ML19220A764
| ML19220A764 | |
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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 7904240598 | |
| Download: ML19220A764 (8) | |
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ATCMIC ENERGY CCMMISSION ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICD! SING BOARD In the Matter of
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) Docket No. 50-320 ME~'ROPOLITAN EDISON COMPANY, EI AL.
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(Three Mile Island Nuclear Station,)
Unit 2)
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NOTICE OF HEARING (August 31, 1973)
Pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as acended (the Act), the National Environ = ental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), and the regulations in Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 50, " Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities", and Part 2, " Rules of Practice",
notice is hereby given that, subject to conditions set 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 Cocpany, Jersey Central Power and Light Company, and Pennsylvania Electric Cocpany.
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2-The hearing will consicer 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 ti=e and place to be set in the future by the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (Licensing ' card) designated herein, to be held in s
the vicinity of the facility in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
Construction of the facility was authorized by Provisional Construction Per=it 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 fo'rth 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 Chair =an of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel will consis of Charles A. Haskins, Esq. (Chair =an), Dr. M. Stanley Livingston and Dr. John R. Lycan.
On April 10, 1973, the Director of Regulation published in the Federal Recister (38 F.R. 9105) a notice entitled " Determination To Rescind Suspension of Certain Construction Activities at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station..." That document provided 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 Power (Petitioners), joint inter. tors 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 filen. the 2ffectiveness of the order parcially rescinding the suspension would be stayed pending appropriate disposition of such request.
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. By order dated July ll,1973 this Board afforded Petitioners an opportunity to file a further pleading in a=plification 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 admitte d as a party.
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 Commission'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.
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5-For further details pertinent ta the matter under consideration see documents entitled " Final Environmental Statement Related to Operation of Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2" dated Dece=ber, 1972 and " Amended Discussion and Findings by the Directorate of Licensing, U.S. Atomic Energy Cot =ission, Related to Consideration of Suspension Pending NEPA Environmental Review of the Provisional Construction Fermits for the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station, Units 1 and 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.Cs, and at the Govern =ent Publications Section, State Library of Pennsylvania, Box 1601 (Education Building), Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 17126.
Copies of the Commission's Final Environmental Statacent may be obtained by request to the Deputy Director for Reactor Projects, Directorate of Licensing, U.S. Atomic Energy Commissicn, Washington, D.C., 20545.
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. An answer to this notice, pursuant to the provisions of I
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 Recister.
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 cccmission's " Rules of Practice."
Limited appearances will be per=itted at the ti=e of the hearing in the discretion of the Licensing Board, within such li=its and on such conditions as =ay be determined by it.
Persons desiring to make a limited appearance are requested to inform the Secretary of the Coc=ission, United States Atcmic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C.
20545, not later than twenty, (20) days from the date of publication of this notice in the Federal' Resister.
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_ A person permitted to =ake a limited appearance does not become a party, but may state his position and raise 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 me=ber 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 be filed by = ail or telegram addressed to the Secretary of the Coc=ission, United States Atomic Energy Cocmission, Washington, D.C.,
20545, ATTENTION: Chief, Public Proceed-ings Branch, or may be filed by delivery to the Ccemission's Eublic Document Room, 1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
Pending further order of the Licensing Beard, parties are required to file, pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR I
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52.708 of the Co-ission's " Rules of Practice",
an original and twenty (20) confor=ed copies.,ef each such paper with the Coc:=ission.
It is so ordered.
FOR THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD DESIGNATED TO RULE ON PETITIONS:
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Charles A. Haskins, Chair =an Issued at Washington, D.C.
this 31st day o f Augus t, 1973.
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