Press Release-II-02-051, NRC to Hold Public Meeting on Summer Nuclear Station License Renewal
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| Site: | Summer  |
| Issue date: | 11/27/2002 |
| From: | Office of Public Affairs Region II |
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NRC NEWS UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, REGION II 61 Forsyth Street SW, Atlanta GA 30303 Web Site: www.nrc.gov No. II-02-051 November 27, 2002 CONTACT: Ken Clark (404)562-4416 E-mail: OPA2@nrc.gov Roger Hannah (404)562-4417 NRC TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING ON SUMMER NUCLEAR STATION LICENSE RENEWAL The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will hold two public meetings on December 11 at Jenkinsville, South Carolina, on the environmental review related to the application of South Carolina Electric & Gas Company to renew the operating license for the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station.
Members of the public are invited to attend and comment on environmental issues the NRC should consider in its review of the proposed license renewal.
The meetings will be held on December 11 in the Fellowship Room of the White Hall A.M.E.
Church in Jenkinsville. There will be two similar sessions, one in the afternoon at 1:30 and one in the evening at 7:00. In addition, the NRC staff will host informal discussions one hour prior to each meeting. NRC staff members will be available to answer questions and provide additional information about the process during those informal sessions, but no comment submittals on environmental issues will be accepted at that time.
All are welcome to attend. For planning purposes, those who wish to present oral comments at the meeting may register by contacting Gregory F. Suber of the NRC by telephone at 1-800- 368-5642, Extension 1124, or by email at VCSummerEIS@nrc.gov no later than December 6. Interested persons may also register to speak before the start of each session. Individual comment time may be limited by the time available.
The meetings will include an overview and NRC staff presentation on the environmental process related to license renewal, after which members of the public will be given the opportunity to present their comments on what environmental issues the NRC should consider during its review.
Under NRC regulations, the original operating license for a nuclear power plant is issued for up to 40 years. The license may be renewed for up to an additional 20 years if NRC requirements are met.
The current operating license for the V.C. Summer will expire on August 6, 2022. SCE&G submitted its application for license renewal on August 6 of this year.
The application is available for public review at the Fairfield County Library, 300 Washington Street, Winnsboro, South Carolina, 29180, and at the Thomas Cooper Library, 1322 Greene Street, Columbia, South Carolina, 29208. It is also available in the NRC Public Document Room at NRC Headquarters, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland, on the Internet at www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/applications/summer.html and from the Publicly
Available Records component of NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS), accessible at www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who encounter problems accessing the documents in ADAMS should contact the NRCs Public Document Room reference staff by telephone at 1-800-397-4209, or by email at pdr@nrc.gov.
An existing NRC document, Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, (NUREG-1437), assesses the scope and impact of environmental effects that would be associated with license renewal at any nuclear power plant site. The NRC staff is gathering information at these meetings for a supplement to the generic environmental impact statement that will be specific to the V.C. Summer. It will contain a recommendation regarding the environmental acceptability of the license renewal action.
At the conclusion of the information-gathering process, the NRC staff will prepare a summary of conclusions and significant issues and will send a copy to interested persons who participated in the scoping process. The summary will also be available for public review at the Fairfield County and Thomas Cooper libraries and accessible electronically through the NRC Public Electronic Reading Room at www.nrc.gov/NRC/ADAMS/index.html.
The NRC staff will then prepare a draft environmental impact statement supplement for public comment and will hold a public meeting to solicit comments. After consideration of comments received on the draft, the NRC will prepare a final EIS supplement.
Members of the public may also submit written comments on the scope of the Summer-specific supplement to the generic environmental impact statement. Comments should be submitted by January 30, 2003, either by mail to the Chief, Rules and Directives Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Mail Stop T-6-D-59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555-0001, or by email to: VCSummerEIS@nrc.gov.