[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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