[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 35 (Friday, February 21, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 8528]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-4111]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 70-143-MLA-2; ASLBP No. 03-810-02-MLA]


Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc.; Designation of Presiding Officer

    Pursuant to delegation by the Commission, see 37 FR 28,710 (Dec. 
29, 1972), and the Commission's regulations, see 10 CFR Sec. Sec.  
2.1201, 2.1207, notice is hereby given that (1) a single member of the 
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel is designated as Presiding 
Officer to rule on petitions for leave to intervene and/or requests for 
hearing; and (2) upon making the requisite findings in accordance with 
10 CFR Sec.  2.1205(h), the Presiding Officer will conduct an 
adjudicatory hearing in the following proceeding: Nuclear Fuel 
Services, Inc., Erwin, Tennessee, (Material License Amendment-2).
    The hearing will be conducted pursuant to 10 CFR part 2, subpart L, 
of the Commission's Regulations, ``Informal Hearing Procedures for 
Adjudications in Materials and Operator Licensing Proceedings.'' This 
proceeding concerns requests for hearing submitted on February 6, 2003, 
by Friends of the Nolichucky River Valley, Inc., the State of Franklin 
Group of the Sierra Club, the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, 
the Tennessee Environmental Council, and Kathy Helms-Hughes. The 
requests were filed in response to an NRC staff notice of receipt of a 
second request from Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. (NFS), to amend its 
special nuclear materials license to support downblending and 
conversion of high-enriched uranium material to low-enriched uranium 
oxides. This amendment would allow processing operations at its Erwin, 
Tennessee Blended Low-Enriched Uranium Preparation Facility to prepare 
low-enriched uranium solutions for a new complex that would manufacture 
low-enriched nuclear reactor fuel. The notice of receipt of amendment 
request and opportunity for a hearing were published in the Federal 
Register on January 7, 2003 (68 FR 796).
    The Presiding Officer in this proceeding is Administrative Judge 
Alan S. Rosenthal. Pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR Sec. Sec.  
2.722, 2.1209, Administrative Judge Richard F. Cole has been appointed 
to assist the Presiding Officer in taking evidence and in preparing a 
suitable record for review.
    All correspondence, documents, and other materials shall be filed 
with Judges Rosenthal and Cole in accordance with 10 CFR Sec.  2.1203. 
Their addresses are: Administrative Judge Alan S. Rosenthal, Presiding 
Officer, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; Administrative Judge 
Richard F. Cole, Special Assistant, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 
Panel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.

    Issued at Rockville, Maryland, this thirteenth day of February 
2003.
G. Paul Bollwerk, III,
Chief Administrative Judge, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel.
[FR Doc. 03-4111 Filed 2-20-03; 8:45 am]
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