[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 243 (Wednesday, December 19, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71973-71974]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-24648]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-400]


Carolina Power and Light Company; Notice of Availability of the 
Draft Supplement 33 to the Generic Environmental Impact Statement for 
License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, and Public Meeting for the License 
Renewal of Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant, Unit 1

    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 NPF-63 for an additional 20 years of operation for the Shearon 
Harris Nuclear Power Plant, Unit 1 (HNP). HNP is located in Wake 
County, North Carolina. Possible alternatives to the proposed action 
(license renewal) include no action and reasonable alternative energy 
sources.
    The draft Supplement 33 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 33 to the 
GEIS is ML073320364. 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 West 
Regional Library, located at 4000 Louis Stephens Drive, Cary, North 
Carolina 27519, as well as the Eva H. Perry Library, located at 2100 
Shepherd's Vineyard Drive, Apex, North Carolina 27502, have agreed to 
make the draft supplement 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 March 5, 2008; 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

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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 January 
30, 2008, at the New Horizons Fellowship, 820 East Williams Street, 
Apex, North Carolina 27502. There will be two identical meetings to 
accommodate interested parties. The first meeting will convene at 1:30 
p.m. and will continue until 4:30 p.m., as necessary. The second 
meeting will convene at 7 p.m. 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 meeting 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 meetings or in writing. Persons may pre-register to 
attend or present oral comments at the meeting by contacting Mr. Samuel 
Hernandez, the NRC Environmental Project Manager at 1-800-368-5642, 
extension 4049, or by e-mail at [email protected] no later than 
January 23, 2008. 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 Mr. Hernandez's attention 
no later than January 23, 2008, to provide the NRC staff adequate 
notice to determine whether the request can be accommodated.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Hernandez, Reactor Projects Branch 
1, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, 
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mail Stop O-11F1, Washington, DC 
20555-0001. Mr. Hernandez may be contacted at the aforementioned 
telephone number or e-mail address.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10th day of December 2007.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Louise Lund,
Branch Chief, Reactor Projects Branch 1, Division of License Renewal, 
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. E7-24648 Filed 12-18-07; 8:45 am]
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