[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 81 (Thursday, April 28, 2005)] [Notices] [Pages 22155-22156] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: E5-2037] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [Docket No. 52-009] System Energy Resources, Inc.; Notice of Availability of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for an Early Site Permit (ESP) at the Grand Gulf ESP Site and Associated Public Meeting Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC, the Commission) has published NUREG-1817, ``Environmental Impact Statement for an Early Site Permit (ESP) at the Grand Gulf ESP Site: Draft Report for Comment.'' The site is located near the Town of Port Gibson in Claiborne County, Mississippi. The application for the ESP was submitted by letter dated October 16, 2003, pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations part 52 (10 CFR part 52). A notice of receipt and availability of the application, which included the environmental report (ER), was published in the Federal Register on November 14, 2003 (68 FR 64665). A notice of acceptance for docketing of the application for the ESP was published in the Federal Register on December 1, 2003 (68 FR 67219). A notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement and to conduct the scoping process was published in the Federal Register on December 31, 2003 (68 FR 75656). The purpose of this notice is to inform the public that NUREG-1817, ``Environmental Impact Statement for an Early Site Permit (ESP) at the Grand Gulf 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 Harriette Person Memorial Library, located at 606 Main Street, Port Gibson, Mississippi, 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 Port Gibson City Hall, located at 1005 College Street, Port Gibson, Mississippi, on Tuesday, June 28, 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. Cristina Guerrero, by telephone at 1-800-368-5642, extension 3835, or by Internet to the NRC at [email protected] no later than June 21, 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. Guerrero will need to be contacted no later than June 21, 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 Grand Gulf 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 [[Page 22156]] a.m. to 4:15 p.m. during Federal workdays. To be considered, written comments should be postmarked by July 14, 2005. Electronic comments may be sent by the Internet to the NRC at [email protected]. Electronic submissions should be sent no later than July 14, 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: Cristina Guerrero, License Renewal and Environmental Impacts Program, Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555- 0001. Ms. Guerrero may be contacted at the aforementioned telephone number or e-mail address. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 15th day of April, 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. E5-2037 Filed 4-27-05; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590-01-P