[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 2 (Friday, January 3, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 393-394]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-81]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-413 and 50-414]


Duke Energy Corporation, Catawba Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2; 
Notice of Availability of the Final Supplement 9 to the Generic 
Environmental Impact Statement Regarding License Renewal for the 
Catawba Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(the Commission) has published a final plant-specific supplement to the 
Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS), NUREG-1437, regarding 
the renewal of operating licenses NPF-35 and NPF-52 for the Catawba 
Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2, for an additional 20 years of 
operation. The Catawba Nuclear Station units are located in York 
County, South Carolina. Possible alternatives to the proposed action 
(license renewal) include no action and reasonable alternative methods 
of power generation.
    As discussed in Section 9.3 of this final Supplement 9 to the GEIS, 
the staff recommends that the Commission determine that the adverse 
environmental impacts of license renewal for Catawba Nuclear Station, 
Units 1 and 2, are not so great that preserving the option of license 
renewal for energy planning decision makers would be unreasonable. This 
recommendation is based on (1) the analysis and findings in the GEIS; 
(2) the Environmental Report submitted by Duke; (3) consultation with 
Federal, State, and local agencies; (4) the staff's own independent 
review; and (5) the staff's consideration of public comments.
    The final Supplement 9 to the GEIS is available electronically for 
public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) located at One 
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, 
Maryland, or 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 (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 PDR reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, 
or by e-mail to [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. James H. Wilson, License Renewal 
and Environmental Impacts Program,

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Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555. Mr. Wilson may be contacted at 301-
415-1108 or by writing to James H. Wilson, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Mail Stop O 12-D-1.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day of December, 2002.
    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Pao-Tsin Kuo,
Program Director, License Renewal and Environmental Impacts, Division 
of Regulatory Improvement Programs, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 03-81 Filed 1-2-03; 8:45 am]
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