[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 163 (Thursday, August 21, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 49496]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-19371]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 52-011]


Southern Nuclear Operating Company; Notice of Availability of the 
Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for an Early Site Permit 
(ESP) Application at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Site

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(NRC) has published NUREG-1872, ``Final Environmental Impact Statement 
for an Early Site Permit (ESP) at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant 
Site.'' The site is located on the southwest side of the Savannah River 
in eastern Burke County, Georgia. A notice of availability of the draft 
EIS was published in the Federal Register on September 14, 2007 (72 FR 
52586).
    The purpose of this notice is to inform the public that NUREG-1872, 
``Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for an Early Site Permit 
(ESP) at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Site'', Volumes 1 and 2 
(including an addendum to Appendix F of Volume 2), is available for 
public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) located at One 
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (First Floor) Rockville, 
Maryland 20852, or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component 
of NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS), and 
will also be placed directly on the NRC website at http://www.nrc.gov. 
ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (The Public Electronic Reading Room). Persons who 
do not have access to ADAMS, or who encounter problems in accessing the 
documents located in ADAMS, should contact the PRD reference staff by 
telephone at 1-800-397-4209 or 1-301-415-4737, or online at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/contact-pdr.html. In addition, the following 
public library in the vicinity of the Vogtle ESP Site has agreed to 
make the FEIS available for public inspection:
Burke County Library,
130 Highway 24 South,
Waynesboro, GA 30830.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Notich, Environmental Projects 
Branch 1, Division of Site and Environmental Reviews, Office of New 
Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001. Mr. Notich may be contacted by telephone at 301-415-3053, or by 
e-mail at [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 13th day of August 2008.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Nilesh Chokshi,
Deputy Director, Division of Site and Environmental Reviews, Office of 
New Reactors.
[FR Doc. E8-19371 Filed 8-20-08; 8:45 am]
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