ML20127H331

Notice of Hearing on OL Re BWR Identified as Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant

ML20127H331
Person / Time
Site:	Monticello
Issue date:	12/19/1972
From:	Bender P US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
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NUDOCS 9211180486
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i UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ATOMIC ENERGY COMMIS510N i

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NORTHERN STAT;5 P0k'ER COMPANY Docket No. 50-263

(Monticello Nuclear Generat.ing Plant, l Unit 1) )

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j NOT!CE OF HEARINr. ON A FACll.lTY OPERATING LICENSE l

i I l Pursuant to the Ato lc Energy Act of 1954. as amended (the Act), the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), and the regulations in i

Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 50, " Licensing of Production ,

i and Utilization Facilities", and Part 2, " Rules of Practice", notice l

Is hereby given that, subject to conditions set forth in a Comission i

Memorandum and Order dated December 19 , 1972, a hearing will be held f on the bolling water recctor identified as the Monticello Nuclear

! Generating Plant, Unit 1 (the f acility) of the Northern States Power * ~

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i Company (appilcant). The hearing will be held at a time and place to be set in the future by the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (Licensing l Board) designated herein, to begin in the vicinity.of the facility in Wright and Sherburne Counties, Minnesota. _ Operation of the facility i is presently authorized by Provisional Operating' License No. OPR-22, i

Issued by the Atomic Energy Commission on September 8,1970. The l hearing wlll- consider (1) whether, considering; those matters covered by ,

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f . Appendix 0 to 10 CFR Part 50, the provisional operating ilcense should be continued, modified, terminated or appropriately conditioned to protect environmental values, and (2) whether, in accordance with the

• requirenents in the Commission's regulations implementing NEPA in 10  ;

l CFR Part 50. Appendix D, a full-term operating 11c'ense should issue.

j The Licensing Board shall consist of Robert Lazo, Esq. , (Chairman),

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Dr. John C. Geyer, and Dr. Warrer. E. Nyer. Dr. Walter H. Jordan has been

' designated as a -techniccily quallfled al ternate, and- Edward Luton, Esq.,

, Ss been designated as an alternate quallfled in the conduct of admints-l

! trative proceedings. '

A notice of opportunity for hearing on the cqnversion'of the pro-visional operating Ilcense for the facility wai published in the Federal o f , Register on August 25,1972 (37 f.R.17231). The notice provided that, I within 30 days from the date of publication, eny. person whose Interest

! may be affected by the proceeding could file a petition for leave to ,

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I intervene in accordance with the requirements of _10 CFR Part 2, Rules of Practice". Petitions for leave to intervene were thereaf tvr filed by the Minnesota Environmental Centrol Citizen's Associattor (includtpg l r l

I Individual nembers), the Minnesop Pollution Control Agency, ?Se Cit'y of i i l 1 Saint Paul, Minnesota, and Steve J. Gadler. . The Comission has determined, _

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-- 19,1972, that

• all petitions-to intervene will be granted and a public hearing held.

I This hearing will be consolidated with the hearing contemplated by10

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CFR Part 50,;Section E, that was directed to be held' by the Comission's

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Memorandum and Order dated May 3, 1972.

A prehearing conference or conferences will be held by the I.lconsing ,

t j - Board, at a date and place to be set by it, to consider pertinent matters i '

In.accordance with the Commission's " Rules of Practice". The date and-place of the consolidated hearing will be set by the Board at or af ter l ,

the prehearing conference. Notices as to the dates and places of the l

prehearing conference and the consolidated hearing will be pubilshed in l

! the [_ederal Register.

The specific issues to be considered at the consolidated hearing will be determined by the Board in accordance with the cited Commission's 1

l Memorandum and Orders.,

The instant facility Is _ subject to .the _ provisions of Sectlon 8.of j Appendix 0 to 10 CFR Part 50, which sets forth procedures for environ-l

' mental review of certain licenses to construct or operate production or t

utilization fac111tles issued in the period January 1,1970, to Septem-l

--ber 9,1971; and to-the provisions of--Section E oE said Appendix 0.-

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For further details pertinent to the; operating 11 cense under con-I sideratton, see the appilcation for conversion of: the provisional i ,,

operating license dated June 15, 1972, as amended, the appilcant's environmenta.1, report dated. November 3,1971,. the supplement and errata n

' thereto dated April- 14, 1972, and May 2, 1972, respectively, the~ report-

' of the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards on the application for

a. full-term operating license for. the Monticello Nuclear Generating

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. Plant, datedL 0c tober 19, 1972, and~the Regulatory Staff's final l detailed l  ; . . _ -- . . .

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t statement on environmental considerations pursuant to 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix 0, Issued in November of 1972. These documents are available t

! for public inspection at the Comission s Public Document Room,1717 H 8

Street, N.W. , Washington, D.C. , and at the Environmental Resource Center, 3 Minneapolls Public Library 1222 Southeast Fourth Street, Minneapolls, Mir.nesota, 55414. The Safety Evaluation prepared by the Directorate ,

of Licensing-and the proposed full-term operating license will similarly

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be.:vallable for. public Ik.paction when they are'-Issued.

Any person who wishes to mke an orcl or written statement in this proceeding:but who his:; rot filed a petition for leave to Intervene as noted above, may request permission to make a limiJ4 appearance purg -

g-suant- to the provisions of 10 CFR l 2 715 of- the CommissioND'fRules

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of Practice." Limited appearances will be pennitted at the time of theb, ,

hearing in the discretion of the Licensing Board, within such limits - - k,-

and on such conditions as may be fixed by it. Persons desiring to make a limited appearance are requested to inform the Secretary of the ComT'~ ~ ~

mission, United States Atomic Energy Comission, Washington,. D.C.,

20545, not later than thirty (30)-days f rom the date of-pubilcation of

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this notice in the federal Regtster. A ' person permitted to make?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

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i that the questions are within the scope of the hearing as specified in

.i the issues set out above. A member of the public does not have the

i right to participate unless he has been granted the right to intervene 1

l as a party or the right of limited appearance.-

j An answer to this notice, pursuant to the proyisions of 10 CFR i.

i i 2.705 of the Comission's " Rules of Practice," must be filed by the parties to this proceeding (other than the reg.ilatory staf f) not later i

l than twenty (20) days f rom the date of public:.clon of this notice in the Federal _ Register.

1 Papers required to be filed in this proceeding may be filed by mall i or telegram addressed to the Sccretary of the Comission, United States

. Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C., 20545, ATTENTION: Chief, Public Proceedings Branch, or may be filed by delivery to the Commis-I

! sion's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Washingt'on, D.C.

Pending further order of the Licensing Board, parties are required to file pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR 5 2.708 of the Comission's f

" Rules of Practice," an original and twenty conformed copies of each i '

! such paper with the Comission.

l UNITED STATES ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION i

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, By: Ad C . . J e__J K PaulC._BendeN l ,

Secretary of the Comission 4

Dated at Germantown, Maryland, i this 19th day of- December,1972. .

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