[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 5 (Friday, January 7, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 1197]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-108]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-528, 50-529, 50-530; NRC-2009-0012]


Arizona Public Service Company, Palo Verde Nuclear Generating 
Station; Notice of Availability of the Final Supplement 43 to the 
Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear 
Plants

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(NRC) 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-41, 
NPF-51 and NPF-74 for an additional 20 years of operation for the Palo 
Verde Nuclear Generating Station (PVNGS). Possible alternatives to the 
proposed action (license renewal) include no action and reasonable 
alternative energy sources.
    As discussed in Section 9.4 of the final supplement, the staff 
determined that the adverse environmental impacts of license renewal 
for PVNGS are not so great that preserving the option of license 
renewal for energy planning decision makers would be unreasonable. This 
recommendation is based on: (1) The analysis and findings in the GEIS; 
(2) information provided in the environmental report (ER) submitted by 
Arizona Public Service Company; (3) consultation with Federal, State, 
and local agencies; (4) a review of pertinent documents and reports; 
and (5) consideration of public comments received during scoping and on 
the draft SEIS.
    The final Supplement 43 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://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. The accession number for the final Supplement 43 to the 
GEIS is ML103560149. 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 (800) 397-4209 or 
(301) 415-4737, or by e-mail at [email protected]. In addition, the 
Litchfield Park Branch Library, 101 West Wigwam Boulevard, Litchfield 
Park, AZ 85340, has agreed to make the final supplement available for 
public inspection.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  Mr. David Drucker, Program Operations 
Branch, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mail Stop O-11F1, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001. Mr. Drucker may be contacted by telephone at 
(800) 368-5642, extension 6223, or via e-mail at [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 3rd day of January 2011.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Trent Wertz,
Chief, Program Operations Branch, Division of License Renewal, Office 
of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2011-108 Filed 1-6-11; 8:45 am]
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