[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 155 (Thursday, August 12, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49916-49917]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-18435]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-348 and 50-364]


Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc, Joseph M. Farley Nuclear 
Power Plant, Units 1 and 2; Notice of Availability of the Draft 
Supplement 18 to Generic Environmental Impact Statement and Public 
Meeting for the License Renewal of Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Power 
Plant, Units 1 and 2

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(NRC, the Commission) has published a draft plant-specific supplement 
to the Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS), NUREG-1437, 
regarding the renewal of operating licenses NPF-2 and NPF-8 for an 
additional 20 years of operation at Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Power 
Plant (FNP). FNP is located in Houston County, Alabama, approximately 
16.5 miles east of the City of Dothan, Alabama. Possible alternatives 
to the proposed action (license renewal) include no action and 
reasonable alternative energy sources.
    The draft Supplement to the GEIS is available for public inspection 
in the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) located at One White Flint North, 
11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland 20852, 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/adams.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 PDR reference staff at 1 (800) 397-4209, 
(301) 415-4737, or by e-mail to [email protected]. In addition, the Houston 
Love Memorial Library, 212 West Burdeshaw Street, Dothan, Alabama and 
the Lucy Maddox Memorial Library, 11880 Columbia Street, Blakely, 
Georgia, have agreed to make the draft plant-specific supplement to the 
GEIS available for public inspection.

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    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 November 5, 2004. 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, 
Mailstop T-6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001.
    Comments may be hand-delivered to the NRC at 11545 Rockville Pike, 
Room T-6D59, Rockville, Maryland, between 7:30 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, Native 
American Tribes, or other interested persons, will be made available 
electronically at the Commission's PDR in Rockville, Maryland, and from 
the PARS component of 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 September 
30, 2004, at the Quality Inn, 3053 Ross Clark Circle, Dothan, Alabama. 
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 meeting or in writing, as discussed below. Persons 
may pre-register to attend or present oral comments at the meeting by 
contacting Mr. Jack Cushing be telephone at 1 (800) 368-5642, extension 
1424, or by e-mail at [email protected] no later than September 24, 
2004. 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. Cushing's attention no later than September 
24, 2004, to provide the NRC staff adequate notice to determine whether 
the request can be accommodated.

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

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 6th day of August, 2004.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Pao-Tsin Kuo,
Program Director, License Renewal and Environmental Impacts Program, 
Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 04-18435 Filed 8-11-04; 8:45 am]
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