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Meeting Summary for Environmental Pre Submittal Meeting for Initial License Renewal Application on September 21, 2021 ML21259A1402021-10-0505 October 2021 Meeting Summary for Safety Pre Submittal Meeting for Initial License Renewal Application on September 21, 2021 ML21140A3892021-05-24024 May 2021 Riv Column 1 EOC 2020 Public Meeting Summary ML21130A6832021-05-20020 May 2021 Summary of April 7, 2021, Presubmittal Meeting with Vistra Operations Company LLC Regarding the Proposed Exemption Request to Defer the Annual Force-On-Force Exercise for Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2 ML21124A0072021-05-10010 May 2021 Meeting Summary for Environmental Pre-Submittal Meeting for Initial License Renewal Application ML21110A0602021-05-0707 May 2021 Summary of April 6, 2021, Meeting with Vistra Operations Company LLC to Defer the Biennial Emergency Planning Exercise for Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2 ML21099A2752021-04-15015 April 2021 Summary of Teleconference with Vistra Operations Company LLC to Discuss Proposed LAR to Adopt TSTF-505, Rev. 2, to Provide Risk-Informed Extended Completion Times for Comanche Peak, Units 1 and 2 ML20351A2592021-01-0505 January 2021 Summary of November 12, 2020, Teleconference with Vistra Operations Company LLC Proposed License Amendment Request for One-Time TS Revision to Replace Station Service Water Pump ML20189A2832020-07-0707 July 2020 Summary of Region IV Annual Assessment Public Meeting ML20115E3932020-04-30030 April 2020 Summary of April 6 and 7, 2020, COVID-19 Related Presubmittal Teleconferences with Vistra Operations Company LLC to Discuss Licensing Actions Supporting the Comanche Peak Unit No. 2 Spring 2020 Refueling Outage ML20044D3052020-02-26026 February 2020 Summary of Teleconference with Vistra Operations Company, LLC to Discuss a Proposed License Amendment Request for Changes to Certain Emergency Action Levels for Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2 (EPID L-2020-LRM-000 ML19352E3172020-01-0808 January 2020 Summary of Teleconference with Vistra Operations Company LLC to Discuss a Proposed License Amendment Request to Change TS 3.8.1, AC Sources - Operating for Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2 ML19311C2122019-11-13013 November 2019 Summary of November 5, 2019, Teleconference with Vistra Operations Company LLC to Discuss a Proposed License Amendment Request to Change TS 3.8.1, Ac Sources - Operating for Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2 ML18275A3142018-10-16016 October 2018 Summary of September 17, 2018, Public Teleconference with Vistra Operations Company, LLC, on Proposed Changes to the Emergency Plan for Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2 ML17137A1742017-05-22022 May 2017 Summary of Conference Call Regarding the Spring 2017 Steam Generator Tube Inspections ML16194A4962016-07-12012 July 2016 Summary of Annual Performance Assessment Meeting and Public Open House Regarding Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant 2015 Performance ML15191A2282015-07-27027 July 2015 7/9/2015 Summary of Pre-submittal Meeting with Luminant Generation Company LLC to Discuss Submittal for License Amendment Request to Revise Technical Specification 3.8.1 for Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2 (TACs MF6311 and ML15191A2512015-07-0909 July 2015 July 9, 2015 Public Meeting: Comanch Peak Pre- Application Meeting, Emergency Diesel Generator Voltage and Frequency Technical Specification Changes ML14188C4402014-07-22022 July 2014 6/3/2014 Summary of Meeting with Luminant Generation Company LLC to Discuss Proposed Modifications to Technical Specifications to Install Backup Transformer XST1A for Comanche Peak, Units 1 and 2 ML13067A0292013-03-15015 March 2013 2/28/13 - Summary of Meeting Via Conference Call with Luminant to Discuss Generic Safety Issue 191, Assessment of Debris Accumulation on PWR (Pressurized-Water Reactor) Sump Performance, for Comanche Peak, Units 1 and 2 ML12341A0812012-12-18018 December 2012 Summary of 11/15/12 Meeting with Luminant Generation Company LLC to Discuss Indirect License Transfers for Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2 ML12332A3652012-12-18018 December 2012 Summary of Meeting with Luminant Generation Company LLC, to Discuss License Amendment Request for Approval of Revised Spent Fuel Criticality Analysis to Update Comanche Peak, Units 1 and 2, Technical Specifications (TAC Nos. 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ML1016501752010-06-21021 June 2010 6/10/10 Summary of Closed Meeting with Luminant Generation Company, LLC to Discuss Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2 Implementation Plan/Information Pertaining to Defensive Strategy for Cyber Security Submittal ML1013906402010-05-19019 May 2010 Summary of Public Meeting with Luminant Generation Company on Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2, 2009 Performance ML0924401642009-09-14014 September 2009 Meeting Summary, Pre-Application Meeting on with Luminant Generation Company LLC to Dicuss Future Amendment Request to Revise Comanche Peak Units 1 and 2 Startup Transformer Completion Times ML0919705782009-07-31031 July 2009 Summary of Category 1 Meeting with Luminant Generation Company LLC, Resolution of Generic Letter 2004-02, Potential Impact of Debris Blockage on Emergency Recirculation During Design Basis Accidents at Pressurized-Water Reactors ML0918303012009-07-0202 July 2009 Summary of Annual Performance Assessment Meeting for Comanche Peak Steam Electric Stations ML0729204682007-10-29029 October 2007 09/25/2007, Summary of Meeting Between the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Staff and Strategic Teaming and Resource Sharing Representatives to Discuss License Renewal Activities ML0720005052007-07-31031 July 2007 Summary of Meeting with Txu Generation Company LP to Discussed Regarding the Plans for Methodology Transition and Power Uprate ML0717200702007-06-20020 June 2007 Summary of Meeting with Txu Power Regarding Comanche Peak Steam Electric Stations End-of-Cycle Assessment for 2006 2024-03-13
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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Public Meeting Summary
Title:
DRAFT SUPPLEMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT PUBLIC MEETING
SUMMARY
FOR ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW OF COMANCHE PEAK NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, UNIT NUMBERS 1 AND 2, LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION (EPID NUMBER: L2022LNE0004)
Dates of Meetings: December 7, 2023, and December 21, 2023 Location: Glen Rose, Texas (December 7, 2023, 7:00 to 9:00 pm CST) and two webinars:
(a) December 7, 2023, 1:00 to 3:00 PM CT; and (b) December 21, 2023, 2:00 to 4:00 PM CT Type of Meetings: Comment-Gathering Purpose of the Meetings:
To discuss the preliminary findings of, and receive public comments on, the draft supplemental environmental impact statement (DSEIS) regarding the proposed renewal of the operating licenses for Comanche Peak License Renewal Application (LRA).
General Information:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff held public meetings as part of the LRA environmental review. The meetings were conducted in accordance with the meeting agenda listed in the respective public meeting announcement in the NRC Public Meeting Notice System.
All the meetings followed the same agenda, beginning with a review of meeting ground rules and an introduction of the NRC staff, followed by a presentation by the NRC staff on the license renewal process and the preliminary findings of the draft EIS. The NRC staff presentation 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.
Twenty-six people other than NRC staff attended the December 7, 2023, webinar. Three people other than the NRC staff attended the December 7, 2023, in-person meeting. Thirty people other than the NRC staff attended the December 21, 2023, webinar. In addition to the NRC staff, meeting attendees included members of the public, Enercon, Vistra, Luminant, newspaper reporters, law firms, and industry observers. The DSEIS comment period ended December 26, 2023.
March 13, 2024 Summary of Presentation:
The applicant submitted its LRA for Comanche Peak Units 1 and 2, on October 3, 2022. The current licenses for Units 1 and 2 expire on February 8, 2030, and February 2, 2033. As part of the environmental review, the NRC staff published the DSEIS containing preliminary results and recommendation on October 31, 2023 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) ML23299A252).
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 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, golden-cheeked warbler, tricolored bat, monarch butterfly. No adverse effects on an essential fish habitat Historic and Cultural Resources Would not adversely affect any 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 Comanche Peak, Units 1 and 2, in combination with other past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future actions in the area) and (b) reasonable alternatives to license renewal including new nuclear (small modular reactor or SMR); natural gas-fired combined-cycle; a combination of solar, photovoltaic, onshore wind, and SMR; and no-action alternative.
Based on its evaluation of the environmental impacts of operating Comanche Peak, Units 1 and 2, for an additional 20 years, the NRC staffs preliminary recommendation is that any adverse environmental impacts of renewing the Comanche Peak 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 DSEIS comments was December 26, 2023.
In addition to providing comments at the meeting, comments can be: (1) mailed to Program Management, Announcements and Editing Staff, Office of Administration, Mailstop:
TWFN-7A6OM, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555-0001; (2) submitted online using the Federal Rulemaking website at regulations.gov (keyword:
NRC-2022-0183).
Public Participation Themes:
The comments covered a wide range of topics from supporting license renewal because of Texas grid reliability and help with climate change to that of opposing license renewal because of radiation health risk, spent nuclear fuel waste and dam safety concerns, consideration of renewable energy alternative as baseload, and consideration of 5 years license renewal instead of 20 years. Several commenters raised issues of difficulty of accessing the webinar. One commenter expressed difficulty in entering the Expo center.
The proceeding of this public meeting can be found in the meeting transcripts which are available in the NRCs ADAMS public electronic reading room (http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html) at the accession numbers listed below, as attachments. The statements provided at this meeting will be addressed in the final SEIS.
Table 1: Attendees (December 7, 2023, Webinar)
Name Affiliation 1
Chris Wilson Constellation Energy Generation (CEG) 2 Kristin Meek CEG 3
Allison Stalker CEG 4
Mary Hoganson ENERCON 5
Stacy Burgess ENERCON 6
Ben Spiesman Energy Harbor 7
Emily Wolf Fort Worth Report 8
Haley Samsel Fort Worth Report 9
Linda Hanratty NA 10 Reed Bilz NA 11 Amit Kalia Luminant 12 Jay Lloyd Luminant 13 Kenneth Harding Luminant 14 Steven Sewell Luminant 15 Janet Mattern LWVTC 16 Antarah Crawley Neal R. Gross & Co. Inc. (NRCCO) 17 Kevin Connolly NRCCO 18 Mike Parker Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) 19 Adrienne Rackley PNNL 20 Caitlin Condon PNNL 21 Katie Wagner PNNL 22 Tracy Fuentes PNNL 23 Karen Hadden SEED Coalition 24 Lindsey Grissom SNC 25 Todd Evans Vistra 26 Justin Daily Vistra Corp 27 Angela Sabeth U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) 28 Antoinette Walker-Smith NRC 29 Caroline Hsu NRC 30 Kevin Folk NRC 31 Kim Conway NRC 32 Ted Smith NRC 33 Steve Koenick NRC 34 Mark Yoo NRC 35 Tam Tran NRC Table 2: Attendees (December 7, 2023, Local In-Person Meeting)
Name Affiliation 1
Haley Samsel Fort Worth Report 2
Steven Sewell Granbury resident 3
Susybelle Gosslee Local resident 4
Beth Alferink U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) 5 Steve Koenick NRC 6
Mark Yoo NRC 7
Nick Taylor NRC 8
Ryan Alexander NRC 9
Tam Tran NRC Table 3: Attendees (December 21, 2023, Webinar)
Name Affiliation 1
Kristin Meek Constellation 2
Jana Bergman Curtiss-Wright 3
Stacy Burgess Enercon 4
Ben Spiesman Energy Harbor 5
Kenneth Stewart Local Resident 6
Susybelle Gosslee Local Resident 7
Todd Evans Luminant 8
Randy Harding Luminant 9
David NA 10 Doreen Geiger NA 11 Eric Meyer NA 12 Graham Koester NA 13 Haley Samsel NA 14 James Hopf NA 15 James Walker NA 16 Jeff Cronenworth NA 17 Jeff Garnett NA 18 Jeff Luse NA 19 Jim Hopf NA 20 Karen Hadden NA 21 Madison Schroder NA 22 Micah NA 23 Philip Hult NA 24 Rick Jacobi NA 25 Sean Bryan NA 26 Susybelle Gosslee NA 27 Neal Gross Court Reporter1 28 Condon, Caitlin A PNNL 29 Hare, Leah R PNNL 30 Humza Yazdani Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP 31 Angela Sabet U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) 32 Antoinette Walker-Smith NRC 33 Ashley Waldron NRC 34 Beth Alferink NRC 35 Carol Moyer NRC 36 Dave McIntyre NRC 37 Gregory Werner NRC 38 John Ellegood NRC 39 Lance Rakovan NRC 40 Lauren Gibson NRC 41 Mark Yoo NRC 42 Nicholas Taylor NRC 43 Reuben Siegman NRC 44 Steve Koenick NRC 45 Tam Tran NRC 46 Ted Smith NRC Attachments:
o Meeting notices and agendas - ML23340A228, ML23340A090, and ML23345A212 o
NRC staff presentation - ML23045A155 o
Meeting transcripts - ML24009A214, ML24008A257, and ML24009A223
SUBJECT:
DRAFT SUPPLEMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT PUBLIC MEETING
SUMMARY
FOR ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW OF COMANCHE PEAK NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, UNIT NUMBERS 1 AND 2, LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION (EPID NUMBER: L2022LNE0004)
DATED:
DISTRIBUTION:
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