[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 46 (Thursday, March 10, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 12022]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-4669]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 52-007]
Exelon Generating Company, LLC; Notice of Availability of the
Draft Environmental Impact Statement for an Early Site Permit (ESP) at
the Exelon ESP Site and Associated Public Meeting
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC, the Commission) has published NUREG-1815, ``Environmental Impact
Statement for an Early Site Permit (ESP) at the Exelon ESP Site: Draft
Report for Comment.'' The site is located near the town of Clinton in
DeWitt County, Illinois. The application for the ESP was submitted by
letter dated September 25, 2003, pursuant to Title 10 Code of the
Federal Regulations Part 52 (10 CFR part 52). The application included
a site redress plan in accordance with 10 CFR 52.17(c) and 52.25. If
the site redress plan is incorporated in an approved ESP, then the
applicant may carry out certain site preparation work and preliminary
construction activities. A notice of receipt and availability of the
application, which included the environmental report (ER), was
published in the Federal Register on October 24, 2003 (68 FR 61020). A
notice of acceptance for docketing of the application for the ESP was
published in the Federal Register on October 30, 2003 (68 FR 61835). A
notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement and to
conduct the scoping process was published in the Federal Register on
November 25, 2003 (68 FR 66130).
The purpose of this notice is to inform the public that NUREG-1815,
``Environmental Impact Statement for an Early Site Permit (ESP) at the
Exelon ESP Site: Draft Report for Comment,'' 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), and will
also be placed directly on the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov.
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 Vespasian Warner Public Library, located at 310 North Quincy
Street, Clinton, Illinois 61727, has agreed to make the DEIS available
for public inspection.
The NRC staff will hold a public meeting to present an overview of
the DEIS and to accept public comments on the document. The public
meeting will be held at the Vespasian Warner Public Library, located at
310 North Quincy Street, Clinton, Illinois 61727, on Tuesday, April 19,
2005. The meeting will convene at 7 p.m. and will continue until 10
p.m., as necessary. The meeting will be transcribed and will include:
(1) A presentation of the contents of the DEIS, 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 library. No formal comments on the DEIS will be accepted during the
informal discussions. To be considered, comments must be provided
either at the transcribed public meeting or in writing. Persons may
register to attend or present oral comments at the meeting by
contacting Ms. Jennifer Davis, by telephone at 1-800-368-5642,
extension 3835, or by Internet to the NRC at [email protected] no
later than April 13, 2005. Members of the public may also register to
speak at the meeting within 15 minutes of the start of the meeting.
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. Ms. Davis will need to be contacted no later than April 13,
2005, if special equipment or accommodations are needed to attend or
present information at the public meeting, so that the NRC staff can
determine whether the request can be accommodated.
Members of the public may send written comments on the DEIS
concerning the Exelon ESP application to the Chief, Rules and
Directives Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of
Administration, Mailstop T-6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001, and should cite the publication date and
page number of this Federal Register Notice. Comments may also be
delivered to Room T-6D59, Two White Flint North, 11545 Rockville Pike,
Rockville, Maryland 20852, from 7:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. during Federal
workdays. To be considered, written comments should be postmarked by
May 25, 2005. Electronic comments may be sent by the Internet to the
NRC at [email protected]. Electronic submissions should be sent no
later than May 25, 2005. Comments will be available electronically and
accessible through the NRC's PERR link at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Jennifer Davis, License Renewal and
Environmental Impacts Program, Division of Regulatory Improvement
Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC, 20555-
0001. Ms. Davis may be contacted at the aforementioned telephone number
or e-mail address.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 2nd day of March, 2005.
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. 05-4669 Filed 3-9-05; 8:45 am]
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