[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 248 (Wednesday, December 24, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 79196-79197]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-30643]


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 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 52-017]


Virginia Electric and Power Company, D/B/A Dominion Virginia 
Power, and Old Dominion Electric Cooperative; Notice of Availability of 
the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement and Public 
Meeting for North Anna Power Station Unit 3 Combined License 
Application

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(NRC, Commission) has published a draft Supplemental Environmental 
Impact Statement (SEIS), NUREG-1917, for the North Anna Unit 3 Combined 
License (COL) and is making it available for comment. This document is 
a supplement to the Environmental Impact Statement for an Early Site 
Permit (ESP) at the North Anna ESP site, NUREG-1811, dated December 
2006. The North Anna site is located near the Town of Mineral in Louisa 
County, Virginia on the southern shore of Lake Anna.
    Virginia Electric and Power Company, doing business as Dominion 
Virginia Power, and Old Dominion Electric Cooperative, collectively 
referred to as Dominion, submitted an application on November 27, 2007, 
for a COL at its North Anna Power Station (North Anna). A COL is an 
authorization to construct and (with specified conditions) operate a 
nuclear power plant at a specific site, in accordance with established 
laws and regulations. In November 2007, the NRC issued ESP-003 to 
Dominion Nuclear North Anna, LLC, for the North Anna ESP Site (the site 
of proposed Unit 3). An ESP is an NRC approval of a site as suitable 
for construction and operation of one or more new nuclear units. The 
application for a COL for North Anna Unit 3 submitted by Dominion 
references the ESP for the North Anna ESP site, ESP-003.
    Pursuant to NRC regulations in 10 CFR 51.50(c)(1), a COL applicant 
referencing an ESP need not submit information or analyses regarding 
environmental issues that were resolved in the ESP EIS, except to the 
extent the COL applicant has identified new and significant information 
regarding such

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issues; pursuant to 10 CFR 52.39, matters resolved in the ESP 
proceedings are considered to be resolved in any subsequent 
proceedings, absent identification of new and significant information. 
Upon receipt of a COL application that references an ESP, the NRC 
staff, pursuant to 10 CFR 51.75(c), prepares a supplement to the ESP 
EIS in accordance with 10 CFR 51.92(e). Accordingly, this notice is to 
inform the public that the NRC staff has prepared a supplement to 
NUREG-1811, the ESP EIS (NUREG-1917), which is in support of the review 
of the COL application for North Anna Unit 3 at the North Anna ESP site 
described in ESP-003 referenced in the COL application, and to provide 
the public an opportunity to comment.
    The draft SEIS, NUREG-1917, for the North Anna, Unit 3 COL is 
available for public inspection at the NRC Public Document Room (PDR), 
located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), 
Rockville, Maryland, or from the Publicly Available Records component 
of the NRC's Agency-wide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html, which provides access through the NRC's Electronic Reading 
Room link. The accession number in ADAMS for the draft SEIS, NUREG-
1917, is ML083380360.
    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 at 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, or by sending an 
e-mail to [email protected]. The draft SEIS may also be viewed on 
the Internet at: http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/col/north-anna.html. In addition, the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library in 
Mineral, Virginia; Hanover Branch Library in Hanover, Virginia; Orange 
County Library in Orange, Virginia; Salem Church Library in 
Fredericksburg, Virginia; and C. Melvin Snow Memorial Branch Library in 
Spotsylvania, Virginia have agreed to make the draft SEIS available for 
public inspection.
    The staff will hold a public meeting to present an overview of the 
draft SEIS, NUREG-1917, and to accept public comments. The public 
meeting will be held in the Auditorium at the Louisa County High 
School, 757 Davis Highway, Mineral, Virginia, on Tuesday, February 3, 
2009. The meeting will convene at 6 p.m. and will continue until 10 
p.m., as necessary. The meeting will be transcribed and will include: 
(1) A presentation of the contents of the draft SEIS, and (2) the 
opportunity for interested government agencies, organizations, and 
individuals to provide comments on the draft report. Additionally, the 
NRC will host informal discussions one hour before the start of the 
meeting. No formal comments on the draft SEIS 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 
register to attend or present oral comments at the meeting by 
contacting Ms. Alicia Williamson, by telephone at 1-800-368-5642, 
extension 1878, or by Internet to the NRC at: 
[email protected], no later than January 28, 2009.
    Members of the public may also register to speak at the meeting 
within 15 minutes of the start of the meeting. Individual oral comments 
may be limited by the time available, depending on the number of 
persons who register. Members of the public who have not registered may 
also have an opportunity to speak, if time permits. Ms. Williamson will 
need to be contacted, if special equipment or accommodations are needed 
to attend or present information at the public meeting, no later than 
January 23, 2009 so that the NRC staff can determine whether the 
request can be accommodated.
    Any interested party may submit comments on the draft SEIS for 
consideration by the NRC staff. Comments may be accompanied by 
additional relevant information or supporting data. This draft report 
is being issued with a 75-day comment period. The comment period begins 
on the date that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency publishes a 
Notice of Filing in the Federal Register which is expected to be 
December 29, 2008; such Notices are published every Friday. The Notice 
will identify end dates of the comment period.
    Members of the public may send written comments on the draft SEIS 
for the North Anna COL, Unit 3 to the Chief, Rulemaking Directives and 
Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of 
Administration, Mailstop TWB-05-B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001 and should cite the publication 
date and page number of this Federal Register Notice. Electronic 
comments may be sent via the Internet to the NRC at 
[email protected]. To ensure that comments will be considered, 
comments should be received by the end of the comment period, which is 
March 16, 2009. Written comments should be postmarked by March 16, 
2009. Electronic Submissions should be sent no later than March 16, 
2009.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Alicia Williamson, Environmental 
Project Manager, at U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mailstop T6-
D32, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or by phone at (301) 415-1878 or via e-
mail at [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 16th day of December 2008.

    For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Scott Flanders,
Director, Division of Site and Environmental Reviews Office of New 
Reactors.
[FR Doc. E8-30643 Filed 12-23-08; 8:45 am]
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