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Request for Scoping Comments Concerning the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Unit 2, Operating License Application Review
	ML092110475
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Site:	Watts Bar
Issue date:	09/10/2009
From:	Joel Wiebe; Division of Operating Reactor Licensing
To:	Allen R, Asbury A, Battise B, Bear J, Bucktrot E, Bucktrot G, Cole T, Coleman C, Dushane R, Howe T, Kaniatobe K, Larue-Stopp L, Nail V, Pryor B, Pyle G, Sparkman R, Strange L, Townsend R, Wallace G; Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town, Cherokee Nation, Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Kialegee Tribal Town, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Shawnee Tribe, Thlopthlocco Tribal Town, United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma
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September 10, 2009 Richard Allen, PhD, Policy Analyst and NAGPRA/Section 106 Review Contact Cherokee Nation P.O. Box 948 Tahlequah, OK 74465

SUBJECT:

WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT, UNIT 2, OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION REVIEW - ENVIRONMENTAL SCOPING

Dear Dr. Allen:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is reviewing an application submitted by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for an operating license for Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN),

Unit 2, located in Rhea County, Tennessee at the northern end of the Chickamauga Reservoir, Tennessee River Mile 528. The NRC is conducting a scoping process for preparing a Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement (FES) published in 1978. The Supplement to the FES will be prepared under Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC's regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. You are invited to participate in the scoping process.

The proposed action in response to the application is the issuance of an operating license that would authorize TVA to possess, use, and operate a second lightwater nuclear reactor, WBN Unit 2, located on the applicants site in Rhea County, Tennessee. Major buildings at the plant were completed prior to 1985 so the existing footprint of Unit 2 remains as almost originally planned.

The matters to be addressed in the supplement include evaluation of new and significant circumstances or information, relevant to environmental concerns that developed after the 1978 FES and a previous supplement to the FES published by the NRC in 1995. The NRC is notifying you that, in accordance with 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC intends to use the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) process for section 106 purposes.

The NRC staff plans to hold a public environmental scoping meeting on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. The scoping meeting will be held at the Magnuson Hotel at 1421 Murrays Chapel Road in Sweetwater, Tennessee, on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. There will be two sessions to accommodate interested parties. The first session will be at 1:30 p.m. and the second at 6:30 p.m.

You may send written comments on the environmental scope of the WBN Unit 2 operating license review to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives and Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, Mailstop T-6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555-0001. Electronic comments may be sent by e-mail to the NRC at RidsNrrPMWattsBar2.Resource@nrc.gov. Comments should be sent no later than October 30, 2009, to be considered in the scoping process. Comments will be available electronically and accessible through ADAMS at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/doloqin.htm. Because your comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions

R. Allen against including any information in your submission that you do not want to 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 their comments to remove any identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not include any information in their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed.

At the conclusion of the scoping process, the NRC staff will prepare a summary of the significant issues identified and the conclusions reached, and mail a copy to you.

The NRC is sending invitations to participate in the scoping process to the tribal contacts for the following federally recognized tribes: Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, United Keetoowah Band, The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee Tribe.

If you have any questions concerning the NRCs review of this operating license application, please contact me at 301-415-6606 or by e-mail at Joel.Wiebe@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Joel S. Wiebe, Senior Project Manager Watts Bar Special Projects Branch Division of Operating Reactor License Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-391

Enclosures:

1. Location of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

2. Transmission Line Corridors Associated with Watts Bar Nuclear Plant cc: Distribution via Listserv

September 10, 2009 Mr. Tyler Howe, Historic Preservation Specialist Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians 2877 Governors Island Road Bryson City, NC 28713

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR SCOPING COMMENTS CONCERNING THE WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 2 OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW

Dear Mr. Howe:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is reviewing an application submitted by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for an operating license for Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN),

Unit 2, located in Rhea County, Tennessee at the northern end of the Chickamauga Reservoir, Tennessee River Mile 528. The NRC is conducting a scoping process for preparing a Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement (FES) published in 1978. The Supplement to the FES will be prepared under Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC's regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. You are invited to participate in the scoping process.

The proposed action in response to the application is the issuance of an operating license that would authorize TVA to possess, use, and operate a second lightwater nuclear reactor, WBN Unit 2, located on the applicants site in Rhea County, Tennessee. Major buildings at the plant were completed prior to 1985 so the existing footprint of Unit 2 remains as almost originally planned.

The matters to be addressed in the supplement include evaluation of new and significant circumstances or information, relevant to environmental concerns that developed after the 1978 FES and a previous supplement to the FES published by the NRC in 1995. The NRC is notifying you that, in accordance with 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC intends to use the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) process for section 106 purposes.

The NRC staff plans to hold a public environmental scoping meeting on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. The scoping meeting will be held at the Magnuson Hotel at 1421 Murrays Chapel Road in Sweetwater, Tennessee, on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. There will be two sessions to accommodate interested parties. The first session will be at 1:30 p.m. and the second at 6:30 p.m.

You may send written comments on the environmental scope of the WBN Unit 2 operating license review to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives and Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, Mailstop T-6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555-0001. Electronic comments may be sent by e-mail to the NRC at RidsNrrPMWattsBar2.Resource@nrc.gov. Comments should be sent no later than October 30, 2009, to be considered in the scoping process. Comments will be available electronically and

T. Howe accessible through ADAMS at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/doloqin.htm. Because your comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions against including any information in your submission that you do not want to 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 their comments to remove any identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not include any information in their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed.

At the conclusion of the scoping process, the NRC staff will prepare a summary of the significant issues identified and the conclusions reached, and mail a copy to you.

The NRC is sending invitations to participate in the scoping process to the tribal contacts for the following federally recognized tribes: Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, United Keetoowah Band, The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee Tribe.

If you have any questions concerning the NRCs review of this operating license application, please contact me at 301-415-6606 or by e-mail at Joel.Wiebe@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Joel S. Wiebe, Senior Project Manager Watts Bar Special Projects Branch Division of Operating Reactor License Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-391

Enclosures:

1. Location of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

2. Transmission Line Corridors Associated with Watts Bar Nuclear Plant cc: Distribution via Listserv

September 10, 2009 Mr. Russ Townsend, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians 2877 Governors Island Road Bryson City, NC 28713

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR SCOPING COMMENTS CONCERNING THE WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 2 OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW

Dear Mr. Townsend:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is reviewing an application submitted by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for an operating license for Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN),

Unit 2, located in Rhea County, Tennessee at the northern end of the Chickamauga Reservoir, Tennessee River Mile 528. The NRC is conducting a scoping process for preparing a Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement (FES) published in 1978. The Supplement to the FES will be prepared under Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC's regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. You are invited to participate in the scoping process.

The proposed action in response to the application is the issuance of an operating license that would authorize TVA to possess, use, and operate a second lightwater nuclear reactor, WBN Unit 2, located on the applicants site in Rhea County, Tennessee. Major buildings at the plant were completed prior to 1985 so the existing footprint of Unit 2 remains as almost originally planned.

The matters to be addressed in the supplement include evaluation of new and significant circumstances or information, relevant to environmental concerns that developed after the 1978 FES and a previous supplement to the FES published by the NRC in 1995. The NRC is notifying you that, in accordance with 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC intends to use the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) process for section 106 purposes.

The NRC staff plans to hold a public environmental scoping meeting on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. The scoping meeting will be held at the Magnuson Hotel at 1421 Murrays Chapel Road in Sweetwater, Tennessee, on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. There will be two sessions to accommodate interested parties. The first session will be at 1:30 p.m. and the second at 6:30 p.m.

You may send written comments on the environmental scope of the WBN Unit 2 operating license review to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives and Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, Mailstop T-6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555-0001. Electronic comments may be sent by e-mail to the NRC at RidsNrrPMWattsBar2.Resource@nrc.gov. Comments should be sent no later than October 30, 2009, to be considered in the scoping process. Comments will be available electronically and

R. Townsend accessible through ADAMS at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/doloqin.htm. Because your comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions against including any information in your submission that you do not want to 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 their comments to remove any identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not include any information in their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed.

At the conclusion of the scoping process, the NRC staff will prepare a summary of the significant issues identified and the conclusions reached, and mail a copy to you.

The NRC is sending invitations to participate in the scoping process to the tribal contacts for the following federally recognized tribes: Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, United Keetoowah Band, The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee Tribe.

If you have any questions concerning the NRCs review of this operating license application, please contact me at 301-415-6606 or by e-mail at Joel.Wiebe@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Joel S. Wiebe, Senior Project Manager Watts Bar Special Projects Branch Division of Operating Reactor License Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-391

Enclosures:

1. Location of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

2. Transmission Line Corridors Associated with Watts Bar Nuclear Plant cc: Distribution via Listserv

September 10, 2009 Ms. Lisa Larue-Stopp, Acting Tribal Historic Preservation Officer United Keetoowah Band Headquarters PO Box 746 Tahlequah, OK 74465

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR SCOPING COMMENTS CONCERNING THE WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 2 OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW

Dear Ms. Larue-Stopp:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is reviewing an application submitted by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for an operating license for Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN),

Unit 2, located in Rhea County, Tennessee at the northern end of the Chickamauga Reservoir, Tennessee River Mile 528. The NRC is conducting a scoping process for preparing a Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement (FES) published in 1978. The Supplement to the FES will be prepared under Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC's regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. You are invited to participate in the scoping process.

The proposed action in response to the application is the issuance of an operating license that would authorize TVA to possess, use, and operate a second lightwater nuclear reactor, WBN Unit 2, located on the applicants site in Rhea County, Tennessee. Major buildings at the plant were completed prior to 1985 so the existing footprint of Unit 2 remains as almost originally planned.

The matters to be addressed in the supplement include evaluation of new and significant circumstances or information, relevant to environmental concerns that developed after the 1978 FES and a previous supplement to the FES published by the NRC in 1995. The NRC is notifying you that, in accordance with 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC intends to use the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) process for section 106 purposes.

The NRC staff plans to hold a public environmental scoping meeting on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. The scoping meeting will be held at the Magnuson Hotel at 1421 Murrays Chapel Road in Sweetwater, Tennessee, on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. There will be two sessions to accommodate interested parties. The first session will be at 1:30 p.m. and the second at 6:30 p.m.

You may send written comments on the environmental scope of the WBN Unit 2 operating license review to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives and Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, Mailstop T-6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555-0001. Electronic comments may be sent by e-mail to the NRC at RidsNrrPMWattsBar2.Resource@nrc.gov. Comments should be sent no later than October 30, 2009, to be considered in the scoping process. Comments will be available electronically and

L. Larue-Stopp accessible through ADAMS at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/doloqin.htm. Because your comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions against including any information in your submission that you do not want to 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 their comments to remove any identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not include any information in their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed.

At the conclusion of the scoping process, the NRC staff will prepare a summary of the significant issues identified and the conclusions reached, and mail a copy to you.

The NRC is sending invitations to participate in the scoping process to the tribal contacts for the following federally recognized tribes: Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, United Keetoowah Band, The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee Tribe.

If you have any questions concerning the NRCs review of this operating license application, please contact me at 301-415-6606 or by e-mail at Joel.Wiebe@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Joel S. Wiebe, Senior Project Manager Watts Bar Special Projects Branch Division of Operating Reactor License Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-391

Enclosures:

1. Location of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

2. Transmission Line Corridors Associated with Watts Bar Nuclear Plant cc: Distribution via Listserv

September 10, 2009 Ms. Virginia (Gingy) Nail, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer The Chickasaw Nation, Cultural Resources Department 2020 Arlington, Suite 4 PO Box 1548 Ada, OK 74821-1548

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR SCOPING COMMENTS CONCERNING THE WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 2 OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW

Dear Ms. Nail:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is reviewing an application submitted by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for an operating license for Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN),

Unit 2, located in Rhea County, Tennessee at the northern end of the Chickamauga Reservoir, Tennessee River Mile 528. The NRC is conducting a scoping process for preparing a Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement (FES) published in 1978. The Supplement to the FES will be prepared under Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC's regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. You are invited to participate in the scoping process.

The proposed action in response to the application is the issuance of an operating license that would authorize TVA to possess, use, and operate a second lightwater nuclear reactor, WBN Unit 2, located on the applicants site in Rhea County, Tennessee. Major buildings at the plant were completed prior to 1985 so the existing footprint of Unit 2 remains as almost originally planned.

The matters to be addressed in the supplement include evaluation of new and significant circumstances or information, relevant to environmental concerns that developed after the 1978 FES and a previous supplement to the FES published by the NRC in 1995. The NRC is notifying you that, in accordance with 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC intends to use the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) process for section 106 purposes.

The NRC staff plans to hold a public environmental scoping meeting on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. The scoping meeting will be held at the Magnuson Hotel at 1421 Murrays Chapel Road in Sweetwater, Tennessee, on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. There will be two sessions to accommodate interested parties. The first session will be at 1:30 p.m. and the second at 6:30 p.m.

You may send written comments on the environmental scope of the WBN Unit 2 operating license review to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives and Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, Mailstop T-6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555-0001. Electronic comments may be sent by e-mail to the NRC at

RidsNrrPMWattsBar2.Resource@nrc.gov. Comments should be sent no later than October 30, 2009, to be considered in the scoping process. Comments will be available electronically and accessible through ADAMS at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/doloqin.htm. Because your comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions against including any information in your submission that you do not want to 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 their comments to remove any identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not include any information in their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed.

At the conclusion of the scoping process, the NRC staff will prepare a summary of the significant issues identified and the conclusions reached, and mail a copy to you.

The NRC is sending invitations to participate in the scoping process to the tribal contacts for the following federally recognized tribes: Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, United Keetoowah Band, The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee Tribe.

If you have any questions concerning the NRCs review of this operating license application, please contact me at 301-415-6606 or by e-mail at Joel.Wiebe@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Joel S. Wiebe, Senior Project Manager Watts Bar Special Projects Branch Division of Operating Reactor License Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-391

Enclosures:

1. Location of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

2. Transmission Line Corridors Associated with Watts Bar Nuclear Plant cc: Distribution via Listserv

September 10, 2009 Mr. Terry Cole, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer & NAGPRA Program Coordinator, Cultural Resources Director Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma PO Box 1210 Durant, OK 74702-1210

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR SCOPING COMMENTS CONCERNING THE WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 2 OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW

Dear Mr. Cole:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is reviewing an application submitted by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for an operating license for Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN),

Unit 2, located in Rhea County, Tennessee at the northern end of the Chickamauga Reservoir, Tennessee River Mile 528. The NRC is conducting a scoping process for preparing a Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement (FES) published in 1978. The Supplement to the FES will be prepared under Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC's regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. You are invited to participate in the scoping process.

The proposed action in response to the application is the issuance of an operating license that would authorize TVA to possess, use, and operate a second lightwater nuclear reactor, WBN Unit 2, located on the applicants site in Rhea County, Tennessee. Major buildings at the plant were completed prior to 1985 so the existing footprint of Unit 2 remains as almost originally planned.

The matters to be addressed in the supplement include evaluation of new and significant circumstances or information, relevant to environmental concerns that developed after the 1978 FES and a previous supplement to the FES published by the NRC in 1995. The NRC is notifying you that, in accordance with 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC intends to use the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) process for section 106 purposes.

The NRC staff plans to hold a public environmental scoping meeting on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. The scoping meeting will be held at the Magnuson Hotel at 1421 Murrays Chapel Road in Sweetwater, Tennessee, on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. There will be two sessions to accommodate interested parties. The first session will be at 1:30 p.m. and the second at 6:30 p.m.

You may send written comments on the environmental scope of the WBN Unit 2 operating license review to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives and Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, Mailstop T-6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555-0001. Electronic comments may be sent by e-mail to the NRC at RidsNrrPMWattsBar2.Resource@nrc.gov. Comments should be sent no later than October 30,

2009, to be considered in the scoping process. Comments will be available electronically and accessible through ADAMS at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/doloqin.htm. Because your comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions against including any information in your submission that you do not want to 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 their comments to remove any identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not include any information in their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed.

At the conclusion of the scoping process, the NRC staff will prepare a summary of the significant issues identified and the conclusions reached, and mail a copy to you.

The NRC is sending invitations to participate in the scoping process to the tribal contacts for the following federally recognized tribes: Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, United Keetoowah Band, The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee Tribe.

If you have any questions concerning the NRCs review of this operating license application, please contact me at 301-415-6606 or by e-mail at Joel.Wiebe@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Joel S. Wiebe, Senior Project Manager Watts Bar Special Projects Branch Division of Operating Reactor License Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-391

Enclosures:

1. Location of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

2. Transmission Line Corridors Associated with Watts Bar Nuclear Plant cc: Distribution via Listserv

September 10, 2009 Chief Gregory E. Pyle Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma PO Box 1210 Durant, OK 74702-1210

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR SCOPING COMMENTS CONCERNING THE WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 2 OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW

Dear Chief Pyle:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is reviewing an application submitted by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for an operating license for Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN),

Unit 2, located in Rhea County, Tennessee at the northern end of the Chickamauga Reservoir, Tennessee River Mile 528. The NRC is conducting a scoping process for preparing a Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement (FES) published in 1978. The Supplement to the FES will be prepared under Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC's regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. You are invited to participate in the scoping process.

The proposed action in response to the application is the issuance of an operating license that would authorize TVA to possess, use, and operate a second lightwater nuclear reactor, WBN Unit 2, located on the applicants site in Rhea County, Tennessee. Major buildings at the plant were completed prior to 1985 so the existing footprint of Unit 2 remains as almost originally planned.

The matters to be addressed in the supplement include evaluation of new and significant circumstances or information, relevant to environmental concerns that developed after the 1978 FES and a previous supplement to the FES published by the NRC in 1995. The NRC is notifying you that, in accordance with 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC intends to use the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) process for section 106 purposes.

The NRC staff plans to hold a public environmental scoping meeting on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. The scoping meeting will be held at the Magnuson Hotel at 1421 Murrays Chapel Road in Sweetwater, Tennessee, on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. There will be two sessions to accommodate interested parties. The first session will be at 1:30 p.m. and the second at 6:30 p.m.

You may send written comments on the environmental scope of the WBN Unit 2 operating license review to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives and Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, Mailstop T-6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555-0001. Electronic comments may be sent by e-mail to the NRC at RidsNrrPMWattsBar2.Resource@nrc.gov. Comments should be sent no later than October 30, 2009, to be considered in the scoping process. Comments will be available electronically and

accessible through ADAMS at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/doloqin.htm. Because your comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions against including any information in your submission that you do not want to 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 their comments to remove any identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not include any information in their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed.

At the conclusion of the scoping process, the NRC staff will prepare a summary of the significant issues identified and the conclusions reached, and mail a copy to you.

The NRC is sending invitations to participate in the scoping process to the tribal contacts for the following federally recognized tribes: Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, United Keetoowah Band, The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee Tribe.

If you have any questions concerning the NRCs review of this operating license application, please contact me at 301-415-6606 or by e-mail at Joel.Wiebe@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Joel S. Wiebe, Senior Project Manager Watts Bar Special Projects Branch Division of Operating Reactor License Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-391

Enclosures:

1. Location of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

2. Transmission Line Corridors Associated with Watts Bar Nuclear Plant cc: Distribution via Listserv

September 10, 2009 Ms. Lillie Strange, Environmental Director Jena Band of Choctaw Indians PO Box 14 Jena, LA 71432

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR SCOPING COMMENTS CONCERNING THE WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 2 OPERATING LICENSE APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW

Dear Ms. Strange: