FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company; Beaver Valley Power Station, Units 1 and 2; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement and Conduct Scoping Process, 62497-62499 [E7-21683]
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FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating
Company; Beaver Valley Power
Station, Units 1 and 2; Notice of Intent
To Prepare an Environmental Impact
Statement and Conduct Scoping
Process
FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating
Company (FENOC) has submitted an
application for renewal of Facility
Operating Licenses Nos. DPR–66 and
NPF–73, for an additional 20 years of
operation at Beaver Valley Power
Station, Units 1 and 2. Beaver Valley
Power Station is located in
Shippingport, Pennsylvania.
The current operating licenses for
Beaver Valley Power Station, Units 1
and 2, expire on January 29, 2016 and
May 27, 2027, respectively. The
application for renewal, dated August
27, 2007, was submitted pursuant to
Title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR) Part 54. A notice
of receipt and availability of the
application, which included FENOC’s
environmental report (ER), was
published in the Federal Register on
September 24, 2007 (72 FR 54301). A
notice of acceptance for docketing of the
application for renewal of the facility
operating license was published in the
Federal Register on October 26, 2007,
(72 FR 60916). The purpose of this
notice is to inform the public that the
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC) will be preparing an
environmental impact statement (EIS)
related to the review of the license
renewal application and to provide the
public an opportunity to participate in
the environmental scoping process, as
defined in 10 CFR 51.29. In addition, as
outlined in 36 CFR 800.8, ‘‘Coordination
with the National Environmental Policy
Act’’ (NEPA), the NRC plans to
coordinate compliance with Section 106
of the National Historic Preservation Act
in meeting the requirements of NEPA of
1969.
In accordance with 10 CFR 51.53(c)
and 10 CFR 54.23, FENOC submitted
the ER as part of the application. The ER
was prepared pursuant to 10 CFR Part
51 and is publicly available at the NRC
Public Document Room (PDR), located
at One White Flint North, 11555
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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 ER is ML072430913. 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 via e-mail at pdr@nrc.gov.
The ER may also be viewed on the
Internet at https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/
operating/licensing/renewal/
applications/bvalley.html. In addition,
the ER is available for public inspection
near Beaver Valley Power Station at the
following public libraries: Beaver Area
Memorial Library, 100 College Avenue,
Beaver, Pennsylvania 15009 and the
Beaver County Library System, 1
Campus Drive, Monaca, Pennsylvania
15061.
This notice advises the public that the
NRC intends to gather the information
necessary to prepare a plant-specific
supplement to the Commission’s
‘‘Generic Environmental Impact
Statement (GEIS) for License Renewal of
Nuclear Plants’’ (NUREG–1437), related
to the review of the application for
renewal of the Beaver Valley Power
Station, Units 1 and 2, operating
licenses for an additional 20 years.
Possible alternatives to the proposed
action (license renewal) include no
action and reasonable alternative energy
sources. The NRC is required by 10 CFR
51.95 to prepare a supplement to the
GEIS in connection with the renewal of
an operating license. This notice is
being published in accordance with
NEPA and the NRC’s regulations found
in 10 CFR Part 51.
The NRC will first conduct a scoping
process for the supplement to the GEIS
and, as soon as practicable thereafter,
will prepare a draft supplement to the
GEIS for public comment. Participation
in the scoping process by members of
the public and local, State, Tribal, and
Federal government agencies is
encouraged. The scoping process for the
supplement to the GEIS will be used to
accomplish the following:
a. Define the proposed action which
is to be the subject of the supplement to
the GEIS.
b. Determine the scope of the
supplement to the GEIS and identify the
significant issues to be analyzed in
depth.
c. Identify and eliminate from
detailed study those issues that are
peripheral or that are not significant.
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d. Identify any environmental
assessments and other ElSs that are
being or will be prepared that are
related to, but are not part of, the scope
of the supplement to the GEIS being
considered.
e. Identify other environmental
review and consultation requirements
related to the proposed action.
f. Indicate the relationship between
the timing of the preparation of the
environmental analyses and the
Commission’s tentative planning and
decision-making schedule.
g. Identify any cooperating agencies
and, as appropriate, allocate
assignments for preparation and
schedules for completing the
supplement to the GEIS to the NRC and
any cooperating agencies.
h. Describe how the supplement to
the GEIS will be prepared, and include
any contractor assistance to be used.
The NRC invites the following entities
to participate in scoping:
a. The applicant, FENOC.
b. Any Federal agency that has
jurisdiction by law or special expertise
with respect to any environmental
impact involved, or that is authorized to
develop and enforce relevant
environmental standards.
c. Affected State and local
government agencies, including those
authorized to develop and enforce
relevant environmental standards.
d. Any affected Indian tribe.
e. Any person who requests or has
requested an opportunity to participate
in the scoping process.
f. Any person who has petitioned or
intends to petition for leave to
intervene.
In accordance with 10 CFR 51.26, the
scoping process for an EIS may include
a public scoping meeting to help
identify significant issues related to a
proposed activity and to determine the
scope of issues to be addressed in an
EIS. The NRC has decided to hold
public scoping meetings for the Beaver
Valley Power Station, Units 1 and 2,
license renewal supplement to the GEIS.
The scoping meetings will be held at the
Embassy Suites Pittsburgh-International
Airport, 550 Cherrington Parkway,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15108, on
Tuesday, November 27, 2007. 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) An overview by the NRC staff of
the NEPA environmental review
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process, the proposed scope of the
supplement to the GEIS, and the
proposed review schedule; and (2) the
opportunity for interested government
agencies, organizations, and individuals
to submit comments or suggestions on
the environmental issues or the
proposed scope of the supplement to the
GEIS. Additionally, the NRC staff will
host informal discussions one hour
before the start of each session at the
Embassy Suites Pittsburgh-International
Airport in Pittsburgh. No formal
comments on the proposed scope of the
supplement to the GEIS will be accepted
during the informal discussions. To be
considered, comments must be provided
either at the transcribed public meetings
or in writing, as discussed below.
Persons may register to attend or present
oral comments at the meetings on the
scope of the NEPA review by contacting
NRC’s Project Manager, Mr. Kent L.
Howard, at 1–800–368–5642, extension
2989, or via e-mail to the NRC at
BeaverValleyEIS@nrc.gov no later than
November 15, 2007. Members of the
public may also register to speak at the
meeting within 15 minutes of the start
of each session. Individual oral
comments may be limited by the time
available, depending on the number of
persons who register. Members of the
public who have not registered may also
have an opportunity to speak, if time
permits. Public comments will be
considered in the scoping process for
the supplement to the GEIS. Mr.
Howard will need to be contacted no
later than November 15, 2007, if special
equipment or accommodations are
needed to attend or present information
at the public meeting, so that the NRC
staff can determine whether the request
can be accommodated.
Members of the public may send
written comments on the environmental
scope of the Beaver Valley Power
Station, Units 1 and 2 license renewal
review to: Chief, Rules and Directives
Branch, Division of Administrative
Services, Office of Administration,
Mailstop T–6D59, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001, and should cite the
publication date and page number of
this Federal Register notice. Comments
may also be delivered to the U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Room
T–6D59, Two White Flint North, 11545
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland
20852, 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 January 2, 2008.
Electronic comments may be sent by email to the NRC at
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BeaverValleyEIS@nrc.gov, and should
be sent no later than January 2, 2008, to
be considered in the scoping process.
Comments will be available
electronically and accessible through
ADAMS at https://
adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/dologin.htm.
Participation in the scoping process
for the supplement to the GEIS does not
entitle participants to become parties to
the proceeding to which the supplement
to the GEIS relates. Notice of
opportunity for a hearing regarding the
renewal application was the subject of
the aforementioned Federal Register
notice (72 FR 60916). Matters related to
participation in any hearing are outside
the scope of matters to be discussed at
this public meeting.
At the conclusion of the scoping
process, the NRC will prepare a concise
summary of the determination and
conclusions reached; including the
significant issues identified, and will
send a copy of the summary to each
participant in the scoping process. The
summary will also be available for
inspection in ADAMS at https://
adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/dologin.htm.
The staff will then prepare and issue for
comment the draft supplement to the
GEIS, which will be the subject of a
separate notice and separate public
meetings. Copies will be available for
public inspection at the abovementioned addresses, and one copy per
request will be provided free of charge.
After receipt and consideration of the
comments, the NRC will prepare a final
supplement to the GEIS, which will also
be available for public inspection.
Information about the proposed
action, the supplement to the GEIS, and
the scoping process may be obtained
from Mr. Howard at the aforementioned
telephone number or e-mail address.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 29th day
of October 2007.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Rani Franovich,
Branch Chief, Projects Branch 2, Division of
License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation.
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Upon Written Request, Copies Available
From: Securities and Exchange
Commission, Office of Investor
Education and Advocacy,
Washington, DC 20549–0213.
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Extension:
Rule 204A–1, SEC File No. 270–536, OMB
Control No. 3235–0596.
Notice is hereby given that pursuant
to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) the Securities
and Exchange Commission (the
‘‘Commission’’) is soliciting comments
on the collections of information
summarized below. The Commission
plans to submit these existing
collections of information to the Office
of Management and Budget for
extension and approval.
The title for the collection of
information is ‘‘Rule 204A–1 (17 CFR
275.204A–1) under the Investment
Advisers Act of 1940’’ (15 U.S.C. 80b–
1 et seq.). Rule 204A–1, the Code of
Ethics Rule, requires investment
advisers registered with the Commission
to (i) set forth standards of conduct
expected of advisory personnel
(including compliance with the federal
securities laws), (ii) safeguard material
nonpublic information about client
transactions, and (iii) requires the
adviser’s ‘‘access persons’’ to report
their personal securities transactions,
including transactions in any mutual
fund managed by the adviser. The code
of ethics also requires access persons to
obtain the adviser’s approval before
investing in an initial public offering or
private placement. The code of ethics
also requires prompt reporting, to the
adviser’s chief compliance officer or
another person designated in the code of
ethics, of any violations of the code.
Finally, the code of ethics requires the
adviser to provide each supervised
person with a copy of the code and any
amendments, and requires the
supervised persons to acknowledge, in
writing, their receipt of these copies.
The purposes of the information
collection requirements are: (i) To
ensure that advisers maintain codes of
ethics applicable to their supervised
persons; (ii) to provide advisers with
information about the personal
securities transactions of their access
persons for purposes of monitoring such
transactions; (iii) to provide advisory
clients with information with which to
evaluate advisers’ codes of ethics; and
(iv) to assist the Commission’s
examination staff in assessing the
adequacy of advisers’ codes of ethics
and assessing personal trading activity
by advisers’ supervised persons.
The respondents to this information
collection are investment advisers
registered with the Commission. The
Commission has estimated that
compliance with rule 204A–1 imposes a
burden of approximately 117 hours per
adviser annually for an estimated total
annual burden of 1,265,865 hours.
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Written comments are invited on: (a)
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
of the burden of the collection of
information; (c) ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information collected; and (d) ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of
information on respondents, including
through the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology. Consideration will be given
to comments and suggestions submitted
in writing within 60 days of this
publication.
Please direct your written comments
to R. Corey Booth, Director/Chief
Information Officer, Securities and
Exchange Commission, c/o Shirley
Martinson, 6432 General Green Way,
Alexandria, VA 22312 or send an e-mail
to: PRA_Mailbox@sec.gov.
October 29, 2007.
Florence E. Harmon,
Deputy Secretary.
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Notice is hereby given that, pursuant
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-334 and 50-412]
FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company; Beaver Valley Power
Station, Units 1 and 2; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental
Impact Statement and Conduct Scoping Process
FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC) has submitted an
application for renewal of Facility Operating Licenses Nos. DPR-66 and
NPF-73, for an additional 20 years of operation at Beaver Valley Power
Station, Units 1 and 2. Beaver Valley Power Station is located in
Shippingport, Pennsylvania.
The current operating licenses for Beaver Valley Power Station,
Units 1 and 2, expire on January 29, 2016 and May 27, 2027,
respectively. The application for renewal, dated August 27, 2007, was
submitted pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10
CFR) Part 54. A notice of receipt and availability of the application,
which included FENOC's environmental report (ER), was published in the
Federal Register on September 24, 2007 (72 FR 54301). A notice of
acceptance for docketing of the application for renewal of the facility
operating license was published in the Federal Register on October 26,
2007, (72 FR 60916). The purpose of this notice is to inform the public
that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will be preparing an
environmental impact statement (EIS) related to the review of the
license renewal application and to provide the public an opportunity to
participate in the environmental scoping process, as defined in 10 CFR
51.29. In addition, as outlined in 36 CFR 800.8, ``Coordination with
the National Environmental Policy Act'' (NEPA), the NRC plans to
coordinate compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic
Preservation Act in meeting the requirements of NEPA of 1969.
In accordance with 10 CFR 51.53(c) and 10 CFR 54.23, FENOC
submitted the ER as part of the application. The ER was prepared
pursuant to 10 CFR Part 51 and is publicly available at the NRC Public
Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint North, 11555
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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 ER is ML072430913. 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 via e-mail at
pdr@nrc.gov. The ER may also be viewed on the Internet at https://
www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/applications/
bvalley.html. In addition, the ER is available for public inspection
near Beaver Valley Power Station at the following public libraries:
Beaver Area Memorial Library, 100 College Avenue, Beaver, Pennsylvania
15009 and the Beaver County Library System, 1 Campus Drive, Monaca,
Pennsylvania 15061.
This notice advises the public that the NRC intends to gather the
information necessary to prepare a plant-specific supplement to the
Commission's ``Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) for
License Renewal of Nuclear Plants'' (NUREG-1437), related to the review
of the application for renewal of the Beaver Valley Power Station,
Units 1 and 2, operating licenses for an additional 20 years. Possible
alternatives to the proposed action (license renewal) include no action
and reasonable alternative energy sources. The NRC is required by 10
CFR 51.95 to prepare a supplement to the GEIS in connection with the
renewal of an operating license. This notice is being published in
accordance with NEPA and the NRC's regulations found in 10 CFR Part 51.
The NRC will first conduct a scoping process for the supplement to
the GEIS and, as soon as practicable thereafter, will prepare a draft
supplement to the GEIS for public comment. Participation in the scoping
process by members of the public and local, State, Tribal, and Federal
government agencies is encouraged. The scoping process for the
supplement to the GEIS will be used to accomplish the following:
a. Define the proposed action which is to be the subject of the
supplement to the GEIS.
b. Determine the scope of the supplement to the GEIS and identify
the significant issues to be analyzed in depth.
c. Identify and eliminate from detailed study those issues that are
peripheral or that are not significant.
d. Identify any environmental assessments and other ElSs that are
being or will be prepared that are related to, but are not part of, the
scope of the supplement to the GEIS being considered.
e. Identify other environmental review and consultation
requirements related to the proposed action.
f. Indicate the relationship between the timing of the preparation
of the environmental analyses and the Commission's tentative planning
and decision-making schedule.
g. Identify any cooperating agencies and, as appropriate, allocate
assignments for preparation and schedules for completing the supplement
to the GEIS to the NRC and any cooperating agencies.
h. Describe how the supplement to the GEIS will be prepared, and
include any contractor assistance to be used.
The NRC invites the following entities to participate in scoping:
a. The applicant, FENOC.
b. Any Federal agency that has jurisdiction by law or special
expertise with respect to any environmental impact involved, or that is
authorized to develop and enforce relevant environmental standards.
c. Affected State and local government agencies, including those
authorized to develop and enforce relevant environmental standards.
d. Any affected Indian tribe.
e. Any person who requests or has requested an opportunity to
participate in the scoping process.
f. Any person who has petitioned or intends to petition for leave
to intervene.
In accordance with 10 CFR 51.26, the scoping process for an EIS may
include a public scoping meeting to help identify significant issues
related to a proposed activity and to determine the scope of issues to
be addressed in an EIS. The NRC has decided to hold public scoping
meetings for the Beaver Valley Power Station, Units 1 and 2, license
renewal supplement to the GEIS. The scoping meetings will be held at
the Embassy Suites Pittsburgh-International Airport, 550 Cherrington
Parkway, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15108, on Tuesday, November 27, 2007.
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) An overview by the NRC staff of the NEPA environmental review
process, the proposed scope of the supplement to the GEIS, and the
proposed review schedule; and (2) the opportunity for interested
government agencies, organizations, and individuals to submit comments
or suggestions on the environmental issues or the proposed scope of the
supplement to the GEIS. Additionally, the NRC staff will host informal
discussions one hour before the start of each session at the Embassy
Suites Pittsburgh-International Airport in Pittsburgh. No formal
comments on the proposed scope of the supplement to the GEIS will be
accepted during the informal discussions. To be considered, comments
must be provided either at the transcribed public meetings or in
writing, as discussed below. Persons may register to attend or present
oral comments at the meetings on the scope of the NEPA review by
contacting NRC's Project Manager, Mr. Kent L. Howard, at 1-800-368-
5642, extension 2989, or via e-mail to the NRC at
BeaverValleyEIS@nrc.gov no later than November 15, 2007. Members of the
public may also register to speak at the meeting within 15 minutes of
the start of each session. Individual oral comments may be limited by
the time available, depending on the number of persons who register.
Members of the public who have not registered may also have an
opportunity to speak, if time permits. Public comments will be
considered in the scoping process for the supplement to the GEIS. Mr.
Howard will need to be contacted no later than November 15, 2007, if
special equipment or accommodations are needed to attend or present
information at the public meeting, so that the NRC staff can determine
whether the request can be accommodated.
Members of the public may send written comments on the
environmental scope of the Beaver Valley Power Station, Units 1 and 2
license renewal review to: Chief, Rules and Directives Branch, Division
of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, Mailstop T-6D59,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, and
should cite the publication date and page number of this Federal
Register notice. Comments may also be delivered to the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Room T-6D59, Two White Flint North, 11545
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, 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 January 2, 2008. Electronic
comments may be sent by e-mail to the NRC at
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BeaverValleyEIS@nrc.gov, and should be sent no later than January 2,
2008, to be considered in the scoping process. Comments will be
available electronically and accessible through ADAMS at https://
adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/dologin.htm.
Participation in the scoping process for the supplement to the GEIS
does not entitle participants to become parties to the proceeding to
which the supplement to the GEIS relates. Notice of opportunity for a
hearing regarding the renewal application was the subject of the
aforementioned Federal Register notice (72 FR 60916). Matters related
to participation in any hearing are outside the scope of matters to be
discussed at this public meeting.
At the conclusion of the scoping process, the NRC will prepare a
concise summary of the determination and conclusions reached; including
the significant issues identified, and will send a copy of the summary
to each participant in the scoping process. The summary will also be
available for inspection in ADAMS at https://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/
dologin.htm. The staff will then prepare and issue for comment the
draft supplement to the GEIS, which will be the subject of a separate
notice and separate public meetings. Copies will be available for
public inspection at the above-mentioned addresses, and one copy per
request will be provided free of charge. After receipt and
consideration of the comments, the NRC will prepare a final supplement
to the GEIS, which will also be available for public inspection.
Information about the proposed action, the supplement to the GEIS,
and the scoping process may be obtained from Mr. Howard at the
aforementioned telephone number or e-mail address.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 29th day of October 2007.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Rani Franovich,
Branch Chief, Projects Branch 2, Division of License Renewal, Office of
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. E7-21683 Filed 11-2-07; 8:45 am]
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