[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 237 (Friday, December 10, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71855-71856]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-26906]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-259, 50-260, and 50-296]


Tennessee Valley Authority; Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, Units 1, 
2, and 3; Notice of Availability of the Draft Supplement 21 to the 
Generic Environmental Impact Statement and Public Meeting for the 
License Renewal of Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, Units 1, 2, and 3

    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 licenses DPR-33, DPR-52, and DPR-68 for an 
additional 20 years of operation at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, Units 
1, 2, and 3 (BFN). BFN is located in Limestone County, Alabama, 16 km 
(10 mi) southwest of Athens, 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 Public Electronic Reading Room at the NRC Web site http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (Note: Public access to ADAMS has 
been temporarily suspended so that security reviews of publicly 
available documents may be performed and potentially sensitive 
information removed. Please check the NRC Web site for updates on the 
resumption of ADAMS access). 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 Athens-Limestone Public 
Library, 405 East South Street, Athens, Alabama has agreed to make the 
draft plant-specific

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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 staff. To be certain of 
consideration, comments on the draft supplement to the GEIS and the 
proposed action must be received by March 2, 2005. 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 two public meetings to present an overview 
of the draft plant-specific supplement to the GEIS and to accept public 
comments on the document. The public meetings will be held on January 
25, 2005, at the Athens State University, Student Center Cafeteria 
Ballroom, 300 North Beaty Street, Athens, Alabama. The first session 
will convene at 1:30 p.m. and will continue until 4:30 p.m., as 
necessary. The second session will convene at 7 p.m. with a repeat of 
the overview portions of the meeting and will continue until 10 p.m., 
as necessary. 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 
before the start of each meeting at the Athens State University, 
Student Center Cafeteria Ballroom. 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 
meetings or in writing, as discussed below. Persons may register to 
attend or present oral comments at the meetings by contacting Dr. 
Michael Masnik, by telephone at 1-800-368-5642, extension 1191, or by 
e-mail at [email protected] no later than January 18, 2005. 
Members of the public may also register to speak at the meeting 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. Members of the public who have not registered may also 
have an opportunity to speak, if time permits. If special equipment or 
accommodations are needed to attend or present information at the 
public meeting, Dr. Masnik will need to be contacted no later than 
January 18, 2004, so that the NRC staff can determine whether the 
request can be accommodated.
    For Further Information Contact: Dr. Michael Masnik, License 
Renewal and Environmental Impacts Program, Division of Regulatory 
Improvement Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 
DC 20555-0001. Dr. Masnik may be contacted at the aforementioned 
telephone number or e-mail address.

    Dated in Rockville, Maryland, this 30th day of November, 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. 04-26906 Filed 12-9-04; 8:45 am]
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