ML033080241
| ML033080241 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Quad Cities  |
| Issue date: | 11/04/2003 |
| From: | Larry Wheeler NRC/NRR/DRIP/RLEP |
| To: | Skolds J Exelon Generation Co, Exelon Nuclear |
| Wheeler LL, NRR/DRIP/RLEP, 415-1444 | |
| References | |
| TAC MB6845, TAC MB6846 | |
| Download: ML033080241 (8) | |
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November 4, 2003 Mr. John Skolds, President Exelon Nuclear Exelon Generation Company, LLC 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville, IL 60555
SUBJECT:
REQUEST FOR COMMENTS ON THE DRAFT PLANT-SPECIFIC SUPPLEMENT 16 TO THE GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT REGARDING LICENSE RENEWAL FOR QUAD CITIES NUCLEAR POWER STATION (TAC NOS. MB6845 and MB6846)
Dear Mr. Skolds:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff has completed the draft plant-specific Supplement 16 to NUREG-1437, Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, regarding the renewal of operating licenses DPR-29 and DPR-30 for Quad Cities Nuclear Power Station (QCNPS), for an additional 20 years of operation.
Enclosed is a copy of the report for your review and comment.
The draft report will be filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and a Notice of Filing will be subsequently published by the EPA in the Federal Register. Any comments on the draft plant-specific supplement to the GEIS should be addressed to:
Chief Rules and Directives Branch Division of Administrative Services Office of Administration Mailstop T-6D 59 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 Comments may also be submitted electronically to the NRC at QuadCitiesEIS@nrc.gov. The comment period will end on January 27, 2004. A public meeting will be held at The Mark of the Quad Cities, 1201River Drive, Moline, IL, on December 16, 2003, regarding the
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draft report. A separate Notice of Availability will also be published in an upcoming Federal Register by the NRC, along with details regarding the December 16, 2003, public meeting.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Louis L. Wheeler, Senior Project Manager Environmental Section License Renewal and Environmental Impacts Program Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos.: 50-254 and 50-265
Enclosure:
As stated cc w/encl: See next page
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draft report. A separate Notice of Availability will also be published in an upcoming Federal Register by the NRC, along with details regarding the December 16, 2003, public meeting.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Louis L. Wheeler, Senior Project Manager Environmental Section License Renewal and Environmental Impacts Program Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos.: 50-254 and 50-265
Enclosure:
As stated cc w/encl: See next page DISTRIBUTION:
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RLEP R/F Accession nos.:
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- 2. Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, Supp. 16 Re: Quad Cities Nuclear Power Station, Units 1 and 2: ML033090624
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NAME AFernandez DATE 10/31/03
OFFICIAL RECORD COPY Quad Cities Combined List cc:
Site Vice President - Quad Cities Nuclear Power Station Exelon Generation Company, LLC 22710 206th Avenue N.
Cordova, IL 61242-9740 Quad Cities Nuclear Power Station Plant Manager Exelon Generation Company, LLC 22710 206th Avenue N.
Cordova, IL 61242-9740 Regulatory Assurance Manager - Quad Cities Exelon Generation Company, LLC 22710 206th Avenue N.
Cordova, IL 61242-9740 Quad Cities Resident Inspectors Office U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 22712 206th Avenue N.
Cordova, IL 61242 William D. Leech Manager - Nuclear MidAmerican Energy Company P.O. Box 657 Des Moines, IA 50303 Vice President - Law and Regulatory Affairs MidAmerican Energy Company One River Center Place 106 E. Second Street P.O. Box 4350 Davenport, IA 52808 Chairman Rock Island County Board of Supervisors 1504 3rd Avenue Rock Island County Office Bldg.
Rock Island, IL 61201 Regional Administrator U.S. NRC, Region III 801 Warrenville Road Lisle, IL 60532-4351 Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety Office of Nuclear Facility Safety 1035 Outer Park Drive Springfield, IL 62704 Document Control Desk-Licensing Exelon Generation Company, LLC 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville, IL 60555 Senior Vice President - Nuclear Services Exelon Generation Company, LLC 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville, IL 60555 Vice President Mid-West Operations Support Exelon Generation Company, LLC 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville, IL 60555 Senior Vice President Mid-West Regional Operating Group Exelon Generation Company, LLC 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville, IL 60555 Vice President - Licensing and Regulatory Affairs Exelon Generation Company, LLC 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville, IL 60555 Director - Licensing Mid-West Regional Operating Group Exelon Generation Company, LLC 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville, IL 60555 Senior Counsel, Nuclear Mid-West Regional Operating Group
Exelon Generation Company, LLC 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville, IL 60555 Manager Licensing - Dresden and Quad Cities Exelon Generation Company, LLC 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville, IL 60555 Mr. John L. Skolds, President Exelon Nuclear Exelon Generation Company, LLC 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville, IL 60555 William D. Maher License Renewal Environmental Lead Exelon Nuclear 200 Exelon Way Kennett Square, PA 19348 Frederick W. Polaski License Renewal Manager Exelon Nuclear 200 Exelon Way Kennett Square, PA 19348 Albert A. Fulvio Exelon Nuclear 200 Exelon Way Kennett Square, PA 19348 Ms. Lisa Ford, Director River Valley Library 214 South Main Street Port Byron, IL 61275 Ms. Cathy Stone Reference Manager Davenport Public Library 321 Main Street Davenport, IA 52801-1490 Ms. Sue Hebel, Director Cordova District Library 402 Main Avenue Post Office Box 247 Cordova, IL 61242-0247 Chief Leo Geerts Albany Fire Protection District P.O. Box 314 Albany, IL 61230 Rob Lamb 1830 Second Ave Suite 200 Rock Island, IL 61201 Patrick OConnor 4231 North Damen Chicago, IL 60618 Leslie Perrigo 1825 West 40th Davenport, IA 52806 Kathryn M. Sutton 1400 L Street NW Washington, DC 20005 Don Swensson 5301-11th Ave C Moline, IL 61265 Stuart Whitt 105 East Galena Aurora, IL 60505 Alwyn Cecil Settles IDNS 1035 Outer Park Drive Springfield, IL 62704 Chris Quebert 21624 River Road North Cordova, IL 61242-9621 The Honorable Harold Frank, Chairperson Forest County Potawatomi Tribal Community P.O. Box 340 Crandon, WI 54520 The Honorable Zachariah Pahmahmie, Chairman Prairie Band Potawatomi Tribal Council 16281 Q Road
Mayette, KS 66439 The Honorable John A. Barrett, Jr.,
Chairperson Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma 1901 South Gordon Cooper Drive Shawnee, OK 74801 Ms. Jackie Kang, Executive Secretary Hannahville Indian Community N14911 Hannahville B1 Road Wilson, MI 49896-9728 The Honorable Gil Holliday, Chairperson Huron Potawatomi, Inc., Michigan 2221 One-and-a-Half Mile Road Fulton, MI 49052 The Honorable Alex Walker, Jr., Chairperson Sac & Fox Nation of the Mississippi in Iowa 349 Meskawaki Road Tama, IA 52339 The Honorable Steve Cadue, Chairperson Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas P.O. Box 271 Horton, KS 66439 The Honorable Lewis DeRoin, Chairperson Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska 3345 Thrasher Road White Cloud, KS 66094 The Honorable David K. Sprague, Chairperson Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Potawatomi Indians of Michigan P.O. Box 218 Dorr, MI 49323 The Honorable Sandra Keo Chairperson Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas
& Nebraska 305 North Main Street Reserve, KS 66434 The Honorable Lawrence P. Murray Chairperson Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma Route 1, Box 721 Perkins, OK 74059 The Honorable Danny Kaskaske Chairperson Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma P.O. Box 70 McCloud, OK 74851 The Honorable Don Abney Principal Chief Sac & Fox Nation of Oklahoma Route 2, Box 246 Stroud, OK 74079 The Honorable John Miller, Chairperson Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians of Michigan and Indiana P.O. Box 180 58620 Sink Road Dowagiac, MI 49047 The Honorable Juan Garcan, Jr.
Provisional Chairperson Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas HC1, Box 9700 Eagle Pass, TX 78853 Mr. Bennett Brown 879 Echo Avenue Mechanicsville, IA 52306
7590-01P UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION EXELON GENERATION COMPANY, LLC QUAD CITIES NUCLEAR POWER STATION, UNITS 1 AND 2 DOCKET NOS. 50-254, 50-265 NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF DRAFT SUPPLEMENT 16 TO GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT AND PUBLIC MEETING FOR THE LICENSE RENEWAL OF QUAD CITIES NUCLEAR POWER STATION, UNITS 1 AND 2 Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has published a draft plant-specific supplement to the Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS), NUREG-1437, regarding the renewal of operating licenses DPR-29 and DPR-30 for an additional 20 years of operation at Quad Cities Nuclear Power Station (QCNPS). QCNPS is located in Rock Island County, Illinois, approximately 4 miles north of Cordova, Illinois.
Possible alternatives to the proposed action (license renewal) include no action and reasonable alternative energy sources.
The draft supplement to the GEIS is available for public inspection in the NRCs Public Document Room (PDR) located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor),
Rockville, Maryland, or, electronically, from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room). Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who encounter problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, should contact the NRCs PDR reference staff at 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov. In addition, the Cordova
2 District Library, 402 Main Avenue, Cordova, Illinois; the River Valley Library, 214 South Main Street, Port Byron, Illinois; and the Davenport Public Library, 321 Main Street, Davenport, Iowa, have 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 January 27, 2004.
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-6D 59, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 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. Electronic comments may be submitted to the NRC by e-mail at QuadCitiesEIS@nrc.gov. All comments received by the Commission, including those made by Federal, State, and local agencies, Native American Tribes, or other interested persons, will be made available electronically at the Commissions 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 December 16, 2003, at The Mark of the Quad Cities, 1201 River Drive, Moline, Illinois. 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 7:00 p.m. and will continue until 10:00 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
3 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 present oral comments at the meeting by contacting Mr. Louis L. Wheeler by telephone at 1-800-368-5642, extension 1444, or by e-mail at dxw@nrc.gov no later than December 10, 2003. 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. Wheelers attention no later than December 10, 2003, to provide the NRC staff adequate notice to determine whether the request can be accommodated.
For further information, contact: Mr. Louis L. Wheeler, License Renewal and Environmental Impacts Program, Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555-0001. Mr. Wheeler may be contacted at the aforementioned telephone number or e-mail address.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 4th day of November, 2003.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
/RA/
Pao-Tsin Kuo, Program Director License Renewal and Environmental Impacts Program Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation