ML23031A155

1/17/2023 Email from John Moses, Deputy Director, Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support, to Diane Curran, Counsel to Beyond Nuclear and the Sierra Club, Request for Extension of Scoping Comment Period for Oconee EIS

ML23031A155
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Site:	Oconee
Issue date:	01/17/2023
From:	John Moses NRC/NMSS/DREFS
To:	Curran D Harmon, Curran, Harmon, Curran, Spielberg & Eisenberg, LLP, Oconee County, SC, Library
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Download: ML23031A155 (1)

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From: John Moses To: Diane Curran Cc: Lance Rakovan; Jessica Umana; Ted Smith; Mark Yoo; Lauren Gibson; Christopher Regan

Subject:

RE: Request for Extension of Scoping comment period for Oconee EIS Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2023 10:26:01 AM Attachments: 2022.12.20 Request for Extension re Oconee Scoping Process.pdf image001.png

Diane, I am responding to your request sent to Lance Rakovan, Senior Environmental Project Manager, dated December 20, 2022, to extend the deadline for public comment on the December 19, 2022, Notice of Intent To Conduct a Supplemental Scoping Process and Prepare a Draft Environmental Impact Statement; Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC; Oconee Nuclear Station, Units 1, 2, and 3 (87 FR 77643), for an additional thirty (30) days.

Regarding your request to extend the scoping period deadline, we are extending the environmental scoping period until February 2, 2023. A Federal Register Notice was issued today to announce this extension https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/17/2023-00679/notice-of-intent-to-conduct-a-supplemental-scoping-process-and-prepare-a-draft-environmental-impact. Please note, there will be another public comment period after issuance of the draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS). Tentatively, this draft document is scheduled to be issued in October 2023. Any topics that you feel were not adequately considered in the draft SEIS can be provided at that time and will be considered by the NRC when finalizing the SEIS.

The NRC staff has determined that it will include your organizations December 20, 2022, letter when considering all of the environmental scoping comments received on the project in the preparation of the draft SEIS. The NRC will document its scoping findings regarding significant issues identified for evaluation in the draft SEIS in a separate scoping summary report. When complete, this report will be distributed to your organizations.

If you have any further questions on this matter, please contact Lance Rakovan (Lance.Rakovan@nrc.gov).

Thank you, John John Moses, Deputy Director Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards People First, Mission Always Telephone: 301-415-1276 Cell: 703-599-7765 United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission One White Flint North 11555 Rockville Pike, Mail Stop T-4B76 Rockville, MD 20852-2738

From: Diane Curran <dcurran@harmoncurran.com>

Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2022 2:27 PM To: OconeeEnvironmental Resource <OconeeEnvironmental.Resource@nrc.gov>; Lance Rakovan

<Lance.Rakovan@nrc.gov>

Subject:

[External_Sender] Request for Extension of Scoping comment period for Oconee EIS To the Office of Administration and Mr. Rakovan, Please see the attached extension request.

Thanks, Diane Curran