[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 28 (Thursday, February 11, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7378-7379]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-02785]



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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-373 and 50-374; NRC-2014-0268]


License Renewal Application for LaSalle County Station, Units 1 
and 2

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft supplemental generic environmental impact statement; 
issuance; public meeting; and request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for 
public comment a draft plant-specific Supplement 57 to the Generic 
Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) for License Renewal of Nuclear 
Plants, NUREG-1437, regarding the renewal of operating licenses NPF-11 
and NPF-18 for an additional 20 years of operation for LaSalle County 
Station (LSCS), Units 1 and 2. LSCS is located in LaSalle County, 
Illinois. Possible alternatives to the proposed action (licenses 
renewal) include no action and reasonable alternative energy sources. 
The NRC staff plans to hold a public meeting during 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.

DATES: Submit comments by April 4, 2016. 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 submit comments by any of the following methods 
(unless this document describes a different method for submitting 
comments on a specific subject):
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2014-0268. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; 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: OWFN-12-H08, 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: David Drucker, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001; telephone: 1-800-368-5642, extension 6223, email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2014-0268 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may 
obtain publicly-available 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-2014-0268.
     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 
ADAMS accession number for each document referenced (if it is available 
in ADAMS) is provided the first time that it is mentioned in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section. The draft plant-specific Supplement 
57 to the GEIS for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, NUREG-1437, is 
available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML16033A103.
     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.

B. Submitting Comments

    Please include Docket ID NRC-2014-0268 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. The NRC posts all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as entering 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.

II. Discussion

    The NRC is issuing for public comment a draft plant-specific 
Supplement 57 to the GEIS for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, NUREG-
1437, regarding the renewal of operating licenses NPF-11 and NPF-18 for 
an additional 20 years of operation for LSCS. Supplement 57 to the GEIS 
includes the preliminary analysis that evaluates the environmental 
impacts of the proposed action and alternatives to the proposed action. 
The NRC's preliminary recommendation is that the adverse environmental 
impacts of license renewal for LSCS are not great enough to deny the 
option of license renewal for energy-planning decisionmakers.

III. Public Meeting

    The NRC staff will hold a public meeting 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 comment on the 
document. The meeting will be held at the LaSalle County, Emergency 
Operations Center, 711 East Etna Road, Ottawa, Illinois 61350, on 
Tuesday, March 22, 2016. The meeting will convene at 7:00 p.m. and will 
continue until 9:00 p.m., as necessary. The meeting 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. To be considered in the final 
supplement to the GEIS, comments must be provided either at the 
transcribed public meeting or submitted in writing by the comment 
deadline identified above. Persons may pre-register to attend or 
present oral comments at the meeting by contacting Mr. David Drucker, 
the NRC Project Manager, at 1-800-368-5642, extension 6223, or by email 
at [email protected] no later than Tuesday, March

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15, 2016. Members of the public may also register to provide oral 
comments within 15 minutes before the start of the meeting. 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. Drucker's attention no later than 
Tuesday, March 15, 2016, to provide the NRC staff adequate notice to 
determine whether the request can be accommodated.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8 day of February, 2016

    For The Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
James G. Danna,
Chief, Environmental Review and Project Management Branch, Division of 
License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2016-02785 Filed 2-10-16; 8:45 am]
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