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Official Transcript of Proceedings
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Title:
Environmental Scoping Meeting Related to the V.C. Summer Subsequent License Renewal Application
Docket Number: (n/a)
Location: Blair, South Carolina
Date: Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Work Order No.: NRC-2601 Pages 1-22
NEAL R. GROSS AND CO., INC.
Court Reporters and Transcribers 1716 14th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20009 (202) 234-4433 1
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
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ENVIRONMENTAL SCOPING MEETING RELATED
TO THE V.C. SUMMER SUBSEQUENT LICENSE
RENEWAL APPLICATION
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TUESDAY,
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
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The meeting convened in the gymnasium
at McCrorey-Liston School of Technology, 1978 State
Highway 215 South in Blair, South Carolina, at 6:00
p.m., Kim Conway, Environmental Project Manager,
presiding.
NRC STAFF PRESENT:
MARIELIZ JOHNSON, NRC Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation (NRR), Safety Review Lead
KIM CONWAY, NRC Office of Nuclear Material Safety
and Safeguards (NMSS), Environmental Review Lead
JOHN MOSES, NMSS, Deputy Director, Division of
Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support
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6:00 p.m.
MS. CONWAY: Good evening, everyone, my
name is Kim Conway. I'm the environmental project
manager for the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station
Subsequent License Renewal application, and I would
like to welcome you to this meeting hosted by the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission. My colleague,
Marieliz Johnson, is a safety project manager for
the project, and will be presenting to you today,
as well.
Our goals today are to provide you with
an overview of the subsequent license renewable
process for safety and environmental for the V.C.
Summer review, and to solicit your input on the
environmental issues that the NRC should consider
as part of its review. A term you're going to hear
a lot today is scoping, which simply means
determining the scope of the environmental review.
In this case, for the continued operation of the
V.C. Summer plant. Today's meeting is just one way
that you can participate in the process, and we'll
be going more into detail on that later. Next
slide.
This is our agenda today. We'll be
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providing an overview of the license renewal
process. After this presentation, you will have
some time to ask clarifying questions about the
information that we present to you. After that
comes the final and most important part of this
meeting, where we will open the floor to receive
your scoping comments. This is where you provide
your input on what the NRC should consider to be in
scope of the NRC's environmental review for V.C.
Summer's Subsequent License Renewal. Next slide.
As I already mentioned, Marieliz and I
are the primary points of contact for this review.
Marieliz is the project manager for the safety
review, and I'm the project manager for the
environmental review. We'll be giving you some
short overview presentations, but before we begin I
would like to turn the presentation over to my
Deputy Division Director, John Moses, to share some
thoughts.
MR. MOSES: Thank you, Kim. Good
evening, everyone. As Kim mentioned, I'm the
Deputy Director of the Rulemaking, Environmental
and Financial Services Division at the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission.
Welcome to today's second environmental
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scoping meeting for the V.C. Summer Nuclear
Station. The purpose of this meeting, as Kim
mentioned, is to inform you about our review
process, and to seek your input on the
environmental issues the Agency should assess and
consider when conducting an environmental review of
the additional license application. Last Thursday,
we held a virtual public meeting and received
several comments from individuals, we hope to have
a similarly productive meeting this evening. And
the public comment period is open for 30 days,
until December 4, 2023.
We are here tonight to gather
information to prepare an environmental impact
statement to evaluate the environmental impacts for
the potential license renewal of the operating
license for V. C. Summer Unit 1. Given the breadth
of NRC's licensing and oversight functions, we have
many different actions handled by specialists
throughout the Agency, at any given time. On
Monday, our Region II office in Atlanta hosted a
regulatory conference to discuss a finding with an
associated apparent violation at the V.C. Summer
site.
This regulatory conference was open to
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public observation, and some of you may have
attended. If you're looking for more information
about this issue, we can assist you by directing
your inquiries to the appropriate experts outside
of this meeting. This evening, we look forward to
hearing your comments related to the areas covered
by the environmental review.
The NRC's process encourages public
participation and transparency. Public
participation, openness, and transparency are key
to all of the NRC's activities, including the
licensing of nuclear facilities. After the
presenters describe the Agency's process to conduct
safety and environmental reviews, we'll pause and
ask if there are any questions or comments about
the NRC's license renewable process. So we'll
pause, and if you have questions about the process
or want to hear more. Then we'll turn and ask for
any comments on, or questions about, the
environmental information submitted by the
Applicant.
I'm looking forward to your feedback on
significant issues that you feel are important for
the staff to consider in their detailed analysis.
Our goal is to hear from you and collect any
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comments you might have, so that we may fully
consider them during our review. Thank you in
advance for your participation. And with that,
I'll turn back to, Kim.
MS. CONWAY: Thanks, John. So here are
the overall logistics for our meeting today. This
is a comment gathering meeting by the NRC's
definition, so we are actively seeking your input.
Please note that we are transcribing today's
meeting, so the NRC staff can be sure to get a full
accounting of the comments you provide. Next
slide, please.
Now, to provide you with some
background information on the V.C. Summer Nuclear
Station and its request. V.C. Summer Unit 1 was
first licensed in November of 1982, it was granted
an initial renewed license in 2004. The current
renewed license expires in August of 2042, if
license renewal is granted it would be for an
additional 20 years. Next slide.
Dominion Energy South Carolina filed an
application for subsequent license renewal for V.C.
Summer Unit 1. A license renewal application is
required to contain general information, such as
the applicant's name and address, business and
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administrative information, technical information -
- which pertains to aging management. The
technical information is the focus of the safety
review.
The application also includes an
environmental report, which is the applicant's
assessment of the environmental impacts of
continued operation. This information serves as a
starting point for the staff to review the
environmental aspects of the subsequent license
renewal for V.C. Summer.
I would now like to turn the
presentation over to Marieliz Johnson to provide a
short overview of our safety review process for the
application.
MS. JOHNSON: Thank you, Kim. Once
again, my name is Marieliz Johnson, I am the Safety
Project Manager for the V.C. Summer Subsequent
License Renewal review. I will now walk us through
the NRC's subsequent license renewal review
process, as shown in this slide.
Starting from the left, the process
begins once a subsequent license renewal
application, or SLRA, has been accepted for review.
Then, the process breaks out into two parallel
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reviews, the safety review and the environmental
review in the middle. These two reviews evaluate
separate aspects of the license renewal
application. On the safety side, following the
staff review of the application, the Advisory
Committee on Reactor Safeguards, or ACRS, completes
an independent review of the application to make
recommendations to the Commission.
At the bottom of the flow chart, dotted
lines lead to hearings. The dotted lines represent
the opportunity for a hearing in accordance with
the Atomic Energy Act, which establishes a process
for members of the public to request involvement in
hearings on a variety of civilian matters,
including subsequent license renewal. The
Commission considers the outcome of the hearing
process in its decision on whether or not to issue
a renewal license.
Finally, with the inputs of the
environmental review, the ACRS recommendation on
the safety review, as well as the staff finding on
the safety review, a final decision is made by the
NRC.
The Atomic Energy Act authorizes NRC to
issue license for commercial power reactors to
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operate for up to 40 years, this license can be
renewed for an additional 20 years at a time. This
period following the initial license term is known
as the period of extended operation. Now,
subsequent license renewal will allow plans to
operate beyond this 60 years. Subsequent license
renewal will also be for 20 years.
The purpose of the safety review is to
identify aging effects that could impair the
ability of systems, structures, and components
within the scope of license renewal to perform the
intended function. And to demonstrate that these
aging effects will be adequately managed during the
period of extended operation. This scope has not
changed for the initial license renewal to
As previously mentioned, in August of
2023 Dominion Energy South Carolina submitted the
subsequent license renewal application for V.C.
Summer Unit 1. After receiving the application,
the NRC conducted an acceptance review, the first
step of our review. The NRC determined that the
application was sufficient and acceptable for
docketing on October 11 of 2023.
Then, we move into our technical
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review, which includes the aging management audit.
The aging management audit consists in three parts,
the In-Office Technical Review Audit, the On-Site
Audit, and the Breakout Audit. During all phases
of the audit, the NRC staff review the application
documents and reference in greater details. As
part of the safety review, the staff also reviews
the applicant's operating experience for
information applicable to aging management.
Following the audit, an audit report is issued. At
the very end, the staff will document the review in
a safety evaluation. Next slide, please.
The NRC ensures the adequate protection
of public health and safety, and the environment,
through the regulatory process, which is shown in
this slide. The regulatory process consists in
five major components. We develop regulation and
guidance for applicant and licensees, we license or
certify applicants to either use nuclear material,
operate nuclear facility, or decommission.
We oversee licensee's operation and
facilities, to ensure that license complies with
safety requirements. We evaluate operational
experience at licensed facilities, or involving
licensed activities. And in support of our
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regulatory decision, we conduct research, hold
hearings to address the concern of parties affected
by the Agency and obtain independent review. With
license renewal, the regulatory process now
considers aging management, and represents by the
red block.
Now, I will turn it back to Kim, who
will discuss the environmental review.
MS. CONWAY: Thanks, Marieliz. I would
now like to share a bit about our environmental
review process. You may be familiar with the
National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA. NEPA
obligates federal agencies to consider
environmental impacts in federal actions. The NRC-
specific environmental regulations are contained in
10 CFR Part 51. The objective of our environmental
review is to determine if the environmental impacts
of subsequent license renewal are so great that
subsequent license renewal would not be a
reasonable option, or more plainly, if subsequent
license renewal is unacceptable from an
environmental standpoint. Next slide.
Our environmental review considers the
impacts of continuing to operate the plant for an
additional 20 years, and any proposed mitigation of
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those impacts, as warranted. We also consider the
impacts of reasonable alternatives to the proposed
action of subsequent license renewal, including the
impacts of not issuing a subsequent renewed
license.
The staff documents its environmental
review in an environmental impact statement -- it's
also called an EIS. The staff has developed a
generic environmental impact statement that
addresses a number of issues common to all nuclear
power plants. The staff is supplementing that
generic EIS with a site-specific EIS, in which we
will address issues that are specific to the V.C.
Summer Nuclear Station. The staff also re-examines
the conclusion reached in that generic EIS to
determine if there is any new and significant
information that would change those conclusions.
Next slide, please.
For the subsequent license renewal
review, a team of NRC subject matter experts will
be reviewing a wide range of environmental resource
areas. This slide gives you an idea of the areas
evaluated. Some of the areas covered in the review
are terrestrial and aquatic ecology, environmental
justice, water resources, air quality, human
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health, and historic and cultural resources. Next
slide, please.
This slide is a good illustration of
the different areas the staff reviews and considers
as part of preparing its EIS, as well as some of
the interrelationships between those areas. Next
slide, please.
In conducting our environmental review,
we coordinate and consult with various local,
state, federal, and tribal officials and gather
pertinent information from these sources to ensure
it is considered in our analysis. As illustrated
on this slide about consulting agencies, examples
include the US Fish and Wildlife Service, EPA,
State Historic Preservation Officer, and so on. As
part of the environmental review, the staff may
hold public meetings to receive comments on the
draft EIS. But right now, we're at the very
beginning of the process, which is the scoping
period. So, I'll now discuss the environmental
scoping process in more detail. Next slide,
please.
The environmental review begins with
the scoping process, which is why we're here today.
The purpose of the scoping process is to identify
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significant issues that should be considered in our
environmental review. We are now gathering
information that we'll use to prepare an EIS for
the subsequent license renewal. As part of that
process, today we would like to collect your
comments on the scope of the environmental review.
That is, the environmental impacts that the staff
should consider in the areas on previous slides.
The scoping period started on November
3 when a Notice of Intent to prepare an EIS and
conduct scoping was published in the Federal
Register. The NRC will be accepting comments on
the scope of the environmental review until
December 4, 2023. In general, we are looking for
information about environmental impacts from
continued operation of the V.C. Summer Nuclear
Station during the period of extended operations.
So you can assist us by telling us, for
example, what aspects of your local community we
should focus on. What local environment, social,
and economic issues the NRC staff should examine
during the environmental review. As well as what
reasonable alternatives are most appropriate for
this area. These are just some of the examples of
the input that we're looking for, and they
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represent the types of information we're seeking
through the environmental scoping period. Your
comments today would be helpful in providing
insight of this nature for our analysis. Next
slide, please.
This slide shows the important
milestones throughout the NRC's environmental
review process. So, if you have environmental
scoping comments you would like to submit outside
of today's meeting, you have until December 4 to do
so. Based on our current schedule, we plan to
issue a draft EIS for public comment by next
November. This is another way you can be involved
in the process. Members of the public will have an
opportunity to provide comments on the draft EIS.
While this slide lists milestones for
the environmental review and opportunities for
public involvement, the safety review will be
performed on a separate schedule in parallel with
our environmental review to support the ultimate
license renewal decision date. Next slide, please.
This slide identifies the primary
contacts for the subsequent license renewal
application for V.C. Summer. Marieliz, myself --
Ed Miller is the Senior Project Manager who is the
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Operating Reactor Project Manager for V.C. Summer.
Next slide.
For those of you who may be located in
this area, the Fairfield County Library has agreed
to make the license renewal application available
for public inspection. The draft EIS, when that's
available and published for comment, will be
available at the library, as well. In addition,
these documents are available on the NRCs website
-- there's a link there. And if any of you picked
up the cards at the table when you entered, it's
the same link to -- it's got a lot of information
on the review. So, if you're looking for the
status of the review, milestones, documents, I
would recommend that as a place to go. Next slide,
please.
As mentioned earlier, the most
important piece of today's meeting is to receive
any comments that you may have on the scope of the
environmental review. Here various ways you can
submit your comment for our review. You can
provide written comments by mail to the NRC at the
address provided on the slide, you can provide
comments via email to SummerEnvironmental@nrc.gov,
you can also send your comments electronically by
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going to regulations.gov. There are a number of
options. You can also, you know, give us comments
here tonight -- it all goes to the same place and
it'll be put into the same scoping report. So,
they all count the same.
Comments should be submitted by
December 4, as I mentioned before.
(Off mic comment.)
MS. CONWAY: Oh, no -- oh, yeah, that
one. So on this slide, there is a typo on the
comment period. The slide says December 3, it's
actually December 4. I went through and updated
some of the -- the milestone slide, earlier, but
forgot to update this. So, thanks, John, for
pointing that out. December 4 is the date, I
promise.
And at this point, I would like to open
it up. As John mentioned earlier, if there are any
clarifying questions on the presentation that we
just gave you, as far as the review process itself
-- after we finish with clarifying, like, process
questions, then we'll open it up for scoping
comments. So, does anyone have any clarifying
questions on what you just heard? Since we only
have one microphone, you can raise your hand and
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I'll come out to you with the microphone.
No? Hearing none, we can move to the
environmental scoping comments. So, if any of you
have scoping comments you would like to provide, as
far as areas that we should consider as part of the
environmental review, likewise just raise your hand
and I'll come out to you.
(Off mic comment.)
MS. CONWAY: It's okay. If you don't
have any, I can also give you guys a few minutes
just to make sure you don't have any questions.
But as I mentioned, even if you don't want to give
comments here today, there are other methods of
providing comments electronically or via mail to
us. The comment period just opened up, you know,
less than a couple weeks ago, so we're just in the
middle of it now -- there's still plenty of time if
you come up with something.
MS. SWEARINGEN: I would like to throw
something out there.
MS. CONWAY: Sure. For the sake of our
court reporter here, if you could give your name
before you give your comments, so that we can get
an accounting.
MS. SWEARINGEN: Peggy Swearingen, and
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I'm on the county council, Fairfield County
Council. And I'm not sure the exact millions of
dollars that we get from -- have gotten from y'all
each year, and for how many years it's been gotten,
but Fairfield County will be in a sad shape if
y'all's contract is not renewed.
And I don't know how many of y'all are
in Fairfield County, how many of y'all are living
in Fairfield County, but this has been phenomenal -
- the amount that y'all have given us, and are
still giving us. And then, y'all are going to add
the two new gas-powered thingies, and that's a
$180,000,000 thing that's coming in, also. Of
course, it won't be $180,000,000 worth of the taxes
-- but I think it's a good thing. How many years
have y'all been -- has it been? Has it been 50
years, 45 years, 48 years that y'all have been --
MS. CONWAY: Forty-two.
MS. SWEARINGEN: Well that's something.
You know, when you get past 40 it doesn't much
matter. And y'all have been -- y'all haven't blown
us away yet, so I'm hoping you got 40 more years
and you won't blow us away, okay? That's my
opinion and I'm sticking to it.
MS. CONWAY: Thank you very much, we
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appreciate your comment. Anyone else?
MS. SWEARINGEN: Oh, y'all, come on and
say something.
(Laughter.)
MS. SWEARINGEN: It's all right.
Nobody wants to talk.
MS. CONWAY: We have one brave person.
Okay, I'll give it another say, 30 seconds or so,
and then I'll hand it back over to John for some
closing comments.
MR. MOSES: Comments, questions?
There we go, thank you.
MS. CONWAY: Can you repeat your
question?
MR. STOVER: Does any one of you three
live in this community, or close?
MS. CONWAY: So, the three of us are
from our headquarters office in Rockville,
Maryland. But our Resident Inspector does live
nearby, and he's at the site, quite frequently,
since it's his job to be there. But he has, you
know, family here, and I think he likes it here.
We'll be back here a few more times,
though, throughout the course of this review, so if
you have any good recommendations on restaurants
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I'll accept those afterwards.
MR. MOSES: Thoughts or questions?
MS. CONWAY: Anyone? Thoughts,
questions, comments?
MR. MOSES: We can -- oh, thank you.
This is John Moses, so he can get the transcript.
So, we can conclude the meeting in a
few minutes, but we'll stay around until 7:00 in
case you would like to speak with us on a more
individual or private basis, if you have other
questions or comments, or you want to share
anything with us.
So with that, I will express my thanks
to everyone for taking the time to come out here,
and for your interest. And thank you for the
comments and questions you've shared with us. And
also encourage your neighbors and friends -- if
they have any questions or comments, they can
please submit them to us either via postal mail,
via email, or via regulations.gov at the little
link on those little comment cards or on the notes.
So I'll summarize some of our next
steps. So, since we're in the midst of the scoping
process which, as you've heard, will last another
three or so weeks, until December 4, for the
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comment period. Scoping process will still
continue a little bit while our team looks at the
comments that are submitted, and questions. They
will kind of organize those materials into a common
place based on categories, whether they're within
scope, whether they're outside of scope, things
like that. Then, they'll prepare a summary report
and issue that.
Those materials will go into the
analyses that our team is preparing on the
environmental side -- and if you have questions on
the safety side, we have a person here who can
answer those. And we anticipated issuing our draft
environmental impact statement about a year from
now, next November or so. So, our team will come
out for another public listening session, public
meeting, for you to have questions or comments on
that document.
Once again, you can submit comments via
postal mail on the slides that are identified, via
email, or via the link on the comment cards to the
online system. From that, if you have any other
questions or comments -- I realize you may want to
think about things. We appreciate your time this
evening and your interest in this licensing action.
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We know it's important to understand how it affect
your community, and your thoughts about it.
So with that, I will conclude this
portion of the meeting. But like I said, we'll
stay around till about 7:00 o'clock, in case other
people -- if you have questions or would like to
come up to us. Thank you.
MS. CONWAY: That's it. Thank you. We
really appreciate you guys coming out, though,
thank you.
(Whereupon, the above-entitled matter
went off the record at 6:26 p.m.)
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