ML052430138
| ML052430138 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Brunswick  |
| Issue date: | 08/30/2005 |
| From: | Kuo P NRC/NRR/DRIP/RLEP |
| To: | Gannon C Carolina Power & Light Co |
| Williamson A, RLEP/DRIP/NRR, 415-1878 | |
| Shared Package | |
| ML052430138 | List: |
| References | |
| TAC MC4641, TAC MC4642 | |
| Download: ML052430138 (9) | |
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August 30, 2005 Mr. Cornelius J. Gannon, Vice President Brunswick Steam Electric Plant Carolina Power & Light Company Post Office Box 10429 Southport, NC 28461-0429
SUBJECT:
NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF THE DRAFT PLANT-SPECIFIC SUPPLEMENT 25 TO THE GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT (GEIS) REGARDING LICENSE RENEWAL FOR BRUNSWICK STEAM ELECTRIC PLANT, UNITS 1 AND 2 (TAC NOS. MC4641 AND MC4642)
Dear Mr. Gannon:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff has completed the draft plant-specific Supplement 25 to NUREG-1437, ?Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, regarding the renewal of operating licenses DPR-71 and DPR-62 for the Brunswick Steam Electric Plant, Units 1 and 2, respectively, for an additional 20 years of operation. Enclosed is a copy of the draft report and the associated Federal Register Notice of Availability. This notice advises the public that the draft report is available for public inspection at the NRCs Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records component of NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRCs Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. In addition, the William Madison Randall Library, located at 601 S. College Rd., Wilmington, NC 28403, has agreed to make the draft supplement available for public inspection.
As discussed in Section 9.3 of this report, the preliminary recommendation of the staff is that the Commission determine that the adverse environmental impacts of license renewal for the Brunswick Steam Electric Plant, Units 1 and 2 are not so great that preserving the option of license renewal for energy planning decision makers would be unreasonable. This recommendation is based on: (1) the analysis and findings in the GEIS; (2) the Environmental Report submitted by Carolina Power & Light Company (CP&L), now doing business as Progress Energy Carolinas, Inc.; (3) consultation with Federal, State, and local agencies; (4) the staffs own independent review and; (5) the staffs consideration of public comments received during the scoping process.
C. Gannon A separate notice of filing of the draft environmental impact statement will be placed in the Federal Register through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. If you have any questions regarding this matter, please contact the NRC Senior Environmental Project Manager, Mr. Richard L. Emch, Jr., at 301-415-1590 or by e-mail at rle@nrc.gov.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Pao-Tsin Kuo, Program Director License Renewal and Environmental Impacts Program Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos.: 50-324 and 50-325
Enclosure:
As stated cc w/enclosure: See next page
C. Gannon A separate notice of filing of the draft environmental impact statement will be placed in the Federal Register through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. If you have any questions regarding this matter, please contact the NRC Senior Environmental Project Manager, Mr. Richard L. Emch, Jr., at 301-415-1590 or by e-mail at rle@nrc.gov.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Pao-Tsin Kuo, Program Director License Renewal and Environmental Impacts Program Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos.: 50-324, 50-325
Enclosure:
As stated cc w/enclosure: See next page Adams Accession Nos.:
1.Ltr to C. Gannon, w/Svc. List:: ML:052430138 2.NUREG-1437, Supplement 25, Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, Re: Brunswick Steam Electric Plant, Units 1 and 2, Draft Report for Comment: ML:052380154
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7590-01-P UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION CAROLINA POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY BRUNSWICK STEAM ELECTRIC PLANT UNITS, 1 AND 2 DOCKET NOS. 50-325 AND 50-324 NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF THE DRAFT SUPPLEMENT 25 TO THE GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT AND PUBLIC MEETING FOR THE LICENSE RENEWAL OF BRUNSWICK STEAM ELECTRIC PLANT, UNITS 1 AND 2 Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission) has published a draft plant-specific supplement to the Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS), NUREG-1437, regarding the renewal of operating licenses DPR-71 and DPR-62 for an additional 20 years of operation at Brunswick Steam Electric Plant, Units 1 and 2 (BSEP), respectively. BSEP is located in Brunswick County in southeastern North Carolina, near the mouth of the Cape Fear River. Possible alternatives to the proposed action (license renewal) include no action and reasonable alternative energy sources.
The draft Supplement to the GEIS is publicly available in the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland 20852 or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the Public Electronic Reading Room on the NRCs Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. The Accession number for draft Supplement 25 to the GEIS is ML052380154.
Persons who do not have access to ADAMS, or who encounter problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, should contact the PDR reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov. In addition, the William Madison
Randall Library, located at 601 S. College Rd., Wilmington, North Carolina 28403 has agreed to make the draft plant-specific supplement to the GEIS available for public inspection.
Interested parties may submit comments on the draft supplement to the GEIS for consideration by the NRC staff. To be certain of consideration, comments on the draft supplement to the GEIS and the proposed action must be received by December 2, 2005.
Comments received after the due date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC staff is able to assure consideration only for comments received on or before this date. Written comments on the draft supplement to the GEIS should be sent to: Chief, Rules and Directives Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, Mailstop T-6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555-0001.
Comments may be hand-delivered to the NRC at 11545 Rockville Pike, Room T-6D59, Rockville, Maryland, between 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. on Federal workdays. Electronic comments may be submitted to the NRC by e-mail at BrunswickEIS@nrc.gov. All comments received by the Commission, including those made by Federal, State, and local agencies, Native American Tribes, or other interested persons, will be made available electronically at the Commissions PDR in Rockville, Maryland, and in ADAMS.
The NRC staff will hold two public meetings to present an overview of the draft plant-specific supplement to the GEIS and to accept public comments on the document. The public meetings will be held on October 18, 2005, at the Southport City Hall, 201 E. Moore Street, Southport, North Carolina 28461. The first meeting will convene at 1:30 p.m. and will continue until 4:30 p.m., as necessary. The second meeting will convene at 7:00 p.m. and will continue until 10:00 p.m., as necessary. Both meetings will be transcribed and will include: (1) a presentation of the contents of the draft plant-specific supplement to the GEIS, and (2) the opportunity for interested government agencies, organizations, and individuals to provide comments on the draft report. Additionally, the NRC staff will host informal discussions one
hour before the start of each meeting at the Southport City Hall. No comments on the draft supplement to the GEIS will be accepted during the informal discussions. To be considered, comments must be provided either at the transcribed public meetings or in writing, as discussed below. Persons may register to attend or present oral comments at the meetings by contacting Mr. Richard L. Emch, Jr., by telephone at 1-800-368-5642, extension 1590, or by email at BrunswickEIS@nrc.gov no later than October 11, 2005. Members of the public may also register to speak at the meeting within 15 minutes of the start of each session. Individual oral comments may be limited by the time available, depending on the number of persons who register. Members of the public who have not registered may also have an opportunity to speak, if time permits. The meeting is on the second floor of the building and there is no elevator. Therefore, the meeting room is not handicap accessible. If special equipment or accommodations are needed to attend or present information at the public meeting, Mr. Emch will need to be contacted no later than October 11, 2005, so that the NRC staff can determine whether the request can be accommodated.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Mr. Richard L. Emch, Jr., License Renewal and Environmental Impacts Program, Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555-0001. Mr. Emch may be contacted at the aforementioned telephone number or e-mail address.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 30th day of August, 2005.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
/RA/
Pao-Tsin Kuo, Program Director License Renewal and Environmental Impacts Program Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
Brunswick Steam Electric Plant, Units 1 and 2 cc:
Mr. Steven R. Carr Ms. Margaret A. Force Associate General Counsel - Legal Assistant Attorney General Department State of North Carolina Progress Energy Service Company, LLC Post Office Box 629 Post Office Box 1551 Raleigh, NC 27602 Raleigh, NC 27602-1551 Mr. Robert P. Gruber Mr. David R. Sandifer, Chairperson Executive Director Brunswick County Board of Commissioners Public Staff - NCUC Post Office Box 249 4326 Mail Service Center Bolivia, NC 28422 Raleigh, NC 27699-4326 Resident Inspector Mr. T. P. Cleary U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Director - Site Operations 8470 River Road Brunswick Steam Electric Plant Southport, NC 28461 Progress Energy Carolinas, Inc.
Post Office Box 10429 Mr. John H. ONeill, Jr. Southport, NC 28461-0429 Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge 2300 N Street NW Mr. Norman R. Holden, Mayor Washington, DC 20037-1128 City of Southport 201 East Moore Street Ms. Beverly Hall, Section Chief Southport, NC 28461 Radiation Protection Section, Division of Natural Resources Mr. Warren Lee N.C. Department of Environment Emergency Management Director and Natural Resources New Hanover County Department of 3825 Barrett Dr. Emergency Management Raleigh, NC 27609-7721 Post Office Box 1525 Wilmington, NC 28402-1525 Mr. David H. Hinds Plant General Manager Mr. Chris L. Burton, Manager Brunswick Steam Electric Plant Performance Evaluation and Carolina Power & Light Company Regulatory Affairs PEB 7 Post Office Box 10429 Progress Energy Southport, NC 28461-0429 Post Office Box 1551 Raleigh, NC 27602-1551 Public Service Commission State of South Carolina Mr. Edward T. ONeill Post Office Drawer 11649 Manager - Support Services Columbia, South Carolina 29211 Brunswick Steam Electric Plant Carolina Power & Light Company Post Office Box 10429 Southport, NC 28461
Brunswick Steam Electric Plant, Units 1 and 2 cc:
Mr. Allen K. Brittain Mr. Ken Raber Superintendent, Security North Carolina Eastern Municipal Brunswick Steam Electric Plant Power Agency Progress Energy Carolinas, Inc. P.O. Box 29513 P.O. Box 10429 Raleigh, NC 27626 Southport, NC 28461-0429 Ms. Vicki Soltis Mr. Michael Heath 5134 Minnesota Dr.
Brunswick Steam Electric Plant Southport, NC 28461 P.O. Box 10429 Southport, NC 28461-0429 Ms. Pat Woods 3700 Players Club Drive Mr. Talmage B. Clements Southport, NC 28461 Manager - License Renewal Progress Energy Mr. Joe Woods P. O. Box 1551 3700 Players Club Drive Raleigh, NC 27602 Southport, NC 28461 Mr. James Ross Mr. Rob Gandy, City Manager Nuclear Energy Institute City of Southport 1776 I Street, NW, Suite 400 201 E Moore Street Washington, DC 20006-3708 Southport, NC 28461 Ms. Ilene Brown Mr. Jerry Thrift, Vice President NCUW Brunswick Community College William Randall Library P.O. Box 30 601 S. College Rd. Supply, NC 28462-0030 Wilmington, NC 28403-5616 Mr. J. Steven Johnson, Director Ms. Cynthia Tart Brunswick County Economic Development 3404 E. Yacht Dr. Commission Oak Island, NC 28468 Post Office Box 158 25 Courthouse Drive NE Ms. May Moore, Commissioner Bolivia, NC 28422 Brunswick County P.O. Box 249 Mr. J. Leslie Bell, AICP, Director Bolivia, NC 28422 Brunswick County Planning Department P.O. Box 249 Ms. Hilary Snow Bolivia, NC 28422 The State Port Pilot 114 E. Moore Mr. Pete Benjamin Southport, NC 28461 Ecological Services Supervisor Raleigh Field Office U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Post Office Box 33726 Raleigh, NC 27636-3726