[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 212 (Friday, November 1, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 66674]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-27864]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-335 and 50-389]


Florida Power and Light Co., St. Lucie, Units 1 and 2; Notice of 
Availability of the Draft Supplement 11 to the Generic Environmental 
Impact Statement and Public Meeting for the License Renewal of St. 
Lucie, 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-67 and NPF-16 for an additional 
20 years of operation at St. Lucie, Units 1 and 2 (St. Lucie). St. 
Lucie nuclear power station is located on Hutchinson Island in St. 
Lucie County, Florida. Possible alternatives to the proposed action 
(license renewal) include no action and reasonable alternative energy 
sources.
    The draft supplement to the GEIS is available for public inspection 
in the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) located at One White Flint North, 
11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland, or, 
electronically, from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of 
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS 
is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room). Persons who do not have 
access to ADAMS or who encounter problems in accessing the documents 
located in ADAMS, should contact the NRC's PDR reference staff at 1-
800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to [email protected]. In addition, 
the Indian River Community College Library, located at 3209 Virginia 
Avenue, Ft. Pierce, Florida, 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 January 15, 2003. 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, 
Mailstop T-6D 59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001.
    Comments may be hand-delivered to the NRC's PDR, located at One 
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, 
Maryland, between 7:45 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. on Federal workdays. 
Submittal of electronic comments may be sent by Internet to the NRC 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 PDR in Rockville, Maryland, or from 
the PARS component of 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 
Council Chambers, Port St. Lucie City Hall, 121 SW Port St. Lucie 
Boulevard, Port St. Lucie, Florida, on December 3, 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 Port St. Lucie City Hall. Persons may pre-
register to attend or present oral comments at the meeting by 
contacting Dr. Michael T. Masnik by telephone at 1-800-368-5642, 
extension 1191, or by Internet to the NRC at [email protected] no 
later than November 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 
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 Dr. Masnik's 
attention no later than November 22, 2002, to provide the NRC staff 
adequate notice to determine whether the request can be accommodated.
    For further information, contact: Dr. Michael T. Masnik, 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 2nd day of October, 2002.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Pao-Tsin Kuo,
 Program Director, License Renewal and Environmental Impacts Program, 
Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 02-27864 Filed 10-31-02; 8:45 am]
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