[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 148 (Thursday, August 2, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 42440]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-15051]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-293]


Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.; Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station; 
Notice of Availability of the Final Supplement 29 to the Generic 
Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, 
Regarding the License Renewal of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(NRC, Commission) has published a final 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.
    As discussed in Section 9.3 of the final Supplement 29, the 
recommendation of the staff is that the Commission determine that the 
adverse environmental impacts of license renewal for Pilgrim are not so 
great that preserving the option of license renewal for energy-planning 
decision makers would be unreasonable. The recommendation is based on: 
(1) The analysis and findings in the GEIS; (2) the Environmental Report 
submitted by Entergy; (3) consultation with Federal, State, and local 
agencies; (4) the staff's own independent review; and (5) the staff's 
consideration of public comments.
    The final 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 Numbers for the final 
Supplement 29 to the GEIS are ML071990020 Volume 1 and ML071990027 
Volume 2. 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 final 
supplement will be available at the following libraries for public 
inspection: the Plymouth Public Library, 132 South Street, the Duxbury 
Free Library, 77 Alden Street, and the Kingston Public Library, 6 Green 
Street.

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. Williamson may be contacted by telephone 
at 1-800-368-5642, extension 1878 or via e-mail at [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of July, 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. E7-15051 Filed 8-1-07; 8:45 am]
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