[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 6 (Friday, January 9, 2026)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2026-00236]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-261; NRC-2025-0076]
Duke Energy Progress, LLC; H. B. Robinson Steam Electric Plant,
Unit No. 2; Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC, the Commission)
is issuing for public comment draft Supplement 13, 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 No. DRP-23 for an
additional 20 years for H. B. Robinson Steam Electric Plant, Unit No. 2
(RNP). RNP is located in Darlington County, South Carolina,
approximately 5 miles west-northwest of Hartsville, South Carolina.
This document includes the NRC staff's preliminary analysis of the
environmental impacts of the proposed action of RNP subsequent license
renewal (SLR), as well as the environmental impacts of the no-action
alternative, including replacement energy alternatives under the no-
action alternative.
DATES: Members of the public are invited to submit comments by February
23, 2026. 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-2025-0076. 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.
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: Karen Loomis, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-5142; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2025-0076 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-2025-0076.
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]. Draft Supplement 13, Second Renewal, to the
GEIS for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, NUREG-1437, is available in
ADAMS under Accession No. ML25344A144.
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 draft Supplement 13, Second
Renewal to the GEIS for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, NUREG-1437,
will be available for public review at the Hartsville Memorial Library,
147 West College Ave., Hartsville, SC 29550.
B. Submitting Comments
The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the
Federal rulemaking website (https://www.regulations.gov). Please
include Docket ID NRC-2025-0076 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 is issuing for public comment draft Supplement 13, Second
Renewal to the GEIS for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, NUREG-1437.
This document includes the NRC staff's preliminary analysis of the
environmental impacts of the proposed action of RNP SLR and the
alternative to the proposed action. The NRC staff's preliminary
recommendation is that the adverse environmental impacts of RNP SLR are
not so great that preserving the option of SLR for energy-planning
decisionmakers would be unreasonable and that the environmentally
preferred alternative is the proposed action.
Dated: January 5, 2026.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Stephen Koenick,
Chief, Environmental Project Management Branch 1, Division of
Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards.
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