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Notice of Availability of Draft Plant-Specific Supplement 52 to Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants Regarding Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1
ML14050A078
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Site: Davis Besse Cleveland Electric icon.png
Issue date: 02/24/2014
From: Brian Wittick
License Renewal Projects Branch 2
To: Lieb R
FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Co
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 February 24, 2014 Mr. Raymond A Lieb, Site Vice President FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station Mail Stop A-DB-3080 5501 North State Route 2 Oak Harbor, OH 43449-9760

SUBJECT:

NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF THE DRAFT PLANT-SPECIFIC SUPPLEMENT 52 TO THE GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR LICENSE RENEWAL OF NUCLEAR PLANTS REGARDING DAVIS-BESSE NUCLEAR POWER STATION, UNIT 1

Dear Mr. Lieb:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff has completed the draft plant-specific Supplement 52 to NUREG-1437, "Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants (GElS)," regarding the renewal of operating license NPF-3 for an additional20 years of operation for Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1 (Davis-Besse).

Enclosed is a copy of the draft supplement and the associated Federal Register Notice of Availability. This notice advises the public that the draft supplement is publicly available at the NRC Public Document Room or from the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC website at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. The accession number for draft Supplement 52 to the GElS is ML14050A290. In addition, paper copies of the draft Supplement 52 are available to the public at the Ida Rupp Public Library, 310 Madison Street, Port Clinton, OH, 43452, and the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, 325 North Michigan Street, Toledo, OH, 43452 As discussed in Chapter 9 of the draft supplement, the preliminary recommendation is that the adverse environmental impacts of license renewal for Davis-Besse are not great enough to deny the option of license renewal for energy-planning decisionmakers. This recommendation is based on: (1) the analysis and findings in the GElS; (2) the Environmental Report submitted by Ameren; (3) consultation with Federal, state, local, and tribal agencies; (4) the NRC staff's own independent review; and (5) the staff's consideration of public comments received during the seeping process.

Public meetings to discuss the findings of the draft SEIS will be held on Tuesday, March 25, 2014, at the Camp Perry Conference Center, 1000 Lawrence Road, Bldg. 600, Port Clinton, Ohio. 43453. The first session will convene at 2:00p.m. and will continue until4:00 p.m., as necessary. The second session will convene at 7:00p.m. and will continue until9:00 p.m., as necessary. An NRC meeting notice will be published to provide more details about those public meetings.

A separate Notice of Availability of the draft supplemental environmental impact statement will be placed in the Federal Register through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

R. Lieb If you have any questions regarding this matter, please contact Elaine Keegan, Senior Project Manager for the environmental review of the Davis~ Besse license renewal application, by telephone at 301-415~8517 or by e~mail at Elaine.keegan@nrc.gov.

Sincerely, Brian 0. Wittick, Chief Projects Branch 2 Division of License Renewal Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-346

Enclosure:

As stated cc w/encl: Listserv

R. Lieb If you have any questions regarding this matter, please contact Elaine Keegan, Senior Project Manager for the environmental review of the Oavis-Besse license renewal application, by telephone at 301-415-8517 or by e-mail at Elaine.keegan@nrc.gov.

Sincerely, IRA!

Brian D. Wittick, Chief Projects Branch 2 Division of License Renewal Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-346

Enclosure:

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[Docket No. 50-346; NRC-2010-0298]

license Renewal Application for Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1 AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission ACTION: Draft supplemental generic environmentaltmpact statement: issuance publtc meeting. and request for comment.

SUMMARY

The US. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for public comment a draft plant-specific Supplement 52 to the "Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GElS) for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants," NUREG-1437, regarding the renewal of operating license NPF-3 for an additional20 years of operation for Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1 (Davis-Besse). Oavis-Besse is located in Ottawa County, Ohio. Possible alternatives to the proposed action (license renewal) include no action and reasonable alternative energy sources.

The NRC staff plans to hold two public meetings during the public comment period to present an overview of the draft plant-specific supplement to the GElS and to accept public comments on the document DATES: Submit comments by April21, 2014. Comments rece1ved afterth1s date will be considered, if it is practical to do so, but the NRC staff 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 (unless this document describes a different method for submitting comments on a specific subject):

  • Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.requlations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-201 0-0298. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301*287-3422, e-mail. Carol Gallaqher@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section ofth1s document.
  • Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Chief, Rules, Announcements, and Directives Branch, Office of Administration, Mail Stop: 3WFN-06-44M, U.S Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington. DC 20555-0001 For additional direction on accessing information and submitting comments, see "Accessing Information and Submitting Comments'* in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ela1ne Keegan, Office of Nuclear Reactor RegUlation. US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone:

301-415-8517 or by e-mail at Elaine.Keegan@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Accessing Information and Submitting Comments.

A. Accessing Information Please refer to Docket 10 NRC~201 0-0298 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You may access publicly-available information related to this document by any of the following methods.

  • Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to htto /iV'Nvw_reaulations aov and search for Docket ID NRC-2010-0298
  • NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS):

You may access publicly available documents online in the NRC Library at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html To begin the search, select "ADAMS Public Documents" and then select "Begin Web-based ADAMS Search." For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's Public Document Room reference staff at 1-800-397-4209. 301-415-4737. or by e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The ADAMS accession number for each document referenced in this document (if that document is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is referenced. The draft plant-specific Supplement 52 to the GElS, is available in ADAMS under Accession No ML14050A290.

  • NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public documents at the NRC's PDR, Room 01-F21, One White Flint North. 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852 In addition, paper copies of the draft plant specific Supplement 52 are available to the public at the Ida Rupp Public Library, 310 Madison Street, Port Clinton, OH 43452, and the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, 325 North Michigan Street, Toledo, OH, 43452.

8_ Submitting Comments Please include Docket 10 NRC-2010-0298 in the subject line of your comment submission, in order to ensure that the NRC is able to make your comment submission available to the public in this docket.

The NRC cautions you not to include identifymg or contact information that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your comment submission_ The NRC will post all comment submissions at htto'//www.regulations.aov 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 submissions into ADAMS II. Discussion.

The NRC is issuing for public comment a draft plant-specific Supplement 52 to the GElS, regarding the renewal of operat1ng license NPF-3 for an additional 20 years of operation for Oavis-Besse_ Supplement 52 to the GElS includes the preliminary analysis that evaluaies the environmental impacts of the proposed action and alternatives to the proposed a::::tion. The NRC's preliminary recommendation is that the adverse environmental impacts of license

renewal for Davis-Besse are not great enough to deny the option of license renewal for energy planning decisionmakers.

Ill. Public Meetings.

The NRC staff will hold public meetings prior to the close of the public comment period to present an overview of the draft plant-specific supplement to the GElS and to accept public comment on the document. Two meettngs will be held at the Camp Perry Conference Center, 1000 Lawrence Road. Bldg 600, Port Clinton, Ohio 43453 on Tuesday, March 25. 2014_ The first session will convene at 2:00p.m. and will continue until 4:00p.m , as necessary. The second session will convene at 7 00 p.m and will continue until g-oo p.m as necessary. The meetings will be transcribed and will include: (1) a presentation of the contents of the draft plant-specific supplement to the GElS, 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 prior to the start of each session at the

  • same location. No comments on the draft supplement to the GElS will be accepted during the informal discussions. To be considered, comments must be provided either at the transcribed public meeting or in writing. Persons may pre-register to attend or present oral comments at the meeting by contacting Elaine Keegan, the NRC Environmental Project Manager. at 1-800-368-5642 extension 8517. or by e-mail at Elaine.KeeaaniWnrc.aov no later than Wednesday, March 19. 2014. Members of the public may also reg1ster to provide oral comments within 15 minutes of the start of each session Individual oral comments may be lim1ted by the time available. depending on the number of persons who register. If special equipment or accommodations are needed to attend or present Information at the public meeting, the need

should be brought to Ms. Keegan's attention no later than Monday, March 10, 2014, to provide the NRC staff adequate notice to determine whether the request can be accommodated.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day of February, 2014.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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Brian D Wittick. Chief Projects Branch 2 Division of License Renewal Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

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