[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 98 (Monday, May 23, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29544-29545]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-2583]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 70-7004-ML and ASLBP No. 05-838-01-ML]


USEC, Inc.; 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 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 is being established to preside over the following 
proceeding:

USEC, Inc.

(American Centrifuge Plant)

    A Licensing Board is being established pursuant to a May 12, 2005 
Commission memorandum and order (CLI-05-11, 60 NRC--) in this 
proceeding regarding the application of the USEC, Inc., (USEC) for a 
license to possess and use source, byproduct, and special nuclear 
material and to enrich natural uranium to a maximum of ten percent U-
235 by the gas centrifuge

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process at a facility, to be known as the American Centrifuge Plant, 
that would be located in Piketon, Ohio. At the outset of this 
proceeding, the Commission indicated it would make threshold standing 
determinations itself, and would refer the petitions of persons with 
the requisite standing to the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel 
for further adjudicatory proceedings (CLI-04-30, 60 NRC 426, 429 
(2004); see also 69 FR 61411 (Oct. 18, 2004)). In its May 12 issuance, 
the Commission found that both organizational petitioner Portsmouth/
Piketon Residents for Environmental Safety and Security (PRESS) and 
individual petitioner Geoffrey Sea have standing to intervene and, 
accordingly, referred their petitions and associated contentions to the 
Panel for further appropriate action.
    The Board is comprised of the following administrative judges:

Lawrence G. McDade, Chair, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, 
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
Dr. Paul B. Abramson, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
Dr. Richard E. Wardwell, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.

    All correspondence, documents, and other materials shall be filed 
with the administrative judges in accordance with 10 CFR 2.302.

    Issued at Rockville, Maryland, this 17th day of May, 2005.
G. Paul Bollwerk, III,
Chief Administrative Judge, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel.
[FR Doc. E5-2583 Filed 5-20-05; 8:45 am]
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