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| Issue date: | 09/17/2014 |
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Official Transcript of Proceedings NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Title:
Sequoyah License Renewal Public Meeting - Afternoon Session Docket Number:
(n/a)
Location:
Soddy Daisy, Tennessee Date:
Wednesday, September 17, 2014 Work Order No.:
NRC-1069 Pages 1-24 NEAL R. GROSS AND CO., INC.
Court Reporters and Transcribers 1323 Rhode Island Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20005 (202) 234-4433
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1
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2 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 3
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4 OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION 5
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6 SEQUOYAH LICENSE RENEWAL 7
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW 8
PUBLIC MEETING - AFTERNOON SESSION 9
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10 WEDNESDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 17, 2014 12
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13 SODDY DAISY, TENNESSEE 14
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15 The meeting convened at Soddy Daisy City 16 Hall, 9835 Dayton Pike, Soddy Daisy, Tennessee, at 2:00 17 p.m.
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 P R O C E E D I N G S 1
(2:00 p.m.)
2 MR. HAGAR: May I have your attention 3
please. Steve, are you hearing me all right? Okay.
4 This is a meeting called by the Nuclear Regulatory 5
Commission to discuss the preliminary results of the 6
license renewal environmental review of the Sequoyah 7
Nuclear Plant.
8 Good afternoon. My name is Bob Hagar, I'm 9
a member of the NRC's Facilitation Corps and in this 10 meeting my role has really three parts.
11 One is I'm going to try to help the meeting 12 run smoothly. I'm going to make sure that everybody who 13 has something to say in this meeting has a chance to say 14 it and I'm going to try to keep us on schedule.
15 I'll do my best to make this meeting 16 worthwhile for everyone who's here, and I hope you'll 17 help me do that.
18 Before we get started, I want to cover with 19 you a few details about this meeting. First of all, I 20 think everyone knows that Tennessee Valley's Authority 21 has applied to renew the Sequoyah operating license for 22 an additional 20 years.
23 The NRC is reviewing that application.
24 The NRC is also reviewing, as part of that application, 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 the environmental impact of license renewal. NRC has 1
developed some preliminary results of that review and 2
the NRC wants your comments on those results, and so 3
that's really the primary purpose of this meeting.
4 Next, the meeting today essentially has 5
three parts. The first part is going to be the NRC 6
presentation. They're going to describe the process by 7
which they develop the results they're going to describe 8
today. Then we're going to have a period where we're 9
going to cover questions and answers where you can ask 10 questions. The NRC staff will answer questions about 11 the presentation materials because the NRC wants to 12 ensure that you understand the process that they're 13 in.
14 Following that, the NRC wants comments on 15 the results that they've described. So the meeting's 16 got those three parts.
17 Now the NRC is going to describe the results 18 of the environmental review and they're going to say 19 that it's been documented in a draft supplemental 20 environment impact statement and they may refer to that 21 document as the DSEIS, in fact I'm going to refer to it 22 as a DSEIS too so when you hear DSEIS think Draft 23 Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement. They 24 might also refer to just the general Supplemental 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 Environmental Impact Statement and let me call that the 1
SEIS.
2 Now in this third part, in the public 3
comment section, the NRC staff will listen to your 4
comments about the environmental impact of license 5
renewal. Now note that the NRC staff will listen --
6 they generally won't respond, won't provide responses 7
to what you say. Instead, they'll prepare written 8
responses to your comments after the meeting, after 9
they've had a chance to refer to documents and talk to 10 other people to make sure they've got the right answers, 11 and they'll include those responses in the report of 12 this meeting.
13 Now also the NRC has arranged to have this 14 meeting recorded, and this gentleman off to the right 15 is preparing that record. That's so the NRC can produce 16 a transcript, that is a record of what was said during 17 the meeting.
18 Now in order for that transcript to be 19 accurate we need to establish a few ground rules to 20 ensure that the recording is clear and complete.
21 First of all, in this meeting when you speak 22 I want you to speak into a microphone and this is the 23 microphone that we want you to speak into. So when you 24 have a question we want you to come up here and ask the 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 question, if you have comments you want to make we want 1
you to come up here and make those comments so that what 2
you say gets recorded.
3 Now the first time you speak we want you to 4
identify yourself and, if you represent a group, what 5
group you represent. Also, if you have an uncommon name 6
or if your name has a unusual spelling, please also spell 7
your name. And also to ensure that the recording is 8
clear, we want you to minimize any background noise.
9 Don't hold side conversations and don't interrupt the 10 speaker, wait till the speaker is done. That's because 11 if the microphones picks up two people speaking at the 12 same time, we can't tell what either one of them said.
13 So finally please silence your personal 14 cell phone and any other personal electronics you have 15 with you. Now we realize that you may not be able to 16 completely disconnect yourself from the rest of the 17 world during this meeting but if you have to take a call 18 during this meeting please step out in the hallway and 19 take care of that business so that the other meeting 20 participants can hear what's going on and so that 21 neither your phone ringing nor your side of the 22 conversation becomes part of the record. Is everyone 23 okay with those ground rules? All right.
24 When you signed in today you may have 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 noticed some blue and yellow cards, they look like this, 1
and if you wanted to speak we asked you to sign in. I 2
don't think anybody did. So if during the presentation 3
you decide you do want to say something, just let met 4
know. I'm going to be sitting right up here and I'll 5
give you a card so you can fill it out.
6 And when we get to the third part of the 7
meeting I'll see how much time remains and see how many 8
people want to say something and do the simple math to 9
see how much each time each person has. So if you plan 10 to be a speaker please plan to be flexible enough to fit 11 what you want to say in the time that remains.
12 Now also on the table is a public meeting 13 feedback form. We'd ask you to fill that out before you 14 leave today and hand it to any of the NRC staff members 15 or, if you choose to take it with you, please drop it 16 in the mail. It's postage free. And your assessment 17 of how today's meeting went will help us improve future 18 meetings so please take a moment to let us know what you 19 think about it.
20 Finally, I think everybody knows the 21 restrooms are right outside the door. If there's a 22 problem where we have to evacuate, if we hear an alarm 23 or someone tells us we have to evacuate, we want to just 24 step outside this door and turn right and that'll take 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 you right outside and we'll gather on the lawn out there.
1 And we have a couple of security officers back there in 2
the back to help us if we have an emergency. So does 3
anyone have question about anything I've covered?
4 All right. With that I'm going to turn 5
this meeting over to David Drucker. He's the 6
environmental project manager for the NRC's review of 7
the Sequoyah license renewal application, he's pretty 8
much responsible for the reviews that they're going to 9
talk about today.
10 I'll be back when the NRC presentation is 11 done and if you have any questions, again if you have 12 questions about the material that's presented, please 13 hold those questions until we get to the second part of 14 the meeting. All right? Thank you for your attention.
15 MR. DRUCKER: Thank you, Bob. And thank 16 you all for taking the time to come out to this meeting 17 today. My name is David Drucker and as Bob said I'm the 18 project manager for the environmental review for the 19 Sequoyah Nuclear Plant license renewal application.
20 I hope the information we provide with this 21 presentation will help you understand what we've done 22 so far and the role you can plan in helping us make sure 23 that the final environmental impact statement is 24 accurate and complete.
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 I would like to emphasize that the 1
environmental review is not yet complete.
2 I'd like to start off by briefly going over 3
the agenda and the purpose of this presentation. I will 4
discuss the NRC's regulatory role, the preliminary 5
findings of our environmental review which addresses 6
the impacts associated with extending the operating 7
licenses of the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant for an additional 8
20 years, and I will present the current schedule for 9
the remainder of the environmental review and how you 10 can submit comments outside of this meeting.
11 At the end of the presentation there will 12 be time for questions and answers on the contents of my 13 briefing and, most importantly, time for you to present 14 your comments on the draft supplemental environmental 15 impact statement, the acronym for which you'll hear me 16 refer to it is SEIS.
17 Next slide. The NRC was established to 18 regulate civilian use of nuclear materials including 19 facilities producing electric power. The NRC conducts 20 license renewal reviews for plants whose owners wish to 21 operate them beyond their initial license period.
22 NRC license renewal reviews address safety 23 issues related to managing the effects of aging, and 24 environmental issues related to an additional 20 years 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 of operation.
1 In all aspects of the NRC's regulation our 2
mission is threefold. To ensure adequate protection of 3
public health and safety; to promote common defense and 4
security, and to protect the environment.
5 Next slide. We're here today to discuss 6
the potential site-specific impacts of license renewal 7
for the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant. The generic 8
environmental impact statement, or GEIS, examines the 9
possible environmental impacts that could occur as a 10 result of renewing licenses of individual nuclear power 11 plants.
12 The GEIS establishes and bounds the 13 significance of these potential impacts. The analysis 14 in the GEIS pertains to operating power reactors. For 15 each type of environmental impact, the GEIS establishes 16 generic findings covering as many plants as possible.
17 There is a copy of the generic environmental impact 18 statement out on the table outside the room and that 19 document is also available online.
20 Now for some environmental issues the GEIS 21 found that a generic evaluation was not sufficient and 22 that a plant-specific analysis was required. The 23 site-specific findings for Sequoyah are contained in 24 the draft SEIS which was published in July of 2004 and 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 I have a copy of it here and there's copies of it, both 1
a hard copy out on the table outside this room and CDs 2
with this document available for you all.
3 This document contains analyses of the 4
applicable site-specific issues as well as a review of 5
the issues covered by the GEIS to determine whether the 6
conclusions of the GEIS are valid for Sequoyah. In this 7
process the NRC staff also reviews the environmental 8
impacts of potential power generation alternatives to 9
10 Next slide. For each environmental issue 11 identified, an impact level is assigned. The NRC 12 standard of significance for impacts was established 13 using the White House Council on Environmental Quality 14 terminology for significance. The NRC established 15 three levels of significance for potential impacts --
16 small, moderate and large -- as defined in the slide.
17 For a small impact the effects are not 18 detectable or so minor that they will neither 19 destabilize nor noticeably alter any important 20 attribute of the resource.
21 For a moderate impact the effects are 22 sufficient to alter noticeably, but not destabilize, 23 important attributes of the resource.
24 And for a large impact the effects are 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 clearly noticeable and are sufficient to destabilize 1
important attributes of the resource.
2 While these impact level designations are 3
used for most of the resource areas analyzed in this 4
DSEIS, there are three areas that have their own impact 5
level designations and they are discussed on the next 6
slide.
7 So for special status species the impact 8
significance determination language comes from the 9
Endangered Species Act and the choices to describe the 10 impacts are no effect, may affect but not likely to 11 adversely affect, and may affect and is likely to 12 adversely affect.
13 For cultural and historic resources the 14 National Historic Preservation Act requires federal 15 agencies to consider the effects of their undertakings 16 on historic properties and, finally, for environmental 17 justice under Executive Order 12898 federal agencies 18 are responsible for identifying and addressing 19 disproportionately high and adverse human health and 20 environmental impacts on minority and low income 21 populations.
22 So on these last slides you've seen now what 23 the impact levels are that we'll use to describe here 24 in the DSEIS.
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 Next slide. As a part of the environmental 1
review, the NRC staff considered cumulative impacts.
2 Cumulative impacts include the effects on the 3
environment from other past, present and reasonably 4
foreseeable future human actions.
5 These effects not only include the 6
operation of Sequoyah Nuclear Plant but also impacts 7
from activities unrelated to Sequoyah, such as future 8
urbanization and energy producing facilities in the 9
area and also climate change.
10 The analysis considers potential impacts 11 through the end of the current license term as well as 12 a 20-year license renewal period.
13 The cumulative impacts on all resource 14 areas were found to be small with the following 15 exceptions. First, the cumulative impacts on surface 16 water would be small to moderate primarily due to 17 long-term surface water warming associated with climate 18 change.
19 Second, cumulative impacts on terrestrial 20 resources would be moderate, primarily due to 21 increasing urbanization.
22 Next, the cumulative impacts on aquatic 23 resources would be large primarily due to the historical 24 change on the Tennessee River since the early 1900s and 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 the cumulative impact on global climate change would be 1
moderate, primarily due to present and future global 2
emissions of greenhouse gasses.
3 Next slide. So now that we've looked at 4
cumulative impacts we're going to take a look at the 5
site-specific impacts generated here by the Sequoyah 6
Nuclear Plant. And this slide lists those impacts that 7
the NRC staff reviewed for continued operation of 8
Sequoyah Nuclear Plant during the proposed license 9
renewal period.
10 Overall, the impacts for license renewal on 11 all these issues were found to be small, which means the 12 effects are not detectable or so minor that they will 13 neither destabilize nor noticeably alter any important 14 attribute of the resource.
15 Next slide. The National Environmental 16 Policy Act mandates that each environmental impact 17 statement consider alternatives to any proposed major 18 federal action.
19 A major step in determining whether license 20 renewal is reasonable or not is comparing the likely 21 impacts of continued operation of the nuclear plant with 22 the likely impacts of alternative means of power 23 generation. Alternatives must provide an option that 24 allows for power generation capability beyond the term 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 of the current nuclear power plant operating licenses 1
to meet future system generating needs.
2 In the draft SEIS, NRC staff initially 3
considered 18 different alternatives and then narrowed 4
those 18 down to four alternatives and considered those 5
four alternatives in depth.
6 Additionally, the NRC staff considered 7
what would happen if no action is taken and Sequoyah 8
shuts down at the end of its current licenses without 9
a specific replacement alternative.
10 This alternative would not provide power 11 generation capacity, nor would it meet the needs 12 currently met by Sequoyah.
13 The NRC's preliminary conclusion is that 14 the environmental impacts of license renewal for 15 Sequoyah would be smaller than those feasible and 16 commercially viable alternatives.
Continued 17 operation would have small environmental impacts in all 18 areas. The staff concluded that continued operation of 19 the existing Sequoyah Nuclear Plant is the 20 environmentally preferred alternative.
21 Next slide. Based on a review of the 22 likely environmental impacts from license renewal as 23 well as potential environmental impacts of alternatives 24 to license renewal, the NRC staff's preliminary 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 recommendation in the draft SEIS is that the adverse 1
environmental impacts of license renewal for Sequoyah 2
are not great enough to deny the option of license 3
renewal for energy planning decision makers.
4 Next slide. This draft SEIS does not 5
discuss potential environmental impacts of storing 6
spent fuel for an extended period after the plant shuts 7
down. For the term beyond the 20-year period of 8
extended operation, the NRC addresses the management of 9
spent nuclear fuel in the continued storage final fuel.
10 On August 26, 2014, the Commission approved 11 publication of the continued storage final rule and the 12 generic environmental impact statement that supports 13 it. Under the final rule the environmental impacts of 14 continued storage are generically determined in new reg 15 2157; its title is "Generic Environmental Impact 16 Statement for Continued Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel."
17 And that information is codified in the NRC regulations 18 at 10 CFR 51.23 and therefore those impacts do not need 19 to be determined on a site-specific basis so they're not 20 covered here in our DSEIS.
21 Next slide. So I'd like to reemphasize 22 that the environmental review is not yet complete. Your 23 comments today, and all written comments received by the 24 end of the comment period on September 29th, will be 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 considered by the NRC staff as we develop the final SEIS, 1
which we currently plan to issue in March 2015.
2 Those comments that are within the scope of 3
the environmental review and provide new and 4
significant information can help change the staff's 5
findings. The final SEIS will contain the staff's 6
final recommendation on acceptability of license 7
renewal based on a work we've already performed and any 8
new and significant information we receive in the form 9
of comments during the comment period.
10 Next slide. As many of you know, I am a 11 primary contact for the environmental review. Manny 12 Sayoc is the primary contact for the safety review.
13 Copies of the draft SEIS are available on CD in the 14 entryway. In addition, the three libraries showing the 15 slide have a hard copy of the draft SEIS.
16 You can also find electronic copies of the 17 draft SEIS, along with other information about the 18 Sequoyah Nuclear Plant license renewal review, online 19 at the website shown. Copies of these slides are 20 available out in the hallway so you don't need to write 21 this down if you find it too long to write down. You can 22 find it right outside.
23 Next slide. NRC staff will address 24 written comments in the same way we address spoken 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 comments received today. You can submit written 1
comments online or via conventional mail. To submit 2
written comments
- online, visit the website 3
regulations.gov and search for Docket ID No. NRC 4
2013-0037. If you have written comments today you may 5
give them to any NRC staff member and those comments that 6
are made, other people's comments can also be viewed at 7
regulations.gov at that Docket ID number I just cited, 8
and that's available here.
9 This concludes my presentation and I'll 10 turn the meeting back over to Bob.
11 MR. HAGAR: All right. That was part 1 of 12 the meeting, now we're in part 2. Does anyone have any 13 questions about the material that was presented? David, 14 if you would please step up here, ask your question and 15 then we'll ask the NRC staff to respond.
16 MR. LOCKBURN: Good afternoon. My name is 17 David Lockburn. I have two questions. Shall I ask both 18 of them?
19 MR. HAGAR: Why don't you ask both of them 20 and we'll let the staff decide whether they can respond 21 to both of them at once or separately.
22 MR. LOCKBURN: Fair enough. The first 23 question was is the NRC's process for the environmental 24 assessments for license renewal different in any 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 appreciable way because TVA is a federal entity instead 1
of a private company?
2 And the second question was regarding the 3
cumulative impacts, they were based on a projection of 4
future activities. Is there a formal process to flag 5
and address any future activities that exceed the 6
projections that were made in good faith to this point?
7 MR. HAGAR: Okay. Can you guys address 8
those separately or what? Why don't you just step up 9
here. Maybe let's take them separately. The first 10 question?
11 MR. DRUCKER: The first question was is 12 there any difference between this review and other 13 reviews we've done because TVA is a government entity?
14 And I personally have been involved with two past 15 reviews, one out at Palo Verde, not a TVA plant, one down 16 at Grand Gulf, again not a TVA plant. And no, there were 17 no differences in this review as compared to those two 18 or any others I would anticipate throughout the country.
19 The process is exactly the same.
20 MR. HAGAR: Okay. And then the second 21 question?
22 MR. DRUCKER: I want to make sure -- I 23 wasn't 100 percent, Dave, it was the cumulative impacts 24 and you wanted to know if we flag and identify things, 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 is it in the future?
1 MR. HAGAR: Again give your question 2
again, David.
3 MR. LOCKBURN: This is Dave Lockburn 4
again. The question is cumulative impacts you project 5
future activities and then try to assess. And the 6
question was if those future activities differ from what 7
the estimates were or the projections were, is there a 8
formal process to flag that and address that delta from 9
what was done now based on the projection?
10 MR. DRUCKER: You're talking about things 11 changing in the future?
12 MR. LOCKBURN: That's correct, yes.
13 MR. DRUCKER: Okay. Good question. From 14 a licensed renewal standpoint, if something changes 15 during a license renewal process, that will be fed into 16 the license renewal process. And we tried to make that 17
-- I hope I made that clear that we're not done. We just 18 produced a draft. The next step is to produce the final.
19 So at any time between now and, for example, 20 this comment period that ends September 29th, or even 21 after that, if something new and significant comes along 22 and comes into my knowledge and awareness, that will 23 feed into this process.
24 After the license renewal process is 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 complete and a license is granted, that would have to 1
feed -- changes from anything, any other changes whether 2
it's cumulative or something that you're familiar with, 3
with safety, there would be other avenues that you would 4
need to feed that information to the NRC.
5 I just want to point out that from a 6
cumulative standpoint, if you turn to Appendix E in the 7
draft supplemental environment impact statement, there 8
is a list of the projects that we foresee today impacting 9
the region cumulatively. And so that's basically what 10 you would look to. If there's something different that 11 you're aware of that's not in that Appendix E, I would 12 certainly want to be made aware of it.
13 MR. LOCKBURN: Thanks.
14 MR. DRUCKER: Thank you.
15 MR. HAGAR: David, did that answer your 16 question? Very good. Does anyone else have questions 17 about the material that was presented? All right. I 18 don't see any hands.
19 So now we'll enter the third part of the 20 program, the third part of the meeting. This is an 21 opportunity for you to provide your input, any comments 22 you have that relate to the environmental impact of 23 renewing the license of Sequoyah Nuclear Plant.
24 And again I didn't have anybody sign up so 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 now's the time if you want to speak, now is the time to 1
raise your hand. I'll call on the people who raise 2
their hands and you can come on up here and ask.
3 All right. I see no hands and I interpret 4
that to mean that no one has any input they want to 5
provide in this meeting. So Brian Wittick, do you have 6
any closing comments?
7 MR. WITTICK: Good afternoon. My name is 8
Brian Wittick, I'm the chief of the environmental 9
projects branch.
10 First, I wanted to thank everyone for 11 coming out today. We really value everyone's comments, 12 any feedback that's provided. That's the purpose of the 13 meeting that we're having here today is to try to solicit 14 comments, insights, questions from local members of the 15 public. It's an important part of the Nuclear Regulatory 16 Commission's process or values to be open and 17 transparent and engage members of the public.
18 During the environmental impact review 19 process, we have two opportunities for engaging the 20 public. The first is when we first receive the 21 environmental report. We have a public scoping meeting 22 that was conducted about a year ago, and this is the 23 second and last opportunity for the public to provide 24 comment.
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 As David mentioned, the comment period for 1
the draft environmental impact statement runs through 2
the 29th of September -- could you move back to the 3
previous slide that provides for comments?
4 MR. HAGAR: I think I can. It's kind of 5
awkward here.
6 MR. WITTICK: So we have until the 29th of 7
September for everyone to submit their comments. As 8
David mentioned, this is the process to do so. Or on the 9
slide before that David provided his email. You can 10 provide comments to any one of us.
11 And the last thing that I want to mention 12 is if you have any comments or questions but you didn't 13 feel comfortable getting up and asking, we have a number 14 of members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff, 15 we have Gaillard Smith who's the senior resident out at 16 the Sequoyah Plant with us and Philip is the resident 17 out at the plant right now. Bob, David, myself, we'll 18 all be around after the meeting for a time for anyone 19 that wants to engage us and has any questions.
20 Again, I thank everybody for coming out 21 today and I'll turn it back over to Bob.
22 MR. HAGAR: Well thanks Brian. I want to 23 remind you that we'd like you to fill out a meeting 24 feedback form and reinforce what Brian just said, that 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 the NRC staff is going to be available after the meeting; 1
if you want to have some one-on-one conversations you 2
do that at that time.
3 And in advance we want to thank you for 4
providing feedback on this meeting and with that this 5
meeting is concluded. NRC will stand by to meet with 6
you one-on-one if you wish. Thank you all for your 7
time.
8 (Whereupon, the Sequoyah Public Meeting 9
having been concluded, went off the record at 2:29 p.m.)
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