[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 172 (Wednesday, September 7, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53257-53258]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-4853]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-325 and 50-324]


Carolina Power and Light Company, Brunswick Steam Electric Plant 
Units, 1 and 2; Notice of Availability of the Draft Supplement 25 to 
the Generic Environmental Impact Statement and Public Meeting for the 
License Renewal of Brunswick Steam Electric Plant, Units 1 and 2

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(NRC or the Commission) has published a draft plant-specific supplement 
to the Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS), NUREG-1437, 
regarding the renewal of operating licenses DPR-71 and DPR-62 for an 
additional 20 years of operation at Brunswick Steam Electric Plant, 
Units 1 and 2 (BSEP), respectively. BSEP is located in Brunswick County 
in southeastern North Carolina, near the mouth of the Cape Fear River. 
Possible alternatives to the proposed action (license renewal) include 
no action and reasonable alternative energy sources.
    The draft Supplement to the GEIS is publicly available 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). ADAMS is accessible 
from the Public Electronic Reading Room on the NRC's Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. The Accession number for draft 
Supplement 25 to the GEIS is ML052380154. 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 
William Madison Randall Library, located at 601 S. College Rd., 
Wilmington, North Carolina 28403 has agreed to make the draft plant-
specific supplement to the GEIS available for public inspection.
    Interested parties may submit comments on the draft supplement to 
the GEIS for consideration by the NRC staff. To be certain of 
consideration, comments on the draft supplement to the GEIS and the 
proposed action must be received by December 2, 2005. Comments received 
after the due date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but 
the NRC staff is able to assure consideration only for comments 
received on or before this date. Written comments on the draft 
supplement to the GEIS should be sent to: Chief, Rules and Directives 
Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, 
Mailstop T-6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001.
    Comments may be hand-delivered to the NRC at 11545 Rockville Pike, 
Room T-6D59, Rockville, Maryland, between 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. on 
Federal workdays. Electronic comments may be submitted to the NRC by e-
mail at [email protected]. All comments received by the Commission, 
including those made by Federal, State, and local agencies, Native 
American Tribes, or other interested persons, will be made available 
electronically at the Commission's PDR in Rockville, Maryland, and in 
ADAMS.
    The NRC staff will hold two public meetings to present an overview 
of the draft plant-specific supplement to the GEIS and to accept public 
comments on the document. The public meetings will be held on October 
18, 2005, at the Southport City Hall, 201 E. Moore Street, Southport, 
North Carolina 28461. The first meeting will convene at 1:30 p.m. and 
will continue until 4:30 p.m., as necessary. The second meeting will 
convene at 7 p.m. and will continue until 10:00 p.m., as necessary. 
Both meetings will be transcribed and will include: (1) A presentation 
of the contents of the draft plant-specific supplement to the GEIS, 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 each meeting at the Southport City Hall. No comments on the draft 
supplement to the GEIS will be accepted during the informal 
discussions. To be considered, comments must be provided either at the 
transcribed public meetings or in writing, as discussed below. Persons 
may register to attend or present oral comments at the meetings by 
contacting Mr. Richard L. Emch, Jr., by telephone at 1-800-368-5642, 
extension 1590, or by e-mail at [email protected] no later than 
October 11, 2005. Members of the public may also register to speak at 
the meeting within 15 minutes of the start of each session. 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. The 
meeting is on the second floor of the building and there is no 
elevator. Therefore, the meeting room is not handicap accessible. If 
special equipment or accommodations are

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needed to attend or present information at the public meeting, Mr. Emch 
will need to be contacted no later than October 11, 2005, so that the 
NRC staff can determine whether the request can be accommodated.

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 20555-0001. Mr. Emch may be contacted at the aforementioned 
telephone number or e-mail address.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 30th day of August, 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. E5-4853 Filed 9-6-05; 8:45 am]
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