[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 57 (Wednesday, March 25, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15827-15829]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-06878]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-456 and 50-457; NRC-2013-0169]
Exelon Generation Company, LLC; Braidwood Station, Units 1 and 2
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft supplemental generic environmental impact statement;
request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for
public comment a draft plant-specific supplement to NUREG-1437,
``Generic Environmental Impact Statement [GEIS] for License Renewal of
Nuclear Plants Regarding Braidwood Station, Units 1 and 2, Supplement
55,'' regarding the renewal of operating licenses NPF-72 and NPF-77 for
an additional 20 years of operation for Braidwood Station (Braidwood),
Units 1 and 2. Braidwood
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is located in Will County, Illinois. Possible alternatives to the
proposed action include no action and reasonable alternative energy
sources. The NRC staff plans to hold two public meetings during the
public comment period to present an overview of the draft plant-
specific supplement to the GEIS and to accept public comments on the
document.
DATES: Submit comments by May 12, 2015. Comments received after this
date will be considered, if it is practical to do so, but the NRC staff
is able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or before
this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods
(unless this document describes a different method for submitting
comments on a specific subject):
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0169. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this document.
Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration,
Mail Stop: OWFN-12-H08, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001.
For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tam Tran, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001; telephone: 301-415-3617; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2013-0169 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain
publicly-available information related to this action by any of the
following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0169.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may access publicly available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and
then select ``Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.'' For problems with ADAMS,
please contact the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at
1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by email to [email protected]. The
draft plant-specific supplement to NUREG-1437, ``Generic Environmental
Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants Regarding
Braidwood Station, Units 1 and 2, Supplement 55,'' is available in
ADAMS under Accession No. ML15062A428.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC-2013-0169 in your comment submission.
The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact
information that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your
comment submission. The NRC posts all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as entering 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 want 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 submissions into ADAMS.
II. Discussion
The NRC is issuing for public comment draft plant-specific
Supplement 55 to the GEIS for license renewal of nuclear plants, NUREG-
1437, regarding the renewal of operating licenses NPF-72 and NPF-77 for
an additional 20 years of operation for Braidwood. Supplement 55 to the
GEIS includes the preliminary analysis that evaluates the environmental
impacts of the proposed action and alternatives to the proposed action.
The NRC's preliminary recommendation is that the adverse environmental
impacts of license renewal for Braidwood are not great enough to deny
the option of license renewal for energy-planning decisionmakers.
III. Public Meetings
The NRC staff will hold public meetings prior to the close of the
public comment period to present an overview of the draft plant-
specific supplement to the GEIS and to accept public comment on the
document. Two meetings will be held at the Godley Park District, 500 S.
Kankakee Street, Godley, Illinois 60407, on Tuesday, April 21, 2015.
The first session will convene at 2:00 p.m. and will continue until
4:00 p.m., as necessary. The second session will convene at 7:00 p.m.
and will continue until 9:00 p.m., as necessary. The meetings will be
transcribed and will include: (1) A presentation of the contents of the
draft plant-specific supplement to the GEIS; and (2) the opportunity
for interested government agencies, organizations, and individuals to
provide comments on the draft report. Additionally, the NRC staff will
host informal discussions one hour prior to the start of each session
at the same location. No comments on the draft supplement to the GEIS
will be accepted during the informal discussions. To be considered in
the final supplement to the GEIS, comments must be provided either at
the transcribed public meeting or submitted in writing by the comment
deadline identified in the DATES section of this notice. Persons may
pre-register to attend or present oral comments at the meeting by
contacting Mr. Tam Tran, the NRC project manager, at 1-800-368-5642,
extension 3617, or by email at [email protected] no later than Tuesday,
April 14, 2015. Members of the public may also register to provide oral
comments 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 public meeting, the
need should be brought to Mr. Tran's attention no later than Tuesday,
April 14, 2015, in order to provide the NRC staff with adequate notice
to determine whether the request can be accommodated. Additional
details regarding the meeting will be posted at least 10 days prior to
the public meeting on the NRC's Public Meeting Schedule Web site at
http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/public-meetings/index.cfm.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day of March, 2015.
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For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brian Wittick,
Chief, Projects Branch 2, Division of Licenses Renewal, Office of
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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