ML23081A523

Public Scoping Meeting for Environmental Review of Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant (Cpnpp), Unit Nos. 1 and 2 License Renewal Application

ML23081A523
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Site:	Comanche Peak
Issue date:	04/12/2023
From:	Tam Tran NRC/NMSS/DREFS/ELRB
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April 12, 2023 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Public Meeting Summary

Title:

Public Scoping Meeting for Environmental Review of Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant (CPNPP), Unit Nos. 1 and 2 License Renewal Application (EPID NUMBER:

L2022LNE0004)

Date of Meeting: February 23, 2023 Location: Glen Rose, Texas Type of Meeting: Comment-Gathering Purpose of the Meeting(s):

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will conduct an additional scoping process to gather information necessary to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) to evaluate the environmental impacts for the potential license renewal of the operating licenses for Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant (CPNPP), Units 1 and 2. The NRC is seeking stakeholder input on this action and has scheduled an additional public scoping meeting that took place in Glen Rose, Texas.

General Information:

The NRC held a public scoping meeting as part of the CPNPP Units 1 and 2 License Renewal Application (LRA) environmental review. The meeting started at 7:00 p.m. local time. The meeting was preceded by an open house period, beginning one hour before the meeting when members of the public informally interact with the NRC staff. The meeting ended at 9:00 p.m.

There were 12 NRC staff members present. The meeting was facilitated by Brett Klukan, an NRC in-house facilitator. The meeting began with a review of meeting ground rules and an introduction of the NRC staff, followed by a presentation on the license renewal safety review process by Manny Sayoc, Safety Project Manager, and the license renewal environmental review process by Tam Tran. The presentations emphasized that comments were welcome to help to focus the environmental review. Next, there was a question-and-answer period on the NRC staff presentations. Finally, there was the comment portion of the meeting.

There were 56 people in attendance at the meeting, including NRC staff. Their names and affiliations are listed in "Table 1: Attendees.

Table 1: Attendees Name Affiliation 1 Alberto Herreru Glen Rose 2 Amit Kalia Luminant 3 Ann Carver Self 4 Brian Jones Emergency Management Coordinator 5 Charlotte Connelly NA 6 Chet Wright NA 7 Chip Joslin Citizen 8 Chuck ODell Luminant 9 Danny Bradford Glen Rose Resident 10 Danny Chambers Judge 11 Dave Lieber Dallas Morning News 12 David Bruning Resident 13 David Gray Citizen 14 David Griggs Self 15 Doreen Geiger SEED coalition 16 Dwayne Griffin Chief Deputy 17 Erica Cole NA 18 George Freos Glen Rose 19 Harris County Commissioner 20 Janet Mattern NA 21 John Dreyfuss NA 22 Joshua Worthey IBEW LU220 23 Karen Hadden SEED coalition 24 Karen Licber NA 25 LaVonne Cockerell Self 26 Linda Hanratty NA 27 Lon Burnam Citizens for Fair Utility Regulation 28 Mavis Belisle Dallas Peace and Justice Center 29 Melody Bruning Resident 30 Mike Stakes Luminant 31 Nannette Samvelson Hood County Commissioner 32 Patrick Fahey Self 33 Payton Fletcher Private Citizen 34 Richard Bruning Resident 35 Richard Talavera Somervell County Commissioner

36 Rita Beving Liveable Arlington 37 Rya Sexton NA 38 Steve Willis Luminant 39 Susybelle Gosslee NA 40 Suzanne Mabe CFUR 41 Terry McIntire Sierra Club 42 Tom Smitty Smith Citizen 43 Trey Brown County Attorney 44 Wade Busch Somervell County 45 Angel Moreno NRC 46 Beth Alferink NRC 47 Bret Klukan NRC 48 Emanuel Sayoc NRC 49 John Ellegood NRC 50 John Moses NRC 51 Lifeng Guo NRC 52 Lloyd Desotell NRC 53 Neil Day NRC 54 Ryan Alexander NRC 55 Tam Tran NRC 56 Victor Dricks NRC Summary of Presentation:

The Atomic Energy Act of 1954 authorizes the NRC to grant licenses for commercial power reactors to operate for up to 40 years and allows these licenses to be renewed for up to 20 years. The regulations do not limit the number of renewal periods and, therefore, a renewed license may be subsequently renewed. The NRC has established a license renewal process that has two separate, but parallel review tracks, a safety review and an environmental review.

The focus of the safety review stems from the NRCs obligation under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, and is performed under the regulations of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), part 54, Requirements for Renewal of Operating Licenses for Nuclear Power Plant.

The purpose of this review is to verify that each applicant has fully analyzed the management of aging effects in sufficient detail to conclude that the plant can be operated safely during the period of extended operation. The NRCs safety review is documented in the safety evaluation report.

Under the NRCs regulations in 10 CFR part 51, Environmental Protection Regulations for Domestic Licensing and Related Regulatory Functionswhich implement the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)issuance of a nuclear power plant operating license requires the preparation of an EIS. The NRC performs plant-specific reviews of environmental impacts of

operating life extension in accordance with NEPA and the requirements of 10 CFR part 51. As part of the environmental review, the staff consults with local, State, Federal, and tribal officials.

The environmental review begins with a scoping process, which is an assessment of specific environmental impacts associated with renewing the CPNPP operating licenses. Some environmental impacts are similar, if not identical, at all nuclear power plants, so, to improve efficiency, the NRC staff developed a generic environmental impact statement, NUREG-1437, Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, that addresses a number of impacts common to all nuclear power plants. The NRC staff supplements the generic EIS with a plant-specific Supplemental EIS (SEIS), in which all issues that are specific to CPNPP will be addressed. The staff also re-examines the conclusions reached in the generic EIS to determine if there is any new and significant information that would change those conclusions. The NRC staff will make a recommendation on whether or not the environmental impacts are so great that they preclude maintaining the option of license renewal for energy-planning decision makers.

The closing date for submitting scoping comments is March 13, 2023. In addition to providing comments at the meeting, comments can be: (1) mailed to Office of Administration Mailstop:

TWFN7A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. (2) submitted online using the Federal Rulemaking website at regulations.gov (Docket ID:

NRC-2022-0183). Note, the comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information. Commenter is encouraged to not include any information in comments that the commenter does not want publicly disclosed.

Public Participation Themes:

There were several comments provided during the public meeting. Themes were wide ranging and included support for the CPNPP license renewal related to baseload energy production and local socioeconomic impacts, to opposition to CPNPP citing concerns about radiological hazards such as accidents and spent nuclear fuel storage and drought due to climate change.

A complete accounting of the comments provided can be found in the meeting transcript which is available in the NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) public electronic reading room under the accession numbers listed below, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.

Action Items/Next Steps:

The NRC staff will address the comments provided during this meeting as part of the LRA review process for CPNPP. A record of how each comment is addressed will be included in the Scoping Summary Report or draft SEIS.

Attachments:

o Meeting notice and agenda - ADAMS ML23046A080 o NRC staff presentation - ADAMS ML23045A155 o Meeting transcript - ADAMS ML23081A508

SUBJECT:

PUBLIC SCOPING MEETING

SUMMARY

FOR ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW OF COMANCHE PEAK NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, UNIT NOS. 1 AND 2 LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION (EPID NUMBER: L2022LNE0004)

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