[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 245 (Wednesday, December 21, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 79228-79229]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-32649]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 52-018 and 52-019; NRC-2008-0170]


Combined Licenses at William States Lee III Nuclear Station Site, 
Units 1 and 2; Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft environmental impact statement; public meeting and 
request for comments.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission (NRC) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), 
Charleston District, have published NUREG-2111, ``Draft Environmental 
Impact Statement for Combined Licenses (COL) for William States Lee III 
Nuclear Station Units 1 and 2 [Lee Nuclear Station].'' The NRC plans to 
hold a public meeting to present an overview of the draft Environmental 
Impact Statement (EIS) and accept public comments.

DATES: Submit comments by March 6, 2012. The NRC staff is able to 
ensure consideration only for comments received on or before this date.

ADDRESSEES: Please include Docket ID NRC-2008-0170 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 
one of the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for documents filed under Docket ID NRC-
2008-0170. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher, 
telephone: (301) 492-3668; email: [email protected].
     Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Chief, Rules, 
Announcements, and Directive 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.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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, 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 via email to 
[email protected]. The draft EIS is available electronically under 
ADAMS Accession Number ML113430094.
     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-2008-0170.
    In addition, the draft EIS can be accessed online at the NRC's 
William States Lee III Nuclear Site Web page at http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/col/lee.html. The Cherokee County Public Library, 
300 E. Rutledge Avenue, Gaffney, SC 29340, has also agreed to make the 
draft EIS available to the public.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Sarah Lopas, Project Manager, 
Environmental Projects Branch 1, Division of New Reactor Licensing, 
Office of New Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 
DC 20555-0001; telephone: (301) 415-1147; email: [email protected].

Background

    The Lee Nuclear Station Site is located in Cherokee County, South 
Carolina. The application for the COLs was submitted by letter dated 
December 12, 2007, pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations, Part 52. A notice of receipt and availability of the 
application, which included the environmental report, was published in 
the Federal Register on January 28, 2008 (73 FR 6218). A notice of 
acceptance for docketing of the COL application was published in the 
Federal Register on February 29, 2008 (73 FR 11156). A notice of intent 
to prepare a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) and to conduct 
the scoping process was published in the Federal Register on March 20, 
2008 (73 FR 15009). A notice of intent to conduct a supplemental 
scoping process for the supplement to the environmental report was 
published in the Federal Register on May 24, 2010 (75 FR 28822).

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Public Meeting

    The NRC staff will hold two public meetings to present an overview 
of the draft EIS and to accept public comments on the document on 
Thursday, January 19, 2012, at Restoration Church International, 1905 
N. Limestone Street, Gaffney, SC 29340. The first meeting will convene 
at 1 p.m. and will continue until 4 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: (1) A presentation 
of the contents of the draft EIS; and (2) the opportunity for 
interested government agencies, organizations, and individuals to 
provide comments on the draft report. To be considered, comments must 
be provided during the transcribed public meeting either orally or in 
writing. 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 staff members on an 
informal basis. No formal comments on the draft EIS will be accepted 
during the informal discussions.
    Persons may pre-register to attend or present oral comments at the 
meetings by contacting Ms. Sarah Lopas by telephone at 1 (800) 368-
5642, extension 1147, or via email to [email protected] no later than 
January 17, 2012. Members of the public may also register to speak at 
the meetings within 15 minutes of the start of each 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. If 
special equipment or accommodations are needed to attend or present 
information at the public meetings, the need should be brought to Ms. 
Sarah Lopas's attention no later than January 12, 2012, to provide the 
NRC staff adequate notice to determine whether the request can be 
accommodated.
    The meeting agendas will be available on the NRC's Public Meeting 
Schedule Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/public-meetings/index.cfm no later than 10 days prior to the meetings. Any changes to 
the meeting agendas will be available on the NRC's Public Meeting 
Schedule.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th day of December, 2011.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David B. Matthews,
Director, Division of New Reactor Licensing, Office of New Reactors.
[FR Doc. 2011-32649 Filed 12-20-11; 8:45 am]
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