[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 230 (Monday, December 1, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 67219]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-29791]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 52-009]


System Energy Resources, Inc.; Notice of Acceptance of 
Application for Early Site Permit for the Grand Gulf ESP Site

    On October 21, 2003, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC, the 
Commission) received an early site permit (ESP) application dated 
October 16, 2003, from System Energy Resources, Inc., a subsidiary of 
Entergy Corporation, filed pursuant to Section 103 of the Atomic Energy 
Act and 10 CFR part 52. The site selected for the application is 
property co-located with the Grand Gulf Nuclear Station near Port 
Gibson, Mississippi (the Grand Gulf ESP site). A notice of receipt and 
availability of this application was previously published in the 
Federal Register (68 FR 64665; November 14, 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 System Energy Resources has 
submitted information in accordance with 10 CFR parts 2 and 52 that is 
sufficiently complete and acceptable for docketing. The Docket No. 
established for this application is 52-009. 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 System Energy Resources 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, and available to local residents at the Harriette 
Person Memorial Library in Port Gibson, Mississippi. 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. ML032960315). 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].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day of November, 2003.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
James E. Lyons,
Program Director, New, Research and Test Reactors Program, Division of 
Regulatory Improvement Programs, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 03-29791 Filed 11-28-03; 8:45 am]
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