ML092110475

Request for Scoping Comments Concerning the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Unit 2, Operating License Application Review

ML092110475
Person / Time
Site:	Watts Bar
Issue date:	09/10/2009
From:	Joel Wiebe Division of Operating Reactor Licensing
To:	Allen R, Asbury A, Battise B, Bear J, Bucktrot E, Bucktrot G, Cole T, Coleman C, Dushane R, Howe T, Kaniatobe K, Larue-Stopp L, Nail V, Pryor B, Pyle G, Sparkman R, Strange L, Townsend R, Wallace G Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town, Cherokee Nation, Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Kialegee Tribal Town, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Shawnee Tribe, Thlopthlocco Tribal Town, United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma
BEISSEL, D, NRR/DLR/RERB, 415-2145
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September 10, 2009 Richard Allen, PhD, Policy Analyst and NAGPRA/Section 106 Review Contact Cherokee Nation P.O. Box 948 Tahlequah, OK 74465

SUBJECT:

WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT, UNIT 2, OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION REVIEW - ENVIRONMENTAL SCOPING

Dear Dr. Allen:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is reviewing an application submitted by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for an operating license for Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN),

Unit 2, located in Rhea County, Tennessee at the northern end of the Chickamauga Reservoir, Tennessee River Mile 528. The NRC is conducting a scoping process for preparing a Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement (FES) published in 1978. The Supplement to the FES will be prepared under Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC's regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. You are invited to participate in the scoping process.

The proposed action in response to the application is the issuance of an operating license that would authorize TVA to possess, use, and operate a second lightwater nuclear reactor, WBN Unit 2, located on the applicants site in Rhea County, Tennessee. Major buildings at the plant were completed prior to 1985 so the existing footprint of Unit 2 remains as almost originally planned.

The matters to be addressed in the supplement include evaluation of new and significant circumstances or information, relevant to environmental concerns that developed after the 1978 FES and a previous supplement to the FES published by the NRC in 1995. The NRC is notifying you that, in accordance with 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC intends to use the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) process for section 106 purposes.

The NRC staff plans to hold a public environmental scoping meeting on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. The scoping meeting will be held at the Magnuson Hotel at 1421 Murrays Chapel Road in Sweetwater, Tennessee, on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. There will be two sessions to accommodate interested parties. The first session will be at 1:30 p.m. and the second at 6:30 p.m.

You may send written comments on the environmental scope of the WBN Unit 2 operating license review to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives and Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, Mailstop T-6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555-0001. Electronic comments may be sent by e-mail to the NRC at RidsNrrPMWattsBar2.Resource@nrc.gov. Comments should be sent no later than October 30, 2009, to be considered in the scoping process. Comments will be available electronically and accessible through ADAMS at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/doloqin.htm. Because your comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions

R. Allen against including any information in your submission that you do not want to be publicly disclosed.

The NRC requests that any party soliciting or aggregating comments received from other persons for submission to the NRC inform those persons that the NRC will not edit their comments to remove any identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not include any information in their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed.

At the conclusion of the scoping process, the NRC staff will prepare a summary of the significant issues identified and the conclusions reached, and mail a copy to you.

The NRC is sending invitations to participate in the scoping process to the tribal contacts for the following federally recognized tribes: Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, United Keetoowah Band, The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee Tribe.

If you have any questions concerning the NRCs review of this operating license application, please contact me at 301-415-6606 or by e-mail at Joel.Wiebe@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Joel S. Wiebe, Senior Project Manager Watts Bar Special Projects Branch Division of Operating Reactor License Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-391

Enclosures:

1. Location of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

2. Transmission Line Corridors Associated with Watts Bar Nuclear Plant cc: Distribution via Listserv

September 10, 2009 Mr. Tyler Howe, Historic Preservation Specialist Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians 2877 Governors Island Road Bryson City, NC 28713

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR SCOPING COMMENTS CONCERNING THE WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 2 OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW

Dear Mr. Howe:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is reviewing an application submitted by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for an operating license for Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN),

Unit 2, located in Rhea County, Tennessee at the northern end of the Chickamauga Reservoir, Tennessee River Mile 528. The NRC is conducting a scoping process for preparing a Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement (FES) published in 1978. The Supplement to the FES will be prepared under Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC's regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. You are invited to participate in the scoping process.

The proposed action in response to the application is the issuance of an operating license that would authorize TVA to possess, use, and operate a second lightwater nuclear reactor, WBN Unit 2, located on the applicants site in Rhea County, Tennessee. Major buildings at the plant were completed prior to 1985 so the existing footprint of Unit 2 remains as almost originally planned.

The matters to be addressed in the supplement include evaluation of new and significant circumstances or information, relevant to environmental concerns that developed after the 1978 FES and a previous supplement to the FES published by the NRC in 1995. The NRC is notifying you that, in accordance with 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC intends to use the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) process for section 106 purposes.

The NRC staff plans to hold a public environmental scoping meeting on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. The scoping meeting will be held at the Magnuson Hotel at 1421 Murrays Chapel Road in Sweetwater, Tennessee, on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. There will be two sessions to accommodate interested parties. The first session will be at 1:30 p.m. and the second at 6:30 p.m.

You may send written comments on the environmental scope of the WBN Unit 2 operating license review to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives and Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, Mailstop T-6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555-0001. Electronic comments may be sent by e-mail to the NRC at RidsNrrPMWattsBar2.Resource@nrc.gov. Comments should be sent no later than October 30, 2009, to be considered in the scoping process. Comments will be available electronically and

T. Howe accessible through ADAMS at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/doloqin.htm. Because your comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions against including any information in your submission that you do not want to be publicly disclosed.

The NRC requests that any party soliciting or aggregating comments received from other persons for submission to the NRC inform those persons that the NRC will not edit their comments to remove any identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not include any information in their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed.

At the conclusion of the scoping process, the NRC staff will prepare a summary of the significant issues identified and the conclusions reached, and mail a copy to you.

The NRC is sending invitations to participate in the scoping process to the tribal contacts for the following federally recognized tribes: Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, United Keetoowah Band, The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee Tribe.

If you have any questions concerning the NRCs review of this operating license application, please contact me at 301-415-6606 or by e-mail at Joel.Wiebe@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Joel S. Wiebe, Senior Project Manager Watts Bar Special Projects Branch Division of Operating Reactor License Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-391

Enclosures:

1. Location of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

2. Transmission Line Corridors Associated with Watts Bar Nuclear Plant cc: Distribution via Listserv

September 10, 2009 Mr. Russ Townsend, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians 2877 Governors Island Road Bryson City, NC 28713

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR SCOPING COMMENTS CONCERNING THE WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 2 OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW

Dear Mr. Townsend:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is reviewing an application submitted by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for an operating license for Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN),

Unit 2, located in Rhea County, Tennessee at the northern end of the Chickamauga Reservoir, Tennessee River Mile 528. The NRC is conducting a scoping process for preparing a Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement (FES) published in 1978. The Supplement to the FES will be prepared under Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC's regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. You are invited to participate in the scoping process.

The proposed action in response to the application is the issuance of an operating license that would authorize TVA to possess, use, and operate a second lightwater nuclear reactor, WBN Unit 2, located on the applicants site in Rhea County, Tennessee. Major buildings at the plant were completed prior to 1985 so the existing footprint of Unit 2 remains as almost originally planned.

The matters to be addressed in the supplement include evaluation of new and significant circumstances or information, relevant to environmental concerns that developed after the 1978 FES and a previous supplement to the FES published by the NRC in 1995. The NRC is notifying you that, in accordance with 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC intends to use the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) process for section 106 purposes.

The NRC staff plans to hold a public environmental scoping meeting on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. The scoping meeting will be held at the Magnuson Hotel at 1421 Murrays Chapel Road in Sweetwater, Tennessee, on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. There will be two sessions to accommodate interested parties. The first session will be at 1:30 p.m. and the second at 6:30 p.m.

You may send written comments on the environmental scope of the WBN Unit 2 operating license review to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives and Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, Mailstop T-6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555-0001. Electronic comments may be sent by e-mail to the NRC at RidsNrrPMWattsBar2.Resource@nrc.gov. Comments should be sent no later than October 30, 2009, to be considered in the scoping process. Comments will be available electronically and

R. Townsend accessible through ADAMS at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/doloqin.htm. Because your comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions against including any information in your submission that you do not want to be publicly disclosed.

The NRC requests that any party soliciting or aggregating comments received from other persons for submission to the NRC inform those persons that the NRC will not edit their comments to remove any identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not include any information in their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed.

At the conclusion of the scoping process, the NRC staff will prepare a summary of the significant issues identified and the conclusions reached, and mail a copy to you.

The NRC is sending invitations to participate in the scoping process to the tribal contacts for the following federally recognized tribes: Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, United Keetoowah Band, The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee Tribe.

If you have any questions concerning the NRCs review of this operating license application, please contact me at 301-415-6606 or by e-mail at Joel.Wiebe@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Joel S. Wiebe, Senior Project Manager Watts Bar Special Projects Branch Division of Operating Reactor License Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-391

Enclosures:

1. Location of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

2. Transmission Line Corridors Associated with Watts Bar Nuclear Plant cc: Distribution via Listserv

September 10, 2009 Ms. Lisa Larue-Stopp, Acting Tribal Historic Preservation Officer United Keetoowah Band Headquarters PO Box 746 Tahlequah, OK 74465

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR SCOPING COMMENTS CONCERNING THE WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 2 OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW

Dear Ms. Larue-Stopp:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is reviewing an application submitted by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for an operating license for Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN),

Unit 2, located in Rhea County, Tennessee at the northern end of the Chickamauga Reservoir, Tennessee River Mile 528. The NRC is conducting a scoping process for preparing a Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement (FES) published in 1978. The Supplement to the FES will be prepared under Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC's regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. You are invited to participate in the scoping process.

The proposed action in response to the application is the issuance of an operating license that would authorize TVA to possess, use, and operate a second lightwater nuclear reactor, WBN Unit 2, located on the applicants site in Rhea County, Tennessee. Major buildings at the plant were completed prior to 1985 so the existing footprint of Unit 2 remains as almost originally planned.

The matters to be addressed in the supplement include evaluation of new and significant circumstances or information, relevant to environmental concerns that developed after the 1978 FES and a previous supplement to the FES published by the NRC in 1995. The NRC is notifying you that, in accordance with 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC intends to use the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) process for section 106 purposes.

The NRC staff plans to hold a public environmental scoping meeting on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. The scoping meeting will be held at the Magnuson Hotel at 1421 Murrays Chapel Road in Sweetwater, Tennessee, on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. There will be two sessions to accommodate interested parties. The first session will be at 1:30 p.m. and the second at 6:30 p.m.

You may send written comments on the environmental scope of the WBN Unit 2 operating license review to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives and Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, Mailstop T-6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555-0001. Electronic comments may be sent by e-mail to the NRC at RidsNrrPMWattsBar2.Resource@nrc.gov. Comments should be sent no later than October 30, 2009, to be considered in the scoping process. Comments will be available electronically and

L. Larue-Stopp accessible through ADAMS at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/doloqin.htm. Because your comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions against including any information in your submission that you do not want to be publicly disclosed.

The NRC requests that any party soliciting or aggregating comments received from other persons for submission to the NRC inform those persons that the NRC will not edit their comments to remove any identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not include any information in their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed.

At the conclusion of the scoping process, the NRC staff will prepare a summary of the significant issues identified and the conclusions reached, and mail a copy to you.

The NRC is sending invitations to participate in the scoping process to the tribal contacts for the following federally recognized tribes: Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, United Keetoowah Band, The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee Tribe.

If you have any questions concerning the NRCs review of this operating license application, please contact me at 301-415-6606 or by e-mail at Joel.Wiebe@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Joel S. Wiebe, Senior Project Manager Watts Bar Special Projects Branch Division of Operating Reactor License Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-391

Enclosures:

1. Location of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

2. Transmission Line Corridors Associated with Watts Bar Nuclear Plant cc: Distribution via Listserv

September 10, 2009 Ms. Virginia (Gingy) Nail, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer The Chickasaw Nation, Cultural Resources Department 2020 Arlington, Suite 4 PO Box 1548 Ada, OK 74821-1548

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR SCOPING COMMENTS CONCERNING THE WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 2 OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW

Dear Ms. Nail:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is reviewing an application submitted by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for an operating license for Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN),

Unit 2, located in Rhea County, Tennessee at the northern end of the Chickamauga Reservoir, Tennessee River Mile 528. The NRC is conducting a scoping process for preparing a Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement (FES) published in 1978. The Supplement to the FES will be prepared under Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC's regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. You are invited to participate in the scoping process.

The proposed action in response to the application is the issuance of an operating license that would authorize TVA to possess, use, and operate a second lightwater nuclear reactor, WBN Unit 2, located on the applicants site in Rhea County, Tennessee. Major buildings at the plant were completed prior to 1985 so the existing footprint of Unit 2 remains as almost originally planned.

The matters to be addressed in the supplement include evaluation of new and significant circumstances or information, relevant to environmental concerns that developed after the 1978 FES and a previous supplement to the FES published by the NRC in 1995. The NRC is notifying you that, in accordance with 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC intends to use the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) process for section 106 purposes.

The NRC staff plans to hold a public environmental scoping meeting on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. The scoping meeting will be held at the Magnuson Hotel at 1421 Murrays Chapel Road in Sweetwater, Tennessee, on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. There will be two sessions to accommodate interested parties. The first session will be at 1:30 p.m. and the second at 6:30 p.m.

You may send written comments on the environmental scope of the WBN Unit 2 operating license review to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives and Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, Mailstop T-6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555-0001. Electronic comments may be sent by e-mail to the NRC at

V. Nail RidsNrrPMWattsBar2.Resource@nrc.gov. Comments should be sent no later than October 30, 2009, to be considered in the scoping process. Comments will be available electronically and accessible through ADAMS at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/doloqin.htm. Because your comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions against including any information in your submission that you do not want to be publicly disclosed.

The NRC requests that any party soliciting or aggregating comments received from other persons for submission to the NRC inform those persons that the NRC will not edit their comments to remove any identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not include any information in their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed.

At the conclusion of the scoping process, the NRC staff will prepare a summary of the significant issues identified and the conclusions reached, and mail a copy to you.

The NRC is sending invitations to participate in the scoping process to the tribal contacts for the following federally recognized tribes: Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, United Keetoowah Band, The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee Tribe.

If you have any questions concerning the NRCs review of this operating license application, please contact me at 301-415-6606 or by e-mail at Joel.Wiebe@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Joel S. Wiebe, Senior Project Manager Watts Bar Special Projects Branch Division of Operating Reactor License Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-391

Enclosures:

1. Location of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

2. Transmission Line Corridors Associated with Watts Bar Nuclear Plant cc: Distribution via Listserv

September 10, 2009 Mr. Terry Cole, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer & NAGPRA Program Coordinator, Cultural Resources Director Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma PO Box 1210 Durant, OK 74702-1210

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR SCOPING COMMENTS CONCERNING THE WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 2 OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW

Dear Mr. Cole:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is reviewing an application submitted by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for an operating license for Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN),

Unit 2, located in Rhea County, Tennessee at the northern end of the Chickamauga Reservoir, Tennessee River Mile 528. The NRC is conducting a scoping process for preparing a Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement (FES) published in 1978. The Supplement to the FES will be prepared under Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC's regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. You are invited to participate in the scoping process.

The proposed action in response to the application is the issuance of an operating license that would authorize TVA to possess, use, and operate a second lightwater nuclear reactor, WBN Unit 2, located on the applicants site in Rhea County, Tennessee. Major buildings at the plant were completed prior to 1985 so the existing footprint of Unit 2 remains as almost originally planned.

The matters to be addressed in the supplement include evaluation of new and significant circumstances or information, relevant to environmental concerns that developed after the 1978 FES and a previous supplement to the FES published by the NRC in 1995. The NRC is notifying you that, in accordance with 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC intends to use the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) process for section 106 purposes.

The NRC staff plans to hold a public environmental scoping meeting on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. The scoping meeting will be held at the Magnuson Hotel at 1421 Murrays Chapel Road in Sweetwater, Tennessee, on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. There will be two sessions to accommodate interested parties. The first session will be at 1:30 p.m. and the second at 6:30 p.m.

You may send written comments on the environmental scope of the WBN Unit 2 operating license review to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives and Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, Mailstop T-6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555-0001. Electronic comments may be sent by e-mail to the NRC at RidsNrrPMWattsBar2.Resource@nrc.gov. Comments should be sent no later than October 30,

T. Cole 2009, to be considered in the scoping process. Comments will be available electronically and accessible through ADAMS at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/doloqin.htm. Because your comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions against including any information in your submission that you do not want to be publicly disclosed.

The NRC requests that any party soliciting or aggregating comments received from other persons for submission to the NRC inform those persons that the NRC will not edit their comments to remove any identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not include any information in their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed.

At the conclusion of the scoping process, the NRC staff will prepare a summary of the significant issues identified and the conclusions reached, and mail a copy to you.

The NRC is sending invitations to participate in the scoping process to the tribal contacts for the following federally recognized tribes: Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, United Keetoowah Band, The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee Tribe.

If you have any questions concerning the NRCs review of this operating license application, please contact me at 301-415-6606 or by e-mail at Joel.Wiebe@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Joel S. Wiebe, Senior Project Manager Watts Bar Special Projects Branch Division of Operating Reactor License Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-391

Enclosures:

1. Location of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

2. Transmission Line Corridors Associated with Watts Bar Nuclear Plant cc: Distribution via Listserv

September 10, 2009 Chief Gregory E. Pyle Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma PO Box 1210 Durant, OK 74702-1210

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR SCOPING COMMENTS CONCERNING THE WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 2 OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW

Dear Chief Pyle:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is reviewing an application submitted by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for an operating license for Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN),

Unit 2, located in Rhea County, Tennessee at the northern end of the Chickamauga Reservoir, Tennessee River Mile 528. The NRC is conducting a scoping process for preparing a Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement (FES) published in 1978. The Supplement to the FES will be prepared under Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC's regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. You are invited to participate in the scoping process.

The proposed action in response to the application is the issuance of an operating license that would authorize TVA to possess, use, and operate a second lightwater nuclear reactor, WBN Unit 2, located on the applicants site in Rhea County, Tennessee. Major buildings at the plant were completed prior to 1985 so the existing footprint of Unit 2 remains as almost originally planned.

The matters to be addressed in the supplement include evaluation of new and significant circumstances or information, relevant to environmental concerns that developed after the 1978 FES and a previous supplement to the FES published by the NRC in 1995. The NRC is notifying you that, in accordance with 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC intends to use the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) process for section 106 purposes.

The NRC staff plans to hold a public environmental scoping meeting on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. The scoping meeting will be held at the Magnuson Hotel at 1421 Murrays Chapel Road in Sweetwater, Tennessee, on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. There will be two sessions to accommodate interested parties. The first session will be at 1:30 p.m. and the second at 6:30 p.m.

You may send written comments on the environmental scope of the WBN Unit 2 operating license review to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives and Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, Mailstop T-6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555-0001. Electronic comments may be sent by e-mail to the NRC at RidsNrrPMWattsBar2.Resource@nrc.gov. Comments should be sent no later than October 30, 2009, to be considered in the scoping process. Comments will be available electronically and

G. Pyle accessible through ADAMS at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/doloqin.htm. Because your comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions against including any information in your submission that you do not want to be publicly disclosed.

The NRC requests that any party soliciting or aggregating comments received from other persons for submission to the NRC inform those persons that the NRC will not edit their comments to remove any identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not include any information in their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed.

At the conclusion of the scoping process, the NRC staff will prepare a summary of the significant issues identified and the conclusions reached, and mail a copy to you.

The NRC is sending invitations to participate in the scoping process to the tribal contacts for the following federally recognized tribes: Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, United Keetoowah Band, The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee Tribe.

If you have any questions concerning the NRCs review of this operating license application, please contact me at 301-415-6606 or by e-mail at Joel.Wiebe@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Joel S. Wiebe, Senior Project Manager Watts Bar Special Projects Branch Division of Operating Reactor License Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-391

Enclosures:

1. Location of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

2. Transmission Line Corridors Associated with Watts Bar Nuclear Plant cc: Distribution via Listserv

September 10, 2009 Ms. Lillie Strange, Environmental Director Jena Band of Choctaw Indians PO Box 14 Jena, LA 71432

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR SCOPING COMMENTS CONCERNING THE WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 2 OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW

Dear Ms. Strange:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is reviewing an application submitted by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for an operating license for Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN),

Unit 2, located in Rhea County, Tennessee at the northern end of the Chickamauga Reservoir, Tennessee River Mile 528. The NRC is conducting a scoping process for preparing a Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement (FES) published in 1978. The Supplement to the FES will be prepared under Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC's regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. You are invited to participate in the scoping process.

The proposed action in response to the application is the issuance of an operating license that would authorize TVA to possess, use, and operate a second lightwater nuclear reactor, WBN Unit 2, located on the applicants site in Rhea County, Tennessee. Major buildings at the plant were completed prior to 1985 so the existing footprint of Unit 2 remains as almost originally planned.

The matters to be addressed in the supplement include evaluation of new and significant circumstances or information, relevant to environmental concerns that developed after the 1978 FES and a previous supplement to the FES published by the NRC in 1995. The NRC is notifying you that, in accordance with 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC intends to use the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) process for section 106 purposes.

The NRC staff plans to hold a public environmental scoping meeting on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. The scoping meeting will be held at the Magnuson Hotel at 1421 Murrays Chapel Road in Sweetwater, Tennessee, on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. There will be two sessions to accommodate interested parties. The first session will be at 1:30 p.m. and the second at 6:30 p.m.

You may send written comments on the environmental scope of the WBN Unit 2 operating license review to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives and Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, Mailstop T-6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555-0001. Electronic comments may be sent by e-mail to the NRC at RidsNrrPMWattsBar2.Resource@nrc.gov. Comments should be sent no later than October 30, 2009, to be considered in the scoping process. Comments will be available electronically and

L. Strange accessible through ADAMS at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/doloqin.htm. Because your comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions against including any information in your submission that you do not want to be publicly disclosed.

The NRC requests that any party soliciting or aggregating comments received from other persons for submission to the NRC inform those persons that the NRC will not edit their comments to remove any identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not include any information in their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed.

At the conclusion of the scoping process, the NRC staff will prepare a summary of the significant issues identified and the conclusions reached, and mail a copy to you.

The NRC is sending invitations to participate in the scoping process to the tribal contacts for the following federally recognized tribes: Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, United Keetoowah Band, The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee Tribe.

If you have any questions concerning the NRCs review of this operating license application, please contact me at 301-415-6606 or by e-mail at Joel.Wiebe@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Joel S. Wiebe, Senior Project Manager Watts Bar Special Projects Branch Division of Operating Reactor License Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-391

Enclosures:

1. Location of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

2. Transmission Line Corridors Associated with Watts Bar Nuclear Plant cc: Distribution via Listserv

September 10, 2009 Ms. Joyce Bear, Historic Preservation Officer Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma PO Box 580 Okmulgee, OK 74447

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR SCOPING COMMENTS CONCERNING THE WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 2 OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW

Dear Ms. Bear:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is reviewing an application submitted by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for an operating license for Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN),

Unit 2, located in Rhea County, Tennessee at the northern end of the Chickamauga Reservoir, Tennessee River Mile 528. The NRC is conducting a scoping process for preparing a Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement (FES) published in 1978. The Supplement to the FES will be prepared under Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC's regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. You are invited to participate in the scoping process.

The proposed action in response to the application is the issuance of an operating license that would authorize TVA to possess, use, and operate a second lightwater nuclear reactor, WBN Unit 2, located on the applicants site in Rhea County, Tennessee. Major buildings at the plant were completed prior to 1985 so the existing footprint of Unit 2 remains as almost originally planned.

The matters to be addressed in the supplement include evaluation of new and significant circumstances or information, relevant to environmental concerns that developed after the 1978 FES and a previous supplement to the FES published by the NRC in 1995. The NRC is notifying you that, in accordance with 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC intends to use the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) process for section 106 purposes.

The NRC staff plans to hold a public environmental scoping meeting on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. The scoping meeting will be held at the Magnuson Hotel at 1421 Murrays Chapel Road in Sweetwater, Tennessee, on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. There will be two sessions to accommodate interested parties. The first session will be at 1:30 p.m. and the second at 6:30 p.m.

You may send written comments on the environmental scope of the WBN Unit 2 operating license review to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives and Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, Mailstop T-6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555-0001. Electronic comments may be sent by e-mail to the NRC at RidsNrrPMWattsBar2.Resource@nrc.gov. Comments should be sent no later than October 30, 2009, to be considered in the scoping process. Comments will be available electronically and

J. Bear accessible through ADAMS at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/doloqin.htm. Because your comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions against including any information in your submission that you do not want to be publicly disclosed.

The NRC requests that any party soliciting or aggregating comments received from other persons for submission to the NRC inform those persons that the NRC will not edit their comments to remove any identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not include any information in their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed.

At the conclusion of the scoping process, the NRC staff will prepare a summary of the significant issues identified and the conclusions reached, and mail a copy to you.

The NRC is sending invitations to participate in the scoping process to the tribal contacts for the following federally recognized tribes: Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, United Keetoowah Band, The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee Tribe.

If you have any questions concerning the NRCs review of this operating license application, please contact me at 301-415-6606 or by e-mail at Joel.Wiebe@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Joel S. Wiebe, Senior Project Manager Watts Bar Special Projects Branch Division of Operating Reactor License Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-391

Enclosures:

1. Location of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

2. Transmission Line Corridors Associated with Watts Bar Nuclear Plant cc: Distribution via Listserv

September 10, 2009 Ms. Beryl Battise, Acting Tribal Historic Preservation Officer Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas 101 East Broadway Wetumka, OK 74883

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR SCOPING COMMENTS CONCERNING THE WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 2 OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW

Dear Ms. Battise:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is reviewing an application submitted by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for an operating license for Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN),

Unit 2, located in Rhea County, Tennessee at the northern end of the Chickamauga Reservoir, Tennessee River Mile 528. The NRC is conducting a scoping process for preparing a Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement (FES) published in 1978. The Supplement to the FES will be prepared under Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC's regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. You are invited to participate in the scoping process.

The proposed action in response to the application is the issuance of an operating license that would authorize TVA to possess, use, and operate a second lightwater nuclear reactor, WBN Unit 2, located on the applicants site in Rhea County, Tennessee. Major buildings at the plant were completed prior to 1985 so the existing footprint of Unit 2 remains as almost originally planned.

The matters to be addressed in the supplement include evaluation of new and significant circumstances or information, relevant to environmental concerns that developed after the 1978 FES and a previous supplement to the FES published by the NRC in 1995. The NRC is notifying you that, in accordance with 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC intends to use the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) process for section 106 purposes.

The NRC staff plans to hold a public environmental scoping meeting on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. The scoping meeting will be held at the Magnuson Hotel at 1421 Murrays Chapel Road in Sweetwater, Tennessee, on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. There will be two sessions to accommodate interested parties. The first session will be at 1:30 p.m. and the second at 6:30 p.m.

You may send written comments on the environmental scope of the WBN Unit 2 operating license review to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives and Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, Mailstop T-6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555-0001. Electronic comments may be sent by e-mail to the NRC at RidsNrrPMWattsBar2.Resource@nrc.gov. Comments should be sent no later than October 30, 2009, to be considered in the scoping process. Comments will be available electronically and

B. Battise accessible through ADAMS at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/doloqin.htm. Because your comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions against including any information in your submission that you do not want to be publicly disclosed.

The NRC requests that any party soliciting or aggregating comments received from other persons for submission to the NRC inform those persons that the NRC will not edit their comments to remove any identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not include any information in their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed.

At the conclusion of the scoping process, the NRC staff will prepare a summary of the significant issues identified and the conclusions reached, and mail a copy to you.

The NRC is sending invitations to participate in the scoping process to the tribal contacts for the following federally recognized tribes: Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, United Keetoowah Band, The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee Tribe.

If you have any questions concerning the NRCs review of this operating license application, please contact me at 301-415-6606 or by e-mail at Joel.Wiebe@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Joel S. Wiebe, Senior Project Manager Watts Bar Special Projects Branch Division of Operating Reactor License Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-391

Enclosures:

1. Location of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

2. Transmission Line Corridors Associated with Watts Bar Nuclear Plant cc: Distribution via Listserv

September 10, 2009 Ms. Augustine Asbury, Second Chief &

NAGPRA Coordinator Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town PO Box 187 Wetumka, OK 74883

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR SCOPING COMMENTS CONCERNING THE WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 2 OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW

Dear Ms. Asbury:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is reviewing an application submitted by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for an operating license for Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN),

Unit 2, located in Rhea County, Tennessee at the northern end of the Chickamauga Reservoir, Tennessee River Mile 528. The NRC is conducting a scoping process for preparing a Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement (FES) published in 1978. The Supplement to the FES will be prepared under Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC's regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. You are invited to participate in the scoping process.

The proposed action in response to the application is the issuance of an operating license that would authorize TVA to possess, use, and operate a second lightwater nuclear reactor, WBN Unit 2, located on the applicants site in Rhea County, Tennessee. Major buildings at the plant were completed prior to 1985 so the existing footprint of Unit 2 remains as almost originally planned.

The matters to be addressed in the supplement include evaluation of new and significant circumstances or information, relevant to environmental concerns that developed after the 1978 FES and a previous supplement to the FES published by the NRC in 1995. The NRC is notifying you that, in accordance with 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC intends to use the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) process for section 106 purposes.

The NRC staff plans to hold a public environmental scoping meeting on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. The scoping meeting will be held at the Magnuson Hotel at 1421 Murrays Chapel Road in Sweetwater, Tennessee, on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. There will be two sessions to accommodate interested parties. The first session will be at 1:30 p.m. and the second at 6:30 p.m.

You may send written comments on the environmental scope of the WBN Unit 2 operating license review to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives and Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, Mailstop T-6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555-0001. Electronic comments may be sent by e-mail to the NRC at RidsNrrPMWattsBar2.Resource@nrc.gov. Comments should be sent no later than October 30, 2009, to be considered in the scoping process. Comments will be available electronically and

A. Asbury accessible through ADAMS at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/doloqin.htm. Because your comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions against including any information in your submission that you do not want to be publicly disclosed.

The NRC requests that any party soliciting or aggregating comments received from other persons for submission to the NRC inform those persons that the NRC will not edit their comments to remove any identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not include any information in their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed.

At the conclusion of the scoping process, the NRC staff will prepare a summary of the significant issues identified and the conclusions reached, and mail a copy to you.

The NRC is sending invitations to participate in the scoping process to the tribal contacts for the following federally recognized tribes: Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, United Keetoowah Band, The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee Tribe.

If you have any questions concerning the NRCs review of this operating license application, please contact me at 301-415-6606 or by e-mail at Joel.Wiebe@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Joel S. Wiebe, Senior Project Manager Watts Bar Special Projects Branch Division of Operating Reactor License Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-391

Enclosures:

1. Location of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

2. Transmission Line Corridors Associated with Watts Bar Nuclear Plant cc: Distribution via Listserv

September 10, 2009 Ms. Evelyn Bucktrot and Mr. Gary Bucktrot, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer Kialegee Tribal Town PO Box 332 Wetumka, OK 74883

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR SCOPING COMMENTS CONCERNING THE WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 2 OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW

Dear Ms. Bucktrot and Mr. Bucktrot:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is reviewing an application submitted by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for an operating license for Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN),

Unit 2, located in Rhea County, Tennessee at the northern end of the Chickamauga Reservoir, Tennessee River Mile 528. The NRC is conducting a scoping process for preparing a Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement (FES) published in 1978. The Supplement to the FES will be prepared under Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC's regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. You are invited to participate in the scoping process.

The proposed action in response to the application is the issuance of an operating license that would authorize TVA to possess, use, and operate a second lightwater nuclear reactor, WBN Unit 2, located on the applicants site in Rhea County, Tennessee. Major buildings at the plant were completed prior to 1985 so the existing footprint of Unit 2 remains as almost originally planned.

The matters to be addressed in the supplement include evaluation of new and significant circumstances or information, relevant to environmental concerns that developed after the 1978 FES and a previous supplement to the FES published by the NRC in 1995. The NRC is notifying you that, in accordance with 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC intends to use the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) process for section 106 purposes.

The NRC staff plans to hold a public environmental scoping meeting on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. The scoping meeting will be held at the Magnuson Hotel at 1421 Murrays Chapel Road in Sweetwater, Tennessee, on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. There will be two sessions to accommodate interested parties. The first session will be at 1:30 p.m. and the second at 6:30 p.m.

You may send written comments on the environmental scope of the WBN Unit 2 operating license review to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives and Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, Mailstop T-6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555-0001. Electronic comments may be sent by e-mail to the NRC at RidsNrrPMWattsBar2.Resource@nrc.gov. Comments should be sent no later than October 30, 2009, to be considered in the scoping process. Comments will be available electronically and

E. Bucktrot and G. Bucktrot accessible through ADAMS at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/doloqin.htm. Because your comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions against including any information in your submission that you do not want to be publicly disclosed.

The NRC requests that any party soliciting or aggregating comments received from other persons for submission to the NRC inform those persons that the NRC will not edit their comments to remove any identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not include any information in their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed.

At the conclusion of the scoping process, the NRC staff will prepare a summary of the significant issues identified and the conclusions reached, and mail a copy to you.

The NRC is sending invitations to participate in the scoping process to the tribal contacts for the following federally recognized tribes: Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, United Keetoowah Band, The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee Tribe.

If you have any questions concerning the NRCs review of this operating license application, please contact me at 301-415-6606 or by e-mail at Joel.Wiebe@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Joel S. Wiebe, Senior Project Manager Watts Bar Special Projects Branch Division of Operating Reactor License Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-391

Enclosures:

1. Location of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

2. Transmission Line Corridors Associated with Watts Bar Nuclear Plant cc: Distribution via Listserv

September 10, 2009 Mr. Charles Coleman, NAGPRA Representative Thlopthlocco Tribal Town PO Box 188 Okemah, OK 74859

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR SCOPING COMMENTS CONCERNING THE WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 2 OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW

Dear Mr. Coleman:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is reviewing an application submitted by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for an operating license for Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN),

Unit 2, located in Rhea County, Tennessee at the northern end of the Chickamauga Reservoir, Tennessee River Mile 528. The NRC is conducting a scoping process for preparing a Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement (FES) published in 1978. The Supplement to the FES will be prepared under Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC's regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. You are invited to participate in the scoping process.

The proposed action in response to the application is the issuance of an operating license that would authorize TVA to possess, use, and operate a second lightwater nuclear reactor, WBN Unit 2, located on the applicants site in Rhea County, Tennessee. Major buildings at the plant were completed prior to 1985 so the existing footprint of Unit 2 remains as almost originally planned.

The matters to be addressed in the supplement include evaluation of new and significant circumstances or information, relevant to environmental concerns that developed after the 1978 FES and a previous supplement to the FES published by the NRC in 1995. The NRC is notifying you that, in accordance with 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC intends to use the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) process for section 106 purposes.

The NRC staff plans to hold a public environmental scoping meeting on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. The scoping meeting will be held at the Magnuson Hotel at 1421 Murrays Chapel Road in Sweetwater, Tennessee, on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. There will be two sessions to accommodate interested parties. The first session will be at 1:30 p.m. and the second at 6:30 p.m.

You may send written comments on the environmental scope of the WBN Unit 2 operating license review to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives and Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, Mailstop T-6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555-0001. Electronic comments may be sent by e-mail to the NRC at RidsNrrPMWattsBar2.Resource@nrc.gov. Comments should be sent no later than October 30, 2009, to be considered in the scoping process. Comments will be available electronically and

C. Coleman accessible through ADAMS at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/doloqin.htm. Because your comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions against including any information in your submission that you do not want to be publicly disclosed.

The NRC requests that any party soliciting or aggregating comments received from other persons for submission to the NRC inform those persons that the NRC will not edit their comments to remove any identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not include any information in their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed.

At the conclusion of the scoping process, the NRC staff will prepare a summary of the significant issues identified and the conclusions reached, and mail a copy to you.

The NRC is sending invitations to participate in the scoping process to the tribal contacts for the following federally recognized tribes: Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, United Keetoowah Band, The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee Tribe.

If you have any questions concerning the NRCs review of this operating license application, please contact me at 301-415-6606 or by e-mail at Joel.Wiebe@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Joel S. Wiebe, Senior Project Manager Watts Bar Special Projects Branch Division of Operating Reactor License Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-391

Enclosures:

1. Location of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

2. Transmission Line Corridors Associated with Watts Bar Nuclear Plant cc: Distribution via Listserv

September 10, 2009 Ms. Karen Kaniatobe, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma 2025 South Gordon Cooper Shawnee, OK 74801

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR SCOPING COMMENTS CONCERNING THE WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 2 OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW

Dear Ms. Kaniatobe:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is reviewing an application submitted by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for an operating license for Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN),

Unit 2, located in Rhea County, Tennessee at the northern end of the Chickamauga Reservoir, Tennessee River Mile 528. The NRC is conducting a scoping process for preparing a Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement (FES) published in 1978. The Supplement to the FES will be prepared under Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC's regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. You are invited to participate in the scoping process.

The proposed action in response to the application is the issuance of an operating license that would authorize TVA to possess, use, and operate a second lightwater nuclear reactor, WBN Unit 2, located on the applicants site in Rhea County, Tennessee. Major buildings at the plant were completed prior to 1985 so the existing footprint of Unit 2 remains as almost originally planned.

The matters to be addressed in the supplement include evaluation of new and significant circumstances or information, relevant to environmental concerns that developed after the 1978 FES and a previous supplement to the FES published by the NRC in 1995. The NRC is notifying you that, in accordance with 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC intends to use the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) process for section 106 purposes.

The NRC staff plans to hold a public environmental scoping meeting on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. The scoping meeting will be held at the Magnuson Hotel at 1421 Murrays Chapel Road in Sweetwater, Tennessee, on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. There will be two sessions to accommodate interested parties. The first session will be at 1:30 p.m. and the second at 6:30 p.m.

You may send written comments on the environmental scope of the WBN Unit 2 operating license review to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives and Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, Mailstop T-6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555-0001. Electronic comments may be sent by e-mail to the NRC at RidsNrrPMWattsBar2.Resource@nrc.gov. Comments should be sent no later than October 30, 2009, to be considered in the scoping process. Comments will be available electronically and

K. Kaniatobe accessible through ADAMS at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/doloqin.htm. Because your comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions against including any information in your submission that you do not want to be publicly disclosed.

The NRC requests that any party soliciting or aggregating comments received from other persons for submission to the NRC inform those persons that the NRC will not edit their comments to remove any identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not include any information in their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed.

At the conclusion of the scoping process, the NRC staff will prepare a summary of the significant issues identified and the conclusions reached, and mail a copy to you.

The NRC is sending invitations to participate in the scoping process to the tribal contacts for the following federally recognized tribes: Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, United Keetoowah Band, The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee Tribe.

If you have any questions concerning the NRCs review of this operating license application, please contact me at 301-415-6606 or by e-mail at Joel.Wiebe@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Joel S. Wiebe, Senior Project Manager Watts Bar Special Projects Branch Division of Operating Reactor License Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-391

Enclosures:

1. Location of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

2. Transmission Line Corridors Associated with Watts Bar Nuclear Plant cc: Distribution via Listserv

September 10, 2009 Ms. Robin DuShane, Cultural Preservation Director Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma P.O. Box 350 Seneca, MO 64865

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR SCOPING COMMENTS CONCERNING THE WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 2 OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW

Dear Ms. DuShane:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is reviewing an application submitted by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for an operating license for Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN),

Unit 2, located in Rhea County, Tennessee at the northern end of the Chickamauga Reservoir, Tennessee River Mile 528. The NRC is conducting a scoping process for preparing a Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement (FES) published in 1978. The Supplement to the FES will be prepared under Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC's regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. You are invited to participate in the scoping process.

The proposed action in response to the application is the issuance of an operating license that would authorize TVA to possess, use, and operate a second lightwater nuclear reactor, WBN Unit 2, located on the applicants site in Rhea County, Tennessee. Major buildings at the plant were completed prior to 1985 so the existing footprint of Unit 2 remains as almost originally planned.

The matters to be addressed in the supplement include evaluation of new and significant circumstances or information, relevant to environmental concerns that developed after the 1978 FES and a previous supplement to the FES published by the NRC in 1995. The NRC is notifying you that, in accordance with 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC intends to use the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) process for section 106 purposes.

The NRC staff plans to hold a public environmental scoping meeting on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. The scoping meeting will be held at the Magnuson Hotel at 1421 Murrays Chapel Road in Sweetwater, Tennessee, on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. There will be two sessions to accommodate interested parties. The first session will be at 1:30 p.m. and the second at 6:30 p.m.

You may send written comments on the environmental scope of the WBN Unit 2 operating license review to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives and Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, Mailstop T-6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555-0001. Electronic comments may be sent by e-mail to the NRC at RidsNrrPMWattsBar2.Resource@nrc.gov. Comments should be sent no later than October 30, 2009, to be considered in the scoping process. Comments will be available electronically and

R. DuShane accessible through ADAMS at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/doloqin.htm. Because your comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions against including any information in your submission that you do not want to be publicly disclosed.

The NRC requests that any party soliciting or aggregating comments received from other persons for submission to the NRC inform those persons that the NRC will not edit their comments to remove any identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not include any information in their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed.

At the conclusion of the scoping process, the NRC staff will prepare a summary of the significant issues identified and the conclusions reached, and mail a copy to you.

The NRC is sending invitations to participate in the scoping process to the tribal contacts for the following federally recognized tribes: Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, United Keetoowah Band, The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee Tribe.

If you have any questions concerning the NRCs review of this operating license application, please contact me at 301-415-6606 or by e-mail at Joel.Wiebe@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Joel S. Wiebe, Senior Project Manager Watts Bar Special Projects Branch Division of Operating Reactor License Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-391

Enclosures:

1. Location of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

2. Transmission Line Corridors Associated with Watts Bar Nuclear Plant cc: Distribution via Listserv

September 10, 2009 Ms. Glenna J. Wallace, Chief Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma PO Box 350 Seneca, MO 64865

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR SCOPING COMMENTS CONCERNING THE WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 2 OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW

Dear Ms. Wallace:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is reviewing an application submitted by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for an operating license for Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN),

Unit 2, located in Rhea County, Tennessee at the northern end of the Chickamauga Reservoir, Tennessee River Mile 528. The NRC is conducting a scoping process for preparing a Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement (FES) published in 1978. The Supplement to the FES will be prepared under Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC's regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. You are invited to participate in the scoping process.

The proposed action in response to the application is the issuance of an operating license that would authorize TVA to possess, use, and operate a second lightwater nuclear reactor, WBN Unit 2, located on the applicants site in Rhea County, Tennessee. Major buildings at the plant were completed prior to 1985 so the existing footprint of Unit 2 remains as almost originally planned.

The matters to be addressed in the supplement include evaluation of new and significant circumstances or information, relevant to environmental concerns that developed after the 1978 FES and a previous supplement to the FES published by the NRC in 1995. The NRC is notifying you that, in accordance with 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC intends to use the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) process for section 106 purposes.

The NRC staff plans to hold a public environmental scoping meeting on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. The scoping meeting will be held at the Magnuson Hotel at 1421 Murrays Chapel Road in Sweetwater, Tennessee, on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. There will be two sessions to accommodate interested parties. The first session will be at 1:30 p.m. and the second at 6:30 p.m.

You may send written comments on the environmental scope of the WBN Unit 2 operating license review to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives and Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, Mailstop T-6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555-0001. Electronic comments may be sent by e-mail to the NRC at RidsNrrPMWattsBar2.Resource@nrc.gov. Comments should be sent no later than October 30, 2009, to be considered in the scoping process. Comments will be available electronically and

G. Wallace accessible through ADAMS at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/doloqin.htm. Because your comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions against including any information in your submission that you do not want to be publicly disclosed.

The NRC requests that any party soliciting or aggregating comments received from other persons for submission to the NRC inform those persons that the NRC will not edit their comments to remove any identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not include any information in their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed.

At the conclusion of the scoping process, the NRC staff will prepare a summary of the significant issues identified and the conclusions reached, and mail a copy to you.

The NRC is sending invitations to participate in the scoping process to the tribal contacts for the following federally recognized tribes: Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, United Keetoowah Band, The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee Tribe.

If you have any questions concerning the NRCs review of this operating license application, please contact me at 301-415-6606 or by e-mail at Joel.Wiebe@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Joel S. Wiebe, Senior Project Manager Watts Bar Special Projects Branch Division of Operating Reactor License Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-391

Enclosures:

1. Location of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

2. Transmission Line Corridors Associated with Watts Bar Nuclear Plant cc: Distribution via Listserv

September 10, 2009 Mr. Ron Sparkman, Chairman Shawnee Tribe 29 South 69A Highway Miami, OK 74354

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR SCOPING COMMENTS CONCERNING THE WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 2 OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW

Dear Mr. Sparkman:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is reviewing an application submitted by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for an operating license for Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN),

Unit 2, located in Rhea County, Tennessee at the northern end of the Chickamauga Reservoir, Tennessee River Mile 528. The NRC is conducting a scoping process for preparing a Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement (FES) published in 1978. The Supplement to the FES will be prepared under Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC's regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. You are invited to participate in the scoping process.

The proposed action in response to the application is the issuance of an operating license that would authorize TVA to possess, use, and operate a second lightwater nuclear reactor, WBN Unit 2, located on the applicants site in Rhea County, Tennessee. Major buildings at the plant were completed prior to 1985 so the existing footprint of Unit 2 remains as almost originally planned.

The matters to be addressed in the supplement include evaluation of new and significant circumstances or information, relevant to environmental concerns that developed after the 1978 FES and a previous supplement to the FES published by the NRC in 1995. The NRC is notifying you that, in accordance with 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC intends to use the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) process for section 106 purposes.

The NRC staff plans to hold a public environmental scoping meeting on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. The scoping meeting will be held at the Magnuson Hotel at 1421 Murrays Chapel Road in Sweetwater, Tennessee, on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. There will be two sessions to accommodate interested parties. The first session will be at 1:30 p.m. and the second at 6:30 p.m.

You may send written comments on the environmental scope of the WBN Unit 2 operating license review to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives and Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, Mailstop T-6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555-0001. Electronic comments may be sent by e-mail to the NRC at RidsNrrPMWattsBar2.Resource@nrc.gov. Comments should be sent no later than October 30, 2009, to be considered in the scoping process. Comments will be available electronically and

R. Sparkman accessible through ADAMS at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/doloqin.htm. Because your comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions against including any information in your submission that you do not want to be publicly disclosed.

The NRC requests that any party soliciting or aggregating comments received from other persons for submission to the NRC inform those persons that the NRC will not edit their comments to remove any identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not include any information in their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed.

At the conclusion of the scoping process, the NRC staff will prepare a summary of the significant issues identified and the conclusions reached, and mail a copy to you.

The NRC is sending invitations to participate in the scoping process to the tribal contacts for the following federally recognized tribes: Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, United Keetoowah Band, The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee Tribe.

If you have any questions concerning the NRCs review of this operating license application, please contact me at 301-415-6606 or by e-mail at Joel.Wiebe@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Joel S. Wiebe, Senior Project Manager Watts Bar Special Projects Branch Division of Operating Reactor License Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-391

Enclosures:

1. Location of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

2. Transmission Line Corridors Associated with Watts Bar Nuclear Plant cc: Distribution via Listserv

September 10, 2009 Ms. Belinda Pryor, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer Shawnee Tribe 29 South 69A Highway Miami, OK 74354

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR SCOPING COMMENTS CONCERNING THE WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 2 OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW

Dear Ms. Pryor:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is reviewing an application submitted by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for an operating license for Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN),

Unit 2, located in Rhea County, Tennessee at the northern end of the Chickamauga Reservoir, Tennessee River Mile 528. The NRC is conducting a scoping process for preparing a Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement (FES) published in 1978. The Supplement to the FES will be prepared under Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC's regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. You are invited to participate in the scoping process.

The proposed action in response to the application is the issuance of an operating license that would authorize TVA to possess, use, and operate a second lightwater nuclear reactor, WBN Unit 2, located on the applicants site in Rhea County, Tennessee. Major buildings at the plant were completed prior to 1985 so the existing footprint of Unit 2 remains as almost originally planned.

The matters to be addressed in the supplement include evaluation of new and significant circumstances or information, relevant to environmental concerns that developed after the 1978 FES and a previous supplement to the FES published by the NRC in 1995. The NRC is notifying you that, in accordance with 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC intends to use the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) process for section 106 purposes.

The NRC staff plans to hold a public environmental scoping meeting on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. The scoping meeting will be held at the Magnuson Hotel at 1421 Murrays Chapel Road in Sweetwater, Tennessee, on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. There will be two sessions to accommodate interested parties. The first session will be at 1:30 p.m. and the second at 6:30 p.m.

You may send written comments on the environmental scope of the WBN Unit 2 operating license review to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives and Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, Mailstop T-6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555-0001. Electronic comments may be sent by e-mail to the NRC at RidsNrrPMWattsBar2.Resource@nrc.gov. Comments should be sent no later than October 30, 2009, to be considered in the scoping process. Comments will be available electronically and

B. Pryor accessible through ADAMS at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/doloqin.htm. Because your comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions against including any information in your submission that you do not want to be publicly disclosed.

The NRC requests that any party soliciting or aggregating comments received from other persons for submission to the NRC inform those persons that the NRC will not edit their comments to remove any identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not include any information in their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed.

At the conclusion of the scoping process, the NRC staff will prepare a summary of the significant issues identified and the conclusions reached, and mail a copy to you.

The NRC is sending invitations to participate in the scoping process to the tribal contacts for the following federally recognized tribes: Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, United Keetoowah Band, The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee Tribe.

If you have any questions concerning the NRCs review of this operating license application, please contact me at 301-415-6606 or by e-mail at Joel.Wiebe@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Joel S. Wiebe, Senior Project Manager Watts Bar Special Projects Branch Division of Operating Reactor License Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-391

Enclosures:

1. Location of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

2. Transmission Line Corridors Associated with Watts Bar Nuclear Plant cc: Distribution via Listserv

accessible through ADAMS at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/doloqin.htm. Because your comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions against including any information in your submission that you do not want to be publicly disclosed.

The NRC requests that any party soliciting or aggregating comments received from other persons for submission to the NRC inform those persons that the NRC will not edit their comments to remove any identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not include any information in their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed.

At the conclusion of the scoping process, the NRC staff will prepare a summary of the significant issues identified and the conclusions reached, and mail a copy to you.

The NRC is sending invitations to participate in the scoping process to the tribal contacts for the following federally recognized tribes: Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, United Keetoowah Band, The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee Tribe.

If you have any questions concerning the NRCs review of this operating license application, please contact me at 301-415-6606 or by e-mail at Joel.Wiebe@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Joel S. Wiebe, Senior Project Manager Watts Bar Special Projects Branch Division of Operating Reactor License Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-391

Enclosures:

1. Location of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

2. Transmission Line Corridors Associated with Watts Bar Nuclear Plant cc: Distribution via Listserv DISTRIBUTION:

See next page Identical letters have been sent to Dr. Richard Allen, Mr. Tyler Howe, Mr. Russ Townsend, Ms. Lisa Larue-Stopp, Ms. Virginia (Gingy) Nail, Mr. Terry Cole, Chief Greorgy E. Pyle, Ms. Lillie Strange, Ms. Joyce Bear, Ms. Beryl Battise, Ms. Augustine Asbury, Ms. Evelyn Bucktrot, Mr. Charles Coleman, Ms. Karen Kaniatobe, Ms. Robin DuShane, Ms. Glenna J. Wallace, Mr. Ron Sparkman, and Ms. Belinda Pryor ADAMS Accession Number: ML092110475 *via e-mail OFFICE PM:RERB:DLR PM:LP-WB:DORL LA:DORL BC:RERB:DLR OGC NAME D. Beissel* J. Wiebe B. Pham B. Clayton D. Roth NLO w/comments DATE 08/28/09 08/31/09 08/31/09 09/ 09 /09 09/03/09 OFFICE BC:LP-WB:DORL PM:LP-WB:DORL NAME L. Raghavan J. Wiebe (Signature)

DATE 09/10/09 09/10/09 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY

Letter to Richard Allen from Joel S. Wiebe dated September 10, 2009

SUBJECT:

WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT, UNIT 2, OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION REVIEW - ENVIRONMENTAL SCOPING DISTRIBUTION:

EMAIL:

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Letter to Tyler Howe from Joel S. Wiebe dated September 10, 2009

SUBJECT:

WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT, UNIT 2, OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION REVIEW - ENVIRONMENTAL SCOPING DISTRIBUTION:

EMAIL:

PUBLIC RidsNrrLABClayton Resource RidsNrrDlr Resource RidsNrrDlrRerb Resource RidsNrrDorlLp_WB Resource RidsNrrPMWattsBar2 Resource RidsRgn2MailCenter Resource RidsAcrsAcnw_MailCTR Resource RidsOpaMail Resource RidsOgcRp Resource LPWB Reading File DBeissel, NRR DRathbum, FSME AStegan, PNNL

Letter to Russ Townsend from Joel S. Wiebe dated September 10, 2009

SUBJECT:

WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT, UNIT 2, OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION REVIEW - ENVIRONMENTAL SCOPING DISTRIBUTION:

EMAIL:

PUBLIC RidsNrrLABClayton Resource RidsNrrDlr Resource RidsNrrDlrRerb Resource RidsNrrDorlLp_WB Resource RidsNrrPMWattsBar2 Resource RidsRgn2MailCenter Resource RidsAcrsAcnw_MailCTR Resource RidsOpaMail Resource RidsOgcRp Resource LPWB Reading File DBeissel, NRR DRathbum, FSME AStegan, PNNL

Letter to Lisa Larue-Stopp from Joel S. Wiebe dated September 10, 2009

SUBJECT:

WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT, UNIT 2, OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION REVIEW - ENVIRONMENTAL SCOPING DISTRIBUTION:

EMAIL:

PUBLIC RidsNrrLABClayton Resource RidsNrrDlr Resource RidsNrrDlrRerb Resource RidsNrrDorlLp_WB Resource RidsNrrPMWattsBar2 Resource RidsRgn2MailCenter Resource RidsAcrsAcnw_MailCTR Resource RidsOpaMail Resource RidsOgcRp Resource LPWB Reading File DBeissel, NRR DRathbum, FSME AStegan, PNNL

Letter to Virginia (Gingy) Nail from Joel S. Wiebe dated September 10, 2009

SUBJECT:

WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT, UNIT 2, OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION REVIEW - ENVIRONMENTAL SCOPING DISTRIBUTION:

EMAIL:

PUBLIC RidsNrrLABClayton Resource RidsNrrDlr Resource RidsNrrDlrRerb Resource RidsNrrDorlLp_WB Resource RidsNrrPMWattsBar2 Resource RidsRgn2MailCenter Resource RidsAcrsAcnw_MailCTR Resource RidsOpaMail Resource RidsOgcRp Resource LPWB Reading File DBeissel, NRR DRathbum, FSME AStegan, PNNL

Letter to Terry Cole from Joel S. Wiebe dated September 10, 2009

SUBJECT:

WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT, UNIT 2, OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION REVIEW - ENVIRONMENTAL SCOPING DISTRIBUTION:

EMAIL:

PUBLIC RidsNrrLABClayton Resource RidsNrrDlr Resource RidsNrrDlrRerb Resource RidsNrrDorlLp_WB Resource RidsNrrPMWattsBar2 Resource RidsRgn2MailCenter Resource RidsAcrsAcnw_MailCTR Resource RidsOpaMail Resource RidsOgcRp Resource LPWB Reading File DBeissel, NRR DRathbum, FSME AStegan, PNNL

Letter to Gregory E. Pyle from Joel S. Wiebe dated September 10, 2009

SUBJECT:

WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT, UNIT 2, OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION REVIEW - ENVIRONMENTAL SCOPING DISTRIBUTION:

EMAIL:

PUBLIC RidsNrrLABClayton Resource RidsNrrDlr Resource RidsNrrDlrRerb Resource RidsNrrDorlLp_WB Resource RidsNrrPMWattsBar2 Resource RidsRgn2MailCenter Resource RidsAcrsAcnw_MailCTR Resource RidsOpaMail Resource RidsOgcRp Resource LPWB Reading File DBeissel, NRR DRathbum, FSME AStegan, PNNL

Letter to Lillie Strange from Joel S. Wiebe dated September 10, 2009

SUBJECT:

WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT, UNIT 2, OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION REVIEW - ENVIRONMENTAL SCOPING DISTRIBUTION:

EMAIL:

PUBLIC RidsNrrLABClayton Resource RidsNrrDlr Resource RidsNrrDlrRerb Resource RidsNrrDorlLp_WB Resource RidsNrrPMWattsBar2 Resource RidsRgn2MailCenter Resource RidsAcrsAcnw_MailCTR Resource RidsOpaMail Resource RidsOgcRp Resource LPWB Reading File DBeissel, NRR DRathbum, FSME AStegan, PNNL

Letter to Joyce Bear from Joel S. Wiebe dated September 10, 2009

SUBJECT:

WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT, UNIT 2, OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION REVIEW - ENVIRONMENTAL SCOPING DISTRIBUTION:

EMAIL:

PUBLIC RidsNrrLABClayton Resource RidsNrrDlr Resource RidsNrrDlrRerb Resource RidsNrrDorlLp_WB Resource RidsNrrPMWattsBar2 Resource RidsRgn2MailCenter Resource RidsAcrsAcnw_MailCTR Resource RidsOpaMail Resource RidsOgcRp Resource LPWB Reading File DBeissel, NRR DRathbum, FSME AStegan, PNNL

Letter to Beryl Battise from Joel S. Wiebe dated September 10, 2009

SUBJECT:

WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT, UNIT 2, OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION REVIEW - ENVIRONMENTAL SCOPING DISTRIBUTION:

EMAIL:

PUBLIC RidsNrrLABClayton Resource RidsNrrDlr Resource RidsNrrDlrRerb Resource RidsNrrDorlLp_WB Resource RidsNrrPMWattsBar2 Resource RidsRgn2MailCenter Resource RidsAcrsAcnw_MailCTR Resource RidsOpaMail Resource RidsOgcRp Resource LPWB Reading File DBeissel, NRR DRathbum, FSME AStegan, PNNL

Letter to Augustine Asbury from Joel S. Wiebe dated September 10, 2009

SUBJECT:

WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT, UNIT 2, OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION REVIEW - ENVIRONMENTAL SCOPING DISTRIBUTION:

EMAIL:

PUBLIC RidsNrrLABClayton Resource RidsNrrDlr Resource RidsNrrDlrRerb Resource RidsNrrDorlLp_WB Resource RidsNrrPMWattsBar2 Resource RidsRgn2MailCenter Resource RidsAcrsAcnw_MailCTR Resource RidsOpaMail Resource RidsOgcRp Resource LPWB Reading File DBeissel, NRR DRathbum, FSME AStegan, PNNL

Letter to Evelyn Bucktrot and Gary Bucktrot from Joel S. Wiebe dated September 10, 2009

SUBJECT:

WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT, UNIT 2, OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION REVIEW - ENVIRONMENTAL SCOPING DISTRIBUTION:

EMAIL:

PUBLIC RidsNrrLABClayton Resource RidsNrrDlr Resource RidsNrrDlrRerb Resource RidsNrrDorlLp_WB Resource RidsNrrPMWattsBar2 Resource RidsRgn2MailCenter Resource RidsAcrsAcnw_MailCTR Resource RidsOpaMail Resource RidsOgcRp Resource LPWB Reading File DBeissel, NRR DRathbum, FSME AStegan, PNNL

Letter to Charles Coleman from Joel S. Wiebe dated September 10, 2009

SUBJECT:

WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT, UNIT 2, OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION REVIEW - ENVIRONMENTAL SCOPING DISTRIBUTION:

EMAIL:

PUBLIC RidsNrrLABClayton Resource RidsNrrDlr Resource RidsNrrDlrRerb Resource RidsNrrDorlLp_WB Resource RidsNrrPMWattsBar2 Resource RidsRgn2MailCenter Resource RidsAcrsAcnw_MailCTR Resource RidsOpaMail Resource RidsOgcRp Resource LPWB Reading File DBeissel, NRR DRathbum, FSME AStegan, PNNL

Letter to Karen Kaniatobe from Joel S. Wiebe dated September 10, 2009

SUBJECT:

WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT, UNIT 2, OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION REVIEW - ENVIRONMENTAL SCOPING DISTRIBUTION:

EMAIL:

PUBLIC RidsNrrLABClayton Resource RidsNrrDlr Resource RidsNrrDlrRerb Resource RidsNrrDorlLp_WB Resource RidsNrrPMWattsBar2 Resource RidsRgn2MailCenter Resource RidsAcrsAcnw_MailCTR Resource RidsOpaMail Resource RidsOgcRp Resource LPWB Reading File DBeissel, NRR DRathbum, FSME AStegan, PNNL

Letter to Robin DuShane from Joel S. Wiebe dated September 10, 2009

SUBJECT:

WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT, UNIT 2, OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION REVIEW - ENVIRONMENTAL SCOPING DISTRIBUTION:

EMAIL:

PUBLIC RidsNrrLABClayton Resource RidsNrrDlr Resource RidsNrrDlrRerb Resource RidsNrrDorlLp_WB Resource RidsNrrPMWattsBar2 Resource RidsRgn2MailCenter Resource RidsAcrsAcnw_MailCTR Resource RidsOpaMail Resource RidsOgcRp Resource LPWB Reading File DBeissel, NRR DRathbum, FSME AStegan, PNNL

Letter to Glenna J. Wallace from Joel S. Wiebe dated September 10, 2009

SUBJECT:

WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT, UNIT 2, OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION REVIEW - ENVIRONMENTAL SCOPING DISTRIBUTION:

EMAIL:

PUBLIC RidsNrrLABClayton Resource RidsNrrDlr Resource RidsNrrDlrRerb Resource RidsNrrDorlLp_WB Resource RidsNrrPMWattsBar2 Resource RidsRgn2MailCenter Resource RidsAcrsAcnw_MailCTR Resource RidsOpaMail Resource RidsOgcRp Resource LPWB Reading File DBeissel, NRR DRathbum, FSME AStegan, PNNL

Letter to Ron Sparkman from Joel S. Wiebe dated September 10, 2009

SUBJECT:

WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT, UNIT 2, OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION REVIEW - ENVIRONMENTAL SCOPING DISTRIBUTION:

EMAIL:

PUBLIC RidsNrrLABClayton Resource RidsNrrDlr Resource RidsNrrDlrRerb Resource RidsNrrDorlLp_WB Resource RidsNrrPMWattsBar2 Resource RidsRgn2MailCenter Resource RidsAcrsAcnw_MailCTR Resource RidsOpaMail Resource RidsOgcRp Resource LPWB Reading File DBeissel, NRR DRathbum, FSME AStegan, PNNL

Letter to Belinda Pryor from Joel S. Wiebe dated September 10, 2009

SUBJECT:

WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT, UNIT 2, OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION REVIEW - ENVIRONMENTAL SCOPING DISTRIBUTION:

EMAIL:

PUBLIC RidsNrrLABClayton Resource RidsNrrDlr Resource RidsNrrDlrRerb Resource RidsNrrDorlLp_WB Resource RidsNrrPMWattsBar2 Resource RidsRgn2MailCenter Resource RidsAcrsAcnw_MailCTR Resource RidsOpaMail Resource RidsOgcRp Resource LPWB Reading File DBeissel, NRR DRathbum, FSME AStegan, PNNL

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