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No. 01-130 November 16, 2001

NRC ISSUES DRAFT SUPPLEMENT TO FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL 

STATEMENT ON DECOMMISSIONING OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES 

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is seeking public comments on its draft

Supplement 1 to the "Final Generic Environmental Impact Statement on Decommissioning of Nuclear

Facilities (GEIS), NUREG-0586.î The agency will hold four public meetings in December to discuss

the document. 

The Supplement was prepared because of technological advances in decommissioning

operations, experience gained with shut down plants, and changes made to the NRC regulations since

the GEIS was first published. It is a stand-alone document to be used to evaluate environmental

impacts during decommissioning, which could lead to termination of the NRC license. 

The draft Supplement finds that of the environmental issues assessed, most of the impacts are

generic and small. 

The draft report is available electronically through the NRCís Public Electronic Reading Room

at www.nrc.gov as an Agencywide Document Access and Management Systems (ADAMS) document

and can also be viewed at the NRCís Public Document Room, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville

Pike, Rockville, Maryland. For help in accessing ADAMS, contact the NRC Public Document Room

staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov. 

Interested persons are invited to submit comments on the draft Supplement and the proposed

action by December 31, to the Chief, Rules and Directives Branch, Division of Administrative Services,

Mail Stop T- 6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555-0001. Comments

may also be submitted electronically to the NRC to the e-mail address dgeis@nrc.gov . 

NRC staff will also hold four public meetings, at the following locations and dates, to present an

overview of the draft Supplement to the GEIS and to accept public comments on the document: 
December 4 December 6

The Argent Hotel The Drake

50 Third Street 140 East Walton Place

San Francisco, CA 94103 Chicago, IL 60611

December 10 December 12

Boston Marriott Copley Place Marriott Marquis

110 Huntington Avenue 265 Peachtree Center Avenue

Boston, MA 02116 Atlanta, GA 30303

The meetings will be held from 7 until 10 p.m. The contents of the draft Supplement to the

GEIS will be presented and interested parties will be given an opportunity to provide comments. 

Additionally, NRC staff will host informal discussions one hour prior to the start of each session. No

comments on the draft Supplement to the GEIS will be accepted during the informal discussions.

Persons planning to attend or present oral comments at any or all of the meetings should contact

Dino Scaletti at 1-800-368-5642, extension 1104, or by e-mail at dgeis@nrc.gov, no later than

November 27. Members of the public may also register to speak at the meeting within 15 minutes of the

start of each session. Individual oral comments may be limited by the time available, depending upon

the number of persons who register. 

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