Northeast Nuclear Energy Company; Establishment of Atomic Safety and Licensing Board

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-423-LA-3; ASLBP No. 00-771-01-LA]

Northeast Nuclear Energy Company; 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.

Northeast Nuclear Energy Company, Millstone Nuclear Power Station, Unit

No. 3

This Board is being established pursuant to the request for hearing

submitted by the Connecticut Coalition

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Against Millstone and the Long Island Coalition Against Millstone. The

petition for leave to intervene was filed in response to issuance by

the NRC staff of a proposed no significant hazards consideration notice

with respect to a license amendment request of the Northeast Nuclear

Energy Company to amend the operating license for the Millstone Nuclear

Power Station, Unit No. 3. The proposed amendment would modify the

license to allow an increase in the capacity of the spent fuel storage

pools. A notice of the proposed amendment was published in the Federal

Register at 64 FR 48672 (Sept. 7, 1999).

The Board is comprised of the following administrative judges:

Charles Bechhoefer, Chairman, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel,

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555-0001

Dr. Richard F. Cole, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555-0001

Dr. Charles N. Kelber, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555-0001

All correspondence, documents, and other materials shall be filed

with the Judges in accordance with 10 CFR 2.701.

Issued at Rockville, Maryland, this 19th day of October 1999.

G. Paul Bollwerk, III,

Chief Administrative Judge, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel.

[FR Doc. 99-27759 Filed 10-22-99; 8:45 am]

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