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| Site: | Kemmerer File:TerraPower icon.png |
| Issue date: | 07/22/2025 |
| From: | Patricia Vokoun NRC/NMSS/DREFS/EPMB3 |
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Official Transcript of Proceedings NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Title:
Public Meeting to Receive Comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Construction Permit Application for Kemmerer Power Station One Location:
Kemmerer, Wyoming Date:
Tuesday, July 22, 2025 Work Order No.:
NRC-0379 Pages 1-25 Docket No.:
50-0613 NEAL R. GROSS AND CO., INC.
Court Reporters and Transcribers 1716 14th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20009 (202) 234-4433
1 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
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PUBLIC MEETING TO RECEIVE COMMENTS ON THE DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT (EIS) FOR THE CONSTRUCTION PERMIT APPLICATION FOR KEMMERER POWER STATION ONE
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SESSION 1
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- TUESDAY, JULY 22, 2025
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The meeting was convened at South Lincoln Training & Event Center, 215 State Highway 233, Kemmerer, Wyoming, 83101, at 2:00 p.m. MST, Brett Klukan, Facilitator, presiding.
PRESENT:
BRETT KLUKAN, Facilitator PATRICIA VOKOUN, Environmental Project Manager, NMSS/REFS/EPMB3 MICHELLE ROME, Chief, NMSS/REFS/ETRB1
2 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com ALSO PRESENT:
MIKE HUNZIE, Civilian SENATOR LAURA
- PEARSON, State of Wyoming District 14
3 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com P-R-O-C-E-E-D-I-N-G-S (4:00 p.m.)
MR. KLUKAN: Welcome, everyone. My name is Brett Klukan. And normally, I'm the Regional Counsel for Region I of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, but this afternoon and this evening, I'll be facilitating these public comment sessions.
So the purpose of this meeting is regarding the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Kemmerer Unit 1 Power Plant. As spelled out in the meeting notice up on the NRC's webpage, the purpose of this meeting is to provide the NRC staff's environmental review of the construction permit application for the Kemmerer Power Unit 1 as documented in the staff's Draft Environmental Impact Statement, or the DEIS. You'll hear that repeatedly throughout the course of this presentation and to provide you an opportunity to provide comments to the NRC on the NRC's preliminary staff findings.
So after a presentation by the NRC and a short window for some process related questions, we'll turn the rest of the meeting over to hearing from you your comments.
So keep in mind that we are transcribing
4 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com a recording and transcribing this meeting to make sure that we fully capture your comments. So to help us get a clean recording, I would ask that when it is your turn to speak, please identify yourself, meaning your name and any affiliation you would like captured as part of the record before beginning with your comment.
Now for some very basic introductions for the NRC staff, we have Patricia Vokoun, the Environmental Project Manager for the Kemmerer project. Patricia is the Environmental Project Manager in Environmental Project Management Branch 3 in the Division of Rulemaking, Environmental and Financial Support in the NRC Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. That is a mouthful.
Michelle Rome is the Branch Chief in the Environmental Technical Review Branch 1 in the same Division of Rulemaking, Environmental and Financial Support in the NRC Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
We also have with us supporting the NRC staff for the environmental review several staff from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, or otherwise known as PNNL. We have Cyler Conrad and Michelle Neimeyer and Jim Jackson. You may have met
5 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com some of those individuals while you were circulating in the back of the room looking at some of our poster boards.
Finally, before I turn it over to the staff just to help you off, here are some acronyms that you're probably going to hear over the course of the staff's presentation and then maybe brought up by others as part of their comments.
ADAMS, A-D-A-M-S. That is the NRC's Document Management System. It's where you go to find NRC's official records or documents.
EIS, as I kind of mentioned an EIS is an Environmental Impact Statement. A DEIS is a Draft Environmental Impact Statement.
An ER is an Environmental Report. That is what is submitted by the applicant.
NEPA is the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
NHPA is the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.
For a more complete list of acronyms used by the NRC as part of its environmental review, you can find them in NUREG 2268 which again is itself another acronym, and I'm not even sure what NUREG stands for. We always say NUREG which is the
6 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com Environmental Impact Statement for the construction permit application for the Kemmerer Power Unit, Power Station Unit 1. And thank you again and with that, I'm going to turn it over to Michelle for opening remarks.
MS. ROME: Thank you, Brett. My name is Michelle Rome and I'm one of the Branch Chiefs in NRC's Center of Environmental Expertise. I really want to thank all of you for attending today. Your time is valuable and we really appreciate you being here. This public meeting is a really important step in the environmental review process where we are really interested to hear your comments and your thoughts on what we have in our Draft Environmental Impact Statement.
You guys are the people who live and work here. You know this community best and so we really appreciate your perspective on what you think is important and how we have summarized the communities, the resources here and what the potential impact could be from the proposed TerraPower facility.
Given that the main point of this meeting is to hear from all of you, I will preserve as much time as possible for that and I will turn it over to Pat, our Project Manager.
7 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com MS. VOKOUN: Thank you, Michelle, and thank you all for coming here this afternoon and participating in this public meeting on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement or DEIS for TerraPower's request for construction permit from the NRC.
As Brett stated in the introductions, my name is Pat Vokoun. I'm the Lead Environmental Project Manager for the NRC's review of the Kemmerer Unit 1 for its Natrium Reactor. I am a member of a larger group of technical experts comprising the TerraPower Kemmerer Unit 1 environmental review team.
Next slide, please.
The first thing we are going to do is give you a little background and a description of the NRC's review process for construction permit applications and where we currently are in that process. We will also be giving you a brief description of what TerraPower is proposing to build here in Kemmerer.
We will share with you the NRC staff's preliminary findings and recommendations from the environmental review.
We will wrap up our presentation by summarizing the various ways you can provide comments to us regarding the Draft EIS. And
8 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com that is the main part of our being with you today.
We wish to gather your comments that we will then take back with us and consider as we prepare our final EIS. Your comments help us ensure that we have a high quality NEPA document as we evaluate the proposed federal action which is the Commission's decision whether to issue the construction permit.
Next slide, please.
What is the role of the NRC? The NRC's authority covers decisions on the construction and safe operation of a nuclear reactor at a selected site. NRC staff also evaluates the environmental impacts of the construction and operation of the nuclear facility. At each site, NRC inspectors examine the construction and operations of nuclear reactors, as well as licensing reactor control room operators.
Next slide.
USO proposes to build Kemmerer Unit 1 at a site in Lincoln County that is owned by USO. This site is three miles south of the City of Kemmerer and 2.8 miles southeast of the Naughton Power Plant. The Kemmerer Unit 1 Natrium Reactor would demonstrate an advanced reactor that uses liquid sodium as the coolant instead of water. TerraPower has identified
9 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com a site within the Kemmerer Station on lands that were formerly undisturbed.
Additionally, TerraPower has stated that to support water demand, a water corridor will be required to connect the Naughton Power Plant Raw Water Settling Basin and avoid using ground water.
Because Kemmerer Unit 1 will distribute power or require large quantities of power, TerraPower plans to build a transmission corridor to connect to the existing Naughton Power Plant Substation.
The NRC is the lead agency for this EIS.
We have the responsibility of regulating or approving the major federal action. A cooperating agency is any federal agency other than the NRC which has jurisdiction by law or special expertise with respect to any environmental impact involved in a major federal action.
USO is receiving funding through the Department of Energy's Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program, so DOE is a cooperating agency on the NRC's construction permit EIS. Nate Howard is here tonight from DOE.
Next slide, please.
So what is a construction permit? It is the NRC authorization for an applicant to proceed
10 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com with construction of a nuclear facility. For this EIS, the NRC looked only at activities and impact associated with construction. However, it is important to remember that even if we approve the permit, and USO builds it, an additional application and the NRC review and approval of a final design is needed for an operating license before the facility could operate.
NRC expects USO to submit the additional application that will cover operational details such as consumptive water use and spent fuel storage. NRC staff will analyze this information when they see it.
There are two aspects of the NRC's review that must be completed to inform the Commission's decision on whether to issue the construction permit, safety and environmental.
Next slide, please.
The applicant submitted a preliminary safety analysis report which contained the information and criteria on the preliminary reactor design and a comprehensive set of data describing the characteristics of the proposed site in key topic areas such as external flooding, reactor fuel, safe heat removal, and other related topics. The NRC reviews all of these areas to ensure that the design
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Next slide, please.
Here we see an overview of the construction permit review process. This process was used by most of the operating fleet. This step-by-step approach is how the agency meets its obligations. Under the Atomic Energy Act for the safety component of a review shown along the top and its obligations under the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, for the environmental portion of the review shown along the bottom row here. Please note that the dark orange areas are where you, as members of the public, can be and have been involved.
The results of the staff's safety and environmental reviews are then presented at the mandatory hearing that the NRC will conduct at the end of the process.
In this meeting tonight, we will focus on the environmental portion of the construction permit review and we are currently here at the point in our process where we solicit comments regarding the EIS results.
12 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com Next slide, please.
The NRC's environmental review complies with the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, as well as related environmental statutes such as the Endangered Species Act and the National Historic Preservation Act. The NRC performs environmental reviews in parallel with the safety reviews. Our environmental review, as documented in this draft EIS, is based on the requirements of NEPA.
NEPA requires federal agencies to apply a systematic approach to evaluate the impacts on the environment of the federal actions. For the major federal actions, such as issuing a construction permit for a reactor, NEPA requires agencies to document their evaluation in an Environmental Impact Statement.
NRC staff primarily focused on construction impacts. USO provided some info on operation and decommissioning, some of it preliminary and incomplete. We will fully analyze operational impacts when we receive the application for the OL.
As we talked about
- earlier, a
construction permit does not authorize the operation of a nuclear facility. However, the environmental review of a construction permit decision does evaluate the impacts for building, operating, and
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Next slide, please.
I'm going to tell you a little about the environmental review process and the proposed Kemmerer Unit 1 site. The applicant, TerraPower, has stated that they designed the Natrium Reactor to comply with the applicable environmental quality standards and regulatory requirements. The artist rendering here depicts the proposed layout of the Kemmerer Unit 1 which as we said, generates power from a new advanced reactor technology. The proposed facilities include the reactor connected to the molten salt energy storage system. This plant would produce about 345 megawatts continuously and up to 500 megawatts for short periods. Our review includes the entire project.
Next slide, please.
This slide shows most of the resource areas for which impacts are evaluated in the Draft EIS. The Draft EIS has been prepared by a core team of subject matter experts in key scientific and technical disciplines. We used a scoping process
14 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com earlier in 2024 to identify those environmental resources and issues most relevant to an environmental review for the licensing application.
Most of the core team consists of the NRC Staff Subject Matter Experts and the Center of Environmental Expertise. The NRC also contracted with PNNL to provide specific specialized services needed in preparing the EIS. The core team can access other specialized expertise as necessary in the ECOE and with PNNL.
Following recent direction, the team tailored the size and breadth of the EIS to reflect the potential for significant adverse environmental impacts. For example, the team recognized that the Kemmerer Unit 1 project, and like many new nuclear projects, lacks intake or discharge structures in surface water bodies. The EIS therefore does not need to include a lot of information on aquatic wildlife plans.
The team also took other measures to streamline a draft EIS to better communicate the environmental effects.
Next slide, please.
This slide shows how impacts to the environment are characterized in the draft EIS. Even
15 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com though the draft EIS, supports an application for its construction permit only, the team evaluated the potential environmental impacts from the project over its entire lifecycle, including construction, operation, and decommissioning. The team will supplement the EIS as part of the review of the subsequent licensing application.
The draft EIS classified impacts into three categories of significance, small, moderate, and large, to help explain the environmental effects in consistent terms. The draft EIS drew a unified significant conclusion for each environmental resource addressed. That conclusion covered the direct, indirect, and cumulative impacts to the resource.
Next slide, please.
The team concluded that the potential,
- direct, indirect, and cumulative environmental impacts will be small except for terrestrial ecology, cultural resources, and socioeconomics. In other words, the team concluded that Kemmerer project would not result in any potentially significant environmental impacts. Its water demands would be met by municipal water supply and sewer infrastructure or by trucking water in for use and
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The applicant proposes to use best management practices to control issues such as erosion and storm water. The applicant would comply with all applicable health and safety regulations and protect human health from radiological and non-radiological effects. Radiological impacts would be bound by past NRC analyses protective of human health and the environment. The project would generate only low quantities of waste and transportation of the waste would comply with the NRC and U.S. Department of Transportation regulations. The project would meet NRC requirements regarding postulated accidents.
Next slide, please.
The team's systematic process identified a range of reasonable alternatives to evaluate in the draft EIS compared to the impacts from the Kemmerer 1 project as proposed. We used a systematic process for identifying a range of reasonable alternative sites for the proposed project. The process involves systematic consideration of possible sites, leading to the identification of three reasonable sites. The
17 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com proposed Kemmerer Unit 1 site, the Naughton site south of and adjacent to the Naughton Power Plant in Lincoln County, Wyoming, and the Jim Bridge 22 site located in the Sweetwater County, Wyoming. There are many possible layouts for the proposed facilities within the sites, but all would have substantially similar environmental impacts.
To summarize, the alternatives evaluated in detail in the Draft EIS included the no action alternative, the proposed action of building the Kemmerer Unit 1 project on the proposed site and an alternative involving building the Kemmerer Unit 1 project in other locations.
Next slide, please.
After weighing the environmental, economic, technical, and other benefits against environmental and other costs, and considering reasonable alternatives, the NRC staff preliminarily recommends, unless safety issues mandate otherwise, that the NRC issue the requested CP to USO. This preliminary recommendation is based on USO's environmental report included as part of the CP application, information gathered during the review team's audit, and responses from USO to requests from the review team for clarifying information; the
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- agencies, and the review team's independent environmental review.
Next slide, please.
Shown here is the timeline for the Kemmerer Unit 1 environmental review where we present the dates that are associated with the key milestones in the review. As you can see, we are currently in the comment period stage of the draft EIS. The 45-day comment period on the draft EIS began on June 20th and will remain open until August 4th. Once the comment period is over, the staff will review all the comments that are received on the draft EIS that includes anything that you want to share with us today.
Based on the comments we receive, we will adjust our analyses as needed and finalize the EIS. The NRC's current schedule is to issue the final EIS by the end of 2025.
Next slide, please.
The application materials for the Kemmerer Unit 1 applicant may be found online at the URL shown on the slide or at the Lincoln County Public Library. If you wish to speak to one of the points
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Next slide, please.
To conclude, we invite you to submit comments regarding how the NRC draft EIS presents the analysis for the TerraPower Kemmerer Unit 1 project.
You may request to speak tonight, or you may submit your comments electronically to the email address shown on the slide or in a letter to the indicated mailing address. When submitting a comment, make sure to provide your name and email address. Please avoid including personally identifiable information that you would not want published. Again, comments must be received by August 4th, 2025. Thank you for your interest.
Brett, will work with you now to ask questions and get comments. Thanks Brett.
MR. KLUKAN: Thank you very much, Pat.
So before we get into the process of the questions that I mentioned and then public comments, I want to offer an opportunity right now if there are any elected individuals -- elected officials, excuse me, or representatives of elected officials if you would stand and be recognized to offer any prepared statements at this juncture.
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All right, so as I mentioned, let's make sure that you understand how the environmental review process works in order for you to successfully make comments to the NRC staff, because, again, that's why we're here at this meeting today to conduct this outreach today, to hear from you. So we want to make sure that you understand how this process works.
So with that said, if you have any process-related questions, like: What is a DEIS?
What do you mean by seeking comments? How does this factor in -- or how will my comments factor in to the final EIS? Anything like that or anything you've heard as to what's within the scope of the DEIS, please feel free to ask them.
Okay. All right, we're going to move straight to public comments. Now again, I would just ask when I do bring the microphone to you, that you start with your name and any affiliation you would like captured as part of the record before you make your comments, okay? So with that said, let's see here. Fairly small crowd here, we can do with just raising hands. So, who would like to offer a comment at this time?
Okay. Quiet bunch. So, I'm not going to
21 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com force you to comment. You can, as Pat mentioned, up until, I think we had it on our TV screen, the comment period runs through August 4th, right? So that is the last day for comments. If you can't think of something now or on the spot, or you didn't come with a comment prepared, we're happy to receive it through any of the various means you see up there and we'll capture it as part of the record and process it according to how we handle comments received in response to a Draft Environmental Impact Statement.
Does anybody have anything they'd like to bring up? We're here all day. We're not going anywhere. We have another meeting this evening, so it's not like we're on a clock. With that, anyone have any comments?
Okay, good. Thank you, sir.
MR. HUNZIE: Hi. I'm Mike Hunzie and I'm just a citizen here and this is more of a question, I guess.
MR. KLUKAN: Sure.
MR. HUNZIE: One of the concerns a couple years ago, for this proposed site is there are a whole bunch, and I mean like four or five underground mines, old ones back there. How much consideration was given to that in this draft EIS?
22 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com MR. KLUKAN: Thanks for that question.
Is there someone from PNNL or the NRC that would like to deal with that one? Here, I'll bring you the mic.
MS. VOKOUN: I don't have anyone who can take that one.
MR. KLUKAN: Okay. So we will take that and get back to you on that one. If your contact is we didn't bring, given that we're mostly here to receive public comment today, we'll have to take that. We don't have a seismologist with us today.
We'll take that back and get back to you.
I can say as part of the safety review, seismology is a huge part of that review and is something that the staff documents as part of their safety analysis. But again, we are here to talk about the environmental impacts related to construction.
There will be
- another, as Pat mentioned, environmental review related to operations once that operating application is submitted, which is a subsequent step.
All right. If none of you have any comments, we're here, we're happy to answer any questions you have, as well, at this juncture. We may not have the staff available to answer those questions, but I want you to feel like you're taking
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Does anyone have any questions that you weren't able to have answered during the open door session -- or public whatever, the milling about session, I should say.
Anyone have any questions? Okay. All right. Great.
SENATOR PEARSON: Hi. My name is Laura Pearson, Senate District 14. So, as I spoke to some of you this morning, my concern, and its not necessarily on the construction end but the operating end. My concern was where the spent fuel is going and where it's going to be stored ultimately. And the guarantees that the public and our constituents and our grandkids and great grandkids even a hundred years down the road was, this spent fuel was going to be stored properly and not cause harm to the public.
That's where I am on that and I did mention that this morning, at the meeting, and I think a lot of our constituents have concerns with that. Especially here in Wyoming, we don't want anything that is going to possibly harm our children, grandchildren in the future. You know? And what kind of guarantees there are going to be or compensation should something happen. That's where I am on that. Im not against
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MR. KLUKAN: Thank you very much for offering those comments again, today and for joining us. We had a government to government meeting this morning with representatives of state and elected officials as well as representatives from states and local bodies, just to provide them one-on-one information.
Does anyone else have anything they'd like to offer? Youre free to come back tonight if you think of anything.
Alright, well, again, there are multiple ways of offering comments. You can speak today. You can offer -- send an email straight to the email box and you can also do it the old fashioned way, and send us something in the mail. These methods are on the Q and A cards. So feel free. If you think you might have a comments take one of those cards So with that, I turn it over to Michelle to make closing remarks.
MS. ROME: Thanks, Brett. Again, thank you everyone for your time. We appreciate it. You've heard comments, if anything comes to you feel free to come back tonight or use one of these other ways. We
25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com appreciate what we heard regarding waste, regarding the mines that were in the area, and as you heard we had a meeting earlier today with some of the local officials and we really appreciated the feedback that we heard. So we really will be taking everything that we hear today, looking through it, getting the right experts working on it.
Its a
- large, interdisciplinary team reviewing all the comments that we hear today and throughout the entire comment period to update the Environmental Impact Statement and youll see how we update it and how we respond to the comments in the final. With that, thank you, and I hope you enjoy the rest of your evening and the rest of your day.
MR. KLUKAN: Thank you, everyone.
(Whereupon, the above-entitled matter went off the record at 4:32 p.m.)
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