[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 187 (Wednesday, September 27, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 56568]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-15786]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-263]


Nuclear Management Company, LLC, Monticello Nuclear Generating 
Plant; Notice of Availability of the Final Supplement 26 to the Generic 
Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, 
Regarding the License Renewal of Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(NRC, Commission) has published a final plant-specific supplement to 
the Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of 
Nuclear Plants (GEIS), NUREG-1437, regarding the renewal of operating 
license DPR-22 for an additional 20 years of operation for the 
Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant (Monticello). Monticello is located 
on the southern bank of the Mississippi River in the City of 
Monticello, Wright County, Minnesota, approximately 30 miles northwest 
of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Possible alternatives to the proposed action 
(license renewal) include no action and reasonable alternative energy 
sources.
    As discussed in Section 9.3 of the final Supplement 26, based on: 
(1) The analysis and findings in the GEIS; (2) the Environmental Report 
submitted by Nuclear Management Company, LLC; (3) consultation with 
Federal, State, and local agencies; (4) the staff's own independent 
review; and (5) the staff's consideration of public comments, the 
recommendation of the staff is that the Commission determine that the 
adverse environmental impacts of license renewal for Monticello are not 
so great that preserving the option of license renewal for energy-
planning decisionmakers would be unreasonable.
    The final Supplement 26 to the GEIS 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 http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams/web-based.html. The accession number for the final Supplement 26 
to the GEIS is ML062490078. 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 [email protected]. In addition, the 
Monticello Public Library (220 West 6th Street, Monticello, Minnesota 
55362) and the Buffalo Public Library (18 Northwest Lake Boulevard, 
Buffalo, Minnesota 55313), have agreed to make the final supplement 
available for public inspection.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Jennifer A. Davis, Environmental 
Branch B, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mail Stop O-11F1, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001. Ms. Davis may be contacted at 1-800-368-
5642, extension 3835 or via e-mail at [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 19th day of September, 2006.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Rani L. Franovich,
Branch Chief, Environmental Branch B, Division of License Renewal, 
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
 [FR Doc. E6-15786 Filed 9-26-06; 8:45 am]
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