ML24318C506

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Letter to Robert Deschampe Tribal Chair Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Re NOA of the Final EIS for the Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant Unit 1 SLR
ML24318C506
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Site: Monticello Xcel Energy icon.png
Issue date: 11/18/2024
From: Tanya Smith
NRC/NMSS/DREFS/ETRB2
To: Deschampe R
Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
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Download: ML24318C506 (1)


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Robert Deschampe, Tribal Chairman Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa P.O. Box 428 Grand Portage, MN 55605

SUBJECT:

NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF THE FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR THE MONTICELLO NUCLEAR GENERATING PLANT, UNIT 1 SUBSEQUENT LICENSE RENEWAL (DOCKET NUMBER: 50-263)

Dear Tribal Chairman Robert Deschampe:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff has completed the environmental impact statement, NUREG-1437, Supplement 26, Second Renewal, Site-Specific Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants Regarding Subsequent License Renewal for Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant, Unit 1, Final (FEIS). Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant, Unit 1 (Monticello) is operated by Northern States Power Company (doing business as Xcel Energy) and is located in Wright County, Minnesota, on the southern bank of the Mississippi River. The NRC staff initiated consultation with your office regarding this project on March 13, 2023. In accordance with Title 36 of the Code of Federal Regulations (36 CFR)

Section 800.8(c), the NRC staff has elected to use the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended, process to comply with its obligations under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended.

The FEIS evaluates the environmental impacts of the proposed action (i.e., renewing the Monticello operating license authorizing an additional 20 years of operation) and alternatives of the proposed action. As discussed in the FEIS, the NRC staff determined that the adverse environmental impacts of the subsequent license renewal are not so great that preserving the option for energy-planning decision-makers would be unreasonable. The NRC staff has determined that the undertaking will result in no historic properties affected, as defined in 36 CFR 800.4(d)(1).

A copy of the FEIS is available via the following link:

https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2430/ML24309A221.pdf. The FEIS may also be obtained online in the NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Public Documents collection at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html under ML24309A221. To begin the search, select Begin Web-based ADAMS Search. For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRCs Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or via email to pdr.Resource@nrc.gov.

November 18, 2024

R. Deschampe 2

If you have any questions concerning the NRCs license renewal review, please contact Nancy Martinez, by phone at 630-829-9734 or via email at Nancy.Martinez@nrc.gov, or Jessica Umana, by phone at 301-415-5207 or via email at Jessica.Umana@nrc.gov.

Sincerely, Theodore Smith, Acting Deputy Director Division of Rulemaking, Environmental and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 50-263 cc: Robert Hull, THPO P.O. Box 428 Grand Portage, MN 55605 Signed by Smith, Theodore on 11/18/24

Package ML24312A317; Letter ML24318C506 OFFICE PM:REFS LR:REFS PM:REFS BC: REFS DEP.DIR:REFS NAME NMartinez AWalker-Smith Jumana MRome TSmith DATE 11/07/2024 11/08/2024 11/08/2024 11/12/2024 11/18/2024