[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 248 (Wednesday, December 24, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 79196]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-30665]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 52-027-COL and 52-028-COL; ASLBP No. 09-875-03-COL-BD01]


South Carolina Electric & Gas Company, Acting for Itself and as 
Agent for the South Carolina Public Service Authority (also Referred to 
as Santee Cooper); Establishment of Atomic Safety and Licensing Board

    Pursuant to delegation by the Commission dated December 29, 1972, 
published in the Federal Register, 37 FR 28,710 (1972), and the 
Commission's regulations, see 10 CFR 2.104, 2.300, 2.303, 2.309, 2.311, 
2.318, and 2.321, notice is hereby given that an Atomic Safety and 
Licensing Board (Board) is being established to preside over the 
following proceeding:

South Carolina Electric & Gas Company, Acting for Itself and as Agent 
for the South Carolina Public Service Authority (also Referred to as 
Santee Cooper) (Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station, Units 2 and 3)

    This proceeding concerns Petitions to Intervene from (1) Joseph 
Wojcicki, and (2) the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth, which were 
submitted in response to an October 10, 2008 Notice of Order, Hearing, 
and Opportunity to Petition for Leave to Intervene regarding an 
application seeking approval of a combined license for the Virgil C. 
Summer Nuclear Station, Units 2 and 3, to be located in Fairfield 
County, South Carolina (73 FR 60,362). The South Carolina Office of 
Regulatory Staff also filed a request to participate in any hearing as 
an interested State.
    The Board is comprised of the following administrative judges: Paul 
B. Abramson, Chairman, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Michael F. 
Kennedy, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Jeffrey D. E. 
Jeffries, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
    All correspondence, documents, and other materials shall be filed 
in accordance with the NRC E-Filing rule, which the NRC promulgated in 
August 2007 (72 FR 49,139).

    Issued at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day of December 2008.
E. Roy Hawkens,
Chief Administrative Judge, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel.
[FR Doc. E8-30665 Filed 12-23-08; 8:45 am]
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