[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 218 (Thursday, November 9, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 67418]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-28774]



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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-321 and 50-366]


Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc. Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear 
Plant, Units 1 and 2; Notice of Availability of the Draft Supplement 4 
to the Generic Environmental Impact Statement and Public Meeting for 
the License Renewal of Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(NRC) has published a draft plant-specific supplement to NUREG-1437, 
``Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear 
Plants [GEIS],'' regarding the renewal of operating licenses DPR-57 and 
NPF-5 for Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant (HNP), Units 1 and 2, for an 
additional 20 years. HNP is located in Appling County, Georgia. 
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 
through the NRC's Public Electronic Reading Room (PERR) found on the 
Internet at the following web address: http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/ADAMS/index.html. From this site, the public can gain access to the NRC's 
Agencywide Document Access and Management Systems (ADAMS), which 
provides text and image files of NRC's public documents. The draft 
report can also be examined, or copied for a fee, at the NRC's Public 
Document Room found at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike 
(first floor), Rockville, MD. In addition, the Appling County Library, 
located at 242 East Parker Street, Baxley, Georgia, 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 24, 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:

    David L. Meyer, Chief, Rules and Directives Branch, Division of 
Administrative Services, Mailstop T 6 D 59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, D.C. 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. Comments may be submitted electronically to the NRC to the e-
mail address [email protected]. All comments received by the NRC, 
including those made by Federal, State, and local agencies; Indian 
tribes; or other interested persons, will be accessible electronically 
through NRC's PERR link listed above, and can be examined, or copied 
for a fee, at the NRC's Public Document Room in Rockville, Maryland.
    The NRC staff will hold public meetings to present an overview of 
the draft plant-specific supplement to the GEIS and to accept public 
comments on the document. The public meetings will be held at the 
Southeastern Technical Institute, Vidalia, Georgia, on December 12, 
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 present oral 
comments at the meeting by contacting Mr. Andrew Kugler by telephone at 
1-800-368-5642, extension 2828, or by Internet to the NRC at 
[email protected] no later than December 7, 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. 
Kugler's attention no later than December 7, 2000, to provide the NRC 
staff adequate notice to determine whether the request can be 
accommodated.

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

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 31st 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. 00-28774 Filed 11-8-00; 8:45 am]
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