[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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