[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 163 (Friday, August 22, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49820-49822]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-19983]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 52-043; NRC-2014-0149]
Early Site Permit for the PSEG Site
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft environmental impact statement, notice of availability;
public meeting and request for comment.
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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 or Corps),
Philadelphia District, are issuing for public comment NUREG-2168,
``Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Early Site Permit (ESP)
for the PSEG Site.'' The site is located in Salem County, New Jersey.
DATES: Submit comments by November 6, 2014. Comments received after
this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the
Commission is able to
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assure consideration only for comments received on or before this date.
ADDRESSES: In addition to the public meetings for comment (described
below) 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-2014-0149. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-
3422; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this document.
Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration,
Mail Stop: 3WFN-06-A44M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001.
For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Allen Fetter, Office of New Reactors,
telephone: 301-415-8556, email: [email protected]; U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Mail Stop T6-C32, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2014-0149 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may
obtain publicly-available information related to this action by the
following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for NRC Docket ID NRC-2014-0149.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection 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
draft EIS and an accompanying reader's guide are available in ADAMS
under accession number ML14219A304.
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.
Project Web site: In addition, the draft EIS can be
accessed online at the PSEG ESP specific Web page at http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/esp/pseg.html. The Salem Free Public
Library at 112 West Broadway, Salem, New Jersey, has also agreed to
make the draft EIS available to the public.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC-2014-0149 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 in your comment submission. The NRC will post all comment
submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as enter the comment
submissions into ADAMS, and 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.
II. Background
The application submitted by PSEG Power, LLC and PSEG Nuclear, LLC
(PSEG) for an ESP was submitted by letter dated May 25, 2010, pursuant
to Part 52 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations. A notice of
receipt and availability of the application, which included the
environmental report, was published in the Federal Register on June 18,
2010 (75 FR 34794). A notice of acceptance for docketing of the ESP
application was published in the Federal Register on August 13, 2010
(75 FR 49539). 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 October 15, 2010 (75 FR 63521).
III. Further Information
Certain building activities proposed in association with the ESP
require USACE authorization under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act
and Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbor Act of 1899. Those activities
are described in the draft EIS. PSEG is completing the submission of a
Department of the Army permit application to the USACE for Federal
authorization of those building activities. The Corps will publish a
separate public notice detailing the work proposed for Corps review and
authorization. When published, the Corps public notice will be
accessible on the USACE, Philadelphia District, Web site at: http://www.nap.usace.army.mil/Missions/Regulatory/PublicNotices/tabid/4660/Year/2014/Default.aspx.
IV. Public Meetings for Comment
The NRC and USACE staff will hold two public meetings to present an
overview of the draft EIS and to accept public comments on both the
document and the associated Department of the Army permit application
on Wednesday, October 1, 2014, in Davidow Hall at Salem County
Community College, 460 Hollywood Avenue, Carneys Point, New Jersey. The
first meeting will convene at 1:00 p.m. and will continue until 4:00
p.m., as necessary. The second meeting will convene at 7:00 p.m., with
a repeat of the overview portions of the first meeting, 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 EIS; and (2) the opportunity for interested government agencies,
organizations, and individuals to provide comments on the draft report.
For comments provided at the public meeting to be considered, they 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. The draft EIS is a National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA) document that also
supports the USACE review of the Department of the Army permit
application from PSEG (application # CENAP-OP-R-2009-0157-45).
Persons may pre-register to attend or present oral comments at the
meetings by contacting Dr. Allen Fetter, Environmental Project Manager,
by telephone at 1-800-368-5642, extension 8556, or via email to
[email protected] no later than September 24, 2014. Members of the
public may also register to speak at the
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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. Dr.
Fetter will need to be contacted no later than September 24, 2014, if
special equipment or accommodations are needed to attend or present
information at the public meetings, so that the NRC staff can determine
whether the request can be accommodated.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day of August, 2014.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Frank Akstulewicz,
Director, Division of New Reactor Licensing, Office of New Reactors.
[FR Doc. 2014-19983 Filed 8-21-14; 8:45 am]
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