[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 79 (Wednesday, April 23, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21995-21996]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-8762]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 52-022 and 52-023]
Progress Energy; Acceptance for Docketing of an Application for
Combined License for Shearon Harris Units 2 and 3
By letter dated February 18, 2007, Progress Energy Carolinas, Inc.
(PEC), 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 part 52, ``Licenses, Certifications and Approvals
for Nuclear Power Plants.'' These reactors will be identified as
Shearon Harris Units 2 and 3 and located near the town of New Hill, in
Wake County, North Carolina. A notice of receipt and availability of
this application was previously published in the Federal Register (72
FR 66200) on March 11, 2008.
The NRC staff has determined that PEC 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 2
and 3 are 52-022, and 52-023, 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
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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, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to [email protected].
Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 17th day of April 2008.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Serita Sanders,
Lead Project Manager, AP1000 Projects Branch 2, Division of New Reactor
Licensing, Office of New Reactors.
[FR Doc. E8-8762 Filed 4-22-08; 8:45 am]
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