[Federal Register: July 1, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 126)]
[Notices]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-277 AND 50-278]
Exelon Generation Company, LLC; PSEG Nuclear, LLC; Notice of
Availability of the Draft Supplement 10 to the Generic Environmental
Impact Statement and Public Meeting for the License Renewal of Peach
Bottom Atomic Power Station, Units 2 and 3
Notice is hereby given that the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(the Commission) has published a draft plant-specific supplement to the
Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS), NUREG-1437, regarding
the renewal of operating licenses DRP-44 and DRP-56 for an additional
20 years of operation at Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, Units 2 and
3. Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station is located primarily in Peach
Bottom Township, York County, Pennsylvania. Possible alternatives to
the proposed action (license renewal) include no action and reasonable
alternative energy sources.
The draft supplement to the GEIS is available electronically for
public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room located at One White
Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland,
or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of NRC's
document system (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm.html (the Public Electronic Reading
Room). 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. In addition, the Collinsville Community
Library in Brogue, Pennsylvania, the Quarryville Library in
Quarryville, Pennsylvania and the Whiteford Branch Library in
Whiteford, Maryland, have agreed to make the draft supplement to the
GEIS available for public inspection.
Any interested party may submit comments on the draft supplement to
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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 September 18, 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, Office of Administration,
Mail Stop T-6D 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. Electronic comments may be submitted to the NRC by the
Internet at Peach--Bottom--EIS@nrc.gov. All comments received by the
Commission, including those made by Federal, State, and local agencies,
Indian tribes, or other interested persons, will be made available
electronically at the Commission's Public Document Room in Rockville,
Maryland and from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of
NRC's document system (ADAMS).
The NRC staff will hold a public meeting to present an overview of
the draft plant-specific supplement to the GEIS and to accept public
comments on the document. The public meeting will be held at the Peach
Bottom Inn, 6085 Delta Road, Delta, Pennsylvania, on July 31, 2002.
There will be two sessions to accommodate interested parties. The first
session will commence at 1:30 p.m. and will continue until 4:30 p.m.
The second session will commence at 7 p.m. and will continue until 10
p.m. Both meetings 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.
Additionally, the NRC staff will host informal discussions one hour
prior to the start of each session at the Peach Bottom Inn. No comments
on the proposed draft supplement to the GEIS will be accepted during
the informal discussions. To be considered, comments must be provided
either at the transcribed public meetings, or in writing as discussed
above. Persons may pre-register to attend or present oral comments at
the meeting by contacting Mr. Duke Wheeler by telephone at 1-800-368-
5642, extension 1444, or by Internet to the NRC at Peach--Bottom--
EIS@nrc.gov no later than July 24, 2002. Members of the public may also
register to provide oral comments within 15 minutes of the start of
each session. 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. Wheeler's
attention no later than July 24, 2002, to provide the NRC staff
adequate notice to determine whether the request can be accommodated.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Mr. Duke Wheeler, License Renewal and
Environmental Impacts Program, Division of Regulatory Improvement
Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555. Mr.
Wheeler may also be contacted at the aforementioned telephone number or
e-mail address.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day of June 2002.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Pao-Tsin Kuo,
Program Director, License Renewal and Environmental Impacts, Division
of Regulatory Improvement Programs, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 02-16451 Filed 6-28-02; 8:45 am]
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