[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 246 (Monday, December 22, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 78397]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-30350]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-424 and 50-425]


Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.; Notice of Availability 
of the Final Supplement 34 to the Generic Environmental Impact 
Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, Regarding the License 
Renewal of Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(NRC, Commission) has published a final plant-specific supplement to 
the ``Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of 
Nuclear Plants (GEIS),'' (NUREG-1437 regarding the renewal of operating 
licenses NPF-068 and NPF-081 for an additional 20 years of operation 
for the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2 (VEGP). VEGP is 
located in Burke County, Georgia, approximately 15 miles east-northeast 
of Waynesboro, GA, and 26 miles southeast of Augusta, GA. Possible 
alternatives to the proposed action (license renewal) include no action 
and reasonable alternative energy sources.
    As discussed in Section 9.3 of the final Supplement 34, based on: 
(1) The analysis and findings in the GEIS; (2) the Environmental Report 
submitted by Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.; (3) consultation 
with federal, state, and local agencies; (4) the NRC staff's own 
independent review; and (5) the NRC staff's consideration of public 
comments, the recommendation of the staff is that the Commission 
determine that the adverse environmental impacts of license renewal for 
VEGP are not so great that preserving the option of license renewal for 
energy-planning decision makers would be unreasonable.
    The final Supplement 34 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 final Supplement 34 to the 
GEIS is ML083380325. 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, the Burke 
County Library, located at 130 Highway 24 South, Waynesboro, GA 30830, 
has agreed to make the final Supplement 34 to the GEIS available for 
public inspection.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Samuel Hernandez, Projects Branch 
1, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, 
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mail Stop O-11F1, Washington, D.C. 
20555-0001. Mr. Hernandez may be contacted by telephone at 1-800-368-
5642, extension 4049 or via e-mail at [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10th day of December, 2008.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brian E. Holian,
Director, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
 [FR Doc. E8-30350 Filed 12-19-08; 8:45 am]
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