[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 50 (Tuesday, March 14, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13797-13798]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-6198]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Notice of Intent To Prepare a Draft Supplement to the Generic 
Environmental Impact Statement on Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities 
and To Hold Public Meetings for the Purpose of Scoping and To Solicit 
Public Input Into the Process

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(NRC, the Commission) intends to prepare a draft supplement to the 
Final Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) on Decommissioning 
of Nuclear Facilities (NUREG-0586, August 1988) and to hold public 
scoping meetings for the purpose of soliciting comments. Although 
NUREG-0586 covered all NRC-licensed facilities, this supplement will 
address only the decommissioning of nuclear power reactors.
    The NRC plans to hold public scoping meetings in four regions of 
the U.S. on the following days to present an overview of the proposed 
supplement to the GEIS and to accept public comment on its proposal: 
Midwest (Chicago, Illinois, area) April 27, 2000, Northeast (Boston, 
Massachusetts, area) May 17, 2000, Southeast (Atlanta, Georgia, area) 
June 13, 2000, and West (San Francisco, California, area) June 21, 
2000. The public scoping meetings will begin at 7:00 p.m. and continue 
to 10:00 p.m. The locations of these meetings and any changes to the 
dates, which are not expected to be more than one day different from 
the dates set forth in this notice, will be announced in the Federal 
Register and in local media nearer the actual dates of the meetings.
    All meetings will be transcribed and will include (1) a 
presentation by the NRC staff on the reasons for preparing a supplement 
to the GEIS and the environmental issues related to power reactor 
decommissioning to be addressed in the GEIS, and (2) the opportunity 
for interested government agencies, private organizations, and 
individuals to provide comments. Anyone wishing to attend or present 
oral comments at the meetings may pre-register by contacting Mr. Dino 
C. Scaletti by telephone at 1-800-368-5642, extension 1104, or by 
Internet to the NRC at [email protected], 1 week prior to a specific 
meeting. Members of the public may also register to provide oral 
comments up to 15 minutes prior to the start of each meeting. 
Individual oral comments may be limited by the time available, 
depending on the number of persons who register. If special equipment 
or accommodations are needed to attend or present information at the 
public meeting, the need should be brought to Mr. Scaletti's attention 
no later than 1 week prior to a specific meeting, so that the NRC staff 
can determine whether the request can be accommodated.
    Any interested party may submit comments related to the NRC's 
intent to supplement the GEIS for consideration by the NRC staff. To be 
certain of consideration, comments on the intent to prepare the 
supplement must be received by July 15, 2000. Comments received after 
the due date will be considered if it is practical to do so. At this 
time, comments are being sought only on the intent to prepare the 
supplement. The NRC staff currently projects issuance of the draft 
supplement for comment in early 2001. Comments on the draft supplement 
will be solicited at that time. Written comments should be sent to

Chief, Rules and Directives Branch, Division of Administrative 
Services, Mail Stop T-6 D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001.

    Comments may be hand-delivered to the NRC at 11545 Rockville Pike, 
Rockville, Maryland, between 7:45 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. on Federal 
workdays. Submittal of electronic comments may be sent by the Internet 
to the NRC at [email protected]. All comments received by the Commission, 
including those made by Federal, State, and local agencies, Indian 
tribes, or other interested persons, will be made available for public 
inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, 2120 L Street, NW, 
in Washington, DC. Also, publicly available records will be accessible 
electronically from the ADAMS Public Library component on the NRC Web 
site, http://www.nrc.gov (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Dino C. Scaletti, Decommissioning 
Section, Project Directorate IV & Decommissioning, Division of 
Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, 
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555. Mr. Scaletti 
can be contacted at the aforementioned telephone number.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day of March, 2000.


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    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Dino C. Scaletti,
Senior Project Manager, Decommissioning Section, Project Directorate IV 
& Decommissioning, Division of Licensing Project Management, Office of 
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 00-6198 Filed 3-13-00; 8:45 am]
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