[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 36 (Thursday, February 23, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9383-9384]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-2589]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Nuclear Management Company, LLC; Palisades Nuclear Plant; Notice 
of Availability of the Draft Supplement 27 to the Generic Environmental 
Impact Statement and Public Meeting for the License Renewal of 
Palisades Nuclear Plant

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(NRC or 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-20 for the Palisades 
Nuclear Plant (PNP) for an additional 20 years of operation. Palisades 
is located on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan in Covert Township on 
the western side of Van Buren County, Michigan, approximately 4.5 miles 
south of the city limits of South Haven, Michigan. Possible 
alternatives to the proposed action (license renewal) include no action 
and reasonable alternative energy sources.
    The draft Supplement 27 to the GEIS is available for public 
inspection in the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) located at One White 
Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from 
the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of NRC's Agencywide 
Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible 
from the NRC's Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. 
The ADAMS accession number for draft Supplement 27 to the GEIS is 
ML060400430. 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 at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail 
to [email protected]. In addition, the South Haven Memorial Library, 314 
Broadway Street, South Haven, MI has 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 May 18, 2006. 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, 
Mailstop T-6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001.
    Comments may be hand-delivered to the NRC at 11545 Rockville Pike, 
Room T-6D59, Rockville, Maryland, between 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. on 
Federal workdays. Electronic comments may be submitted to the NRC by e-
mail at [email protected]. All comments received by the Commission, 
including those made by Federal, State, local agencies, Native American 
Tribes, or other interested persons, will be made available 
electronically at the Commission's PDR in Rockville, Maryland, and from 
the PARS component of 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 April 5, 
2006, at the Lake Michigan College, 125 Veterans Boulevard, South 
Haven, Michigan. 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 meeting or in 
writing, as discussed below. Persons may pre-register to attend or

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present oral comments at the meeting by contacting Mr. Bo M. Pham, by 
telephone at 1-800-368-5642, extension 8450, or by e-mail at 
[email protected] no later than March 28, 2006. 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. 
Pham's attention no later than March 28, 2006, to provide the NRC staff 
adequate notice to determine whether the request can be accommodated.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Mr. Bo M. Pham, Environmental Branch 
B, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, 
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Mr. Pham 
may be contacted at the aforementioned telephone number or e-mail 
address.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 14th day of February, 2006.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Frank P. Gillespie,
Director, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
 [FR Doc. E6-2589 Filed 2-22-06; 8:45 am]
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