[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 214 (Wednesday, November 5, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65714-65715]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-26301]


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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; extension of comment 
period.

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SUMMARY: On August 22, 2014, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(NRC) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) published for public 
comment a draft environmental impact statement (EIS), NUREG-2168, 
``Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Early Site Permit (ESP) 
for the PSEG Site.'' The PSEG Site is located in Salem County, New 
Jersey. The public comment period was to have ended on November 6, 
2014. The NRC has decided to extend the public comment period for 30 
days to allow more time for members of the public to develop and submit 
their comments.

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DATES: The comment period for the draft EIS (79 FR 49820; August 22, 
2014) has been extended to December 6, 2014.

ADDRESSES: 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, 
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, 
telephone: 301-415-8556, email: [email protected].

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 No. 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: 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.
     Salem Free Public Library: The draft EIS is available for 
public inspection at 112 West Broadway, Salem, New Jersey, 08079.

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. Discussion

    The application submitted by PSEG Power, LLC, and PSEG Nuclear, LLC 
(PSEG), for an ESP was submitted by letter dated May 25, 2010 (ADAMS 
Accession No. ML101480484), 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). On August 22, 2014, the NRC and USACE published 
for public comment the draft EIS in the Federal Register (79 FR 49820). 
The purpose of this solicitation was to obtain public comments on the 
draft EIS for NRC staff to consider in preparing the final EIS. The 
public comment period was to have ended on November 6, 2014. Extensions 
to the 75-day comment period may be provided at the discretion of the 
NRC staff if special circumstances are present. The NRC staff has 
determined that special circumstances exist that support extending this 
comment period. Those special circumstances include the recent 
identification of some individuals and organizations with special 
knowledge and expertise in the area of environmental justice that had 
not been aware of the original notice and other outreach efforts. In 
order to gain additional information on any minority or low-income 
populations that might be disproportionately affected, the NRC has 
determined that it is prudent, in this instance, to extend the public 
comment period on this document until December 6, 2014, to allow more 
time for members of the public to submit their comments.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 30th day of October, 2014.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Frank Akstulewicz,
Director, Division of New Reactor Licensing, Office of New Reactors.
[FR Doc. 2014-26301 Filed 11-4-14; 8:45 am]
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