NRC SEEKS PUBLIC INPUT ON DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT 

FOR NEW REACTORS AT VIRGIL C. SUMMER SITE; MEETINGS MAY 27 

 Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff is seeking public comments on its preliminary 

conclusion that there are no environmental impacts that would preclude issuing Combined 

Licenses for two new reactors at the Virgil C. Summer site near Jenkinsville, S.C. 

The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS), outlining conclusions from both the 

NRC and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Charleston District, is available on the 

NRC Web site at: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1939/. The 

DEIS is also available via the NRC’s electronic document database, ADAMS, by entering 

accession numbers ML101000010 and ML101000011 in the ADAMS search engine at: 

http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/dologin.htm. In addition, the Fairfield County Library, at 300 

Washington St. in Winnsboro, S.C., will have a hardbound copy of the DEIS available for public 

inspection.

 The NRC and USACE staff will discuss the report in meetings to be held Thursday, May 

27, from noon to 4 p.m. and 6 to 10 p.m. at White Hall AME Church, 8594 State Highway 215 

South, Jenkinsville. The NRC will transcribe the formal part of each meeting and post the 

transcript on the agency’s Web site at: http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/newreactors/col/summer.html. NRC and USACE staff will be available for informal discussions with 

members of the public for the first two hours of each meeting. Formal comments on the DEIS 

must be provided orally to an NRC-designated court reporter, in writing, or during the 

transcribed portion of the meeting. 

The applicants, South Carolina Electric & Gas (SCE&G) and Santee Cooper, are 

applying for licenses to build and operate two Westinghouse AP1000 reactors adjacent to the 

existing Summer nuclear power plant, approximately 26 miles northwest of Columbia, S.C. The 

companies submitted the application March 28, 2008, and supplemented their request on Feb. 13, 

2009, and Jan. 28, 2010. The NRC met with the public near the Summer site in January and 

March 2009 to gather input for the environmental review. 

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The AP1000 is a 1,100 MWe pressurized-water reactor design the NRC certified in 2006. 

The agency is currently reviewing Westinghouse’s May 2007 application to amend the certified 

design. More information regarding the review is available on the NRC’s Web site at: 

http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/design-cert/amended-ap1000.html. 

 Those wishing to register in advance to present their comments at the meeting should 

contact Patricia Vokoun by telephone at 800-368-5642 x3470, or via e-mail at: 

patricia.vokoun@nrc.gov by May 24. Those with special needs for attending or presenting 

information at the meeting should notify the staff by May 12. Those wishing to speak may also 

register at each meeting no later than 12:45 p.m. and 6:45 p.m., respectively. Individual 

comments could be limited by the time available and the number of people wishing to speak. 

 

NRC staff will also consider written comments on the draft EIS, submitted no later than 

75 days after the Environmental Protection Agency publishes its Federal Register notice 

(expected shortly) regarding the document. The public may comment either by mail to the Chief, 

Rules and Directives Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, 

Mailstop TWB-05-B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, 

via e-mail at: Summer.COLAEIS@nrc.gov, or via fax to 301-492-3446. 

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