[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 115 (Thursday, June 14, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32396-32397]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-14975]


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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 Final Supplement 4 
to the Generic Environmental Impact Statement Regarding License Renewal 
for the Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(NRC) has published a final plant-specific Supplement 4 to the Generic 
Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS), NUREG-1437, regarding the 
renewal of operating licenses DPR-57 and NPF-5 for the Edwin I. Hatch 
Nuclear Plant

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(HNP), Units 1 and 2, for an additional 20 years of operation. The HNP 
units are operated by the Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc. 
(SNC). HNP is located in Appling County, Georgia. Possible alternatives 
to the proposed action (license renewal) include no action and 
reasonable alternative methods of power generation.
    In Section 9.3 of the report:

    The staff recommends that the Commission determine that the 
adverse environmental impacts of license renewal for HNP, Units 1 
and 2 are not so great that preserving the option of license renewal 
for energy planning decisionmakers would be unreasonable. This 
recommendation is based on (1) the analysis and findings in the 
Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of 
Nuclear Power Plants, NUREG-1437; (2) the ER [Environmental Report] 
submitted by SNC; (3) consultation with other Federal, State, and 
local agencies; (4) the staff's own independent review; and (5) the 
staff's consideration of public comments.

    The final Supplement 4 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 management system (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC 
Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/ADAMS/index.html (the Public 
Electronic Reading Room).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Andrew J. Kugler, Generic Issues, 
Environmental, Financial, and Rulemaking Branch, Division of Regulatory 
Improvement Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 
DC 20555. Mr. Kugler may be contacted at (301) 415-2828 or by writing 
to: Andrew J. Kugler, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, MS 0-11 F1, 
Washington, DC 20555.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 31 day of May, 2001.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David B. Matthews,
Director, Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs, Office of 
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 01-14975 Filed 6-13-01; 8:45 am]
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