[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 137 (Thursday, July 17, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 42431]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-18085]



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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-395]


South Carolina Electric and Gas, Virgil C. Summer Nuclear 
Station; Notice of Availability of the Draft Supplement 15 to the 
Generic Environmental Impact Statement and Public Meeting for the 
License Renewal of Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station

    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 NPF-12 for an additional 20 years of 
operation at Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station (V.C. Summer) and 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. V.C. Summer is located in Fairfield 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 Thomas Cooper Library, located at 1322 Greene Street, Columbia, 
South Carolina 29208, and the Fairfield County Library, located at 300 
Washington Street, Winnsboro, South Carolina 29180, have 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 October 3, 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 August 26, 
2003, at White Hall A.M.E. Church in the Fellowship Room, 8594 State 
Highway 215 South, Jenkinsville, 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. 
Gregory F. Suber, by telephone at 1-800-368-5642, extension 1124, or by 
e-mail at [email protected] no later than August 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. 
Suber's attention no later than August 18, 2003, to provide the NRC 
staff adequate notice to determine whether the request can be 
accommodated.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Gregory F. Suber, License Renewal 
and Environmental Impacts Program, Division of Regulatory Improvement 
Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001. Mr. Suber may be contacted at the aforementioned telephone number 
or e-mail address.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day of July, 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. 03-18085 Filed 7-16-03; 8:45 am]
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