[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 16 (Wednesday, January 26, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3744-3745]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-1353]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-266 and 50-301]
Nuclear Management Company, LLC Point Beach Nuclear Plant, Units
1 and 2; Notice of Availability of the Draft Supplement 23 to the
Generic Environmental Impact Statement and Public Meeting for the
License Renewal of Point Beach Nuclear 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 Facility Operating Licenses DPR-24 and DPR-27
for the Point Beach Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2 (PBNP), for an
additional 20 years of operation. PBNP is located on the western shore
of Lake Michigan in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, approximately 30 miles
southeast of Green Bay, Wisconsin. 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, 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. 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 Lester Public Library, located at 1001 Adams Street, Two
Rivers,Wisconsin 54241, has agreed to make the draft 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 April 13, 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
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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, 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 March 3,
2005, at the Fox Hills Convention Center, 250 West Church Street in
Mishicot, Wisconsin. 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 Ms. Stacey Imboden,
by telephone at 1-800-368-5642, extension 2462, or by e-mail at
[email protected] no later than March 1, 2005. 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 Ms.
Imboden's attention no later than February 23, 2005, to provide the NRC
staff adequate notice to determine whether the request can be
accommodated.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Stacey Imboden, License Renewal
and Environmental Impacts Program, Division of Regulatory Improvement
Programs, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC, 20555-0001. Ms. Imboden may be contacted at
the aforementioned telephone number or e-mail address.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 13th day of January, 2005.
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. 05-1353 Filed 1-25-05; 8:45 am]
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