Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 220 / Tuesday, November 14, 2000 / Notices 68163

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[Docket No. 50–255]

Consumers Energy Company; Notice

of Withdrawal of Application for

Amendment to Facility Operating

License

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission (the Commission) has

granted the request of Consumers

Energy Company (the licensee) to

withdraw its August 28, 2000,

application for proposed amendment to

Facility Operating License No. DPR–20

for the Palisades Plant, located in

Covert, Michigan.

The proposed amendment would

have revised the date for implementing

the Palisades Plant Improved Technical

Specifications as established by

Amendment No. 189, dated November

30, 1999. The implementation date

would have been changed from ‘‘on or

before October 31, 2000,’’ to ‘‘on or

before December 31, 2000.’’ In its letter

dated October 24, 2000, the licensee

stated that Amendment No. 189 was

implemented on October 24, 2000, and

that the requested delay of

implementing Amendment No. 189 was

no longer needed. Therefore, the

licensee requested that the amendment

application be withdrawn.

The Commission had previously

issued a Notice of Consideration of

Issuance of Amendment published in

the Federal Register on September 20,

2000 (65 FR 56949). However, by letter

dated October 24, 2000, the licensee

withdrew the proposed change.

For further details with respect to this

action, see the application for

amendment dated August 28, 2000, and

the licensee’s letter dated October 24,

2000, which withdrew the application

for license amendment. Documents may

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

the NRC’s Public Document Room,

located at One White Flint North, 11555

Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville,

Maryland, and accessible electronically

through the ADAMS Public Electronic

Reading Room link at the NRC Web site

(http://www.nrc.gov).

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 6th day

of November 2000.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Darl S. Hood,

Senior Project Manager, Section 1, Project

Directorate III, Division of Licensing Project

Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor

Regulation.

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[Docket No. 50–440–CivP; ASLBP No. 01–

784–01–CivP; EA 99–012]

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board;

Notice of Hearing

November 7, 2000.

Before Administrative Judges: Charles

Bechhoefer, Chairman, Dr. Richard F. Cole,

Ann Marshall Young.

In the Matter of First Energy Operating

Company (FENOC) (Perry Nuclear Power

Plant, Unit 1; Operating License No. NPF–

58).

This proceeding involves a proposed

civil penalty of $110,000. sought to be

imposed by the NRC Staff on First

Energy Operating Company (FENOC or

Licensee) for an alleged violation of

NRC’s employee protection regulations,

based upon the asserted discrimination

by a FENOC management official

against an employee for engaging in

protected activities (i.e., testifying in a

whistleblowing case before the

Department of Labor). In response to an

Order Imposing Civil Monetary Penalty,

published at 65 FR 49,610 (August 14,

2000), FENOC on October 18, 2000 filed

a timely request for an enforcement

hearing. On October 27, 2000, an

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board,

consisting of Dr. Richard F. Cole, Ann

Marshall Young, and Charles

Bechhoefer, who serves as Chairman,

was established to preside over this

proceeding. 65 FR 65,336 (November 1,

2000).

Notice is hereby given that, by

Memorandum and Order dated

November 7, 2000, the Atomic Safety

and Licensing Board has granted the

request for a hearing submitted by

FENOC. This proceeding will be

conducted under the Commission’s

hearing procedures set forth in 10 CFR

Part 2, Subparts B and G. Parties to this

proceeding are FENOC and the NRC

Staff. The issues to be considered, as set

forth in the Order Imposing Civil

Monetary Penalty, are (a) whether the

Licensee was in violation of the

Commission’s requirements as set forth

in the Notice of Violation and Proposed

Imposition of Civil Penalty, dated May

20, 1999; and (b) whether, on the basis

of such violation, the Order Imposing

Civil Monetary Penalty should be

sustained.

Documents related to this proceeding,

issued prior to December 1, 1999, are

available in microfiche form (with print

form available on one-day recall) for

public inspection at the Commission’s

Public Document Room (PDR), Room—

O–1 F21, NRC One White Flint North,

11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville,

Maryland 20852–2738. Documents

issued subsequent to November 1, 1999

are available electronically through the

Agencywide Documents Access and

Management System (ADAMS), with

access to the public through NRC’s

Internet Web site (Public Electronic

Reading Room Link, <http://

www.nrc.gov/NRC/ADAMS/

index.html>). The PDR and many public

libraries have terminals for public

access to the Internet.

At the joint request of FENOC and the

NRC Staff, further proceedings in this

case have been suspended until

December 18, 2000, to afford the parties

an opportunity to pursue settlement

negotiations. Except to the extent an

early settlement or other circumstance

renders them unnecessary, the

Licensing Board may, during the course

of this proceeding, conduct one or more

prehearing conferences and evidentiary

hearing sessions. The time and place of

these sessions will be announced in

Licensing Board Orders. Except as

limited by the parameters of telephone

conferences (which are in any event to

be transcribed), members of the public

are invited to attend any such sessions.

For the Atomic Safety and Licensing

Board.

Dated: November 7, 2000; Rockville,

Maryland.

Charles Bechhoefer,

Chairman, Administrative Judge.

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Advisory Committee on Nuclear

Waste; Notice of Meeting

The Advisory Committee on Nuclear

Waste (ACNW) will hold its 123rd

meeting on November 27–29, 2000, at

the Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory

Analyses (CNWRA), 6220 Culebra Road,

Building 189, San Antonio, Texas.

The entire meeting will be open to

public attendance.

The schedule for this meeting is as

follows:

Monday, November 27, 2000

A. 9:00–11:00 A.M.: Opening

Statement/Planning and Procedures

(Open)—The Chairman will open the

meeting with brief opening remarks.

The Committee will then review items

under consideration at this meeting and

consider topics proposed for future

consideration by the full Committee.

B. 11:15–12:00 Noon: Preparation of

ACNW Reports (Open)—The Committee

will discuss planned reports on the