[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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