Notice of Consideration of Amendment Request for Decommissioning of ABB Inc.'s CE Windsor Site In Windsor, CT, and Opportunity to Request a Hearing, 21720-21722 [E9-10720]
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ADDRESSES: Original comments should
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Ph.D., ATST Program Manager, National
Science Foundation, Division of
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3. Charlie Fein, Ph.D., KC
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Notice of Consideration of Amendment
Request for Decommissioning of ABB
Inc.’s CE Windsor Site In Windsor, CT,
and Opportunity to Request a Hearing
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of amendment request
and opportunity to request a hearing.
DATES: A request for a hearing must be
filed by July 7, 2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
James Schmidt, Health Physicist,
Decommissioning Branch, Division of
Nuclear Materials Safety, Region I, 475
Allendale Road, King of Prussia,
Pennsylvania 19406; telephone (610)
337–5276; fax number (610) 337–5269;
or by e-mail: jim.schmidt@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC) is considering issuance of a
license amendment to Materials License
No. 06–00217–06 issued to ABB Inc.
(the Licensee), to authorize remediation
and decommissioning of several
Formally Utilized Sites Remedial Action
Program (FUSRAP) areas of its CE
Windsor Site (the Facility) in Windsor,
Connecticut. The clean-up work for the
FUSRAP areas will be performed under
a proposed revision to the Licensee’s
previously approved Decommissioning
Plan (DP), under which
decommissioning work has been
performed at the Facility’s non-FUSRAP
areas. Authorization for the Licensee to
conduct decommissioning activities for
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the FUSRAP areas—which ordinarily
would be done by the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers (USACE)—was established
between NRC and USACE by agreement
dated August 15, 2007. The Licensee
requested the action to initiate the
FUSRAP area decommissioning
activities by a filing dated December 31,
2008. Revision I to the DP is currently
under technical review by the NRC staff.
If the NRC approves the revised DP,
the approval will be documented in an
amendment to NRC License No. 06–
00217–06. However, before approving
the proposed amendment, the NRC will
need to make the safety findings
required by the Atomic Energy Act of
1954, as amended, and NRC’s
regulations. These findings will be
documented in a Safety Evaluation
Report. The NRC will separately
evaluate the environmental aspects of
the proposed action, pursuant to its 10
CFR part 51 requirements. The
Licensee’s revised DP continues to
propose eventual release of the Facility
for unrestricted use. This would occur
following completion of all
decommissioning activities and
verification by the NRC that the
radiological criteria for license
termination have been met.
II. Opportunity to Request a Hearing
The NRC hereby provides notice that
this is a proceeding on the Licensee’s
application dated December 31, 2008. In
accordance with the general
requirements in subpart C of 10 CFR
part 2, as amended on January 14, 2004
(69 FR 2182), any person whose interest
may be affected by this proceeding and
who desires to participate as a party
must file a request for a hearing and a
specification of the contentions which
the person seeks to have litigated in the
hearing.
A request for hearing or a petition for
leave to intervene must be filed in
accordance with the NRC E-Filing rule,
which the NRC promulgated on August
28, 2007 (72 FR 49139). The E-Filing
process requires participants to submit
and serve documents over the Internet
or in some cases to mail copies on
electronic storage media. Participants
may not submit paper copies of their
filings unless they seek a waiver in
accordance with the procedures
described below.
To comply with the procedural
requirements of E–Filing, at least ten
(10) days prior to the filing deadline, the
petitioner/requestor must contact the
Office of the Secretary by e-mail at
HEARINGDOCKET@NRC.GOV, or by
calling (301) 415–1677, to request (1) A
digital ID certificate, which allows the
participant (or its counsel or
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representative) to digitally sign
documents and access the E–Submittal
server for any proceeding in which it is
participating; and/or (2) creation of an
electronic docket for the proceeding
[even in instances in which the
petitioner/requestor (or its counsel or
representative) already holds an NRCissued digital ID certificate]. Each
petitioner/requestor will need to
download the Workplace Forms
ViewerTM to access the Electronic
Information Exchange (EIE), a
component of the E–Filing system. The
Workplace Forms ViewerTM is free and
is available at
https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/esubmittals/install-viewer.html.
Information about applying for a digital
ID certificate is available on NRC’s
public Web site at https://www.nrc.gov/
site-help/e-submittals/applycertificates.html. Once a petitioner/
requestor has obtained a digital ID
certificate, had a docket created, and
downloaded the EIE viewer, it can then
submit a request for hearing or petition
for leave to intervene. Submissions
should be in Portable Document Format
(PDF) in accordance with NRC guidance
available on the NRC public Web site at
https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/esubmittals.html. A filing is considered
complete at the time the filer submits its
documents through EIE. To be timely,
an electronic filing must be submitted to
the EIE system no later than 11:59 p.m.
Eastern Time on the due date. Upon
receipt of a transmission, the E–Filing
system time-stamps the document and
sends the submitter an e-mail notice
confirming receipt of the document. The
EIE system also distributes an e-mail
notice that provides access to the
document to the NRC Office of the
General Counsel and any others who
have advised the Office of the Secretary
that they wish to participate in the
proceeding, so that the filer need not
serve the documents on those
participants separately. Therefore,
applicants and other participants (or
their counsel or representative) must
apply for and receive a digital ID
certificate before a hearing request/
petition to intervene is filed so that they
can obtain access to the document via
the E–Filing system.
A person filing electronically may
seek assistance through the ‘‘Contact
Us’’ link located on the NRC Web site
at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/esubmittals.html or by calling the NRC
technical help line, which is available
between 8:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m.,
Eastern Time, Monday through Friday.
The electronic filing Help Desk can be
contacted by telephone at 1–866–672–
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MHSD.Resource@nrc.gov. Participants
who believe that they have a good cause
for not submitting documents
electronically must file a motion, in
accordance with 10 CFR 2.302(g), with
their initial paper filing requesting
authorization to continue to submit
documents in paper format. Such filings
must be submitted 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; or
(2) courier, express mail, or expedited
delivery service to the Office of the
Secretary, Sixteenth Floor, One White
Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike,
Rockville, Maryland, 20852, Attention:
Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff.
Participants filing a document in this
manner are responsible for serving the
document on all other participants.
Filing is considered complete by firstclass mail as of the time of deposit in
the mail, or by courier, express mail, or
expedited delivery service upon
depositing the document with the
provider of the service.
Documents submitted in adjudicatory
proceedings will appear in NRC’s
electronic hearing docket which is
available to the public at https://
ehd.nrc.gov/EHD_Proceeding/home.asp,
unless excluded pursuant to an order of
the Commission, an Atomic Safety and
Licensing Board, or a Presiding Officer.
Participants are requested not to include
personal privacy information, such as
social security numbers, home
addresses, or home phone numbers in
their filings. With respect to copyrighted
works, except for limited excerpts that
serve the purpose of the adjudicatory
filings and would constitute a Fair Use
application, participants are requested
not to include copyrighted materials in
their submissions.
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.309(b),
a request for a hearing must be filed by
July 7, 2009.
In addition to meeting the above
requirements, a request for a hearing
filed by a person other than an applicant
must state:
1. The name, address, and telephone
number of the requester;
2. The nature of the requester’s right
under the Act to be made a party to the
proceeding;
3. The nature and extent of the
requester’s property, financial, or other
interest in the proceeding;
4. The possible effect of any decision
or order that may be issued in the
proceeding on the requester’s interest;
and
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5. The circumstances establishing that
the request for a hearing is timely in
accordance with 10 CFR 2.309(b).
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.309
(f)(1), a request for hearing or petitions
for leave to intervene must set forth
with particularity the contentions
sought to be raised. For each contention,
the request or petition must:
1. Provide a specific statement of the
issue of law or fact to be raised or
controverted;
2. Provide a brief explanation of the
basis for the contention;
3. Demonstrate that the issue raised in
the contention is within the scope of the
proceeding;
4. Demonstrate that the issue raised in
the contention is material to the
findings that the NRC must make to
support the action that is involved in
the proceeding;
5. Provide a concise statement of the
alleged facts or expert opinions which
support the requester’s/petitioner’s
position on the issue and on which the
requester/petitioner intends to rely to
support its position on the issue; and
6. Provide sufficient information to
show that a genuine dispute exists with
the applicant on a material issue of law
or fact. This information must include
references to specific portions of the
application that the requester/petitioner
disputes and the supporting reasons for
each dispute, or, if the requester/
petitioner believes the application fails
to contain information on a relevant
matter as required by law, the
identification of each failure and the
supporting reasons for the requester’s/
petitioner’s belief.
In addition, in accordance with 10
CFR 2.309(f)(2), contentions must be
based on documents or other
information available at the time the
hearing request is filed.
Requesters/petitioners should, when
possible, consult with each other in
preparing contentions and combine
similar subject matter concerns into a
joint contention, for which one of the
co-sponsoring requesters/petitioners is
designated the lead representative.
Further, in accordance with 10 CFR
2.309(f)(3), any requester/petitioner that
wishes to adopt a contention proposed
by another requester/petitioner must do
so in writing within ten days of the date
the contention is filed, and designate a
representative who shall have the
authority to act for the requester/
petitioner.
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.309(g),
a request for hearing and/or petition for
leave to intervene may also address the
selection of the hearing procedures,
taking into account the provisions of 10
CFR 2.310.
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III. Further Information
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Documents related to this action,
including the application for
amendment and supporting
documentation, are available
electronically at the NRC’s Electronic
Reading Room at https://www.nrc.gov/
reading-rm/adams.html. From this site,
you can access the NRC’s Agencywide
Documents Access and Management
System (ADAMS), which provides text
and image files of NRC’s public
documents. The documents related to
this action are listed below, along with
their ADAMS accession numbers.
A. NRC to USACE letter dated August
15, 2007, ‘‘Proposed Process to
Decommission and Cleanup the ABB
Windsor Site’’ (ML072210979),
B. ABB to NRC letter, with
attachments, dated December 31, 2008,
‘‘Application for Amendment of
Materials License No. 06–00217–06’’
(ML090160123, ML090160128,
ML090160370, and ML090160378),
C. ABB report ‘‘CE Windsor
Decommissioning Plan, Revision 1
(Previously Identified FUSRAP Areas
Except Debris Piles and Site Brook)’’
dated December 2008 (ML090160381,
ML090160388, and ML090160396), and
D. ABB report ‘‘CE Windsor Site
Development of Building DCGLs’’ dated
December 2008 (ML090160458,
ML090160469, ML090160478, and
ML090160487).
If you do not have access to ADAMS
or if there are problems in accessing the
documents located in ADAMS, contact
the NRC Public Document Room (PDR)
Reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301–
415–4737, or by e-mail to
pdr.resource@nrc.gov. These documents
may also be viewed electronically on
the public computers located at the
NRC’s PDR, O 1 F21, One White Flint
North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville,
MD 20852. The PDR reproduction
contractor will copy documents for a
fee.
Dated at Region I, 475 Allendale Road,
King of Prussia, PA, this 1st day of May,
2009.
For The Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Randolph C. Ragland, Jr.,
Chief, Decommissioning Branch, Division of
Nuclear Materials Safety, Region I.
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Tennessee Valley Authority Notice of
Receipt of Update to Application for
Facility Operating License and Notice
of Opportunity for Hearing for the
Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Unit 2 and
Order Imposing Procedures for Access
to Sensitive Unclassified NonSafeguards Information and
Safeguards Information for Contention
Preparation
In accordance with the Commission’s
direction in its Staff Requirements
Memorandum SECY–07–0096, ‘‘Staff
Requirements—Possible Reactivation of
Construction and Licensing Activities
for the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Unit 2,’’
dated July 25, 2007, and pursuant to the
Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (the Act), as
amended, and the regulations in Title 10
of the Code of Federal Regulations (10
CFR) Part 2, ‘‘Rules of Practice for
Domestic Licensing Proceedings and
Issuance of Orders,’’ and 10 CFR Part
50, ‘‘Domestic Licensing of production
and Utilization Facilities,’’ notice is
hereby given that, on March 4, 2009, the
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC, the Commission) has received an
update to the application for a facility
operating license (OL) from the
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA or the
applicant) that would authorize TVA to
possess, use, and operate a second lightwater nuclear reactor (the facility),
Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN) Unit 2,
located on the applicant’s site in Rhea
County, Tennessee. The unit would
operate at a steady-state power level of
3411 megawatts thermal. The original
application dated June 30, 1976, was
found acceptable for docketing on
September 15, 1976, and ‘‘Notice of
Receipt of Application for Facility
Operating Licenses; Notice of
Consideration of Issuance of Facility
Operating Licenses; and Notice of
Opportunity for Hearing’’ for WBN
Units 1 and 2 was published in the
Federal Register on December 27, 1976
(41 FR 56244). On February 7, 1996, the
NRC issued a full-power OL to TVA to
operate WBN Unit 1 at this site.
However, TVA has not completed
construction of WBN Unit 2.
Construction of the facility was
authorized by Construction Permit No.
CPPR–92, issued by the Commission on
January 23, 1973. TVA has stated that it
expects to complete construction prior
to April 1, 2012.
Pursuant to the National
Environmental Policy Act, as amended,
and the Commission’s regulations in 10
CFR Part 51, on February 15, 2008, TVA
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submitted to the NRC ‘‘Watts Bar
Nuclear Plant (WBN)—Unit 2—Final
Supplemental Environmental Impact
Statement [FSEIS] for the Completion
and Operation of Unit 2,’’ to the NRC in
support of its OL application for WBN
Unit 2. By letter dated January 27, 2009,
TVA submitted its ‘‘Final Supplemental
Environmental Impact Statement—
Severe Accident Management
Alternatives [SAMA],’’ to supplement
its FSEIS. After the staff has completed
its review of TVA’s FSEIS, the NRC will
prepare a draft supplement to
environmental impact statement related
to the operation of WBN Unit 2 (SEIS–
OL). Upon preparation of the draft
SEIS–OL, the Commission will, among
other things, cause to be published in
the Federal Register, a notice of
availability of the draft supplement,
requesting comments from interested
persons on the draft SEIS–OL. The
notice will also contain a statement to
the effect that any comments of Federal
agencies and State and local officials
will be made available when received.
The draft SEIS–OL will focus on matters
that differ from those previously
discussed in the final environmental
statement prepared in connection with
the issuance of the construction permits
and the WBN Unit 1 OL. Upon
consideration of comments submitted
with respect to the draft SEIS–OL, the
Commission’s staff will prepare a final
SEIS–OL, the availability of which will
be published in the Federal Register.
The NRC staff will complete a
detailed technical review of the
application and will document its
findings in Supplements to NUREG–
0847, ‘‘Safety Evaluation Report Related
to the Operation of Watts Bar Nuclear
Plant, Unit 2.’’
The Commission will consider the
issuance of the facility OL to TVA,
which would authorize the applicant to
possess, use and operate the WBN Unit
2 in accordance with the provisions of
the license and the technical
specifications appended thereto, upon:
(1) The completion of a favorable safety
evaluation of the application by the
Commission’s staff; (2) the completion
of the environmental review required by
the Commission’s regulations in 10 CFR
Part 51; (3) the receipt of a report on the
applicants application for the facility
OL by the Advisory Committee on
Reactor Safeguards; and (4) a finding by
the Commission that the application for
the facility licenses, as amended,
complies with the requirements of the
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended
(the Act), and the Commission’s
regulations in 10 CFR Chapter I.
The OL will not be issued until the
Commission has made the findings
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Notice of Consideration of Amendment Request for Decommissioning
of ABB Inc.'s CE Windsor Site In Windsor, CT, and Opportunity to
Request a Hearing
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of amendment request and opportunity to request a
hearing.
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DATES: A request for a hearing must be filed by July 7, 2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James Schmidt, Health Physicist,
Decommissioning Branch, Division of Nuclear Materials Safety, Region I,
475 Allendale Road, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania 19406; telephone
(610) 337-5276; fax number (610) 337-5269; or by e-mail:
jim.schmidt@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering issuance of
a license amendment to Materials License No. 06-00217-06 issued to ABB
Inc. (the Licensee), to authorize remediation and decommissioning of
several Formally Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) areas
of its CE Windsor Site (the Facility) in Windsor, Connecticut. The
clean-up work for the FUSRAP areas will be performed under a proposed
revision to the Licensee's previously approved Decommissioning Plan
(DP), under which decommissioning work has been performed at the
Facility's non-FUSRAP areas. Authorization for the Licensee to conduct
decommissioning activities for the FUSRAP areas--which ordinarily would
be done by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)--was established
between NRC and USACE by agreement dated August 15, 2007. The Licensee
requested the action to initiate the FUSRAP area decommissioning
activities by a filing dated December 31, 2008. Revision I to the DP is
currently under technical review by the NRC staff.
If the NRC approves the revised DP, the approval will be documented
in an amendment to NRC License No. 06-00217-06. However, before
approving the proposed amendment, the NRC will need to make the safety
findings required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and
NRC's regulations. These findings will be documented in a Safety
Evaluation Report. The NRC will separately evaluate the environmental
aspects of the proposed action, pursuant to its 10 CFR part 51
requirements. The Licensee's revised DP continues to propose eventual
release of the Facility for unrestricted use. This would occur
following completion of all decommissioning activities and verification
by the NRC that the radiological criteria for license termination have
been met.
II. Opportunity to Request a Hearing
The NRC hereby provides notice that this is a proceeding on the
Licensee's application dated December 31, 2008. In accordance with the
general requirements in subpart C of 10 CFR part 2, as amended on
January 14, 2004 (69 FR 2182), any person whose interest may be
affected by this proceeding and who desires to participate as a party
must file a request for a hearing and a specification of the
contentions which the person seeks to have litigated in the hearing.
A request for hearing or a petition for leave to intervene must be
filed in accordance with the NRC E-Filing rule, which the NRC
promulgated on August 28, 2007 (72 FR 49139). The E-Filing process
requires participants to submit and serve documents over the Internet
or in some cases to mail copies on electronic storage media.
Participants may not submit paper copies of their filings unless they
seek a waiver in accordance with the procedures described below.
To comply with the procedural requirements of E-Filing, at least
ten (10) days prior to the filing deadline, the petitioner/requestor
must contact the Office of the Secretary by e-mail at
HEARINGDOCKET@NRC.GOV, or by calling (301) 415-1677, to request (1) A
digital ID certificate, which allows the participant (or its counsel or
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representative) to digitally sign documents and access the E-Submittal
server for any proceeding in which it is participating; and/or (2)
creation of an electronic docket for the proceeding [even in instances
in which the petitioner/requestor (or its counsel or representative)
already holds an NRC-issued digital ID certificate]. Each petitioner/
requestor will need to download the Workplace Forms ViewerTM
to access the Electronic Information Exchange (EIE), a component of the
E-Filing system. The Workplace Forms ViewerTM is free and is
available at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals/install-viewer.html. Information about applying for a digital ID certificate is
available on NRC's public Web site at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals/apply-certificates.html. Once a petitioner/requestor has
obtained a digital ID certificate, had a docket created, and downloaded
the EIE viewer, it can then submit a request for hearing or petition
for leave to intervene. Submissions should be in Portable Document
Format (PDF) in accordance with NRC guidance available on the NRC
public Web site at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html. A
filing is considered complete at the time the filer submits its
documents through EIE. To be timely, an electronic filing must be
submitted to the EIE system no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on
the due date. Upon receipt of a transmission, the E-Filing system time-
stamps the document and sends the submitter an e-mail notice confirming
receipt of the document. The EIE system also distributes an e-mail
notice that provides access to the document to the NRC Office of the
General Counsel and any others who have advised the Office of the
Secretary that they wish to participate in the proceeding, so that the
filer need not serve the documents on those participants separately.
Therefore, applicants and other participants (or their counsel or
representative) must apply for and receive a digital ID certificate
before a hearing request/petition to intervene is filed so that they
can obtain access to the document via the E-Filing system.
A person filing electronically may seek assistance through the
``Contact Us'' link located on the NRC Web site at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html or by calling the NRC technical help line,
which is available between 8:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m., Eastern Time,
Monday through Friday. The electronic filing Help Desk can be contacted
by telephone at 1-866-672-7640 or by e-mail at MHSD.Resource@nrc.gov.
Participants who believe that they have a good cause for not submitting
documents electronically must file a motion, in accordance with 10 CFR
2.302(g), with their initial paper filing requesting authorization to
continue to submit documents in paper format. Such filings must be
submitted 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; or (2) courier, express mail, or expedited delivery service to
the Office of the Secretary, Sixteenth Floor, One White Flint North,
11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland, 20852, Attention: Rulemaking
and Adjudications Staff. Participants filing a document in this manner
are responsible for serving the document on all other participants.
Filing is considered complete by first-class mail as of the time of
deposit in the mail, or by courier, express mail, or expedited delivery
service upon depositing the document with the provider of the service.
Documents submitted in adjudicatory proceedings will appear in
NRC's electronic hearing docket which is available to the public at
https://ehd.nrc.gov/EHD_Proceeding/home.asp, unless excluded pursuant
to an order of the Commission, an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, or
a Presiding Officer. Participants are requested not to include personal
privacy information, such as social security numbers, home addresses,
or home phone numbers in their filings. With respect to copyrighted
works, except for limited excerpts that serve the purpose of the
adjudicatory filings and would constitute a Fair Use application,
participants are requested not to include copyrighted materials in
their submissions.
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.309(b), a request for a hearing must be
filed by July 7, 2009.
In addition to meeting the above requirements, a request for a
hearing filed by a person other than an applicant must state:
1. The name, address, and telephone number of the requester;
2. The nature of the requester's right under the Act to be made a
party to the proceeding;
3. The nature and extent of the requester's property, financial, or
other interest in the proceeding;
4. The possible effect of any decision or order that may be issued
in the proceeding on the requester's interest; and
5. The circumstances establishing that the request for a hearing is
timely in accordance with 10 CFR 2.309(b).
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.309 (f)(1), a request for hearing or
petitions for leave to intervene must set forth with particularity the
contentions sought to be raised. For each contention, the request or
petition must:
1. Provide a specific statement of the issue of law or fact to be
raised or controverted;
2. Provide a brief explanation of the basis for the contention;
3. Demonstrate that the issue raised in the contention is within
the scope of the proceeding;
4. Demonstrate that the issue raised in the contention is material
to the findings that the NRC must make to support the action that is
involved in the proceeding;
5. Provide a concise statement of the alleged facts or expert
opinions which support the requester's/petitioner's position on the
issue and on which the requester/petitioner intends to rely to support
its position on the issue; and
6. Provide sufficient information to show that a genuine dispute
exists with the applicant on a material issue of law or fact. This
information must include references to specific portions of the
application that the requester/petitioner disputes and the supporting
reasons for each dispute, or, if the requester/petitioner believes the
application fails to contain information on a relevant matter as
required by law, the identification of each failure and the supporting
reasons for the requester's/petitioner's belief.
In addition, in accordance with 10 CFR 2.309(f)(2), contentions
must be based on documents or other information available at the time
the hearing request is filed.
Requesters/petitioners should, when possible, consult with each
other in preparing contentions and combine similar subject matter
concerns into a joint contention, for which one of the co-sponsoring
requesters/petitioners is designated the lead representative. Further,
in accordance with 10 CFR 2.309(f)(3), any requester/petitioner that
wishes to adopt a contention proposed by another requester/petitioner
must do so in writing within ten days of the date the contention is
filed, and designate a representative who shall have the authority to
act for the requester/petitioner.
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.309(g), a request for hearing and/or
petition for leave to intervene may also address the selection of the
hearing procedures, taking into account the provisions of 10 CFR 2.310.
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III. Further Information
Documents related to this action, including the application for
amendment and supporting documentation, are available electronically at
the NRC's Electronic Reading Room at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. From this site, you can access the NRC's Agencywide
Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS), which provides text and
image files of NRC's public documents. The documents related to this
action are listed below, along with their ADAMS accession numbers.
A. NRC to USACE letter dated August 15, 2007, ``Proposed Process to
Decommission and Cleanup the ABB Windsor Site'' (ML072210979),
B. ABB to NRC letter, with attachments, dated December 31, 2008,
``Application for Amendment of Materials License No. 06-00217-06''
(ML090160123, ML090160128, ML090160370, and ML090160378),
C. ABB report ``CE Windsor Decommissioning Plan, Revision 1
(Previously Identified FUSRAP Areas Except Debris Piles and Site
Brook)'' dated December 2008 (ML090160381, ML090160388, and
ML090160396), and
D. ABB report ``CE Windsor Site Development of Building DCGLs''
dated December 2008 (ML090160458, ML090160469, ML090160478, and
ML090160487).
If you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are problems in
accessing the documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC Public
Document Room (PDR) Reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or
by e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. These documents may also be viewed
electronically on the public computers located at the NRC's PDR, O 1
F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852.
The PDR reproduction contractor will copy documents for a fee.
Dated at Region I, 475 Allendale Road, King of Prussia, PA, this
1st day of May, 2009.
For The Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Randolph C. Ragland, Jr.,
Chief, Decommissioning Branch, Division of Nuclear Materials Safety,
Region I.
[FR Doc. E9-10720 Filed 5-7-09; 8:45 am]
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