[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 152 (Wednesday, August 6, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45792-45793]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-18004]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 52-027 and 52-028]


South Carolina Electric and Gas Company as Itself and Acting as 
Agent for the South Carolina Public Service Company (Also Referred to 
as Santee Cooper) Acceptance for Docketing of an Application for 
Combined License for Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station Units 2 and 3

    By letter dated March 27, 2008, South Carolina Electric and Gas 
Company (SCE&G), acting for itself and as an agent for South Carolina 
Public Service Company (also referred to as Santee Cooper) 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 Virgil C. Summer Nuclear 
Station (VCSNS) Units 2 and 3 and located on the existing VCSNS site in 
Fairfield County, South Carolina. A notice of receipt and availability 
of this application was previously published in the Federal Register 
(73 FR 39339) on July 9, 2008.
    The NRC staff has determined that VCSNS 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 
VCSNS Units 2 and

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3 COL application are 52-027 and 52-028, 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 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 publish in the Federal Register a 
notice of hearing, which will notice the opportunity to petition to 
intervene.
    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 1st day of August 2008.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brian Hughes,
Senior Project Manager, AP1000 Projects Branch 1, Division of New 
Reactor Licensing, Office of New Reactors.
 [FR Doc. E8-18004 Filed 8-5-08; 8:45 am]
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