[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 94 (Friday, May 16, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21082-21083]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-08802]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-395; NRC-2023-0152]
Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc.; Virgil C. Summer Nuclear
Station, Unit 1; Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has published a
final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS), issued as
NUREG-1437, Supplement 15, Second Renewal, to the Generic Environmental
Impact Statement (GEIS) for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, Final
Report, regarding the subsequent renewal of Renewed Facility Operating
License No. NPF-12 for an additional 20 years for Virgil C. Summer
Nuclear Station, Unit 1 (V.C. Summer). V.C. Summer is located in
Fairfield County, South Carolina. Possible alternatives to the proposed
action of license renewal for V.C. Summer were evaluated and included
the no-action alternative and reasonable replacement power
alternatives.
DATES: NUREG-1437, Supplement 15, Second Renewal, to the GEIS for
License Renewal of Nuclear Plants is available as of May 8, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2023-0152 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You
may obtain publicly available information related to this document
using any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2023-0152. Address
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Bridget Curran;
telephone: 301-415-1003; email: [email protected]. For technical
questions contact the individual listed in the For Further Information
Contact section of this document.
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, at 301-415-4737,
or by email to [email protected]. NUREG-1437, Supplement 15, Second
Renewal, is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML25128A160.
NRC's PDR: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies
of publicly available documents, is open by appointment. 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
a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern time (ET), Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays.
Public Library: A copy of NUREG-1437, Supplement 15,
Second Renewal, to the GEIS for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants,
Final Report, regarding the proposed subsequent renewal of Renewed
Facility Operating License No. NPF-12 for an additional 20 years for
V.C. Summer will be available for public review at the Fairfield County
Library located at 300 West Washington Street, Winnsboro, South
Carolina 29180.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kim Conway, Office of Nuclear Material
Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-1335; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
In accordance with section 51.118 of title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations, ``Final environmental impact statement--notice of
availability,'' the NRC is making available to the public, NUREG-1437,
Supplement 15, Second Renewal, to the GEIS for License Renewal of
Nuclear Plants, Final Report, regarding the subsequent renewal of
Renewed Facility Operating License No. NPF-12 for an additional 20
years for V.C. Summer. A notice of availability of the draft SEIS was
published in the Federal Register on December 6, 2024 (89 FR 97077).
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its Notice of
Availability on December 6, 2024 (89 FR 96960). The comment period was
originally scheduled to close on January 21, 2025. On January 23, 2025,
a notice was published in the Federal Register reopening the public
comment period to
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accommodate a rescheduled public meeting and to provide additional time
for members of the public to develop and submit comments (90 FR 8056).
On January 31, 2025, the EPA issued a notice of extension of the
comment period (90 FR 8715). The public comment period on the draft
SEIS ended on February 11, 2025, and the comments received on the draft
SEIS are addressed in the final SEIS.
II. Discussion
The draft SEIS was issued for public comment on December 6, 2024.
The final SEIS addresses the comments received on the draft SEIS. As
discussed in Chapter 4 of the final SEIS, the NRC staff has determined
that the adverse environmental impacts of subsequent license renewal
for V.C. Summer (i.e., the continued operation of V.C. Summer for a
period of 20 years beyond the expiration date of the current renewed
operating license) are not so great that preserving the option of
subsequent license renewal for energy-planning decision-makers would be
unreasonable. This recommendation is based on: (1) information provided
in the environmental report, as supplemented, and other documents
submitted by Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc.; (2) consultation
with Federal, State, Tribal, and local governmental agencies; (3) the
NRC staff's independent environmental review; and (4) consideration of
public comments received during the scoping process and on the draft
SEIS.
Dated: May 13, 2025.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John Moses,
Deputy Director, Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial
Support, Office of Nuclear Material Safety, and Safeguards.
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