ML19291B695
| ML19291B695 | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 02/07/1972 |
| From: | Muntzing L US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
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| NUDOCS 7911110169 | |
| Download: ML19291B695 (3) | |
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ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
[ Docket Nos. 50-289 and 50-320]
METROPOLITAN EDISON COMPANY and JERSEY CENTRAL POWER & LIGHT COMPANY Amended Determination to Suspend Certain Construction Acti-vities Pending Completion of NEPA Environmental Review On December 7,1971, the Director of Regulation of the Atomic Energy Com-mission published in the FEDERAL REGISTER, 36 F.R. 23264, a determination to suspend construction activities involving the off-site portion of the transmission lines for the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station, biitt 2, pending completion of such portions of an environmental review under the Comission's regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA),10 CFR Part 50, Appendix D, as relate to these matters. As noted in the determination, the Director of Regulation had served upon Metropolitan Edison Company and Jersey Central Power & Light Company (licensees) an order to show cause why the above-mentioned construc-tion activities involving the off-site portion of the transmission lines for the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station, Unit 2, should not be sus-pended pending completion of the NEPA environmental review relating to these matters. Among other things, the order to show cause provided that the licensees might, within thirty (30) days of the date of the order, file a written answer to the order under oath or affirmation.
On December 28, 1971, the licensees filed a timely answer requesting that the order to show cause be reconsidered.
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Upon consideration of the licensees' answer to the order to show cause, it has been detemined that the Director of Regulation's deten..lination should be modified so as to provide for the suspension of construction activities involving the off-site portion of only the Juniata transmission line for the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station, Unit 2, pending completion of the NEPA environmental review relating to these matters.
The Director of Regulation has served on the licensees an order sus-pending such construction activities.
Further details of this amended determination are set forth in a document enti tled " Supplement to Discussion and Findings by the Division of Reactor Licensing, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, Relating to Considera-tion of Suspension Pending NEPA Environmental Review of the Provisional Construction Pemits for 'he Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station, Units 1 and 2, Metropolitan Edison Company and Jersey Central Power & Light Company, Docket Nos. 50-289 and 50-320," dated February 4,1972.
Any person whose interest may be affected by this amended determination other than the licensees may file a request for hearing within thirty (30) days after publication of this amended detcrmination in the FEDERAL REGISTER.
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. Such request shall set forth the matters with reference to the factors set out in Section E.2 of Appendix D alleged to warrant a suspension de-termination other than the amended determination made by the Director of Regulation and set forth the factual basis for the request.
If the Com-mission determines that the matters stated in such a request warrant a hearing, a notice of hearing will be published in the FEDERAL REGISTER, Copiesof(1) the licensees' answer to the order to show cause, (2) a document entitled " Discussion and Findings by the Division of Reactor t.icensing, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, Relating to Consideration of Suspension Pending NEPA Environmental Review of the Provisional Construc-tion Permits for the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station, Units 1 and 2, Metropolitan Edison Company and Jersey Central Power and Light Company, Docket Nos. 50-289 and 50-320." (3) the supplement '. hereto refer-red to above, and (4) the order suspending construction activities in-volving the off-site portion of the Juniata transmission line are available for public inspection at the Corm 11ssion's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N. W., Washington, D. C., and at the General Public Section, State Library of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Copies of Items 2, 3, and 4 may be obtained upon request, addressed to the United States Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D. C.
20545, Attention: Director, Division of Reactor Licensing.
FOR THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION Crignai Cigned by L r.iannia; Mur.uin3 Dated at Bethesda, Maryland, Director of Regulation this day of February,1972.
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