[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 218 (Friday, November 9, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56721-56722]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-28088]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Notice of Availability of the Draft Supplement to the Final
Generic Environmental Impact Statement on Decommissioning of Nuclear
Facilities and Notice of Public Meetings
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC) has published draft Supplement 1 to NUREG-0586, ``Final Generic
Environmental Impact Statement on Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities
[GEIS],'' dealing with decommissioning of nuclear power reactors.
The draft supplement to the GEIS is available electronically
through the NRC's Public Electronic Reading Room (PERR) found on the
Internet at the following web address: http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/ADAMS/index.html. From this site, the public can gain access to the NRC's
Agencywide Document Access and Management Systems (ADAMS), which
provides text and image files of NRC's public documents. The draft
report can also be examined, or copied for a fee, at the NRC's Public
Document Room found at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike
(first floor), Rockville, MD. If you do not have access to ADAMS or if
there are problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, contact
the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) Reference staff at 1-800-397-4209,
or 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to [email protected].
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 December 31, 2001. 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, Mailstop T 6 D 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. Comments may be submitted electronically to the NRC to the e-
mail address [email protected]. All comments received by the NRC, including
those made by Federal, State, and local agencies; Indian tribes; or
other interested persons, will be accessible electronically through
NRC's PERR link listed above, and can be examined, or copied for a fee,
at the NRC's Public Document Room in Rockville, Maryland.
Notice is hereby given that the NRC staff will hold four public
meetings to present an overview of the draft supplement to the GEIS and
to accept public comments on the document. The public meetings will be
held at the following locations and dates:
December 4, 2001
The Argent Hotel, 50 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, 1-415-974-
6400
December 10, 2001
Boston Marriott Copley Place, 110 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02116,
-617-236-5800
December 6, 2001
The Drake, 140 East Wallon Place, Chicago, IL 60611, 1-312-787-2200
December 12, 2001
Marriott Marquis, 265 Peachtree Center Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30303, 1-
404-521-0000
The meetings will commence at 7 p.m. and will continue until 10
p.m. All meetings will be transcribed and will include (1) a
presentation of the contents of the draft 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. 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 register to attend or
present oral comments at a meeting by contacting Mr. Dino Scaletti by
telephone at 1-800-368-5642, extension 1104, or by Internet to the NRC
at [email protected] no later than November 27, 2001. 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
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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. Scaletti's attention
no later than November 27, 2001, to provide the NRC staff adequate
notice to determine whether the request can be accommodated.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Dino Scaletti, Risk-Informed
Initiatives, Environmental, Decommissioning, and Rulemaking Branch,
Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555. Mr. Scaletti may be contacted at the
aforementioned telephone number or e-mail address.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 2nd day of November, 2001.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Cynthia A. Carpenter,
Chief, Risk Informed Initiatives, Environmental, Decommissioning, and
Rulemaking Branch, Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs, Office
of Nuclear Reactor Regulations.
[FR Doc. 01-28088 Filed 11-8-01; 8:45 am]
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