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Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 197 / Thursday, October 9, 2008 / Notices
Subsequent Federal Register notices
will address the acceptability of the
tendered COL application for docketing
and provisions for participation of the
public in the COL review process.
A copy of the application is available
for public inspection at the
Commission’s Public Document Room
(PDR), located at One White Flint North,
Public File Area O1 F21, 11555
Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville,
Maryland, and via the Agencywide
Documents Access and Management
System (ADAMS) Public Electronic
Reading Room on the Internet at the
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reading-rm/adams.html. The accession
number for the application is
ML082140630. Future publicly available
documents related to the application
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who do not have access to ADAMS, or
who encounter problems in accessing
the documents located in ADAMS,
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Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 1st, day
of October 2008.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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Division of New Reactor Licensing, Office of
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Dominion Energy Kewaunee, Inc.,
Kewaunee Power Station; Notice of
Intent To Prepare an Environmental
Impact Statement and Conduct
Scoping Process
Dominion Energy Kewaunee, Inc.
(DEK) has submitted an application for
renewal of Facility Operating License
No. DPR–43 for an additional 20 years
of operation at Kewaunee Power Station
(KPS). KPS is located on the westcentral shore of Lake Michigan in
Kewaunee County, Wisconsin,
approximately 30 miles east-southeast
of Green Bay and 8 miles south of the
City of Kewaunee. The operating license
for KPS expires on December 21, 2013.
The application for renewal, dated
August 14, 2008, was submitted
pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 54. A
notice of receipt and availability of the
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application, which included the
environmental report (ER), was
published in the Federal Register on
August 29, 2008 (73 FR 51023). A notice
of acceptance for docketing of the
application for renewal of the facility
operating license was published in the
Federal Register on October 1, 2008 (73
FR 57154). 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,’’ the NRC plans to coordinate
compliance with section 106 of the
National Historic Preservation Act in
meeting the requirements of the
National Environmental Policy Act of
1969 (NEPA).
In accordance with 10 CFR 51.53(c)
and 10 CFR 54.23, DEK 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
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 ML082341039. 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.resource@nrc.gov. The ER may also
be viewed on the Internet at https://
www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/
licensing/renewal/applications/
kewaunee.html. In addition, the ER is
available for public inspection near KPS
at the following public library:
Kewaunee Public Library, 822 Juneau
Street, Kewaunee, WI 54216.
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 KPS operating license for
an additional 20 years. Possible
alternatives to the proposed action
(license renewal) include no action and
reasonable alternative energy sources.
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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, Dominion Energy
Kewaunee, Inc.
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.
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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 meetings for the KPS license
renewal supplement to the GEIS. The
scoping meetings will be held at the
Carlton Town Hall, N 1296 Town Hall
Road, Kewaunee, WI 54216 on October
22, 2008. 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 prior to
the start of each session at the same
location. 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 the
NRC Environmental Project Manager,
Ms. Sarah Lopas, by telephone at 1–
800–368–5642, extension 1147, or by email at sarah.lopas@nrc.gov no later
than October 17, 2008. 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. Ms. Lopas
will need to be contacted no later than
October 15, 2008, if special equipment
or accommodations are needed to attend
or present information at the public
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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 KPS license renewal review
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, and
should cite the publication date and
page number of this Federal Register
notice. Comments may also be delivered
to the NRC, 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 December 8,
2008. Electronic comments may be sent
by e-mail to the NRC at
Kewaunee.EIS@nrc.gov, and should be
sent no later than December 8, 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 (73 FR 57154). 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
separate notices 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
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from Ms. Lopas at the aforementioned
telephone number or e-mail address.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 2nd day
of October 2008.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brian Holian,
Director, Division of License Renewal, Office
of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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Renewed Facility Operating License
and Final Determination of No
Significant Hazards Consideration
(TAC Nos. MD9229 and MD9330)
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC or Commission) has
issued Amendment Nos. 238 and 233 to
Facility Operating License Nos. DPR–31
and DPR–41, respectively, issued to
Florida Power and Light Company (the
licensee), which revised the Technical
Specifications (TSs) for operation of the
Turkey Point Nuclear Plant, Units 3 and
4, located in Miami-Dade County,
Florida. The amendment was effective
as of the date of its issuance.
These amendments remove the notes
associated with License Amendment
No. 221 regarding the inoperability of
the Unit 4 Rod Position Indication (RPI)
system for control rod F–8 in Shutdown
Bank B, and the notes associated with
Amendment No. 230 regarding the
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The application for the amendment
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requirements of the Atomic Energy Act
of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the
Commission’s rules and regulations.
The Commission has made appropriate
findings as required by the Act and the
Commission’s rules and regulations in
10 CFR Chapter I, which are set forth in
the license amendment.
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Dominion Energy Kewaunee, Inc., Kewaunee Power Station; Notice of
Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement and Conduct Scoping
Process
Dominion Energy Kewaunee, Inc. (DEK) has submitted an application
for renewal of Facility Operating License No. DPR-43 for an additional
20 years of operation at Kewaunee Power Station (KPS). KPS is located
on the west-central shore of Lake Michigan in Kewaunee County,
Wisconsin, approximately 30 miles east-southeast of Green Bay and 8
miles south of the City of Kewaunee. The operating license for KPS
expires on December 21, 2013. The application for renewal, dated August
14, 2008, 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 the environmental report (ER), was
published in the Federal Register on August 29, 2008 (73 FR 51023). A
notice of acceptance for docketing of the application for renewal of
the facility operating license was published in the Federal Register on
October 1, 2008 (73 FR 57154). 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,'' the NRC
plans to coordinate compliance with section 106 of the National
Historic Preservation Act in meeting the requirements of the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA).
In accordance with 10 CFR 51.53(c) and 10 CFR 54.23, DEK 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 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 ML082341039. 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.resource@nrc.gov. The ER may also be viewed on the Internet at
https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/applications/
kewaunee.html. In addition, the ER is available for public inspection
near KPS at the following public library: Kewaunee Public Library, 822
Juneau Street, Kewaunee, WI 54216.
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 KPS operating license 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, Dominion Energy Kewaunee, Inc.
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.
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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 meetings for
the KPS license renewal supplement to the GEIS. The scoping meetings
will be held at the Carlton Town Hall, N 1296 Town Hall Road, Kewaunee,
WI 54216 on October 22, 2008. 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 prior to the start of
each session at the same location. 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 the NRC
Environmental Project Manager, Ms. Sarah Lopas, by telephone at 1-800-
368-5642, extension 1147, or by e-mail at sarah.lopas@nrc.gov no later
than October 17, 2008. 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. Ms. Lopas will need to be contacted no
later than October 15, 2008, 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 KPS license renewal review 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, and should cite the
publication date and page number of this Federal Register notice.
Comments may also be delivered to the NRC, 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 December 8, 2008.
Electronic comments may be sent by e-mail to the NRC at
Kewaunee.EIS@nrc.gov, and should be sent no later than December 8,
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 (73 FR 57154). 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 separate
notices 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 Ms. Lopas at the
aforementioned telephone number or e-mail address.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 2nd day of October 2008.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brian Holian,
Director, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation.
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