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Mr. Price. Mr. Chairman, we have not issued any licenses since 

 1&60, when we stopped that part of the program. 



I think the rules still provide that in order to issue a license, for 

 waste disposal, commercial waste disposal, we have to publish a notice, 

 and ojffer a public hearing. 



I do not remember what cases ended up in a hearing, if any. 



It was 10 years ago. I would have to check the record. 



Mr. DiNGELL. Would you check that, and inform us if you please, 

 first, what were the requirements with regard to public notice and 

 hearing, and second, whether in those days, a jDublic hearing was held 

 on any of the permits which were ultimately issued. 



I remember I was a member of this committee, and we had some 

 very heated discussions with the Atomic Energy Commission on some 

 dumping off the coast of California. It may be that you remember 

 those discussions, and there was great displeasure expressed by the 

 oceanographic subcommittee at that time over the practice of dumping, 

 and I think that may have contributed at that time to the halting of 

 dumping off the California coast, and I remember, the California Sal- 

 vage were the people doing it at that time, am I correct about that? 



Mr. Price, I think it was probably another company, Mr. Chair- 

 man, but I would have to check. 



Mr. DiNGELL. Would you get us the information on those? 



Mr. Price. I would be happy to. 



(The information follows:) 



Rules of Practice Authorizing Ocean Dumping 



The Atomic Energy Commission's "Rules of Practice," 10 CFR Part 2, became 

 effective on March 6, 1956, and provided for notice to others of the filing of the 

 application as required by Atomic Energy Commission regulations and such 

 additional notice as it deems appropriate. Although not formally required at 

 the time, notices of receipt of applications for licenses authorizing sea disposal 

 of radioactive waste were filed in the Federal Register. Notices of proposed 

 issuances of such licenses were also published in the Federal Register. The 

 notices offered the opportunity for public hearings. 



The Commission's "Rules of Practice" have been amended so that the regu- 

 lation now provides that an applicant for a license authorizing commercial 

 disposal of waste radioactive material shall serve a copy of the application on 

 the chief executive of the municipality in which the facility is to be located or 

 the activity is to be conducted or, if the facility is not to be located or the 

 activity conducted within a municipality, on the chief executive of the county. 

 The Governor or other appropriate official of the State is sent a copy of the 

 application by the AEC and a notice of receipt of tihe application is published in 

 the Federal Register. 



A hearing on an application for commercial disposal of radioactive waste at 

 sea is not mandatory. A notice of proposed action is required to be published in 

 the Federal Register which provides the opportunity for any iierson whose 

 interest may be affected by the proceeding to file a petition for leave to inter- 

 vene within 15 days from the date of publication in the Federal Register. At 

 the time the notice of proposed action is published in the Federal Register, 

 State and local officials are notified of the proposed action and a public announce- 

 ment concerning the proi)osed action is issued by the AEC. 



If no requests for leave to intervene are received, a notice of issuance of the 

 license is published in the Federal Register and State and local officials are 

 notified of the license issuance. 



There have been two hearings relating to applications for licenses authorizing 

 sea disposal of radioactive wastes. 



1. A hearing was held on November 19, 1958, on the application filed by the 

 Walker Trucking Company, which requested authority to establish a waste 

 storage facility in Portland, Connecticut, and to dispose of radioactive waste at 



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