Federal Register: October 7, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 194)NoticesPage 54653-54654From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Docket Nos. 70-754 and 70-1220G.E. Vallecitos; Notice of Public Meeting

The NRC will conduct a public meeting at the Shrine Event Center, 170 Lindbergh Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, on October 20, 1999, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. The meeting will discuss licensed activities related to post-irradiation examination of reactor fuel at the General Electric (G.E.) Vallecitos site. The G.E. Vallecitos site has been engaged in research and development since the 1950's. The G.E. Vallecitos site includes a Radioactive Materials Laboratory where the post-irradiation examinations are done. GE also holds other NRC licenses at Vallecitos. The G.E. Vallecitos site also fabricates radioactive sources used in medicine and industry under a license issued by the State of California.

The public meeting was initiated at the request of several area public officials who expressed interest in the safety of the periodic shipments of irradiated nuclear fuel for post irradiation examination at the G.E. Vallecitos site. The meeting will include

[Page 54654]a short presentation by representatives of G.E. Vallecitos on site history and current operations. This will be followed by presentations by NRC representatives on the licensing and inspection programs covering the various activities authorized by the NRC licenses issued to G.E. Vallecitos. This will include a discussion on the safety aspects of the periodic shipments of irradiated nuclear fuel to the G.E. Vallecitos facility. After the presentations, members of the public will have an opportunity to ask questions.

For more information contact Breck Henderson, Office of Public Affairs, Region IV, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 611 Ryan Plaza Drive, Suite 400, Arlington, Texas 76011; telephone 817-860-8128.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 1st day of October 1999.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Marvin M. Mendonca, Senior Project Manager, Events Assessment, Generic Communications and Non-Power Reactors Branch, Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

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