[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 70 (Tuesday, April 11, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19397-19398]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-8951]


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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 a Public Meeting 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 will hold a public scoping meeting on April 27, 2000, at 
the Radisson Hotel Lisle-Naperville (telephone: 630-505-1000), 3000 
Warrenville Road, Lisle, Illinois 60532-3665, to present an overview of 
the proposed supplement to the GEIS and to accept public comment on its 
proposal. The public scoping meeting will begin at 7:00 p.m. and 
continue to 10:00 p.m.
    The meeting 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 this 
meeting may preregister 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

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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 6th day of April 2000.

    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. 00-8951 Filed 4-10-00; 8:45 am]
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