[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 85 (Thursday, May 1, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24093-24094]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-9593]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-387 and 50-388]


PPL Susquehanna, LLC; Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Units 1 
and 2; Notice of Availability of the Draft Supplement 35 to the Generic 
Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants 
and Public Meeting for the License Renewal of Susquehanna

    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 
licenses NPF-14 and NPF-22 for an additional 20 years of operation for 
the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Units 1 and 2. Susquehanna 
Steam Electric Station is located in northeastern Pennsylvania (PA) in 
Salem Township, approximately 5 miles northeast of the Borough of 
Berwick, PA, 20 miles southwest of Wilkes-Barre, PA, and 50 miles 
northwest of Allentown, PA. Possible alternatives to the proposed 
action (license renewal) include no action and several reasonable 
alternative energy sources.
    The draft Supplement 35 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 35 to the 
GEIS is ML081140337. 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 McBride 
Memorial Library--located at 500 N. Market St., Berwick, PA 18603--and 
the Mill Memorial Library--located at 495 E. Main St., Nanticoke, PA 
18634--have agreed to make the draft supplement to the GEIS 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 July 21, 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 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.

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    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 May 28, 
2008, at the The Eagles Building, 107 South Market St., Berwick, PA 
18603. There will be two sessions to accommodate interested parties. 
The first session will convene at 1:30 p.m. and will continue until 
4:30 p.m., as necessary. The second session will convene at 7 p.m. with 
a repeat of the overview portions of the meeting 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 session 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 meeting or in 
writing. Persons may pre-register to attend or present oral comments at 
the meeting by contacting Mr. Drew Stuyvenberg, the NRC Environmental 
Project Manager at 1-800-368-5642, extension 4006, or by e-mail at 
[email protected] no later than May 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. 
Stuyvenberg's attention no later than May 16, 2008, to provide the NRC 
staff adequate notice to determine whether the request can be 
accommodated.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Mr. Drew Stuyvenberg, Renewal 
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. Stuyvenberg may be contacted at 
the aforementioned telephone number or e-mail address.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 25th day of April, 2008.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Louise Lund,
Branch Chief, Renewal Projects Branch 1, Division of License Renewal, 
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. E8-9593 Filed 4-30-08; 8:45 am]
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