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Central Vermont Public Service
Corporation, Millstone Power Station,
Unit 3; Notice of Consideration of
Approval of Transfer of Facility
Operating License, Conforming
Amendment and Opportunity for a
Hearing
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of request for license
transfer and conforming license,
opportunity to comment, opportunity to
request a hearing.
AGENCY:
Comments must be filed by
August 20, 2012. A request for a hearing
must be filed by August 9, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Please include Docket ID
NRC–2012–0044 in the subject line of
your comments. Comments submitted in
writing or in electronic form will be
posted on the NRC Web site and on the
Federal rulemaking Web site https://
www.regulations.gov. Because your
comments will not be edited to remove
any identifying or contact information,
the NRC cautions you against including
any information in your submission that
you do not want to be publicly
disclosed.
The NRC requests that any party
soliciting or aggregating comments
received from other persons for
submission to the NRC inform those
persons that the NRC will not edit their
comments to remove any identifying or
contact information, and therefore, they
should not include any information in
their comments that they do not want
publicly disclosed.
You may submit comments by any
one of the following methods.
Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for documents filed under Docket ID
NRC–2012–0044. Address questions
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(RADB), Office of Administration, Mail
Stop: TWB–05–B01M, U.S. Nuclear
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DC 20555–0001.
Fax comments to: RADB at 301–492–
3446. You can access publicly available
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Publicly available documents created or
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and image files of the NRC’s public
documents. If you do not have access to
ADAMS or if there are problems in
accessing the documents located in
ADAMS, contact the NRC’s PDR
reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301–
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pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The application
dated September 9, 2011, as
supplemented by letters dated
November 4, 2011, April 6, 2012, May
4, 2012 and June 26, 2012 are available
electronically under ADAMS Accession
Nos. ML11256A051, ML11311A148,
ML12100A017, ML12128A433 and
ML12180A123, respectively.
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Licensing Branch I–1, Division of
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Washington, DC 20555. Telephone:
301–415–4125: fax number: 301–415–
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Background
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (the Commission) is
considering the issuance of an order
under 10 CFR 50.80 approving the
transfer of control of Central Vermont
Public Service Corporation (CVPS)’
interest in the Renewed Facility
Operating License (No. NPF–49) for the
Millstone Power Station, Unit 3 (MPS3)
resulting from a subsequent
restructuring in which CVPS will be
´
consolidated with Gaz Metro Limited
´
Partnership (Gaz Metro)’s existing U.S.
subsidiary Green Mountain Power
Corporation (GMP). The Commission is
also considering amending the license
for administrative purposes to reflect
the proposed transfer. By Order dated
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June 15, 2012, the Commission
approved the indirect transfer of control
of CVPS’ 1.7303% interest in the license
for MPS3 resulting from the acquisition
´
of CVPS by Gaz Metro. The remaining
co-owners are Massachusetts Municipal
Wholesale Electric Company (4.7990%)
and Dominion Nuclear Connecticut, Inc.
(93.4707%). Dominion Nuclear
Connecticut, Inc. is the licensed
operator.
According to an application for
approval filed by CVPS in connection
with the consolidation of CVPS and
GMP, GMP will be the surviving
corporation resulting from the merger.
GMP will continue to be a minority coowner and licensee of the facility. This
application does not affect
Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale
Electric Company’s ownership or
Dominion Nuclear Connecticut, Inc.’s
ownership and operation of the facility.
No physical changes to the MPS3
facility or operational changes are being
proposed in the application.
The proposed amendment would
replace references to Central Vermont
Public Service Corporation with Green
Mountain Power Corporation, to reflect
the proposed transfer.
Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.80, no license,
or any right thereunder, shall be
transferred, directly or indirectly,
through transfer of control of the
license, unless the Commission shall
give its consent in writing. The
Commission will approve an
application for the direct transfer of a
license, if the Commission determines
that the proposed acquisition will not
affect the qualifications of the licensee
to hold the license, and that the transfer
is otherwise consistent with applicable
provisions of law, regulations, and
orders issued by the Commission
pursuant thereto.
Before issuance of the proposed
conforming license amendment, the
Commission will have made findings
required by the Atomic Energy Act of
1954, as amended (the Act), and the
Commission’s regulations.
As provided in 10 CFR 2.1315, unless
otherwise determined by the
Commission with regard to a specific
application, the Commission has
determined that any amendment to the
license of a utilization facility, which
does no more than conform the license
to reflect the transfer action, involves no
significant hazards consideration. No
contrary determination has been made
with respect to this specific license
amendment application. In light of the
generic determination reflected in 10
CFR 2.1315, no public comments with
respect to significant hazards
considerations are being solicited,
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notwithstanding the general comment
procedures contained in 10 CFR 50.91.
The filing of requests for hearing and
petitions for leave to intervene, and
written comments with regard to the
license transfer application, are
discussed below.
Hearing Request
Within 20 days from the date of
publication of this notice, any person(s)
whose interest may be affected by the
Commission’s action on the application
may request a hearing and intervention
via electronic submission through the
NRC E-Filing system. Requests for a
hearing and petitions for leave to
intervene should be filed in accordance
with the Commission’s rules of practice
set forth in Subpart C, ‘‘Rules of General
Applicability: Hearing Requests,
Petitions to Intervene, Availability of
Documents, Selection of Specific
Hearing Procedures, Presiding Officer
Powers, and General Hearing
Management for NRC Adjudicatory
Hearings,’’ of 10 CFR Part 2. In
particular, such requests and petitions
must comply with the requirements set
forth in 10 CFR 2.309. Untimely
requests and petitions may be denied, as
provided in 10 CFR 2.309(c)(1), unless
good cause for failure to file on time is
established. In addition, an untimely
request or petition should address the
factors that the Commission will also
consider, in reviewing untimely
requests or petitions, set forth in 10 CFR
2.309(c)(1)(i)–(viii). NRC regulations are
accessible electronically from the NRC
Library on the NRC Web site at https://
www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/cfr/.
All documents filed in NRC
adjudicatory proceedings, including a
request for hearing, a petition for leave
to intervene, any motion or other
document filed in the proceeding prior
to the submission of a request for
hearing or petition to intervene, and
documents filed by interested
governmental entities participating
under 10 CFR 2.315(c), must be filed in
accordance with the NRC E-Filing rule
(72 FR 49139, August 28, 2007). The EFiling process requires participants to
submit and serve all adjudicatory
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 an exemption 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
participant should contact the Office of
the Secretary by email at
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hearing.docket@nrc.gov, or by telephone
at (301) 415–1677, to request (1) a
digital ID certificate, which allows the
participant (or its counsel or
representative) to digitally sign
documents and access the E-Submittal
server for any proceeding in which it is
participating; and (2) advise the
Secretary that the participant will be
submitting a request or petition for
hearing (even in instances in which the
participant, or its counsel or
representative, already holds an NRCissued digital ID certificate). Based upon
this information, the Secretary will
establish an electronic docket for the
hearing in this proceeding if the
Secretary has not already established an
electronic docket.
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. System
requirements for accessing the ESubmittal server are detailed in NRC’s
‘‘Guidance for Electronic Submission,’’
which is available on the agency’s
public Web site at https://www.nrc.gov/
site-help/e-submittals.html. Participants
may attempt to use other software not
listed on the Web site, but should note
that the NRC’s E-Filing system does not
support unlisted software, and the NRC
Meta System Help Desk will not be able
to offer assistance in using unlisted
software.
If a participant is electronically
submitting a document to the NRC in
accordance with the E-Filing rule, the
participant must file the document
using the NRC’s online, Web-based
submission form. In order to serve
documents through EIE, users will be
required to install a Web browser plugin from the NRC Web site. Further
information on the Web-based
submission form, including the
installation of the Web browser plug-in,
is available on the NRC’s public Web
site at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/esubmittals.html.
Once a participant has obtained a
digital ID certificate and a docket has
been created, the participant 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 documents are
submitted through the NRC’s E-Filing
system. To be timely, an electronic
filing must be submitted to the E-Filing
system no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern
Time on the due date. Upon receipt of
a transmission, the E-Filing system
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time-stamps the document and sends
the submitter an email notice
confirming receipt of the document. The
E-Filing system also distributes an email
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 using
the agency’s adjudicatory E-Filing
system may seek assistance by
contacting the NRC Meta System Help
Desk through the ‘‘Contact Us’’ link
located on the NRC Web site at https://
www.nrc.gov/site-help/esubmittals.html, by email at
MSHD.Resource@nrc.gov, or by a tollfree call at (866) 672–7640. The NRC
Meta System Help Desk is available
between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern
Time, Monday through Friday,
excluding government holidays.
Participants who believe that they
have a good cause for not submitting
documents electronically must file an
exemption request, 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. A presiding
officer, having granted an exemption
request from using E-Filing, may require
a participant or party to use E-Filing if
the presiding officer subsequently
determines that the reason for granting
the exemption from use of E-Filing no
longer exists.
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Documents submitted in adjudicatory
proceedings will appear in NRC’s
electronic hearing docket which is
available to the public at https://
ehd1.nrc.gov/EHD/, unless excluded
pursuant to an order of the Commission,
or the 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,
unless an NRC regulation or other law
requires submission of such
information. 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
submission.
Petitions for leave to intervene must
be filed no later than 20 days from the
date of publication of this notice. Nontimely filings will not be entertained
absent a determination by the presiding
officer that the petition or request
should be granted or the contentions
should be admitted, based on a
balancing of the factors specified in 10
CFR 2.309(c)(1)(i)–(viii).
The Commission will issue a notice or
order granting or denying a hearing
request or intervention petition,
designating the issues for any hearing
that will be held and designating the
Presiding Officer. A notice granting a
hearing will be published in the Federal
Register and served on the parties to the
hearing.
Comments
Within 30 days from the date of
publication of this notice, persons may
submit written comments regarding the
license transfer application, as provided
for in 10 CFR 2.1305. The Commission
will consider and, if appropriate,
respond to these comments, but such
comments will not otherwise constitute
part of the decisional record. Comments
should be submitted to the Secretary,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001, Attention:
Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff,
and should cite the publication date and
page number of this Federal Register
notice.
For further details with respect to this
license transfer application, see the
application dated September 9, 2011, as
supplemented by letters dated
November 4, 2011, April 6, 2012, May
4, 2016, and June 26, 2012, available for
public inspection at the Commission’s
Public Document Room (PDR), located
at One White Flint North, Public File
Area O1 F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first
floor), Rockville, Maryland. Publicly
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available documents created or received
at the NRC are accessible electronically
through ADAMS in the NRC Library at
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
by email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day
of July 2012.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
James Kim,
Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch I–
1, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing,
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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[Docket No. 50–264; NRC–2012–0026]
License Renewal for the Dow Chemical
TRIGA Research Reactor
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Environmental assessment and
finding of no significant impact;
availability.
AGENCY:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Geoffrey A. Wertz, Project Manager,
Research and Test Reactor Licensing
Branch, Division of Policy and
Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001; telephone: 301–415–0893; email:
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC or the Commission)
is considering issuance of a renewed
Facility Operating License No. R–108, to
be held by Dow Chemical (Dow, or the
licensee), which would authorize
continued operation of the Dow
Training, Research, Isotope production,
General Atomics (TRIGA) Research
Reactor, located in Midland County, MI.
Therefore, as required by Title 10 of the
Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR)
51.21, the NRC is issuing this
Environmental Assessment and Finding
of No Significant Impact. The renewed
license will be issued following the
publication of this document.
II. EA Summary
Identification of the Proposed Action:
The proposed action would renew
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Facility Operating License No. R–108
for a period of 20 years from the date of
issuance of the renewed license. The
proposed action is in accordance with
the licensee’s application dated April 1,
2009, as supplemented on September
24, 2010; January 12, February 11, April
20, May 12, May 27, August 12, August
31, October 12, November 10, and
December 6, 2011; and January 13,
January 20, February 7, and June 11,
2012. In accordance with 10 CFR 2.109,
the existing license remains in effect
until the NRC takes final action on the
renewal application.
Need for the Proposed Action: The
proposed action is needed to allow the
continued operation of the Dow TRIGA
Research Reactor to routinely provide
opportunities to conduct neutron
activation analysis, isotope production,
neutron radiography, and irradiation
studies for a period of 20 years.
Environmental Impacts of the
Proposed Action: The NRC completed
its safety evaluation of the proposed
action to issue a renewed Facility
Operating License No. R–108 to allow
continued operation of the Dow TRIGA
Research Reactor for an additional 20
years and concluded there is reasonable
assurance that the Dow TRIGA Research
Reactor will continue to operate safely
for the additional period of time. The
details of the NRC staff’s safety
evaluation will be provided with the
renewed license that will be issued as
part of the letter to the licensee
approving its license renewal
application. This document contains the
environmental assessment of the
proposed action.
The Dow TRIGA Research Reactor is
located on the Michigan Division of the
Dow Chemical Company in Midland, MI
and is a part of the Analytical Sciences
Laboratory. The reactor is housed in a
laboratory building constructed of
concrete panel, concrete block walls,
and steel frame. The reactor site
comprises of the reactor building.
Adjacent to the site are research
buildings to the east and other
industrial buildings in the outlying area.
The nearest residence is located
approximately 480 meters (530 yards)
from the site boundary.
The Dow TRIGA Research Reactor is
a pool-type, light water moderated and
cooled research reactor licensed to
operate at a steady-state power level of
300 kilowatt (kW) thermal power. The
fuel is located at the bottom of an
aluminum lined concrete pool with a
volume of approximately 19,000 liters
(5,000 gallons) and a depth of 6.5 meters
(21.5 feet). The reactor is fueled with
standard low-enriched uranium TRIGA
fuel. A detailed description of the
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reactor can be found in the Safety
Analysis Report (SAR) for the Dow
TRIGA Research Reactor dated April 1,
2009. There were two major
modifications to the Facility Operating
License No. R–108 since renewal of the
license on May 8, 1989. License
Amendment No. 6 dated December 13,
1990, approved installation of a
microprocessor based instrument and
control system. A heat exchanger
upgrade was completed in 2005, and a
review in accordance with 10 CFR 50.59
was completed by the licensee prior to
return to operation.
The licensee has not requested a
change to the facility design or
operating conditions as part of the
renewal request. No changes are being
made in the types or quantities of
effluents that may be released off site.
The licensee has systems in place to
control the release of radiological
effluents and implements a radiation
protection program to monitor
personnel exposures and releases of
radioactive effluents. As discussed in
the NRC staff’s safety evaluation, the
systems and radiation protection
program are appropriate for the types
and quantities of effluents expected to
be generated by continued operation of
the reactor. There would be no increase
in routine occupational or public
radiation exposure as a result of license
renewal. As discussed in the NRC staff’s
safety evaluation, the proposed action
will not significantly increase the
probability or consequences of
accidents.
Therefore, the NRC staff finds that
license renewal would not change the
environmental impact of facility
operation. The NRC staff evaluated
information contained in the licensee’s
application and data reported to the
NRC by the licensee for the last six years
of operation to determine the projected
radiological impact of the facility on the
environment during the period of the
renewed license. The NRC staff finds
that releases of radioactive material and
personnel exposures were all well
within applicable regulatory limits.
Based on its evaluation, the NRC staff
concludes that continued operation of
the reactor would not have a significant
environmental impact.
A. Radiological Impact
Environmental Effects of Reactor
Operations
Gaseous radioactive effluents are
discharged by the facility exhaust
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[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 140 (Friday, July 20, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42768-42771]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-17729]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-423; NRC-2012-0044]
Central Vermont Public Service Corporation, Millstone Power
Station, Unit 3; Notice of Consideration of Approval of Transfer of
Facility Operating License, Conforming Amendment and Opportunity for a
Hearing
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of request for license transfer and conforming license,
opportunity to comment, opportunity to request a hearing.
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DATES: Comments must be filed by August 20, 2012. A request for a
hearing must be filed by August 9, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Please include Docket ID NRC-2012-0044 in the subject line
of your comments. Comments submitted in writing or in electronic form
will be posted on the NRC Web site and on the Federal rulemaking Web
site https://www.regulations.gov. Because your comments will not be
edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC
cautions you against including any information in your submission that
you do not want to be publicly disclosed.
The NRC requests that any party soliciting or aggregating comments
received from other persons for submission to the NRC inform those
persons that the NRC will not edit their comments to remove any
identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not
include any information in their comments that they do not want
publicly disclosed.
You may submit comments by any one of the following methods.
Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and
search for documents filed under Docket ID NRC-2012-0044. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher 301-492-3668; email
Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov.
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Mail comments to: Chief, Rules, Announcements, and Directives
Branch (RADB), Office of Administration, Mail Stop: TWB-05-B01M, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
Fax comments to: RADB at 301-492-3446. You can access publicly
available documents related to this notice using the following methods:
NRC's Public Document Room (PDR): The public may examine and have
copied, for a fee, publicly available documents at the NRC's PDR, O1-
F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland
20852.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS):
Publicly available documents created or received at the NRC are
available online in the NRC Library at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. From this page, the public can gain entry into ADAMS, which
provides text and image files of the NRC's public documents. If you do
not have access to ADAMS or if there are problems in accessing the
documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC's PDR reference staff at 1-
800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The
application dated September 9, 2011, as supplemented by letters dated
November 4, 2011, April 6, 2012, May 4, 2012 and June 26, 2012 are
available electronically under ADAMS Accession Nos. ML11256A051,
ML11311A148, ML12100A017, ML12128A433 and ML12180A123, respectively.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James Kim, Project Manager, Plant
Licensing Branch I-1, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, Office
of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555. Telephone: 301-415-4125: fax number: 301-415-
2102; email: james.kim@nrc.gov.
Background
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) is
considering the issuance of an order under 10 CFR 50.80 approving the
transfer of control of Central Vermont Public Service Corporation
(CVPS)' interest in the Renewed Facility Operating License (No. NPF-49)
for the Millstone Power Station, Unit 3 (MPS3) resulting from a
subsequent restructuring in which CVPS will be consolidated with Gaz
M[eacute]tro Limited Partnership (Gaz M[eacute]tro)'s existing U.S.
subsidiary Green Mountain Power Corporation (GMP). The Commission is
also considering amending the license for administrative purposes to
reflect the proposed transfer. By Order dated June 15, 2012, the
Commission approved the indirect transfer of control of CVPS' 1.7303%
interest in the license for MPS3 resulting from the acquisition of CVPS
by Gaz M[eacute]tro. The remaining co-owners are Massachusetts
Municipal Wholesale Electric Company (4.7990%) and Dominion Nuclear
Connecticut, Inc. (93.4707%). Dominion Nuclear Connecticut, Inc. is the
licensed operator.
According to an application for approval filed by CVPS in
connection with the consolidation of CVPS and GMP, GMP will be the
surviving corporation resulting from the merger. GMP will continue to
be a minority co-owner and licensee of the facility. This application
does not affect Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company's
ownership or Dominion Nuclear Connecticut, Inc.'s ownership and
operation of the facility.
No physical changes to the MPS3 facility or operational changes are
being proposed in the application.
The proposed amendment would replace references to Central Vermont
Public Service Corporation with Green Mountain Power Corporation, to
reflect the proposed transfer.
Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.80, no license, or any right thereunder,
shall be transferred, directly or indirectly, through transfer of
control of the license, unless the Commission shall give its consent in
writing. The Commission will approve an application for the direct
transfer of a license, if the Commission determines that the proposed
acquisition will not affect the qualifications of the licensee to hold
the license, and that the transfer is otherwise consistent with
applicable provisions of law, regulations, and orders issued by the
Commission pursuant thereto.
Before issuance of the proposed conforming license amendment, the
Commission will have made findings required by the Atomic Energy Act of
1954, as amended (the Act), and the Commission's regulations.
As provided in 10 CFR 2.1315, unless otherwise determined by the
Commission with regard to a specific application, the Commission has
determined that any amendment to the license of a utilization facility,
which does no more than conform the license to reflect the transfer
action, involves no significant hazards consideration. No contrary
determination has been made with respect to this specific license
amendment application. In light of the generic determination reflected
in 10 CFR 2.1315, no public comments with respect to significant
hazards considerations are being solicited, notwithstanding the general
comment procedures contained in 10 CFR 50.91.
The filing of requests for hearing and petitions for leave to
intervene, and written comments with regard to the license transfer
application, are discussed below.
Hearing Request
Within 20 days from the date of publication of this notice, any
person(s) whose interest may be affected by the Commission's action on
the application may request a hearing and intervention via electronic
submission through the NRC E-Filing system. Requests for a hearing and
petitions for leave to intervene should be filed in accordance with the
Commission's rules of practice set forth in Subpart C, ``Rules of
General Applicability: Hearing Requests, Petitions to Intervene,
Availability of Documents, Selection of Specific Hearing Procedures,
Presiding Officer Powers, and General Hearing Management for NRC
Adjudicatory Hearings,'' of 10 CFR Part 2. In particular, such requests
and petitions must comply with the requirements set forth in 10 CFR
2.309. Untimely requests and petitions may be denied, as provided in 10
CFR 2.309(c)(1), unless good cause for failure to file on time is
established. In addition, an untimely request or petition should
address the factors that the Commission will also consider, in
reviewing untimely requests or petitions, set forth in 10 CFR
2.309(c)(1)(i)-(viii). NRC regulations are accessible electronically
from the NRC Library on the NRC Web site at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/.
All documents filed in NRC adjudicatory proceedings, including a
request for hearing, a petition for leave to intervene, any motion or
other document filed in the proceeding prior to the submission of a
request for hearing or petition to intervene, and documents filed by
interested governmental entities participating under 10 CFR 2.315(c),
must be filed in accordance with the NRC E-Filing rule (72 FR 49139,
August 28, 2007). The E-Filing process requires participants to submit
and serve all adjudicatory 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 an exemption 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 participant should
contact the Office of the Secretary by email at
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hearing.docket@nrc.gov, or by telephone at (301) 415-1677, to request
(1) a digital ID certificate, which allows the participant (or its
counsel or representative) to digitally sign documents and access the
E-Submittal server for any proceeding in which it is participating; and
(2) advise the Secretary that the participant will be submitting a
request or petition for hearing (even in instances in which the
participant, or its counsel or representative, already holds an NRC-
issued digital ID certificate). Based upon this information, the
Secretary will establish an electronic docket for the hearing in this
proceeding if the Secretary has not already established an electronic
docket.
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. System requirements for accessing
the E-Submittal server are detailed in NRC's ``Guidance for Electronic
Submission,'' which is available on the agency's public Web site at
https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html. Participants may
attempt to use other software not listed on the Web site, but should
note that the NRC's E-Filing system does not support unlisted software,
and the NRC Meta System Help Desk will not be able to offer assistance
in using unlisted software.
If a participant is electronically submitting a document to the NRC
in accordance with the E-Filing rule, the participant must file the
document using the NRC's online, Web-based submission form. In order to
serve documents through EIE, users will be required to install a Web
browser plug-in from the NRC Web site. Further information on the Web-
based submission form, including the installation of the Web browser
plug-in, is available on the NRC's public Web site at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html.
Once a participant has obtained a digital ID certificate and a
docket has been created, the participant 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
documents are submitted through the NRC's E-Filing system. To be
timely, an electronic filing must be submitted to the E-Filing 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 email notice confirming receipt of the document. The
E-Filing system also distributes an email 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 using the agency's adjudicatory E-
Filing system may seek assistance by contacting the NRC Meta System
Help Desk through the ``Contact Us'' link located on the NRC Web site
at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html, by email at
MSHD.Resource@nrc.gov, or by a toll-free call at (866) 672-7640. The
NRC Meta System Help Desk is available between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.,
Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, excluding government holidays.
Participants who believe that they have a good cause for not
submitting documents electronically must file an exemption request, 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. A presiding officer,
having granted an exemption request from using E-Filing, may require a
participant or party to use E-Filing if the presiding officer
subsequently determines that the reason for granting the exemption from
use of E-Filing no longer exists.
Documents submitted in adjudicatory proceedings will appear in
NRC's electronic hearing docket which is available to the public at
https://ehd1.nrc.gov/EHD/, unless excluded pursuant to an order of the
Commission, or the 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, unless an NRC
regulation or other law requires submission of such information. 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 submission.
Petitions for leave to intervene must be filed no later than 20
days from the date of publication of this notice. Non-timely filings
will not be entertained absent a determination by the presiding officer
that the petition or request should be granted or the contentions
should be admitted, based on a balancing of the factors specified in 10
CFR 2.309(c)(1)(i)-(viii).
The Commission will issue a notice or order granting or denying a
hearing request or intervention petition, designating the issues for
any hearing that will be held and designating the Presiding Officer. A
notice granting a hearing will be published in the Federal Register and
served on the parties to the hearing.
Comments
Within 30 days from the date of publication of this notice, persons
may submit written comments regarding the license transfer application,
as provided for in 10 CFR 2.1305. The Commission will consider and, if
appropriate, respond to these comments, but such comments will not
otherwise constitute part of the decisional record. Comments should be
submitted to the Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001, Attention: Rulemakings and Adjudications
Staff, and should cite the publication date and page number of this
Federal Register notice.
For further details with respect to this license transfer
application, see the application dated September 9, 2011, as
supplemented by letters dated November 4, 2011, April 6, 2012, May 4,
2016, and June 26, 2012, available for public inspection at the
Commission's Public Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint
North, Public File Area O1 F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor),
Rockville, Maryland. Publicly
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available documents created or received at the NRC are accessible
electronically through ADAMS in the NRC Library at 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 by email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day of July 2012.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
James Kim,
Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch I-1, Division of Operating
Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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