[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 242 (Tuesday, December 18, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71702-71703]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-24472]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 52-011]


Southern Nuclear Operating Company; Notice of Extension of 
Comment Period for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for an 
Early Site Permit (ESP) at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Site

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(NRC, the Commission) is extending the public comment period for NUREG-
1872, Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for an Early Site 
Permit (ESP) at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Site until Friday, 
December 28, 2007. The site is located on the southwest side of the 
Savannah River in eastern Burke County, Georgia.
    A notice of availability of the draft environmental impact 
statement for an early site permit (ESP) at the Vogtle Electric 
Generating Plant site was published in the Federal Register on 
September 14, 2007, (72 FR 52586). The public comment period on the 
draft environmental impact statement was to have ended on November 28, 
2007. A request for an extension of the comment period due to 
intermittent unavailability of the DEIS and associated reference 
materials through the NRC public webpage during the comment period was 
received by the NRC. Pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations, Section 51.73, the comment period has been extended by 30 
days to December 28, 2007. The purpose of this notice is to inform the 
public that the comment period for NUREG-1872, ``Draft Environmental 
Impact Statement (DEIS) for an Early Site Permit (ESP) at the Vogtle 
ESP Site,'' has been extended to Friday, December 28, 2007. NUREG-1872, 
``Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for an Early Site Permit 
(ESP) at the Vogtle ESP Site,'' is available for public inspection in 
the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) located at One White Flint North, 
11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from 
the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of NRC's Agencywide 
Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS), and has also been 
placed directly on the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov. ADAMS is 
accessible from the NRC Website at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html, the Public Electronic Reading Room (PERR). The ADAMS 
accession number for Volume I of the DEIS is ML072410045 and Volume II 
of the DEIS is ML072410049. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or 
who encounter problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS 
should contact the PDR reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, 
or by e-mail to [email protected]. In addition, the Burke County Library, 130 
Highway 24 South, Waynesboro, Georgia, has agreed to make the DEIS 
available for public inspection.
    Members of the public may send written comments on the DEIS for the 
Vogtle ESP to the 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, 
and should cite the publication date and page number of this Federal 
Register Notice. Comments may also be delivered to Room T-6D59, Two 
White Flint North, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland from 7:30 
a.m. to 4:15 p.m., during Federal workdays. To be considered, written 
comments should be postmarked by December 28, 2007. Electronic comments 
may be sent by the Internet to the NRC at [email protected]. 
Electronic submissions should be sent no later than December 28, 2007. 
Comments will be available electronically and accessible through the 
NRC's PERR link at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Notich, Project Manager, 
Environmental Projects Branch 1, Division of Site and Environmental

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Reviews, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, 
(301) 415-3053 or by e-mail at [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th day of December, 2007.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Nilesh C. Chokshi,
Acting Director, Division of Site and Environmental Reviews, Office of 
New Reactors.
 [FR Doc. E7-24472 Filed 12-17-07; 8:45 am]
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