ML090160280

02/25/2009 Notice of Forthcoming Meeting to Discuss the Safety Review Process and Environmental Scoping Process for Cooper Nuclear Station, Unit 1, License Renewal Application Review

ML090160280
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Site:	Cooper
Issue date:	01/29/2009
From:	Sayoc E License Renewal Projects Branch 2
To:	David Pelton License Renewal Projects Branch 2
Sayoc, Manny, NRR/DLR/RLRB 415-1924
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January 29, 2009 MEMORANDUM TO: David L. Pelton, Chief Projects Branch 1 Division of License Renewal Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation FROM: Emmanuel Sayoc /RA/

Projects Branch 2 Division of License Renewal Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

SUBJECT:

FORTHCOMING MEETING TO DISCUSS THE SAFETY REVIEW PROCESS AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCOPING PROCESS FOR COOPER NUCLEAR STATION, UNIT 1, LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION REVIEW DATE AND TIME: February 25, 2009, (Two identical sessions)

First session: 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (as necessary)

Second session: 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. (as necessary)

LOCATION: First Session:

Brownville Concert Hall 126 Atlantic St.

Brownville, NE 68321 (402) 825-3331 Second Session:

Auburn Senior Center 1101 J St.

Auburn, NE 68305 (402) 274-3420 CATEGORY 3:* This is a Category 3 Meeting. The public is invited to participate in this meeting by providing comments and asking questions throughout the meeting.

PURPOSE: To discuss the safety review and environmental scoping process for the License Renewal Application (LRA) review for Cooper Nuclear Station, Units 1. These meetings will provide members of the public with the opportunity to provide comments regarding environmental issues that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) should consider during its review of the LRA. These meetings are being conducted as part of the scoping process outlined in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 51 (10 CFR Part 51) to support development of an environmental impact statement related to the LRA. See the enclosed Agenda and Federal Register notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact

• Commission's Policy Statement on "Enhancing Public Participation in NRC Meetings," 67 Federal Register 36920, May 28, 2002

statement and conduct scoping process (74 FR 4476). The LRA is available at http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/applications/coop er.html and in ADAMS (Accession Number ML083030227).

CONTACTS: Tam Tran, NRR Emmanuel Sayoc, NRR 301-415-3617 301-415-1924 Tam.Tran@NRC.GOV Emmanuel.Sayoc@NRC.GOV PURPOSE (Cont.): Both formal sessions will be preceded by an informal ?open house@

beginning one hour prior to each session. The open house will provide members of the public with an opportunity to talk informally one-on-one with NRC staff. Members of the public may register to present oral comments at this meeting by contacting Tam Tran, at (800) 368-5642, ext.

3617, or by email at Tam.Tran@nrc.gov, or Emmanuel Sayoc, at (800) 368-5642, ext. 1924, or by email at Emmanuel.Sayoc@nrc.gov by February 18, 2009. Those who wish to make comments may also register at the meeting within 15 minutes of the start of each session. Individual oral comments may be limited by the time available, depending on the number of persons who register.

If special equipment or accommodations are needed to attend or present information at the meeting, the need should be brought to the attention of Mr. Tran or Mr. Sayoc, at the telephone or email addresses above, no later than February 18, 2009 to provide the NRC staff adequate notice to determine whether the request can be accommodated.

PARTICIPANTS: NRC Members of the Public David Pelton Tam Tran Emmanuel Sayoc Stephen Klementowicz Docket No. 50-298

Enclosures:

1. Agenda

2. Federal Register Notice cc w/encls: See next page

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DATE 01/23/09 01/29/09 01/29/09 01/29/09

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Mr. Ronald D. Asche Mr. H. Floyd Gilzow President and Chief Executive Officer Deputy Director for Policy Nebraska Public Power District Missouri Department of Natural Resources 1414 15th Street P.O. Box 176 Columbus, NE 68601 Jefferson City, MO 65102-0176 Mr. Gene Mace Senior Resident Inspector Nuclear Asset Manager U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Nebraska Public Power District P.O. Box 218 P.O. Box 98 Brownville, NE 68321 Brownville, NE 68321 Regional Administrator, Region IV Mr. John C. McClure U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Vice President and General Counsel 612 E. Lamar Blvd., Suite 400 Nebraska Public Power District Arlington, TX 76011-4125 P.O. Box 499 Columbus, NE 68602-0499 Director, Missouri State Emergency Management Agency Mr. David Van Der Kamp P.O. Box 116 Licensing Manager Jefferson City, MO 65102-0116 Nebraska Public Power District P.O. Box 98 Chief, Radiation and Asbestos Brownville, NE 68321 Control Section Kansas Department of Health Mr. Michael J. Linder, Director and Environment Nebraska Department of Environmental Bureau of Air and Radiation Quality 1000 SW Jackson P.O. Box 98922 Suite 310 Lincoln, NE 68509-8922 Topeka, KS 66612-1366 Chairman Ms. Melanie Rasmussen Nemaha County Board of Commissioners Radiation Control Program Director Nemaha County Courthouse Bureau of Radiological Health 1824 N Street Iowa Department of Public Health Auburn, NE 68305 Lucas State Office Building, 5th Floor 321 East 12th Street Ms. Julia Schmitt, Manager Des Moines, IA 50319 Radiation Control Program Nebraska Health & Human Services R & L Mr. Keith G. Henke, Planner Public Health Assurance Division of Community and Public Health 301 Centennial Mall, South Office of Emergency Coordination P.O. Box 95007 930 Wildwood P.O. Box 570 Lincoln, NE 68509-5007 Jefferson City, MO 65102

Cooper Nuclear Station cc:

Mr. Art Zaremba, Director of Nuclear Garry Young Safety Assurance License Renewal Manager Nebraska Public Power District Entergy Nuclear P.O. Box 98 1448 S.R. 333, N-GSB-45 Brownville, NE 68321 Russellville, AK 72802 Mr. John F. McCann, Director Alan Cox Licensing, Entergy Nuclear Northeast License Renewal Technical Manager Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. Entergy Nuclear 440 Hamilton Avenue 1448 S.R. 333, N-GSB-45 White Plains, NY 10601-1813 Russellville, AK 72802 Steward Minahan Dave Lach Vice President LRP Entergy Project Manager Nuclear and Chief Nuclear Officer Entergy Nuclear Cooper Nuclear Station 1448 S.R. 333, N-GSB-45 72676 - 648A Avenue Russellville, AK 72802 Brownville, NE 68321 Jerry Perry Mike Boyce 500 S. Main Street Cooper Strategic Initiatives Manager Rock Port, MO 64482 Cooper Nuclear Station 72676 - 648A Avenue Yolanda Peck Brownville, NE 68321 1008 Central Ave.

Auburn, NE 68305 Dave Bremer License Renewal Project Manager Kendall Neiman Cooper Nuclear Station 830 Central Ave.

72676 - 648A Avenue Auburn, NE 68305 Brownville, NE 68321 Annie Thomas Bill Victor 1522 I Street License Renewal Project Licensing Lead Auburn, NE 68305 Cooper Nuclear Station 72676 - 648A Avenue John Chaney Brownville, NE 68321 1101 17th Street Auburn, NE 68305 Jim Loynes License Renewal Project Engineer Darrell Kruse Cooper Nuclear Station 2415 McConnell Ave.

72676 - 648A Avenue Auburn, NE 68305 Brownville, NE 68321 Daryl J. Obermeyer 64381 727A Road Brownville, NE 68321

Cooper Nuclear Station cc:

Sherry Black, Director Regional Administrator Auburn Memorial Library U.S. EPA Region 7 1810 Courthouse Ave. 901 N. 5th Street Auburn, NE 68305 Kansas City, KS 66101 Board of Brownville, NE Joann Scheafer, Director Attn: Chairman Marty Hayes Nebraska Department of Health & Human P.O. Box 67 Services 223 Main Street 301 Centennial Mall South Brownville, NE 68321 Lincoln, NE 68509 Bob Engles Doyle Childers, Director Mayor of Auburn, NE Missouri Department of Natural Resources 1101 J Street P.O. Box 176 Auburn, NE 68305 Jefferson City, MO 65102 Jo Stevens Mark Miles Mayor of Rock Port, MO State Historic Preservation Officer 500 S. Main Street Department of Natural Resources Rock Port, MO 64482 P.O. Box 176 Jefferson City, MO 65102 John Cochnar U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Michael J. Smith Ecological Services State Historic Preservation Officer Nebraska Field Office Nebraska State Historical Society 203 West Second Street P.O. Box 82554 Grand Island, NE 68801 Lincoln, NE 68501 John Askew Robert Puschendorf Regional Administrator Nebraska State Historical Society U.S. EPA Region 7 1500 R Street, 901 N. 5th Street P.O. Box 82554, Kansas City, KS 66101 Lincoln, NE 68501-2554

AGENDA FOR PUBLIC MEETING TO DISCUSS SAFETY PROCESS OVERVIEW AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCOPING PROCESS FOR COOPER NUCLEAR STATION UNIT 1, LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION FEBRUARY 25, 2009 Two Meeting Sessions - 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.*

I. Welcome and Purpose of Meeting 15 minutes (David Pelton)

II. Overview of License Renewal Process 10 minutes (Emmanuel Sayoc)

III. Overview of Safety Review Process 20 minutes (Emmanuel Sayoc)

IV. Overview of Environmental Review Process 20 minutes (Tam Tran)

V. Public Comments As Required (David Pelton)

VI. Closing/Availability of Transcripts 5 minutes (David Pelton)

• The NRC staff will host informal discussions one hour prior to each meeting session. To be considered, comments must be provided either at the transcribed public meetings (see agenda, above) or in writing, as described in the attached Federal Register Notice.

ENCLOSURE 1

7590-01-P UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION NEBRASKA PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT COOPER NUCLEAR STATION NOTICE OF INTENT TO PREPARE AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT AND CONDUCT SCOPING PROCESS DOCKET NO. 50-298

[NRC-2008-0617]

Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) has submitted an application for renewal of Facility Operating License No. DPR-46 for an additional 20 years of operation at the Cooper Nuclear Station (CNS). CNS is located near Brownville, NE.

The operating license for CNS expires on January 18, 2014. The application for renewal, dated September 24, 2008, was submitted pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 54. A notice of receipt and availability of the application, which included the environmental report (ER), was published in the Federal Register on November 17, 2008 (73 FR 67896). A notice of acceptance for docketing of the application for renewal of the facility operating license was also published in the Federal Register on December 30, 2008 (73 FR 79921). The purpose of this notice is to inform the public that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will be preparing an environmental impact statement (EIS) related to the review of the license renewal application and to provide the public an opportunity to participate in the environmental scoping process, as defined in 10 CFR 51.29. In addition, as outlined in 36 CFR 800.8, Coordination with the National Environmental Policy Act, the NRC plans to coordinate compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act in meeting the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA).

In accordance with 10 CFR 51.53(c) and 10 CFR 54.23, NPPD submitted the ER as part of the application. The ER was prepared pursuant to 10 CFR Part 51 and is publicly available at the NRC Public Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from the NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/dologin.htm. The Accession Number for the ER is ML083030246. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS, or who encounter problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, should contact the NRCs PDR Reference staff by telephone at 1-800-397-4209, or 301-415-4737, or by e-mail at pdr@nrc.gov. The ER may also be viewed on the Internet at http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/applications/cooper.html. In addition, the ER is available for public inspection near CNS at the Auburn Memorial Library, 1810 Courthouse Ave., Auburn, NE 68305, telephone (402) 274-4023.

This notice advises the public that the NRC intends to gather the information necessary to prepare a plant-specific supplement to the Commissions Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants (NUREG-1437), related to the review of the application for renewal of the CNS operating license for an additional 20 years. Possible alternatives to the proposed action (license renewal) include no action and reasonable alternative energy sources. The NRC is required by 10 CFR 51.95 to prepare a supplement to the GEIS in connection with the renewal of an operating license. This notice is being published in accordance with NEPA and the NRCs regulations found in 10 CFR Part 51.

The NRC will first conduct a scoping process for the supplement to the GEIS and, as soon as practicable thereafter, will prepare a draft supplement to the GEIS for public comment.

Participation in the scoping process by members of the public and local, State, Tribal, and

Federal government agencies is encouraged. The scoping process for the supplement to the GEIS will be used to accomplish the following:

a. Define the proposed action which is to be the subject of the supplement to the GEIS.

b. Determine the scope of the supplement to the GEIS and identify the significant issues to be analyzed in depth.

c. Identify and eliminate from detailed study those issues that are peripheral or that are not significant.

d. Identify any environmental assessments and other ElSs that are being or will be prepared that are related to, but are not part of, the scope of the supplement to the GEIS being considered.

e. Identify other environmental review and consultation requirements related to the proposed action.

f. Indicate the relationship between the timing of the preparation of the environmental analyses and the Commission's tentative planning and decision-making schedule.

g. Identify any cooperating agencies and, as appropriate, allocate assignments for preparation and schedules for completing the supplement to the GEIS to the NRC and any cooperating agencies.

h. Describe how the supplement to the GEIS will be prepared, and include any contractor assistance to be used.

II. The NRC invites the following entities to participate in scoping:

a. The applicant, Nebraska Public Power District.

b. Any Federal agency that has jurisdiction by law or special expertise with respect to any environmental impact involved, or that is authorized to develop and enforce relevant environmental standards.

c. Affected State and local government agencies, including those authorized to develop and enforce relevant environmental standards.

d. Any affected Indian tribe.

e. Any person who requests or has requested an opportunity to participate in the scoping process.

f. Any person who has petitioned or intends to petition for leave to intervene.

In accordance with 10 CFR 51.26, the scoping process for an EIS may include a public scoping meeting to help identify significant issues related to a proposed activity and to determine the scope of issues to be addressed in an EIS. The NRC has decided to hold public meetings for the CNS license renewal supplement to the GEIS. The scoping meetings will be held on February 25, 2009. There will be two sessions, an afternoon and evening session, to accommodate interested parties. The first session will be held at the Brownville Concert Hall at 126 Atlantic St., Brownville, NE 68321, telephone (402) 825-3331, and will convene at 1:30 p.m. and will continue until 4:30 p.m., as necessary. The second session will be held at the Auburn Senior Center at 1101 J St., Auburn, NE 68305, telephone, (402) 274-3420, and will convene at 7:00 p.m., with a repeat of the overview portions of the meeting and will continue until 10:00 p.m., as necessary. Both meetings will be transcribed and will include: (1) an overview by the NRC staff of the NEPA environmental review process, the proposed scope of the supplement to the GEIS, and the proposed review schedule; and (2) the opportunity for interested government agencies, organizations, and individuals to submit comments or suggestions on the environmental issues or the proposed scope of the supplement to the GEIS.

Additionally, the NRC staff will host informal discussions one hour prior to the start of each session at the same location. No formal comments on the proposed scope of the supplement to the GEIS will be accepted during the informal discussions.

To be considered, comments must be provided either at the transcribed public meetings or in writing, as discussed below. Persons may register to attend or present oral comments at the meetings on the scope of the NEPA review by contacting the NRC Project Managers, Mr.

Tam Tran, telephone at 1-800-368-5642, extension 3617, or by e-mail to the NRC at tam.tran@nrc.gov or Mr. Emmanuel Sayoc, by telephone at 1-800-368-5642, extension 1924, or by e-mail to the NRC at emmanuel.sayoc@nrc.gov, no later than February 18, 2009. Members of the public may also register to speak at the meeting within 15 minutes of the start of each session. Individual oral comments may be limited by the time available, depending on the number of persons who register. Members of the public who have not registered may also have an opportunity to speak, if time permits. Public comments will be considered in the scoping process for the supplement to the GEIS. Mr. Tam Tran or Mr. Sayoc will need to be contacted no later than February 18, 2009, if special equipment or accommodations are needed to attend or present information at the public meeting, so that the NRC staff can determine whether the request can be accommodated.

Members of the public may send written comments on the environmental scope of the KPS license renewal review to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives and Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration, Mailstop TWB-05-B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, and should cite the publication date and page number of this Federal Register notice. To be considered in the scoping process, written

comments should be postmarked by March 23, 2009. Electronic comments may be sent by e-mail to the NRC at CooperEIS@nrc.gov, and should be sent no later than March 23, 2009, to be considered in the scoping process. Comments will be available electronically and accessible through ADAMS at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/dologin.htm.

Participation in the scoping process for the supplement to the GEIS does not entitle participants to become parties to the proceeding to which the supplement to the GEIS relates.

Notice of opportunity for a hearing regarding the renewal application was previously included in the Federal Register dated December 30, 2008 (73 FR 79921). Matters related to participation in any hearing are outside the scope of matters to be discussed at this public meeting.

At the conclusion of the scoping process, the NRC will prepare a concise summary of the determination and conclusions reached, including the significant issues identified, and will send a copy of the summary to each participant in the scoping process. The summary will also be available for inspection in ADAMS at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/dologin.htm. The staff will then prepare and issue for comment the draft supplement to the GEIS, which will be the subject of separate notices and separate public meetings. Copies will be available for public inspection at the above-mentioned addresses, and one copy per request will be provided free of charge.

After receipt and consideration of the comments, the NRC will prepare a final supplement to the GEIS, which will also be available for public inspection.

Information about the proposed action, the supplement to the GEIS, and the scoping process may be obtained from the Project Managers Mr. Sayoc and Mr. Tran at the aforementioned telephone number or e-mail addresses.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 15th day of January, 2009.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

/RA/

David L. Pelton, Chief Projects Branch 1 Division of License Renewal Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation