[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 207 (Wednesday, October 25, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63898-63899]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-27382]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-313]


Entergy Operations, Inc., Arkansas Nuclear One, Unit 1; Notice of 
Availability of the Draft Supplement 3 to the Generic Environmental 
Impact Statement and Public Meeting for the License Renewal of Arkansas 
Nuclear One, Unit 1

    Notice is hereby given that the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(the Commission) has published a draft plant-specific supplement to the 
Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS), NUREG-1437, regarding 
the renewal of operating license DPR-51 for an additional 20 years of 
operation at the Arkansas Nuclear One, Unit 1 (ANO-1). ANO-1 is located 
in Pope County, Arkansas. Possible alternatives to the proposed action 
(license renewal) include no action and reasonable alternative energy 
sources.
    The draft supplement to the GEIS is available electronically for 
public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room located at One White 
Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland, 
or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of NRC's 
document system (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at 
http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/ADAMS/index.html (the Public Electronic Reading 
Room). In addition, the Pendergraft Library, located at Arkansas Tech 
University, 305 West Q Street, Russellville, AR 72801, has agreed to 
make the draft supplement to the GEIS available for public inspection.
    Any interested party may submit comments on the draft supplement to 
the GEIS for consideration by the NRC staff. To be certain of 
consideration, comments on the draft supplement to the GEIS and the 
proposed action must be received by January 4, 2001. Comments received 
after the due date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but 
the NRC staff is able to assure consideration only for comments 
received on or before this date. Written comments on the draft 
supplement to the GEIS should be sent to:

Chief, Rules and Directives Branch, Division of Administrative 
Services, Mailstop T-6D 59, 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 
electronically at the Commission's Public Document Room in Rockville, 
Maryland or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of 
NRC's document system (ADAMS).
    The NRC staff will hold a public meeting to present an overview of 
the draft plant-specific supplement to the GEIS and to accept public 
comments on the document. The public meeting will be held at the 
Holiday Inn, Russellville, Arkansas, on November 14, 2000. There will 
be two sessions to accommodate interested parties. The first session 
will commence at 1:30 p.m. and will continue until 4:30 p.m. The second 
session will commence at 7:00 p.m. and will continue until 10:00 p.m. 
Both meetings will be transcribed and will include (1) a presentation 
of the contents of the draft plant-specific supplement to the GEIS, and 
(2) the opportunity for interested government agencies, organizations, 
and individuals to provide comments on the draft report. Persons may 
pre-register to attend or

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present oral comments at the meeting by contacting Mr. Thomas J. Kenyon 
by telephone at 1-800-368-5642, extension 1120, or by Internet to the 
NRC at [email protected] no later than November 6, 2000. Members of the 
public may also register to provide oral comments within 15 minutes of 
the start of each session. 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. 
Kenyon's attention no later than November 6, 2000, to provide the NRC 
staff adequate notice to determine whether the request can be 
accommodated.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Thomas J. Kenyon, Generic Issues, 
Environmental, Financial, and Rulemaking Branch, Division of Regulatory 
Improvement Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 
DC 20555. Mr. Kenyon may be contacted at the aforementioned telephone 
number or e-mail address.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 3rd day of October, 2000.
    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

David B. Matthews,
Director, Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs, Office of 
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 00-27382 Filed 10-24-00; 8:45 am]
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