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Official Transcript of Proceedings
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Title:
Public Scoping Meeting Related to the Clinton Power Station License Renewal Application
Docket Number: 50-461
Location: Webinar
Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Work Order No.: NRC-2814 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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PUBLIC SCOPING MEETING RELATED TO THE CLINTON POWER
STATION LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION
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TUESDAY, MAY 7, 2024
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The meeting was convened via
Videoconference, at 6:00 p.m. EDT, Sheila Ray,
Facilitator, presiding.
PRESENT:
SHEILA RAY, Facilitator; Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation (NRR)
STEVE KOENICK, Chief, Environmental Project
Management Branch 1, Division of
Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial
Support (REFS), Nuclear Material
Safety and Safeguards (NMSS)
JOHN MOSES, Deputy Director, REFS, NMSS
CHRISTOPHER TYREE, Safety Review Lead, NRR
ASHLEY WALDRON, Environmental Review Lead,
P-R-O-C-E-E-D-I-N-G-S
(6:00 p.m.)
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MS. RAY: Good evening, I have 6:00 p.m.,
so we will go ahead and get started. Karen, next
slide, please. So welcome to the Environmental
Scoping Meeting related to the Clinton Power Station
license renewal application. My name is Sheila Ray
and I will be serving as your meeting facilitator this
evening. My role is just to help the meeting go
smoothly and to achieve a common objective. Next
slide please.
So our agenda today will be by providing
an overview of a license renewal process. After this
presentation, you'll have some time to ask clarifying
questions about the information presented. After that
comes the final and most important part of this
webinar, where we'll open the virtual 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 Environmental Review for Clinton's license
renewal. Slide three, please.
So I'll just do some brief introductions,
I will ask Chris to introduce himself. Chris, you're
on mute.
MR. TYREE: Sorry about that. Hi, I'm
Chris Tyree, and I am the Safety Review PM for this
project.
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MS. RAY: Thanks Chris. Ashley? You're
on mute Ashley.
MS. WALDRON: Thank you so much. Ashley
Waldron, NRC, I'm the Environmental Project Manager
lead for this application.
MS. RAY: Thank you. John?
MR. MOSES: Hi everyone, my name is John
Moses and I am the Deputy Director of the Division of
Role Making, Environmental and Financial Support.
MS. RAY: Thank you. Steve?
MR. KOENICK: Yes I am Steven Koenick, I
am the Branch Chief for the Environmental Project
Management Branch One, in the Division of Role Making,
Environmental and Financial Support, in NMSS. Thank
you.
MS. RAY: Thank you so much. Next slide,
please. So here are the overall logistics for our
webinar today. This is a comment gathering webinar by
the NRC's definition, so we're actively seeking your
input. Please note that we're transcribing today's
meeting so the NRC staff can be sure to get a full
accounting of the comments you provide. Slide six,
please. And I will turn it over to John.
MR. MOSES: Thank you, Sheila. I'd like
to welcome you to our first Environmental Scoping
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Meeting for the Clinton Power Station License Renewal
Application. Before we begin today's presentation,
I'd like to briefly introduce you to the NRC and its
mission. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulates
commercial nuclear power points, research, test, and
training reactors, nuclear fuel cycle facilities, and
the use of radioactive materials in medicine,
academic, and industrial settings. The NRC was
created by the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974,
which separated the Former Atomic Energy Commission
into a regulatory body, the NRC, and a promotional
body, which became the Department of Energy. You can
scan the QR code on the slide to see the agency's
current strategic plan. If you have some free time,
I'd encourage you to take a look.
The plan's three strategic goals are key
to the agency successfully fulfilling its mission.
The agency's goals are broken down into strategic
objectives, and the strategies to meet each goal and
objective. Specifically the NRC's goals are to one,
ensure the safe and secure use of radioactive
materials, two, continue to foster a healthier
organization, and three, inspire stakeholder
confidence in the NRC. For the third goal,
stakeholder confidence, we use meetings like these to
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include you in the NRC activities as transparently and
as effectively as possible, and we learned during the
pandemic that webinars or virtual meetings like this
make our work accessible to a broad audience. Also,
we've learned that holding meetings during different
times like working hours may limit attendance, so what
we've done is we've scheduled two virtual meetings for
the Clinton meeting, and the first meeting today is in
the evening, and the second evening later in the week
will be held during the work day. And we appreciate
hearing from you on how we're doing.
I look forward to hearing your insights
and feedback on significant environmental issues that
you feel are important for the staff to consider in
their detailed analysis of issues to be included in
our review of the applicant's environmental report.
We realize that local communities provide a unique
perspective and knowledge of the area. Your comments
are an integral part of the environmental process,
which build off of public participation transparency.
Public participation, openness, and transparency are
key to all of the NRC's responsibilities, including
the licensing of nuclear facilities. Therefore, our
goal is to hear from as many of you as possible and
collect your comments that you might have so that we
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may fully consider them during our environmental
review. In advance of the rest of the meeting, I'd
like to thank you, and with that I'd like to turn back
to Sheila.
MS. WALDRON: Right, Sheila, I think I'm
up next.
MS. RAY: Yes, Ashley, the floor is yours.
MS. WALDRON: All right, thank you. Thank
you John, thank you Sheila. As mentioned, I'm Ashley
Waldron, Lead Environmental Project Manager for the
Clinton license renewal application. So Clinton Power
Station Unit 1 was first licensed in September of
1986, and started commercial operations in April of
1987. The license for Clinton Unit 1 will expire on
April 17th, 2027, and if renewal is granted, it will
be for an additional 20 years from the date of
expiration, so that would take us to April 17th, 2047.
Next slide, please.
Constellation Energy Generation submitted
an application to the NRC for license renewal for
Clinton on February 14th of this year. A license
renewal application is required to contain general
information such as the applicant's name and address,
business and administrative information and technical
information which pertains to aging management. This
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is the focus of the safety review. The application
also includes an environmental report, which the
applicant's assessment of the environmental impacts of
continued operation are provided. So this information
serves as a starting point for the staff to review the
environmental aspects of the license renewal for
Clinton. I would like to now turn it over to Chris
Tyree to cover the safety review. Next slide, please.
MR. TYREE: Thank you, Ashley. Once
again, my name is Chris Tyree, and I'm the Safety
Project Manager for the Clinton License Renewal
Review. I'll walk us through the NRC's license
renewal review process, as shown on this slide.
Starting from the left, the process begins once a
license renewal application, or LRA, has been accepted
for review. Then the process breaks out into two
parallel reviews, the safety review, which you see on
the top, and the environmental review, in the middle.
These two reviews evaluate separate aspects of the
On the safety side of the review,
following the staff's review of the application, the
Advisory Committee for Reactor Safeguards, or ACRS,
completes an independent review of the application to
make a recommendation to the Commission. At the
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bottom of the flow chart, the 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 nuclear matters, including license
renewal. The Commission considers the outcome of the
hearing's process in this decision on whether or not
to renew the operating license. Finally, with inputs
from the environmental review, ACRS recommendation on
the safety review, as well as the staff's finding of
the safety review, a final decision is made by the
NRC. Next slide, please.
The Atomic Energy Act authorizes NRC to
issue licenses for commercial power reactors to
operate for up to 40 years. These licenses can be
renewed for an additional 20 years at a time. This
period following the initial licensing term is known
as the period of extended operation. The purpose of
the safety review is to identify aging effects that
could impair the ability of the systems, structures,
and components, SSCs, within the scope of license
renewal to perform their intended functions, and to
demonstrate that these aging effects will be
adequately managed during the period of extended
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operation. This scope has not changed from the
initial licensing to the license renewal.
As previously mentioned, in February 2024,
Constellation Energy Generation submitted the license
renewal application for Clinton 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 April 12, 2024. Then we
move onto our technical review, which includes an
aging management audit. The aging management audit
consists of three parts, an in-office technical review
audit, on-site audit, and breakout audit. During all
phases of the audit, the NRC staff reviews the
application, documents and references in great detail.
As part of the safety review, the staff also reviews
the applicant's operating experience for information
applicable to aging management. Following the audit,
the audit report is issued. At the very end, the
staff will document its review in a safety evaluation,
or SE. Next slide, please.
The NRC ensures the adequate protection of
public health and safety and the environment through
the regulatory process, which is shown on this slide.
The regulatory process consists of five major
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components. We develop regulations and guidance for
applicants and licensees, license or certify
applicants to either use nuclear material, operate
nuclear facilities, or decommission, oversee licensee
operations and facilities to ensure the licensees
comply with safety requirements, evaluate operational
experience at licensed facilities or involving license
activities, and in support of our regulatory decisions
we conduct research, hold hearings to address the
concerns of parties affected by the agency's
decisions, and obtain independent reviews. With
license renewal, the regulatory process now considers
aging management, as represented by the red block and
arrow.
Now I'll turn the meeting back to Ashley
Waldron, who will discuss the environmental review.
Next slide.
MS. WALDRON: Thank you, Chris. So the
National Environmental Policy Act obligates federal
agencies to consider the environmental impacts in
federal actions. The NRC's specific environmental
regulations are contained in Title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations, found in part 51. The objective
of our environmental review is to determine if the
environmental impacts of license renewal are so great
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that renewal would not be a reasonable option, or in
other words, we're assessing if the renewal is
unacceptable, from an environmental standpoint. Next
slide.
Our environmental review considers the
impacts of continued operations for the plant for an
additional 20 years, and any proposed mitigation of
those impacts. We would also consider the impacts of
reasonable alternatives to the proposed action of
license renewal, including the impacts of not issuing
a renewed license. The staff documents its
environmental review in an environmental impact
statement. The staff has developed a generic
environmental impact statement that addresses several
issues, common to all nuclear power points. We call
this the LR GEIS. The NRC is currently gathering the
information necessary to prepare a supplemental EIS in
which we will address issues that are specific to
Clinton. The supplemental EIS will evaluate the
environmental impacts of the license renewal for
Clinton, and any reasonable alternatives. Next slide.
For the license renewal review, the NRC
looks at a wide range of environmental impacts as part
of preparing the environmental impact statement. We
are looking for your comments in these areas as part
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of our scoping process. Next slide. This slide is a
good illustration of the different resource areas the
staff reviews and considers as part of its
environmental review, and what we look at in preparing
our environmental impact statement. Next slide.
The environmental review begins with a
scoping process, which is why we're here today, and
the purpose of the scoping process is to identify
significant issues that should be considered in the
environmental review. We are now gathering
information that we'll use to prepare the
environmental impact statement for the license
renewal. As part of that process, today we'd 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
illustrated on the previous slide. This scoping
period starting on April 29, 2024, 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 May 29th, 2024.
In general, we're looking for information
about the environmental impacts from continued
operation of Clinton Unit 1 during the period of
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extended operation. You can assist us in that process
by telling us, for example, what aspects of your local
community we should focus on, what local,
environmental, social, or economic issues the staff
should consider, and what reasonable alternatives are
most appropriate for your local region. These are
just some examples of the input we're looking for, and
they represent the kinds of information that we're
seeking through the environmental scoping period.
Your comments today would be helpful in providing
insight of this nature for the environmental analysis.
Next slide.
In conducting our environmental review, we
coordinate and consult with various local, state,
federal, and tribal officials to gather pertinent
information from these sources to ensure that it's
considered in our analysis. As illustrated on this
slide, some of the consulting agencies that we work
with are Fish and Wildlife, the Environmental
Protection Agency, the Advisory Council for Historic
Preservation, and the State Historic Preservation
Office. As part of the environmental review, the
staff will hold public meetings to receive comments on
the draft EIS, once available.
I will now discuss the environmental
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scoping process in more detail. Next slide, please.
So here are the important milestones that the
environmental review process will follow. If you have
environmental scoping comments you'd like to submit
outside of today's meeting, you'll have until May 29th
to do so. There will be an additional webinar on
Thursday during the day, that will be May 9th, at 1:00
p.m., Eastern, and based on our current schedule, we
are planning to issue a draft supplemental
environmental impact statement for public comment by
April of 2025. 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
environmental impact statement.
While this slide lists the milestones for
the environmental review and opportunities for public
involvement, the safety review as Chris mentioned,
will be performed in according with a separate
schedule. Next slide, please. This slide identifies
the primary points of contact within the NRC for the
license renewal for Clinton Power Station Unit 1.
Next slide. So the public library listed here has
agreed to make the license renewal application
available for public inspection. The draft's
supplemental environmental impact statement will also
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be available at this library when it's published for
comment. In addition, these documents will be on the
NRC's public website. Next slide.
The most important piece of today's
meeting is to receive any comments that you have
regarding the scope of the environmental review. Here
are the various ways you can submit your comments on
our environmental review. You can provide written
comments by mail to the NRC at the address listed
here, or you can provide comments electronically by
going to regulations.gov or via email as indicated on
this slide. And again, all comments should be
submitted by May 29th of this year. Next slide. So
just a re-cap, the comment period ends the end of this
month, comments will be considered in a scoping
summary report, which we will issue in the summer of
this year, and that would be provided to all the
scoping participants. With that, that concludes my
presentation, and I'll now turn it back over to
Sheila.
MS. RAY: Thank you, Ashley. At this time
we'll take any questions on the environmental scoping
process and the materials that we just presented.
We'll take questions on that, then we'll move into the
public comment period. So are there any questions on
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the materials presented? I would ask, if you have a
question, please raise your hand. All right, I see no
hands raised, so we will move into the public comment
period. Again, I'd ask that you please raise your
hand, and if you are on the phone, you can press star
five. I will take the folks in the order that they
raise their hand. And I'd ask that if you could
please introduce yourself with your name and your
affiliation for the recording, that would be much
appreciated. Josh, I see your hand is up. Please go
ahead with your comment.
MR. SHOFNER: Thank you. Hello, my name
is Josh Shofner, I am the President of First National
Bank and Trust in Clinton, Illinois, DeWitt County,
just a few miles away from the Clinton Clean Energy
Center. So again, thank you for your time and
consideration, the Clean Energy Center in Clinton is a
cornerstone of DeWitt County in a number of ways, with
over 14,000 acres in rural DeWitt County and a 5,000
acre cooling lake providing recreation open to the
public, ultimately supports numerous local businesses,
non-profits, environmental -- in addition to the
economic support provided by the visitors and small
businesses, with food, fuel, camping, honey, hiking
industries, and a number of educational institutions
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also to utilize the property. From state sanctioned
fishing tournaments to collegiate rowing activities,
the property is well respected for its safety record
in the community and widely supported.
And they are diligent to support the local
community financially in a number of ways that are
impactful and meaningful. From the CEO high school
education program to a YMCA Strong Kids Campaign that
supports low-income members, as well as the Chamber of
Commerce and numerous other events and non-profits.
Over 13 million dollars in tax revenue flows directly
into our school districts, counties, libraries, and
other local municipalities, with millions more of
indirect impact to public bodies and small businesses.
DeWitt County, myself specifically, I
support the past, present, and future of the Clean
Energy Center. In addition to the financial support,
they provide local emergency teams with necessary
training and drills that can be leveraged for both the
plant and non-plant emergencies. Again, I view the
power plant as a cornerstone for DeWitt County
residents, businesses, local governments, and non-
profits, and wholeheartedly support renewal
application to continue to provide clean energy to
central Illinois and beyond for the next 20 years.
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Appreciate your time and consideration. Thank you.
MS. WALDRON: Sheila, you're on mute.
MS. RAY: Thank you. Please raise your
hand. Josh, thanks for your comment, appreciate that.
And folks, if you could please raise your hand if you
have a comment. And if you're on the phone, you can
press star five. Are there other public comments?
Please feel free to raise your hand or press star
five. And the raised hand, for those of you who may
not be familiar with Teams, it is in the top bar,
you'll see chat, raise, and there's a finger of a
hand. Please press that if you'd like to make a
comment, and on the phone, press star five. So feel
free to raise your hand if you have a public comment.
I don't see any public comments. I'll
take one last call for public comments. Again, raise
your hand or press star five if you're on the phone.
So I see no other public comments, we can -- we will
keep the meeting open for a bit longer, in case those
folks maybe are joining later. We'll probably keep it
open until about 7:00, but again, feel free to raise
your hand if you have a public comment.
And just to review, if you'd like to make
written comments, you can provide them by mail, at
this address given, on the website at
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www.regulations.gov with the docket number, or an
email, clintonenvironmetal@nrc.gov, please note
comments should be submitted by May 29th, and we will
keep this slide open for those folks to write the
information down. These slides are on the public
meeting notice, the ML number is in the public meeting
notice, so you can access all of this information. So
any public comments, feel free to raise your hand or
press star five, if you're on the phone.
So we will keep this meeting open until
7:00, but if you have a public comment or a question
on the scoping process, please feel free to raise your
hand on Teams, you can find it at the top bar, and if
you are on the phone, please press star five. Once
again, we are in the public comment period portion,
comment gather portion of this meeting, if you have a
public comment, please raise your hand on Teams,
you'll find that at the top bar, and if you're on the
phone, please press star five. And we will keep this
meeting open until around 7:00 p.m. Eastern, in case
there were other folks who were planning on joining
us.
So if anyone is looking for where the
documents can be found, they can be found on our
website, at this web link, or at the public library in
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Clinton, Illinois. Additionally, these slides are
available on the public meeting notice, the ML number
has been provided. We are in the public comment
gathering portion of the meeting, if you have a public
comment, please feel free to raise your hand on Teams,
or on the phone, please press star five. We will
leave this meeting open until around 7:00 p.m. to
gather any public comments.
We're in the public comment gathering
portion of the meeting, if you have a public comment,
please feel free to raise your hand on Teams, or if
you're on the phone, please press star five. Thank
you, and we will keep this meeting open for
approximately another 10 minutes.
All right, I will take another call for
public comments, if you'd like to make a public
comment, raise your hand on Teams or press star five.
And while you are all thinking, we welcome feedback
on the public meeting. That can be provided online at
https://feedback.nrc.gov/pmfs with a meeting code, and
this public meeting's meeting code is 20240540. And
with that, I will turn it over to John for closing
remarks.
MR. MOSES: Thank you, Sheila. Good
evening everyone, on behalf of the staff I want to
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thank you for taking the time to attend tonight's
virtual public meeting, and we appreciate your
comments that you've shared tonight or intend to share
either by email or regulations.gov. I'd like to
briefly summarize our next steps. We are currently
about halfway through our scoping period, and will
accept your comments until May 29th, 2024. Our team
will gather the comments that we've heard as well as
any comments received by the website,
www.regulations.gov, at NRC-2024-0046. Also we'll
accept postal mail and email comments. Then we'll
compile all the comments, evaluate them, put them in
kind of common groupings, and then issue a scoping
summary report that will summarize the conclusions
reached from the scoping process. We anticipate
issuing the draft environmental impact statement in
the Spring of 2025. Once we issue the draft
environmental impact statement, we'll have another
public meeting and comment period to receive
additional input from you on that draft environmental
impact statement.
So right now, we look forward to your
comments once we've prepared that draft evaluation.
We appreciate tonight's meeting and your perspectives.
Even though this is an environmental scoping meeting,
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I want to make sure that everyone understands that any
other issues that were brought up or will be brought
up via email or through the web forum or post mail
will get handled appropriately by the agency. Thank
you for your comments, questions, and for taking the
time to attend this meeting, and have a wonderful
evening.
MS. RAY: Thanks, we are adjourned.
(Whereupon, the above-entitled matter
went off the record at 6:54 p.m.)
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