59620 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 192 / Tuesday, October 5, 2004 / Notices 

ACTION: License amendment.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Christopher M. Regan, Senior Project 

Manager, Spent Fuel Project Office, 

Office of Nuclear Material Safety and 

Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555. 

Telephone: (301) 415–1179; fax number: 

(301) 415–1179; e-mail: cmr1@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: By letter 

dated July 30, 2004, as supplemented 

August 13, 2004, General Electric 

Company submitted an application to 

the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC or the Commission), 

in accordance with 10 CFR part 72, 

requesting the amendment of the 

General Electric—Morris Operation 

(GEMO) independent spent fuel storage 

installation (ISFSI) Materials License 

SNM–2500 and the associated Technical 

Specifications (TS) for the GEMO ISFSI 

located in Grundy County, Illinois. The 

amendment application requests 

changes to the GEMO Consolidated 

Safety Analysis Report to reflect the 

current condition of the fuel stored and 

only that equipment necessary for its 

safe storage. The major changes 

proposed include revisions to 

information regarding the spent fuel 

inventory, deletion of the requirement 

for ventilation exhaust vacuum, deletion 

of the requirement to have certain 

instrumentation operative for 

equipment that is no longer in service, 

a change in the methods to verify pool 

water quality, revision to the 

description of the company 

organization, and removal of ‘‘receipt’’

from the license which effectively will 

not permit the GEMO facility to accept 

shipment of any additional spent fuel. 

Commensurate changes to the Technical 

Specifications to reflect these revisions 

are also proposed. This application 

supersedes in its entirety, General 

Electric’s amendment 10 application 

dated April 30, 1998, and amendment 

11 application dated August 13, 2001. 

Amendment requests 10 and 11 were 

withdrawn by GEMO by letter dated 

March 1, 2004. This application was 

docketed under 10 CFR part 72; the 

GEMO ISFSI Docket No. 72–1. The 

amendment of an ISFSI license is 

subject to the Commission’s approval. 

The Director, Office of Nuclear Material 

Safety and Safeguards, or his designee, 

will determine if the amendment 

presents a genuine issue as to whether 

public health and safety will be 

significantly affected and may issue 

either a notice of a hearing or a notice 

of proposed action and opportunity for 

a hearing in accordance with 10 CFR 

72.46(b)(1) or take immediate action on 

the amendment in accordance with 10 

CFR 72.46(b)(2). 

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of 

NRC’s ‘‘Rules of Practice,’’ final NRC 

records and documents regarding this 

proposed action, including the 

application for license amendment 

dated July 30, 2004, as supplemented 

August 13, 2004, and supporting 

documentation, are publically available 

in the records component of NRC’s 

Agencywide Documents Access and 

Management System (ADAMS). These 

documents may be inspected at NRC’s 

Public Electronic Reading Room at 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/

adams.html under Accession Nos. 

ML042180412 and ML042250233. These 

documents may also be viewed 

electronically on the public computers 

located at the NRC’s Public Document 

Room (PDR), O1F21, One White Flint 

North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

MD 20852. The PDR reproduction 

contractor will copy documents for a 

fee. 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 1–800–

397–4209 or 301–415–4737, or by e-mail 

to pdr@nrc.gov.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 28 day 

of September 2004.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Christopher M. Regan, 

Senior Project Manager, Spent Fuel Project 

Office, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and 

Safeguards.

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apply the FACA requirements to 

meetings conducted by the 

Subcommittees of the NRC Advisory 

Committees, if the Subcommittee’s 

recommendations would be 

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Committee. 

The ACRS, however, chose to conduct 

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public participation, and to provide a 

forum for stakeholders to express their 

views on regulatory matters being 

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Dated: September 29, 2004. 

Andrew L. Bates, 

Advisory Committee Management Officer.

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AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING: Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission.

DATE: Weeks of October 4, 11, 18, 25, 

November 1, 8, 2004.

PLACE: Commissioner’s Conference 

Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland.

STATUS: Public and closed.

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

Week of October 4, 2004

Thursday, October 7, 2004

9.25 a.m. Affirmation Session 

(public meeting) (tentative). 

a. State of Alaska Department of 

Transportation and Public Facilities 

(Confirmatory Order Modifying 

License); appeals of LBP–04–16 by NRC 

staff and license (tentative). 

b. Private Fuel Storage (Independent 

Spent Fuel Storage Installation) Docket 

No. 72–22–ISFSI (tentative). 

c. USEC, Inc. (tentative). 

d. Citizen’s Awareness Network’s 

(CAN) motion to dismiss the Yankee 

Rowe license termination proceeding or 

to re-notice it (tentative). 

e. Duke Energy Corp. (Catawba 

Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2); 

Licensing Board’s certification of its 

ruling on ‘‘need to know’’ during 

discovery (tentative). 

f. Final rulemaking to add new 

Section 10 CFR 50.69. ‘‘Risk-Informed 

Categorization and Treatment of 

Structures, Systems, and Components 

for Nuclear Power Reactors’’ (tentative). 

10:30 a.m. Discussion of security 

issues (Closed—Ex.1). 

1 p.m. Discussion of security issues 

(Closed—Ex. 1). 

2:30 p.m. Discussion of security 

issues (Closed—Ex. 1) 

Week of October 11, 2004—Tentative 

Wednesday, October 13, 2004. 

9:30 a.m. Briefing on 

decommissioning activities and status 

(public meeting) (contact: Claudia Craig, 

301–415–7276). 

This meeting will be webcast live at 

the Web address—http://www.nrc.gov.

1:30 p.m. Discussion of 

intragovernmental issues (Closed—Ex. 

1& 9). 

Week of October 18, 2004—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the Week of October 18, 2004. 

Week of October 25, 2004—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the Week of October 25, 2005.