[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 246 (Tuesday, December 26, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 88989]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-28385]



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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 40-8943-MLA; ASLBP No. 07-859-03-MLA-BD01]


Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel; Before the Licensing 
Board: G. Paul Bollwerk, III, Chair, Nicholas G. Trikouros, Dr. Craig 
M. White; In the Matter of: Crow Butte Resources, Inc. (North Trend 
Expansion Project); Memorandum and Order (Notice of Hearing)

December 20, 2023.
    In 2007, Crow Butte Resources, Inc., (CBR) submitted a request to 
amend its existing 10 CFR part 40 source materials license to authorize 
CBR to conduct in situ uranium recovery operations within the so-called 
North Trend Expansion Area (NTEA).\1\ In a May 2008 ruling,\2\ the 
Licensing Board granted the hearing requests of Consolidated 
Intervenors.\3\ Additionally, the Board granted 10 CFR 2.315(c) 
interested governmental entity status to the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the 
Oglala Delegation of the Great Sioux Nation Treaty Council, allowing 
them to participate in this proceeding as well.\4\
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    \1\ See Letter from Stephen P. Collins, President, CBR, to 
Charles L. Miller, Director, Office of Federal and State Materials 
and Environmental Management Programs, Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(NRC) at 1 (May 30, 2007) (Agencywide Documents Access and 
Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML0711550057).
    \2\ See LBP-08-06, 67 NRC 241, 344 (2008), aff'd in part and 
rev'd in part, CLI-09-12, 69 NRC 535, 573 (2009).
    \3\ The Consolidated Intervenors consist of the Western Nebraska 
Resources Council, Debra White Plume, and Owe Aku/Bring Back the 
Way.
    \4\ See LBP-09-12, 69 NRC 11, 52 (2009), rev'd on other grounds, 
CLI-09-12, 69 NRC at 573; LBP-08-06, 67 NRC at 344.
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    In light of the foregoing, please take notice that a hearing is 
being conducted in this license amendment proceeding. The hearing is 
governed by the simplified hearing procedures set forth in 10 CFR part 
2, subparts C and L, 10 CFR 2.300-2.390, 2.1200-2.1213.
    The public is invited to attend any prehearing conference, oral 
argument, or evidentiary hearing that may be conducted in this 
adjudication pursuant to 10 CFR 2.329, 2.331, 2.327-2.328, 2.1206-
2.1208. 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 NR website, 
www.nrc.gov.
    Documents relating to this license amendment proceeding are 
available for public inspection at the Commission's PDR or 
electronically from the publicly available records component of NRC's 
ADAMS document repository. ADAMS, including its adjudicatory 
proceeding-related Electronic Hearing Docket, is accessible from the 
NRC website at 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 email to 
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f1819583df8394829e84839294b19f8392df969e87"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d3a3b7a1fda1b6a0bca6a1b0b693bda1b0fdb4bca5">[email protected]</span></a>.
    It is so ordered.

    For the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board. Rockville, Maryland.

    Dated: December 20, 2023.
George P. Bollwerk, III,
Administrative Judge.
[FR Doc. 2023-28385 Filed 12-22-23; 8:45 am]
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