[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 219 (Monday, November 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 51412]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-19998]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 70-7027; NRC-2022-0201]
TRISO-X, LLC; Special Nuclear Material License Application for
the TRISO-X Fuel Fabrication Facility; Draft Environmental Impact
Statement
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Request for comment; extension of comment period.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is extending the
public comment period for a draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
for a Special Nuclear Material License Application for the TRISO-X Fuel
Fabrication Facility. TRISO-X, LLC (TRISO-X) requested authorization to
possess and use special nuclear material to manufacture high-assay low
enriched uranium fuel. The proposed fuel fabrication facility would be
located on a 110-acre site at the Horizon Center in Oak Ridge, Roane
County, Tennessee. The public comment period was originally scheduled
to close on November 17, 2025.
DATES: The due date of comments requested in the document published on
November 17, 2025 (90 FR 48508) is extended. Comments should be filed
no later than December 8, 2025. Comments received after that 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 that 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-2022-0201. Address
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 301-415-0624; 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: Jill Caverly, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-7674; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2022-0201 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information regarding this document. 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-2022-0201.
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 ADAMS Public 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 draft EIS is available in ADAMS under
Accession No. ML25267A128.
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 draft EIS for a Special
Nuclear Material License Application for the TRISO-X Fuel Fabrication
Facility will be available for public review at the Oak Ridge Public
Library, 1401 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Oak Ridge, TN 37830.
B. Submitting Comments
The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the
Federal Rulemaking website (https://www.regulations.gov). Please
include Docket ID NRC-2022-0201 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
The NRC has prepared a draft EIS as part of its environmental
review of the TRISO-X application for a 40-year license to possess and
use special nuclear material at a fuel fabrication facility (FFF) to be
constructed on a 110-acre greenfield site in Oak Ridge, Roane County,
Tennessee. This draft EIS assesses the potential environmental impacts
of the TRISO-X license application and the associated proposal to
construct, operate, and decommission the FFF, as well as an alternative
to the proposed action.
The NRC registered the draft EIS with the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) in September 2025. However, due to the lapse of
government appropriations, notice of the availability of the document
was not published on October 3, 2025, by EPA as originally scheduled.
The NRC staff issued a Federal Register notice (FRN) on October 23,
2025 (90 FR 48508) to make the public aware of the availability of the
document and to request comments on the draft EIS. That FRN notified
the public of the original comment period end date of November 17.
However, to be consistent with the requirement in part 51 title 10 of
the Code of Federal Regulations, the staff is extending the comment
period end date to December 8, 2025. Therefore, the NRC staff will
continue to receive draft EIS comments until December 8, 2025.
Dated: November 13, 2025.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Kimyata Savoy,
Acting Deputy Director, Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and
Financial Support, Office of Nuclear Material Safety, and Safeguards.
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