Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 63 / Tuesday, April 3, 2007 / Notices 15913 

Management Systems (ADAMS) Public 

Electronic Reading Room on the internet 

at the NRC Web site, http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm.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, 

or 301–415–4737 or by e-mail to 

pdr@nrc.gov. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day 

of March 2007. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Robert F. Kuntz, 

Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch III–

1, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, 

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

[FR Doc. E7–6138 Filed 4–2–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

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[Docket No. 52–011–ESP; ASLBP No. 07–

850–01–ESP–BD01] 

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 

Panel; Before the Licensing Board: G. 

Paul Bollwerk, III, Chairman, Nicholas 

G. Trikouros, Dr. James F. Jackson; In 

the Matter of Southern Nuclear 

Operating Co. (Early Site Permit for 

Vogtle ESP Site); Notice of Hearing 

(Application for Early Site Permit) 

March 28, 2007. 

This proceeding concerns the August 

15, 2006 application of Southern 

Nuclear Operating Company (SNC) for a 

10 CFR Part 52 early site permit (ESP). 

The ESP application seeks approval for 

use of the existing Vogtle Electric 

Generating Plant site near Waynesboro, 

Georgia, for the possible construction of 

two new nuclear reactors. In response to 

an October 5, 2006 notice of hearing and 

opportunity to petition for leave to 

intervene, 71 FR 60,195 (Oct. 12, 2006), 

on December 11, 2006, the Center for a 

Sustainable Coast, Savannah 

Riverkeeper, Southern Alliance for 

Clean Energy, Atlanta Women’s Action 

for New Directions, and Blue Ridge 

Environmental Defense League 

(collectively the Joint Petitioners) filed a 

timely request for hearing and petition 

to intervene contesting the SNC ESP 

application. On December 13, 2006, the 

Commission referred the petition to the 

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 

Panel to conduct any subsequent 

adjudication. On December 15, 2006, a 

three-member Atomic Safety and 

Licensing Board was established to 

adjudicate this ESP proceeding. See 71 

FR 77,071 (Dec. 22, 2006). 

On February 13, 2007, the Board 

conducted a one-day initial prehearing 

conference in Waynesboro, Georgia, 

during which it heard oral presentations 

regarding the standing of the Joint 

Petitioners and the admissibility of their 

seven proffered contentions. Thereafter, 

in a March 12, 2007 issuance, finding 

that each of the Joint Petitioners had 

established the requisite standing to 

intervene in this proceeding and that 

they had submitted two admissible 

contentions concerning the SNC ESP 

application, the Board admitted them as 

parties to this proceeding. See Southern 

Nuclear Operating Co. (Early Site Permit 

for Vogtle ESP Site), LBP–07–03, 65 

NRC (Mar. 12, 2006). 

In light of the foregoing, please take 

notice that a hearing will be conducted 

in this proceeding. Subject to any Board 

determination regarding any request to 

utilize formal hearing procedures under 

10 CFR part 2, Subpart G, see 10 CFR 

2.310(d), the hearing on contested 

matters will be governed by the informal 

hearing procedures set forth in 10 CFR 

part 2, subparts C and L, 10 CFR 2.300–

2.390, 2.1200–12.1213. Further, in 

accordance with the October 2006 

notice regarding the SNC ESP 

application, 71 FR at 60,195, and 10 

CFR 52.21, in the context of a hearing 

on uncontested matters, the Licensing 

Board will: 

(1) Consider whether the issuance of 

an ESP will not be inimical to the 

common defense and security or to the 

health and safety of the public (Safety 

Issue 1); 

(2) Determine whether, taking into 

consideration the site criteria contained 

in 10 CFR part 100, a reactor, or 

reactors, having characteristics that fall 

within the parameters for the site, can 

be constructed and operated without 

undue risk to the health and safety of 

the public (Safety Issue 2); and 

(3) Consider whether, in accordance 

with the requirements of subpart A of 10 

CFR part 51, the ESP should be issued 

as proposed. 

Additionally, in accord with the 

October 2006 notice, the Board will: 

(1) Determine whether the 

requirements of sections 102(2)(A), (C), 

and (E) of the National Environmental 

Policy Act of 1969 and 10 CFR Part 51, 

Subpart A, have been complied with in 

the proceeding; 

(2) Independently consider the final 

balance among conflicting factors 

contained in the record of proceeding 

with a view to determining the 

appropriate action to be taken; and 

(3) Determine, after considering 

reasonable alternatives, whether a 

license should be issued, denied, or 

appropriately conditioned to protect 

environmental values. 

During the course of this proceeding, 

the Board may conduct an oral 

argument, as provided in 10 CFR 2.331, 

may hold additional prehearing 

conferences pursuant to 10 CFR 2.329, 

and may conduct evidentiary hearings 

in accordance with 10 CFR 2.327–2.328, 

2.1206–2.1208. The public is invited to 

attend any oral argument, prehearing 

conference, or evidentiary hearing. 

Notices of those sessions will be 

published in the Federal Register and/ 

or made available to the public at the 

NRC Public Document Room (PDR), 

located at One White Flint North, 11555 

Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, 

Maryland, and through the NRC Web 

site, http://www.nrc.gov. 

Additionally, as provided in 10 CFR 

2.315(a), any person not a party to the 

proceeding may submit a written 

limited appearance statement. Limited 

appearance statements, which are 

placed in the docket for the hearing, 

provide members of the public with an 

opportunity to make the Board and/or 

the participants aware of their concerns 

about matters at issue in the proceeding. 

A written limited appearance statement 

can be submitted at any time and should 

be sent to the Office of the Secretary 

using one of the methods prescribed 

below: 

Mail to: Office of the Secretary, 

Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001. 

Fax to: (301) 415–1101 (verification 

(301) 415–1966). 

E-mail to: hearingdocket@nrc.gov. 

In addition, a copy of the limited 

appearance statement should be sent to 

the Licensing Board Chairman using the 

same method at the address below: 

Mail to: Administrative Judge G. Paul 

Bollwerk, III, Atomic Safety and 

Licensing Board Panel, Mail Stop T–

3F23, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555–

0001. 

Fax to: (301) 415–5599 (verification 

(301) 415–7550). 

E-mail to: gpb@nrc.gov. 

At a later date, the Board may 

entertain oral limited appearance 

statements at a location, or locations, in 

the vicinity of the proposed Vogtle ESP 

site. Notice of any oral limited 

appearance sessions will be published 

in the Federal Register and/or made 

available to the public at the NRC PDR 

and on the NRC Web site, http:// 

www.nrc.gov. 

Documents relating to this proceeding 

are available for public inspection at the 

Commission’s PDR or electronically 

from the publicly available records 


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*Copies of this notice of hearing were sent this 

date by Internet e-mail transmission and the 

agency’s E-Submittal system to counsel for (1) 

applicant SNC.; (2) the Joint Petitioners; and (3) the 

NRC staff. 

component of NRC’s document system 

(ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from 

the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/ 

reading-rm/adams.html (the Public 

Electronic Reading Room). 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. 

It is so ordered. 

March 28, 2007. 

For The Atomic Safety and Licensing 

Board.* 

G. Paul Bollwerk, III, 

Chairman, Rockville, Maryland. 

[FR Doc. E7–6130 Filed 4–2–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

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[Docket Nos. 50–498 and 50–499] 

STP Nuclear Operating Company; 

Notice of Withdrawal of Application for 

Amendments to Facility Operating 

Licenses 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (the Commission) has 

granted the request of STP Nuclear 

Operating Company (the licensee) to 

withdraw its January 31, 2006, 

application for proposed amendments to 

Facility Operating Licenses numbered 

NPF–76 and NPF–80, respectively, for 

the South Texas Project, Units 1 and 2, 

located in Matagorda County. The 

proposed amendments would have 

revised the Technical Specification 

3.8.3.1, ‘‘Onsite Power Distribution—

Operating.’’

The Commission had previously 

issued a Notice of Consideration of 

Issuance of Amendments published in 

the Federal Register on February 28, 

2006 (71 FR 10077). However, by letter 

dated March 26, 2007, the licensee 

withdrew the proposed change. 

For further details with respect to this 

action, see the application for 

amendment dated January 31, 2006, and 

the licensee’s letter dated March 26, 

2007, which withdrew the application 

for license amendment. Documents may 

be examined, and/or copied for a fee, at 

the NRC’s Public Document Room 

(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 electronically from 

the Agencywide Documents Access and 

Management Systems (ADAMS) Public 

Electronic Reading Room on the Internet 

at the NRC Web site, http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm.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, 

or 301–415–4737 or by e-mail to 

pdr@nrc.gov. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 27th day 

of March 2007. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Mohan C. Thadani, 

Senior Project Manager, Plant Licensing 

Branch IV, Division of Operating Reactor 

Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation. 

[FR Doc. E7–6086 Filed 4–2–07; 8:45 am] 

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Advisory Committee on Reactor 

Safeguards (ACRS); Subcommittee 

Meeting on Thermal-Hydraulic 

Phenomena; Notice of Meeting 

The ACRS Subcommittee on ThermalHydraulic Phenomena will hold a 

meeting on April 19–20, 2007, 11545 

Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland in 

Room T–2B3. 

The entire meeting will be open to 

public attendance, with the exception of 

portions that may be closed to discuss 

General Electric proprietary information 

pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4). 

The agenda for the subject meeting 

shall be as follows: 

Thursday, April 19, 2007—8:30 a.m. 

until the conclusion of business. 

Friday, April 20, 2007—8:30 a.m. 

until the conclusion of business. 

The Subcommittee will review the 

staff evaluation of the MELLLA+, GE 

Methods, and GE DSS–CD Topical 

Reports. The Subcommittee will gather 

information, analyze relevant issues and 

facts, and formulate proposed positions 

and actions, as appropriate, for 

deliberation by the full Committee. 

Members of the public desiring to 

provide oral statements and/or written 

comments should notify the Designated 

Federal Official, Mr. Ralph Caruso 

(Telephone: 301–415–8065) five days 

prior to the meeting, if possible, so that 

appropriate arrangements can be made. 

Electronic recordings will be permitted. 

Further information regarding this 

meeting can be obtained by contacting 

the Designated Federal Official between 

7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. (ET). Persons 

planning to attend this meeting are 

urged to contact the above named 

individual at least two working days 

prior to the meeting to be advised of any 

potential changes to the agenda. 

Dated: March 27, 2007. 

Cayetano Santos, 

Acting Branch Chief, ACRS. 

[FR Doc. E7–6077 Filed 4–2–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION 

[Docket No. R2006–1; Order No. 8] 

Reconsideration of Rate 

Recommendations 

AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission. 

ACTION: Notice and order. 

SUMMARY: This document addresses 

several procedural and legal matters 

related to the Postal Service Governors’

request for reconsideration of three 

aspects of the Commission’s recent rate 

recommendations in Docket No. R2006–

1. The recommendations in issue 

involve the Priority Mail Flat Rate Box, 

the nonmachinable surcharge for FirstClass Mail letters, and Standard Mail 

flats (including catalogs). The document 

discusses the procedures the 

Commission adopts to effectuate 

reconsideration and identifies several 

key deadlines. Issuance of this 

document provides rate case 

participants and the public with 

information on the Commission’s 

intended course of action in terms of 

procedural steps and informs them of 

their rights and responsibilities. 

DATES: 

1. April 4, 2007: Deadline for filing 

motions to reopen the record. 

2. April 11, 2007: Deadline for replies 

to motions to reopen the record. 

3. April 12, 2007: Deadline for filing 

initial comments. 

4. April 19, 2007: Deadline for filing 

reply comments. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments 

electronically via the Commission’s 

Filing Online system at http:// 

www.prc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stephen L. Sharfman, General Counsel, 

202–789–6820 and 

stephen.sharfman@prc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Regulatory History 

71 FR 27436 (May 11, 2006) 

On March 19, 2007, the Governors of 

the United States Postal Service issued 

a decision approving the Commission’s 


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