[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 205 (Tuesday, October 23, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53521-53522]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-23085]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 40-8943-MLA-2; ASLBP No. 13-926-01-MLA-BD01]


Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel

    Before the Licensing Board: G. Paul Bollwerk, III, Chairman, Dr. 
Richard E. Wardwell, Dr. Thomas J. Hirons; In the Matter of: Crow 
Butte Resources, Inc. (Marsland Expansion Area); Amended Notice of 
Hearing (Confirming Oral Limited Appearance Session and Updating 
Start Time for Evidentiary Hearing).

October 18, 2018.
    On July 27, 2018, the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board issued a 
Notice of Hearing, which was subsequently published in the Federal 
Register, indicating that it would convene an evidentiary hearing and 
potentially conduct a 10 CFR 2.315(a) oral limited appearance session 
in connection with this proceeding regarding intervenor Oglala Sioux 
Tribe's challenge to the May 2012 application of Crow Butte Resources, 
Inc., (CBR) seeking to amend the existing 10 CFR part 40 source 
materials license for its Crow Butte in situ uranium recovery (ISR) 
site to authorize CBR to operate a satellite ISR facility within the 
Marsland Expansion Area in Dawes County, Nebraska. See Notice of 
Hearing (Notice of Evidentiary Hearing and Opportunity To Provide Oral, 
Written, and Audio-Recorded Limited Appearance Statements); In the 
Matter of Crow Butte Resources, Inc. (Marsland Expansion Area), 83 FR 
37828, 37828-30 (Aug. 2, 2018). Revisions to the information in that 
notice regarding the oral limited appearance session and the start time 
for the evidentiary hearing are set forth below.

A. Confirming Oral Limited Appearance Session Will Be Held

    In the notice's section E, ``Submitting a Request to Make an Oral 
Limited Appearance Statement,'' the Board indicated that it was 
accepting requests to make an oral limited appearance

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during a scheduled Sunday, October 28, 2018 session to be held from 
2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Mountain Time (MT) at the Scottsbluff Room, 
Chadron State College Student Center, 1000 Main Street, Chadron, 
Nebraska. In addition, the Board stated it was reserving the right to 
cancel that session if by mid-October 2018 sufficient expressions of 
interest from the public had not been received. The Board wishes to 
confirm that, because a sufficient number of written requests to make 
an oral statement have been received, the oral limited appearance 
session will be conducted as scheduled.
    In addition, the Board encourages anyone interested in making an 
oral limited appearance statement at the October 28, 2018 session to 
provide a written request to do so. Those submitting a timely written 
request to make an oral statement, i.e., a request received by 5:00 
p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on Friday, October 26, 2018, will be given 
priority over those who have not provided such a request.
    Written requests to make an oral statement should be submitted to: 
Mail: Administrative Judge G. Paul Bollwerk, III, Atomic Safety and 
Licensing Board Panel, Mail Stop T-3A02, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; Fax: (301) 415-5206 
(verification (301) 415-5277); Email: [email protected] and 
[email protected].

B. Evidentiary Hearing Start Time

    In section B of the notice, the Board indicated that the 
evidentiary hearing would convene at 8:30 a.m. MT on Tuesday, October 
30, 2018. As a result of recent developments concerning witness 
availability, see Licensing Board Memorandum and Order (Scheduling 
Prehearing Conference and Providing Teleconference Agenda and Hearing 
Presentation Order) (Oct. 3, 2018) at 4 & n.2 (unpublished), the Board 
has decided to begin the hearing one-half hour earlier, i.e., at 8:00 
a.m. MT on October 30, 2018. The hearing location at the Crawford 
Community Building, 1005 1st Street, Crawford, Nebraska, remains the 
same.
    Although the start times for the additional two days that the 
hearing currently is anticipated to last will be set by the Board based 
on the progress of the proceeding, if the Board decides to start the 
hearing at a time other than 8:00 a.m. MT on any given day, it will 
provide an information update that will be available by 6:00 a.m. MT on 
that day by calling (800) 368-5642, extension 5036 (available between 
7:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, except federal 
holidays), or by calling (301) 415-5036 (available seven days a week, 
twenty-four hours a day).
    It is so ordered.

    For the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board.

    Dated: Rockville, Maryland, October 18, 2018.
George P. Bollwerk III,
Chairman, Administrative Judge.
[FR Doc. 2018-23085 Filed 10-22-18; 8:45 am]
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