[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 154 (Monday, August 11, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46878-46880]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-18966]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-327 and 50-328; NRC-2013-0037]
License Renewal Application for Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, Units 1
and 2
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft supplemental generic environmental impact statement;
issuance; public meetings; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for
public comment a draft plant-specific supplement 53 to the Generic
Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) for License Renewal of Nuclear
Plants, NUREG-1437, regarding the renewal of operating license DPR-77
and DPR-79 for an additional 20 years of operation
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for Sequoyah Nuclear Plant (SQN), Units 1 and 2. SQN is located in
Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee. Possible alternatives to the proposed action
(license renewal) include no action and reasonable alternative energy
sources. The NRC staff plans to hold two public meetings during the
public comment period to present an overview of the draft plant-
specific supplement to the GEIS and to accept public comments on the
document.
DATES: Submit comments by September 29, 2014. Comments received after
this date will be considered, if it is practical to do so, but the NRC
staff is able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or
before this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods
(unless this document describes a different method for submitting
comments on a specific subject):
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0037. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-
3422; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this document.
Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration,
Mail Stop: 3WFN-06-A44M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001.
For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Drucker, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301-415-6223, email to
[email protected]; U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2013-0037 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may
obtain publicly-available 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-2013-0037.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may access publicly available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection 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
ADAMS accession number for each document referenced in this document
(if that document is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time
that a document is referenced. The draft plant-specific supplement 53
to the GEIS for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, NUREG-1437, is
available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML14211A454.
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.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC-2013-0037 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 in comment submissions 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, and 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 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 into ADAMS.
II. Discussion
The NRC is issuing for public comment a draft plant-specific
supplement 53 to the GEIS for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, NUREG-
1437, regarding the renewal of operating license DPR-77 and DPR-79 for
an additional 20 years of operation for SQN. Supplement 53 to the GEIS
includes the preliminary analysis that evaluates the environmental
impacts of the proposed action and alternatives to the proposed action.
The NRC's preliminary recommendation is that the adverse environmental
impacts of license renewal for SQN are not great enough to deny the
option of license renewal for energy-planning decisionmakers.
III. Public Meetings
The NRC staff will hold public meetings prior to the close of the
public comment period to present an overview of the draft plant-
specific supplement to the GEIS and to accept public comment on the
document. Two meetings will be held at the Soddy-Daisy City Hall, 9835
Dayton Pike, Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee, 37379, on Wednesday, September 17,
2014. The first session will convene at 2:00 p.m. and will continue
until 4:00 p.m., as necessary. The second session will convene at 7:00
p.m. and will continue until 9:00 p.m., as necessary. The meetings will
be transcribed and will include: (1) A presentation of the contents of
the draft plant-specific supplement to the GEIS; and (2) the
opportunity for interested government agencies, organizations, and
individuals to provide comments on the draft report. Additionally, the
NRC staff will host informal discussions one hour prior to the start of
each session at the same location. No comments on the draft supplement
to the GEIS will be accepted during the informal discussions. To be
considered, comments must be provided either at the transcribed public
meeting or in writing. Persons may pre-register to attend or present
oral comments at the meeting by contacting Mr. David Drucker, the NRC
environmental project manager, at 1-800-368-5642, extension 6223, or by
email at [email protected] no later than Wednesday, September 3,
2014. Members of the public may also register to provide oral comments
within 15 minutes of the start of each session. Individual oral
comments may be limited by the time available, depending on the number
of persons who register. If special equipment or accommodations are
needed to attend or present information at the public meeting, the need
should be brought to Mr. Drucker's attention no later than Wednesday,
September 3, 2014, to provide the NRC staff adequate notice to
determine whether the request can be accommodated.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 1st day of August, 2014.
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For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brian D. Wittick,
Chief, Projects Branch 2, Division of License Renewal, Office of
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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