[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 10 (Tuesday, January 15, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1995-1996]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-1070]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Notice of Extension of the Public Comment Period for the Draft 
Supplement to the Final Generic Environmental Impact Statement on 
Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(the Commission) has extended the public comment period for 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 public comment 
period is extended to January 30, 2002.
    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/reading-rm.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 January 30, 2002. 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.
    To ensure timely receipt of comments, electronic submittal of 
comments is preferred because of the extended times now being routinely 
encountered for the

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safe processing and delivery of first class mail to the NRC. If 
comments are sent via first class mail, commenters are requested to 
contact Dr. Michael T. Masnik by telephone at (301) 415-1191, or 
through the NRC operator at (800) 368-5642, to inform him that comments 
have been submitted by mail.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Dr. Michael T. Masnik, Environmental 
Section, License Renewal and Environmental Impacts Program, Division of 
Regulatory Improvement Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555. Dr. Masnik may be contacted at the aforementioned 
telephone number or e-mail address.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day of January, 2002.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrew J. Kugler,
Acting Chief, Environmental Section, License Renewal and Environmental 
Impacts Program, Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs, Office of 
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 02-1070 Filed 1-14-02; 8:45 am]
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