[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]


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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

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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]
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