[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 172 (Tuesday, September 7, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54161-54162]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-20192]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-368]
Entergy Operations, Inc., Arkansas Nuclear One, Unit 2; Notice of
Availability of the Draft Supplement 19 to the Generic Environmental
Impact Statement and Public Meeting for the License Renewal of Arkansas
Nuclear One, Unit 2
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(the Commission) has published a draft plant-specific supplement to the
Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS), NUREG-1437, regarding
the renewal of operating license NPF-6 for an additional 20 years of
operation at Arkansas Nuclear One, Unit 2 (ANO-2). ANO-2 is located in
Pope County, Arkansas, approximately 6 miles west-northwest of
Russellville, Arkansas. 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 Ross
Pendergraft Library at Arkansas Tech University, 305 West Q Street,
Russellville, Arkansas, 72801, has agreed to make the draft plant-
specific supplement to the GEIS available for public inspection.
Any interested party may submit comments on the draft supplement to
the GEIS for consideration by the NRC
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staff. To be certain of consideration, comments on the draft supplement
to the GEIS and the proposed action must be received by November 24,
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 7:45 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 October
21, 2004, at the Holiday Inn, 2407 N. Arkansas Avenue, Russellville,
Arkansas. The meeting will commence at 7 p.m. and will continue until
10 p.m. It 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 before the start
of the meeting 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. Thomas Kenyon be telephone at 1-800-368-5642, extension
1120, or by e-mail at [email protected] no later than October 15, 2004.
Members of the public may also register within 15 minutes of the start
of the session to provide oral comments. 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. Kenyon's attention no later than October 15, 2004, to
provide the NRC staff adequate notice to determine whether the request
can be accommodated.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas Kenyon, License Renewal and
Environmental Impacts Program, Division of Regulatory Improvement
Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001. Mr. Kenyon may be contacted at the aforementioned telephone
number or e-mail address.
Dated in Rockville, Maryland, this 30th day of August, 2004.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Samson S. Lee,
Acting Program Director, License Renewal and Environmental Impacts
Program, Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 04-20192 Filed 9-3-04; 8:45 am]
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