ML21293A099

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Meeting Summary for Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement Public Meeting

ML21293A099
Person / Time
Site:	North Anna
Issue date:	12/10/2021
From:	Tam Tran NRC/NMSS/DREFS/ELRB
To:	Robert Elliott NRC/NMSS/DREFS/ELRB
Tran T, NMSS/DREFS/ELRB
References
20211125, EPID L-2020-SLE-0000
Download: ML21293A099 (7)

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MEMORANDUM TO:

Robert B. Elliott, Chief Environmental Review License Renewal Branch Division of Rulemaking, Environmental and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards FROM:

Tam Tran, Project Manager Environmental Review License Renewal Branch Division of Rulemaking, Environmental and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards

SUBJECT:

North Anna Power Station, Unit Nos. 1 and 2 - Meeting Summary for Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement Public Meeting for Subsequent License Renewal Application on September 28, 2021 (EPID NO. L-2020-SLE-0000)

On September 28, 2021, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff conducted a comment gathering public meeting for the North Anna Power Station subsequent license renewal draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, in the form of a webinar. Enclosed is the meeting summary that contains: (a) List of Meeting Attendees, (b) Meeting Description and Agenda - ML21239A008, (c) NRC Staff Presentation - ML21256A303, and (d) Meeting Transcript - ML21293A105.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact me via e-mail at Tam.Tran@nrc.gov.

Docket Nos.: 50-338 and 50-339

Enclosures:

1.

Meeting Summary cc: w/enclosure:

see next page CONTACT:

Tam Tran, NMSS/REFS 301-415-3617 December 10, 2021 Signed by Tran, Tam on 12/10/21

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• via e-Concurrence OFFICE PM: NMSS/REFS/ELRB LA: NMSS/REFS BC: NMSS/REFS/ELRB NAME T.Tran SFigueroa RElliott DATE 10/20/2021 10/20/2021 12/09/2021 OFFICE PM: NMSS/REFS/ELRB NAME

• T.Tran DATE 12/10/2021

Enclosure

Title:

Public Meeting to Discuss the Draft Supplement 7, Second Renewal, to the Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants Regarding North Anna Power Station, Units 1 and 2, Subsequent License Renewal Application (EPID L-2020-SLE-0000)

Meeting Identifier:

20211125 Date of Meeting:

Tuesday, September 28, 2021 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM Location:

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission - Headquarter 11555 Rockville Pike Conference Room: T6D2 Rockville, MD 20852 Type of Meeting:

Comment-Gathering Purpose of the Meeting(s):

To discuss the preliminary findings of, and receive public comments on, the draft supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) regarding the proposed subsequent renewal of the operating licenses for North Anna Subsequent License Renewal Application (SLRA).

General Details:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) held a public meeting as part of the North Anna SLRA environmental review. Consistent with the meeting agenda (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML21239A008, the meeting started at 1:00 p.m. local time. The meeting ended at 1:36 p.m. The meeting was facilitated by Mr. Lance Rakovan, an NRC in-house facilitator who opened the meeting with a review of meeting ground rules and an introduction of the NRC staff. Next, Mr. Robert Elliott, NRC, provided opening welcome and remarks. Mr. Tam Tran, NRC, then discussed the license renewal environmental review process and the preliminary results of the draft SEIS regarding the proposed subsequent renewal of the operating licenses for North Anna Units 1 and 2. The NRC staff presentation (ADAMS Accession No. ML21256A303) emphasized that comments were welcome to improve the draft SEIS. Next, there was a question and answer period on the NRC staff presentations. Finally, there was the comment portion of the meeting for the public to provide comments on the draft SEIS.

Forty-one people (including nineteen NRC staff members) attended the meeting. In addition to the NRC staff, meeting attendees included members of Fauquier Climate Change Group, Luminant, Dominion Energy, Energy Harbor, Duke Energy, and SNC (Southern Nuclear).

December 10, 2021 Summary of Presentation:

Dominion submitted its subsequent license renewal application for North Anna, Units 1 and 2, on August 24, 2020. If not renewed for a second time, the licenses for Units 1 and 2 would expire on April 1, 2038 and August 21, 2040. As part of the environmental review, the NRC staff published the draft site-specific environmental impact statement containing preliminary results and recommendation on August 19, 2021 (ADAMS Accession No. ML21228A084).

The NRC staff addressed environmental resource areas by analyzing in detail the impacts that operation of the power plant may have on the resource area. The staff then characterizes these impacts as SMALL, MODERATE, or LARGE. The following resource areas would experience SMALL impacts from subsequent license renewal: land use/visual resources, air quality/noise, geologic environment, surface water resources, groundwater resources, terrestrial resources, socioeconomics, transportation, human health, waste management, and aquatic. For some environmental resource areas, the characterization of impacts is defined by statutes or executive orders and not the NRCs SMALL, MODERATE and LARGE determinations. The following table provides the NRC staffs preliminary findings for those resource areas:

Special Status Species and Habitats May affect, but is not likely to adversely affect, northern long-eared bat.

Unlikely to result in effects on the northern long-eared bat habitat.

No adverse effects on an essential fish habitat.

Historic and Cultural Resources Would not adversely affect known historic properties Environmental Justice No disproportionately high and adverse human health and environmental effects on minority and low-income populations In addition, the NRC staff analyzed (a) cumulative impacts (the impacts of the continued operation of North Anna Units 1 and 2 in combination with other past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future actions in the area) and (b) reasonable alternatives to subsequent license renewal including new nuclear (small modular reactor), combination alternative (solar, offshore wind, small modular reactor, and demand-side management), and a no-action alternative.

Based on its evaluation of the environmental impacts of operating North Anna, Units 1 and 2, for an additional 20 years, the NRC staffs preliminary recommendation is that any adverse environmental impacts of renewing the North Anna licenses are not so great that preserving the option of license renewal for energy-planning decisionmakers would be unreasonable.

The staff noted that the closing date for submitting scoping comments is October 12, 2021. In addition to providing comments at the meeting, comments can be: (1) mailed to TWFN-7-A60M, ATTN: Program Management, Announcements and Editing Staff, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; (2) www.regulations.gov, (keyword or Docket ID:

NRC-2020-0234); or emailed to NorthAnnaEnvironmental@nrc.gov.

Public Participation Themes:

There were no comments provided at the meeting as documented in the meeting transcript ML21293A105.

The proceeding of this public meeting can be found in the meeting transcript which is available in the NRCs ADAMS public electronic reading room (http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html) at the accession number listed below. The written statements provided at this meeting will be addressed in the final SEIS.

Action Items/Next Steps:

The NRC staff will address any comments received by the October 12th deadline that are related to the draft SEIS in the final SEIS. The final SEIS is expected to be published in February 2022.

Enclosures:

1. List of Meeting Attendees

2. Meeting Description and Agenda - ML21239A008

3. NRC Staff Presentation - ML21256A303

4. Meeting Transcript - ML21293A105 cc: Listserv North Anna Power Station Units 1 and 2 Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement Public Meeting List of Meeting Attendees Name Affiliation 1

Bill Rautzen Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) 2 Briana Arlene NRC 3

David Gasperson NRC 4

Donald Palmrose NRC 5

Joseph Giacinto NRC 6

Kevin Folk NRC 7

Lance Rakovan NRC 8

Nancy Martinez NRC 9

Rob Elliott NRC 10 Robert Hoffman NRC 11 Scott Burnell NRC 12 Sherwin Turk NRC 13 Tam Tran NRC 14 Carolyn Hsu NRC 15 Beth Alferink NRC 16 Jerry Dozier NRC 17 Joseph Giacinto NRC 18 Kenya Carrington NRC 19 Lynnea Wilkins NRC Participant Affiliation 20 Paul Aiken Dominion Energy 21 Ellery Baker Dominion Energy 22 Keith Miller Dominion Energy 23 Craig Heah Dominion Energy 24 Anita Powell Dominion Energy 25 Bill Standley Dominion Energy 26 Fred Mladen Dominion Energy 27 James Jenkins Dominion Energy 28 Ken Holt Dominion Energy 29 Mark Sartain Dominion Energy 30 Paul Phelps Dominion Energy 31 Sarah Marshall Dominion Energy 32 Tony Banks Dominion Energy 33 Stewart Morris Dominion Energy 34 Bob Page Dominion Energy 35 Todd Evans Luminant 36 Randy Harding Luminant 37 Ben Spiesman Energy Harbor 38 Jeff Sharkey SNC (Southern Nuclear) 39 Arun Kapur Duke Energy 40 Judy Lamana Fauquier Climate Change Group 41 Brandon Paterson Neil Court Reporters