[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 136 (Friday, July 18, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34015-34016]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-13465]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-615; NRC-2024-0146]
Tennessee Valley Authority; Clinch River Nuclear Site, Unit 1;
Notice of Intent To Prepare a Supplement to Environmental Impact
Statement
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is providing
public notice that it will prepare a supplement to the Early Site
Permit (ESP) Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to evaluate the
environmental impacts for a construction permit (CP) requested by
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for the Clinch River Nuclear (CRN)
Site, Unit 1.
DATES: July 18, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2024-0146 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://regulations.gov
and search for Docket ID NRC-2024-0146. 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.
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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]. The ADAMS accession number for
each document referenced in this document (if it is available in ADAMS)
is provided the first time that it is referenced.
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 the CP application, including
the environmental report for the CRN Site, Unit 1, is available for
public review at the Oak Ridge Public Library, 1401 Oak Ridge Turnpike,
Oak Ridge, TN 37830.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Madelyn Nagel, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-0371; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Discussion
By letters dated April 28, 2025 (ADAMS Accession No. ML25118A209)
and May 20, 2025 (ADAMS Accession No. ML25140A063), TVA submitted to
the NRC, pursuant to part 50 of title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR), ``Domestic Licensing of Production and
Utilization Facilities,'' an application for a CP to construct a GE
Hitachi BWRX-300 at the CRN Site, to be built in Roane County,
Tennessee. The CP application references the ESP for the CRN Site, Unit
1, which was issued in 2019 (NUREG-2226, ADAMS Package Accession No.
ML19087A266). Submittal of the application initiates the NRC's proposed
action of determining whether to grant the CP. A notice of receipt and
availability of the complete application was published in the Federal
Register on June 10, 2025 (90 FR 24425). By letter dated June 12, 2025
(ADAMS Accession No. ML25156A058), NRC informed TVA of its acceptance
and docketing of Part 1 of the application. A notice of acceptance for
docketing of the complete application and opportunity to request a
hearing was published in the Federal Register on July 15, 2025 (90 FR
31709). The purpose of this notice is to inform the public that the NRC
will prepare a supplement to the ESP EIS to evaluate the environmental
impacts for the proposed issuance of the CP, as required by 10 CFR
51.92(b). The NRC staff will not conduct scoping for the supplement to
the EIS prepared for the ESP at the CRN Site, Unit 1. This is in
accordance with 10 CFR 51.92(d), which states that a scoping process
for a supplement to an EIS is not required.
The regulations in 36 CFR 800.8(c), ``Coordination with The
National Environmental Policy Act,'' allow agencies to use their
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321, et seq.)
process to fulfill the requirements of Section 106 of the National
Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (54 U.S.C. 300101, et seq.) (NHPA).
Therefore, pursuant to 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC staff intends to use
its process and the documentation required for the preparation of the
supplement to the ESP EIS for the proposed action to comply with
Section 106 of the NHPA in lieu of the procedures set forth in 36 CFR
800.3 through 800.6.
The NRC staff will also prepare and issue for comment, the draft
supplement to the EIS, which will be the subject of a separate Federal
Register notice.
Dated: July 15, 2025.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Jacob Zimmerman,
Acting Director, Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial
Support, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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