[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 186 (Wednesday, September 24, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55165-55166]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-22362]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-334 and 50-412]
Beaver Valley Power Station, Units 1 and 2; Notice of
Availability of the Draft Supplement 36 to the Generic Environmental
Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, and Public
Meeting for the License Renewal of the Beaver Valley Power Station,
Units 1 and 2
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 DPR-66 and NPF-73 for an additional 20 years of operation for
the Beaver Valley Power Station, Units 1 and 2, which is located in
Shippingport, PA, about 25 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, PA. Possible
alternatives to the proposed action (license renewal) include no action
and reasonable alternative energy sources.
The draft Supplement 36 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 36 to the
GEIS is ML082600147. 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, two
libraries have agreed to make the draft Supplement 36 to the GEIS
available for public inspection: Beaver Area Memorial Library,100
College Ave., Beaver, PA 15009-2704 (telephone 724-775-1132), and
Beaver County Library System, 1 Campus Drive, Monaca, PA 15061
(telephone 724-728-3737).
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 December 17, 2008; the NRC staff is able to ensure
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 36 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.
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 October
30, 2008, at the Embassy Suites Pittsburgh-International Airport, 550
Cherrington Parkway,
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15108. 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 36 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. Sayoc,
the NRC Project Manager at 1-800-368-5642, extension 1924, or by e-mail
at [email protected], no later than October 27, 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.
Sayoc's attention no later than October 16, 2008, to provide the NRC
staff adequate notice to determine whether the request can be
accommodated.
For Further Information Contact: Mr. Sayoc, Projects Branch 2,
Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mail Stop O-11F1, Washington, DC, 20555-
0001. Mr. Sayoc may be contacted at the aforementioned telephone number
or e-mail address.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 19th day of September 2008.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Rani L. Franovich,
Branch Chief, Projects Branch 2, Division of License Renewal, Office of
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. E8-22362 Filed 9-23-08; 8:45 am]
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