[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.
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