[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 114 (Tuesday, June 13, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37184-37186]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-14887]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 72-22-ISFSI; ASLBP No. 97-732-02-ISFSI]
Private Fuel Storage, L.L.C. (Independent Spent Fuel Storage
Installation); Notice (Revised Notice of Hearing and of Opportunity To
Make Oral or Written Limited Appearance Statements)
June 7, 2000.
The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board hereby provides a revised
notice that it will convene an evidentiary hearing to receive testimony
and exhibits and allow the cross-examination of witnesses relating to
certain matters at issue in this proceeding regarding the June 1997
application of Private Fuel Storage, L.L.C., (PFS) for a license under
10 CFR Part 72 to construct and operate an independent spent fuel
storage installation (ISFSI) on the reservation of the Skull Valley
Band of Goshute Indians (Skull Valley Band) in Skull Valley, Utah. In
addition, the Board gives notice that, in accordance with 10 CFR
2.715(a), it will entertain oral limited appearance statements from
members of the public in connection with this proceeding.
A. Revised Information Regarding Location of Evidentiary Hearing
As previously noted in its April 19, 2000 notice (65 FR 24,230
(Apr. 25, 2000)), the Board will conduct an evidentiary hearing on
certain issues relating to this proceeding, currently scheduled to
include contentions Utah
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E/Confederated Tribes F, Financial Assurance; Utah H, Inadequate
Thermal Design; \1\ Utah R, Emergency Plan; and Utah S,
Decommissioning, beginning at 9:30 a.m., on Monday, June 19, 2000.
Although the physical location of the hearings remains the same as
previously announced--Wasatch Room, Mezzanine Level, 150 West 500
South, Salt Lake City, Utah--the Board has been advised, and the public
is hereby notified, that this location is now operated as the Sheraton
City Centre Hotel Salt Lake City. With the exception of those days in
which the Board is hearing oral limited appearance statements in
accordance with section B below or otherwise adjourns the hearing to
accommodate scheduling or other administrative purposes, the hearing on
these issues shall continue from day-to-day until concluded.
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\1\ This date, the Board received notice by e-mail transmission
from counsel for intervenor State of Utah (State) that the State has
decided not to pursue litigation of the contention and will be
filing a notice of withdrawal of the contention shortly. Assuming
this comes to pass, this issue would not be litigated during this
evidentiary hearing.
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The public is further advised that, in accordance with 10 CFR
2.790(b)(6), all or part of the sessions regarding contentions Utah H,
Utah E/Confederated Tribes F, and Utah S may be closed to the public
because the matters at issue may involve the discussion of confidential
proprietary information.
B. Revised Information Regarding Oral Limited Appearance Statement
Sessions
In its April 19, 2000 notice, the Board provided a proposed
schedule for conducting oral limited appearance statement sessions and
urged those members of the public who were interested in making oral
limited appearances to preregister by May 31, 2000. Based on the
interest shown in those preregistrations, the Board has decided to
postpone the sessions previously scheduled for June 30 and July 1 at
Tooele, Utah, to a later date. The Board anticipates that during the
course of this proceeding it will be in Utah for additional evidentiary
or other proceedings and intends to reschedule the oral limited
appearance statements in the Tooele area for that time.
Accordingly, the Board revises its April 19, 2000 notice to advise
the public that the Board will entertain oral limited appearance
statements at the times and locations specified below:
1. Date: Friday, June 23, 2000.
Times:
Afternoon Session--1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time (MDT)
Evening Session--7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. MDT
Location: Sheraton City Centre Hotel Salt Lake City (Note name
change), Wasatch Room--Mezzanine Level, 150 West 500 South, Salt Lake
City, Utah.
2. Date: Saturday, June 24, 2000.
Times: Afternoon Session--1 p.m. to 4 p.m. MDT.
Location: Same as Session 1 above.
C. Participation Guidelines for Oral Limited Appearance Statements
Any person not a party to, or seeking party status in, the
proceeding will be permitted to make an oral statement setting forth
his or her position on matters of concern relating to this proceeding.
Although these statements do not constitute testimony or evidence, they
nonetheless may help the Board and/or the parties in their
deliberations in connection with the issues to be considered in this
proceeding.
Oral limited appearance statements will be entertained during the
hours specified above, or such lesser time as may be necessary to
accommodate the speakers who are present. If, however, all scheduled
and unscheduled speakers present at a session have made a presentation,
the Licensing Board reserves the right to terminate the session before
the ending times listed in section B above.
The time allotted for each statement normally will be no more than
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 D below and/or the number of persons present at
the designated times.
D. Submitting a Request To Make an Oral Limited Appearance
Statement
Persons wishing to make an oral statement who have submitted a
timely written request to do so will be given priority over those who
have not filed such a request. The Board will continue to accept
written requests to make an oral statement, which must be mailed,
faxed, or sent by e-mail so as to be received by close of business
(4:30 p.m. EDT) on Monday, June 19, 2000. The request must specify the
date--June 23 or June 24--and, for the June 23 session, the time on
that day--afternoon or evening--during which the requester wishes to
make an oral statement. Thereafter, all oral statement requests will be
handled by registration on-location at the limited appearance sessions,
on a first-come, first-served basis as the scheduled time allows. And
in this regard, the Board notes that requests by the same individual to
make an oral statement at more than one of the sessions will be
entertained at subsequent sessions after the Board has heard from those
individuals who have not yet provided the Board with an oral statement.
Written requests to make an oral statement should be submitted to:
Mail: Office of the Secretary, Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555-0001
Fax: (301) 415-1101 (verification (301) 415-1966)
E-mail: [email protected]
In addition, using the same method of service, a copy of the
written request to make an oral statement should be sent to the
Chairman of this Licensing Board as follows:
Mail: Administrative Judge G. Paul Bollwerk, III, Atomic Safety and
Licensing Board Panel, Mail Stop T-3F23, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555-0001
Fax: (301) 415-5599 (verification (301) 415-7550)
E-mail: [email protected]
E. Submitting Written Limited Appearance Statements and
Availability of Documentary Materials
As the Board has noted previously, a written limited appearance
statement can be submitted at any time. Such statements should be sent
to the Office of the Secretary using the methods prescribed above, with
a copy to the Licensing Board Chairman.
Documents relating to the PFS license application at issue in this
proceeding currently are on file at the Commission's Public Document
Room, the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20003-
1527, and at the University of Utah, Marriott Library, Documents
Division, 295 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0860.
Additionally, documents submitted in this proceeding after November 1,
1999, are available electronically through the Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System (ADAMS), with access to the public through
the NRC's Internet Web site Public Electronic Reading Room Link at
http://www.nrc.gov./NRC/ADAMS/index.html>.
For the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board.\2\
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\2\ Copies of this notice were sent this date by Internet e-mail
transmission to counsel for (1) applicant PFS; (2) intervenors Skull
Valley Band, Ohngo Gaudadeh Devia, Confederated Tribes of the
Goshute Reservation, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, and the
State; (3) petitioner William D. Peterson; and (4) the NRC staff.
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Dated: Rockville, Maryland, June 7, 2000.
G. Paul Bollwerk, III,
Administrative Judge.
[FR Doc. 00-14887 Filed 6-12-00; 8:45 am]
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