[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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