ML19053A650

Letter to Eastern Band of Cherokee, Notification of the Issuance of the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Early Site Permit Application for the Clinch River Nuclear Site in Roane County, Tennessee

ML19053A650
Person / Time
Site:	Clinch River
Issue date:	04/03/2019
From:	Jennivine Rankin NRC/NRO/DLSE
To:	Sneed D Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
Williamson A
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April 3, 2019 The Honorable Richard Sneed, Principal Chief Eastern Band of The Cherokee Indians Qualla Boundary Reservation Post Office Box 455 Cherokee, NC 28719

SUBJECT:

NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF THE ISSUANCE OF THE FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR AN EARLY SITE PERMIT AT THE CLINCH RIVER NUCLEAR SITE IN ROANE COUNTY, TENNESSEE

Dear Principal Chief Sneed:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has completed NUREG-2226, Environmental Impact Statement for an Early Site Permit (ESP) at the Clinch River Nuclear Site, Final Report.

The final environmental impact statement (EIS) focuses on the impacts of building and operating two or more small modular reactors (SMRs) at the Clinch River Nuclear (CRN) Site near Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District (USACE), is a cooperating agency on the final EIS, which was prepared in accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 51, the NRCs regulations that implement the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, as amended.

A notice of availability of the final EIS is anticipated to be published by the NRC on or before April 11, 2019 in the Federal Register. Enclosed, for your convenience, is a readers guide which contains a DVD with electronic versions of Volumes 1 and 2 of the final EIS. The readers guide is a detailed brochure to facilitate your understanding of the proposed action and its potential environmental impacts. The final EIS is also available through the publicly available records component of the NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) under Accession Nos. ML19073A099 and ML19073A109. In addition, the final EIS can be found online on the NRC CRN Site Web site at: http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/esp/clinch-river.html#feis.

By letter dated April 20, 2017 (ADAMS Accession No. ML17017A123), the NRC staff notified you that in accordance with 36 CFR 800.8(c), the staff is using the NEPA process to comply with its obligations under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966, as amended, in lieu of the procedures set forth in 36 CFR 800.3 through 800.6. Accordingly, completion of the final EIS also documents NRCs completion of NHPA Section 106 compliance and consultation for its action to issue an ESP. An ESP does not, however, authorize construction and operation of a nuclear power plant. Should Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) choose to proceed with their proposed project, they would need to apply for, and receive, a separate authorization (such as a combined license) from the NRC in order to construct and operate a nuclear power plant at the CRN Site. This authorization would constitute a separate NRC undertaking and would require the NRC to prepare a supplemental EIS and complete a separate NHPA Section 106 review and consultation. As a Federal agency, TVA is also required to comply with NEPA and the NHPA independently from NRC and the USACE.

Principal Chief Sneed 2 TVA has executed a programmatic agreement (PA) in consultation with your office and consulting American Indian Tribes. The final EIS describes how TVAs PA plans to resolve potential adverse effects of building and operating two or more SMRs on historic properties within the direct and indirect areas of potential effect.

As discussed in the final EIS, the staffs recommendation related to the environmental aspects of the proposed action is that the ESP should be issued. This recommendation is based on:

(1) the environmental report (ER) submitted by TVA, as revised; (2) consultation with Federal, State, Tribal and local agencies; (3) the NRC staffs independent review; (4) the NRC staffs consideration of comments received during the environmental review; and (5) the assessments summarized in the final EIS, including the potential mitigation measures identified in the ER and in this EIS. In addition, in making its recommendation, the NRC staff has concluded that none of the alternative sites considered is obviously superior to the proposed CRN Site.

If you have any questions concerning the NRC staffs environmental review of this ESP application, please contact Ms. Tamsen Dozier at (301) 415-2272 or by e-mail at Tamsen.Dozier@nrc.gov, or Ms. Jennifer Davis at (301) 415-3835 or by e-mail at Jennifer.Davis@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Jennivine Rankin, Acting Chief Licensing Branch 3 Division of Licensing, Siting, and Environmental Analysis Office of New Reactors Docket No.: 52-047

Enclosures:

1. DVD

2. Readers Guide cc: Russell Townsend, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer

ML19053A650 *via e-mail NRO-002 OFFICE PM:NRO:DLSE LA:NRO:DLSE PM:NRO:DLSE BC:NRO:DLSE NAME AWilliamson SGreen JDavis KErwin DATE 3/4/2019 2/26/2019 2/28/19 3/21/2019 OFFICE BC:NRO:DLSE OGC DD:NRO:DLSE BC:NRO:DLSE NAME JRankin AHove ABradford JRankin (sign)

DATE 3/20/2019 3/19/2019 3/21/2019 4/3/2019 Clinch River Environmental Mailing List (Revised 03/27/2019) cc:

Mr. Lionel Batty Mr. Larry Long Nuclear Business Team NEPA Program Office Graftech U.S. Environmental Protection 12300 Snow Road Agency, Region 4 Parma, OH 44130 61 Forsyth Street, SW Atlanta, GA 30303 Russell Bell Nuclear Energy Institute Mr. E. Patrick McIntyre, Jr.

1776 I Street, NW Executive Director and Suite 400 State Historic Preservation Officer Washington, DC 20006-3708 Tennessee Historical Commission State Historic Preservation Office Ms. Amy S. Fitzgerald, Ph.D. 2941 Lebanon Pike Government Affairs and Nashville, TN 37214 Information Services Director City of Oak Ridge Ms. Kathy McNeily P.O. Box 1 Director Oak Ridge, TN 37831 Oak Ridge Public Library 1401 Oak Ridge Turnpike Ms. Taconya Goar Oak Ridge, TN 37830 Environmental Affairs Supervisor Alabama Department of Conservation and Mr. Reid Nelson Natual Resources Director 64 North Union Street, Suite 551 Office of Federal Agency Programs Montgomery, AL 36130 Advisory Council on Historic Preservation 401 F Street NW, Suite 308 Mr. Brendan Hoffman Washington, DC 20001-2637 Research Associate on Nuclear Energy Public Citizens Critical Mass Energy and Mr. Bill Pearson Environmental Program Field Supervisor 215 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Washington, DC 20003 Alabama Ecological Services Field Office 1208-B Main Street Ms. Mary Jennings Daphne, AL 36526 Field Supervisor U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Carlos Sisco Tennessee Ecological Services Field Office Senior Paralegal 466 Neal Street Winston & Strawn LLP Cookeville, TN 38506 1700 K Street NW Washington, DC 20006 Page 1 of 6

Clinch River Environmental Mailing List Ms. Emily Steele Kingston Public Library 1004 Bradford Way Kingston, TN 37763 Mr. Daniel P. Stout Senior Manager Tennessee Valley Authority Small Modular Reactors 1101 Market Street, LP 4B Chattanooga, TN 37402 Ms. Tammy Turley U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District 3701 Bell Road Nashville, TN 37214 Page 2 of 6

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Clinch River Environmental Mailing List Mike Stomer (mstomer@smeinc.com) mkirkega@vols.utk.edu (Marie Kirkegaard) moorejam@charter.net (Johny Moore) murawski@newsobserver.com (John Murawski) nanako@wcore.com (Nanako Hisamichi) nicholas_luciano@yahoo.com (Nick Luciano) patriciaL.campbell@ge.com (Patricia L. Campbell)

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