[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 236 (Monday, December 9, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67299-67300]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-26442]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2019-0226]


Agency Action Regarding the Exploratory Process for the 
Development of an Advanced Nuclear Reactor; Generic Environmental 
Impact Statement

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Gather information that would be used to determine whether to 
prepare a generic environmental impact statement for the construction 
and operation of advanced nuclear reactors; extension of comment 
period.

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SUMMARY: On November 15, 2019 and November 20, 2019, the U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission (NRC) held public meetings and solicited comments 
on the exploratory process to determine

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whether to proceed with the development of generic environmental impact 
statement for the construction and operation of advanced nuclear 
reactors (ANR GEIS). The public comment period was originally scheduled 
to close on December 31, 2019. The NRC has decided to extend the public 
comment period to allow more time for members of the public to develop 
and submit their comments. The NRC originally planned to hold a 
workshop on the exploratory process in December 2019. The workshop has 
been rescheduled for January 8, 2020. The meeting information will be 
posted on the NRC's public website.

DATES: The due date of comments requested in the document published on 
November 15, 2019 (84 FR 62599) is extended. Comments should be filed 
no later than January 24, 2019. 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. Workshop date rescheduled for January 8, 2020.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2019-0226. Address 
questions about NRC dockets IDs in Regulations.gov to Jennifer Borges; 
telephone: 301-287-9127; email: [email protected]. For technical 
questions, contact the individual(s) listed in the FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document.
     Mail comments to: Office of Administration, Mail Stop: 
TWFN-7-A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001, ATTN: Program Management, Announcements and Editing Staff.
    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: Jack Cushing, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards, telephone: 301-415-1424, email: 
[email protected] or Mallecia Sutton, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation, telephone: 301-415-0673, email: [email protected]. 
Both are staff of the 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-2019-0226 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 Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2019-0226.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the 
ADAMS Public Documents collection at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, 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 original notice was issued on 
November 15, 2019 and is available in ADAMS under Accession No. 
ML19302G126.
     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-2019-0226 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 
https://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. Discussion

    On November 15, 2019 (84 FR 62599), the NRC solicited comments on 
the exploratory process to determine whether to proceed with the 
development of generic environmental impact statement for the 
construction and operation of advanced nuclear reactors (ANR GEIS). The 
intent of an ANR GEIS is to improve the efficiency of the environmental 
review process. The public comment period was originally scheduled to 
close on December 31, 2019. The NRC has decided to extend the public 
comment period on this process until January 24, 2019, to allow more 
time for members of the public to submit their comments. The NRC is 
also rescheduling the workshop on the exploratory process from December 
2019 to January 8, 2020. The meeting information will be posted on the 
NRC's public website at https://www.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 4th day of December 2019.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Joseph P. Doub,
Acting Chief, Environmental Review New Reactors Branch, Division of 
Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards.
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