[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 93 (Monday, May 15, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25931-25932]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-11859]



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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-356]


University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Low Power Reactor 
Assembly; Notice of Proposed Issuance of Orders Authorizing Disposition 
of Component Parts

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) is 
considering issuance of an Order authorizing the University of Illinois 
at Urbana-Champaign (the licensee) to partially dismantle the Low Power 
Reactor Assembly (LOPRA). This would return the reactor to a 
subcritical assembly. After transfer of all LOPRA byproduct and special 
nuclear material to the Illinois Advanced TRIGA Reactor (TRIGA), 
Facility License No. R-115, the Commission would consider an Order 
authorizing termination of Facility License No. R-117, for the LOPRA, 
in accordance with the licensee's application dated February 10, 1995.
    The first of these Orders would be issued following the 
Commission's review and approval of the licensee's disposition plan for 
the LOPRA. This Order would authorize implementation of the approved 
plan. Following completion of the authorized activities and 
verification by the Commission that transfer of all radioactive 
material to the TRIGA license has been achieved, the Commission would 
issue a second Order terminating the LOPRA facility license. Prior to 
issuance of each Order, the Commission will have made the findings 
required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and 
the Commission's regulations.
    By June 14, 1995, the licensee may file a request for a hearing 
with respect to issuance of the subject Orders and any person whose 
interest may be affected by this proceeding and who wishes to 
participate as a party in the proceeding must file a written request 
for a hearing and a petition for leave to intervene. Requests for a 
hearing and a petition for leave to intervene shall be filed in 
accordance with the Commission's ``Rules of Practice for Domestic 
Licensing Proceedings'' in 10 CFR part 2. If a request for a hearing or 
petition for leave to intervene is filed by the above date, the 
Commission or an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, designated by the 
Commission or by the Chairman of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 
Panel, will rule on the request and/or petition and the Secretary or 
the designated Atomic Safety and Licensing Board will issue a notice of 
a hearing or an appropriate order.
    As required by 10 CFR 2.714, 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 factors: (1) The nature of the petitioner's right under the 
Act to be made a party to the proceeding; (2) the nature and extent of 
the petitioner's property, financial, or other interest in the 
proceeding; and (3) the possible effect of any order which may be 
entered in the proceeding on the petitioner's interest. The petition 
should also identify the specific aspect(s) of the subject matter of 
the proceeding as to which petitioner wishes to intervene. Any person 
who has filed a petition for leave to intervene or who has been 
admitted as a party may amend the petition without requesting leave of 
the Board up to fifteen (15) days prior to the first prehearing 
conference scheduled in the proceeding, but such an amended petition 
must satisfy the specificity requirements described above.
    Not later than fifteen (15) days prior to the first prehearing 
conference scheduled in the proceeding, a petitioner shall file a 
supplement to the petition to intervene which must include a list of 
the contentions which are sought to be litigated in the matter, and the 
bases for each contention set forth with reasonable specificity. 
Contentions shall be limited to matters within the scope of the action 
under consideration. A petitioner who fails to file such a supplement 
which satisfies 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 in the conduct of the hearing, 
including the opportunity to [[Page 25932]] present evidence and cross-
examine witnesses.
    A request for a hearing or a petition for leave to intervene must 
be filed with the Secretary of the Commission, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555, Attention: Docketing and Services 
Branch, or may be delivered to the Commission's Public Document Room, 
the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street, NW, Washington, DC by the above 
date. Where petitions are filed during the last ten (10) days of the 
notice period, it is requested that the petitioner or representative 
for the petitioner promptly so inform the Commission by a toll-free 
telephone call to Western Union at 1-(800) 248-5100 (in Missouri 1-
(800) 342-6700). The Western Union operator should be given Dataram 
Identification Number N1023 and the following message addressed to 
Seymour H. Weiss: petitioner's name and telephone number; date petition 
was mailed; the University of Illinois LOPRA; and publication date and 
page number of this Federal Register notice. A copy of the petition 
should also be sent to the Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555, and to Mr. Byron H. 
Higgins, University Legal Counsel, 258 Henry Administration Building, 
506 South Wright Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801, attorney for the 
licensee.
    Nontimely filings of petitions for leave to intervene, amended 
petitions, supplemental petitions and/or requests for a hearing will 
not be entertained absent a determination by the Commission, the 
presiding officer or the presiding Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 
that the petition and/or request should be granted based upon a 
balancing of the factors specified in 10 CFR 2.714(a)(1)(i)-(v) and 
2.714(d).
    For further details with respect to this action, see the licensee's 
application dated February 10, 1995, which is available for public 
inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, the Gelman 
Building, 2120 L Street, NW, Washington, DC.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 9th day of May 1995.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Seymour H. Weiss,
Director, Non-Power Reactors and Decommissioning Project Directorate, 
Division of Project Support, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 95-11859 Filed 5-12-95; 8:45 am]
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