[FR Doc. 2012-335 Filed 1-10-12; 8:45 am]
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