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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.

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 10 days of the notice

period, it is requested that 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 Datagram

Identification Number N1023 and the

following message addressed to

[APPROPRIATE PD]: petitioner’s name

and telephone number, date petition

was mailed, plant name, 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, DC 20555, and to Nicholas

S. Reynolds, Esquire, Winston and

Strawn, 1400 L Street, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20005–3502, attorney

for the licensee.

Nontimely filings of petitions for

leave to intervene, amended petitions,

supplemental petitions and/or requests

for 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 application for

amendment dated May 15, 1995, which

is available for public inspection at the

Commission’s Public Document Room,

the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street,

NW., Washington, DC, and at the local

public document room, located at the

Tomlinson Library, Arkansas Tech

University, Russellville, Arkansas

72801.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 16th day

of May 1995.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

George Kalman,

Senior Project Manager, Project Directorate

IV–1, Division of Reactor Projects—III/IV

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

[FR Doc. 95–12470 Filed 5–19–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7590–01–M

[Docket No.: 70–00033]

Notice of Receipt of Amendment

Request for Decommissioning the

Texas Instruments, Inc., Site in

Attleboro, Massachusetts and

Opportunity for a Hearing

SUMMARY: This is a notice to inform the

public that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission is considering issuance of

an amendment to Special Nuclear

Material License No. SNM–23, issued to

Texas Instruments, Inc. for possession of

special nuclear material and

decommissioning of the licensee’s site

in Attleboro, Massachusetts. Successful

implementation of the amendment

would lead to completion of

decommissioning, termination of the

license, and release of the Attleboro site

for unrestricted use.

DATES: The NRC hereby provides notice

of an opportunity for a hearing on the

license amendment under the

provisions of 10 CFR Part 2, Subpart L,

‘‘Informal Hearing Procedures for

Adjudications in Materials and Operator

Licensing Proceedings.’’ Pursuant to

§ 2.1205(a), any person whose interest

may be affected by this proceeding may

file a request for a hearing in accordance

with § 2.1205(c). A request for a hearing

must be filed within thirty (30) days of

the date of publication of this Federal

Register notice.

ADDRESSES: Written comments on the

amendment request should be sent to

USNRC, Region I, Attn: Mark Roberts,

Senior Health Physicist, 475 Allendale

Road, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania

19406 and should refer to Control No.

121534. Hand deliver comments to 475

Allendale Road, King of Prussia, PA

19406 between 7:45 a.m. and 4:15 p.m.

on Federal workdays.

In addition to meeting other

applicable requirements of 10 CFR Part

2 of the NRC’s regulations, a request for

a hearing filed by a person other than

an applicant must describe in detail:

(1) The interest of the requestor in the

proceeding;

(2) How that interest may be affected

by the results of the proceeding,

including the reasons why the requestor

should be permitted a hearing, with

particular reference to the factors set out

in § 2.1205(g);

(3) The requestor’s areas of concern

about the licensing activity that is the

subject matter of the proceeding; and

(4) The circumstances establishing

that the request for a hearing is timely

in accordance with § 2.1205(c).

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.1205(e),

each request for a hearing must also be

served, by delivering it personally or by

mail, to:

(1) The applicant, Texas Instruments,

Inc., 34 Forest Street, Attleboro,

Massachusetts 02703, Attention:

Michael Elliott; and

(2) The NRC staff, by delivery to the

Executive Director for Operations, One

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville

Pike, Rockville, MD 20852 or by mail

addressed to the Executive Director for

Operations, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission, Washington, DC 20555.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mark Roberts, Division of Radiation

Safety and Safeguards, Region I, 475

Allendale Road, King of Prussia, PA

19406, Telephone: (610) 337–5094.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

licensee (Texas Instruments, Inc.)

requested an amendment, by letter

dated December 19, 1994, to approve

the Supplement to the 1992

Remediation Plan (the Supplement)

submitted with the letter. Texas

Instruments, Inc. has been remediating

portions of the Attleboro facility since it

terminated active operations with

licensed material in 1981. The NRC staff

has reviewed and approved various

remediation activities throughout that

time, most recently the 1992

Remediation Plan for the Building 12

Burial Area on August 26, 1992. The

request before the NRC at this time is to

approve the Supplement which, if

properly implemented and completed,

will lead to release of the Attleboro site

for unrestricted use and termination of

the license.

The staff of the NRC’s Region I

Division of Radiation Safety and

Safeguards has reviewed the adequacy

of the amendment request and has asked

the licensee to provide additional

information and commitments.

However, the staff expects the

commitments to be forthcoming and

that satisfactory information will be

supplied. Therefore, the NRC staff

anticipates approval of the Supplement

based on receipt and review of the

additional information.

NRC is inviting public comment on

the amendment request prior to acting

on the request. NRC considers public

involvement more meaningful at this

stage prior to authorizing final

decommissioning activities at the site

than if it were offered immediately prior
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to license termination and after

completion of decommissioning.

For further details with respect to this

action, the application for amendment

request is available for inspection at the

Commission’s Public Document Room,

2120 L Street NW., Washington, DC

20555 or at NRC’s Region I offices

located at 475 Allendale Road, King of

Prussia, PA 19406. Persons desiring to

review documents at the Region I Office,

should call Ms. Sheryl Villar at (610)

337–5239 several days in advance to

assure that the documents will be

readily available for review.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 11th day

of May, 1995.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Michael F. Weber,

Chief, Low-Level Waste and Decommissioning

Projects Branch, Division of Waste

Management, Office of Nuclear Material

Safety and Safeguards.

[FR Doc. 95–12469 Filed 5–19–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7590–01–M

NUCLEAR WASTE TECHNICAL

REVIEW BOARD

Panel Meeting on Fracture Flow and

Transport in Arid Regions

Pursuant to its authority under

section 5051 of Public Law 100–203, the

Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act

of 1987, the Nuclear Waste Technical

Review Board’s (the Board) Panel on

Hydrogeology & Geochemistry will hold

a meeting June 26 and 27, 1995. The

meeting, which is open to the public,

will be held at the Holiday Inn Crowne

Plaza, San Francisco Airport, 600

Airport Boulevard, Burlingame,

California 94010; (Tel) 415–340–8500;

(Fax) 415–340–0599.

The meeting will begin at 1:00 p.m.

and recess at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, June

26, it will reconvene at 8:00 a.m., on

Tuesday, June 27, and adjourn at

approximately 1:00 p.m.

On the first day, the panel will hear

presentations on waste isolation in arid

regions; focus will be on the common

features that the control subsurface flow

and transport in this type of

environment. On the second day, the

panel will hear what critical data is

needed to characterize and model flow

and transport in fractured unsaturated

rocks, whether these data can be

obtained in a reasonable amount of

time, and what their limitations might

be. A round-table discussion then will

explore the impact of fast flow pathways

on site suitability issues, including

computations for ground-water travel

time and total system performance

assessment.

As with all the Board’s meetings, time

will be set aside on the agenda for

comments and questions from the

public. To ensure that everyone wishing

to speak is offered time to do so, the

board encourages those who have

comments to sign the Public Comment

Register which will be located at the

sign-in table each day of the meeting.

Written comments for the record also

may be submitted to the board staff at

the sign-in table.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review

Board was created by Congress in the

Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act

of 1987 to evaluate the technical and

scientific validity of activities

undertaken by the DOE in its program

to manage the disposal of the nation’s

high-level radioactive waste and spent

nuclear fuel. In that same legislation,

Congress directed the DOE to

characterize a site at Yucca Mountain,

Nevada, for its suitability as a potential

location for a permanent repository for

the disposal of that waste.

Transcripts of the meeting will be

available on computer disk on a libraryloan basis in paper format from Davonya

Barnes, Board staff, beginning August

22, 1995. For further information,

contact Frank Randall, External Affairs,

Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board,

1100 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 910,

Arlington, Virginia 22209; (703) 235–

4473.

Dated: May 17, 1995.

William Barnard,

Executive Director, Nuclear Waste Technical

Review Board.

[FR Doc. 95–12481 Filed 5–19–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6820–AM

POSTAL RATE COMMISSION

[Order No. 1056 and Docket No. A95–11]

Notice and Order Accepting Appeal

and Establishing Procedural Schedule

Under 39 U.S.C. § 404(b)(5)

Issued May 16, 1995.

Before Commissioners: Edward J. Gleiman,

Chairman; W. H. ‘‘Trey’’ LeBlanc III, ViceChairman; George W. Haley; H. Edward

Quick, Jr.; Wayne A. Schley; In the Matter of:

South Westerlo, New York 12163 (Raye C.

Saddlemire, Petitioner

Docket Number: A95–11

Name of Affected Post Office: South

Westerlo, New York 12163

Name(s) of Petitioner(s): Raye C.

Saddlemire

Type of Determination: Closing

Date of Filing of Appeal Papers: May 11,

1995

Categories of Issues Apparently Raised:

1. Effect on postal services [39 U.S.C.

404(b)(2)(C)].

2. Effect on the community [39 U.S.C.

404(b)(2)(A)].

After the Postal Service files the

administrative record and the

Commission reviews it, the Commission

may find that there are more legal issues

than those set forth above. Or, the

Commission may find that the Postal

Service’s determination disposes of one

or more of those issues.

The Postal Reorganization Act

requires that the Commission issue its

decision within 120 days from the date

this appeal was filed (39 U.S.C. 404

(b)(5)). In the interest of expedition, in

light of the 120-day decision schedule,

the Commission may request the Postal

Service to submit memoranda of law on

any appropriate issue. If requested, such

memoranda will be due 20 days from

the issuance of the request and the

Postal Service shall serve a copy of its

memoranda on the petitioners. The

Postal Service may incorporate by

reference in its briefs or motions, any

arguments presented in memoranda it

previously filed in this docket. If

necessary, the Commission also may ask

petitioners or the Postal Service for

more information.

The Commission Orders:

(a) The Postal Service shall file the

record in this appeal by May 26, 1995.

(b) The Secretary of the Postal Rate

Commission shall publish this Notice

and Order and Procedural Schedule in

the Federal Register.

By the Commission.

Margaret P. Crenshaw,

Secretary.

Appendix

May 11, 1995—Filing of Appeal letter

May 16, 1995—Commission Notice and

Order of Filing of Appeal

June 5, 1995—Last day of filing of

petitions to intervene [see 39 CFR

3001.111(b)]

June 15, 1995—Petitioner’s Participant

Statement or Initial Brief [see 39 CFR

3001.115(a) and (b)]

July 5, 1995—Postal Service’s

Answering Brief [see 39 CFR

3001.115(c)]

July 20, 1995—Petitioner’s Reply Brief

should Petitioner choose to file one

[see 39 CFR 3001.115(d)]

July 27, 1995—Deadline for motions by

any party requesting oral argument.

The Commission will schedule oral

argument only when it is a necessary

addition to the written filings [see 39

C.F.R. 3001.116]