[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 160 (Thursday, August 20, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Page 53900]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2026-16975]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 05-614; NRC-2025-0079]
Long Mott Energy, LLC; Long Mott Generating Station; Notice of
Hearing
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Construction permit application; notice of uncontested hearing.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is providing
public notice of an uncontested hearing on a construction permit
application from Long Mott Energy, LLC (LME) for construction of the
Long Mott Generating Station (LMGS), a four reactor facility to be
built in Calhoun County, Texas.
DATES: The hearing is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. central time (CT)
on September 22, 2026, at the Bauer Community Center located at 2300
Hwy. 35 Bypass N, Port Lavaca, TX 77979. The hearing will be preceded
by an open house beginning at 5 p.m. CT at the same location.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2025-0079 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-2025-0079. Address
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Bridget Curran;
telephone: 301-415-1003; email: [email protected]. For technical
questions, contact the individual(s) 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 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 ADAMS accession number for each document
referenced (if it is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time
that it is mentioned in this document.
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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephanie Devlin-Gill, telephone: 301-
415-5301; email: [email protected] and Adrian Mu[ntilde]iz,
telephone: 301-415-4093; email: [email protected]. Both are staff of
the Office of Advanced Reactors at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Discussion
By letter dated March 31, 2025 (ADAMS Package Accession No.
ML25090A057), LME (the applicant), submitted to the NRC a construction
permit application for a reactor facility pursuant to part 50 of title
10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ``Domestic Licensing of
Production and Utilization Facilities,'' and section 103, ``Commercial
Licenses,'' of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act). The
facility, designated as LMGS, would be an 800 megawatts-thermal nuclear
power plant comprising four X-Energy, LLC (X-energy) Xe-100 small
modular high-temperature gas-cooled reactors and associated common
facilities in Calhoun County, Texas.
Pursuant to Section 189a. of the Act, and the Commission Policy
Statement on Mandatory Hearings for Reactor Licensing (published in the
Federal Register at 91 FR 34661), notice is hereby given that the
uncontested (i.e., mandatory) hearing will be held on September 22,
2026, starting at 5:30 p.m. CT in the Bauer Community Center located at
2300 Hwy. 35 Bypass N, Port Lavaca, TX 77979. Members of the public are
invited to attend the hearing. There will be an opportunity for members
of the public to ask questions and provide feedback on the application.
This is not an opportunity to request a contested hearing, where
petitioners can file intervention requests that contain the contentions
they wish to litigate pursuant to 10 CFR 2.309, ``Hearing requests,
petitions to intervene, requirements for standing, and contentions.''
The opportunity to request a contested hearing and petition for leave
to intervene was published in the Federal Register on June 10, 2025 (90
FR 24428). The NRC received a petition to intervene and request for
hearing on August 11, 2025. Information related to the ongoing
proceeding may be found on the Electronic Hearing Docket under Docket
No. 50-614-CP.
An open house will be held before the hearing begins, from 5 to
5:30 p.m. CT, to give the public an opportunity to speak with the NRC
staff. The hearing will then convene at 5:30 p.m. CT and begin with a
presentation by the NRC staff that will explain the review process and
provide a brief overview of the application, followed by a comment
period of up to 3 hours. During the comment period, the public will be
provided with an opportunity to speak on the record. Each member of the
public will be allowed to speak for no more than 5 minutes at a time to
ensure that all stakeholders who wish to provide oral comments or ask
questions will have the opportunity to do so. The applicant has been
made aware of the hearing and was invited to provide a presentation of
no more than 30 minutes following the NRC staff presentation.
The hearing record for comments will remain open until October 6,
2026. Written comments and questions must be submitted to the following
email address: [email protected]. In order to be included in the
hearing record, written comments and questions must be received by
October 6, 2026. The NRC staff will not consider comments or questions
received by other means or after the deadline of October 6, 2026. The
NRC staff will treat any comments or questions received consistent with
the Commission Policy Statement on Mandatory Hearings for Reactor
Licensing.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.
Dated: August 18, 2026.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Mehdi Reisi Fard,
Director, Division of Advanced Reactor Engineering, Office of Advanced
Reactors.
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