[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 210 (Thursday, October 30, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 61835]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-27329]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 52-007]


Exelon Generation Company, LLC; Notice of Acceptance of 
Application for Early Site Permit for the Clinton ESP Site

    On September 25, 2003, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC, the 
Commission) received an application from Exelon Generation Company, LLC 
(Exelon) filed pursuant to Section 103 of the Atomic Energy Act and 10 
CFR Part 52, for an early site permit (ESP) for property co-located 
with the existing Clinton Power Station facility near Clinton, 
Illinois, hereafter identified as the Clinton ESP site. A notice of 
receipt and availability of this application was previously published 
in the Federal Register (68 FR 61020; October 24, 2003).
    An applicant may seek an ESP in accordance with Subpart A of 10 CFR 
Part 52 separate from the filing of an application for a construction 
permit (CP) or combined license (COL) for a nuclear power facility. The 
ESP process allows resolution of issues relating to siting. At any time 
during the period of an ESP (up to 20 years), the permit holder may 
reference the permit in a CP or COL application.
    The NRC staff has determined that Exelon has submitted information 
in accordance with 10 CFR Part 52 that is sufficiently complete and 
acceptable for docketing. The Docket Number established for this 
application is 52-007. The NRC staff will perform a detailed technical 
review of the application, and docketing of the ESP application does 
not preclude the NRC from requesting additional information from the 
applicant as the review proceeds, nor does it predict whether the 
Commission will grant or deny the application. The Commission will 
conduct a hearing in accordance with 10 CFR 52.21 and will receive a 
report on the application from the Advisory Committee on Reactor 
Safeguards in accordance with 10 CFR 52.23. If the Commission then 
finds that the application meets the applicable standards of the Atomic 
Energy Act and the Commission's regulations, and that required 
notifications to other agencies and bodies have been made, the 
Commission will issue an ESP, in the form and containing conditions and 
limitations that the Commission finds appropriate and necessary.
    In accordance with 10 CFR Part 51, the Commission will also prepare 
an environmental impact statement for the proposed action. Pursuant to 
10 CFR 51.26, and as part of the environmental scoping process, the 
staff intends to hold a public scoping meeting. Detailed information 
regarding this meeting will be included in a future Federal Register 
notice.
    Finally, the Commission will announce, in a future Federal Register 
notice, the opportunity to petition for leave to intervene in the 
hearing required for this application by 10 CFR 52.21.
    A copy of the Exelon ESP application is available for public 
inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room (PDR), located at 
One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, 
Maryland. It is also accessible electronically from the Agencywide 
Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Public Electronic 
Reading Room on the Internet at the NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. The accession number for the application is 
ML032721596. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS, or who encounter 
problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, should contact 
the NRC Public Document Room staff by telephone at 1-800-397-4209, 301-
415-4737, or by e-mail to [email protected]. The application is also 
available to local residents at the Vespasian Warner Public Library in 
Clinton, Illinois.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 27th day of October 2003.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
James E. Lyons,
Program Director, New, Research and Test Reactors Program, Division of 
Regulatory Improvement Programs, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 03-27329 Filed 10-29-03; 8:45 am]
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