[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 114 (Thursday, June 14, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 32924]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-11508]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-333]


Entergy Nuclear Fitzpatrick, LLC, and Entergy Nuclear Operations, 
Inc.; James A. Fitzpatrick Nuclear Power Plant; Notice of Availability 
of the Draft Supplement 31 to the Generic Environmental Impact 
Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, and Public Meeting for 
the License Renewal of James A. Fitzpatrick

    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-59 for an additional 20 years of operation for the James A. 
FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant (JAFNPP). JAFNPP is located on Lake 
Ontario in Oswego County, approximately seven miles northeast of the 
City of Oswego, New York. Possible alternatives to the proposed action 
(license renewal) include no action and reasonable alternative energy 
sources.
    The draft Supplement 31 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 31 to the 
GEIS is ML071420019. 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 by e-mail at [email protected]. In addition, the 
libraries: Penfield Library SUNY, 7060 State Route 104, Oswego, NY 
13126 and Oswego Public Library, 140-142 East Second Street, Oswego, NY 
13126 have 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 considered, comments 
on the draft supplement to the GEIS and the proposed action must be 
received by September 5, 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, Rulemaking, Directives, and Editing 
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 August 1, 
2007, at the Scriba Town Municipal Building, 42 Creamery Road, Oswego, 
New York 13126. 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. Jessie M. Muir, the NRC Environmental 
Project Manager at 1-800-368-5642, extension 0491, or by e-mail at 
[email protected] no later than July 18, 2007. Members of the 
public may also register to provide oral comments before 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. Muir's 
attention no later than July 18, 2007, to provide the NRC staff 
adequate notice to determine whether the request can be accommodated.
    For Further Information, Contact: Ms. Jessie M. Muir, 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. Muir may be contacted at the 
aforementioned telephone number or e-mail address.

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

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Rani L. Franovich,
 Branch Chief, Environmental Branch B, Division of License Renewal, 
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
 [FR Doc. E7-11508 Filed 6-13-07; 8:45 am]
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