ML19220A584
| ML19220A584 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 08/31/1973 |
| From: | Haskins C Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
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| NUDOCS 7904230133 | |
| Download: ML19220A584 (8) | |
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w) 4 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ATOMIC ENERGY C0milSSION ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of
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(Three Mile Island Nuclear Station,)
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NOTICE OF HEARING (August 31, 1973)
Pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 r
(NEPA), and the regulations in Title 10, 'ade of Federal Regulations, Part 50, "Licensin; of Production and Utilization Facilities", and Part 2, " Rules of Practice",
notice is hereby given that, subject to conditions set
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forth in this Board's Order of August 13, 1973, a hearing will be held concerning the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 2 (the facility) of the Applicants, Metropolitan Edison Company, Jersey Central Powec and Light Company, and Pennsylvania Electric Coagany.
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The hearing will consider the single issue as to whether activities concerning the off-site right-of-way clearing and construction of the off-site portion of the Juniata transmission line should continue to be suspended pending completion of the full NEPA environmental review.
The hearing will be held at a time and place to be set in the future by the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (Licensing Board) designated herein, to be held in t
the vicinity of the facility in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
Construction of the facility was authorized by Provisional.
Construction Permit No. CPPR-66 issued by the Atomic Energy Commission on November 4, 1969.
The instant facility is subject to the provisions of Section C of Appendix D to 10 CFR Part 50, which sets forth procedures applicable to review of environmental considerations for production and utilization facilities for which construction permits were issued prior to January 1, 1970.
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The Licensing Board designated by the Chairman of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel will consist of Charles A. Haskins, Esq. (Chairman), Dr. M. Stanley Livingston and Dr. John R. Lyman.
On April 10, 1973, the Director of Regulation published in the Federal Renister (38 F.R. 9105) a notice entitled " Determination To Rescind Suspension of t
Certain Construction Activities at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station..."
That document provided i
that any person whose interest might be affected might 1/
file a request for a hearing on or before May 11, 1973.-
On May 2, 1973, such a request was received from Citizens for a Safe Environment and the Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Pc 1r (Petitioners), joint intervenors in the ongoing licensing proceeding for Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 1.
Answers to the request were filed by Applicants and the AEC Regulatory Staff.
1/ The notice also provided that if a request for a hearing was timely filed, the effectiveness of the 66-058 order partially rescinans cne cuspension would oc stayed pending appropriate disposition of such request.
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'I-t By order dated July 11, 1973 this Board afforded Petitioners an opportunity to file a further pleading in amplification of their May 2, 1973 pleading, which Peti-tioners duly filed on July 19, 1973.
Answers were filed by Applicants and the Regulatory Staff on July 30, 1973.
As set out in this Board's order of August 13, 1973 referred to above, a public hearing will be held and Petitioners will be admitted as a party.
8 A prehearing conference or conferences will be held by the Licensing Board, at a date and place to be set by it, to consider pertinent matters in accordance with the Comcission's " Rules of Practice".
The date and place of the hearing will be set by the Board at or after the prehearing conference.
Notices as to the dates and places of the prehearing conference and the hearing will be published in the Federal Register.66-059 a
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. t For further details pertinent to the matter under consideration see documents entitled " Final Environmental Statement Related to Operation of Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2" dated December,1972 and " Amended Discussion and Findings by the Directorate of Licensing, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Related to Consideration of Suspension Pending NEPA Environmental Review of the Provisional Construction Permits for the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station, Units 1 and s
2" dated Dece=ber 9,1972, which are available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, 1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., and at the Government Publications Section, State Library of Pennsylvania, Box 1601 (Education Building), Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 17126.
Copies of the Commission's Final Environmental Statement may be obtained by request to the Deputy Director for Reactor Projects, Directorate of Licensing, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C., 20545.66-000 7
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. An answer to this notice, pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR 52.705 of the Commission's " Rules of Practice", must be filed by the parties to this proceeding (other than the regulatory staff) not later than' twenty (20) days from the date of publication of this notice in the Federal Register _.
Any person who wishes to make an oral or written state-ment in this proceeding, but who has not filed a petition for leave to intervene'as noted above, may request permis-sion to make a limited appearance pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR 52.715 of the Commission's " Rules of Practice."
Limited appearances will be permitted at the time of the hearing in the discretion of the Licensing Board, within such limits and on such conditions as may be determined by it.
Persons desiring to make a limited appearance are requested to inform the Secretary of the Commission, United States Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C.
20545, not later than twenty (20) days from the date of publication of this notice in the Federal Recister.66-061 1
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j A person permitted to make a limited appearance does not become a party, but may state his position and raise
>> a, questions which he would like to have answered to the extent that the questions are within the scope of the hearing as specified above.
A member of the public does not have the right to participate unless he has been granted the right to intervene as a party or the right of limited appearance.
Papers required to be filed in this proceeding may i
be filed by mail or telegram addressed to the Secretary of the Commission, United States Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C., 20545, ATTENTION: Chief, Public Proceed-ings Branch, or may be filed by delivery to the Commission's Eublic Docucent Room, 1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
Pending fu'rther order of the Licensing Board, parties are required to file, pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR 66~962 i
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It is so ordered.
FOR THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD DESIGNATED TO RULE ON PETITIONS:
4, M Charles A. Haskins, Chairman s
Issued at Washington, D.C.
this 31st day of August, 1973.
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