[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 238 (Wednesday, December 10, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 75141-75142]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-29184]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 52-034 and 52-035]


Luminant Generation Company, LLC. Acceptance for Docketing of an 
Application for Combined License for Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, 
Units 3 and 4

    By letter dated September 19, 2008, as supplemented by letter(s) 
dated November 4, 5, 6, and 10, 2008, Luminant Generation Company LLC 
(Luminant) submitted an application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission (NRC) for a combined license (COL) for two United States--
Advanced Pressurized Water Reactors (US-APWR) in accordance with the 
requirements contained in 10 CFR Part 52, ``Licenses, Certifications 
and Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants.'' These reactors will be 
identified as Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Units 3 and 4 and are 
to be located at the existing Comanche Peak site in Somervell County, 
Texas. A notice of receipt and availability of this application was 
previously published in the Federal Register (73 FR 66276) on November 
7, 2008.
    The NRC staff has determined that Luminant 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 Units 3 and 4 are 52-034 and 52-035, 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. The notice of hearing and opportunity to petition for leave to 
intervene will be published at a later date in the Federal Register. 
The Commission 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. The COL will 
contain 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.
    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

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F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland, 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-reactors/col/comanche-peak.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 via e-mail to [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 2nd day of December 2008.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Stephen Raul Monarque,
Project Manager, US-APWR Projects Branch, Division of New Reactor 
Licensing, Office of New Reactors.
[FR Doc. E8-29184 Filed 12-9-08; 8:45 am]
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