[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 9 (Tuesday, January 14, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1873-1874]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-706]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-285]
Omaha Public Power District, Fort Calhoun Station, Unit 1; Notice
of Availability of the Draft Supplement 12 to the Generic Environmental
Impact Statement and Public Meeting for the License Renewal of Fort
Calhoun Station, Unit 1
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(the Commission) has published a draft plant-specific supplement to the
Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS), NUREG-1437, regarding
the renewal of operating license DPR-40 for an additional 20 years of
operation at Fort Calhoun Station, Unit 1. Fort Calhoun Station, Unit 1
is located in Washington County, Nebraska. Possible alternatives to the
proposed action (license renewal) include no action and reasonable
alternative energy sources.
The draft supplement to the GEIS is available electronically for
public inspection in the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR), located at
One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville,
Maryland, or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS
is accessible from the NRC Web Site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room). 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 at 1-
800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to [email protected].
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In addition, the Blair Public Library, 210 South 17th Street, Blair,
Nebraska, and the W. Dale Clark Library, 215 South 15th Street, Omaha,
Nebraska have agreed to make the draft supplement to the GEIS available
for public inspection.
Any interested party may submit comments on the draft supplement to
the GEIS for consideration by the NRC staff. To be certain of
consideration, comments on the draft supplement to the GEIS and the
proposed action must be received by April 10, 2003. Comments received
after the due date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but
the NRC staff is able to assure consideration only for comments
received on or before this date. Written comments on the draft
supplement to the GEIS should be sent to: Chief, Rules and Directives
Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration,
Mail Stop T-6D 59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001.
Comments may be hand-delivered to the NRC at 11545 Rockville Pike,
Rockville, Maryland, between 7:45 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. on Federal
workdays. Electronic comments may be submitted to the NRC by the
Internet at [email protected]. All comments received by the
Commission, including those made by Federal, State, and local agencies,
Indian tribes, or other interested persons, will be made available
electronically at the Commission's PDR in Rockville, Maryland, and from
the PARS component of NRC's ADAMS.
The NRC staff will hold a public meeting to present an overview of
the draft plant-specific supplement to the GEIS and to accept public
comments on the document. The public meeting will be held on February
26, 2003, at the Days Hotel Carlisle, 10909 M Street, Omaha, Nebraska.
There will be two sessions to accommodate interested parties. The first
session will commence at 1:30 p.m. and will continue until 4:30 p.m.
The second session will commence at 7 p.m. and will continue until 10
p.m. Both meetings will be transcribed and will include (1) a
presentation of the contents of the draft plant-specific supplement to
the GEIS, and (2) the opportunity for interested government agencies,
organizations, and individuals to provide comments on the draft report.
Additionally, the NRC staff will host informal discussions one hour
prior to the start of each session at the same location. No comments on
the draft supplement to the GEIS will be accepted during the informal
discussions. To be considered, comments must be provided either at the
transcribed public meetings or in writing, as discussed below. Persons
may pre-register to attend or present oral comments at the meeting by
contacting Mr. Jack Cushing by telephone at 1-800-368-5642, extension
1424, or by Internet at [email protected] no later than February
21, 2003. Members of the public may also register to provide oral
comments 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. If special equipment or accommodations
are needed to attend or present information at the public meeting, the
need should be brought to Mr. Cushing's attention no later than
February 21, 2003, to provide the NRC staff adequate notice to
determine whether the request can be accommodated.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Mr. Jack Cushing, License Renewal and
Environmental Impacts Program, Division of Regulatory Improvement
Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001. Mr. Cushing may be contacted at the aforementioned telephone
number or e-mail address.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 6th day of January 2003.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Pao-Tsin Kuo,
Program Director, License Renewal and Environmental Impacts, Division
of Regulatory Improvement Programs, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 03-706 Filed 1-13-03; 8:45 am]
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