[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 244 (Thursday, December 18, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 77078]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-30058]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No 52-037]
Union Electric Company d/b/a Amerenue; Acceptance for Docketing
of an Application for Combined License for Callaway Plant Unit 2
Nuclear Power Plant
By letter dated July 28, 2008, as supplemented by letters dated
September 24, 2008, November 14, 2008, and November 25, 2008, Union
Electric Company d/b/a AmerenUE (AmerenUE), submitted an application to
the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a combined license
(COL) for a single unit of the U.S. Evolutionary Power Reactor (U.S.
EPR) in accordance with the requirements contained in 10 CFR Part 52,
``Licenses, Certifications and Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants.''
This reactor will be identified as Callaway Plant Unit 2 and is to be
located at the current Callaway County, Missouri site of the Callaway
Power Plant. A notice of receipt and availability of this application
was previously published in the Federal Register (73 FR 59677) on
October 9, 2008, as corrected in Federal Register (73 FR 61444 on
October 16, 2008).
The NRC staff has determined that AmerenUE has submitted
information in accordance with 10 CFR Part 2, ``Rules of Practice for
Domestic Licensing Proceedings and Issuance of Orders,'' and 10 CFR
Part 52 that is acceptable for docketing. The Docket Number established
for Unit 2 is 52-037.
The NRC staff will perform a detailed technical review of the
application. Docketing of the 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 Subpart L, ``Informal Hearing Procedures for NRC Adjudications,''
of 10 CFR Part 2 and will receive a report on the COL application from
the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards in accordance with 10 CFR
52.87, ``Referral to the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards
(ACRS).'' If the Commission finds that the COL 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 a COL, 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 52.85.
Documents may be examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the NRC's
Public Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint North, Public
File Area O1 F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville,
Maryland, and will be accessible electronically through the Agencywide
Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Public Electronic
Reading Room link at the NRC Web site http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. The application is also available at http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/col.html. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS
or who encounter problems in accessing documents located in ADAMS
should contact the NRC PDR Reference staff by telephone at 1-800-397-
4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to [email protected].
Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 12th day of December 2008.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Joseph Colaccino,
Chief, U.S. EPR Projects Branch, Division of New Reactor Licensing,
Office of New Reactors.
[FR Doc. E8-30058 Filed 12-17-08; 8:45 am]
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