[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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