[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 163 (Friday, August 22, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 50811]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-21524]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Notice of Extension of the Public Comment Period for Scoping 
Process To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the License 
Renewal of Nuclear Power Plants

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(the Commission) has extended the public comment period for the scoping 
process on the update to the ``Generic Environmental Impact Statement 
(GEIS) for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants'', NUREG-1437 (May 1996) 
and Addendum 1 (August 1999). The public comment period is extended to 
September 17, 2003.
    The GEIS and Addendum 1 to the GEIS were prepared pursuant to 10 
CFR part 51 and are available for public inspection at 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 component of NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management 
System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html, which provides access through the NRC's Public Electronic 
Reading Room (PERR) link. 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]. The GEIS, Addendum 1, and 
Supplements may also be viewed on the Internet at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1437/. The NRC prepares site-
specific supplements to the GEIS for each license renewal application 
assessing the environmental impacts specific to that power plant 
location; these reports may be useful to scoping participants to 
understand the environmental review process and the environmental 
issues associated with the review for license renewal. The Supplements 
to the GEIS can also be viewed on the Internet in the context for each 
project and are listed by project at: http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/applications.html. The update of the GEIS 
is a generic activity and, therefore, is not the appropriate forum to 
consider site-specific issues or concerns.
    Any interested party may send written comments on the environmental 
scope of the GEIS Update Project to the Chief, Rules and Directives 
Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, 
Mail stop T-6 D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001. Comments may also be delivered to Room T-6 D59, Two White 
Flint North, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland, from 7:30 a.m. 
to 4:15 p.m. during Federal workdays. To be considered in the scoping 
process, written comments should be postmarked by September 17, 2003. 
Electronic comments may be sent by e-mail to the NRC at 
[email protected]. Electronic submissions should be sent no later 
than September 17, 2003, to be considered timely in the scoping 
process. All comments received by the NRC will be available 
electronically and accessible through the NRC's PERR link at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Barry Zalcman, Environmental 
Section, License Renewal and Environmental Impacts Program, Division of 
Regulatory Improvement Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555. Mr. Zalcman may be contacted by telephone at 1-
800-368-5642, extension 2419, or by e-mail at [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 15th day of August, 2003.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John R. Tappert,
Acting Program Director, License Renewal and Environmental Impacts 
Program, Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 03-21524 Filed 8-21-03; 8:45 am]
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