Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Jacksonville District, have published NUREG–1941, “Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Combined Licenses (COL) for Levy Nuclear Plant Units 1 and 2”. The site is located in Levy County, Florida, 7.9 miles east of the Gulf of Mexico and 30.1 miles west of Ocala, Florida. The application for the COLs was submitted by letter dated July 28, 2008, pursuant to title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) part 52. A notice of receipt and availability of the application, which included the environmental report, and a notice of acceptance for docketing of the COL application were published in the
The purpose of this notice is to inform the public that NUREG–1941 is available for public inspection. The DEIS can be accessed: (1) Online at
Any interested party may submit comments on the DEIS for consideration by the NRC staff. Comments may be accompanied by additional relevant information or supporting data. This draft report is being issued with a 75-day comment period. The comment period begins on the date that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency publishes a Notice of Filing in the
Comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information, therefore, the NRC cautions against including any information that should not 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 comments or remove any identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not include any information in their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed.
The NRC and USACE staff will hold two public meetings to present an overview of the DEIS and to accept public comments on the document on Thursday, September 23, 2010, at the Plantation Inn, 9301 West Fort Island Trail, Crystal River, Florida. The first meeting will convene at 1:30 p.m. and will continue until 4:30 p.m., as necessary. The second meeting will convene at 7 p.m., with a repeat of the overview portions of the first meeting, and will continue until 10 p.m., as necessary. The meetings will be transcribed and will include a presentation of the contents of the DEIS and the opportunity for interested government agencies, organizations, and individuals to provide comments on the draft report. To be considered, comments must be provided, either orally or in writing, during the transcribed public meeting. Additionally, the NRC and USACE staff will host informal discussions one hour before the start of each meeting during which members of the public may meet and talk with NRC and USACE staff members on an informal basis. No formal comments on the DEIS will be accepted during these informal discussions.
Persons may pre-register to attend or present oral comments at the meeting by contacting Mr. Douglas Bruner by telephone at 1–800–368–5642, extension 2730, or via e-mail to
Mr. Douglas Bruner, Environmental Projects Branch 3, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mail Stop T7–E18, Washington, DC 20555–0001. Mr. Bruner may also be contacted at the aforementioned telephone number or e-mail address.
For The Nuclear Regulatory Commission.