[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 18 (Monday, January 28, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4923-4924]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-1394]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 52-014 and 52-015]
Tennessee Valley Authority; Acceptance for Docketing of an
Application for Combined License for Bellefonte Units 3 and 4
By letter dated October 30, 2007, as supplemented by letters dated
November 2, 2007, January 8, 2008, and January 14, 2008, the Tennessee
Valley Authority (TVA), submitted an application to the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a combined license (COL) for two AP1000
advanced passive pressurized water reactors in accordance with the
requirements contained in 10 CFR 52, ``Licenses, Certifications and
Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants.'' These reactors will be identified
as Bellefonte Units 3 and 4 and located near the town of Scottsboro in
Jackson County, Alabama. A notice of receipt and availability of this
application was previously published in the Federal Register (72 FR
66200) on November 27, 2007.
The NRC staff has determined that TVA has submitted information in
accordance with 10 CFR part 2, ``Rules of Practice for Domestic
Licensing Proceedings and Issuance of Orders,'' and 10 CFR part 52 that
is acceptable for docketing. The docket numbers established for Units 3
and 4 are 52-014, and 52-015, respectively.
The NRC staff will perform a detailed technical review of the
application. Docketing of the application does not preclude the NRC
from requesting additional information from the applicant as the review
proceeds, nor does it predict whether the Commission will grant or deny
the application. The Commission will conduct a hearing in accordance
with Subpart L, ``Informal Hearing Procedures for NRC Adjudications,''
of 10 CFR part 2 and will receive a report on the COL application from
the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards in accordance with 10 CFR
52.87, ``Referral to the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards
(ACRS).'' If the Commission finds that the COL application meets the
applicable standards of the Atomic Energy Act and the Commission's
regulations, and that required notifications to other agencies and
bodies have been made, the Commission will issue a COL, in the form and
containing conditions and limitations that the Commission finds
appropriate and necessary.
In accordance with 10 CFR part 51, the Commission will also prepare
an environmental impact statement for the proposed action. Pursuant to
10 CFR 51.26, and as part of the environmental scoping process, the
staff intends to hold a public scoping meeting. Detailed information
regarding this meeting will be included in a future Federal Register
notice.
Finally, the Commission will announce in a future Federal Register
notice the opportunity to petition for leave to intervene in the
hearing required for this application by 10 CFR 52.85.
Documents may be examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the NRC's
Public Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint North, Public
File Area O1 F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville,
Maryland 20852, and will be accessible electronically through the
Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Public
Electronic Reading Room link at the NRC Web site http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. The
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application is also available at http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-licensing/col.html. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who
encounter problems in accessing documents located in ADAMS should
contact the NRC PDR Reference staff by telephone at 1-800-397-4209,
301-415-4737, or by e-mail to [email protected].
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day of January 2008.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David B. Matthews,
Director, Division of New Reactor Licensing, Office of New Reactors.
[FR Doc. E8-1394 Filed 1-25-08; 8:45 am]
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