[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 214 (Tuesday, November 9, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62220-62221]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-24407]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-266 and 50-301; NRC-2020-0277]


NextEra Energy Point Beach, LLC; Point Beach Nuclear Plant, Units 
1 and 2

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 draft plant-specific Supplement 23, Second Renewal, to 
the Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) for License Renewal 
of Nuclear Plants, NUREG-1437, regarding the proposed subsequent 
renewal of Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-24 and DPR-27 
for an additional 20 years of operation for Point Beach Nuclear Plant, 
Units 1 and

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2 (Point Beach). The Point Beach facility is located on the western 
shore of Lake Michigan (approximately 15 miles NNE of Manitowoc, WI). 
Possible alternatives to the proposed action (subsequent license 
renewal) include no action and reasonable replacement power 
alternatives.

DATES: The staff will hold a public meeting through online webinar and 
teleconference call on the draft Supplemental Environmental Impact 
Statement (SEIS) in December, including a presentation on the 
preliminary findings and a transcribed public comment session. The 
public meeting details will be announced in the near future. Members of 
the public are invited to submit comments by January 3, 2022. Comments 
received after this date will be considered if it is practical to do 
so, but the NRC 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; 
however, the NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the 
Federal Rulemaking website:
     Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov/ and search for Docket ID NRC-2020-0277. Address 
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; 
telephone: 301-415-0624; email: [email protected]. For technical 
questions, contact the individual 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.
     Email comments to: [email protected].
    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: Phyllis M. Clark, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-6647; email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2020-0277 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information regarding this document. 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-2020-0277.
     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]. Draft plant-specific Supplement 23, 
Second Renewal, to the GEIS for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, 
NUREG-1437, is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML21306A226.
     Attention: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies 
of public documents, is currently closed. You may submit your request 
to the PDR via email at [email protected] or call 1-800-397-4209 or 
301-415-4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (ET), Monday through 
Friday, except Federal holidays.
     Project Website: Information related to the Point Beach 
second license renewal can be accessed on the NRC's Point Beach website 
at https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/applications/point-beach-subsequent.html. Under the section titled 
``Public Involvement,'' click on Draft EIS, NUREG-1437, Supplement 23, 
Second Renewal, Draft Report for Comment.
     Public Library: A copy of draft plant-specific Supplement 
23, Second Renewal, to the GEIS for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, 
NUREG-1437, is available at the following location (library access and 
hours are determined by local policy):
    [cir] Lester Public Library, 1001 Adams Street, Two Rivers, WI 
54241.

B. Submitting Comments

    The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the 
Federal Rulemaking website (https://www.regulations.gov). Please 
include Docket ID NRC-2020-0277 in your comment submission.
    The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact 
information in comment submissions that you do not want to be publicly 
disclosed. 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, 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 draft plant-specific 
Supplement 23, Second Renewal, to the GEIS for License Renewal of 
Nuclear Plants, NUREG-1437, regarding the proposed subsequent renewal 
of Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-24 and DPR-27 for an 
additional 20 years of operation for Point Beach. Draft plant-specific 
Supplement 23, Second Renewal, to the GEIS includes the preliminary 
analysis that evaluates the environmental impacts of the proposed 
action and alternatives to the proposed action. Based on the NRC 
staff's (i) review of the subsequent license renewal application, which 
includes the environmental report, supplemental documents, and the 
licensee's responses to the NRC staff's requests for additional 
information; (ii) consultation with Federal, State, Tribal, and local 
governmental agencies and consideration of input from other 
stakeholders; and (iii) independent review as documented in the 
assessments summarized in the draft SEIS, the NRC staff's preliminary 
recommendation is that the adverse environmental impacts of subsequent 
license renewal for Point Beach are not so great that preserving the 
option of subsequent license renewal for energy-planning decisionmakers 
would be unreasonable.

    Dated: November 3, 2021.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Robert B. Elliott,
Chief, Environmental Review License Renewal Branch, Division of 
Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards.
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