[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 81 (Thursday, April 26, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18354-18356]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-08714]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 52-047; NRC-2016-0119]
Early Site Permit Application: Tennessee Valley Authority; Clinch
River Nuclear Site
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft environmental impact statement; public meetings and
request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers (USACE), Nashville
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District, are issuing for public comment NUREG-2226, ``Environmental
Impact Statement for the Early Site Permit (ESP) for the Clinch River
Nuclear (CRN) Site: Draft Report for Comment.'' The site is located in
Roane County, Tennessee, along the Clinch River, approximately 25 miles
west-southwest of downtown Knoxville, Tennessee. The purposes of this
notice are to inform the public that the NRC staff has issued a draft
environmental impact statement (DEIS) as part of the review of the
application for the ESP and to provide the public with an opportunity
to comment on the DEIS process as defined in the regulations.
DATES: Submit comments by July 10, 2018. 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 on or before
this date. The DEIS public meetings will be held on June 5, 2018.
ADDRESSES: In addition to the public meetings for comment (described
below), you may submit comment by any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2016-0119. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer Borges; telephone: 301-287-
9127; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individuals listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section
of this document.
NRC Project Email Address: Electronic comments may be sent
by email to the NRC at [email protected].
Mail comments to: May Ma, Office of Administration, Mail
Stop: TWFN-07-A60, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001.
For additional direction on accessing information and submitting
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patricia Vokoun, telephone: 301-415-
3470, email: [email protected]; or Tamsen Dozier, telephone: 301-
415-2272, email: [email protected]. Both are staff members of the
Office of New Reactors, 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-2016-0119 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may
obtain publicly-available information related to this action by the
following methods:
Federal Rulemaking website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2016-0119.
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. In addition, for the convenience of
the reader, the ADAMS accession numbers are provided in a table in the
section of this notice entitled Availability of Documents.
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.
Project website: Go to https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/esp/clinch-river.html.
Local Libraries: You may examine copies of public
documents at the Oak Ridge Public Library, 1401 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Oak
Ridge, Tennessee, and the Kingston Public Library, 1004 Bradford Way,
Kingston, Tennessee.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC-2016-0119 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 received through
the Federal Rulemaking website (http://www.regulations.gov) in the
Regulations.gov docket (NRC-2016-0119), and will also enter the comment
submissions into ADAMS. Comments submitted through the NRC project
email address will be processed into ADAMS, and all comments will be
compiled and addressed in Appendix E of the final EIS. 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. Introduction
Pursuant to part 52 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations
(10 CFR), on May 12, 2016, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) submitted
an application for an ESP for the Clinch River Nuclear Site, located on
approximately 935 acres in Roane County, Tennessee, along the Clinch
River, approximately 25 miles west-southwest of downtown Knoxville,
Tennessee.
III. Further Information
A notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement
(EIS) and to conduct scoping process was published in the Federal
Register on April 13, 2017 (82 FR 17885). A notice of receipt and
availability of the application, including the environmental report
(ER), was published in the Federal Register on June 23, 2016 (81 FR
40929). A notice of acceptance for docketing of the application for the
ESP was published in the Federal Register on January 12, 2017 (82 FR
3812). A notice of hearing and opportunity to petition for leave to
intervene in the proceeding on the application was published in the
Federal Register on April 4, 2017 (82 FR 16436).
The purposes of this notice are to inform the public that the NRC
staff has issued a DEIS as part of the review of the application for
the ESP and to provide the public with an opportunity to provide
comments. As set forth in 10 CFR 51.20(b)(1), issuance of an ESP under
10 CFR part 52 is an action that requires an EIS. This notice is being
published in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of
1969, as amended (NEPA) and the NRC's regulations in 10 CFR part 51.
In addition, as outlined in 36 CFR 800.8(c), ``Coordination with
the National Environmental Policy Act,'' the NRC staff has been
coordinating
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compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act
(NHPA) with steps taken to meet the requirements of the NEPA. Pursuant
to 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC staff used 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 on 36 CFR
800.3 through 800.6.
In accordance with 10 CFR 51.45 and 51.50, TVA submitted the
environmental ER as part of the application; the ER is available in
ADAMS under Accession No. ML16144A145.
III. Availability of Documents
The DEIS is available in ADAMS under Accession Nos. ML18100A220 and
ML18100A223. The following table indicates how the key reference
documents related to the application and the NRC staff's review
processes may be accessed.
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Document title ADAMS accession No. or website
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10 CFR part 51, ``Environmental https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
Protection Regulations for Domestic doc-collections/cfr/part051/.
Licensing and Related Regulatory
Function''.
10 CFR part 52, ``Licenses, https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
Certifications, and Approvals for doc-collections/cfr/part052/.
Nuclear Power Plants''.
10 CFR part 100, ``Reactor Site https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
Criteria''. doc-collections/cfr/part100/.
NUREG-1555, ``Standard Review Plans for https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
Environmental Reviews for Nuclear doc-collections/nuregs/staff/
Power Plants''. sr1555/.
NUREG/BR-0298, ``Brochure on Nuclear https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
Power Plant Licensing Process''. doc-collections/nuregs/
brochures/br0298/.
Regulatory Guide 4.2, ``Preparation of ML13067A354.
Environmental Reports for Nuclear
Power Stations (Supplement 1)''.
Regulatory Guide 4.7, ``General Site ML12188A053.
Suitability Criteria for Nuclear Power
Stations''.
Fact Sheet on Nuclear Power Plant https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
Licensing Process. doc-collections/fact-sheets/
licensing-process-fs.html.
Regulatory Guide 1.206, ``Combined https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
License Applications for Nuclear Power doc-collections/reg-guides/
Plants''. power-reactors/rg/01-206/.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Policy https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/
Statement on the Treatment of FR-2004-08-24/pdf/04-
Environmental Justice Matters in NRC 19305.pdf.
Regulatory and Licensing Actions.
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The NRC may post materials related to this document, including
public comments, on the Federal Rulemaking website at http://www.regulations.gov under Docket ID NRC-2016-0119. The Federal
Rulemaking website allows you to receive alerts when changes or
additions occur in a docket folder. To subscribe: (1) Navigate to the
docket folder (NRC-2016-0119); (2) click the ``Sign up for Email
Alerts'' link; and (3) enter your email address and select how
frequently you would like to receive emails (daily, weekly, or
monthly).
IV. Public Meetings for Comment
The NRC and the USACE staff will hold two identical public meetings
to present a brief overview of the DEIS and to accept public comments
on the document. The meetings will be held at Noah's Event Venue, 1200
Ladd Landing Blvd., Kingston, Tennessee, on June 5, 2018. The first
meeting will convene at 2:00 p.m. and will continue until approximately
4:00 p.m. The second meeting will convene at 7:00 p.m., with a
repetition of the overview portions of the first meeting, and will
continue until approximately 9:00 p.m. The meetings will be transcribed
and will include the following:
(1) A brief presentation of the contents of the DEIS; and
(2) the opportunity for interested government agencies,
organizations, and individuals to submit comments on the draft report.
Additionally, the NRC staff will host informal discussions for 1
hour prior to the start of each public meeting. No formal comments will
be accepted during the informal discussions. To be considered, comments
must be provided either at a transcribed public meeting or in writing,
as discussed below.
Persons may register to attend or present oral comments at the
meeting on the DEIS by contacting Ms. Patricia Vokoun by telephone at
1-800-368-5642, extension 3470, or by email to the NRC at
[email protected] no later than May 30, 2018. Members of the
public may also register to speak at the meeting prior to the start of
the presentation. 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
preparation of the final EIS. If special equipment or accommodations
are needed to attend or present information at the public meeting, the
need should be brought to Ms. Vokoun's attention no later than May 29,
2018, so that the NRC staff can determine whether the request can be
accommodated.
After receipt and consideration of comments on the DEIS, the NRC
will prepare and issue the final EIS, which will also be available to
the public.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day of April 2018.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Anna H. Bradford,
Deputy Director, Division of New Reactor Licensing, Office of New
Reactors.
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