[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 88 (Tuesday, May 7, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26662-26663]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-10790]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-446; NRC-2010-0206]


Draft Supplement to the Generic Environmental Impact Statement 
for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants; NextEra Energy Seabrook; 
Seabrook Station, Unit 1

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft supplemental generic environmental impact statement; 
supplement and request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is publishing a 
supplement to the draft plant-specific Supplement 46 to the Generic 
Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants 
(GEIS), NUREG-1437, regarding the renewal of operating license NPF-86 
for an additional 20 years of operation for Seabrook Station, Unit 1 
(Seabrook). The NRC will incorporate the contents of the supplement, 
and any comments received thereon, into the final plant-specific 
supplement to the GEIS for Seabrook. Seabrook is located 13 miles south 
of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Possible alternatives to the proposed 
action (license renewal) include no action and reasonable alternative 
energy sources.

DATES: Submit comments by June 30, 2013. Comments received after this 
date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC is 
able to assure consideration only for comments received on or before 
this date.

ADDRESSES: You may access information and comment submissions related 
to this document, which the NRC possesses and are publically available, 
by searching on http://www.regulations.gov under Docket ID NRC-2010-
0206. You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2010-0206. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-492-
3668; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact 
the individual(s) listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section 
of this document.
     Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Chief, Rules, 
Announcements, and Directives Branch (RADB), Office of Administration, 
Mail Stop: TWB-05-B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 
DC 20555-0001.
     Fax comments to: RADB at 301-492-3446.
    For additional direction on accessing information and submitting 
comments, see ``Accessing Information and Submitting Comments'' in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Lois James, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-3306; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Accessing Information and Submitting Comments

A. Accessing Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2010-0206 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may 
access information related to this document by any of the following 
methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2010-0206.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may access publicly available documents online in the NRC 
Library at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the 
search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and then select ``Begin Web-
based ADAMS Search.'' For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's 
public document room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-
4737, or by email to [email protected]. The supplement to the draft 
plant-specific Supplement 46 to the GEIS, NUREG-1437, can be found in 
ADAMS under Accession No. ML13113A174.
     NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public 
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
    In addition, a copy of the supplement to the draft plant-specific 
Supplement 46 to the GEIS is available to local residents near the site 
at the Seabrook Library located at 25 Liberty Street, Seabrook, NH 
03874, and at the Amesbury Public Library located at 149 Main Street, 
Amesbury, MA 01913.

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B. Submitting Comments

    Please include Docket ID NRC-2010-0206 in the subject line of your 
comment submission, in order to ensure that the NRC is able to make 
your comment submission available to the public in this docket.
    The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact 
information that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your 
comment submission. The NRC will post all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as enter the comment submissions into 
ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove 
identifying or contact information.
    If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons 
for submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to 
include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be 
publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should 
state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to 
remove such information before making the comment submissions available 
to the public or entering the comment submissions into ADAMS.

II. Discussion

    This supplement includes the NRC staff evaluation of revised 
information provided by NextEra pertaining to the severe accident 
mitigation alternatives (SAMA) analysis for Seabrook. In addition, this 
supplement updates the Uranium Fuel Cycle section in light of the June 
8, 2012, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit 
(New York v. NRC, 681 F.3d 471 (D.C. Cir. 2012)) decision to vacate the 
NRC's Waste Confidence Decision Rule (75 FR 81032, 75 FR 81037) and 
provides information on its analysis of new NEPA issues and associated 
environmental impact findings for license renewal. This supplement does 
not change the recommendation in Section 9.4 of the draft supplement 
issued in August 2011. In the August 2011 draft Supplement 46, the 
NRC's preliminary recommendation was that the adverse environmental 
impacts of license renewal for Seabrook Station, Unit 1, were not great 
enough to deny the option of license renewal for energy-planning 
decision makers.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of April 2013.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David J. Wrona,
Chief, Projects Branch 2, Division of License Renewal, Office of 
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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