[Federal Register: January 15, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 10)]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Notice of Extension of the Public Comment Period for the Draft
Supplement to the Final Generic Environmental Impact Statement on
Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(the Commission) has extended the public comment period for draft
Supplement 1 to NUREG-0586, ``Final Generic Environmental Impact
Statement on Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities [GEIS],'' dealing
with decommissioning of nuclear power reactors. The public comment
period is extended to January 30, 2002.
The draft supplement to the GEIS is available electronically
through the NRC's Public Electronic Reading Room (PERR) found on the
Internet at the following web address: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-
rm.html. From this site, the public can gain access to the NRC's
Agencywide Document Access and Management Systems (ADAMS), which
provides text and image files of NRC's public documents. The draft
report can also be examined, or copied for a fee, at the NRC's Public
Document Room found at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike
(first floor), Rockville, MD. If you do not have access to ADAMS or if
there are problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, contact
the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) Reference staff at 1-800-397-4209,
or 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov.
Any interested party may submit comments on the draft supplement to
the GEIS for consideration by the NRC staff. To be certain of
consideration, comments on the draft supplement to the GEIS and the
proposed action must be received by January 30, 2002. Comments received
after the due date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but
the NRC staff is able to assure consideration only for comments
received on or before this date. Written comments on the draft
supplement to the GEIS should be sent to: Chief, Rules and Directives
Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Mailstop T 6 D 59, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
Comments may be hand-delivered to the NRC at 11545 Rockville Pike,
Rockville, Maryland, between 7:45 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. on Federal
workdays. Comments may be submitted electronically to the NRC to the e-
mail address dgeis@nrc.gov. All comments received by the NRC, including
those made by Federal, State, and local agencies; Indian tribes; or
other interested persons, will be accessible electronically through
NRC's PERR link listed above, and can be examined, or copied for a fee,
at the NRC's Public Document Room in Rockville, Maryland.
To ensure timely receipt of comments, electronic submittal of
comments is preferred because of the extended times now being routinely
encountered for the
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safe processing and delivery of first class mail to the NRC. If
comments are sent via first class mail, commenters are requested to
contact Dr. Michael T. Masnik by telephone at (301) 415-1191, or
through the NRC operator at (800) 368-5642, to inform him that comments
have been submitted by mail.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Dr. Michael T. Masnik, Environmental
Section, License Renewal and Environmental Impacts Program, Division of
Regulatory Improvement Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555. Dr. Masnik may be contacted at the aforementioned
telephone number or e-mail address.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day of January, 2002.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrew J. Kugler,
Acting Chief, Environmental Section, License Renewal and Environmental
Impacts Program, Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs, Office of
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 02-1070 Filed 1-14-02; 8:45 am]
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