[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 151 (Tuesday, August 7, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44186-44187]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-15345]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-271]


Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, LLC., and Entergy Nuclear 
Operations, Inc., Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station; Notice of 
Availability of the Final Supplement 30 to the Generic Environmental 
Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, Regarding the 
License Renewal of Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station

    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-28 for an additional 20 years of operation for the Vermont 
Yankee Nuclear Power Station (Vermont

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Yankee). Vermont Yankee is located in the town of Vernon, Vermont, in 
Windham County on the west shore of the Connecticut River. 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 30, the 
recommendation of the staff is that the Commission determine that the 
adverse environmental impacts of license renewal for Vermont Yankee are 
not so great that preserving the option of license renewal for energy-
planning decision makers would be unreasonable. The recommendation is 
based on: (1) The analysis and findings in the GEIS; (2) the 
Environmental Report submitted by Entergy; (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 final Supplement 30 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://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/dologin.htm. The Accession Numbers for the final Supplement 30 to the 
GEIS are ML072050012 for Volume 1, Main Report, and ML072050013 for 
Volume 2, Appendices. 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, final 
supplement to the GEIS will be available at the following libraries for 
public inspection: Vernon Free Library, 567 Governor Hunt Road, Vernon, 
Vermont; Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, 
Vermont; Hinsdale Public Library, 122 Brattleboro Road, Hinsdale, New 
Hampshire; and Dickinson Memorial Library, 115 Main Street, Northfield, 
Massachusetts.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Richard L. Emch, Jr., 
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. Mr. Emch may be contacted by telephone 
at 1-800-368-5642, extension 1590 or via e-mail at [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 1st day of August, 2007.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Rani L. Franovich,
Branch Chief, Environmental Branch B, Division of License Renewal, 
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. E7-15345 Filed 8-6-07; 8:45 am]
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