[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 194 (Friday, October 7, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61104-61107]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-21919]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-250 and 50-251; NRC-2022-0172]
Notice of Intent To Conduct Scoping Process and Prepare
Environmental Impact Statement Florida Power & Light Company Turkey
Point Nuclear Generating Unit Nos. 3 and 4
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Subsequent license renewal application supplement; intent to
conduct scoping process and prepare environmental impact statement; and
request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has received
Environmental Report, Supplement 2, from Florida Power & Light Company
(FPL, the applicant), dated June 9, 2022, related to FPL's application
for subsequent license renewal (SLR) of Renewed Facility Operating
License Nos. DPR-31 and DPR-41 for Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Unit
Nos. 3 and 4 (Turkey Point). The NRC staff has determined that the
Environmental Report, Supplement 2, is acceptable for docketing, and
that the staff will prepare a supplement to its final supplemental
environmental impact statement (FSEIS) for Turkey Point subsequent
license renewal, i.e., NUREG-1437, Supplement 5, Second Renewal,
``Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear
Plants, Supplement 5, Second Renewal, Regarding Subsequent License
Renewal for Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Unit Nos. 3 and 4, Final
Report'' (October 2019). The subsequent renewed operating licenses
would authorize the applicant to operate Turkey Point for an additional
20 years beyond the period specified in each of the current licenses.
The current operating licenses for Turkey Point Unit Nos. 3 and 4
expire on July 19, 2032, and April 10, 2033, respectively. The NRC will
conduct a limited scoping process to gather information necessary to
prepare a supplement to its environmental impact statement (EIS) to
evaluate the environmental impacts of SLR of the operating licenses for
Turkey Point. The NRC is seeking public comment on the proper scope of
the EIS
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supplement to be prepared for this action.
DATES: Submit comments by November 7, 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 (https://www.regulations.gov).
Federal rulemaking website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2022-0172. Address
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 301-287-0624; email: [email protected]. For technical
questions, contact the individual listed in the For Further Information
Contact section of this document.
Email: Comments may be submitted to the NRC electronically
using the email address [email protected].
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, see ``Obtaining
Information'' in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this
document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lance Rakovan, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-2589; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2022-0172 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain
publicly available information related to this action using any of the
following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2022-0172.
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]. For the convenience of the reader,
instructions about obtaining materials referenced in this document are
provided in the ``Availability of Documents'' section.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents, by appointment, at the NRC's PDR, Room P1 B35, One White
Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. To make
an appointment to visit the PDR, please send an email to
[email protected] or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, between
8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET), Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
Public Library: A copy of the subsequent license renewal
report supplement for Turkey Point, is available for public review at
the Naranja Branch Library, 14850 SW 280 Street, Homestead, Florida
33032.
B. Submitting Comments
The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the
Federal rulemaking website (https://www.regulations.gov). Please
include Docket ID NRC-2022-0172 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
By letters dated January 30, 2018; February 9, 2018, February 16,
2018, March 1, 2018, and April 10, 2018, the NRC received an
application from FPL, filed pursuant to Section 103 of the Atomic
Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and Part 54 of title 10 of
the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ``Requirements for Renewal of
Operating Licenses for Nuclear Power Plants,'' to renew the operating
licenses for Turkey Point at 2,644 megawatt thermal each. The Turkey
Point nuclear units are located in Miami-Dade County, east of Florida
City, Florida. Each unit consists of a Westinghouse pressurized-water
reactor nuclear steam supply system. A notice of receipt of the
subsequent license renewal application (SLRA) was published in the
Federal Register on April 18, 2018 (83 FR 17196). A notice of
acceptance for docketing of the supplemented application and
opportunity for hearing regarding subsequent license renewal of the
facility operating licenses was published in the Federal Register on
May 2, 2018 (83 FR 19304).
On December 10, 2019 (84 FR 67482), notice was given that the NRC
had issued Subsequent Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-31
and DPR-41 to FPL. Subsequent Renewed Facility Operating License No.
DPR-31 authorized operation of Turkey Point Unit 3 through July 19,
2052, at reactor core power levels not in excess of 2,644 megawatts
thermal, in accordance with the provisions of the Turkey Point Unit 3
operating license and technical specifications. Subsequent Renewed
Facility Operating License No. DPR-41 authorized operation of Turkey
Point Unit 4 through April 10, 2053, at reactor core power levels not
in excess of 2,644 megawatts thermal, in accordance with the provisions
of the Turkey Point Unit 4 operating license and technical
specifications. The NRC's Record of Decision (ROD), which supported the
NRC's decision to issue Subsequent Renewed Facility Operating License
Nos. DPR-31 and DPR-41, is available in the following ``Availability of
the Documents'' table.
As discussed in the ROD and the FSEIS for Turkey Point SLR, the NRC
staff considered the reasonably foreseeable impacts of subsequent
license renewal for Turkey Point Units 3 and 4, as well as a range of
reasonable alternatives. In the FSEIS, the NRC staff (a) relied upon
the NRC's ``Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal
of Nuclear Plants,'' NUREG-1437 (June 2013) (the GEIS) and 10 CFR part
51, subpart A, Appendix B, Table B-1, to evaluate the environmental
impacts of generic (``Category 1'') issues, and (b) evaluated the
environmental impacts of site-specific (``Category 2'') issues. The
FSEIS documents the staff's environmental review, including the
determination that the adverse environmental impacts of subsequent
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license renewal for Turkey Point are not so great that preserving the
option of subsequent license renewal for energy-planning decisionmakers
would be unreasonable.
In the Commission's Memorandum and Order, CLI-22-02, dated February
24, 2022, the Commission reversed its previous decision that, when
considering the environmental impacts of subsequent license renewal,
the NRC staff may rely on the 2013 GEIS and 10 CFR part 51, subpart A,
Appendix B, Table B-1, to evaluate the environmental impacts of generic
``Category 1'' issues. Specifically, the Commission held that 10 CFR
51.53(c)(3) only applies to an initial license renewal applicant's
preparation of an environmental report and that the 2013 GEIS did not
address subsequent license renewal. As a result, the Commission
determined, among other things, that the NRC staff's environmental
review of the subsequent license renewal application for Turkey Point
Units 3 and 4 was incomplete. In a further Order (CLI-22-06) issued on
June 3, 2022, the Commission reaffirmed its determination that the
subsequently renewed operating licenses for Turkey Point Unit Nos. 3
and 4 be revised to expire on July 19, 2032, and April 10, 2033,
respectively.
Following the issuance of CLI-22-02, the NRC received an
Environmental Report, Supplement 2, from FPL, dated June 9, 2022, and
noticed in the Federal Register on July 26, 2022 (87 FR 44430), related
to the subsequent renewal of the operating licenses for Turkey Point.
By letter dated September 28, 2022, the NRC staff determined that FPL
had submitted sufficient information in accordance with 10 CFR 54.19,
54.21, 54.22, 54.23, 51.45, and 51.53(c), to enable the staff to
undertake a review of the environmental report supplement (the
supplement), and that the supplement is, therefore, acceptable for
docketing. The current Docket Nos. 50-250 and 50-251 for Renewed
Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-31 and DPR-41, respectively, will
be retained. The determination to accept the supplement for docketing
does not constitute a determination that a subsequent renewed operating
license should be issued and does not preclude the NRC staff from
requesting additional information as the review proceeds.
Given recent circumstances requiring the preparation of a
supplement to the previous FSEIS for subsequent license renewal for
Turkey Point Unit Nos. 3 and 4, the NRC staff will conduct a limited
scoping process associated with this action. Consistent with Commission
direction, the NRC staff intends to prepare a draft supplement to the
Turkey Point FSEIS for public comment, in which it will review all
applicable ``Category 1'' (generic) issues listed in the FSEIS at Table
4-1, for the purpose of making site-specific findings (e.g., SMALL,
MODERATE, LARGE) on those issues. The NRC staff also intends to review
``Category 2'' (site-specific) issues listed in the FSEIS at Table 4-2
for any significant new information that may have arisen following the
issuance of the FSEIS (i.e., October 2019) and will update the site-
specific analyses, as appropriate. Environmental scoping comments
should address matters that fit within these two categories; comments
that do not fit into these two categories will not be considered.
III. Request for Comment
This notice informs the public of the NRC's intention to prepare an
FSEIS supplement related to the subsequent license renewal application
and to provide the public an opportunity to participate in the
environmental scoping process, as defined in 10 CFR part 51,
``Environmental Protection Regulations for Domestic Licensing and
Related Regulatory Functions.''
Participation in the scoping process by members of the public and
local, State, Tribal, and Federal government agencies is encouraged.
The scoping process for the supplement to the FSEIS will be used to
accomplish the following:
a. Define the proposed action, which is to be the subject of the
supplement to the FSEIS, to the extent not addressed in the FSEIS;
b. Determine the scope of the supplement to the FSEIS and identify
the significant issues to be analyzed in depth;
c. Identify and eliminate from detailed study those issues that are
peripheral or are not significant; or were covered by a prior
environmental review;
d. Identify any environmental assessments and other EISs that are
being or will be prepared that are related to, but are not part of, the
scope of the supplement to the FSEIS being considered;
e. Identify other environmental review and consultation
requirements related to the proposed action;
f. Indicate the relationship between the timing of the preparation
of the environmental analyses and the Commission's tentative planning
and decisionmaking schedule;
g. Identify any cooperating agencies and, as appropriate, allocate
assignments for preparation and schedules for completing the supplement
to the FSEIS to the NRC and any cooperating agencies; and
h. Describe how the supplement to the FSEIS will be prepared,
including any contractor assistance to be used.
The NRC invites the following entities to participate in scoping:
a. The applicant, Florida Power & Light Company;
b. Any Federal agency that has jurisdiction by law or special
expertise with respect to any environmental impact involved or that is
authorized to develop and enforce relevant environmental standards;
c. Affected State and local government agencies, including those
authorized to develop and enforce relevant environmental standards;
d. Any affected Indian Tribe;
e. Any person who requests or has requested an opportunity to
participate in the scoping process; and
f. Any person who has petitioned or intends to petition for leave
to intervene.
Participation in the scoping process for the Turkey Point
subsequent license renewal supplement to the FSEIS does not entitle
participants to become parties to the proceeding to which the
supplement to the FSEIS relates. Matters related to participation in
any hearing are outside the scope of matters to be discussed.
IV. Availability of Documents
The documents identified in the following table are available to
interested persons through one or more of the following methods, as
indicated.
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Document description Adams Accession No.
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Subsequent License Renewal Application-- ML22160A301.
Appendix E Environmental Report
Supplement 2, dated June 9, 2022.
``Generic Environmental Impact ML19290H346.
Statement for License Renewal of
Nuclear Plants, Supplement 5, Second
Renewal, Regarding Subsequent License
Renewal for Turkey Point Nuclear
Generating Unit Nos. 3 and 4, Final
Report,'' dated October 2019.
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Turkey Point subsequent license renewal ML18037A812 (Package),
application and initial supplements. ML18044A653, ML18053A137,
ML18078A027, ML18072A230,
ML18072A232, ML18102A521,
ML18113A134, ML18113A141,
ML18113A142, ML18113A145,
ML18113A146, and ML18113A148.
NRC's Record of Decision pertaining to ML19309F859.
Subsequent Renewed Facility Operating
License Nos. DPR-31 and DPR-41, dated
December 4, 2019.
Commission Memorandum and Order CLI-22- ML22055A496.
02, dated February 24, 2022.
Commission Memorandum and Order CLI-22- ML22154A215.
06, dated June 3, 2022.
Letter to William D. Maher, Licensing ML22268A003.
Director, Nuclear Licensing Projects,
FPL--Turkey Point Units 3 and 4
Subsequent License Renewal Application
Supplement Environmental Review, dated
September 28, 2022.
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Dated: October 4, 2022.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John M. Moses,
Deputy Director, Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial
Support, Office of Nuclear Materials, Safety and Safeguards.
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