[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 23 (Monday, February 4, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6528-6529]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-1942]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 52-017]


Dominion Virginia Power; Acceptance for Docketing of an 
Application for Combined License for North Anna Unit 3

    By letter dated November 26, 2007, as supplemented by letters dated 
January 17 and 28, 2008, Dominion Virginia Power (Dominion) submitted 
an application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a 
combined license (COL) for one economic simplified boiling water 
reactor (ESBWR) in accordance with the requirements contained in 10 CFR 
part 52, ``Licenses, Certifications and Approvals for Nuclear Power 
Plants.''

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The reactor will be identified as North Anna Unit 3 and located at the 
North Anna Power Station in Louisa County, Virginia. A notice of 
receipt and availability of this application was previously published 
in the Federal Register (72 FR 70619) on December 12, 2007.
    The NRC staff has determined that Dominion 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 number established 
for this COL application is 52-017.
    The NRC staff will perform a detailed technical review of the COL 
application. Docketing of the COL 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 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, or 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to 
[email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 28th day of January 2008.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas A. Kevern,
Senior Project Manager, ESBWR/ABWR Projects Branch 1, Division of New 
Reactor Licensing, Office of New Reactors.
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