ML21272A270
| ML21272A270 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Saint Lucie  |
| Issue date: | 10/19/2021 |
| From: | Robert Elliott NRC/NMSS/DREFS/ELRB |
| To: | |
| Rakovan L,NMSS/REFS/ELRB | |
| Shared Package | |
| ML21272A213 | List: |
| References | |
| NRC-2021-0197 | |
| Download: ML21272A270 (9) | |
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[7590-01-P]
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-335 and 50-389; NRC-2021-0197]
Notice of Intent to Conduct Scoping Process and
Prepare Environmental Impact Statement
Florida Power & Light Co.
St. Lucie Plant Units 1 and 2
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Intent to conduct scoping process and prepare environmental i mpact
statement; public scoping meeting and request for comment.
SUMMARY
- The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will conduct a s coping
process to gather information necessary to prepare an environme ntal impact statement
(EIS) to evaluate the environmental impacts for the subsequent license renewal (SLR) of
the operating licenses for St. Lucie Plant, Units 1 and 2 (SLP). The NRC is seeking
public comment on this action and has scheduled public scoping meetings that will take
place as online webinars.
DATES: The NRC will hold public scoping meetings as online webinars on
November 3, 2021, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time
(ET). Submit comments on the scope of the EIS by [INSERT DATE 30 DAYS AFTER
DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER]. Comments received after
this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but t he NRC 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; howe ver,
the NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the Federal Rulemaking
Website:
- Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://regulations.gov and search for
Docket ID NRC-2021-0197. Address questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to
Stacy Schumann; telephone: 301-415-0624; email: Stacy.Schuman n@nrc.gov. For
technical questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section of this document.
- Email: Comments may be submitted to the NRC electronically using the
email address SaintLucieEnvironmental@nrc.gov.
- Mail comments to: Office of Administration, Mail Stop: TWFN-7-A60M,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, ATTN: Program
Management, Announcements and Editing Staff.
For additional direction on obtaining information and submittin g comments, see
Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments in the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lance Rakovan, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commiss ion, Washington, DC
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-2589, email: Lance.Rakovan@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2021-0197 when contacting the NRC about the
availability of information for this action. You may obtain pu blicly available information
related to this action by any of the following methods:
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- Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://regulations.gov and search for
Docket ID NRC-2021-0197.
- NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly available documents online in the ADA MS Public
Documents collection at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.ht ml. To begin the
search, select Begin Web-based ADAMS Search. For problems wi th ADAMS, please
contact the NRCs Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209,
301-415-4737, or by email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The ADAMS a ccession number for
each document referenced in this document (if it is available i n ADAMS) is provided the
first time that it is referenced.
- Attention: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies of public
documents, is currently clos ed. You may submit your request to the PDR via email at
pdr.resource@nrc.gov or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, between 8:00 a.m. and
4:00 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
- Public Library: A copy of the SLR application, including the environmental
report (ER), is available for public review at the following pu blic library locations:
- Morningside Branch of the St. Lucie County Library, 2410 SE
Morningside Blvd, Port St. Lucie, FL 4952; and
- Kilmer Branch of the St. Lucie County Library, 101 Melody Lane, Fort
Pierce, FL 34950.
B. Submitting Comments
The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the Federal
Rulemaking Website (https://www.regulations.gov). Please include Docket ID
3 NRC-2021-0197 in the subject line of your comment submission in order to ens ure that
the NRC is able to make your com ment submission available to th e public in this docket.
The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact info rmation that you
do not want to be publicly disclosed in your comment submission. The NRC will post all
comment submissions at https://www.regulations.gov as well as e nter the comment
submissions into ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely edit commen t submissions to
remove identifying or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other person s 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 dis closed in their comment
submission. Your request should state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment
submissions to remove such information before making the commen t submissions
available to the public or entering the comment into ADAMS.
II. Discussion
By letter dated August 3, 2021 (ADAMS Package Accession No. ML 21215A314),
Florida Power & Light Co. (FPL) submitted to the NRC an applica tion for subsequent
license renewal of Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-67 and NPR-16 for
SLP, Units 1 and 2, respectively, for an additional 20 years of operation. This
submission initiated the NRCs proposed action of determining w hether to grant the SLR
application. The SLP units are pressurized water reactors desi gned by Combustion
Engineering and are located in Jensen Beach, FL, approximately 10 miles sou theast of
Ft. Pierce, FL. The current renewed facility operating license for Unit 1 exp ires at
midnight on March 1, 2036, and the current renewed facility ope rating license for Unit 2
expires at midnight on April 6, 2043. The SLR application was submitted pursuant to
part 54 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), Requirements for 4
Renewal of Operating Licenses for Nuclear Power Plants, and se eks to extend the
renewed facility operating license for Unit 1 to midnight on Ma rch 1, 2056, and the
renewed facility operating license for Unit 2 to midnight on Ap ril 6, 2063. A notice of
receipt and availability of the application was published in th e Federal Register on
August 16, 2021 (86 FR 45768). A notice of acceptance for dock eting of the application
and of opportunity to request a hearing was published in the Federal Register on
September 29, 2021 (86 FR 53986) and is available on the Federal Rulemaking
Website (https://www.regulations.gov) by searching for Docket ID NRC-2021-0197.
III. Request for Comment
This notice informs the public of the NRCs intention to cond uct environmental
scoping and prepare an EIS related to the SLR application for S LP, and to provide the
public an opportunity to participate in the environmental scopi ng process, as defined in
10 CFR 51.29, Scoping-environmental impact statement and suppl ement to
environmental impact statement.
The regulations in 36 CFR 800.8, Coordination With the Nation al Environmental
Policy Act, allow agencies to use their National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
(42 U.S.C. 4321, et seq.) (NEPA) process to fulfill the require ments of Section 106 of the
National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (54 U.S.C. 300101, e t seq.) (NHPA).
Therefore, pursuant to 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC intends to use its process and
documentation required for the preparation of the EIS on the pr oposed action to comply
with Section 106 of the NHPA in lieu of the procedures set fort h at 36 CFR 800.3
through 800.6.
In accordance with 10 CFR 51.53(c) and 10 CFR 54.23, FPL submit ted an ER as
part of the SLR application. The ER was prepared pursuant to 1 0 CFR part 51,
Environmental Protection Regulations for Domestic Licensing and Related Regulatory 5
Functions, and is publicly available in ADAMS under Package Ac cession
No. ML21215A314. The ER will also be available for viewing at
https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/subseq uent-license-
renewal.html. In addition, the SLR application, including the ER, is availabl e for public
review at the Morningside Branch of the St. Lucie County Librar y, 2410 SE Morningside
Blvd, Port St. Lucie, FL 4952, and the Kilmer Branch of the St. Lucie County Library, 101
Melody Lane, Fort Pierce, FL 34950.
The NRC intends to gather the information necessary to prepare a plant-specific
supplement to NUREG-1437, Generic Environmental Impact Stateme nt for License
Renewal of Nuclear Plants (ADAMS Package Accession No. ML13107 A023) (GEIS),
related to the SLR application for St. Lucie. The NRC is requi red by 10 CFR 51.95 to
prepare a plant-specific supplement to the GEIS in connection w ith the renewal of an
operating license. This notice is being published in accordanc e with NEPA and the
NRCs regulations at 10 CFR part 51.
The supplement to the GEIS will evaluate the environmental impa cts of
subsequent license renewal for SLP, and reasonable alternatives thereto. Possible
alternatives to the proposed action include the no action alter native and reasonable
alternative energy sources.
As part of its environmental review, the NRC will first conduct a scoping process
for the plant-specific supplement to the GEIS and, as soon as p racticable thereafter, will
prepare a draft supplement to the GEIS for public comment. Par ticipation in this scoping
process by members of the public and local, State, Tribal, and Federal government
agencies is encouraged. The scoping process for the supplement to the GEIS will be
used to accomplish the following:
- a. Define the proposed action that is to be the subject of the supplement to 6
the GEIS;
- b. Determine the scope of the supplement to the GEIS and identi fy the significant
issues to be analyzed in depth;
- c. Identify and eliminate from detailed study those issues that are peripheral or are
not significant or that have been covered by prior environmenta l review;
- d. Identify any environmental assessments and other ElSs that a re being or will be
prepared that are related to, but are not part of, the scope of the supplement to the GEIS
under consideration;
- e. Identify other environmental review and consultation require ments related to the
proposed action;
- f. Indicate the relationship between the timing of the preparat ion of the
environmental analyses and the NRCs tentative planning and dec ision-making
schedule;
- g. Identify any cooperating agencies and, as appropriate, alloc ate assignments for
preparation and schedules for completing the supplement to the GEIS to the NRC and
any cooperating agencies; and
- h. Describe how the supplement to the GEIS will be prepared, in cluding any
contractor assistance to be used.
The NRC invites the following entities to participate in scopin g:
- a. The applicant, Florida Power & Light;
- b. Any Federal agency that has jurisdiction by law or special e xpertise with respect
to any environmental impact invol ved or that is authorized to d evelop and enforce
relevant environmental standards;
- c. Affected State and local government agencies, including thos e authorized to
develop and enforce relevant environmental standards; 7
- d. Any affected Indian Tribe;
- e. Any person who requests or has requested an opportunity to p articipate in the
scoping process; and
- f. Any person who has petitioned or intends to petition for lea ve to intervene under
IV. Public Scoping Meeting
In accordance with 10 CFR 51.26(b), the scoping process for a n EIS may include
a public scoping meeting to help identify significant issues re lated to the proposed action
and to determine the scope of issues to be addressed in the EIS.
The NRC is announcing that it will hold public scoping meetings as online
webinars for the SLP SLR supplement to the GEIS. The webinars will include a
telephone line for members of the public to provide comments. A court reporter will
transcribe all comments received during the webinars. To be co nsidered, comments
must be provided either at a transcribed public meeting or in w riting, as discussed in the
ADDRESSES section of this notice. The public scoping webinars will be h eld on
November 3, 2021, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. and from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET.
Persons interested in attending these online webinars should mo nitor the NRCs Public
Meeting Schedule website at https://www.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg for ad ditional information,
agenda for the meeting, and access information for the webinar. Please contact Mr.
Lance Rakovan no later than October 27, 2021, if accommodations or special equipment
is needed to attend or to provide comments, so that the NRC sta ff can determine
whether the request can be accommodated.
The public scoping meeting will include: (1) an overview by the NRC staff of the
environmental and safety review processes, the proposed scope o f the supplement to
the GEIS, and the proposed review schedule; and (2) the opportu nity for interested 8
government agencies, organizations, and individuals to submit c omments or suggestions
on environmental issues or the proposed scope of the SLP SLR su pplement to the
GEIS.
Participation in the scoping process for the SLP SLR supplemen t to the GEIS
does not entitle participants to become parties to the proceedi ng to which the
supplement to the GEIS relates. Matters related to participati on in any hearing are
outside the scope of matters to be discussed at this public mee ting.
Dated: October 19, 2021.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
/RA/
Robert B. Elliott, Chief, Environmental Review License Renewal Branch, Division of Rulemaking, Environment, and Financial Support, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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