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Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 114 / Thursday, June 14, 2007 / Notices
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Daniel Collins,
Branch Chief, Research and Test Reactors
Branch A, Division of Policy and Rulemaking,
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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[Docket No. 50–333]
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Entergy Nuclear Fitzpatrick, LLC, and
Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.;
James A. Fitzpatrick Nuclear Power
Plant; Notice of Availability of the Draft
Supplement 31 to the Generic
Environmental Impact Statement for
License Renewal of Nuclear Plants,
and Public Meeting for the License
Renewal of James A. Fitzpatrick
Notice is hereby given that the U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC,
Commission) has published a draft
plant-specific supplement to the
Generic Environmental Impact
Statement for License Renewal of
Nuclear Plants (GEIS), NUREG–1437,
regarding the renewal of operating
license DPR–59 for an additional 20
years of operation for the James A.
FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant
(JAFNPP). JAFNPP is located on Lake
Ontario in Oswego County,
approximately seven miles northeast of
the City of Oswego, New York. Possible
alternatives to the proposed action
(license renewal) include no action and
reasonable alternative energy sources.
The draft Supplement 31 to the GEIS
is publicly available at the NRC Public
Document Room (PDR), located at One
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or
from the NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
(ADAMS). The ADAMS Public
Electronic Reading Room is accessible at
https://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/
dologin.htm. The Accession Number for
the draft Supplement 31 to the GEIS is
ML071420019. 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 by telephone
at 1–800–397–4209, or 301–415–4737,
or by e-mail at pdr@nrc.gov. In addition,
the libraries: Penfield Library SUNY,
7060 State Route 104, Oswego, NY
13126 and Oswego Public Library, 140–
142 East Second Street, Oswego, NY
13126 have agreed to make the draft
supplement to the GEIS available for
public inspection.
Any interested party may submit
comments on the draft supplement to
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the GEIS for consideration by the NRC
staff. To be considered, comments on
the draft supplement to the GEIS and
the proposed action must be received by
September 5, 2007; the NRC staff is able
to assure consideration only for
comments received on or before this
date. Comments received after the due
date will be considered only if it is
practical to do so. Written comments on
the draft supplement to the GEIS should
be sent to: Chief, Rulemaking,
Directives, and Editing Branch, Division
of Administrative Services, Office of
Administration, Mailstop T–6D59, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001.
Comments may be hand-delivered to the
NRC at 11545 Rockville Pike, Room T–
6D59, Rockville, Maryland, between
7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. on Federal
workdays. Electronic comments may be
submitted to the NRC by e-mail at
FitzPatrickEIS@nrc.gov. All comments
received by the Commission, including
those made by Federal, State, local
agencies, Native American Tribes, or
other interested persons, will be made
available electronically at the
Commission’s PDR in Rockville,
Maryland, and through ADAMS.
The NRC staff will hold a public
meeting to present an overview of the
draft plant-specific supplement to the
GEIS and to accept public comments on
the document. The public meeting will
be held on August 1, 2007, at the Scriba
Town Municipal Building, 42 Creamery
Road, Oswego, New York 13126. There
will be two sessions to accommodate
interested parties. The first session will
convene at 1:30 p.m. and will continue
until 4:30 p.m., as necessary. The
second session will convene at 7 p.m.
with a repeat of the overview portions
of the meeting and will continue until
10 p.m., as necessary. Both meetings
will be transcribed and will include: (1)
A presentation of the contents of the
draft plant-specific supplement to the
GEIS, and (2) the opportunity for
interested government agencies,
organizations, and individuals to
provide comments on the draft report.
Additionally, the NRC staff will host
informal discussions one hour prior to
the start of each session at the same
location. No comments on the draft
supplement to the GEIS will be accepted
during the informal discussions. To be
considered, comments must be provided
either at the transcribed public meeting
or in writing. Persons may pre-register
to attend or present oral comments at
the meeting by contacting Ms. Jessie M.
Muir, the NRC Environmental Project
Manager at 1–800–368–5642, extension
0491, or by e-mail at
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FitzPatrickEIS@nrc.gov no later than
July 18, 2007. Members of the public
may also register to provide oral
comments before the start of each
session. Individual, oral comments may
be limited by the time available,
depending on the number of persons
who register. If special equipment or
accommodations are needed to attend or
present information at the public
meeting, the need should be brought to
Ms. Muir’s attention no later than July
18, 2007, to provide the NRC staff
adequate notice to determine whether
the request can be accommodated.
For Further Information, Contact: Ms.
Jessie M. Muir, Environmental Branch
B, Division of License Renewal, Office
of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mail
Stop O–11F1, Washington, DC 20555–
0001. Ms. Muir may be contacted at the
aforementioned telephone number or
e-mail address.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day
of June, 2007.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Rani L. Franovich,
Branch Chief, Environmental Branch B,
Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation.
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[Docket Nos. 50–498 and 50–499]
STP Nuclear Operating Company;
South Texas Project, Units 1 and 2,
Environmental Assessment and
Finding of No Significant Impact
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is considering
issuance of amendments to Title 10 of
the Code of Federal Regulations (10
CFR) Part 50, Section 50.92, for Facility
Operating Licenses numbered NPF–76
and NPF–80, issued to STP Nuclear
Operating Company (the licensee), for
operation of the South Texas Project,
Units 1 and 2, located in Matagorda
County. Therefore, as required by 10
CFR 51.21, the NRC is issuing this
environmental assessment and finding
of no significant impact.
Environmental Assessment
Identification of the Proposed Action
The proposed action would change
the name of one licensee Texas Genco
LP (Texas Genco), to NRG South Texas
LP.
The proposed action is in accordance
with the licensee’s application dated
April 4, 2006.
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The Need for the Proposed Action
The proposed action results from the
purchase of Texas Genco’s parent
company by NRG Energy, Inc. as
approved by the NRC in January 2006.
Environmental Impacts of the Proposed
Action
The NRC has completed its safety
evaluation of the proposed action and
concludes that: (1) There is a reasonable
assurance that the health and safety of
the public will not be endangered by
operation in the proposed manner, (2)
such activities will be conducted in
compliance with the Commission’s
regulations, and (3) the issuance of the
amendments will not be inimical to the
common defense and security or to the
health and safety of the public.
The details of the staff’s safety
evaluation will be provided in the
license amendments that will be issued
as part of the letter to the licensee
approving the license amendments.
The proposed action will not
significantly increase the probability or
consequences of accidents. No changes
are being made in the types of effluents
that may be released off site. There is no
significant increase in the amount of
any effluent released off site. There is no
significant increase in occupational or
public radiation exposure. Therefore,
there are no significant radiological
environmental impacts associated with
the proposed action.
With regard to potential nonradiological impacts, the proposed
action does not have a potential to affect
any historic sites. It does not affect nonradiological plant effluents and has no
other environmental impact. Therefore,
there are no significant non-radiological
environmental impacts associated with
the proposed action.
Accordingly, the NRC concludes that
there are no significant environmental
impacts associated with the proposed
action.
Environmental Impacts of the
Alternatives to the Proposed Action
Agencies and Persons Consulted
In accordance with its stated policy,
on June 8, 2007, the staff consulted with
the Texas State Department of Health,
regarding the environmental impact of
the proposed action. The State official
had no comments.
Finding of No Significant Impact
On the basis of the environmental
assessment, the NRC concludes that the
proposed action will not have a
significant effect on the quality of the
human environment. Accordingly, the
NRC has determined not to prepare an
environmental impact statement for the
proposed action.
For further details with respect to the
proposed action, see the licensee’s letter
dated April 4, 2006. 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.
Publicly available records will be
accessible electronically from the
Agencywide Documents Access and
Management System (ADAMS) Public
Electronic Reading Room on the Internet
at the NRC Web site, https://
www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
Persons who do not have access to
ADAMS or who encounter problems in
accessing the documents located in
ADAMS should contact the NRC PDR
Reference staff by telephone at 1–800–
397–4209 or 301–415–4737, or send an
e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day
of June, 2007.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Mohan C. Thadani,
Senior Project Manager, Plant Licensing
Branch IV, Division of Operating Reactor
Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation.
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As an alternative to the proposed
action, the staff considered denial of the
proposed action (i.e., the ‘‘no-action’’
alternative). Denial of the application
would result in no change in current
environmental impacts. The
environmental impacts of the proposed
action and the alternative action are
similar.
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Texas Project, Units 1 and 2, NUREG–
1171, dated August 1986.
NUCLEAR REGULATORY
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Notice of Location Change for Public
Meeting for Fuel Cycle Facilities
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Public meeting notice.
AGENCY:
Alternative Use of Resources
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
The action does not involve the use of
any different resources than those
previously considered in the Final
Environmental Statement for the South
James Smith, Project Manager,
Technical Support Section, Division of
Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, Office
of Nuclear Material Safety and
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Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20005,
Telephone: (301) 415–6459; fax number:
(301) 415–5370; e-mail: jas4@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC) is hosting a workshop to discuss
issues of interest pertaining to the
regulation of NRC-regulated fuel cycle
facilities. The purpose of the workshop
is to discuss various issues of the
regulatory program related to the update
of 10 CFR part 70. The specific issues
to be discussed are 10 CFR part 70,
Appendix A reportability of incidents,
digital control systems, enforcement
policy revisions, uranium solubility
issues.
The workshop was originally noticed
to be held at the NRC’s Executive
Boulevard Building; however, due to
availability issues, the workshop will
now be held in Rockville at The
Universities of Shady Grove (USG)
Conference Center. The meeting is open
to the public. We are expecting that
NRC staff, licensees and certificate
holders, and other interested parties and
stakeholders will be making
presentations on these issues of interest,
with opportunity for followup
discussion on each subject.
II. Dates and Location
Date: June 14, 2007. 9 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
The Universities of Shady Grove
(USG), Conference Center Multipurpose
Room, 9630 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville,
MD 20850, for directions https://
www.shadygrove.umd.edu/about/
directions/.
III. Contact
James Smith, Project Manager, Office
of Nuclear Material Safety and
Safeguards, Division of Fuel Cycle
Safety and Safeguards, Special Projects
Branch, Mail Stop: T8F42, 301–415–
6459, Fax: 301–415–5370, e-mail:
jas4@nrc.gov.
IV. Further Information
The document related to this action is
available electronically at the NRC’s
Electronic Reading Room at https://
www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
From this site, you can access the NRC’s
Agencywide Documents Access and
Management System (ADAMS), which
provides text and image files of NRC’s
public documents. The ADAMS
ascension number for the document
related to this notice is provided in the
following table. If you do not have
access to ADAMS or if there are
problems in accessing the document
located in ADAMS, contact the NRC
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-498 and 50-499]
STP Nuclear Operating Company; South Texas Project, Units 1 and
2, Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering
issuance of amendments to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations
(10 CFR) Part 50, Section 50.92, for Facility Operating Licenses
numbered NPF-76 and NPF-80, issued to STP Nuclear Operating Company
(the licensee), for operation of the South Texas Project, Units 1 and
2, located in Matagorda County. Therefore, as required by 10 CFR 51.21,
the NRC is issuing this environmental assessment and finding of no
significant impact.
Environmental Assessment
Identification of the Proposed Action
The proposed action would change the name of one licensee Texas
Genco LP (Texas Genco), to NRG South Texas LP.
The proposed action is in accordance with the licensee's
application dated April 4, 2006.
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The Need for the Proposed Action
The proposed action results from the purchase of Texas Genco's
parent company by NRG Energy, Inc. as approved by the NRC in January
2006.
Environmental Impacts of the Proposed Action
The NRC has completed its safety evaluation of the proposed action
and concludes that: (1) There is a reasonable assurance that the health
and safety of the public will not be endangered by operation in the
proposed manner, (2) such activities will be conducted in compliance
with the Commission's regulations, and (3) the issuance of the
amendments will not be inimical to the common defense and security or
to the health and safety of the public.
The details of the staff's safety evaluation will be provided in
the license amendments that will be issued as part of the letter to the
licensee approving the license amendments.
The proposed action will not significantly increase the probability
or consequences of accidents. No changes are being made in the types of
effluents that may be released off site. There is no significant
increase in the amount of any effluent released off site. There is no
significant increase in occupational or public radiation exposure.
Therefore, there are no significant radiological environmental impacts
associated with the proposed action.
With regard to potential non-radiological impacts, the proposed
action does not have a potential to affect any historic sites. It does
not affect non-radiological plant effluents and has no other
environmental impact. Therefore, there are no significant non-
radiological environmental impacts associated with the proposed action.
Accordingly, the NRC concludes that there are no significant
environmental impacts associated with the proposed action.
Environmental Impacts of the Alternatives to the Proposed Action
As an alternative to the proposed action, the staff considered
denial of the proposed action (i.e., the ``no-action'' alternative).
Denial of the application would result in no change in current
environmental impacts. The environmental impacts of the proposed action
and the alternative action are similar.
Alternative Use of Resources
The action does not involve the use of any different resources than
those previously considered in the Final Environmental Statement for
the South Texas Project, Units 1 and 2, NUREG-1171, dated August 1986.
Agencies and Persons Consulted
In accordance with its stated policy, on June 8, 2007, the staff
consulted with the Texas State Department of Health, regarding the
environmental impact of the proposed action. The State official had no
comments.
Finding of No Significant Impact
On the basis of the environmental assessment, the NRC concludes
that the proposed action will not have a significant effect on the
quality of the human environment. Accordingly, the NRC has determined
not to prepare an environmental impact statement for the proposed
action.
For further details with respect to the proposed action, see the
licensee's letter dated April 4, 2006. 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. Publicly available records will be
accessible electronically from the Agencywide Documents Access and
Management System (ADAMS) Public Electronic Reading Room on the
Internet at the NRC Web site, https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who encounter problems in
accessing the documents located in ADAMS should contact the NRC PDR
Reference staff by telephone at 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, or send
an e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day of June, 2007.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Mohan C. Thadani,
Senior Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch IV, Division of
Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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