NRC SEEKS COMMENTS ON DRAFT SUPPLEMENT TO ENVIRONMENTAL
STATEMENT ON DECOMMISSIONING OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES

The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is seeking public comments on its draft Supplement 1 to the "Final Generic Environmental Impact Statement on Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities, NUREG-0586." The agency will hold a public meeting in San Francisco on December 4 to discuss the document.

The meeting will be in the Argent Hotel, 50 Third St., San Francisco, from 7-10 p.m.

At the meeting, the contents of the draft Supplement to the GEIS will be presented and interested parties will be given an opportunity to provide comments. Additionally, NRC staff will host informal discussions one hour prior to the start of each session. No comments on the draft Supplement to the GEIS will be accepted during the informal discussions.

Persons planning to attend or present oral comments at the meeting should contact Dino Scaletti at 1-800-368-5642, extension 1104, or by e-mail at DGEIS.Resource@nrc.gov. Members of the public may also register to speak at the meeting within 15 minutes of the start. Individual oral comments may be limited by the time available, depending upon the number of persons who register.

The Supplement was prepared because of technological advances in decommissioning operations, experience gained with shut down plants, and changes made to the NRC regulations since the GEIS was first published. It is a stand-alone document to be used to evaluate environmental impacts during decommissioning, which could lead to termination of the NRC license.

The draft Supplement finds that of the environmental issues assessed, most of the impacts are generic and small.

The draft report is available electronically through the NRC's Public Electronic Reading Room at www.nrc.gov as an Agencywide Document Access and Management Systems (ADAMS) document and can also be viewed at the NRC's Public Document Room, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland. For help in accessing ADAMS, contact the NRC Public Document Room staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov.

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