Exelon Generation Company, LLC, License Renewal Application for Braidwood Station, Units 1 and 2, 46379-46381 [2013-18403]
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adequate protective measures could be
taken in the event of a radiological
emergency.
Environmental Impacts of the Proposed
Action
The NRC staff evaluated the
environmental impacts of the proposed
action and concludes that exempting the
facility from the emergency planning
requirements will not have any adverse
environmental impacts. The proposed
action will involve no construction or
major renovation of any buildings or
structures, no ground disturbing
activities, no alteration to land or air
quality, nor any effect on historic and
cultural resources. The proposed action
will not significantly increase the
probability or consequences of
accidents, no changes are being made in
the types of any effluents that may be
released offsite, and there is no
significant increase in occupational or
public radiation exposure. Therefore,
there are no significant radiological
environmental impacts associated with
the proposed action.
With regard to potential nonradiological impacts, there will be no
construction or renovation of buildings
or structures, or any ground disturbing
activities associated with the
exemptions. In addition, the proposed
action does not affect non-radiological
plant effluents and has no other
environmental impact. Finally, there
will be no impact on historic sites.
Therefore, there are no significant nonradiological environmental impacts
associated with the proposed action.
Accordingly, the NRC staff concludes
that there are no significant
environmental impacts associated with
the proposed action.
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Environmental Impacts of the
Alternatives to the Proposed Action
As an alternative to the proposed
action, the NRC staff considered denial
of the proposed action (i.e., the ‘‘noaction’’ alternative). Denial of the
exemption request would result in no
change in current environmental
impacts because there will be no
construction or major renovation of any
buildings or structures, nor any ground
disturbing activities associated. Thus
the environmental impacts of the
proposed action and no-action
alternative are similar. Therefore, the
no-action alternative is not further
considered.
Conclusion
The NRC staff has concluded that the
proposed action will not significantly
impact the quality of the human
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environment, and that the proposed
action is the preferred alternative.
Agencies and Persons Consulted
In accordance with its stated policy,
on May 15, 2013, the NRC staff
consulted with the Wisconsin State
official of the Radiation Protection
Section, Wisconsin Department of
Health Services, regarding the
environmental impact of the proposed
action. The State official had no
comments.
The NRC staff has determined that the
proposed action is of a procedural
nature, and will not affect listed species
or critical habitat. Therefore, no further
consultation is required under Section 7
of the Endangered Species Act. The
NRC staff has also determined that the
proposed action is not the type of
activity that has the potential to cause
effects on historic properties. Therefore,
no further consultation is required
under Section 106 of the National
Historic Preservation Act.
III. Finding of No Significant Impact
The NRC staff has prepared this EA as
part of its review of the proposed action.
On the basis of this EA, the NRC finds
that there are no significant
environmental impacts from the
proposed action, and that preparation of
an environmental impact statement is
not warranted. Accordingly, the NRC
has determined that a Finding of No
Significant Impact is appropriate.
IV. Further Information
Documents related to this action,
including the application and
supporting documentation, are available
online in the NRC Library at https://
www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
From this site, you can access the NRC’s
Agencywide Documents Access and
Management System (ADAMS), which
provides text and image files of NRC’s
public documents. For further details
with respect to the proposed action, see
the licensee’s letter dated June 18, 2012
(ADAMS Accession No. ML12171A462).
If you do not have access to ADAMS,
or if there are problems in accessing the
documents located in ADAMS, contact
the NRC Public Document Room (PDR)
Reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301–
415–4737, or by email to
pdr.resource@nrc.gov. These documents
may also be viewed electronically on
the public computers located at the
NRC’s PDR, O1 F21, One White Flint
North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville,
MD 20852. The PDR reproduction
contractor will copy documents for a
fee.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 19th day
of July 2013.
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For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrew Persinko,
Deputy Director, Decommissioning and
Uranium Recovery Licensing Directorate,
Division of Waste Management and
Environmental Protection, Office of Federal
and State Materials and Environmental
Management Programs.
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BILLING CODE 7590–01–P
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[Docket Nos. 50–456 and 50–457; NRC–
2013–0169]
Exelon Generation Company, LLC,
License Renewal Application for
Braidwood Station, Units 1 and 2
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an
environmental impact statement and
conduct scoping process; public
meetings and opportunity to comment.
AGENCY:
On May 29, 2013, Exelon
Generation Company, LLC (Exelon)
submitted an application to the U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
for renewal of Facility Operating
Licenses (NPF–72 and NPF–77) for an
additional 20 years of operation for
Braidwood Station, Units 1 and 2.
Braidwood Station is located in Will
County, Illinois. The current operating
licenses for Braidwood Station, Units 1
and 2, expire on October 17, 2026 and
December 18, 2027, respectively. This
notice advises the public that the NRC
intends to gather information to prepare
an EIS on the proposed license renewal.
DATES: The scoping meetings will be
held on August 21, 2013. The first
session will be from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00
p.m. and the second session will be
from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Submit
comments by September 27, 2013.
Comments received after these dates
will be considered if it is practical to do
so, but assurance of consideration
cannot be given to comments received
after this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comment
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
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2013–0169. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol
Gallagher; telephone: 301–287–3422;
email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For
technical questions, contact the
individual(s) listed in the FOR FURTHER
SUMMARY:
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section of this
document.
• Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey,
Chief, Rules, Announcements, and
Directives Branch (RADB), Office of
Administration, Mail Stop: 3WFN,
06A44M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001.
For additional direction on accessing
information and submitting comments,
see ‘‘Accessing Information and
Submitting Comments’’ in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tam
Tran, Environmental Project Manager,
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone:
301–415–3617, email:
Tam.Tran@NRC.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
INFORMATION CONTACT
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I. Accessing Information and
Submitting Comments
A. Accessing Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2013–
0169 when contacting the NRC about
the availability of information regarding
this document. You may access
information related to this document,
which the NRC possesses and is
publicly-available, by the following
methods:
• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2013–0169.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may access publiclyavailable documents online in the NRC
Library at https://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/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 pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The
ADAMS accession number for each
document referenced in this notice (if
that document is available in ADAMS)
is provided the first time that a
document is referenced. Exelon’s
application for renewal can be found in
ADAMS under Package Accession No.
ML131550528.
• 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 the subject line of your
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comment submission, in order to ensure
that the NRC is able to make your
comment submission available to the
public in this docket.
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 https://
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 application for renewal, dated
May 29, 2013, was submitted pursuant
to part 54 of Title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations (10 CFR), which
included an environmental report (ER).
A separate notice of receipt and
availability of the application was
published in the Federal Register on
June 13, 2013 (78 FR 35646). A notice
of acceptance for docketing of the
application and opportunity to request a
hearing regarding renewal of the facility
operating license was also published on
July 24, 2013 (78 FR 44603). The
purpose of this notice is to inform the
public that the 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.
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 (NHPA) in meeting the
requirements of the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969
(NEPA). Pursuant to 36 CFR 800.8(c),
the NRC intends to use its process and
documentation for the preparation of
the EIS on the proposed action to
comply with Section 106 of the NHPA
in lieu of the procedures set forth at 36
CFR 800.3 through 800.6.
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In accordance with 10 CFR 51.53(c)
and 10 CFR 54.23, Exelon submitted the
ER as part of the application. The ER
was prepared pursuant to 10 CFR Part
51 and is publicly available in ADAMS
under Package Accession No.
ML131550528. The ER may also be
viewed on the Internet at https://
www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/
licensing/renewal/applications.html. In
addition, paper copies of the ER are
available to the public near the site at
the Fossil Ridge Public Library, 386 W.
Kennedy Road, Braidwood, IL 60408.
This document advises the public that
the NRC intends to gather the
information necessary to prepare a
plant-specific supplement to the NRC’s
‘‘Generic Environmental Impact
Statement (GEIS) for License Renewal of
Nuclear Plants,’’ (NUREG–1437) related
to the review of the application for
renewal of the Braidwood Station
operating licenses 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 NRC’s regulations found
at 10 CFR Part 51.
The NRC staff 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
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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; and
h. Describe how the supplement to
the GEIS will be prepared, including
any contractor assistance to be used.
The NRC invites the following entities
to participate in scoping:
a. The applicant, Exelon;
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; and
f. Any person who has petitioned or
intends to petition for leave to
intervene.
III. Public Scoping Meeting
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 staff has decided to hold
public meetings for the Braidwood
Station license renewal supplement to
the GEIS. The scoping meetings will be
held on August 21, 2013, and there will
be two sessions to accommodate
interested parties. The first session will
convene at 2:00 p.m. and will continue
until 4:00 p.m. The second session will
convene at 7:00 p.m. with a repeat of the
overview portions of the meeting and
will continue until 9:00 p.m., as
necessary. Both sessions will be held at
the Fossil Ridge Public Library, 386 W.
Kennedy Road, Braidwood, IL 60408.
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
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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 Manager,
Tam Tran, by telephone at 1–800–368–
5642, extension 3617, or by email at
Tam.Tran@NRC.gov no later than
Friday, August 16, 2013. 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. The NRC
Project Manager will need to be
contacted no later than Friday, August
16, 2013, 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.
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. 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
public inspection in ADAMS. The staff
will prepare and issue for comment the
draft supplement to the GEIS, which
will be the subject of a separate notice
and separate public meetings. Copies
will be available for public inspection at
the above-mentioned addresses. 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.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day
of July, 2013.
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For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Anneliese Simmons,
Acting Chief, Projects Branch 2, Division of
License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation.
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COMMISSION
[Investment Company Act Release No.
30628; 812–14169]
Calamos Advisors LLC and Calamos
ETF Trust; Notice of Application
July 24, 2013.
Securities and Exchange
Commission (‘‘Commission’’).
ACTION: Notice of an application for an
order under section 6(c) of the
Investment Company Act of 1940
(‘‘Act’’) for an exemption from sections
2(a)(32), 5(a)(1), 22(d) and 22(e) of the
Act and rule 22c–1 under the Act, under
sections 6(c) and 17(b) of the Act for an
exemption from sections 17(a)(1) and
(a)(2) of the Act, and under section
12(d)(1)(J) of the Act for an exemption
from sections 12(d)(1)(A) and (B) of the
Act.
AGENCY:
Applicants: Calamos Advisors LLC
(‘‘Adviser’’) and Calamos ETF Trust
(‘Trust).
Summary of Application: Applicants
request an order that permits: (a)
Actively-managed series of certain
open-end management investment
companies to issue shares (‘‘Shares’’)
redeemable in large aggregations only
(‘‘Creation Units’’); (b) secondary market
transactions in Shares to occur at
negotiated market prices; (c) certain
series to pay redemption proceeds,
under certain circumstances, more than
seven days from the tender of Shares for
redemption; (d) certain affiliated
persons of the series to deposit
securities into, and receive securities
from, the series in connection with the
purchase and redemption of Creation
Units; and (e) certain registered
management investment companies and
unit investment trusts outside of the
same group of investment companies as
the series to acquire Shares.
Filing Date: The application was filed
on June 21, 2013.
Hearing or Notification of Hearing: An
order granting the requested relief will
be issued unless the Commission orders
a hearing. Interested persons may
request a hearing by writing to the
Commission’s Secretary and serving
applicants with a copy of the request,
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-456 and 50-457; NRC-2013-0169]
Exelon Generation Company, LLC, License Renewal Application for
Braidwood Station, Units 1 and 2
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement
and conduct scoping process; public meetings and opportunity to
comment.
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SUMMARY: On May 29, 2013, Exelon Generation Company, LLC (Exelon)
submitted an application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC) for renewal of Facility Operating Licenses (NPF-72 and NPF-77)
for an additional 20 years of operation for Braidwood Station, Units 1
and 2. Braidwood Station is located in Will County, Illinois. The
current operating licenses for Braidwood Station, Units 1 and 2, expire
on October 17, 2026 and December 18, 2027, respectively. This notice
advises the public that the NRC intends to gather information to
prepare an EIS on the proposed license renewal.
DATES: The scoping meetings will be held on August 21, 2013. The first
session will be from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. and the second session will
be from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Submit comments by September 27, 2013.
Comments received after these dates will be considered if it is
practical to do so, but assurance of consideration cannot be given to
comments received after this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comment 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 https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0169. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-
3422; email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact
the individual(s) listed in the FOR FURTHER
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INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document.
Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Chief, Rules,
Announcements, and Directives Branch (RADB), Office of Administration,
Mail Stop: 3WFN, 06A44M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001.
For additional direction on accessing information and submitting
comments, see ``Accessing Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tam Tran, Environmental Project
Manager, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-3617, email:
Tam.Tran@NRC.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Accessing Information and Submitting Comments
A. Accessing Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2013-0169 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may
access information related to this document, which the NRC possesses
and is publicly-available, by the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to https://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 NRC
Library at https://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 pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The ADAMS accession number
for each document referenced in this notice (if that document is
available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is
referenced. Exelon's application for renewal can be found in ADAMS
under Package Accession No. ML131550528.
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 the subject line of your
comment submission, in order to ensure that the NRC is able to make
your comment submission available to the public in this docket.
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 https://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 application for renewal, dated May 29, 2013, was submitted
pursuant to part 54 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10
CFR), which included an environmental report (ER). A separate notice of
receipt and availability of the application was published in the
Federal Register on June 13, 2013 (78 FR 35646). A notice of acceptance
for docketing of the application and opportunity to request a hearing
regarding renewal of the facility operating license was also published
on July 24, 2013 (78 FR 44603). The purpose of this notice is to inform
the public that the 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.
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 (NHPA) in meeting
the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
(NEPA). Pursuant to 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC intends to use its process
and documentation for the preparation of the EIS on the proposed action
to comply with Section 106 of the NHPA in lieu of the procedures set
forth at 36 CFR 800.3 through 800.6.
In accordance with 10 CFR 51.53(c) and 10 CFR 54.23, Exelon
submitted the ER as part of the application. The ER was prepared
pursuant to 10 CFR Part 51 and is publicly available in ADAMS under
Package Accession No. ML131550528. The ER may also be viewed on the
Internet at https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/applications.html. In addition, paper copies of the ER are available to
the public near the site at the Fossil Ridge Public Library, 386 W.
Kennedy Road, Braidwood, IL 60408.
This document advises the public that the NRC intends to gather the
information necessary to prepare a plant-specific supplement to the
NRC's ``Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) for License
Renewal of Nuclear Plants,'' (NUREG-1437) related to the review of the
application for renewal of the Braidwood Station operating licenses 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 NRC's regulations found
at 10 CFR Part 51.
The NRC staff 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
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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; and
h. Describe how the supplement to the GEIS will be prepared,
including any contractor assistance to be used.
The NRC invites the following entities to participate in scoping:
a. The applicant, Exelon;
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; and
f. Any person who has petitioned or intends to petition for leave
to intervene.
III. Public Scoping Meeting
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 staff has decided to hold public
meetings for the Braidwood Station license renewal supplement to the
GEIS. The scoping meetings will be held on August 21, 2013, and there
will be two sessions to accommodate interested parties. The first
session will convene at 2:00 p.m. and will continue until 4:00 p.m. The
second session will convene at 7:00 p.m. with a repeat of the overview
portions of the meeting and will continue until 9:00 p.m., as
necessary. Both sessions will be held at the Fossil Ridge Public
Library, 386 W. Kennedy Road, Braidwood, IL 60408.
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
Manager, Tam Tran, by telephone at 1-800-368-5642, extension 3617, or
by email at Tam.Tran@NRC.gov no later than Friday, August 16, 2013.
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. The
NRC Project Manager will need to be contacted no later than Friday,
August 16, 2013, 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.
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. 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 public inspection in ADAMS. The staff will prepare and
issue for comment the draft supplement to the GEIS, which will be the
subject of a separate notice and separate public meetings. Copies will
be available for public inspection at the above-mentioned addresses.
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.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day of July, 2013.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Anneliese Simmons,
Acting Chief, Projects Branch 2, Division of License Renewal, Office of
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2013-18403 Filed 7-30-13; 8:45 am]
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