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Panel, will rule on the request and/or 

petition; and the Secretary or the Chief 

Administrative Judge of the Atomic 

Safety and Licensing Board will issue a 

notice of a hearing or an appropriate 

order. 

As required by 10 CFR 2.309, a 

petition for leave to intervene shall set 

forth with particularity the interest of 

the petitioner in the proceeding, and 

how that interest may be affected by the 

results of the proceeding. The petition 

should specifically explain the reasons 

why intervention should be permitted 

with particular reference to the 

following general requirements: (1) The 

name, address and telephone number of 

the requestor or petitioner; (2) the 

nature of the requestor’s/petitioner’s 

right under the Act to be made a party 

to the proceeding; (3) the nature and 

extent of the requestor’s/petitioner’s 

property, financial, or other interest in 

the proceeding; and (4) the possible 

effect of any decision or order which 

may be entered in the proceeding on the 

requestors/petitioner’s interest. The 

petition must also identify the specific 

contentions which the petitioner/ 

requestor seeks to have litigated at the 

proceeding. 

Each contention must consist of a 

specific statement of the issue of law or 

fact to be raised or controverted. In 

addition, the petitioner/requestor shall 

provide a brief explanation of the bases 

for the contention and a concise 

statement of the alleged facts or expert 

opinion which support the contention 

and on which the petitioner intends to 

rely in proving the contention at the 

hearing. The petitioner/requestor must 

also provide references to those specific 

sources and documents of which the 

petitioner is aware and on which the 

petitioner intends to rely to establish 

those facts or expert opinion. The 

petition must include sufficient 

information to show that a genuine 

dispute exists with the applicant on a 

material issue of law or fact. 

Contentions shall be limited to matters 

within the scope of the amendment 

under consideration. The contention 

must be one which, if proven, would 

entitle the petitioner to relief. A 

petitioner/requestor who fails to satisfy 

these requirements with respect to at 

least one contention will not be 

permitted to participate as a party. 

Those permitted to intervene become 

parties to the proceeding, subject to any 

limitations in the order granting leave to 

intervene, and have the opportunity to 

participate fully in the conduct of the 

hearing. 

If a hearing is requested, the 

Commission will make a final 

determination on the issue of no 

significant hazards consideration. The 

final determination will serve to decide 

when the hearing is held. If the final 

determination is that the amendment 

request involves no significant hazards 

consideration, the Commission may 

issue the amendment and make it 

immediately effective, notwithstanding 

the request for a hearing. Any hearing 

held would take place after issuance of 

the amendment. If the final 

determination is that the amendment 

request involves a significant hazards 

consideration, any hearing held would 

take place before the issuance of any 

amendment. 

Nontimely requests and/or petitions 

and contentions will not be entertained 

absent a determination by the 

Commission or the presiding officer of 

the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 

that the petition, request and/or the 

contentions should be granted based on 

a balancing of the factors specified in 10 

CFR 2.309(c)(1)(i)–(viii). 

A request for a hearing or a petition 

for leave to intervene must be filed by: 

(1) First class mail addressed to the 

Office of the Secretary of the 

Commission, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555–

0001, Attention: Rulemaking and 

Adjudications Staff; (2) courier, express 

mail, and expedited delivery services: 

Office of the Secretary, Sixteenth Floor, 

One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, 

Attention: Rulemaking and 

Adjudications Staff; (3) E-mail 

addressed to the Office of the Secretary, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

HEARINGDOCKET@NRC.GOV; or (4) 

facsimile transmission addressed to the 

Office of the Secretary, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC, Attention: Rulemakings and 

Adjudications Staff at (301) 415–1101, 

verification number is (301) 415–1966. 

A copy of the request for hearing and 

petition for leave to intervene should 

also be sent to the Office of the General 

Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555–

0001, and it is requested that copies be 

transmitted either by means of facsimile 

transmission to 301–415–3725 or by email to OGCMailCenter@nrc.gov. A copy 

of the request for hearing and petition 

for leave to intervene should also be 

sent to the attorney for the licensee, Ms. 

Lisa F. Vaughn, Associate General 

Counsel and Managing Attorney, Duke 

Energy Carolinas, LLC, 526 South 

Church St., EC07H, Charlotte, NC 

28202. 

For further details with respect to this 

action, see the application for 

amendment dated March 8, 2007, which 

is available for public inspection at the 

Commission’s PDR, located at One 

White Flint North, Public File Area O1 

F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), 

Rockville, Maryland. Publicly available 

records will be accessible from the 

Agencywide Documents Access and 

Management System’s (ADAMS) Public 

Electronic Reading Room on the Internet 

at the NRC Web site, http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. 

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, 301–415–4737, or by e-mail 

to pdr@nrc.gov. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 13th day 

of March 2007. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Leonard N. Olshan, 

Sr. Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch 

II–1, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, 

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

[FR Doc. E7–4941 Filed 3–16–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

Notice of Sunshine Act Meetings 

DATE: Weeks of March 19, 26, April 2, 

9, 16, 23, 2007. 

PLACE: Commissioners’ Conference 

Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland. 

STATUS: Public and Closed. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

Week of March 19, 2007 

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 

1:30 p.m. 

Briefing on Office of Information 

Services (OIS) Programs, 

Performance, and Plans (Public 

Meeting) (Contact: Edward Baker, 

301 415–8700). 

This meeting will be webcast live at 

the Web address—http://www.nrc.gov. 

Thursday, March 22, 2007 

12:55 p.m. 

Affirmation Session (Public Meeting) 

(Tentative). 

a. Consumers Energy Company, et al. 

(Palisades Nuclear Plant); License 

Transfer Application (Tentative). 

Week of March 26, 2007—Tentative 

Tuesday, March 27, 2007 

2:55 p.m. 

Affirmation Session (Public Meeting) 

(Tentative). 

a. System Energy Resources, Inc. 

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ESP) (Tentative). 

Thursday, March 29, 2007 

9:25 a.m. 

Affirmation Session (Public Meeting) 

(Tentative). 

a. CBS Corporation’s Petition for 

Hearing Regarding an NRC Staff 

Decision not to Docket a CBS 

Request for an Order that Would 

Change Decontamination Standards 

Governing a Westinghouse 

Materials License at Waltz Mill 

(Tentative). 

9:30 a.m. 

Discussion of Management Issues 

(Closed—Ex. 2). 

1:30 p.m. 

Discussion of Security Issues 

(Closed—Ex. 1, 3, & 9). 

Week of April 2, 2007—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the Week of April 2, 2007. 

Week of April 9, 2007—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the Week of April 9, 2007. 

Week of April 16, 2007—Tentative 

Monday, April 16, 2007 

1:30 p.m. 

Discussion of Security Issues 

(Closed—Ex. 1, 2, & 3). 

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 

1 p.m. 

Briefing on Office of Nuclear 

Regulatory Research (RES) 

Programs, Performance, and Plans 

(Public Meeting). (Contact: Ann 

Ramey-Smith, 301 415–6877.) 

This meeting will be webcast live at 

the Web address—http://www.nrc.gov. 

Week of April 23, 2007—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the Week of April 23, 2007. 

* * * * * 

* The schedule for Commission 

meetings is subject to change on short 

notice. To verify the status of meetings 

call (recording)—(301) 415–1292. 

Contact person for more information: 

Michelle Schroll, (301) 415–1662. 

* * * * * 

Additional Information 

By a vote of 5–0 on March 13 and 14, 

2007, the Commission determined 

pursuant to U.S.C. 552b(e) and 

§ 9.107(a) of the Commission’s rules that 

Affirmation of ‘‘Motion for 

Reconsideration of Entergy Nuclear 

Vermont Yankee, LLC, & Entergy 

Nuclear Operations, Inc. (Vermont 

Yankee Nuclear Power Station); Entergy 

Nuclear Generation Company & Entergy 

Nuclear Operations, Inc. (Pilgrim 

Nuclear Power Station), CLI–07–3 (Jan. 

22, 2007)’’ be held March 15, 2007, and 

on less than one week’s notice to the 

public. This item was previously 

scheduled for affirmation on March 22, 

2007. 

* * * * * 

The NRC Commission Meeting 

Schedule can be found on the Internet 

at: http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/policymaking/schedule.html. 

* * * * * 

The NRC provides reasonable 

accommodation to individuals with 

disabilities where appropriate. If you 

need a reasonable accommodation to 

participate in these public meetings, or 

need this meeting notice or the 

transcript or other information from the 

public meetings in another format (e.g., 

braille, large print), please notify the 

NRC’s Disability Program Coordinator, 

Deborah Chan, at 301–415–7041, TDD: 

301–415–2100, or by e-mail at 

DLC@nrc.gov. Determinations on 

requests for reasonable accommodation 

will be made on a case-by-case basis. 

* * * * * 

This notice is distributed by mail to 

several hundred subscribers; if you no 

longer wish to receive it, or would like 

to be added to the distribution, please 

contact the Office of the Secretary, 

Washington, DC 20555 (301–415–1969). 

In addition, distribution of this meeting 

notice over the Internet system is 

available. If you are interested in 

receiving this Commission meeting 

schedule electronically, please send an 

electronic message to dkw@nrc.gov. 

Dated: March 14, 2007. 

R. Michelle Schroll, 

Office of the Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 07–1342 Filed 3–15–07; 12:34 pm] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

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COMMISSION 

Notice of Availability of Model 

Application Concerning Technical 

Specification Improvement Regarding 

Deletion of E Bar Definition and 

Revision to Reactor Coolant System 

Specific Activity Technical 

Specification Using the Consolidated 

Line Item Improvement Process 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) has prepared a 

model license amendment request 

(LAR), model safety evaluation (SE), and 

model proposed no significant hazards 

consideration (NSHC) determination 

related to deletion of the E Bar 

definition and revision to reactor 

coolant system (RCS) specific activity 

technical specification. This request 

revises the RCS specific activity 

specification for pressurized water 

reactors to utilize a new indicator, Dose 

Equivalent Xenon-133 instead of the 

current indicator known as E Bar. 

The purpose of these models is to 

permit the NRC staff to efficiently 

process amendments to incorporate 

these changes into plant-specific 

technical specifications (TS) for 

Babcock and Wilcox, Westinghouse, and 

Combustion Engineering pressurized 

water reactors (PWRs). Licensees of 

nuclear power reactors to which the 

models apply can request amendments 

conforming to the models. In such a 

request, a licensee should confirm the 

applicability of the model LAR, model 

SE and NSHC determination to its plant. 

DATES: The NRC staff issued a Federal 

Register Notice (71 FR 67170, November 

20, 2006) which provided a model LAR, 

model SE, and model NSHC related to 

deletion of E Bar definition and revision 

to RCS specific activity technical 

specification; similarly the NRC staff 

herein provides a revised model LAR, a 

revised model SE, and a revised model 

NSHC. The NRC staff can most 

efficiently consider applications based 

upon the model LAR, which references 

the model SE, if the application is 

submitted within one year of this 

Federal Register Notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Trent Wertz, Mail Stop: O–12H2, 

Division of Inspection and Regional 

Support, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555–

0001, telephone (301) 415–1568. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Regulatory Issue Summary 2000–06, 

‘‘Consolidated Line Item Improvement 

Process (CLIIP) for Adopting Standard 

Technical Specifications Changes for 

Power Reactors,’’ was issued on March 

20, 2000. The CLIIP is intended to 

improve the efficiency and transparency 

of NRC licensing processes. This is 

accomplished by processing proposed 

changes to the Standard Technical 

Specifications (STS) in a manner that 

supports subsequent license amendment 

applications. The CLIIP includes an 

opportunity for the public to comment 

on proposed changes to the STS 

following a preliminary assessment by 

the NRC staff and finding that the 


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