[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 6 (Friday, January 9, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1005-1006]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2026-00238]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-335 and 50-389; EISX-429-00-000-1765783975; NRC-2021-
0197]
Florida Power & Light Co.; St. Lucie Plant, Units 1 and 2; Draft
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 ``Generic Environmental Impact Statement
for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, Supplement 11, Second Renewal,
Regarding Subsequent License Renewal for St. Lucie Plant, Units 1 and
2, Draft Report for Comment.'' This draft environmental impact
statement (EIS) concerns the NRC staff's review of the environmental
impacts of the proposed subsequent renewal of Renewed Facility
Operating License Nos. DPR-67 and NPF-16 for St. Lucie Plant, Units 1
and 2 (St. Lucie), respectively, for an additional 20 years. St. Lucie
is located in St. Lucie County, Florida, approximately 7 miles
southeast of the city of Fort Pierce, Florida. The environmental
impacts of the no-action alternative, including replacement energy
alternatives under the no-action alternative, are also evaluated in the
EIS.
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-2021-0197. 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.
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-
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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: 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-2021-0197 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-2021-0197.
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]. ``Generic Environmental Impact Statement for
License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, Supplement 11, Second Renewal,
Regarding Subsequent License Renewal for St. Lucie Plant, Units 1 and
2, Draft Report for Comment'' is available under ADAMS Accession No.
ML25349A162.
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, Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.
Public Library: A copy of ``Generic Environmental Impact
Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, Supplement 11, Second
Renewal, Regarding Subsequent License Renewal for St. Lucie Plant,
Units 1 and 2, Draft Report for Comment'' will be available for public
review at the Morningside Branch of the St. Lucie County Library, 2410
SE Morningside Blvd., Port St. Lucie, Florida 34952 and at the Kilmer
Branch of the St. Lucie County Library, 101 Melody Lane, Fort Pierce,
Florida 34950.
B. Submitting Comments
The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the
Federal rulemaking website (https://www.regulations.gov). Please
include Docket ID NRC-2021-0197 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. Background
By letter dated August 3, 2021 (ADAMS Package Accession No.
ML21215A314), Florida Power & Light Co. (FPL) submitted to the NRC an
application requesting subsequent renewal of Renewed Facility Operating
License Nos. DPR-67 and NPF-16 for St. Lucie, Units 1 and 2,
respectively, for an additional 20 years of operation. This submission
initiated the NRC's proposed action of determining whether to grant the
subsequent license renewal application. The St. Lucie units are
pressurized light-water moderated and cooled reactors designed by
Combustion Engineering and are located in St. Lucie County, Florida,
approximately 7 miles southeast of Fort Pierce, Florida. The current
renewed facility operating license for Unit 1 expires at midnight on
March 1, 2036, and the current renewed facility operating license for
Unit 2 expires at midnight on April 6, 2043. The subsequent license
renewal application was submitted pursuant to part 54 of title 10 of
the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ``Requirements for Renewal of
Operating Licenses for Nuclear Power Plants,'' and seeks to
subsequently renew the renewed facility operating license for Unit 1
until midnight on March 1, 2056, and the renewed facility operating
license for Unit 2 until midnight on April 6, 2063. A notice of receipt
and availability of the application was published in the Federal
Register on August 16, 2021 (86 FR 45768). A notice of acceptance for
docketing of the application and of an opportunity to request a hearing
was published in the Federal Register on September 29, 2021 (86 FR
53986). A notice of intent to conduct a scoping process and to prepare
an environmental impact statement was published in the Federal Register
on October 22, 2021 (86 FR 58701).
III. Discussion
The NRC is issuing for public comment ``Generic Environmental
Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, Supplement 11,
Second Renewal, Regarding Subsequent License Renewal for St. Lucie
Plant, Units 1 and 2, Draft Report for Comment.'' This draft EIS
includes the NRC staff's preliminary analysis of the environmental
impacts of the proposed action and alternatives to the proposed action.
Based on (1) the analysis and findings in NRC's NUREG 1437,
Revision 2, ``Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License
Renewal of Nuclear Plants, Final Report'' (ADAMS Package Accession No.
ML24087A133), dated August 2024; (2) the subsequent license renewal
application; (3) the NRC staff's consultation with Federal, State,
Tribal, and local governmental agencies; (4) the NRC staff's
independent environmental review; and (5) the NRC staff's consideration
of public comments received during the scoping process, the NRC staff's
preliminary recommendation is that the adverse environmental impacts of
subsequent license renewal for St. Lucie are not so great that
preserving the option of subsequent license renewal for energy-planning
decision-makers would be unreasonable.
Dated: January 7, 2026.
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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