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[Docket No. 52–037; NRC–2008–0556] 

Union Electric Company d/b/a Ameren 

UE Callaway Plant Unit 2 Combined 

License Application; Notice of Intent 

To Prepare an Environmental Impact 

Statement and Conduct Scoping 

Process 

Union Electric Company d/b/a 

Ameren UE (AmerenUE) has submitted 

an application for a combined license 

(COL) to build and operate Unit 2 at its 

Callaway Plant site, located on 

approximately 2,800 acres 10 miles 

southeast of the city of Fulton in 

Callaway County, Missouri, and 80 

miles west of the St. Louis metropolitan 

area. AmerenUE submitted the 

application for the COL to the U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) 

by letter dated July 24, 2008, pursuant 

to Title 10 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (10 CFR) Part 52. A notice 

of receipt and availability of the 

application, including the 

environmental report (ER), was 

published in the Federal Register on 

October 9, 2008 (73 FR 59677). A notice 

of acceptance for docketing of the 

application for the COL was published 

in the Federal Register on December 18, 

2008 (73 FR 77078). A notice of hearing 

and opportunity to petition for leave to 

intervene in the proceeding of the 

application will be published in a future 

Federal Register. The purpose of this 

notice is to inform the public that the 

NRC staff will be preparing an 

environmental impact statement (EIS) as 

part of the review of the application for 

the COL, and to provide the public with 

an opportunity to participate in the 

environmental scoping process as 

defined in 10 CFR 51.29. The U.S. Army 

Corps of Engineers (Corp), Kansas City 

District, has requested to participate in 

the preparation of the EIS as a 

cooperating agency; the NRC has 

accepted their request. The agencies 

will cooperate according to the process 

set forth in the MOU signed by the NRC 

and the Corps, and was published in the 

Federal Register on September 25, 2008 

(73 FR 55546). 

In addition, as outlined in 36 CFR 

800.8(c), ‘‘Coordination with the 

National Environmental Policy Act,’’ the 

NRC staff plans to coordinate 

compliance with Section 106 of the 

National Historic Preservation Act 

(NHPA) with steps taken to meet the 

requirements of the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as 

amended (NEPA). Pursuant to 36 CFR 

800.8(c), the NRC staff intends to use 

the process and documentation for the 

preparation of the EIS on the proposed 

action to comply with Section 106 of the 

NHPA in lieu of the procedures set forth 

in 36 CFR 800.3 through 800.6. 

In accordance with 10 CFR 51.45 and 

51.50, AmerenUE submitted the ER as 

part of the application. The ER was 

prepared pursuant to 10 CFR Parts 51 

and 52 and is available for public 

inspection at the NRC Public Document 

Room (PDR) located at One White Flint 

North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), 

Rockville, Maryland 20852 or from the 

Publicly Available Records (PAR) 

component of NRC’s Agency-wide 

Documents Access and Management 

System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible 

at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

adams.html, which provides access 

through the NRC’s Electronic Reading 

Room (ERR) link. The accession number 

in ADAMS for the environmental report 

included in the application is 

ML082520869. Persons who do not have 

access to ADAMS or who encounter 

problems in accessing the documents 

located in ADAMS should contact the 

NRC’s PDR Reference staff at 1–800– 

397–4209/301–415–4737 or by e-mail to 

pdr@nrc.gov. The application may also 

be viewed on the Internet at http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/col/ 

callaway.html. In addition, the Callaway 

County Public Library, 710 Court Street, 

Fulton, MO 65251; and Ellis Library in 

University of Missouri, 106–B Ellis 

Library, Columbia, MO 65201–5149 

have agreed to make the ER available for 

public inspection. The following key 

reference documents related to the 

application and the NRC staff’s review 

processes are available through the 

NRC’s Web site at http://www.nrc.gov: 

a. 10 CFR Part 51, Environmental 

Protection Regulations for Domestic 

Licensing and Related Regulatory 

Functions; 

b. 10 CFR Part 52, Licenses, 

Certifications, and Approvals for 

Nuclear Power Plants; 

c. 10 CFR Part 100, Reactor Site 

Criteria; 

d. NUREG–1555, Standard Review 

Plans for Environmental Reviews for 

Nuclear Power Plants; 

e. NUREG/BR–0298, Brochure on 

Nuclear Power Plant Licensing Process; 

f. Regulatory Guide 4.2, Preparation of 

Environmental Reports for Nuclear 

Power Stations; 

g. Regulatory Guide 4.7, General Site 

Suitability Criteria for Nuclear Power 

Stations; 

h. Fact Sheet on Nuclear Power Plant 

Licensing Process; 

i. Regulatory 1.206, Combined License 

Applications for Nuclear Power Plants; 

and 

j. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

Policy Statement on the Treatment of 

Environmental Justice Matters in NRC 

Regulatory and Licensing Actions. 

The regulations, NUREG-series 

documents, regulatory guides, and the 

fact sheet can be found under Document 

Collections in the ERR on the NRC Web 

page. The environmental justice policy 

Statement can be found in the Federal 

Register, 69 FR 52040 August 24, 2004. 

This notice advises the public that the 

NRC intends to gather the information 

necessary to prepare an EIS in support 

of the review of the application for COL 

at the Callaway Plant Unit 2 site. 

Possible alternatives to the proposed 

action (issuance of the COL for the 

Callaway Plant Unit 2 site) include no 

action, reasonable alternative energy 

sources, and alternate sites. As set forth 

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in 10 CFR 51.20(b)(2), issuance of a COL 

under 10 CFR Part 52 is an action that 

requires an EIS. This notice is being 

published in accordance with NEPA 

and the NRC’s regulations found in 10 

CFR Part 51. 

The NRC will first conduct a scoping 

process for the EIS and immediately 

thereafter will prepare a draft EIS for 

public comment. Participation in this 

scoping process by members of the 

public, local, State, Tribal, and Federal 

government agencies is encouraged. The 

scoping process for the draft EIS will be 

used to accomplish the following: 

a. Define the proposed action that is 

to be the subject of the EIS; 

b. Determine the scope of the EIS and 

identify the significant issues to be 

analyzed in-depth; 

c. Identify and eliminate from 

detailed study those issues that are 

peripheral or that are not significant; 

d. Identify any environmental 

assessments and other EISs that are 

being or will be prepared that are 

related to but are not part of the scope 

of the EIS being considered; 

e. Identify other environmental 

review and consultation requirements 

related to the proposed action; 

f. Identify parties consulting with the 

NRC under the NHPA, as set forth in 36 

CFR 800.8(c)(1)(i); 

g. Indicate the relationship between 

the timing of the preparation of the 

environmental analyses and the 

Commission’s tentative planning and 

decisionmaking schedule; 

h. Identify any cooperating agencies 

and, as appropriate, allocate 

assignments for preparation and 

schedules for completing the EIS to the 

NRC and any cooperating agencies; and 

i. Describe how the EIS will be 

prepared, including any contractor 

assistance to be used. 

The NRC invites the following entities 

to participate in the scoping process: 

a. The applicant, AmerenUE; 

b. Any Federal agency that has 

jurisdiction by law or special expertise 

with respect to any environmental 

impact involved or that is authorized to 

develop and enforce relevant 

environmental standards; 

c. Affected State and local 

government agencies, including those 

authorized to develop and enforce 

relevant environmental standards, 

d. Any affected Indian tribe; 

e. Any person who requests or has 

requested an opportunity to participate 

in the scoping process; and 

f. Any person who intends to petition 

for leave to intervene. 

In accordance with 10 CFR 51.26, the 

scoping process for an EIS may include 

a public scoping meeting to help 

identify significant issues related to a 

proposed activity and to determine the 

scope of issues to be addressed in an 

EIS. The NRC will hold two identical 

public scoping meetings for the EIS 

regarding the AmerenUE COL 

application. The scoping meetings will 

be held at the Champ Auditorium in 

Westminster College, 501 Westminster 

Ave., Fulton, MO 65251, on Wednesday, 

February 18, 2009. The first meeting 

will convene at 1 p.m. and will continue 

until approximately 4 p.m. The second 

meeting will convene at 6 p.m. and will 

continue until approximately 9 p.m. 

The meetings will be transcribed and 

will include the following: (1) An 

overview by the NRC staff of the NEPA 

environmental review process (the 

proposed scope of the EIS) and the 

proposed review schedule; (2) the 

opportunity for interested government 

agencies, organizations, and individuals 

to submit comments or suggestions on 

the environmental issues or the 

proposed scope of the EIS. Additionally, 

the NRC staff will host informal 

discussions for one hour prior to the 

start of each public meeting. No formal 

comments on the proposed scope of the 

EIS will be accepted during the informal 

discussions. To be considered, 

comments must be provided either at 

the transcribed public meeting or in 

writing, as discussed below. 

Persons may register to attend or 

present oral comments at the meeting on 

the scope of the NEPA review by 

contacting Mr. Bruce Olson or Mr. John 

Fringer at 1–800–368–5642, extension 

3731 or 6208, respectively, or by e-mail 

to the NRC at Callaway.COLEIS@nrc.gov 

no later than February 11, 2009. 

Members of the public may also register 

to speak at the meeting prior to the start 

of the session. Individual oral comments 

may be limited by the time available, 

depending on the number of persons 

who register. Members of the public 

who have not registered may also have 

an opportunity to speak, if time permits. 

Public comments will be considered in 

the scoping process for the EIS. If 

special equipment or accommodations 

are needed to attend or present 

information at the public meeting, the 

need should be brought to Mr. Bruce 

Olson’s attention no later than February 

4, 2009, so that the NRC staff can 

determine whether the request can be 

accommodated. 

Members of the public may send 

written comments on the scope of the 

Callaway Plant Unit 2 COL 

environmental review to the Chief, 

Rulemaking, Directives and Editing 

Branch, Division of Administrative 

Services, Office of Administration, 

Mailstop TWB–05–B01M, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001, and should cite the 

publication date and page number of 

this Federal Register notice. To be 

considered in the scoping process, 

written comments must be postmarked 

or delivered by March 24, 2009. 

Electronic comments may be sent by email to the NRC at 

Callaway.COLEIS@nrc.gov. Electronic 

submissions must be sent no later than 

the comment period end date of March 

24, 2009, to be considered in the 

scoping process. Comments will be 

made available electronically and will 

be accessible through the NRC’s 

Electronic Reading Room link http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. 

Participation in the scoping process 

for the EIS does not entitle participants 

to become parties to the proceeding to 

which the EIS relates. A Notice of a 

hearing and opportunity to request leave 

to intervene in the proceeding on the 

application for COL will be published in 

a future Federal Register notice. 

At the conclusion of the scoping 

process, the NRC staff will prepare a 

concise summary of the determination 

and conclusions reached on the scope of 

the environmental review reached 

including the significant issues 

identified, and will send this summary 

to each participant in the scoping 

process for whom the staff has an 

address. The staff will then prepare and 

issue for comment the draft EIS, which 

will be the subject of a separate Federal 

Register notice and a separate public 

meeting. Copies of the draft EIS will be 

available for public inspection at the 

PDR through the above-mentioned 

address and one copy per request will 

be provided free of charge. After receipt 

and consideration of comments on the 

draft EIS, the NRC will prepare a final 

EIS, which will also be available to the 

public. 

Information about the proposed 

action, the EIS, and the scoping process 

may be obtained from Mr. Bruce Olson 

at U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Mail Stop T–6–D38M, Washington, DC 

20555–0001, or by phone at 301–415– 

3731, or by e-mail at 

bruce.olson@nrc.gov and from Mr. John 

Fringer at 301–415–6208 or by e-mail at 

john.fringer@nrc.gov. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 14th day 

of January 2009. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Scott Flanders, 

Director, Division of Site and Environmental 

Reviews, Office of New Reactors. 

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