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Official Transcript of Proceedings NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSIONI Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station Environmental Scoping Public Meeting Afternoon Session

Title:

Docket Number:

50-482 Location:

Date:

Burlington, Kansas Tuesday, December 19, 2006 Work Order No.:

NRC-1 374 Pages 1-22 NEAL R. GROSS AND CO., INC.

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10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WOLF CREEK NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION ENVIRONMENTAL SCOPING PUBLIC MEETING

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2006 The meeting came to order at 1:30 p.m. in the Coffey County
Library, Burlington
Branch, 410 Juniatta Street, Burlington, Kansas, Stephen Hoffman, presiding.

PRESENT:

STEPHEN T.

HOFFMAN VERONICA M. RODRIGUEZ CHRISTIAN JACOBS RANI FRANOVICH JEREMY GROOM Senior Project Manager, NRC Project Manager, NRC Project Manager, NRC Environmental Branch B

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Welcome and Purpose of Meeting II.

Overview of License Renewal Process III.

Overview of the Environmental Review Process IV.

Public Comments V.

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3 MR.

HOFFMAN:

Good afternoon.

I think 4

we'll get started.

5 My name is Steve Hoffman.

I'm a Senior 6

Project Manager in the License Renewal Program with 7

the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NRC as you'll hear 8

us refer to it.

9 I'm your facilitator for the night, or the 10

day, actually.

Hopefully --

I hope everybody will 11 have a productive meeting.

The subject of the meeting 12 today is the application to renew the operating 13 license of Wolf Creek Generating Station.

14 Before we get started, I'll give you a 15 little information on the meeting process, talk a 16 little bit about the format of the meeting, some 17 simple ground rules, and, finally, introduce the NRC 18 speakers for today.

19 Regarding the format, it's going to be a 20 two-part meeting.

In the first part, we're going to 21 give you some background information on the license 22 renewal process, the overall process in general, and 23 more detail on the environmental process.

Hopefully, 24 that way you'll get a better understanding of what we 25 evaluate as part of the license renewal review.

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And the second part of the meeting, that's 2

the most important part.

That's why we're out here.

3 It's to hear from you.

It's a chance for you to 4

provide comments on the environmental process and for 5

us to speak with you about that.

6 You're going to hear the term "scoping" or 7

"scoping meeting."

It's a term we use as part of the 8

environmental impact statement preparation.

9 Essentially, it helps us determine what is the scope 10 of our environmental review -- you know, what issues

.11 we need to address, what alternatives we need to be 12 looking at.

13 We will be taking written comments on the 14 scope of the environmental process, which the staff 15 will give you more detail on later.

But also know 16 that whatever is said here today will be given the 17 same consideration as the written comments that we 18 receive.

19 As far as ground rules go, it's pretty 20 simple.

After we get through the speakers giving you 21 the background information, we're going to have a 22 short question session --

make sure we explain the 23 process clearly, answer any questions we might have.

24 During that process, I request that you 25 keep it to questions on the environmental --

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license renewal review.

We're going to have a formal 2

comment period after that in which you can make 3

comments on it as to what should be in the scope of 4

the environmental review.

5 I ask that only one person speak at a 6

time.

We've got a Court Reporter here that's 7

transcribing the meeting.

That way we can get a clear 8

transcript, and also she'll know who is speaking at 9

any time.

10 We normally try and keep comments to about 11 five minutes.

We can be flexible.

We, you know, 12 probably don't have that many people that want to 13 speak.

But the thing to remember, too, is even though 14 if you provide comments today, or you determine you 15 have some later, you can later submit the written 16 comments.

17 Comments that we receive here today are 18 important in that it gives the staff an early 19 indication of what issues they may need to be looking 20 at.

It gives them an opportunity to talk with you in 21 more detail in case they need to get more information 22 from you.

And it also lets other people that are in 23 attendance today know what kind of issues have been 24 identified and need to be addressed.

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speakers.

The first one will be Veronica Rodriguez.

2 She is the Project Manager responsible for the safety 3

review of the application.

She is going to give you 4

a general overview of the process.

5 Veronica has been with the NRC for about 6

five years, has a bachelor's degree in chemical 7

engineering and a master's in project management from 8

the University of Puerto Rico.

9 The second speaker will be Christian 10 Jacobs.

He is the Project Manager responsible for the 11 environmental process, and he'll be talking in more 12 detail about -the environmental review process.

13 Christian has been with-us about seven months, but he 14 has got like five years' experience working with the 15 Navy and the Army as a Project Manager and Test 16 Director.

17 And before that, he had 10 years as an 18 environmental consultant.

He is a registered 19 professional engineer, and has a bachelor's degree in 20 civil engineering from Virginia Tech and a master' s in 21 environmental engineering from Johns Hopkins.

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have until after that time.

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RODRIGUEZ:

Thank you, Steve.

3 Good afternoon.

My name is Veronica 4

Rodriguez, and I'm the Project Manager responsible for 5

the review of the Wolf Creek Generating Station 6

license renewal application.

7 As Steve mentioned, the purpose of today's 8

meeting is to provide you with an overview of the 9

license renewal review process.

Once the presentation 10 is over, we'll be very happy to answer any questions 11 that you may have in our process and on the scope of 12 our review.

13 Before I begin the discussion of the 14 license renewal process,.I would like to take a couple 15 of minutes to talk about what do we do and what is our 16 mission in the NRC.

The two principal NRC's governing 17 statutes are the Atomic Energy Act and the National 18 Environmental Policy Act of 1969, better known as 19 NEPA.

20 The Atomic Energy Act authorizes the NRC 21 to regulate the civilian use of nuclear material.

The 22 NRC regulations are contained in Title 10 of Code of 23 Federal Regulations, commonly referred to as 10 CFR. 24 The Atomic Energy Act also authorizes the NRC to grant 25 a 40-year license for nuclear power reactors and allow NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W.

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for renewal of these licenses.

2 It is important to note that the 40-year 3

license term was based primarily on economic 4

considerations and antitrust factors, not on safety or 5

technical limitations.

6 The second governing statute is NEPA of 7

1969.

That established a national policy for 8

considering the impact of federal decisionmaking on 9

the environment.

In exercising its authority, the NRC 10 mission is three-fold -- to ensure adequate protection 11 of public health and safety, to promote the common 12 defense and security, and to protect the environment.

13 The NRC accomplishes its mission through 14 a combination of regulatory program and processes,

15 such as conducting inspections, issuing enforcement 16
actions, assessing licensee's performance, and 17 evaluating operating experience from nuclear 18 powerplants across the country and internationally.

19 One important element of our inspection 20 program is the resident inspector.

NRC has resident 21 inspectors at all operating nuclear powerplants.

22 Their job is to carry out. our safety mission on a 23 daily basis by ensuring that these plants have 24 acceptable safety performances and are in compliance 25 with the regulatory requirements.

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are considered to be the eyes and ears of the NRC.

2 Today we have in the audience the resident 3

inspector stationed at Wolf Creek, Mr. Jeremy Groom.

4 Thanks for being here.

5 The current operating license for Wolf 6

Creek will expire March 11, 2025.

On October 4,

2006, 7

Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation, the owner of 8

the plant, submitted an application for the renewal of 9

Wolf Creek license for an additional 20 years.

Copies 10 of the Wolf Creek license renewal application are 11 available for your review here at the Burlington 12 Library.

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the NRC approach in performing a safety review.

The

.15, first principle is that the current regulatory process 16 is adequate to ensure that the licensing basis of all 17 operating plants provides and maintains an adequate 18 level of safety.

The second principle is that the 19 current plant-specific licensing basis must be 20 maintained during the renewal term in the same manner 21 and to the same extent as during the original 22 licensing term.

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understood and addressed.

2 The staff conducts a detailed review of 3

new and existing programs and surveillance activities 4

to determine, with reasonable assurance, that the 5

effects of aging for certain plant systems, 6

structures, and components, will be adequately managed 7

or monitored.

8 This slide shows the content of the 9

application submitted by Wolf Creek.

The staff 10 reviews this information to verify that the aging 11 effects will be adequately managed, and that the 12 environmental impacts have been. characterized and 13, disclosed.

14 Next slide, please.

.15 This is a diagram that represents the 16 license renewal review process.

The top portion of 17 the diagram, or the squares and lines highlighted in 18 red, shows the safety process.

The bottom portion of 19 the diagrams, or lines and squares highlighted in 20

green, shows the environmental process.

These two 21 reviews are conducted simultaneously to evaluate two 22 separate processes of the license renewal application.

23 The yellow figures represent opportunities 24 for public involvement.

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comments on the scope of the environmental review.

2 During the safety

review, the staff 3

conducts audits to evaluate the adequacy of the 4

technical information in the license renewal 5

application.

NRC's qualified inspectors perform 6

onsite inspections to verify that the applicant's 7

aging management programs and activities are 8

implemented or have been planned for implementation.

9 Then, the results of the safety review are 10 documented in a

safety evaluation report and -an 11 inspection report.

The safety evaluation report is 12 then forwarded to the Advisory Committee on Reactor 13 Safeguards, or ACRS, who will perform an independent 14 review of the license renewal application and the 15 safety evaluation report.

16 The ACRS is a group of scientists and 17 nuclear experts who serve as the consulting body to 18 the Commission.

They report their findings and 19 recommendations directly to the Commission.

20 To perform the environmental review, the 21 staff conducts onsite audits and generates a draft and 22 a final supplemental environmental impact statement.

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process.

2 In summary, for the safety review, the NRC 3

reviews the application, conducts onsite audits and 4

inspections.

We document our conclusions in the 5

safety evaluation report and inspection report.

Then, 6

once the ACRS has completed their independent review 7

of both the license renewal application and the 8

staff's safety evaluation report, the committee offers 9

the recommendation to the Commission regarding the 10 proposed action to issue a renewed operating license.

11 Before turning the presentation over to 12 Mr.

Jacobs, I would like to mention a few important 13 areas of NRC oversight that are separate from the 14 license renewal review process..

These areas include:

15 emergency planning,

security, and current safety 16 performance.

17 The NRC monitors and provides regulatory 18 oversight of activities in these areas in an ongoing 19 basis under the current operating license.

Therefore, 20 we do not reevaluate them in license renewal, because 21 they are subject to ongoing NRC inspections and 22 oversight.

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oversight process for operating nuclear powerplants, 2

you can follow the link at the bottom of this page.

3 This concludes my remarks on the safety 4

review process.

Now I would like to introduce to you 5

Mr.

Jacobs, who will provide you an overview of the 6

environmental review.

7 MR. JACOBS:

Hello, everybody.

Thank you, 8

Veronica.

My name is Christian Jacobs.

I'm an 9

Environmental Project Manager at the NRC.

I'm 10 responsible for coordinating the environmental-related 11 activities between the NRC staff and various 12 environmental experts, both from our in-house staff as 13 well as our contractor.

And some of those folks are 14 in the audience here today with us.

'15 The result of these efforts will 16 ultimately produce an environmental impact statement 17 associated with the proposed license renewal of the 18 Wolf Creek Generating Station.

The Environmental 19 Policy Act of 1969, NEPA, requires that all federal 20 agencies follow a systematic approach in evaluating 21 potential impacts associated with certain actions.

22 We at the NRC are required to consider the 23 impact of the proposed action and also any mitigation 24 for those impacts we consider to be significant.

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proposed action --

in this case, the license renewal 2

of Wolf Creek -- and other alternatives, including the 3

no action alternative.

In other words, if the NRC 4

decides not to approve the license renewal for Wolf 5

Creek, what are the environmental impacts?

6 The NRC has determined that an 7

environmental impact statement, or EIS, will be 8

prepared for any proposed license renewal of nuclear 9

plants.

In preparing an EIS, the NRC conducts a 10 scoping process.

The purpose of the scoping process 11 is to identify any important issues and information to 12 be analyzed in depth.

13 We are now.in the scoping process for Wolf 14 Creek, and we're here today gathering information and 15 collecting public comments on the scope of our. review.

16 Simply put, what special issues should the staff 17 consider in preparing the environmental impact 18 statement for Wolf Creek?

We not only need to 19 determine if there are significant issues, but also 20 identify and eliminate from detailed study the issues 21 that are not significant.

22 With'that framework, I want to provide an 23 overview of the environmental review.

In the 1990s, 24 the NRC staff developed a generic environmental impact 25 statement, or GEIS.

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environmental impacts of renewing the operating 2

licenses for all the nuclear plants in the nation.

As 3

a result of that analysis, the NRC was able to 4

determine that a number of environmental issues were 5

common or similar to all nuclear powerplants.

6 The environmental impacts associated with 7

those issues were found to be small at all those 8

sites.

The NRC staff will search for any new and 9

significant information that might call into question 10 the conclusions that were previously reached in the 11 GEIS for those issues that were common to all 12 powerplant sites.

13 In addition,. the NRC staff will also 14 search for new issues not addressed in the GEIS.

The 15 NRC also concluded that there are several issues to 16 which a generic determination could not be reached, 17 and *for these issues the NRC will prepare a site-18 specific supplemental environmental impact statement, 19 or SEIS as we like to call it.

20 And that's why we're here today requesting 21 your comments on the scope of the site-specific 22 environmental impact statement for Wolf Creek.

When 23 the review is completed, the GEIS and the site-24 specific environmental impact statement will be the 25 complete record for the environmental review.

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Next slide.

2 This diagram shows an overview of all the 3

subject matter areas that we'll be looking into and 4

we'll be evaluating during our review.

You can see 5

all of those in the handouts that you received at the 6

registration table.

7 Next slide.

8 So how does the public provide input for 9

the decisionmaking?

This diagram shows all of the 10 sources of information that are used for license 11 renewal decision.

Today, we are here soliciting your 12 comments on the scope of the environmental review, and

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scoping period in developing the draft supplemental 15 environmental impact statement.

That's how the 16 comments you provide here today will play into the 17 overall process.

18 Also, there's an opportunity to request a 19 hearing in the license renewal proceedings.

The 20 opportunity for hearing closes on January 29,

2007, 21 and original information about the hearing process is 22 attached in the handouts that you received at the

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request a hearing in the proceedings.

I would like to 2

clarify that the hearing opportunity and the public 3

comments on the scope of the environmental review are 4

two different processes.

Today we are here to 5

consider your comments on the scope of the 6

environmental review.

7 Next slide.

8 So there are several ways you can provide 9

your comments on the scope of the environmental 10 review.

You can provide comments today during the 11 comment period of this meeting, and those comments 12 will carry the same weight as any other comment that 13 you might submit in writing.

14 If you're not ready to provide a comment 15 today, you can send your comments via regular mail.

16 The address information is shown here.

It's also in 17 the handouts.

18 You can also send your comments to us via 19 e-mail, and we have set up a specific e-mail address 20 for requesting those comments.

It's 21 WolfCreekEIS@nrc.gov.

And lastly, but not leastly, 22 you can also deliver them in person.

I don't know if 23 anybody has got any special plans to come from Kansas, 24 but you're welcome to stop by and see us at the NRC 25 and deliver your comments in person to us.

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I want to mention that the scoping period 2

closes on January 29, 2007.

So to assure 3

consideration of your comments, we'd request that you 4

provide them by that date.

5 Next slide.

6 The proposed review schedule for Wolf 7

Creek is presented here, and it's also posted on the 8

NRC's website.

All of the items that are highlighted 9

in yellow are opportunities for public involvement.

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now, as mentioned, we are in the scoping 11 process.

And there are two dates --

January 29,

2007, 12 for the scoping period.closing, as well as the 13 opportunity for hearing closing.

That is the same 14

date, I should say, January 29th..

15 This information is all provided in the 16 Federal Register notice that I mentioned is in the 17 handouts.

Once we receive your comments, we will 18 develop a scoping summary report that will provide 19 responses to all comments received and will indicate 20 how the comments will be addressed in our review.

A 21 copy of the scoping summary report will be sent to you 22 if you provided your address at the registration 23 table.

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develop the draft supplemental environmental impact 2

statement and issue a draft SEIS in August 2007.

3 There will be a 75-day period between August 24, 2007, 4

and November 7,

2007, for the public to provide 5

comments on the draft SEIS.

6 Another public meeting will be held on 7

October 3, 2007.

That's right in the middle of that 8

75-day comment period.

And it will be held --

we just 9

verified this morning right here at this same 10 location.

So that's October 3rd.

11 The purpose of the October public meeting 12 is to present preliminary results of the staff's 13 review and solicit comments on the draft SEIS.

All 14 comments received on the draft SEIS will be addressed

.15 and/or incorporated into the final SEIS.

The final 16 SEIS will be published in March 2008.

17 Next slide, please.

18 This slide lists the points of contact for 19 the safety and environmental reviews.

It's also in 20 your handouts.

If you have any questions or need 21 information, you can reach any of the persons listed 22 here.

Also, several documents, like the application, 23 the draft SEIS, the scoping summary report, the final 24 SEIS, and other documents that have yet to be produced 25 will be available at this library.

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those documents at the NRC website.

The address is 2

listed at the bottom of the page.

3 This concludes my remarks here today.

4 I'll turn the meeting back over to Steve Hoffman.

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HOFFMAN:

Thank you, Christian and 6

Veronica.

7 Okay.

At this point, we'll see if anyone 8

has any questions or if we need to clarify anything.

9 If you do, raise your hand.

I'll bring you the 10 microphone.

And if you would, introduce yourself and 11 any affiliation.

So any questions, or does everybody 12 understand the process?

13 (No response.)

14 Okay.

All right.

Then, we'll go into the 15 public comment period on the scoping of the 16 environmental scoping process..

So, again, if you 17 would come up, give your name, affiliation, and any 18 conflicts.

19 (No response.)

20 Okay.

If there are no questions, no 21

comments, in that case, then I thank you all for 22 coming out today and participating in the process.

We 23 do try to get the information out.

And Rani will do 24 the closing.

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Chief of the Environmental Review Branch that conducts 2

the environmental review.

3 Thank you all for coming.

I'm sorry that 4

there are no comments on the scope of our review.

If, 5

after you leave the meeting today, you think of 6

anything you want to send to us, please do.

Again, 7

Veronica and Christian are the points of contact, and 8

their contact information is in the handout.

9 It's just a very important component of 10 our review to hear from the people who live in the 11 community and know what some of the environmental 12 issues are that we need to consider.

I also wanted to 13 mention that we havea public meeting feedback form 14 that you may have received when you registered outside 15 at our table.

16 If you have any ideas of how we can do the 17 meetings better, things that we can spend more time 18 talking about, things that we can do differently to 19 better meet your needs, please let us know.

You can 20 leave the feedback form with a member of the NRC 21

staff, or you can fold it up and mail it in.

Postage 22 is prepaid.

23 And with that, I just wanted to thank 24 everybody for coming and have a good night.

25 Thank you.

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Name of Proceeding: Wolf Creek Nuclear Public Scoping Meeting Docket Number:

50-482 Location:

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