[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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