ML030520531

Issuance of Environmental Scoping Summary Report Associated with the Staffs Review of the Application for Renewal of the Operating License for the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station

ML030520531
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Site:	Summer  (NPF-012)
Issue date:	02/21/2003
From:	Gregory Suber NRC/NRR/DRIP/RLEP
To:	Byrne S South Carolina Electric & Gas Co
Suber G, NRR/DRIP/RLEP 301-415-1124
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February 21, 2003 Mr. Stephen A. Byrne Senior Vice President, Nuclear Operations South Carolina Electric & Gas Company Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station Post Office Box 88 Jenkinsville, South Carolina 29065

SUBJECT:

ISSUANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCOPING

SUMMARY

REPORT ASSOCIATED WITH THE STAFFS REVIEW OF THE APPLICATION FOR RENEWAL OF THE OPERATING LICENSE FOR THE VIRGIL C. SUMMER NUCLEAR STATION

Dear Mr. Byrne:

From October 25, 2002 to January 6, 2003, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) conducted a scoping process to determine the extent of the NRC staffs environmental review of the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station (V.C. Summer) license renewal application. The application for renewal was submitted by South Carolina Electric and Gas Company (SCE&G) on August 6, 2002. As part of the scoping process, the NRC staff held two public environmental scoping meetings in Jenkinsville, South Carolina, on December 11, 2002, to solicit public input regarding the scope of the review. The scoping process is the first step in the development of a plant-specific supplement to NUREG-1437, Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants (GEIS), for V.C. Summer.

The NRC staff has prepared the enclosed environmental scoping summary report identifying comments received at the December 11, 2002, license renewal environmental scoping meetings, and in writing during the scoping comment period. In accordance with 10 CFR 51.29(b), you are being provided a copy of the scoping summary report. The transcripts of the meetings can be found as an enclosure to the January 14, 2003, meeting summary, which is available electronically for public inspection at 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 component of NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS), under Accession No. ML030100477. ADAMS is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html, which provides access through the NRC's Public Electronic Reading Room (PERR) link. 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, or 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov.

S. Byrne The next step in the environmental review process is the issuance of a draft supplement to the GEIS scheduled for July 2003. Notice of the availability of the draft supplement to the GEIS and the procedures for providing comments will be published in an upcoming Federal Register notice. If you have any questions concerning this matter, you can call me at (301) 415-1124.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Gregory F. Suber, Project Manager Environmental Section License Renewal and Environmental Impacts Program Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No.: 50-395

Enclosure:

As stated cc w/encl: See next page

Mr. Stephen A. Byrne VIRGIL C. SUMMER NUCLEAR STATION South Carolina Electric & Gas Company cc:

Ms. Kathryn M. Sutton, Esquire Winston & Strawn Law Firm 1400 L Street, NW.

Washington, DC 20005-3502 Mr. R. J. White Nuclear Coordinator S.C. Public Service Authority c/o Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station P.O. Box 88, Mail Code 802 Jenkinsville, SC 29065 Resident Inspector/Summer NPS c/o U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 576 Stairway Road Jenkinsville, SC 29065 Chairman, Fairfield County Council Drawer 60 Winnsboro, SC 29180 Mr. Henry Porter, Assistant Director Division of Waste Management Bureau of Land & Waste Management Department of Health & Environmental Control 2600 Bull Street Columbia, SC 29201 Mr. Gregory H. Halnon, General Manager Nuclear Plant Operations South Carolina Electric & Gas Company Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station, Mail Code 303 P.O. Box 88 Jenkinsville, SC 29065 Mr. Melvin N. Browne, Manager Nuclear Licensing & Operating Experience South Carolina Electric & Gas Company Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station, Mail Code 830 P.O. Box 88 Jenkinsville, SC 29065 Ronald B. Clary Manager, Plant Life Extension South Carolina Electric & Gas Company Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station P.O. Box 88 Jenkinsville, SC 29065 Mr. Alan P. Nelson Nuclear Energy Institute 1776 I Street, NW., Suite 400 Washington, DC 20006-3708 Mr. William Suddeth Government Information Librarian Thomas Cooper Library University of South Carolina 1322 Greene St.

Columbia, SC 29208 Ms. Sarah McMaster Director Fairfield County Library 300 Washington St.

Winnsboro, SC 29180 Ms. Pearson 1106 St. Barnabus Ch Rd.

Jenkinsville, SC 29065 Mr. Kamau Marcharia Member County Council Fairfield County P.O. Drawer 49 Jenkinsville, SC 29065 Mr. Bret Bursey SC Progressive Network P.O. Box 8325 Columbia, SC 29202 Mr. Billy Hendrix 18662 Newberry Rd.

Blair, SC 29015

Mr. Stephen A. Byrne VIRGIL C. SUMMER NUCLEAR STATION South Carolina Electric & Gas Company cc:

Mr. Gregory C. DeCamp Constellation Nuclear Services 6120 Woodside Executive Ct.

Aiken, SC 29803 Mr. Kim Bowens ICRC 1098 Old Levington Hwy.

Chapir, SC 29036 Ms. Lunelle Harmon SCE&G 3364 SC Hwy. 219 Newberry, SC 29108

S. Byrne The next step in the environmental review process is the issuance of a draft supplement to the GEIS scheduled for January 2003. Notice of the availability of the draft supplement to the GEIS and the procedures for providing comments will be published in an upcoming Federal Register notice. If you have any questions concerning this matter, you can call me at (301) 415-1124.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Gregory F. Suber, Project Manager Environmental Section License Renewal and Environmental Impacts Program Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No.: 50-285

Enclosure:

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