[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 52 (Friday, March 18, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 13215]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-5365]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-348 and 50-364]


Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc (SNC), Joseph M. Farley 
Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2; Notice of Availability of the Final 
Supplement 18 to the Generic Environmental Impact Statement for the 
License Renewal of Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(the Commission) has published a final plant-specific supplement to the 
Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS), NUREG-1437, regarding 
the renewal of operating licenses NPF-2 and NPF-8 for an additional 20 
years of operation at Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Power Plant (FNP). FNP 
is located in Houston County, Alabama, approximately 16.5 miles east of 
the City of Dothan, Alabama. Possible alternatives to the proposed 
action (license renewal) include no action and reasonable alternative 
energy sources.
    Section 9.3 of the final supplement 18 states:

    Based on: (1) The analysis and findings in the GEIS (NRC 1996; 
1999), (2) the environmental report submitted by SNC (SNC 2003), (3) 
consultation with Federal, State, Tribal, and local agencies, (4) 
the staff's own independent review, and (5) the staff's 
consideration of public comments, the recommendation of the staff is 
that the Commission determine that the adverse environmental impacts 
of license renewal for Farley Units 1 and 2, are not so great that 
preserving the option of license renewal for energy planning 
decision makers would be unreasonable.

    The final Supplement 18 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, between 
7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) 
component of NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC's 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 Houston Love Memorial Library, 212 West 
Burdeshaw Street, Dothan, Alabama, and the Lucy Maddox Memorial 
Library, 11880 Columbia Street, Blakely, Georgia, have agreed to make 
the final plant-specific supplement to the GEIS available for public 
inspection.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Jack Cushing, License Renewal and 
Environmental Impacts Program, Division of Regulatory Improvement 
Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555. Mr. 
Cushing may be contacted at 301-415-1424 or via e-mail at [email protected].

    Dated in Rockville, Maryland, this 9th 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. 05-5365 Filed 3-17-05; 8:45 am]
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