[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 209 (Wednesday, October 29, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 61705]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-27216]



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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 52-008]


Dominion Nuclear North Anna, LLC; Notice of Acceptance of 
Application for Early Site Permit for the North Anna ESP Site

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC, the Commission) has 
received an application from Dominion Nuclear North Anna LLC (Dominion) 
dated September 25, 2003, filed pursuant to Section 103 of the Atomic 
Energy Act and 10 CFR Part 52, for an early site permit (ESP) for a 
location in central Virginia (near Mineral, Virginia) identified as the 
North Anna ESP site. A notice of receipt and availability of this 
application was previously published in the Federal Register (68 FR 
59642; October 16, 2003).
    An applicant may seek an ESP in accordance with Subpart A of 10 CFR 
part 52 separate from the filing of an application for a construction 
permit (CP) or combined license (COL) for a nuclear power facility. The 
ESP process allows resolution of issues relating to siting. At any time 
during the period of an ESP (up to 20 years), the permit holder may 
reference the permit in a CP or COL application.
    The NRC staff has determined that Dominion has submitted 
information in accordance with 10 CFR Part 52 that is sufficiently 
complete and acceptable for docketing. The Docket No. established for 
this application is 52-008. The NRC staff will perform a detailed 
technical review of the application, and docketing of the ESP 
application does not preclude the NRC from requesting additional 
information from the applicant as the review proceeds, nor does it 
predict whether the Commission will grant or deny the application. The 
Commission will conduct a hearing in accordance with 10 CFR 52.21 and 
will receive a report on the application from the Advisory Committee on 
Reactor Safeguards in accordance with 10 CFR 52.23. If the Commission 
then finds that the application meets the applicable standards of the 
Atomic Energy Act and the Commission's regulations, and that required 
notifications to other agencies and bodies have been made, the 
Commission will issue an ESP, in the form and containing conditions and 
limitations that the Commission finds appropriate and necessary.
    In accordance with 10 CFR Part 51, the Commission will also prepare 
an environmental impact statement for the proposed action. Pursuant to 
10 CFR 51.26, and as part of the environmental scoping process, the 
staff intends to hold a public scoping meeting. Detailed information 
regarding this meeting will be included in a future Federal Register 
notice.
    Finally, the Commission will announce, in a future Federal Register 
notice, the opportunity for petition for leave to intervene in the 
hearing required for this application by 10 CFR 52.21.
    A copy of the Dominion ESP application is available for public 
inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room (PDR), located at 
One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, 
Maryland. It is also accessible electronically from the Agencywide 
Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Public Electronic 
Reading Room on the Internet at the NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (ADAMS Accession No. ML032731517). Persons who do 
not have access to ADAMS, or who encounter problems in accessing the 
documents located in ADAMS, should contact the NRC Public Document Room 
staff by telephone at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737 or by e-mail to 
[email protected].

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 23rd day of October 2003.
James E. Lyons,
 Program Director, New Research and Test Reactors Program, Division of 
Regulatory Improvement Programs, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 03-27216 Filed 10-28-03; 8:45 am]
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