ML24092A096

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ML24092A096
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Site:	Monticello
Issue date:	04/19/2024
From:	Stephen Koenick NRC/NMSS/DREFS/ELRB
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NRC-2023-0031
Download: ML24092A096 (6)

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-263; NRC-2023-0031]

Northern States Power Company;

Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant Unit 1;

Draft Environmental Impact Statement

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission

ACTION: Request for comment; public comment meetings.

SUMMARY

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for public

comment draft Site-Specific Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of

Nuclear Plants, Supplement 26, Second Renewal, Regarding Subsequent License

Renewal for Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant, Unit 1, NUREG-1437, regarding the

proposed subsequent renewal of Renewed Facility Operating License No. DPR-22, for

an additional 20 years of operation for Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant, Unit 1

(Monticello). Monticello is located in central Minnesota on the banks of the Mississippi

River in Sherburne and Wright Counties, approximately 38 miles northwest of

Minneapolis, MN. Possible alternatives to the proposed action of subsequent license

renewal (SLR) include no action and reasonable replacement power alternatives.

DATES: The staff will hold two public meetings, one in-person near Monticello and one

through an online webinar and teleconference call, on the draft site-specific

environmental impact statement (EIS), incl uding a presentation on the preliminary

findings and a transcribed public comment session. The virtual meeting will be held May

8, 2024, at 1 p.m. central time (CT). The in-person meeting will be held on

May 15, 2024, at 6 p.m. CT, at the Monticello Community Center, South Mississippi Room, 505 Walnut St., Monticello, MN 55362. The in-person public meeting will be

preceded by an open house from 5 - 6 p.m. CT, at the Monticello Community Center.

The public meeting details can be found on the NRCs Public Meeting Schedule at

https://www.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg. Members of the public are invited to submit comments by

June 10, 2024. Comments received after that date will be considered if it is practical to

do so, but the NRC is able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or

before that date.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods; however,

the NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the Federal rulemaking

website:

• Federal rulemaking website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search

for Docket ID NRC-2023-0031. Address questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov

to Stacy Schumann; telephone: 301-415-0624; email: Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For

technical questions, contact the individual listed in the For Further Information Contact

section of this document.

• Email: Comments may be submitted to the NRC electronically using the

email address MonticelloEnvironmental@nrc.gov.

• Mail comments to: Office of Administration, Mail Stop: TWFN-7-A60M, U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, ATTN: Program

Management, Announcements and Editing Staff.

For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting comments, see

Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments in the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section of this document.

2 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jessica Umana, Office of Nuclear Material

Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-

0001; telephone: 301-415-5207; email: Jessica.Umana@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2023-0031 when contacting the NRC about the

availability of information regarding this document. You may obtain publicly available

information related to this action using any of the following methods:

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search

for Docket ID NRC-2023-0031.

• NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System

(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly available documents online in the ADAMS Public

Documents collection at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the

search, select Begin Web-based ADAMS Search. For problems with ADAMS, please

contact the NRCs Public Document Room (P DR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, at

301-415-4737, or by email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. Draft Site-Specific Environmental

Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, Supplement 26, Second

Renewal, Regarding Subsequent License Renewal for Monticello Nuclear Generating

Plant, Unit 1, NUREG-1437, is availabl e in ADAMS under Accession No. ML24102A276.

• NRCs PDR: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies of publicly

available documents, is open by appointment. To make an appointment to visit the PDR,

please send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-

4737, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

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• Public Library: A copy of the draft Site-Specific Environmental Impact

Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, Supplement 26, Second Renewal,

Regarding Subsequent License Renewal for Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant, Unit

1, NUREG-1437, regarding the proposed subsequent renewal of Renewed Facility

Operating License Nos. DPR-22, for an additional 20 years of operation for Monticello,

will be available for public review at the Monticello Great River Regional Library, 200 W

6th St., Monticello, MN 55362.

B. Submitting Comments

The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the Federal

rulemaking website (https://www.regulations.gov). Please include Docket ID NRC-2023-

0031 in your comment submission.

The NRC cautions you not to include identif ying or contact information that you

do not want to be publicly disclosed in y our comment submission. The NRC will post all

comment submissions at https://www.regulat ions.gov as well as enter the comment

submissions into ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to

remove identifying or contact information.

If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons for

submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to include identifying

or contact information that they do not w ant to be publicly disclosed in their comment

submission. Your request should state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment

submissions to remove such information before making the comment submissions

available to the public or entering the comment into ADAMS.

II. Discussion

The NRC is issuing for public comment draft Site-Specific Environmental Impact

Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants Supplement 26, Second Renewal

4 Regarding Subsequent License Renewal for Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant, Unit

1, NUREG-1437, regarding the proposed subsequent renewal of Renewed Facility

Operating License No. DPR-22, for an additional 20 years of operation for Monticello.

Draft Site-Specific Supplement 26, Second Renewal, includes a preliminary analysis that

evaluates the environmental impacts of t he proposed action and alternatives to the

proposed action. It considers the impacts of al l SLR issues applicable to Monticello SLR

on a site-specific basis.

Based on the NRC staff's (i) review of the SLR application, which includes the

environmental report, supplemental documents, and the licensee's responses to the

NRC staff's requests for additional information; (ii) consultation with Federal, State,

Tribal, and local governmental agencies and consideration of input from other

stakeholders; and (iii) independent environmental review as documented in the draft

site-specific EIS, the NRC staff's preliminary recommendation is that the adverse

environmental impacts of subsequent license renewal for Monticello are not so great that

preserving the option of subsequent license renewal for energy-planning decisionmakers

would be unreasonable.

Detailed information about the subsequent license renewal process can be found

on the NRC's public website, under Reactor License Renewal, at

https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensi ng/renewal.html. Materials involving the

request to renew the operating licenses for Monticello are available for public inspection

at the NRC's PDR, and at

5 https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operatin g/licensing/renewal/subsequent-license-

renewal.html.

Dated: April 19, 2024.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

/RA/

Stephen S. Koenick, Chief, Environmental Project Management Branch 1, Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.

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