[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 243 (Tuesday, December 18, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 74882-74883]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-30478]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos.: 50-498 and 50-499; NRC-2010-0375]


STP Nuclear Operating Company, South Texas Project; Notice of 
Availability of Draft Supplement 48 to the Generic Environmental Impact 
Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants and Public Meetings for 
the License Renewal of South Texas Project

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(NRC) has published a draft plant-specific supplement 48 to the Generic 
Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants 
(GEIS), NUREG-1437, regarding the renewal of operating licenses NPF-76 
and NPF-80 for an additional 20 years of operation for South Texas 
Project (STP), Units 1 and 2. STP is located in Bay City, Texas. 
Possible alternatives to the proposed action (license renewal) include 
no action and reasonable alternative energy sources.
    Any interested party may submit comments on the draft supplement to 
the GEIS for consideration by the NRC staff. To be considered, comments 
on the draft supplement to the GEIS and the proposed action must be 
received by February 22, 2013. 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 are publically available, 
by searching on http://www.regulations.gov under Docket ID NRC-2010-
0375. 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-2010-0375. 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.
    All comments received by the NRC, including those made by Federal, 
State, and local agencies; Native American Tribes; or other interested 
persons, will be made available electronically at the NRC's PDR in 
Rockville, Maryland, and through ADAMS. Comments received after the due 
date will be considered only if it is practical to do so.
    The NRC staff will hold public meetings prior to the close of the 
public comment period to present an overview of the draft plant-
specific supplement to the GEIS and to accept public comments on the 
document. Two meetings will be held at the Bay City Civic Center, 201 
Seventh Street, Bay City, Texas 77414, on Tuesday, January 15, 2013. 
The first session will convene at 2:00 p.m. and will continue until 
5:00 p.m., as necessary. The second session will convene at 7:00 p.m. 
and will continue until 10:00 p.m., as necessary. The meetings will be 
transcribed and will include: (1) A presentation of the contents of the 
draft plant-specific supplement to the GEIS and (2) the opportunity for 
interested government agencies, organizations, and individuals to 
provide comments on the draft report. Additionally, the NRC staff will 
host informal discussions one hour prior to the start of each session 
at the same location. No comments on the draft supplement to the GEIS 
will be accepted during the informal discussions. To be considered, 
comments must be provided either at the transcribed public meeting or 
in writing. Persons may pre-register to attend or present oral comments 
at the meeting by contacting Mr. Tam Tran, the NRC Environmental 
Project Manager, at 1-800-368-5642, extension 3617, or by email at 
[email protected] no later than Friday, January 4, 2013. Members of the 
public may also register to provide oral comments within 15 minutes of 
the start of each session. Individual oral comments may be limited by 
the time available, depending on the number of persons who register. If 
special equipment or accommodations are needed to attend or present 
information at the public meeting, the need should be brought to Mr. 
Tran's attention no later than Friday, January 4, 2013, to provide the 
NRC staff adequate notice to determine whether the request can be 
accommodated.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Tam Tran, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-3617; or email to [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Accessing Information and Submitting Comments

A. Accessing Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2010-0375 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-2010-0375.
     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.
     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.
    In addition, a copy of the draft supplement to the GEIS is 
available to local residents near the site at the 1100 7th Street, Bay 
City, TX 77414.

B. Submitting Comments

    Please include Docket ID NRC-2010-0375 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 that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your 
comment submission.

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The NRC will post all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov 
as well as enter the comment submissions into ADAMS. The NRC does not 
routinely 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 that they do not want to be 
publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should 
state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to 
remove such information before making the comment submissions available 
to the public or entering the comment submissions into ADAMS.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day of December 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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