[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 218 (Thursday, November 10, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70169-70170]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-29130]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-391; NRC-2008-0369]


Draft Supplement 2 to Final Environmental Statement Related to 
the Operation of Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Unit 2; Tennessee Valley 
Authority

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

ACTION: Draft environmental statement; opportunity to comment and 
public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is requesting 
comments on NUREG-0498, ``Final Environmental Statement, Supplement 2, 
Related to the Operation of Watts Bar Nuclear Plant [WBN], Unit 2--
Draft Report for Comment'' (draft SFES). The NRC will hold a public 
meeting on the draft SFES on December 8, 2011.

DATES: Submit comments by December 27, 2011. Comments received after 
this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC 
is able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or before 
this date.

ADDRESSES: Please include Docket ID NRC-2008-0369 in the subject line 
of your comments. For additional instructions on submitting comments 
and instructions on accessing documents related to this action, see 
``Submitting Comments and Accessing Information'' in the SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION section of this document. You may submit comments by any of 
the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for documents filed under Docket ID NRC-
2008-0369. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher, 
telephone: (301) 492-3668; email: [email protected].
     Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Chief, Rules, 
Announcements, and Directives Branch (RADB), Office of Administration, 
Mail Stop: TWB-05-B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 
DC 20555-0001.
     Fax comments to: RADB at (301) 492-3446.
     Verbal comments at: Public meeting on December 8, 2011. 
See Section IV, Submitting Comments at Public Meeting, of this document 
for more information regarding the public meeting.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carmen G. Fells, Project Manager, 
Environmental Review and Guidance Update Branch, Division of License 
Renewal, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; 
telephone: (301) 415-6337; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Submitting Comments and Accessing Information

    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. Because your comments will not be edited to remove 
any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions you against 
including any information in your submission that you do not want to 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 their comments to remove any 
identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not 
include any information in their comments that they do not want 
publicly disclosed.
    You can access publicly available documents related to this 
document using the following methods:
     NRC's Public Document Room (PDR): The public may examine 
and have copied, for a fee, publicly available documents at the NRC's 
PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, 
Rockville, Maryland 20852.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): Publicly available documents created or received at the NRC 
are available online in the NRC Library at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. From this page, the public can gain entry into ADAMS, 
which provides text and image files of the NRC's public documents. If 
you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are problems in accessing 
the documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC's PDR reference staff 
at 1-(800) 397-4209, (301) 415-4737, or by email to 
[email protected]. The draft SFES is available electronically under 
ADAMS Accession Number ML112980199.
     Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Public comments and 
supporting materials related to this notice can be found at http://www.regulations.gov by searching on Docket ID NRC-2008-0369.

II. Background

    The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA or the applicant) submitted its 
Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Completion 
and Operation of WBN Unit 2 (June 2007)

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(FSEIS) by letter dated February 15, 2008 (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML080510469), pursuant to Part 51 of Title 10 of the Code of the 
Federal Regulations (10 CFR).
    On June 30, 1976, TVA submitted an application for an operating 
license for WBN Unit 2, pursuant to 10 CFR Part 50. An updated 
operating license application was submitted on March 4, 2009. The 
proposed action in response to the updated application is the issuance 
of an operating license that would authorize TVA to possess, use, and 
operate a second light-water nuclear reactor (the facility), WBN Unit 
2, located on the applicant's site in Rhea County, Tennessee. The WBN 
Unit 2 would operate at a steady-state power level of 3411 megawatts 
thermal.
    A notice of receipt and availability of the updated application, 
which included the FSEIS, was published in the Federal Register on May 
1, 2009 (74 FR 20350). A notice of intent to prepare a supplement to 
the final environmental statement, which was prepared and published in 
1978 and to conduct the scoping process was published in the Federal 
Register on September 11, 2009 (74 FR 46799). On October 6, 2009, the 
NRC held two scoping meetings in Sweetwater, Tennessee, to obtain 
public input on the scope of the environmental review. The NRC also 
solicited comments from Federal, State, Tribal, regional, and local 
agencies.

III. Purpose

    The purpose of this document is to inform the public that a draft 
SFES related to the review of the operating license application has 
been prepared in accordance with 10 CFR 51.92 and to provide the public 
an opportunity to comment.

IV. Submitting Comments at Public Meeting

    The NRC staff will hold a public meeting to present an overview of 
the draft SFES and to accept public comments on the document. The 
public meeting will be held at the Magnuson Hotel at 1421 Murrays 
Chapel Road in Sweetwater, Tennessee, on Thursday, December 8, 2011. 
The meeting will consist of two sessions, which will cover the same 
subjects. The sessions will convene at 2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. and will 
continue until 4 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., as necessary. The meeting will be 
transcribed and will include: (1) A presentation of the contents of the 
draft SFES and (2) the opportunity for interested government agencies, 
organizations, and individuals to provide comments on the draft SFES. 
Additionally, the NRC staff will host informal discussions 1 hour 
before the start of each meeting session. No formal comments on the 
draft SFES will be accepted during the informal discussions. To be 
considered, comments must be provided either at the transcribed public 
meeting sessions or by any of the methods provided in the ADDRESSES 
section of this document. Persons may register to attend or present 
oral comments at the meeting by contacting Ms. Carmen Fells, by 
telephone at 1-(800) 368-5642, extension 6337, or by email at 
[email protected] no later than December 1, 2011. Ms. Fells will 
need to be contacted no later than November 28, 2011, 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.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 2nd day of November 2011.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Stephen J. Campbell,
Chief, Watts Bar Special Projects Branch, Division of Operating Reactor 
Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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