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Commission’s ‘‘Rules of Practice for
Domestic Licensing Proceedings’’ in 10
CFR part 2. Interested persons should
consult a current copy of 10 CFR 2.309,
which is available at the Commission’s
PDR, located at One White Flint North,
Public File Area O1F21, 11555
Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville,
Maryland. Publicly available records
will be accessible from the Agencywide
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date, the Commission or a presiding
officer designated by the Commission or
by the Chief Administrative Judge of the
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board
Panel, will rule on the request and/or
petition; and the Secretary or the Chief
Administrative Judge of the Atomic
Safety and Licensing Board will issue a
notice of a hearing or an appropriate
order.
As required by 10 CFR 2.309, a
petition for leave to intervene shall set
forth with particularity the interest of
the petitioner in the proceeding, and
how that interest may be affected by the
results of the proceeding. The petition
should specifically explain the reasons
why intervention should be permitted
with particular reference to the
following general requirements: (1) The
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the requestor or petitioner; (2) the
nature of the requestor’s/petitioner’s
right under the Act to be made a party
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extent of the requestor’s/petitioner’s
property, financial, or other interest in
the proceeding; and (4) the possible
effect of any decision or order which
may be entered in the proceeding on the
requestors/petitioner’s interest. The
petition must also identify the specific
contentions which the petitioner/
requestor seeks to have litigated at the
proceeding.
Each contention must consist of a
specific statement of the issue of law or
fact to be raised or controverted. In
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opinion which support the contention
and on which the petitioner intends to
rely in proving the contention at the
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petition must include sufficient
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dispute exists with the applicant on a
material issue of law or fact.
Contentions shall be limited to matters
within the scope of the amendment
under consideration. The contention
must be one which, if proven, would
entitle the petitioner to relief. A
petitioner/requestor who fails to satisfy
these requirements with respect to at
least one contention will not be
permitted to participate as a party.
Those permitted to intervene become
parties to the proceeding, subject to any
limitations in the order granting leave to
intervene, and have the opportunity to
participate fully in the conduct of the
hearing.
If a hearing is requested, the
Commission will make a final
determination on the issue of no
significant hazards consideration. The
final determination will serve to decide
when the hearing is held. If the final
determination is that the amendment
request involves no significant hazards
consideration, the Commission may
issue the amendment and make it
immediately effective, notwithstanding
the request for a hearing. Any hearing
held would take place after issuance of
the amendment. If the final
determination is that the amendment
request involves a significant hazards
consideration, any hearing held would
take place before the issuance of any
amendment.
Nontimely requests and/or petitions
and contentions will not be entertained
absent a determination by the
Commission or the presiding officer of
the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board
that the petition, request and/or the
contentions should be granted based on
a balancing of the factors specified in 10
CFR 2.309(c)(1)(I)-(viii).
A request for a hearing or a petition
for leave to intervene must be filed by:
(1) First class mail addressed to the
Office of the Secretary of the
Commission, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001, Attention: Rulemaking and
Adjudications Staff; (2) courier, express
mail, and expedited delivery services:
Office of the Secretary, Sixteenth Floor,
One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland, 20852,
Attention: Rulemaking and
Adjudications Staff; (3) E-mail
addressed to the Office of the Secretary,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
HEARINGDOCKET@NRC.GOV; or (4)
facsimile transmission addressed to the
Office of the Secretary, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC, Attention: Rulemakings and
Adjudications Staff at (301) 415–1101,
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A copy of the request for hearing and
petition for leave to intervene should
also be sent to the Office of the General
Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001, and it is requested that copies be
transmitted either by means of facsimile
transmission to (301) 415–3725 or by email to OGCMailCenter@nrc.gov. A copy
of the request for hearing and petition
for leave to intervene should also be
sent to Ms. Lisa F. Vaughn, Duke Energy
Corporation, 422 S. Church Street, Mail
Code—PB05E, Charlotte, NC 28201–
1006, attorney for the licensee.
For further details with respect to this
action, see the application for
amendment dated [date], which is
available for public inspection at the
Commission’s PDR, located at One
White Flint North, File Public Area O1
F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor),
Rockville, Maryland. Publicly available
records will be accessible from the
Agencywide Documents Access and
Management System’s (ADAMS) Public
Electronic Reading Room on the Internet
at the NRC Web site, https://
www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
Persons who do not have access to
ADAMS or who encounter problems in
accessing the documents located in
ADAMS, should contact the NRC PDR
Reference staff by telephone at 1–800–
397–4209, (301) 415–4737, or by e-mail
to pdr@nrc.gov.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 23rd day
of August, 2005.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Leonard N. Olshan,
Project Manager, Section 1, Project
Directorate II, Division of Licensing Project
Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation.
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[Docket Nos. 50–317 and 50–318]
Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, Unit
Nos. 1 and 2; Environmental
Assessment and Finding of No
Significant Impact
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is considering
issuance of an exemption from
Subsection (b)(1) of Section 50.68,
‘‘Criticality accident requirements,’’ of
part 50 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR) for Renewed
Facility Operating License Nos. DPR–53
and DPR–69, issued to Calvert Cliffs
Nuclear Power Plant, Inc. (the licensee),
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for operation of the Calvert Cliffs
Nuclear Power Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2
(CCNPP), located in Calvert County,
Maryland. Therefore, as required by 10
CFR 51.21, the NRC is issuing this
environmental assessment and finding
of no significant impact.
Environmental Assessment
Identification of the Proposed Action
The proposed action would exempt
the licensee from the requirements of 10
CFR 50.68(b)(1) during the handling and
storage of spent nuclear fuel in a 10 CFR
part 72 licensed spent fuel storage
container that is in a CCNPP spent fuel
pool. The proposed action is in
accordance with the licensee’s
application dated December 21, 2004, as
supplemented on May 31, 2005. The
supplemental letter provided clarifying
information that did not expand the
scope of the original request.
The Need for the Proposed Action
Under 10 CFR 50.68(b)(1), the
Commission sets forth the following
requirement that must be met, in lieu of
a monitoring system capable of
detecting criticality events. Plant
procedures shall prohibit the handling
and storage at any one time of more fuel
assemblies than have been determined
to be safely subcritical under the most
adverse moderation conditions feasible
by unborated water. Section 50.12(a)
allows licensees to apply for an
exemption from the requirements of 10
CFR part 50 if the regulation is not
necessary to achieve the underlying
purpose of the rule and other conditions
are met. The licensee has stated that the
NRC has previously established five
criteria that, if met, would satisfy the
intent of 10 CFR 50.68(b)(1).
Environmental Impacts of the Proposed
Action
The NRC has completed its safety
evaluation of the proposed action and
concludes that the exemption described
above would continue to satisfy the
underlying purpose of 10 CFR
50.68(b)(1). The details of the staff’s
safety evaluation will be provided in the
exemption that will be issued as part of
the letter to the licensee approving the
exemption to the regulation. The
proposed action will not significantly
increase the probability or consequences
of accidents. No changes are being made
in the types of effluents that may be
released off site. There is no significant
increase in the amount of any effluent
released off site. There is no significant
increase in occupational or public
radiation exposure. Therefore, there are
no significant radiological
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environmental impacts associated with
the proposed action.
With regard to potential nonradiological impacts, the proposed
action does not have a potential to affect
any historic sites. It does not affect nonradiological plant effluents and has no
other environmental impact. Therefore,
there are no significant non-radiological
environmental impacts associated with
the proposed action.
Accordingly, the NRC concludes that
there are no significant environmental
impacts associated with the proposed
action.
Environmental Impacts of the
Alternatives to the Proposed Action
As an alternative to the proposed
action, the staff considered denial of the
proposed action (i.e., the ‘‘no-action’’
alternative). Denial of the application
would result in no change in current
environmental impacts. The
environmental impacts of the proposed
action and the alternative action are
similar.
Publicly available records will be
accessible electronically from the
Agencywide Documents Access and
Management System (ADAMS) Public
Electronic Reading Room on the Internet
at the NRC Web site, https://
www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
Persons who do not have access to
ADAMS or who encounter problems in
accessing the documents located in
ADAMS should contact the NRC PDR
Reference staff by telephone at 1–800–
397–4209 or (301) 415–4737, or send an
e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 25th day
of August, 2005.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Patrick D. Milano,
Senior Project Manager, Section 1, Project
Directorate I, Division of Licensing Project
Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation.
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Alternative Use of Resources
The action does not involve the use of
any different resources than those
previously considered in the Final
Environmental Statement for the Calvert
Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, Unit Nos. 1
and 2, dated April 1984, and the
Supplemental Environmental Impact
Statement for License Renewal of
Nuclear Plants, Calvert Cliffs Nuclear
Power Plant (NUREG–1437, Supplement
1), dated October 1999.
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Agencies and Persons Consulted
In accordance with its stated policy,
on August 24, 2005, the staff consulted
with the Maryland State official, R.
McLean of the Maryland Department of
Natural Resources, regarding the
environmental impact of the proposed
action. The State official had no
comments.
August 24, 2005.
Finding of No Significant Impact
On the basis of the environmental
assessment, the NRC concludes that the
proposed action will not have a
significant effect on the quality of the
human environment. Accordingly, the
NRC has determined not to prepare an
environmental impact statement for the
proposed action.
For further details with respect to the
proposed action, see the licensee’s letter
dated December 31, 2004, as
supplemented by letter dated May 31,
2005. Documents may be viewed, and/
or copied for a fee, at the NRC’s Public
Document Room (PDR), located at One
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike
(first floor), Rockville, Maryland.
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[Release No. 34–52327; File No. SR–ISE–
2004–33]
Self-Regulatory Organizations;
International Securities Exchange, Inc.;
Order Approving Proposed Rule
Change and Amendment No. 1
Relating to the Entry of Complex
Orders Into the Facilitation Mechanism
I. Introduction
On November 16, 2004, the
International Securities Exchange, Inc.
(‘‘ISE’’ or ‘‘Exchange’’) filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission
(‘‘Commission’’), pursuant to Section
19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934 (‘‘Act’’) 1 and Rule 19b–4
thereunder,2 a proposed rule change to
amend ISE Rule 716(d), ‘‘Facilitation
Mechanism,’’ to allow Electronic Access
Members (‘‘EAMs’’) to enter complex
orders into the ISE’s facilitation
mechanism. On December 14, 2004, the
ISE submitted Amendment No. 1 to the
proposal.3 The proposed rule change, as
amended, was published for comment
in the Federal Register on July 12,
2005.4 The Commission received no
comments regarding the proposal. This
1 15
U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
CFR 240.19b–4.
3 Amendment No. 1 made a technical revision to
the text of the proposed rule change.
4 See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 51968
(July 1, 2005), 70 FR 40089.
2 17
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-317 and 50-318]
Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2;
Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering
issuance of an exemption from Subsection (b)(1) of Section 50.68,
``Criticality accident requirements,'' of part 50 of Title 10 of the
Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) for Renewed Facility Operating
License Nos. DPR-53 and DPR-69, issued to Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power
Plant, Inc. (the licensee),
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for operation of the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, Unit Nos. 1
and 2 (CCNPP), located in Calvert County, Maryland. Therefore, as
required by 10 CFR 51.21, the NRC is issuing this environmental
assessment and finding of no significant impact.
Environmental Assessment
Identification of the Proposed Action
The proposed action would exempt the licensee from the requirements
of 10 CFR 50.68(b)(1) during the handling and storage of spent nuclear
fuel in a 10 CFR part 72 licensed spent fuel storage container that is
in a CCNPP spent fuel pool. The proposed action is in accordance with
the licensee's application dated December 21, 2004, as supplemented on
May 31, 2005. The supplemental letter provided clarifying information
that did not expand the scope of the original request.
The Need for the Proposed Action
Under 10 CFR 50.68(b)(1), the Commission sets forth the following
requirement that must be met, in lieu of a monitoring system capable of
detecting criticality events. Plant procedures shall prohibit the
handling and storage at any one time of more fuel assemblies than have
been determined to be safely subcritical under the most adverse
moderation conditions feasible by unborated water. Section 50.12(a)
allows licensees to apply for an exemption from the requirements of 10
CFR part 50 if the regulation is not necessary to achieve the
underlying purpose of the rule and other conditions are met. The
licensee has stated that the NRC has previously established five
criteria that, if met, would satisfy the intent of 10 CFR 50.68(b)(1).
Environmental Impacts of the Proposed Action
The NRC has completed its safety evaluation of the proposed action
and concludes that the exemption described above would continue to
satisfy the underlying purpose of 10 CFR 50.68(b)(1). The details of
the staff's safety evaluation will be provided in the exemption that
will be issued as part of the letter to the licensee approving the
exemption to the regulation. The proposed action will not significantly
increase the probability or consequences of accidents. No changes are
being made in the types of effluents that may be released off site.
There is no significant increase in the amount of any effluent released
off site. There is no significant increase in occupational or public
radiation exposure. Therefore, there are no significant radiological
environmental impacts associated with the proposed action.
With regard to potential non-radiological impacts, the proposed
action does not have a potential to affect any historic sites. It does
not affect non-radiological plant effluents and has no other
environmental impact. Therefore, there are no significant non-
radiological environmental impacts associated with the proposed action.
Accordingly, the NRC concludes that there are no significant
environmental impacts associated with the proposed action.
Environmental Impacts of the Alternatives to the Proposed Action
As an alternative to the proposed action, the staff considered
denial of the proposed action (i.e., the ``no-action'' alternative).
Denial of the application would result in no change in current
environmental impacts. The environmental impacts of the proposed action
and the alternative action are similar.
Alternative Use of Resources
The action does not involve the use of any different resources than
those previously considered in the Final Environmental Statement for
the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2, dated April
1984, and the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for License
Renewal of Nuclear Plants, Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant (NUREG-
1437, Supplement 1), dated October 1999.
Agencies and Persons Consulted
In accordance with its stated policy, on August 24, 2005, the staff
consulted with the Maryland State official, R. McLean of the Maryland
Department of Natural Resources, regarding the environmental impact of
the proposed action. The State official had no comments.
Finding of No Significant Impact
On the basis of the environmental assessment, the NRC concludes
that the proposed action will not have a significant effect on the
quality of the human environment. Accordingly, the NRC has determined
not to prepare an environmental impact statement for the proposed
action.
For further details with respect to the proposed action, see the
licensee's letter dated December 31, 2004, as supplemented by letter
dated May 31, 2005. Documents may be viewed, and/or copied for a fee,
at the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint
North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland.
Publicly available records will be accessible electronically from the
Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Public
Electronic Reading Room on the Internet at the NRC Web site, https://
www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. Persons who do not have access to
ADAMS or who encounter problems in accessing the documents located in
ADAMS should contact the NRC PDR Reference staff by telephone at 1-800-
397-4209 or (301) 415-4737, or send an e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 25th day of August, 2005.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Patrick D. Milano,
Senior Project Manager, Section 1, Project Directorate I, Division of
Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. E5-4750 Filed 8-30-05; 8:45 am]
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