[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 91 (Friday, May 10, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 31846]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-11748]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-369 and 50-370]


Duke Energy Corporation; McGuire Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2; 
Notice of Availability of the Draft Supplement 8 to the Generic 
Environmental Impact Statement and Public Meeting for the License 
Renewal of McGuire 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 NPF-9 and NPF-17 for an additional 20 
years of operation at McGuire Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2 (McGuire). 
McGuire is located in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. 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 J. Murrey Atkins Library 
at the University of North Carolina--Charlotte, 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 August 2, 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 in the 
auditorium at the Central Piedmont Community College, at 11920 Verhoeff 
Road, Huntersville, North Carolina on June 12, 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 same location. 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 pre-register to 
attend or present oral comments at the meeting by contacting Mr. James 
H. Wilson by telephone at 1-800-368-5642, extension 1108, or by 
Internet to the NRC at [email protected] no later than June 7, 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 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. Wilson's attention no later than June 7, 2002, to 
provide the NRC staff adequate notice to determine whether the request 
can be accommodated.

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

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 7th day of May, 2002.
    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John R. Tappert,
Acting Program Director, License Renewal and Environmental Impacts, 
Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 02-11748 Filed 5-9-02; 8:45 am]
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