[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 245 (Thursday, December 21, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 76706-76707]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-21805]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-271]


Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station; Notice of Availability of 
the Draft Supplement 30 to the Generic Environmental Impact Statement 
for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, and Public Meeting for the 
License Renewal of Vermont Yankee 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 
licenses DPR-28 for an additional 20 years of operation for the Vermont 
Yankee Nuclear Power Station (Vermont Yankee). Vermont Yankee is 
located in the town of Vernon, Vermont, in Windham County on the west 
shore of the Connecticut River. Possible alternatives to the proposed 
action (license renewal) include no action and reasonable alternative 
energy sources.

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    The draft Supplement 30 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://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams/web-based.html. The Accession Number for the draft 
Supplement 30 to the GEIS is ML063390344. 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, or via e-mail at 
[email protected]. In addition, the following libraries have agreed to make 
the draft supplement to the GEIS available for public inspection: 
Vernon Free Library, 567 Governor Hunt Road, Vernon, Vermont; Brooks 
Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, Vermont; Hinsdale 
Public Library, 122 Brattleboro Road, Hinsdale, New Hampshire; and 
Dickinson Memorial Library, 115 Main Street, Northfield, Massachusetts.
    Any interested party may submit comments on the draft supplement to 
the GEIS for consideration by the NRC staff. To be considered, comments 
on the draft supplement to the GEIS and the proposed action must be 
received by March 7, 2007; the NRC staff is able to assure 
consideration only for comments received on or before this date. 
Comments received after the due date will be considered only if it is 
practical to do so. 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 January 
31, 2007, at the Latchis Theatre, 50 Main Street, Brattleboro, Vermont. 
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 Mr. Richard L. Emch, Jr., the Senior Project 
Manager, at 1-800-368-5642, extension 1590, or via e-mail at 
[email protected] no later than January 24, 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 the 
attention of Mr. Emch's attention no later than January 24, 2007, to 
provide the NRC staff adequate notice to determine whether the request 
can be accommodated.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Richard L. Emch, Jr., 
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. Mr. Emch may be contacted at the 
aforementioned telephone number or e-mail address.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 13th day of December, 2006.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Rani L. Franovich,
Branch Chief, Environmental Branch B, Division of License Renewal, 
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. E6-21805 Filed 12-20-06; 8:45 am]
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