[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 80 (Thursday, April 25, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20554-20555]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-10184]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-280 and 50-281]


Viginia Electric and Power Company, Surry Power Station, Units 1 
and 2; Notice of Availability of the Draft Supplement 6 to the Generic 
Environmental Impact Statement and Public Meeting for the License 
Renewal of Surry Units 1 and 2

    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 licenses DPR-32 and DPR-37 for an additional 
20 years of operation at Surry Power Station, Units 1 and 2. Surry 
Power Station is located in Surry County, Virginia. 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/reading-rm.html (the Public Electronic Reading 
Room). 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]. In addition, the Swem Library at the 
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 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 July 12, 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, Office of Administration, 
Mail Stop 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. Electronic comments may be submitted to the NRC by the 
Internet 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 and 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 Surry 
Combined District Court Room, Surry County Government Center, 45 School 
Street, Surry, Virginia, on May 29, 2002. 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 p.m. and will continue until 10 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. Additionally, the NRC staff will 
host informal discussions one hour prior to the start of each session 
at the Surry County Government Center. No comments on the proposed 
scope of the 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 pre-register to attend or present oral comments at 
the meeting by contacting Mr. Andrew J. Kugler by telephone at 1-800-
368-5642, extension 2828, or by Internet to the NRC at [email protected] 
no later than May 22, 2002. 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

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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 May 22, 2002, to provide the NRC staff adequate 
notice to determine whether the request can be accommodated.

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

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 3rd day of April, 2002.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Pao-Tsin Kuo,
Acting Program Director, License Renewal and Environmental Impacts, 
Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 02-10184 Filed 4-24-02; 8:45 am]
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