Yankee Atomic Electric Company (Yankee Nuclear Power Station) License Termination Plan; Notice of Hearings

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 69 (Monday, April 12, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17689-17690]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-9037]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-029-LA-R; ASLBP No. 99-754-01-LA-R]


Yankee Atomic Electric Company (Yankee Nuclear Power Station) 
License Termination Plan; Notice of Hearings

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board
    Before Administrative Judges; Charles Bechhoefer, Chairman, Dr. 
Thomas S. Elleman, Thomas D. Murphy.

April 6, 1999
    This proceeding concerns the application of Yankee Atomic Electric 
Company (YAEC) for approval of a License Termination Plan for the 
Yankee Nuclear Power Station, a nuclear facility located near the town 
of Rowe, Franklin County, Massachusetts. On October 23, 1998, the 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission ruled that two petitioners for 
intervention, the New England Coalition On Nuclear Pollution (NECNP) 
and the Citizens Awareness Network (CAN), had standing (CLI-98-21, 48 
NRC 185), and it remanded the proceeding to the Atomic Safety and 
Licensing Board to determine whether the petitioners had any admissible 
contentions that would entitle them to a hearing. On October 26, 1998, 
the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board for this proceeding was 
reconstituted to rule upon the hearing requests and to preside over the 
proceeding in the event that a hearing was ordered. 63 FR 58432 
(October 30, 1998).
    After holding a prehearing conference in Greenfield, Massachusetts, 
the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board issued a Prehearing Conference 
Order (LBP-99-14) on March 17, 1999, granting NECNP's and CAN's 
requests for a hearing and petitions for leave to intervene. The Order 
also permitted the Franklin Regional Council of Governments to 
participate as an interested governmental entity pursuant to 10 CFR 
Sec. 2.715(c).
    Please take notice that a hearing will be conducted in this 
proceeding. The reconstituted Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 
designated to preside over the proceeding consists of Dr. Thomas S. 
Elleman, Thomas D. Murphy, and Charles Bechhoefer, who will serve as 
Chairman of the Board.
    During the course of the proceeding, the Board may hold one or more 
prehearing conferences pursuant to 10 CFR 2.752 and, if necessary, an 
evidentiary hearing. The public is invited to attend all these 
sessions.
    Supplementing the opportunity afforded at the first prehearing 
conference, during some or all of these sessions, and in accordance 
with 10 CFR 2.715(a), any person not a party to the proceeding will be 
permitted to make a limited appearance statement, either in writing or 
(depending on time availability) orally, setting forth his or her 
position on the issues. These statements do not constitute testimony or 
evidence but may assist the Board and/or parties in the definition of 
issues being considered. To the extent that oral statements are 
permitted, the number of persons making such statements and the time 
allotted for each may be limited depending upon the time available at 
various sessions. Written statements may be submitted at any time. 
Written statements, and requests to make oral limited appearance 
statements, should be submitted to the Office of the Secretary, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory

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Commission, Washington DC 20555, Attn: Rulemakings and Adjudications 
Staff. A copy of such statement or request should also be served on the 
Chairman of this Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, T3 F23, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 20555.
    Documents relating to this proceeding are available for public 
inspection at the Commission's Local Public Document Room, Greenfield 
Community College, 1 College Drive, Greenfield, Massachusetts 01301, as 
well as at the Commission's Public Document Room, 2120 L St. NW, 
Washington DC 20555.

    Rockville, MD, April 6, 1999.

    For the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board.
Charles Bechhoefer,
Chairman, Administrative Judge.
[FR Doc. 99-9037 Filed 4-9-99; 8:45 am]
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