[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 220 (Thursday, November 13, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 67214]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-26980]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


PPL BELL Bend, LLC; Notice of Receipt and Availability of 
Application for a Combined License

    On October 10, 2008, PPL Bell Bend LLC (PPL) filed with the Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission (NRC, the Commission) pursuant to Section 103 of 
the Atomic Energy Act and Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations 
(10 CFR) Part 52, ``Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals for Nuclear 
Power Plants,'' an application for a combined license (COL) for an 
evolutionary power reactor (US EPR) nuclear power plant at their 
Berwick site (adjacent to the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station) in 
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. The reactor is to be identified as the 
Bell Bend Nuclear Power Plant.
    An applicant may seek a COL in accordance with Subpart C of 10 CFR 
Part 52. The information submitted by the applicant includes certain 
administrative information such as financial qualifications submitted 
pursuant to 10 CFR 52.77, as well as technical information submitted 
pursuant to 10 CFR 52.79.
    Subsequent Federal Register notices will address the acceptability 
of the tendered COL application for docketing and provisions for 
participation of the public in the COL review process.
    A copy of the application is available for public inspection at the 
Commission's Public Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint 
North, Public File Area O1 F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), 
Rockville, Maryland, and via the Agencywide Documents Access and 
Management System (ADAMS) Public Electronic Reading Room on the 
Internet at the NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
    The accession number for the application letter is ML082880580. 
Future publicly available documents related to the application will 
also be posted in ADAMS. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS, or 
who encounter problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, 
should contact the NRC Public Document Room staff by telephone at 1-
800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to [email protected]. The 
application is also available at http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/col.html.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day of October 2008.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Michael A. Canova,
 Project Manager, U.S. EPR Projects Branch, Division of New Reactor 
Licensing, Office of New Reactors.
[FR Doc. E8-26980 Filed 11-12-08; 8:45 am]
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