Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 25 / Friday, February 6, 2004 / Notices 5879

that are classified. The Commission 

notes that, since the entire application 

becomes part of the record of the 

proceeding, the NRC staff has found it 

impracticable for it to avoid the 

introduction of Restricted Data or 

National Security Information into the 

proceeding. 

It is so ordered.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 30th day 

of January, 2004.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Annette L. Vietti-Cook, 

Secretary of the Commission.

[FR Doc. 04–2550 Filed 2–5–04; 8:45 am] 

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[Docket No. 030–03754] 

Notice of Consideration of Amendment 

Request for Decommissioning the ABB 

Prospects, Inc. Site in Windsor, 

Connecticut and Opportunity for a 

Hearing

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission.

ACTION: Notice of consideration of 

amendment request for 

decommissioning and opportunity to 

request a hearing. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Randolph C. Ragland, Jr., Division of 

Nuclear Materials Safety, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Region I, 475 

Allendale Road, King of Prussia, 

Pennsylvania 19406; telephone (610) 

337–5083; by facsimile transmission to 

(610) 337–5269; or by e-mail to 

rcr1@nrc.gov.

DATES: The agency must receive 

requests for a hearing on or before 

March 8, 2004.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is considering 

issuance of a license amendment to 

Materials License No. 06–00217–06, to 

authorize the decommissioning of the 

ABB Prospects, Inc. site in Windsor, 

Connecticut, for unrestricted use. The 

current license expires April 30, 2011. 

By letter dated October 15, 2003, ABB 

Prospects, Inc. submitted an application 

for a license amendment, specifically 

the CE Windsor Site Decommissioning 

Plan (DP), which included a report 

entitled, ‘‘Derivation of the Site-Specific 

Soil DCGLs.’’ The licensee has been 

performing limited decommissioning of 

Building Complexes 2, 5, and 17 at the 

CE Windsor site in accordance with the 

conditions described in License No. 06–

00217–06. Although certain buildings 

and areas on the site are being 

addressed by the U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers (USACE) under the Formerly 

Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program 

(FUSRAP), the proposed DP is intended 

to provide the decommissioning 

information necessary for site-wide 

license termination and unrestricted 

release. 

The NRC staff has completed its 

initial expanded acceptance review and 

has determined that the licensee’s 

submission is sufficiently complete for 

the NRC staff to initiate a detailed 

technical review of the DP. 

If the NRC approves the DP, the 

approval will be documented in an 

amendment to License No. 06–00217–

06. However, before approving the DP, 

the NRC will have made findings 

required by the Atomic Energy Act of 

1954, as amended, and NRC’s 

regulations. These findings will be 

documented in a Safety Evaluation 

Report and an Environmental 

Assessment. 

II. Opportunity for a Hearing 

The NRC hereby provides notice that 

this is a proceeding on an application 

for amendment of a license falling 

within the scope of Subpart L ‘‘Informal 

Hearing Procedures for Adjudication in 

Materials Licensing Proceedings,’’ of 

NRC’s rules and practice for domestic 

licensing proceedings in 10 CFR part 2. 

Any person whose interest may be 

affected by this proceeding may file a 

request for a hearing in accordance with 

10 CFR 2.1205(e). A request for hearing 

must be filed within thirty (30) days of 

the date of publication of this Federal 

Register Notice. 

The request for the hearing must be 

filed with the Office of the Secretary, 

either:

(1) By delivery to the Rulemaking and 

Adjudications Staff of the Office of the 

Secretary of the Commission at One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, MD 20852–2738, between the 

hours of 7:45 a.m. and 4:15 p.m., 

Federal workdays; or 

(2) By mail or telegram addressed to 

the Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555–

0001. Attention: Rulemaking and 

Adjudications Staff. Because of 

continuing disruptions in the delivery 

of mail to United States Government 

Offices, hearing requests should also be 

transmitted to the Secretary of the 

Commission either by means of 

facsimile transmission to (301)415–

1101, or by e-mail to 

hearingdocket@nrc.gov.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.1205(f), 

each request for a hearing must also be 

served, by delivering it personally or by 

mail, to: 

(1) The applicant, ABB Prospects, 

Inc., CEP 880–1403, 2000 Day Hill Road, 

Windsor, CT 06095–0500, Attention: 

John Conant; and 

(2) The NRC staff, by delivery to the 

Office of the General Counsel, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, MD 20852–2738, 

between the hours of 7:45 a.m. and 4:15 

p.m., Federal workdays, or by mail, 

addressed to the Office of the General 

Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555–

0001. Because of continuing disruptions 

in the delivery of mail to United States 

Government Offices, hearing requests 

should also be transmitted to the Office 

of General Counsel, either by means of 

facsimile transmission to (301) 415–

3725, or by e-mail to 

OGCMailCenter@nrc.gov.

In addition to meeting other 

applicable requirements of 10 CFR part 

2 of the NRC’s regulations, a request for 

a hearing filed by a person other than 

an applicant must describe in detail: 

(1) The interest of the requestor; 

(2) How the interest may be affected 

by the results of the proceeding, 

including the reasons why the requestor 

should be permitted a hearing, with 

particular reference to the factors set out 

in 10 CFR 2.1205(h); 

(3) The requestor’s areas of concern 

about the licensing activity that is 

subject matter of the proceedings; and 

(4) The circumstances establishing 

that the request for a hearing is timely 

in accordance with 10 CFR 2.1205(d). 

III. Further Information 

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.790 of 

the NRC’s ‘‘Rules of Practice,’’ details 

with respect to this action, including the 

application for amendment, the 

proposed DP, and supporting 

documentation, are available for 

inspection at NRC’s Public Electronic 

Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/

reading-rm/adams.html (Accession 

Number ML040300149). These 

documents are also available for 

inspection and copying for a fee at the 

Region I Office, 475 Allendale Road, 

King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, 19406. 

Persons who do not have access to 

ADAMS, should contact the NRC PDR 

Reference staff by telephone at 1–800–

397–4209 or (301) 415–4737, or by email to pdr@nrc.gov.

Dated at King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, this 

30th day of January, 2004.

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For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Ronald R. Bellamy, 

Chief, Decommissioning & Laboratory 

Branch, Division of Nuclear Materials Safety, 

RI.

[FR Doc. 04–2619 Filed 2–5–04; 8:45 am] 

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[Docket Nos. 50–315 and 50–316] 

Indiana Michigan Power Company, 

Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant; Notice 

of Intent To Prepare an Environmental 

Impact Statement and Conduct 

Scoping Process 

Indiana Michigan Power Company 

(I&M) has submitted an application for 

renewal of Facility Operating Licenses, 

DPR–58 and DPR–74 for an additional 

20 years of operation at the Donald C. 

Cook Nuclear Plant (Cook), Units 1 and 

2 (CNP). CNP is located in Berrien 

County, Michigan, about 55 miles east 

of Chicago, Illinois. The operating 

licenses for Cook Nuclear Plant, Units 1 

and 2, expire on October 25, 2014, and 

December 23, 2017, respectively. The 

application for renewal was received on 

November 3, 2003, pursuant to 10 CFR 

part 54. A notice of receipt and 

availability of the application, which 

included the environmental report (ER), 

was published in the Federal Register

on November 10, 2003 (68 FR 63824). A 

notice of acceptance for docketing of the 

application for renewal of the facility 

operating license was published in the 

Federal Register on December 10, 2003 

(68 FR 68956). The purpose of this 

notice is to inform the public that the 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

(NRC) will be preparing an 

environmental impact statement (EIS) in 

support of the review of the license 

renewal application and to provide the 

public an opportunity to participate in 

the environmental scoping process, as 

defined in 10 CFR 51.29. In addition, as 

outlined in 36 CFR 800.8, ‘‘Coordination 

with the National Environmental Policy 

Act,’’ the NRC plans to coordinate 

compliance with section 106 of the 

National Historic Preservation Act in 

meeting the requirements of the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA). 

In accordance with 10 CFR 51.53(c) 

and 10 CFR 54.23, I&M submitted the 

ER as part of the application. The ER 

was prepared pursuant to 10 CFR part 

51 and is available for public inspection 

at the NRC Public Document Room 

(PDR), located at One White Flint North, 

11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), 

Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from the 

Publicly Available Records component 

of NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible at 

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

adams.html, which provides access 

through the NRC’s Electronic Reading 

Room link. Persons who do not have 

access to ADAMS, or who encounter 

problems in accessing the documents 

located in ADAMS, should contact the 

NRC’s PDR Reference staff at 1–800–

397–4209, or 301–415–4737, or by email to pdr@nrc.gov. The application 

may also be viewed on the Internet at 

http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/

licensing/renewal/applications/

cook.html. In addition, the Bridgman 

Public Library, 4460 Lake Street, 

Bridgman, Michigan and the Maud 

Preston Palenske Memorial Library, 500 

Market Street, St. Joseph, Michigan have 

agreed to make the ER available for 

public inspection. 

This notice advises the public that the 

NRC intends to gather the information 

necessary to prepare a plant-specific 

supplement to the Commission’s 

‘‘Generic Environmental Impact 

Statement (GEIS) for License Renewal of 

Nuclear Plants,’’ (NUREG–1437) in 

support of the review of the application 

for renewal of the CNP operating 

licenses for an additional 20 years. 

Possible alternatives to the proposed 

action (license renewal) include no 

action and reasonable alternative energy 

sources. The NRC is required by 10 CFR 

51.95 to prepare a supplement to the 

GEIS in connection with the renewal of 

an operating license. This notice is 

being published in accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA) and the NRC’s regulations 

found in 10 CFR part 51.

The NRC will first conduct a scoping 

process for the supplement to the GEIS 

and, as soon as practicable thereafter, 

will prepare a draft supplement to the 

GEIS for public comment. Participation 

in the scoping process by members of 

the public and local, State, tribal, and 

Federal government agencies is 

encouraged. The scoping process for the 

supplement to the GEIS will be used to 

accomplish the following: 

a. Define the proposed action which 

is to be the subject of the supplement to 

the GEIS. 

b. Determine the scope of the 

supplement to the GEIS and identify the 

significant issues to be analyzed in 

depth. 

c. Identify and eliminate from 

detailed study those issues that are 

peripheral or that are not significant. 

d. Identify any environmental 

assessments and other EISs that are 

being or will be prepared that are 

related to, but are not part of the scope 

of the supplement to the GEIS being 

considered. 

e. Identify other environmental 

review and consultation requirements 

related to the proposed action. 

f. Indicate the relationship between 

the timing of the preparation of the 

environmental analyses and the 

Commission’s tentative planning and 

decision-making schedule. 

g. Identify any cooperating agencies 

and, as appropriate, allocate 

assignments for preparation and 

schedules for completing the 

supplement to the GEIS to the NRC and 

any cooperating agencies. 

h. Describe how the supplement to 

the GEIS will be prepared, and include 

any contractor assistance to be used. 

The NRC invites the following entities 

to participate in scoping: 

a. The applicant, Indiana Michigan 

Power Company. 

b. Any Federal agency that has 

jurisdiction by law or special expertise 

with respect to any environmental 

impact involved, or that is authorized to 

develop and enforce relevant 

environmental standards. 

c. Affected State and local 

government agencies, including those 

authorized to develop and enforce 

relevant environmental standards. 

d. Any affected Indian tribe. 

e. Any person who requests or has 

requested an opportunity to participate 

in the scoping process. 

f. Any person who has petitioned or 

intends to petition for leave to 

intervene. 

In accordance with 10 CFR 51.26, the 

scoping process for an EIS may include 

a public scoping meeting to help 

identify significant issues related to a 

proposed activity and to determine the 

scope of issues to be addressed in an 

EIS. The NRC has decided to hold 

public meetings for the CNP license 

renewal supplement to the GEIS. The 

scoping meetings will be held at the 

Lake Charter Township Hall, 3220 

Shawnee Road, Bridgman, Michigan, on 

Monday, March 8, 2004. There will be 

two sessions to accommodate interested 

parties. The first session will convene at 

1:30 p.m. and will continue until 4:30 

p.m., as necessary. The second session 

will convene at 7 p.m. with a repeat of 

the overview portions of the meeting 

and will continue until 10 p.m., as 

necessary. Both meetings will be 

transcribed and will include (1) an 

overview by the NRC staff of the NEPA 

environmental review process, the 

proposed scope of the supplement to the 

GEIS, and the proposed review 

schedule; and (2) the opportunity for 

interested government agencies,