[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 93 (Wednesday, May 14, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25907-25908]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-11958]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-261]
Carolina Power and Light Company; H. B. Robinson Steam Electric
Plant, Unit 2; Notice of Availability of the Draft Supplement 13 to the
Generic Environmental Impact Statement and Public Meeting for the
License Renewal of H. B. Robinson Steam Electric Plant, Unit 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 license DPR-23 for an additional 20 years of
operation at H. B. Robinson
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Steam Electric Plant, Unit 2. H. B. Robinson Steam Electric Plant, Unit
2 is located in Darlington County, South 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's 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/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, (301) 415-4737, or by e-mail to [email protected]. In addition,
the Hartsville Memorial Library, located at 147 West College Avenue,
Hartsville, South Carolina 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 30, 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,
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 e-mail 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, and from the PARS component of
NRC's 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 on June 25,
2003, at Coker College in Davidson Hall, 300 East College Avenue,
Hartsville, South Carolina. 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. Richard L. Emch,
Jr. by telephone at 1-800-368-5642, extension 1590, or by e-mail at
[email protected] no later than June 20, 2003. 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. Emch's
attention no later than June 20, 2003, to provide the NRC staff
adequate notice to determine whether the request can be accommodated.
For Further Information Contact: Mr. Richard L. Emch, Jr., License
Renewal and Environmental Impacts Program, Division of Regulatory
Improvement Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001. Mr. Emch may be contacted at the aforementioned
telephone number or e-mail address.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day of May, 2003.
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. 03-11958 Filed 5-13-03; 8:45 am]
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