31964 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 121 / Friday, June 21, 1996 / Notices

1 Don’t Waste Oregon Council, Greenpeace,

Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Power, Friends

of the Coast Opposing Nuclear Pollution, New

England Coalition Against Nuclear Pollution, Ohio

Citizens for Responsible Energy, Physicians for

Social Responsibility, the Redwood Alliance, and

the Westchester People’s Action Coalition.

The Chairman has approved tribal

gaming ordinances authorizing class III

gaming for the following Indian tribes:

Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes of the Fort

Peck Reservation

Big Pine Paiute Tribe of the Owens

Valley

Bishop Paiute Tribe

Citizen Band Potawatomi Indians of

Oklahoma

Comanche Indian Tribe

Conferated Tribes of the Colville

Reservation

Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma

Elk Valley Rancheria

Ho-Chunk Nation

Hualapai Tribe

Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma

Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma

Klamath Tribes

Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake

Superior Chippewa Indians

Lower Brule Sioux Tribe

Mescalero Apache Tribe

Morongo Band of Mission Indians

Muscogee (Creek) Nation

Narragansett Indian Tribe

Nisqually Indian Tribe

Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind

River Indian Reservation

Omaha Tribe of Nebraska

Pit River Tribe

Pueblo of Laguna

Pueblo of San Juan

Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma

Redwood Valley Rancheria

Rincon San Luiseno Band of Mission

Indians

Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri

Santa Ynez Band of Mission Indians

Santo Domingo Tribe

Sherwood Valley Rancheria

Smith River Rancheria

Spokane Tribe of Indians

Suquamish Tribe

Susanville Indian Rancheria

Swinomish Indian Tribal Community

U-Tu Utu Gwaitu Paiute Tribe of Benton

Paiute Reservation

Yankton Sioux Tribe

Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe

Harold A. Monteau,

Chairman.

[FR Doc. 96–15791 Filed 6–20–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7565–01–M

NUCLEAR REGULATORY

COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50–219–OLA; ASLBP No. 96–

717–02–OLA]

General Public Utility Nuclear Corp.;

Establishment of Atomic Safety and

Licensing Board

Pursuant to delegation by the

Commission dated December 29, 1972,

published in the Federal Register, 37 FR

28710 (1972), and Sections 2.105, 2.700,

2.702, 2.714, 2.714a, 2.717, 2.721 of the

Commission’s Regulations, all as

amended, an Atomic Safety and

Licensing Board is being established to

preside over the following proceeding.

General Public Utility Nuclear Corporation

Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station

This Board is being established

pursuant to a notice published by the

Commission on May 8, 1996, in the

Federal Register (61 FR 20842). The

notice reports a proposed determination

by the Staff that the issuance of a license

amendment to the General Public Utility

Nuclear Corporation for the Oyster

Creek Nuclear Generating Station would

involve no significant hazards

consideration. The amendment would

revise the technical specifications to

allow the handling of loads greater than

the weight of one fuel assembly over the

irradiated fuel in the spent fuel storage

facility. The petitioners, Nuclear

Information and Resource Service,

Oyster Creek Nuclear Watch and

Citizens Awareness Network, seek to

intervene and request a hearing on the

grounds that the change would present

a significant increase in the risk

probability of an accident.

The Board is comprised of the

following administrative judges:

G. Paul Bollwerk, Chairman, Atomic

Safety and Licensing Board Panel,

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,

Washington, DC 20555

Charles N. Kelber, Atomic Safety and

Licensing Board Panel, U.S. Nuclear

Regulatory Commission, Washington,

DC 20555

Peter S. Lam, Atomic Safety and

Licensing Board Panel, U.S. Nuclear

Regulatory Commission, Washington,

DC 20555

All correspondence, documents and

other materials shall be filed with the

Judges in accordance with 10 CFR

§ 2.701.

Issued at Rockville, MD, this 14th day of

June 1996.

B. Paul Cotter, Jr.

Chief Administrative Judge, Atomic Safety

and Licensing Board Panel.

[FR Doc. 96–15836 Filed 6–20–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P

[Docket Nos. 50–029, 50–312, 50–344, 50–

206; License Nos. DPR–3, DPR–54, NPF–

1, DPR–13]

Yankee Atomic Electric Co.,

Sacramento Municipal Utility District,

Portland General Electric Co., and

Southern California Edison Co.;

Receipt of a Petition for, and Issuance

of, a Director’s Decision under 10 CFR

2.206

Notice is hereby given that by a letter

dated April 1, 1996, Citizens Awareness

Network, Nuclear Information and

Resource Service, and nine other

organizations 1 (Petitioners) requested

action pursuant to 10 CFR 2.206 to

modify the possession-only licenses of

the Yankee Nuclear Power Station (or

Yankee Rowe), Rancho Seco Nuclear

Generating Station, Trojan Nuclear

Plant, and San Onofre Nuclear

Generating Station, Unit 1, licensed

respectively to the Yankee Atomic

Electric Company (YAEC), Sacramento

Municipal Utility District, Portland

General Electric Company, and

Southern California Edison Company

(Licensees). The Petitioners request that

the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission (NRC) take emergency

action to require a collaborative effort by

the licensees of the four nuclear power

plants to document and research

radiation embrittlement of reactor

pressure vessels (RPVs) as an age-related

deterioration phenomenon. Specifically,

Petitioners request that the NRC: (1)

Suspend the current plan by Yankee

Atomic Electric Company (YAEC) for

the removal, transport, and burial of the

Yankee Rowe RPV; (2) require the

licensees of the four permanently closed

reactors, who are now developing plans

to remove, transport, and bury their

respective RPVs, to suspend such

operations; and (3) require the owners of

the four nuclear power plants to present

substantial metal and weld specimens

from their respective RPVs to the NRC

for analysis in order to study and

materially archive the radiation

embrittlement phenomenon.

As bases for their requests, Petitioners

state that: (1) The four permanently

closed reactors constitute a valuable

asset for evaluating RPV embrittlement,

(2) ‘‘boat’’ or scoop samples from the

RPV could be retrieved with minimal

occupational radiation exposure, (3)

data from boat samples could be used to

verify the veracity of simulated