[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 218 (Friday, November 9, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56721-56722]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-28088]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Notice of Availability of the Draft Supplement to the Final 
Generic Environmental Impact Statement on Decommissioning of Nuclear 
Facilities and Notice of Public Meetings

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(NRC) has published draft Supplement 1 to NUREG-0586, ``Final Generic 
Environmental Impact Statement on Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities 
[GEIS],'' dealing with decommissioning of nuclear power reactors.
    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. If you do not have access to ADAMS or if 
there are problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, contact 
the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) Reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 
or 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to [email protected].
    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 December 31, 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 6 D 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. 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.
    Notice is hereby given that the NRC staff will hold four public 
meetings to present an overview of the draft supplement to the GEIS and 
to accept public comments on the document. The public meetings will be 
held at the following locations and dates:

December 4, 2001

The Argent Hotel, 50 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, 1-415-974-
6400

December 10, 2001

Boston Marriott Copley Place, 110 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02116, 
-617-236-5800

December 6, 2001

The Drake, 140 East Wallon Place, Chicago, IL 60611, 1-312-787-2200

December 12, 2001

Marriott Marquis, 265 Peachtree Center Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30303, 1-
404-521-0000

    The meetings will commence at 7 p.m. and will continue until 10 
p.m. All meetings will be transcribed and will include (1) a 
presentation of the contents of the draft supplement to the GEIS, and 
(2) the opportunity for interested government agencies, organizations, 
and individuals to provide comments on the draft report. Additionally, 
the NRC staff will host informal discussions one hour prior to the 
start of each session. No comments on the draft supplement to the GEIS 
will be accepted during the informal discussions. To be considered, 
comments must be provided either at the transcribed public meetings or 
in writing, as discussed below. Persons may register to attend or 
present oral comments at a meeting by contacting Mr. Dino Scaletti by 
telephone at 1-800-368-5642, extension 1104, or by Internet to the NRC 
at [email protected] no later than November 27, 2001. 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

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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 November 27, 2001, to provide the NRC staff adequate 
notice to determine whether the request can be accommodated.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Dino Scaletti, Risk-Informed 
Initiatives, Environmental, Decommissioning, and Rulemaking Branch, 
Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555. Mr. Scaletti may be contacted at the 
aforementioned telephone number or e-mail address.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 2nd day of November, 2001.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Cynthia A. Carpenter,
Chief, Risk Informed Initiatives, Environmental, Decommissioning, and 
Rulemaking Branch, Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs, Office 
of Nuclear Reactor Regulations.
[FR Doc. 01-28088 Filed 11-8-01; 8:45 am]
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