[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 140 (Friday, July 22, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 42395]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-3919]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-336 and 50-423]


Dominion Nuclear Connecticut, Inc. (Dominion), Millstone Power 
Station, Units 2 And 3; Notice of Availability of the Final Supplement 
22 to the Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of 
Nuclear Plants, Regarding Millstone Power Station, Units 2 And 3

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(Commission) has published a final plant-specific supplement to the 
Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear 
Plants (GEIS), NUREG-1437, regarding the renewal of operating licenses 
DPR-65 and NPF-49 for an additional 20 years of operation at Millstone 
Power Station, Units 2 and 3 (Millstone), respectively. Millstone is 
located in Waterford, Connecticut, on Millstone Point between the 
Niantic and Thames Rivers, approximately 40 miles to the southeast of 
Hartford, Connecticut. Possible alternatives to the proposed action 
(license renewal) include no action and reasonable alternative energy 
sources. Section 9.3 of the final Supplement 22 states:

    Based on: (1) The analysis and findings in the GEIS (NRC 1996; 
1999), (2) the ER [environmental report] submitted by Dominion 
(Dominion 2004b), (3) consultation with Federal, State, 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 Millstone, are not so 
great that preserving the option of license renewal for energy 
planning decision makers would be unreasonable.

    The final Supplement 22 to the GEIS is publicly available at the 
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS 
is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html; a link is 
provided to access documents through the Web-based component of ADAMS. 
The accession number for the final Supplement 22 to the GEIS is 
ML051960293. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS, or who encounter 
problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, should contact 
the NRC's PDR Reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, or 301-415-4737, or by 
e-mail at [email protected]. In addition, the Waterford Public Library, 49 
Rope Ferry Road, Waterford, Connecticut, and the Three Rivers Community 
College, Thames River Campus Library, 574 New London Turnpike, Norwich, 
Connecticut, have agreed to make the final Supplement 22 to the GEIS 
available for public inspection.
    For Further Information, Contact: Mr. Richard L. Emch, Jr., License 
Renewal and Environmental Impacts Program, Division of Regulatory 
Improvement Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 
DC 20555. Mr. Emch may be contacted at 1-800-368-5642, extension 1590 
or via e-mail at [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day of July, 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. E5-3919 Filed 7-21-05; 8:45 am]
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