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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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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 James
A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant,
Docket No. 50–333, dated March 1973
and ‘‘Generic Environmental Impact
Statement for License Renewal of
Nuclear Plants Regarding James A.
FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant
(NUREG–1437, Supplement 31) Final
Report.’’
Agencies and Persons Consulted
In accordance with its stated policy
and the requirements of 10 CFR
51.30(a)(2), on May 4, 2009, the NRC
staff consulted with the New York State
official, at the New York State Energy
Research and Development Authority,
regarding the environmental impact of
the proposed action. The New York
State official provided comments by email dated June 12, 2009 (ADAMS
Accession No. ML091690397).
One comment is related to Federal
Regulations governing the exemption
process. Regulations under 10 CFR
50.12, ‘‘Specific exemptions,’’ do not
include comment period and
opportunity for a hearing. The public
can pursue other avenues, such as
petition for changes to the regulatory
framework to allow hearings via the
rulemaking process (10 CFR 2.802), or a
petition for enforcement action (10 CFR
2.206) where stakeholders assert that
license holders are not meeting
regulatory requirements.
The other comments from the New
York State addressed the security issues,
the feasibility of the proposed manual
action during a fire, and the cumulative
effects of this change in conjunction
with previous fire protection changes.
Based on its review the NRC staff has
determined that the comments do not
pertain to the environmental impacts
associated with the proposed exemption
request and therefore, do not alter the
staff’s finding that there are no
significant environmental impacts
associated with the proposed exemption
request. However, the comments related
to the safety aspect of the exemption
request will be appropriately considered
in the NRC staff’s safety evaluation.
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 February 18, 2009, as
supplemented by letters dated March
30, November 17, December 11, 2009,
and January 19, 2010. Portions of letters
dated February 18 and March 30, 2009,
contain security related sensitive
information, and are withheld from
public disclosure in accordance with 10
CFR 2.390. Publicly available versions
of the letters dated February 18, and
March 30, 2009, are accessible
electronically from the Agencywide
Documents Access and Management
System (ADAMS) with Accession Nos.
ML090860980 and ML091320387,
respectively. Also, the letters dated
November 17, December 11, 2009, and
January 19, 2010, are accessible
electronically from ADAMS with
Accession Nos. ML093270075,
ML093520408, and ML100210195,
respectively. Publicly available versions
of the 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 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.resource@nrc.gov.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 4th day
of March 2010.
For The Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Bhalchandra K. Vaidya,
Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch I–
1, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing,
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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Finding of No Significant Impact
On the basis of the environmental
assessment, the NRC concludes that the
proposed action will not have a
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[Docket No. 50–397; NRC–2010–0029]
Energy Northwest; Notice of Intent To
Prepare an Environmental Impact
Statement and Conduct the Scoping
Process for Columbia Generating
Station
Energy Northwest has submitted an
application for renewal of Facility
Operating License No. NPF–21 for an
additional 20 years of operation at the
Columbia Generating Station (CGS).
CGS is located in Benton County,
Washington, approximately 12 miles
northwest of Richland.
The current operating license for CGS
expires on December 20, 2023. The
application for renewal, dated January
19, 2010, was submitted pursuant to
Title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR) Part 54, which
included the environmental report (ER).
A separate notice of receipt and
availability of the application was
published in the Federal Register on
February 2, 2010 (75 FR 5353). A notice
of acceptance for docketing of the
application and opportunity for hearing
regarding renewal of the facility
operating licenses is also being
published in the Federal Register. 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, Energy Northwest
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://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
adams.html. From this page, the public
can gain entry into ADAMS, which
provides text and image files of NRC’s
public documents. The ADAMS
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Accession Number for the CGS ER is
ML100250666. 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. The CGS
ER may also be viewed on the Internet
at https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/
operating/licensing/renewal/
applications/columbia.html. In
addition, the ER is available to the
public near the site at the Richland
Public Library, 955 Northgate Drive,
Richland, Washington 99352 and at the
Kennewick Branch of Mid-Columbia
Libraries, 1620 South Union Street,
Kennewick, Washington 99338. Public
comments and supporting materials
related to this notice can be found at the
Federal rulemaking Web site, https://
www.regulations.gov, by searching on
Docket ID NRC–2010–0029.
This notice advises the public that the
NRC intends to gather the information
necessary to prepare a plant-specific
supplement to the NRC’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 CGS
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
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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; and
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, Energy Northwest;
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; and
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 CGS license
renewal supplement to the GEIS. The
scoping meetings will be held on April
6, 2010, and there will be two sessions
to accommodate interested parties. The
first session will convene at 1:30 p.m.
and will continue until 3:30 p.m. The
second session will convene at 6 p.m.
with a repeat of the overview portions
of the meeting and will continue until
8 p.m., as necessary. Both sessions will
be held at the Richland Public Library,
955 Northgate Drive, Richland,
Washington 99352. 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
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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 Project Manager, Mr. Daniel Doyle,
by telephone at 1–800–368–5642,
extension 3748, or by e-mail at
Daniel.Doyle@nrc.gov no later than
March 30, 2010. 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. Doyle will need to be
contacted no later than March 23, 2010,
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 submit
comments by any one of the following
methods. Please include Docket ID
NRC–2010–0029 in the subject line of
the comments. Comments submitted in
writing or in electronic form will be
posted on the NRC Web site and on the
Federal rulemaking Web site
Regulations.gov. Because comments will
not be edited to remove any identifying
or contact information, the NRC
cautions against including any
information that the submitter does not
want to be publicly disclosed.
The NRC requests that any party
soliciting or aggregating comments
received from other persons for
submission to the NRC inform those
persons that the NRC will not edit their
comments to remove any identifying or
contact information and, therefore, they
should not include any information in
their comments that they do not want
publicly disclosed.
Submit comments electronically via
the Federal rulemaking Web site: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for documents filed under Docket ID
NRC–2010–0029. Address questions
about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher at
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301–492–3668 or via e-mail at
Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov.
Mail comments to: Michael T. Lesar,
Chief, Rulemaking and Directives
Branch (RDB), Division of
Administrative Services, Office of
Administration, Mail Stop: TWB–05–
B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001, or by fax to RDB at (301) 492–
3446.
To be considered in the scoping
process, written comments should be
postmarked by May 11, 2010. Comments
will be available electronically and
accessible through ADAMS at https://
www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
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. Matters related to
participation in any hearing are outside
the scope of matters to be discussed at
this public meeting.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day
of March 2010.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Bo M. Pham,
Chief, Projects Branch 1, Division of License
Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation.
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[Docket Nos. 50–263; NRC–2010–0045]
Northern States Power Company of
Minnesota, Monticello Nuclear
Generating Plant; Exemption
1.0
Background
Northern States Power Company of
Minnesota (NSPM, the licensee) is the
holder of Facility Operating License No.
DPR–22, which authorizes operation of
the Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant
(MNGP). The license provides, among
other things, that the facility is subject
to all rules, regulations, and orders of
the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC, the Commission)
now or hereafter in effect.
The facility consists of a General
Electric boiling-water reactor located in
Wright County, Minnesota.
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2.0
Request/Action
Title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR) Part 73, ‘‘Physical
protection of plants and materials,’’
Section 73.55, ‘‘Requirements for
physical protection of licensed activities
in nuclear power reactors against
radiological sabotage,’’ published March
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27, 2009, effective May 26, 2009, with
a full implementation date of March 31,
2010, requires licensees to protect, with
high assurance, against radiological
sabotage by designing and
implementing comprehensive site
security programs. The amendments to
10 CFR 73.55 published on March 27,
2009, establish and update generically
applicable security requirements similar
to those previously imposed by
Commission orders issued after the
terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001,
and implemented by licensees. In
addition, the amendments to 10 CFR
73.55 include additional requirements
to further enhance site security based
upon insights gained from
implementation of the post-September
11, 2001, security orders. It is from two
of these new requirements that NSPM
now seeks an exemption from the March
31, 2010, implementation date. All other
physical security requirements
established by this recent rulemaking
have already been or will be
implemented by the licensee by March
31, 2010.
By letter dated November 3, 2009, the
licensee requested an exemption in
accordance with 10 CFR 73.5, ‘‘Specific
exemptions.’’ The licensee’s November
3, 2009, letter contains security-related
information and, accordingly, is not
available to the public. The licensee
submitted a redacted version of its
exemption request on December 15,
2009, which is publicly available. The
licensee has requested an exemption
from the March 31, 2010, compliance
date stating that it must complete a
number of significant modifications to
the current site security configuration
before all requirements can be met.
Specifically, the request is to extend the
compliance date for two specific items
from the current March 31, 2010,
deadline to June 30, 2011. Being granted
this exemption for the two items would
allow the licensee to complete the
modifications designed to update aging
equipment and incorporate state-of-theart technology to meet the noted
regulatory requirements.
3.0 Discussion of Part 73 Schedule
Exemptions From the March 31, 2010,
Full Implementation Date
Pursuant to 10 CFR 73.55(a)(1), ‘‘By
March 31, 2010, each nuclear power
reactor licensee, licensed under 10 CFR
Part 50, shall implement the
requirements of this section through its
Commission-approved Physical Security
Plan, Training and Qualification Plan,
Safeguards Contingency Plan, and Cyber
Security Plan referred to collectively
hereafter as ‘security plans.’ ’’ Pursuant
to 10 CFR 73.5, the Commission may,
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upon application by any interested
person or upon its own initiative, grant
exemptions from the requirements of 10
CFR Part 73 when the exemptions are
authorized by law, and will not
endanger life or property or the common
defense and security, and are otherwise
in the public interest.
This exemption would, as noted
above, allow an extension from March
31, 2010, until June 30, 2011, to allow
for temporary noncompliance with the
new rule in two specified areas. As
stated above, 10 CFR 73.5 allows the
NRC to grant exemptions from the
requirements of 10 CFR part 73. The
NRC staff has determined that granting
of the licensee’s proposed exemption
will not result in a violation of the
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended,
or the Commission’s regulations.
Therefore, the exemption is authorized
by law.
In the draft final rule provided to the
Commission, the NRC staff proposed
that the requirements of the new
regulation be met within 180 days. The
Commission directed a change from 180
days to approximately 1 year for
licensees to fully implement the new
requirements. This change was
incorporated into the final rule. From
this, it is clear that the Commission
wanted to provide a reasonable
timeframe for licensees to achieve full
compliance.
As noted in the final rule, the
Commission also anticipated that
licensees would have to conduct sitespecific analyses to determine what
changes were necessary to implement
the rule’s requirements, and that
changes could be accomplished through
a variety of licensing mechanisms,
including exemptions. Since issuance of
the final rule, the Commission has
rejected a request to generically extend
the rule’s compliance date for all
operating nuclear power plants, but
noted that the Commission’s regulations
provide mechanisms for individual
licensees, with good cause, to apply for
relief from the compliance date
(Reference: June 4, 2009, letter from
R.W. Borchardt, NRC, to M.S. Fertel,
Nuclear Energy Institute). The licensee’s
request for an exemption is, therefore,
consistent with the approach set forth
by the Commission and discussed in the
June 4, 2009, letter.
MNGP’s Schedule Exemption Request
The licensee provided detailed
information in its November 3, 2009,
request for exemption. It described a
comprehensive plan to install
equipment related to certain
requirements in the new Part 73 rule
and provided a timeline for achieving
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-397; NRC-2010-0029]
Energy Northwest; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental
Impact Statement and Conduct the Scoping Process for Columbia
Generating Station
Energy Northwest has submitted an application for renewal of
Facility Operating License No. NPF-21 for an additional 20 years of
operation at the Columbia Generating Station (CGS). CGS is located in
Benton County, Washington, approximately 12 miles northwest of
Richland.
The current operating license for CGS expires on December 20, 2023.
The application for renewal, dated January 19, 2010, was submitted
pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part
54, which included the environmental report (ER). A separate notice of
receipt and availability of the application was published in the
Federal Register on February 2, 2010 (75 FR 5353). A notice of
acceptance for docketing of the application and opportunity for hearing
regarding renewal of the facility operating licenses is also being
published in the Federal Register. 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, Energy
Northwest 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://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. From this page, the public can gain entry into ADAMS, which
provides text and image files of NRC's public documents. The ADAMS
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Accession Number for the CGS ER is ML100250666. 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. The CGS ER may also be viewed on the Internet at https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/applications/columbia.html. In addition, the ER is available to the public near the
site at the Richland Public Library, 955 Northgate Drive, Richland,
Washington 99352 and at the Kennewick Branch of Mid-Columbia Libraries,
1620 South Union Street, Kennewick, Washington 99338. Public comments
and supporting materials related to this notice can be found at the
Federal rulemaking Web site, https://www.regulations.gov, by searching
on Docket ID NRC-2010-0029.
This notice advises the public that the NRC intends to gather the
information necessary to prepare a plant-specific supplement to the
NRC'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 CGS 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; and
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, Energy Northwest;
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; and
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 CGS license renewal supplement to the GEIS. The scoping meetings
will be held on April 6, 2010, and there will be two sessions to
accommodate interested parties. The first session will convene at 1:30
p.m. and will continue until 3:30 p.m. The second session will convene
at 6 p.m. with a repeat of the overview portions of the meeting and
will continue until 8 p.m., as necessary. Both sessions will be held at
the Richland Public Library, 955 Northgate Drive, Richland, Washington
99352. 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 Project Manager, Mr. Daniel Doyle, by telephone at
1-800-368-5642, extension 3748, or by e-mail at Daniel.Doyle@nrc.gov no
later than March 30, 2010. 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. Doyle will need to be contacted no
later than March 23, 2010, 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 submit comments by any one of the
following methods. Please include Docket ID NRC-2010-0029 in the
subject line of the comments. Comments submitted in writing or in
electronic form will be posted on the NRC Web site and on the Federal
rulemaking Web site Regulations.gov. Because comments will not be
edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC
cautions against including any information that the submitter does not
want to be publicly disclosed.
The NRC requests that any party soliciting or aggregating comments
received from other persons for submission to the NRC inform those
persons that the NRC will not edit their comments to remove any
identifying or contact information and, therefore, they should not
include any information in their comments that they do not want
publicly disclosed.
Submit comments electronically via the Federal rulemaking Web site:
Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for documents filed under
Docket ID NRC-2010-0029. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol
Gallagher at
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301-492-3668 or via e-mail at Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov.
Mail comments to: Michael T. Lesar, Chief, Rulemaking and
Directives Branch (RDB), Division of Administrative Services, Office of
Administration, Mail Stop: TWB-05-B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or by fax to RDB at (301) 492-
3446.
To be considered in the scoping process, written comments should be
postmarked by May 11, 2010. Comments will be available electronically
and accessible through ADAMS at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
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. Matters related to
participation in any hearing are outside the scope of matters to be
discussed at this public meeting.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day of March 2010.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Bo M. Pham,
Chief, Projects Branch 1, Division of License Renewal, Office of
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2010-5270 Filed 3-10-10; 8:45 am]
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