[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 193 (Thursday, October 6, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58489-58490]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-5471]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-220 and 50-410]
Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, LLC; Nine Mile Point Nuclear
Station, Units 1 and 2; Notice of Availability of the Draft Supplement
24 to the Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of
Nuclear Plants, and Public Meeting for the License Renewal of Nine Mile
Point Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC, Commission) has published a draft 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-63 and NPF-69 for an additional 20 years of operation for
the Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2 (Nine Mile Point).
Nine Mile Point is located in northern New York on the shore of Lake
Ontario, approximately 5 miles northeast of Oswego, New York, 36 miles
north-northeast of Syracuse, New York, and 65 miles east of Rochester,
New York. Possible alternatives to the proposed action (license
renewal) include no action and reasonable alternative energy sources.
The draft Supplement 24 to the GEIS is publicly available at the
NRC Public Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint North, 11555
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland, 20852, or from the NRC's
Agencywide Documents
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Access and Management System (ADAMS). The ADAMS Public Electronic
Reading Room is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams/web-based.html. The accession number for the draft Supplement 24 to the
GEIS is ML052720075. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS, or who
encounter problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, should
contact the NRC's Public Document Room Reference staff by telephone at
1-800-397-4209, or 301-415-4737, or by e-mail at [email protected]. In
addition, the Penfield Library, located at State University of New
York, Oswego, New York 13126, has agreed to make the draft supplement
to the GEIS available for public inspection.
Any interested party 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 22, 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, local agencies,
Native American Tribes, or other interested persons, will be made
available electronically at the Commission's PDR in Rockville,
Maryland, and through ADAMS.
The NRC staff will hold a public meeting to present an overview of
the draft plant-specific supplement to the GEIS and to accept public
comments on the document. The public meeting will be held on November
17, 2005, at the Town of Scriba Conference Room, 42 Creamery Road,
Oswego, New York 13126. There will be two sessions to accommodate
interested parties. The first session will commence at 1:30 p.m. and
will continue until 4:30 p.m. The second session will commence at 7
p.m. and will continue until 10 p.m. 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 prior to the start of each session
at the same location. 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 meeting or
in writing. Persons may pre-register to attend or present oral comments
at the meeting by contacting Ms. Leslie C. Fields, the NRC
Environmental Project Manager at 1-800-368-5642, extension 1186, or by
e-mail at [email protected] no later than November 8, 2005.
Members of the public may also register to provide oral comments 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. If special equipment or accommodations are needed to
attend or present information at the public meeting, the need should be
brought to Ms. Fields's attention no later than November 8, 2005, to
provide the NRC staff adequate notice to determine whether the request
can be accommodated.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Ms. Leslie C. Fields, License Renewal
and Environmental Impacts Program, Division of Regulatory Improvement
Programs, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Mail Stop O-11F1, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Ms. Fields may
be contacted at the aforementioned telephone number or e-mail address.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 29th day of September, 2005.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Jacob I. Zimmerman,
Acting Program Director, License Renewal and Environmental Impacts
Program, Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. E5-5471 Filed 10-5-05; 8:45 am]
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