[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 156 (Friday, August 13, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49539-49540]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-20005]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 52-029 and 52-030; NRC-2008-0558]


Notice of Availability of the Draft Environmental Impact 
Statement for the Combined Licenses for Levy Nuclear Plant Units 1 and 
2

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(NRC) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Jacksonville 
District, have published NUREG-1941, ``Draft Environmental Impact 
Statement for Combined Licenses (COL) for Levy Nuclear Plant Units 1 
and 2''. The site is located in Levy County, Florida, 7.9 miles east of 
the Gulf of Mexico and 30.1 miles west of Ocala, Florida. The 
application for the COLs was submitted by letter dated July 28, 2008, 
pursuant to title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) part 
52. A notice of receipt and availability of the application, which 
included the environmental report, and a notice of acceptance for 
docketing of the COL application were published in the Federal Register 
on October 14, 2008 (73 FR 60726). A notice of intent to prepare a 
draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) and to conduct the scoping 
process was published in the Federal Register on October 24, 2008 (73 
FR 63517). 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.
    The purpose of this notice is to inform the public that NUREG-1941 
is available for public inspection. The DEIS can be accessed: (1) 
Online at http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/col/levy.html, (2) 
in the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) located at One White Flint 
North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Public File Area O1-F21, 
Rockville, Maryland 20852, or (3) from NRC's Agencywide Documents 
Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC 
Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. The accession 
numbers for the DEIS are ML102140231 and ML102140235. Persons who do 
not have access to ADAMS, or who encounter difficulty accessing the 
documents located in ADAMS, should contact the PDR reference staff at 
1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, or via e-mail to [email protected]. 
In addition, the following four public libraries have agreed to make 
the DEIS available to the public: the Citrus County Coastal Region 
Library, located

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at 8619 West Crystal Street, Crystal River, Florida; the Dunnellon 
Branch Library, located at 20351 Robinson Road, Dunnellon, Florida; the 
AF Knotts Public Library, located at 11 56th Street, Yankeetown, 
Florida; and the Bronson Public Library, located at 600 Gilbert Street, 
Bronson, Florida.
    Any interested party may submit comments on the DEIS 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 
August 13, 2010; such Notices are published every Friday. The Notice 
will identify the end date of the comment period. To be considered, 
written comments should be postmarked by the end date of the comment 
period. Members of the public may submit comments on the DEIS by e-mail 
or mail. Comments submitted via e-mail should be sent to 
[email protected]. Electronic submissions should be sent no later 
than the end date of the comment period. Written comments on the DEIS 
should be mailed to the Chief, Rules, Announcements, and Directives 
Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, 
Mailstop TWB-05-B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 
DC 20555-0001, or by fax at (301) 492-3446, and should cite the 
publication date and page number of this Federal Register Notice. 
Comments submitted in writing or in electronic form will be posted on 
the NRC Web site and on the Federal rulemaking Web site http://www.Regulations.gov.
    Comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact 
information, therefore, the NRC cautions against including any 
information that should not be publicly disclosed. The NRC requests 
that any party soliciting or aggregating comments received from other 
persons for submission to the NRC inform those persons that the NRC 
will not edit comments or remove any identifying or contact 
information, and therefore, they should not include any information in 
their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed.
    The NRC and USACE staff will hold two public meetings to present an 
overview of the DEIS and to accept public comments on the document on 
Thursday, September 23, 2010, at the Plantation Inn, 9301 West Fort 
Island Trail, Crystal River, Florida. The first meeting will convene at 
1:30 p.m. and will continue until 4:30 p.m., as necessary. The second 
meeting will convene at 7 p.m., with a repeat of the overview portions 
of the first meeting, and will continue until 10 p.m., as necessary. 
The meetings will be transcribed and will include a presentation of the 
contents of the DEIS and the opportunity for interested government 
agencies, organizations, and individuals to provide comments on the 
draft report. To be considered, comments must be provided, either 
orally or in writing, during the transcribed public meeting. 
Additionally, the NRC and USACE staff will host informal discussions 
one hour before the start of each meeting during which members of the 
public may meet and talk with NRC and USACE staff members on an 
informal basis. No formal comments on the DEIS will be accepted during 
these informal discussions.
    Persons may pre-register to attend or present oral comments at the 
meeting by contacting Mr. Douglas Bruner by telephone at 1-800-368-
5642, extension 2730, or via e-mail to [email protected] no later 
than September 16, 2010. 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. Mr. Bruner will need to be contacted no later than September 
16, 2010, if special equipment or accommodations are needed to attend 
or present information at the public meeting, so that the NRC staff can 
determine whether the request can be accommodated.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Douglas Bruner, Environmental 
Projects Branch 3, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mail Stop T7-
E18, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Mr. Bruner may also be contacted at the 
aforementioned telephone number or e-mail address.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day of August 2010.

    For The Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Scott C. Flanders,
Director, Division of Site and Environmental Reviews, Office of New 
Reactors.
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