[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 240 (Thursday, December 14, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 75280-75281]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-21272]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-293]


Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station; 
Notice of Availability of The Draft Supplement 29 to the Generic 
Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, 
and Public Meeting for the License Renewal of Pilgrim Nuclear Power 
Station

    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 
license DPR-35 for an additional 20 years of operation for the Pilgrim 
Nuclear Power Station (Pilgrim). Pilgrim is located on the western 
shore of Cape Cod in the Town of Plymouth, Plymouth County, 
Massachusetts. It is 38 miles southeast of Boston, Massachusetts, and 
44 miles east of Providence, Rhode Island. Possible alternatives to the 
proposed action (license renewal) include no action and reasonable 
alternative energy sources.
    The draft Supplement 29 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 Access and Management System (ADAMS). The ADAMS 
Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/dologin.htm. The Accession Number for the draft 
Supplement 29 to the GEIS is ML063260173. 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 by 
telephone at 1-800-397-4209, or 301-415-4737,

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or by e-mail at [email protected]. In addition, the Plymouth Public Library, 
132 South Street; Duxbury Free Library, 77 Alden Street; and the 
Kingston Public Library, 6 Green Street, 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 February 28, 2007.
    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, Mail Stop 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 January 
24, 2007, at the Radisson Plymouth Harbor Ballroom, 180 Water Street, 
Plymouth, Massachusetts 02360. There will be two sessions to 
accommodate interested parties. The first session will convene at 1:30 
p.m. and will continue until 4:30 p.m., as necessary. The second 
session will convene at 7 p.m. with a repeat of the overview portions 
of the meeting and will continue until 10 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 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. Alicia 
Williamson, the NRC Environmental Project Manager at 1-800-368-5642, 
extension 1878, or by e-mail at [email protected], no later than 
January 17, 2007. 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. Alicia Williamson 
attention no later than January 10, 2007, to provide the NRC staff 
adequate notice to determine whether the request can be accommodated.
    For Further Information Contact: Ms. Alicia Williamson, 
Environmental Branch B, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mail Stop O-
11F1, Washington, DC, 20555-0001. Ms. Alicia Williamson may be 
contacted at the aforementioned telephone number or e-mail address.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day of December, 2007.

    For The Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Robert Schaaf,
Acting Branch Chief, Environmental Branch B, Division of License 
Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. E6-21272 Filed 12-13-06; 8:45 am]
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