ML23067A408

Email from Anthony Chu, CA Radiation Safety 3.8.23 Re_ Draft NRC Environmental Assessment of the GEH Ntr Re_ State of California Review

ML23067A408
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Site:	Vallecitos Nuclear Center
Issue date:	03/08/2023
From:	Chu A State of CA, Dept of Public Health
To:	Geoffrey Wertz Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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From: Chu, Anthony@CDPH To: Geoffrey Wertz

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[External_Sender] RE: Draft NRC Environmental Assessment of the GEH NTR RE: State of California review Date: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 12:13:10 PM Attachments: EA for GE Hitatchi NTR draft for CA review 2.21.23.pdf Hello Mr. Wertz, The California Department of Public Health has no comment on the GE-Hitatchi Nuclear Test Reactor draft EA. Thank you for the opportunity to comment.

Anthony Chu, Chief Division of Radiation Safety and Environmental Management California Department of Public Health From: Geoffrey Wertz <Geoffrey.Wertz@nrc.gov>

Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2023 8:57 AM To: Cochran, Justin@Energy <Justin.Cochran@energy.ca.gov>; Chu, Anthony@CDPH

<Anthony.Chu@cdph.ca.gov>

Cc: Linh Tran <Linh.Tran@nrc.gov>; Duane Hardesty <Duane.Hardesty@nrc.gov>; Ryan Alexander

<Ryan.Alexander@nrc.gov>; Jeffrey Rikhoff <Jeffrey.Rikhoff@nrc.gov>

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Draft NRC Environmental Assessment of the GEH NTR RE: State of California review Hello Mr. Cochran and Mr. Chu: The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff is nearing completion of its review of the license renewal application (LRA) for the General Electric-Hitachi (GEH) Nuclear Test Reactor (NTR) located in the ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerStart This Message Is From an External Sender Report Suspicious This message came from outside your organization.

Hello Mr. Cochran and Mr. Chu:

ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerEnd The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff is nearing completion of its review of the license renewal application (LRA) for the General Electric-Hitachi (GEH) Nuclear Test Reactor (NTR) located in the Vallecitos Nuclear Center in Sunol, CA. If approved, the renewed license would authorize the continued operation of the GEH NTR for an additional 20 years.

As part of our LRA review, the NRC staff will issue an Environmental Assessment (EA).

The development of the EA includes an opportunity for a review of the draft EA by the facilitys state, a copy of which is attached to this email. In the attached draft EA, the NRC staff finds that the proposed action (i.e., renewal of the operating license for 20 years) will not have a significant impact on the quality of the human environment.

Please review the attached draft EA and contact me with any concerns or questions, which we will attempt to resolve in order obtain your acknowledgement that our proposed action is acceptable. My email address and phone number are included below.

We request an e-mail response within 15 days, or as soon as possible, in order to maintain

our review schedule. Please note that your email response may be referenced in the final EA and made publicly-available in the NRC document management system, in accordance with the NRCs policy for openness. If we have not received a response to this request within 15 days, we will assume that the State of California has no comments.

Since the draft EA is pre-decisional, we request that you do not release it to the public. A public version of the EA will be noticed in the Federal Register prior to the issuance of the renewed license.

Thanks Geoffrey Wertz, P.E.

Non-Power Production and Utilization Facility Licensing Branch (UNPL)

Division of Advanced Reactors and Non-Power Production and Utilization Facilities (DANU)

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Work 301-415-0893 Mobile 434-485-6159 geoffrey.wertz@nrc.gov