[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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