[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 113 (Wednesday, June 11, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33118-33119]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-13055]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 52-025 and 52-026]


Southern Nuclear Operating Company; Acceptance for Docketing of 
an Application for Combined License for Vogtle Electric Generating 
Plant Units 3 and 4

    By letter dated March 28, 2008, Southern Nuclear Operating Company 
(SNC), acting on behalf of itself and Georgia Power Company, Oglethorpe 
Power Corporation (an Electric Membership Corporation), Municipal 
Electric Authority of Georgia, and the City of Dalton, Georgia, an 
incorporated municipality in the State of Georgia acting by and through 
its Board of Water, Light and Sinking Fund Commissioners, 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 Vogtle Electric 
Generating Plant (VEGP) Units 3 and 4 and located on the existing VEGP 
site in Burke County, Georgia. A notice of receipt and availability of 
this

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application was previously published in the Federal Register (73 FR 
24616) on May 5, 2008.
    The NRC staff has determined that SNC 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 the 
VEGP Units 3 and 4 COL application are 52-025 and 52-026, respectively. 
This COL application is referencing an Early Site Permit (ESP) 
application (docket number 52-011) for the VEGP Units 3 and 4 site. The 
ESP application is currently being considered by the NRC.
    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 
a supplemental 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, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 30th day of May 2008.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Manny Comar,
Lead Project Manager, AP1000 Projects Branch 1, Division of New Reactor 
Licensing, Office of New Reactors.
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