[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 67 (Friday, April 6, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 20853]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-8314]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-293-LR; ASLBP No. 12-917-05-LR-BD01]


Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.; Establishment of Atomic Safety 
and Licensing Board

    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, e.g., 10 CFR 2.104, 2.300, 2.309, 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:

Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.

(Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station)

    A Licensing Board is being established to consider a petition filed 
on March 8, 2012 by Jones River Watershed Association and by Pilgrim 
Watch seeking leave to reopen the record and request a hearing. 
Petitioners filed a correction and supplement to their petition on 
March 15, 2012. The petition pertains to the January 25, 2006 
application from Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. to renew the current 
operating license for Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, which expires on 
June 8, 2012, for an additional twenty years.
    The Board is comprised of the following administrative judges:

Ann Marshall Young, 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;
Richard F. Cole, 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 49,139).
    The Commission has requested that the Board issue a decision on the 
motion to reopen and request for hearing as expeditiously as possible, 
and no later than May 29, 2012. See Memorandum from Andrew L. Bates, 
Acting Secretary, to E. Roy Hawkens, Chief Administrative Judge, Atomic 
Safety and Licensing Board Panel (Mar. 30, 2012).

    Dated: Issued at Rockville, Maryland, this 2nd day of April 
2012.
E. Roy Hawkens,
Chief Administrative Judge, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel.
[FR Doc. 2012-8314 Filed 4-5-12; 8:45 am]
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