Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Humboldt Bay Power Plant, Unit No. 3; Notice of Partial Denial of Amendment to Facility Operating License and Opportunity for Hearing

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 179 (Friday, September 13, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 48512]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-23515]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-133]


Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Humboldt Bay Power Plant, Unit 
No. 3; Notice of Partial Denial of Amendment to Facility Operating 
License and Opportunity for Hearing

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has denied 
a partial request by Pacific Gas and Electric Company, (licensee) for 
an amendment to Facility License No. DPR-7 issued to the licensee for 
Humboldt Bay Power Plant, Unit No. 3, located in Humboldt County, 
California. Notice of Consideration of Issuance of this amendment was 
published in the Federal Register on April 24, 1996 (61 FR 18174).
    The purpose of the licensee's amendment request was to revise the 
Technical Specifications (TS) to incorporate administrative and 
organizational changes.
    The NRC staff has concluded that the licensee's request to replace 
the Final Hazard Summary Report with the SAFSTOR Decommissioning Plan 
cannot be granted.
    By October 8, 1996, the licensee may demand a hearing with respect 
to the denial described above. Any person whose interest may be 
affected by this proceeding may file a written petition for leave to 
intervene.
    A request for hearing or petition for leave to intervene must be 
filed with the Secretary of the Commission, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555, Attention: Docketing and Services 
Branch, or may be delivered to the Commission's Public Document Room, 
the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street, NW, Washington, DC, by the above 
date.
    A copy of any petitions should also be sent to the Office of the 
General Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555, and to Christopher J. Warner, Esq. Pacific Gas and Electric 
Company, Post Office Box 7442, San Francisco, California 94120, 
attorney for the licensee.
    For further details with respect to this section, see the 
application for amendment dated March 13, 1996.
    This document is available for public inspection at the 
Commission's Public Document Room, the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street, 
NW, Washington DC, and at the local public document room located at the 
Humboldt County Library, 1313 3rd Street, Eureka, California 95501.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 6th day of September 1996.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Seymour H. Weiss,
Director, Non-Power Reactors and Decommissioning Project Directorate, 
Division of Reactor Program Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 96-23515 Filed 9-12-96; 8:45 am]
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