Correction to Notice of Availability of Draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement for In-Situ Leach Uranium Milling Facilities, 54435-54436 [E8-21908]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 183 / Friday, September 19, 2008 / Notices Monday, September 22, 2008, at 8 a.m. PLACE: University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elvey Building, Globe Room, Fairbanks, AK 99775. STATUS: Some portions open, some portions closed DATE AND TIME: Open Sessions September 22, 2008 8 a.m.–8:10 a.m. 8:10 a.m.–11:15 a.m. 11:15 a.m.–12 p.m. Closed Sessions September 22, 2008 1:30 p.m.–2:15 p.m. 2:15 p.m.–2:30 p.m. AGENCY CONTACT: Dr. Robert E. Webber, rwebber@nsf.gov, (703) 292–7000, https://www.nsf.gov/nsb/. Matters To Be Discussed jlentini on PROD1PC65 with NOTICES Monday, September 22, 2008 Open Session: 8 a.m.–8:10 a.m. Chairman’s Introduction and University of Alaska Fairbanks Welcome Committee on Programs and Plans (CPP) Open Session: 8:10 a.m.–11:15 a.m. Approval of August 2008 CPP Minutes Committee Chairman’s Remarks Task Force on Sustainable Energy (SE) SE Task Force Co-Chairmen’s Remarks Discussion and Summary of September 4, 2008 Roundtable Discussion Discussion of Possible Recommendations for Inclusion in a Draft Report Discussion of upcoming Task Force Activities NSB Information Item: National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN). Review of NSF Major Research Facilities and the Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction (MREFC) Process Major Research Facilities and Facility Plan: Horizon Projects; Maintenance and Operations Planning for Large Facilities; and Policy Issues Review of MREFC Process Discussion Plenary Open Open Session: 11:15 a.m.—12 p.m. Approval of August 2008 Minutes Resolution to Close December 2008 Meeting Chairman’s Report Director’s Report Open Committee Report VerDate Aug<31>2005 17:25 Sep 18, 2008 Jkt 214001 54435 Casper, WY 82601, Phone (307) 266– 6000. For each meeting, members of the NRC staff will be available for informal discussions with members of the public from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. The formal meeting and associated NRC presentation will begin at 7 p.m. Interested persons may register to speak at the meetings. Depending on the number of speakers for a meeting, each speaker may be limited in the amount of time allocated for their comments so that all speakers will have an opportunity to offer comments. DATES: The public comment period on the Draft GEIS began on July 28, 2008, Ann Ferrante, and continues until October 7, 2008. Technical Writer/Editor. Written comments should be submitted [FR Doc. E8–21804 Filed 9–18–08; 8:45 am] as described in the ADDRESSES section of BILLING CODE 7555–01–P this notice. The NRC will consider comments received or postmarked after that date to the extent practical. NUCLEAR REGULATORY ADDRESSES: Members of the public are COMMISSION invited and encouraged to submit comments on the Draft GEIS to the Correction to Notice of Availability of Chief, Rulemaking, Directives, and Draft Generic Environmental Impact Editing Branch, Mailstop: T6–D59, U.S. Statement for In-Situ Leach Uranium Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Milling Facilities Washington, DC 20555–0001. The NRC encourages comments submitted AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory electronically to be sent to Commission. NRCREP.Resource@nrc.gov. Please ACTION: Correction to Notice of include ‘‘Uranium Recovery GEIS’’ in Availability. the subject line when submitting written comments. SUMMARY: On July 28, 2008, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For issued a notice for public comment of a general information on the NRC’s NEPA Draft Generic Environmental Impact process, or the environmental review Statement (Draft GEIS) that identifies process related to the Draft GEIS, please and evaluates on a programmatic basis, contact James Park, Project Manager, the potential environmental impacts Division of Waste Management and from the construction, operation, aquifer Environmental Protection (DWMEP), restoration, and decommissioning at in- Mail Stop T–8F5, U.S. Nuclear situ leach (ISL) uranium milling Regulatory Commission, Washington DC facilities located in particular regions of 20555–001, by phone at 1 (800) 368– the western United States (73 FR 5642, extension 6935. For general or 43795). technical information associated with In that notice, the NRC also provided the safety and licensing of uranium information on eight public meetings to milling facilities, please contact William be hosted by the NRC that would allow Von Till, Branch Chief, Uranium the NRC staff to present an overview of Recovery Branch, DWMEP, Mail Stop the Draft GEIS and to accept oral and T–8F5, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory written public comments on the Draft Commission, Washington, DC 20555– GEIS from interested members of the 0001, by phone at 1 (800) 368–5642, public. Corrected dates and associated extension 0598. information is provided below for two The Draft GEIS may be accessed on of those meetings: the Internet at www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ Meeting Date: September 23, 2008, 7 doc-collections/nuregs/staff/ by p.m. to 9:30 p.m. selecting ‘‘NUREG–1910.’’ Additionally, Meeting Location: Best Western Tower the NRC maintains an Agencywide West Lodge, 109 North U.S. Highway 14 Documents Access and Management & 16, Gillette, WY 82716, Phone (307) System (ADAMS), which provides text 686–2210. and image files of the NRC’s public Meeting Date: September 25, 2008, 7 documents. The Draft GEIS and its p.m. to 9:30 p.m. appendices may also be accessed Meeting Location: Best Western through the NRC’s Public Electronic Ramkota Hotel, 800 N. Poplar Road, Reading Room on the Internet at: Committee on Programs and Plans (CPP) Closed Session: 1:30 p.m.—2:15 p.m. Chairman’s Remarks NSB Information Item: National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC) NSB Action Item: Management and Operations of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory and the National Solar Observatory Plenary Closed Closed Session: 2:15 p.m.—2:30 p.m. Approval of August 2008 Minutes Awards and Agreements Closed Committee Reports PO 00000 Frm 00080 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\19SEN1.SGM 19SEN1 jlentini on PROD1PC65 with NOTICES 54436 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 183 / Friday, September 19, 2008 / Notices www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. If you either do not have access to ADAMS or if there is a problem accessing documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1 (800) 397–4209, 1 (301) 415–4737 or by e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. Information and documents associated with the Draft GEIS are also available for public review through the NRC Public Electronic Reading Room on the Internet at www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ adams.html and at the NRC’s Web site for the GEIS, www.nrc.gov/materials/ fuel-cycle-fac/licensing/geis.html. Both information and documents associated with the Draft GEIS also are available for inspection at the Commission’s Public Document Room, U.S. NRC’s Headquarters Building, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland. For those without access to the Internet, paper copies of any electronic documents may be obtained for a fee by contacting the NRC’s Public Document Room at 1–800–397–4209. The draft GEIS and related documents may also be found at the following public libraries: Albuquerque Main Library, 501 Copper NW, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102, 505–768–5141, Mother Whiteside Memorial Library, 525 West High Street, Grants, New Mexico 87020, 505–287–4793, Octavia Fellin Public Library, 115 W Hill Avenue, Gallup, New Mexico 87301, 505–863–1291, Natrona County Public Library, 307 East Second Street, Casper, Wyoming 82601, 307–332–5194, Carbon County Public Library, 215 W Buffalo Street, Rawlins, Wyoming 82301, 307–328–2618, Campbell County Public Library, 2101 South 4J Road, Gillette, Wyoming 82718, 307–687–0009, Weston County Library, 23 West Main Street, Newcastle, Wyoming 82701, 307–746–2206, Chadron Public Library, 507 Bordeaux Street, Chadron, Nebraska 69337, 308–432–0531, Rapid City Public Library, 610 Quincy Street, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, 605–394–4171. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As stated previously, the NRC is accepting comments on the Draft GEIS. Following the end of the public comment period, the NRC staff will publish a Final GEIS that addresses, as appropriate, the public comments on the Draft GEIS. The NRC expects to publish the Final GEIS by June 2009. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 15th day of September 2008. VerDate Aug<31>2005 17:25 Sep 18, 2008 Jkt 214001 For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Patrice M. Bubar, Deputy Director, Environmental Protection and Performance Assessment Directorate, Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection, Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management Programs. [FR Doc. E8–21908 Filed 9–18–08; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590–01–P NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [Docket No. 52–011] Southern Nuclear Operating Company; Notice of Availability of Errata Sheet for the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) 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 an errata sheet for NUREG–1872, ‘‘Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) 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 (NOA) of the final EIS was published in the Federal Register on August 21, 2008 (73 FR 49496). The purpose of this notice is to inform the public that the errata sheet for NUREG–1872, ‘‘Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for an Early Site Permit (ESP) at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Site,’’ Volumes 1 and 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 Web site at https://www.nrc.gov. ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room). The ADAMS accession number for the errata sheet is ML082550040. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who encounter problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS should contact the PDR reference staff by telephone at 1– 800–397–4209 or 1–301–415–4737 or online at https://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/contact-pdr.html. In addition, the following public library in the vicinity of the Vogtle ESP Site has agreed to make the errata sheet available for PO 00000 Frm 00081 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 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 mark.notich@nrc.gov. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th day of September 2008. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Correction to Notice of Availability of Draft Generic 
Environmental Impact Statement for In-Situ Leach Uranium Milling 
Facilities

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Correction to Notice of Availability.

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SUMMARY: On July 28, 2008, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) 
issued a notice for public comment of a Draft Generic Environmental 
Impact Statement (Draft GEIS) that identifies and evaluates on a 
programmatic basis, the potential environmental impacts from the 
construction, operation, aquifer restoration, and decommissioning at 
in-situ leach (ISL) uranium milling facilities located in particular 
regions of the western United States (73 FR 43795).
    In that notice, the NRC also provided information on eight public 
meetings to be hosted by the NRC that would allow the NRC staff to 
present an overview of the Draft GEIS and to accept oral and written 
public comments on the Draft GEIS from interested members of the 
public. Corrected dates and associated information is provided below 
for two of those meetings:
    Meeting Date: September 23, 2008, 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
    Meeting Location: Best Western Tower West Lodge, 109 North U.S. 
Highway 14 & 16, Gillette, WY 82716, Phone (307) 686-2210.
    Meeting Date: September 25, 2008, 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
    Meeting Location: Best Western Ramkota Hotel, 800 N. Poplar Road, 
Casper, WY 82601, Phone (307) 266-6000.
    For each meeting, members of the NRC staff will be available for 
informal discussions with members of the public from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. 
The formal meeting and associated NRC presentation will begin at 7 p.m. 
Interested persons may register to speak at the meetings. Depending on 
the number of speakers for a meeting, each speaker may be limited in 
the amount of time allocated for their comments so that all speakers 
will have an opportunity to offer comments.

DATES: The public comment period on the Draft GEIS began on July 28, 
2008, and continues until October 7, 2008. Written comments should be 
submitted as described in the ADDRESSES section of this notice. The NRC 
will consider comments received or postmarked after that date to the 
extent practical.

ADDRESSES: Members of the public are invited and encouraged to submit 
comments on the Draft GEIS to the Chief, Rulemaking, Directives, and 
Editing Branch, Mailstop: T6-D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001. The NRC encourages comments submitted 
electronically to be sent to NRCREP.Resource@nrc.gov. Please include 
``Uranium Recovery GEIS'' in the subject line when submitting written 
comments.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For general information on the NRC's 
NEPA process, or the environmental review process related to the Draft 
GEIS, please contact James Park, Project Manager, Division of Waste 
Management and Environmental Protection (DWMEP), Mail Stop T-8F5, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 20555-001, by phone at 1 
(800) 368-5642, extension 6935. For general or technical information 
associated with the safety and licensing of uranium milling facilities, 
please contact William Von Till, Branch Chief, Uranium Recovery Branch, 
DWMEP, Mail Stop T-8F5, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 
DC 20555-0001, by phone at 1 (800) 368-5642, extension 0598.
    The Draft GEIS may be accessed on the Internet at www.nrc.gov/
reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/ by selecting ``NUREG-1910.'' 
Additionally, the NRC maintains an Agencywide Documents Access and 
Management System (ADAMS), which provides text and image files of the 
NRC's public documents. The Draft GEIS and its appendices may also be 
accessed through the NRC's Public Electronic Reading Room on the 
Internet at:

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www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. If you either do not have access to 
ADAMS or if there is a problem accessing documents located in ADAMS, 
contact the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1 (800) 
397-4209, 1 (301) 415-4737 or by e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov.
    Information and documents associated with the Draft GEIS are also 
available for public review through the NRC Public Electronic Reading 
Room on the Internet at www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html and at the 
NRC's Web site for the GEIS, www.nrc.gov/materials/fuel-cycle-fac/
licensing/geis.html. Both information and documents associated with the 
Draft GEIS also are available for inspection at the Commission's Public 
Document Room, U.S. NRC's Headquarters Building, 11555 Rockville Pike 
(first floor), Rockville, Maryland. For those without access to the 
Internet, paper copies of any electronic documents may be obtained for 
a fee by contacting the NRC's Public Document Room at 1-800-397-4209. 
The draft GEIS and related documents may also be found at the following 
public libraries:

Albuquerque Main Library, 501 Copper NW, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102, 
505-768-5141,
Mother Whiteside Memorial Library, 525 West High Street, Grants, New 
Mexico 87020, 505-287-4793,
Octavia Fellin Public Library, 115 W Hill Avenue, Gallup, New Mexico 
87301, 505-863-1291,
Natrona County Public Library, 307 East Second Street, Casper, Wyoming 
82601, 307-332-5194,
Carbon County Public Library, 215 W Buffalo Street, Rawlins, Wyoming 
82301, 307-328-2618,
Campbell County Public Library, 2101 South 4J Road, Gillette, Wyoming 
82718, 307-687-0009,
Weston County Library, 23 West Main Street, Newcastle, Wyoming 82701, 
307-746-2206,
Chadron Public Library, 507 Bordeaux Street, Chadron, Nebraska 69337, 
308-432-0531,
Rapid City Public Library, 610 Quincy Street, Rapid City, South Dakota 
57701, 605-394-4171.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As stated previously, the NRC is accepting 
comments on the Draft GEIS. Following the end of the public comment 
period, the NRC staff will publish a Final GEIS that addresses, as 
appropriate, the public comments on the Draft GEIS. The NRC expects to 
publish the Final GEIS by June 2009.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 15th day of September 2008.

    For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Patrice M. Bubar,
Deputy Director, Environmental Protection and Performance Assessment 
Directorate, Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection, 
Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management 
Programs.
[FR Doc. E8-21908 Filed 9-18-08; 8:45 am]
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