[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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