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weapon into the limited appearance
session scheduled at the Chadron State
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Nebraska, on Sunday, October 28, 2018,
or the evidentiary hearing scheduled to
begin on Tuesday, October 30, 2018, at
the Crawford Community Building in
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Notice of Hearing (Notice of
Evidentiary Hearing and Opportunity
To Provide Oral, Written, and AudioRecorded Limited Appearance
Statements); In the Matter of Crow
Butte Resources, Inc. (Marsland
Expansion Area)
July 27, 2018.
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
Before the Licensing Board: G. Paul Bollwerk,
III, Chairman, Dr. Richard E. Wardwell, Dr.
Thomas J. Hirons
The Atomic Safety and Licensing
Board hereby gives notice that it will
convene an evidentiary hearing to
receive testimony and exhibits in this
proceeding regarding intervenor Oglala
Sioux Tribe’s (OST) challenge to the
May 2012 application of Crow Butte
Resources, Inc., (CBR) seeking to amend
the existing 10 CFR part 40 source
materials license for its Crow Butte in
situ uranium recovery (ISR) site to
authorize CBR to operate a satellite ISR
facility within the Marsland Expansion
Area (MEA) in Dawes County, Nebraska.
The evidentiary hearing will concern
OST’s admitted Contention 2, which
raises hydrogeological-related
environmental and safety matters
regarding the proposed license
amendment. In addition, the Board
gives notice that, in accordance with 10
CFR 2.315(a) and the procedures
specified below, it will entertain oral,
written, and audio-recorded limited
appearance statements from members of
the public in connection with the issues
raised by Contention 2.
A. Matters To Be Considered
As set forth by the Licensing Board in
a July 20, 2018 issuance, OST
Contention 2 provides as follows:
OST Contention 2: Failure to Include
Adequate Hydrogeological Information
to Demonstrate Ability to Contain Fluid
Migration
The application and final environmental
assessment fail to provide sufficient
information regarding the geological setting
of the area to meet the requirements of 10
CFR part 40, Appendix A, Criteria 4(e) and
5G(2); the National Environmental Policy
Act; and NUREG–1569 section 2.6. The
application and final environmental
assessment similarly fail to provide sufficient
information to establish potential effects of
the project on the adjacent surface and
ground-water resources, as required by
NUREG–1569 section 2.7, and the National
Environmental Policy Act.
LBP–18–3, 88 NRC __, __(slip op. at 43)
(July 20, 2018). This issue will be the
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subject matter of the evidentiary hearing
and should be the focus of any limited
appearance statements.1
B. Date, Time, and Location of
Evidentiary Hearing
The Board will convene an
evidentiary hearing conducted in accord
with the procedures set forth in 10 CFR
part 2, subpart L, regarding the
environmental and safety matters
specified in section A above on the
following date at the specified location
and time:
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2018.
Time: 8:30 a.m. Mountain Time (MT).
Location: Crawford Community
Building, 1005 1st Street, Crawford,
Nebraska.
The hearing will continue from day-today until concluded. CBR, the NRC
staff, and OST will be parties to the
hearing and will sponsor witnesses and
evidentiary material.
Any member of the public who plans
to attend the hearing is advised that
security measures may be employed at
the entrance to the room where the
hearing will take place, including
searches of hand-carried items such as
briefcases or backpacks, and is
reminded to arrive in sufficient time to
allow for security screening. Items that
could readily be used as weapons will
not be permitted in the room where the
evidentiary hearing sessions will be
held. Also, during the evidentiary
hearing session no signs will be
permitted in the hearing room.
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C. Date, Time, and Location of Oral
Limited Appearance Statement Session
A 10 CFR 2.315(a) oral limited
appearance session regarding the MEA
ISR proceeding will be held on the
following date at the specified location
and time:
1 As the Board also indicated in its July 2018
issuance, LBP–18–3, 88 NRC at __(slip op. at 43),
the scope of the safety and environmental concerns
encompassed by this contention include the
following: (1) The adequacy of the descriptions of
the affected environment for establishing the
potential effects of the proposed MEA operation on
the adjacent surface water and groundwater
resources; (2) exclusively as a safety concern, the
absence in the applicant’s technical report, in
accord with NUREG–1569 section 2.7, of a
description of the effective porosity, hydraulic
porosity, hydraulic conductivity, and hydraulic
gradient of site hydrogeology, along with other
information relative to the control and prevention
of excursions such as transmissivity and storativity;
(3) the failure to develop, in accord with NUREG–
1569 section 2.7, an acceptable conceptual model
of site hydrology that is adequately supported by
site characterization data so as to demonstrate with
scientific confidence that the area hydrogeology,
including horizontal and vertical hydraulic
conductivity, will result in the confinement of
extraction fluids and expected operational and
restoration performance; and (4) whether the final
EA contains unsubstantiated assumptions as to the
isolation of the aquifers in the ore-bearing zones.
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Date: Sunday, October 28, 2018 (if
there is sufficient interest).
Time: 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. MT.
Location: Scottsbluff Room, Chadron
State College Student Center, 1000 Main
Street, Chadron, Nebraska.
D. Participation Guidelines for Oral
Limited Appearance Statements
Any person not a party, or the
representative of a party, to this
proceeding will be permitted to make an
oral statement setting forth his or her
position on matters of concern relating
to the proceeding. Although these
statements do not constitute testimony
or evidence, they nonetheless may help
the Licensing Board and/or the parties
in their consideration of the matters of
concern in this proceeding relating to
OST Contention 2.
Oral limited appearance statements
will be entertained during the hours
specified in section C above, or such
lesser period as may be necessary to
accommodate the speakers who are
present. In this regard, if all scheduled
and unscheduled speakers present at the
session have made a presentation, the
Licensing Board reserves the right to
terminate the session before the ending
time listed in section C above. The
Board also reserves the right to cancel
the Sunday afternoon session scheduled
above if there has not been a sufficient
showing of public interest as reflected
by the number of preregistered speakers.
Any member of the public who plans
to attend the limited appearance session
is strongly advised to arrive early to
allow time to pass through any security
measures that may be employed.
Attendees are also requested not to
bring any unnecessary hand-carried
items, such as packages, briefcases,
backpacks, or other items that might
need to be examined individually. Items
that could readily be used as weapons
will not be permitted in the room where
this session will be held. During the oral
limited appearance session, signs no
larger than 18 inches by 18 inches will
be permitted, but may not be attached
to sticks, held over one’s head, or
moved about in the room.
The time allotted for each limited
appearance statement normally will be
no more than five minutes, but to ensure
everyone will have an opportunity to
speak, may be further limited depending
on the number of written requests to
make an oral statement that are
submitted in accordance with section E
below and/or the number of persons
present at the designated times.
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E. Submitting a Request To Make an
Oral Limited Appearance Statement
A person wishing to make an oral
statement who has submitted a timely
written request to do so will be given
priority over those who have not filed
such a request. To be considered timely,
a written request to make an oral
statement must either be mailed, faxed,
or sent by email so as to be received by
5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on Monday,
October 12, 2018. Based on its review of
the requests received by October 12,
2018, the Licensing Board may decide
that the Sunday afternoon session will
not be held due to lack of adequate
interest in that session. Written requests
to make an oral limited appearance
received after Monday, October 12,
2018, will be honored to the extent
practicable.
Written requests to make an oral
statement should be submitted to:
Mail: Administrative Judge G. Paul
Bollwerk, III, Atomic Safety and
Licensing Board Panel, Mail Stop
T–3A02, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC
20555–0001.
Fax: (301) 415–5205 (verification (301)
415–5277).
Email: paul.bollwerk@nrc.gov and
sarah.ladin@nrc.gov.
F. Submitting Written Limited
Appearance Statements
As provided in 10 CFR 2.315(a), any
person not a party, or the representative
of a party, to the proceeding may submit
a written statement setting forth his or
her position on matters of concern
relating to this proceeding. Although
these statements do not constitute
testimony or evidence, they nonetheless
may help the Board or the parties in
their consideration of the matters of
concern in this proceeding relating to
OST Contention 2.
A written limited appearance
statement may be submitted at any time,
however, for the statement to be the
most helpful to the Board and parties
relative to the evidentiary hearing on
Contention 2, it should be submitted so
as to be received by Wednesday, October
24, 2018. The written limited statement
should be sent to the Office of the
Secretary using one of the methods
prescribed below:
Mail: Office of the Secretary,
Rulemakings and Adjudications
Staff, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC
20555–0001.
Fax: (301) 415–1101 (verification (301)
415–1677).
Email: hearingdocket@nrc.gov.
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In addition, using the same method of
service, a copy of the written limited
appearance statement should be sent to
the Licensing Board Chairman as
follows:
Mail: Administrative Judge G. Paul
Bollwerk, III, Atomic Safety and
Licensing Board Panel, Mail Stop
T–3A02, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC
20555–0001.
Fax: (301) 415–5599 (verification (301)
415–6094).
Email: paul.bollwerk@nrc.gov and
sarah.ladin@nrc.gov.
G. Submitting Audio-Recorded Limited
Appearance Statements
As provided in 10 CFR 2.315(a), any
person not a party, or the representative
of a party, to the proceeding may submit
an audio-recorded statement setting
forth his or her position on matters of
concern relating to this proceeding.
Although these statements do not
constitute testimony or evidence, they
nonetheless may help the Board or the
parties in their consideration of the
matters of concern in this proceeding
relating to OST Contention 2.
To ensure that the Licensing Board
members will have the opportunity to
review an audio-recorded limited
appearance statements prior to the
beginning of the evidentiary hearing, an
audio-recorded limited appearance
statement must be submitted so that it
is received by Friday, October 12, 2018.
All recordings must conform to the
directions below in order for the Board
and parties to consider the information
and concerns contained therein. All
audio-recorded limited appearance
statements will be transcribed by a court
reporter and included in the docket of
this proceeding.
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1. Size
Due to technical constraints, all
audio-recorded limited appearance
statements submitted must be no more
than 15 minutes in length.
2. Format and Submission
Audio-recorded limited appearance
statements may be sent to the Board one
of two ways. An audio-recorded limited
appearance statement may be sent by
email to paul.bollwerk@nrc.gov as an
attachment. The total size of the email
cannot exceed 17 megabytes (MB). The
attached file must be sent as an .mp3,
.mp4, or .dss file.
An audio-recorded limited
appearance statement may also be sent
by mail on either a compact disc (CD)
or digital versatile disc (DVD) to:
Mail: Administrative Judge G. Paul
Bollwerk, III, Atomic Safety and
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20555–0001.
H. Availability of Documentary
Information Regarding the Proceeding
The CBR application and license and
various staff documents relating to the
application are available on the NRC
website at https://www.nrc.gov/infofinder/materials/uranium/licensedfacilities/crow-butte.html.2 These and
other documents relating to this
proceeding also are available for public
inspection at the Commission’s Public
Document Room (PDR), located at One
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike
(first floor), Rockville, Maryland, or
electronically from the publiclyavailable records component of NRC’s
document system (ADAMS) at
www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html
(the Public Electronic Reading Room),
including the agency’s Electronic
Hearing Docket, https://adams.nrc.gov/
ehd/ (under Docket No. 40–8943–MLA–
2). 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 (800)
397–4209 or (301) 415–4737 (available
between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. ET,
Monday through Friday, except federal
holidays), or by email to pdr@nrc.gov.
I. Information Updates to Schedule
Any updates or revisions to the
evidentiary hearing schedule or the
schedule for the limited appearance
session can be found on the NRC
website at www.nrc.gov/public-involve/
public-meetings/index.cfm, or by calling
(800) 368–5642, extension 5036
(available between 7:00 a.m. and 9:00
p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, except
federal holidays), or by calling (301)
415–5036 (available seven days a week,
twenty-four hours a day).
It is so ordered.
For the Atomic Safety and Licensing
Board.
Rockville, Maryland, July 27, 2018.
George P. Bollwerk III,
Chairman, Administrative Judge.
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2 On May 24, 2018, the staff notified the Board
that, in accordance with 10 CFR 2.1202(a), the CBR
license amendment license had been issued,
effective immediately. See Letter from Emily
Monteith, NRC Staff Counsel, to Licensing Board at
1 (May 24, 2018). Although section 2.1213(a)
afforded OST the opportunity to seek a stay of this
staff action, no such request was filed. Nonetheless,
the CBR license amendment is subject to any merits
determinations the Board might make relative to
OST’s pending contention.
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Notice of Hearing (Notice of Evidentiary Hearing and Opportunity
To Provide Oral, Written, and Audio-Recorded Limited Appearance
Statements); In the Matter of Crow Butte Resources, Inc. (Marsland
Expansion Area)
July 27, 2018.
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
Before the Licensing Board: G. Paul Bollwerk, III, Chairman, Dr.
Richard E. Wardwell, Dr. Thomas J. Hirons
The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board hereby gives notice that it
will convene an evidentiary hearing to receive testimony and exhibits
in this proceeding regarding intervenor Oglala Sioux Tribe's (OST)
challenge to the May 2012 application of Crow Butte Resources, Inc.,
(CBR) seeking to amend the existing 10 CFR part 40 source materials
license for its Crow Butte in situ uranium recovery (ISR) site to
authorize CBR to operate a satellite ISR facility within the Marsland
Expansion Area (MEA) in Dawes County, Nebraska. The evidentiary hearing
will concern OST's admitted Contention 2, which raises hydrogeological-
related environmental and safety matters regarding the proposed license
amendment. In addition, the Board gives notice that, in accordance with
10 CFR 2.315(a) and the procedures specified below, it will entertain
oral, written, and audio-recorded limited appearance statements from
members of the public in connection with the issues raised by
Contention 2.
A. Matters To Be Considered
As set forth by the Licensing Board in a July 20, 2018 issuance,
OST Contention 2 provides as follows:
OST Contention 2: Failure to Include Adequate Hydrogeological
Information to Demonstrate Ability to Contain Fluid Migration
The application and final environmental assessment fail to
provide sufficient information regarding the geological setting of
the area to meet the requirements of 10 CFR part 40, Appendix A,
Criteria 4(e) and 5G(2); the National Environmental Policy Act; and
NUREG-1569 section 2.6. The application and final environmental
assessment similarly fail to provide sufficient information to
establish potential effects of the project on the adjacent surface
and ground-water resources, as required by NUREG-1569 section 2.7,
and the National Environmental Policy Act.
LBP-18-3, 88 NRC __, __(slip op. at 43) (July 20, 2018). This issue
will be the
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\1\ As the Board also indicated in its July 2018 issuance, LBP-
18-3, 88 NRC at __(slip op. at 43), the scope of the safety and
environmental concerns encompassed by this contention include the
following: (1) The adequacy of the descriptions of the affected
environment for establishing the potential effects of the proposed
MEA operation on the adjacent surface water and groundwater
resources; (2) exclusively as a safety concern, the absence in the
applicant's technical report, in accord with NUREG-1569 section 2.7,
of a description of the effective porosity, hydraulic porosity,
hydraulic conductivity, and hydraulic gradient of site hydrogeology,
along with other information relative to the control and prevention
of excursions such as transmissivity and storativity; (3) the
failure to develop, in accord with NUREG-1569 section 2.7, an
acceptable conceptual model of site hydrology that is adequately
supported by site characterization data so as to demonstrate with
scientific confidence that the area hydrogeology, including
horizontal and vertical hydraulic conductivity, will result in the
confinement of extraction fluids and expected operational and
restoration performance; and (4) whether the final EA contains
unsubstantiated assumptions as to the isolation of the aquifers in
the ore-bearing zones.
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B. Date, Time, and Location of Evidentiary Hearing
The Board will convene an evidentiary hearing conducted in accord
with the procedures set forth in 10 CFR part 2, subpart L, regarding
the environmental and safety matters specified in section A above on
the following date at the specified location and time:
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2018.
Time: 8:30 a.m. Mountain Time (MT).
Location: Crawford Community Building, 1005 1st Street, Crawford,
Nebraska.
The hearing will continue from day-to-day until concluded. CBR, the NRC
staff, and OST will be parties to the hearing and will sponsor
witnesses and evidentiary material.
Any member of the public who plans to attend the hearing is advised
that security measures may be employed at the entrance to the room
where the hearing will take place, including searches of hand-carried
items such as briefcases or backpacks, and is reminded to arrive in
sufficient time to allow for security screening. Items that could
readily be used as weapons will not be permitted in the room where the
evidentiary hearing sessions will be held. Also, during the evidentiary
hearing session no signs will be permitted in the hearing room.
C. Date, Time, and Location of Oral Limited Appearance Statement
Session
A 10 CFR 2.315(a) oral limited appearance session regarding the MEA
ISR proceeding will be held on the following date at the specified
location and time:
Date: Sunday, October 28, 2018 (if there is sufficient interest).
Time: 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. MT.
Location: Scottsbluff Room, Chadron State College Student Center,
1000 Main Street, Chadron, Nebraska.
D. Participation Guidelines for Oral Limited Appearance Statements
Any person not a party, or the representative of a party, to this
proceeding will be permitted to make an oral statement setting forth
his or her position on matters of concern relating to the proceeding.
Although these statements do not constitute testimony or evidence, they
nonetheless may help the Licensing Board and/or the parties in their
consideration of the matters of concern in this proceeding relating to
OST Contention 2.
Oral limited appearance statements will be entertained during the
hours specified in section C above, or such lesser period as may be
necessary to accommodate the speakers who are present. In this regard,
if all scheduled and unscheduled speakers present at the session have
made a presentation, the Licensing Board reserves the right to
terminate the session before the ending time listed in section C above.
The Board also reserves the right to cancel the Sunday afternoon
session scheduled above if there has not been a sufficient showing of
public interest as reflected by the number of preregistered speakers.
Any member of the public who plans to attend the limited appearance
session is strongly advised to arrive early to allow time to pass
through any security measures that may be employed. Attendees are also
requested not to bring any unnecessary hand-carried items, such as
packages, briefcases, backpacks, or other items that might need to be
examined individually. Items that could readily be used as weapons will
not be permitted in the room where this session will be held. During
the oral limited appearance session, signs no larger than 18 inches by
18 inches will be permitted, but may not be attached to sticks, held
over one's head, or moved about in the room.
The time allotted for each limited appearance statement normally
will be no more than five minutes, but to ensure everyone will have an
opportunity to speak, may be further limited depending on the number of
written requests to make an oral statement that are submitted in
accordance with section E below and/or the number of persons present at
the designated times.
E. Submitting a Request To Make an Oral Limited Appearance Statement
A person wishing to make an oral statement who has submitted a
timely written request to do so will be given priority over those who
have not filed such a request. To be considered timely, a written
request to make an oral statement must either be mailed, faxed, or sent
by email so as to be received by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on Monday,
October 12, 2018. Based on its review of the requests received by
October 12, 2018, the Licensing Board may decide that the Sunday
afternoon session will not be held due to lack of adequate interest in
that session. Written requests to make an oral limited appearance
received after Monday, October 12, 2018, will be honored to the extent
practicable.
Written requests to make an oral statement should be submitted to:
Mail: Administrative Judge G. Paul Bollwerk, III, Atomic Safety and
Licensing Board Panel, Mail Stop T-3A02, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
Fax: (301) 415-5205 (verification (301) 415-5277).
Email: [email protected] and [email protected].
F. Submitting Written Limited Appearance Statements
As provided in 10 CFR 2.315(a), any person not a party, or the
representative of a party, to the proceeding may submit a written
statement setting forth his or her position on matters of concern
relating to this proceeding. Although these statements do not
constitute testimony or evidence, they nonetheless may help the Board
or the parties in their consideration of the matters of concern in this
proceeding relating to OST Contention 2.
A written limited appearance statement may be submitted at any
time, however, for the statement to be the most helpful to the Board
and parties relative to the evidentiary hearing on Contention 2, it
should be submitted so as to be received by Wednesday, October 24,
2018. The written limited statement should be sent to the Office of the
Secretary using one of the methods prescribed below:
Mail: Office of the Secretary, Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
Fax: (301) 415-1101 (verification (301) 415-1677).
Email: [email protected].
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In addition, using the same method of service, a copy of the written
limited appearance statement should be sent to the Licensing Board
Chairman as follows:
Mail: Administrative Judge G. Paul Bollwerk, III, Atomic Safety and
Licensing Board Panel, Mail Stop T-3A02, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
Fax: (301) 415-5599 (verification (301) 415-6094).
Email: [email protected] and [email protected].
G. Submitting Audio-Recorded Limited Appearance Statements
As provided in 10 CFR 2.315(a), any person not a party, or the
representative of a party, to the proceeding may submit an audio-
recorded statement setting forth his or her position on matters of
concern relating to this proceeding. Although these statements do not
constitute testimony or evidence, they nonetheless may help the Board
or the parties in their consideration of the matters of concern in this
proceeding relating to OST Contention 2.
To ensure that the Licensing Board members will have the
opportunity to review an audio-recorded limited appearance statements
prior to the beginning of the evidentiary hearing, an audio-recorded
limited appearance statement must be submitted so that it is received
by Friday, October 12, 2018. All recordings must conform to the
directions below in order for the Board and parties to consider the
information and concerns contained therein. All audio-recorded limited
appearance statements will be transcribed by a court reporter and
included in the docket of this proceeding.
1. Size
Due to technical constraints, all audio-recorded limited appearance
statements submitted must be no more than 15 minutes in length.
2. Format and Submission
Audio-recorded limited appearance statements may be sent to the
Board one of two ways. An audio-recorded limited appearance statement
may be sent by email to [email protected] as an attachment. The
total size of the email cannot exceed 17 megabytes (MB). The attached
file must be sent as an .mp3, .mp4, or .dss file.
An audio-recorded limited appearance statement may also be sent by
mail on either a compact disc (CD) or digital versatile disc (DVD) to:
Mail: Administrative Judge G. Paul Bollwerk, III, Atomic Safety and
Licensing Board Panel, Mail Stop T-3A02, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
H. Availability of Documentary Information Regarding the Proceeding
The CBR application and license and various staff documents
relating to the application are available on the NRC website at https://www.nrc.gov/info-finder/materials/uranium/licensed-facilities/crow-butte.html.\2\ These and other documents relating to this proceeding
also are available for public inspection at the Commission's Public
Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville
Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland, or electronically from the
publicly-available records component of NRC's document system (ADAMS)
at www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading
Room), including the agency's Electronic Hearing Docket, https://adams.nrc.gov/ehd/ (under Docket No. 40-8943-MLA-2). 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 (800) 397-4209 or (301) 415-4737 (available between
8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, except federal
holidays), or by email to [email protected].
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\2\ On May 24, 2018, the staff notified the Board that, in
accordance with 10 CFR 2.1202(a), the CBR license amendment license
had been issued, effective immediately. See Letter from Emily
Monteith, NRC Staff Counsel, to Licensing Board at 1 (May 24, 2018).
Although section 2.1213(a) afforded OST the opportunity to seek a
stay of this staff action, no such request was filed. Nonetheless,
the CBR license amendment is subject to any merits determinations
the Board might make relative to OST's pending contention.
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I. Information Updates to Schedule
Any updates or revisions to the evidentiary hearing schedule or the
schedule for the limited appearance session can be found on the NRC
website at www.nrc.gov/public-involve/public-meetings/index.cfm, or by
calling (800) 368-5642, extension 5036 (available between 7:00 a.m. and
9:00 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, except federal holidays), or by
calling (301) 415-5036 (available seven days a week, twenty-four hours
a day).
It is so ordered.
For the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board.
Rockville, Maryland, July 27, 2018.
George P. Bollwerk III,
Chairman, Administrative Judge.
[FR Doc. 2018-16546 Filed 8-1-18; 8:45 am]
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