[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 163 (Friday, August 22, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 50811]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-21524]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Notice of Extension of the Public Comment Period for Scoping
Process To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the License
Renewal of Nuclear Power Plants
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(the Commission) has extended the public comment period for the scoping
process on the update to the ``Generic Environmental Impact Statement
(GEIS) for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants'', NUREG-1437 (May 1996)
and Addendum 1 (August 1999). The public comment period is extended to
September 17, 2003.
The GEIS and Addendum 1 to the GEIS were prepared pursuant to 10
CFR part 51 and are available for public inspection at the NRC Public
Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville
Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland, or from the Publicly Available
Records component of NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management
System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html, which provides access through the NRC's Public Electronic
Reading Room (PERR) link. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS, or
who encounter problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS,
should contact the NRC's PDR Reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, or 301-
415-4737, or by e-mail to [email protected]. The GEIS, Addendum 1, and
Supplements may also be viewed on the Internet at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1437/. The NRC prepares site-
specific supplements to the GEIS for each license renewal application
assessing the environmental impacts specific to that power plant
location; these reports may be useful to scoping participants to
understand the environmental review process and the environmental
issues associated with the review for license renewal. The Supplements
to the GEIS can also be viewed on the Internet in the context for each
project and are listed by project at: http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/applications.html. The update of the GEIS
is a generic activity and, therefore, is not the appropriate forum to
consider site-specific issues or concerns.
Any interested party may send written comments on the environmental
scope of the GEIS Update Project to the Chief, Rules and Directives
Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration,
Mail stop T-6 D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001. Comments may also be delivered to Room T-6 D59, Two White
Flint North, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland, from 7:30 a.m.
to 4:15 p.m. during Federal workdays. To be considered in the scoping
process, written comments should be postmarked by September 17, 2003.
Electronic comments may be sent by e-mail to the NRC at
[email protected]. Electronic submissions should be sent no later
than September 17, 2003, to be considered timely in the scoping
process. All comments received by the NRC will be available
electronically and accessible through the NRC's PERR link at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Barry Zalcman, Environmental
Section, License Renewal and Environmental Impacts Program, Division of
Regulatory Improvement Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555. Mr. Zalcman may be contacted by telephone at 1-
800-368-5642, extension 2419, or by e-mail at [email protected].
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 15th day of August, 2003.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John R. Tappert,
Acting Program Director, License Renewal and Environmental Impacts
Program, Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 03-21524 Filed 8-21-03; 8:45 am]
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