[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 249 (Tuesday, December 29, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 81377-81378]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-32777]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-247 and 50-286; NRC-2008-0672]


Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.; Indian Point Nuclear Generating 
Unit Nos. 2 and 3

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for 
public comment a draft supplement to Supplement 38 to the Generic 
Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Power 
Plants (GEIS), NUREG-1437, regarding the renewal of operating licenses 
DPR-26 and DPR-64, held by Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. (Entergy), 
for the operation of Indian Point Nuclear Generating Unit Nos. 2 and 3 
(IP2 and IP3), for an additional 20 years of operation. Units IP2 and 
IP3 are located in Westchester County in the Village of Buchanan, New 
York, approximately 24 miles north of New York City.

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DATES: Submit comments by March 4, 2016. Comments received after this 
date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the Commission 
is able to ensure consideration only for comments received 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-2008-0672. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; 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: OWFN-12-H08, 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: Michael Wentzel, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-6459, email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2008-0672 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain 
publicly-available information related to this action by any of the 
following methods:
     Federal rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2008-0672.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may obtain 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 (if it is available 
in ADAMS) is provided the first time that it is mentioned in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section.
     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-2008-0672 in your comment submission.
    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 into ADAMS.

II. Background

    The NRC is issuing for public comment a draft supplement to 
Supplement 38 to the GEIS, NUREG-1437 (ADAMS No. ML15351A422), 
regarding the renewal of operating licenses DPR-26 and DPR-64, held by 
Entergy for the operation of IP2 and IP3, for an additional 20 years of 
operation. Units IP2 and IP3 are located in Westchester County in the 
Village of Buchanan, New York, approximately 24 miles north of New York 
City. The NRC staff published final plant-specific Supplement 38 to 
NUREG-1437 (final supplemental environmental impact statement (FSEIS)), 
Volumes 1-3 (ADAMS No. ML103360205), in December 2010 (75 FR 77920). 
The FSEIS documented the NRC staff's findings relative to the 
environmental impacts of the license renewal of IP2 and IP3. In June 
2013 (78 FR 39018), the NRC staff published a final supplement to 2010 
FSEIS as NUREG-1437, Supplement 38, Volume 4 (ADAMS No. ML13170A028). 
The June 2013 supplement updated the NRC staff's final analysis to 
include corrections to impingement and entrainment data presented in 
the FSEIS; revised conclusions on thermal impacts based on newly 
available thermal plume studies; and provided an update of the status 
of the NRC's consultation, under section 7 of the Endangered Species 
Act of 1973, as amended, with the National Marine Fisheries Service 
regarding the shortnose sturgeon and Atlantic sturgeon.
    On September 2, 2014 (79 FR 52059), the NRC notified the public of 
its intent to prepare a second supplement to the FSEIS to evaluate new 
information identified subsequent to the publication of the June 2013 
supplement, including new aquatic impact data, refined cost estimates 
associated with the licensee's severe accident mitigation alternatives 
analysis, and other matters. This draft supplement, published as Volume 
5 of the FSEIS, documents the NRC staff's evaluation of the new 
information.
    Documents related to this notice are available on the NRC's Plant 
Application for License Renewal Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/applications/indian-point.html. A 
copy of documents related to this notice also will be available to 
local residents near the site at the White Plains Public Library 
located at 100 Martine Avenue, White Plains, NY 10601; at the Hendrick 
Hudson Free Library located at 185 Kings Ferry Road, Montrose, NY 
10548; and at the Field Library located at 4 Nelson Avenue, Peekskill, 
NY 10566.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 21st day of December 2015.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
James G. Danna,
Chief, Projects Branch 2, Division of License Renewal, Office of 
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2015-32777 Filed 12-28-15; 8:45 am]
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