NRC: News Release - Region I - 2003-038 - NRC Licensing Board to Hear Argument on Contention Challenging Millstone License Amendment

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No. I-03-038		May 29, 2003
CONTACT:	Diane Screnci (610) 337-5330 Neil A. Sheehan (610) 337-5331	E-mail: opa1@nrc.gov
NRC LICENSING BOARD TO HEAR ARGUMENT ON CONTENTION CHALLENGING MILLSTONE LICENSE AMENDMENT Printable Version
A Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety and Licensing Board has scheduled oral argument for June 5 on whether a hearing should be granted on a challenge to a request by Dominion Nuclear Connecticut to amend the license of its Millstone Nuclear Power Station, Unit 2, in Waterford, Conn. The proceeding involves a petition for intervention submitted in December by the Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone challenging a Dominion proposal to change certain facility technical specifications relating to containment closure during activities in the spent fuel pool area. Oral argument by counsel for the parties will begin at 9:00 a.m. in the Conrad/Morgan Meeting Room of the Best Western Sovereign Hotel, 9 Whitehall Avenue, in Mystic, Conn. The public is invited to observe the proceeding. The following Administrative Judges from the NRC’s Atomic Safety And Licensing Board are members of this panel: Ann Marshall Young, Chair; Dr. Richard F. Cole; and Dr. Thomas S. Elleman. Documents related to this proceeding are available electronically through the agency’’s Agencywide Documents Access and Management Systems (ADAMS) at: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams/web-based.html. Help in using ADAMS is available from the NRC’’s Public Document Room at 800/397-4209. Those without internet access may also contact the Public Document Room at this number.