[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 130 (Friday, July 6, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40091-40092]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-16548]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-247 and 50-286; NRC-2008-0672]


Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.; Indian Point Nuclear 
Generating, Units 2 and 3

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft supplement to Supplement 38 to the generic environmental 
impact statement for license renewal of nuclear plants; availability.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission) 
is issuing for public comment a draft supplement to Supplement 38 to 
the Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of 
Nuclear Plants (GEIS), NUREG-1437, regarding the renewal of operating 
licenses DPR-26 and DPR-64 for an additional 20 years of operation for 
Indian Point Nuclear Generating Units 2 and 3 (IP2 and IP3). IP2 and 
IP3 are located in Westchester County in the Village of Buchanan, New 
York, approximately 24 miles north of New York City.

DATES: Submit comments by August 20, 2012. Comments received after this 
date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC staff 
is able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or before 
this date.

ADDRESSES: You may access information and comment submissions related 
to this document, which the NRC possesses and is publically available, 
by searching on http://www.regulations.gov under Docket ID NRC-2008-
0672. You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2008-0672. 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.
    For additional direction on accessing information and submitting 
comments, see ``Accessing Information and Submitting Comments'' in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Michael Wentzel, Division of 
License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-
6459 or by email at: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Accessing Information and Submitting Comments

A. Accessing Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2008-0672 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may 
access information related to this document by any of the following 
methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2008-0672.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may access publicly-available documents online in the NRC 
Library at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the 
search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and then select ``Begin Web-
based ADAMS Search.'' For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's 
Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-
4737, or by email to [email protected]. The ADAMS accession number 
for each document referenced in this notice (if that document is 
available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is 
referenced. The draft supplement to Supplement 38 is available under 
ADAMS Accession No. ML12174A244.
     NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public 
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
     NRC's Web page: Documents related to this notice are 
available on the NRC's Plant Application for License Renewal Web site 
at http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/applications/indian-point.html. The draft supplement to Supplement 38 
for the IP2 and IP3 license renewal application may also be accessed on 
the internet at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1437/ by selecting ``Supplement 38.''
     Local Library: A copy of the draft supplement to 
Supplement 38 to the GEIS will be available to local residents near the 
site at the White Plains Public Library located at 100 Martine Avenue, 
White Plains, NY 10601, at the Hendrick Hudson Free Library located at 
185 Kings Ferry Road, Montrose, NY 10548, and at the Field Library 
located at 4 Neslon Avenue, Peekskill, NY 10566.

B. Submitting Comments

    Please include Docket ID NRC-2008-0672 in the subject line of your 
comment submission, in order to ensure that the NRC is able to make 
your comment submission available to the public in this docket.
    The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact 
information in comment submissions that you do not want to be publicly 
disclosed. The NRC posts all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as entering the comment submissions into 
ADAMS, and the NRC does not edit comment submissions to remove 
identifying or contact information.
    If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons 
for submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to 
include identifying or contact information in their comment submissions 
that they do not want to be publicly disclosed. Your request should 
state that the NRC will not edit comment submissions to remove such 
information before making the comment submissions available to the 
public or entering the comment submissions into ADAMS.

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II. Background

    The NRC received an application, by letter dated April 23, 2007, 
from Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. (Entergy), to renew the operating 
licenses for IP2 and IP3 for an additional 20 years. In support of the 
application and in accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations (10 CFR) Parts 51 and 54, Entergy also submitted an 
environmental report for IP2 and IP3. In December 2010, the NRC staff 
issued its final plant-specific Supplement 38 to NUREG-1437, ``Generic 
Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants 
(GEIS)'' (final SEIS), regarding the renewal of operating licenses DPR-
26 and DPR-64 for an additional 20 years of operation for IP2 and IP3.
    Pursuant to 10 CFR 51.92(a)(2), if a proposed action has not been 
taken, the NRC is to prepare a supplement to a final environmental 
impact statement (EIS) for which a notice of availability has been 
published in the Federal Register as provided in Sec.  51.118, if there 
are new and significant circumstances or information relevant to 
environmental concerns and bearing on the proposed action or its 
impacts. In addition, pursuant to 10 CFR 51.92(c), the NRC staff may 
prepare a supplement to a final EIS when, in the opinion, preparation 
of a supplement will further the purpose of the National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA).
    Subsequent to the issuance of the final SEIS, the NRC staff 
identified certain new information regarding aquatic impacts that 
necessitated changes to the staff's findings in the final SEIS. 
Therefore, the NRC staff has prepared a draft supplement to Supplement 
38 to the Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of 
Nuclear Plants.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of June 2012.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David J. Wrona,
Chief, Projects Branch 2, Division of License Renewal, Office of 
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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