Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.; Indian Point Nuclear Generating Unit Nos. 2 and 3, 81377-81378 [2015-32777]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 249 / Tuesday, December 29, 2015 / Notices for Docket ID NRC–2015–0287. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact the individual(s) listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document. • NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly available documents online in the ADAMS Public Documents collection 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 DG is electronically available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML14297A272 • 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. asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES B. Submitting Comments Please include Docket ID NRC–2015– 0287 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 https:// www.regulations.gov as well as enters 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. Additional Information The NRC is issuing for public comment a DG in the NRC’s ‘‘Regulatory Guide’’ series. This series was developed to describe and make available to the public information regarding methods that are acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing specific parts of the NRC’s regulations, techniques that the staff uses in VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:17 Dec 28, 2015 Jkt 238001 evaluating specific issues or postulated events, and data that the staff needs in its review of applications for permits and licenses. The DG, entitled, ‘‘Training and Qualification of Security Personnel at Nuclear Power Reactor Facilities,’’ is a proposed revision guide temporarily identified by its task number, DG–5043. DG–5043 is proposed revision 1 of RG 5.75, ‘‘Training and Qualification of Security Personnel at Nuclear Power Reactor Facilities.’’ The guide proposes revised guidance for methodologies that licensees and applicants should use to select, train, equip, test, qualify, and requalify armed and unarmed security personnel, watchpersons, and members of the licensee staff that support the licensee’s security organization, to ensure that these individuals possess and maintain the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to carry out their assigned duties and responsibilities effectively. III. Backfitting and Issue Finality DG–5043 describes a method that the NRC staff considers acceptable for use by nuclear power plant licensees in meeting the requirements for training and qualification of security personnel as set forth in Section VI of Appendix B to title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 73 (10 CFR part 73), ‘‘Physical Protection of Plants and Materials.’’ Issuance of this DG, if finalized, would not constitute backfitting as defined in 10 CFR 50.109 (the Backfit Rule) and would not otherwise be inconsistent with the issue finality provisions in 10 CFR part 52. As discussed in the ‘‘Implementation’’ section of this DG, the NRC has no current intention to impose this guide, if finalized, on holders of current operating licenses or combined licenses. This DG may be applied to applications for operating licenses and combined licenses docketed by the NRC as of the date of issuance of the final regulatory guide, as well as future applications submitted after the issuance of the regulatory guide. Such action would not constitute backfitting as defined in the Backfit Rule or be otherwise inconsistent with the applicable issue finality provision in 10 CFR part 52, inasmuch as such applicants or potential applicants are not within the scope of entities protected by the Backfit Rule or the relevant issue finality provisions in part 52. Neither section 50.109 nor the issue finality provisions under 10 CFR part 52—with certain exceptions—were intended to apply to every NRC action that substantially changes the expectations of current and future PO 00000 Frm 00106 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 81377 applicants. The exceptions to the general principle are whenever an applicant references a part 52 license (e.g., an early site permit) and/or NRC regulatory approval (e.g., a design certification rule, a standard design approval) with specified issue finality provisions. However, the scope of issue finality provided extends only to the matters resolved in the license or regulatory approval. Early site permits, design certification rules, and standard design approvals typically do not address or resolve compliance with operational programs such as the security personnel requirements in 10 CFR part 73. Therefore, no applicant referencing an early site permit, design certification rule, or standard design approval would be protected by relevant issue finality provisions with respect to the security matters addressed in this draft regulatory guide. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd day of December 2015. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Kurt O. Cozens, Acting Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic Issues Branch, Division of Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. [FR Doc. 2015–32778 Filed 12–28–15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590–01–P NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [Docket Nos. 50–247 and 50–286; NRC– 2008–0672] Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.; Indian Point Nuclear Generating Unit Nos. 2 and 3 Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Draft supplemental environmental impact statement; request for comment. AGENCY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for public comment a draft supplement to Supplement 38 to the Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Power Plants (GEIS), NUREG–1437, regarding the renewal of operating licenses DPR– 26 and DPR–64, held by Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. (Entergy), for the operation of Indian Point Nuclear Generating Unit Nos. 2 and 3 (IP2 and IP3), for an additional 20 years of operation. Units IP2 and IP3 are located in Westchester County in the Village of Buchanan, New York, approximately 24 miles north of New York City. SUMMARY: E:\FR\FM\29DEN1.SGM 29DEN1 81378 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 249 / Tuesday, December 29, 2015 / Notices Submit comments by March 4, 2016. Comments received after this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the Commission is able to ensure consideration only for comments received 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 https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC–2008–0672. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. 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: Michael Wentzel, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415–6459, email: michael.wentzel@nrc.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DATES: asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments A. Obtaining Information Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2008– 0672 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain publiclyavailable information related to this action by any of the following methods: • Federal rulemaking Web site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC–2008–0672. • NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable documents online in the ADAMS Public Documents collection 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 (if it is available in VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:17 Dec 28, 2015 Jkt 238001 ADAMS) is provided the first time that it is mentioned in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section. • 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–2008– 0672 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 will post all comment submissions at https:// www.regulations.gov as well as enter 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 into ADAMS. II. Background The NRC is issuing for public comment a draft supplement to Supplement 38 to the GEIS, NUREG– 1437 (ADAMS No. ML15351A422), regarding the renewal of operating licenses DPR–26 and DPR–64, held by Entergy for the operation of IP2 and IP3, for an additional 20 years of operation. Units IP2 and IP3 are located in Westchester County in the Village of Buchanan, New York, approximately 24 miles north of New York City. The NRC staff published final plant-specific Supplement 38 to NUREG–1437 (final supplemental environmental impact statement (FSEIS)), Volumes 1–3 (ADAMS No. ML103360205), in December 2010 (75 FR 77920). The FSEIS documented the NRC staff’s findings relative to the environmental impacts of the license renewal of IP2 and IP3. In June 2013 (78 FR 39018), the NRC staff published a final supplement to 2010 FSEIS as NUREG–1437, Supplement 38, Volume 4 (ADAMS No. ML13170A028). The June 2013 supplement updated the NRC staff’s final analysis to include corrections to impingement and entrainment data presented in the FSEIS; revised conclusions on thermal impacts based PO 00000 Frm 00107 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 on newly available thermal plume studies; and provided an update of the status of the NRC’s consultation, under section 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended, with the National Marine Fisheries Service regarding the shortnose sturgeon and Atlantic sturgeon. On September 2, 2014 (79 FR 52059), the NRC notified the public of its intent to prepare a second supplement to the FSEIS to evaluate new information identified subsequent to the publication of the June 2013 supplement, including new aquatic impact data, refined cost estimates associated with the licensee’s severe accident mitigation alternatives analysis, and other matters. This draft supplement, published as Volume 5 of the FSEIS, documents the NRC staff’s evaluation of the new information. Documents related to this notice are available on the NRC’s Plant Application for License Renewal Web site at https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/ operating/licensing/renewal/ applications/indian-point.html. A copy of documents related to this notice also will be available to local residents near the site at the White Plains Public Library located at 100 Martine Avenue, White Plains, NY 10601; at the Hendrick Hudson Free Library located at 185 Kings Ferry Road, Montrose, NY 10548; and at the Field Library located at 4 Nelson Avenue, Peekskill, NY 10566. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 21st day of December 2015. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. James G. Danna, Chief, Projects Branch 2, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. [FR Doc. 2015–32777 Filed 12–28–15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590–01–P PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION Submission of Information Collection for OMB Review; Comment Request; Locating and Paying Participants Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. ACTION: Notice of request for OMB approval of revised collection of information. 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[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 249 (Tuesday, December 29, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 81377-81378]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-32777]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-247 and 50-286; NRC-2008-0672]


Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.; Indian Point Nuclear Generating 
Unit Nos. 2 and 3

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft supplemental 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 supplement to Supplement 38 to the Generic 
Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Power 
Plants (GEIS), NUREG-1437, regarding the renewal of operating licenses 
DPR-26 and DPR-64, held by Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. (Entergy), 
for the operation of Indian Point Nuclear Generating Unit Nos. 2 and 3 
(IP2 and IP3), for an additional 20 years of operation. Units IP2 and 
IP3 are located in Westchester County in the Village of Buchanan, New 
York, approximately 24 miles north of New York City.

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DATES: Submit comments by March 4, 2016. Comments received after this 
date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the Commission 
is able to ensure consideration only for comments received 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 https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2008-0672. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. 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: Michael Wentzel, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-6459, email: michael.wentzel@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2008-0672 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 https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2008-0672.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the 
ADAMS Public Documents collection 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 (if it is available 
in ADAMS) is provided the first time that it is mentioned in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section.
     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-2008-0672 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 will post all comment submissions at https://www.regulations.gov as well as enter 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 into ADAMS.

II. Background

    The NRC is issuing for public comment a draft supplement to 
Supplement 38 to the GEIS, NUREG-1437 (ADAMS No. ML15351A422), 
regarding the renewal of operating licenses DPR-26 and DPR-64, held by 
Entergy for the operation of IP2 and IP3, for an additional 20 years of 
operation. Units IP2 and IP3 are located in Westchester County in the 
Village of Buchanan, New York, approximately 24 miles north of New York 
City. The NRC staff published final plant-specific Supplement 38 to 
NUREG-1437 (final supplemental environmental impact statement (FSEIS)), 
Volumes 1-3 (ADAMS No. ML103360205), in December 2010 (75 FR 77920). 
The FSEIS documented the NRC staff's findings relative to the 
environmental impacts of the license renewal of IP2 and IP3. In June 
2013 (78 FR 39018), the NRC staff published a final supplement to 2010 
FSEIS as NUREG-1437, Supplement 38, Volume 4 (ADAMS No. ML13170A028). 
The June 2013 supplement updated the NRC staff's final analysis to 
include corrections to impingement and entrainment data presented in 
the FSEIS; revised conclusions on thermal impacts based on newly 
available thermal plume studies; and provided an update of the status 
of the NRC's consultation, under section 7 of the Endangered Species 
Act of 1973, as amended, with the National Marine Fisheries Service 
regarding the shortnose sturgeon and Atlantic sturgeon.
    On September 2, 2014 (79 FR 52059), the NRC notified the public of 
its intent to prepare a second supplement to the FSEIS to evaluate new 
information identified subsequent to the publication of the June 2013 
supplement, including new aquatic impact data, refined cost estimates 
associated with the licensee's severe accident mitigation alternatives 
analysis, and other matters. This draft supplement, published as Volume 
5 of the FSEIS, documents the NRC staff's evaluation of the new 
information.
    Documents related to this notice are available on the NRC's Plant 
Application for License Renewal Web site at https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/applications/indian-point.html. A 
copy of documents related to this notice also will be available to 
local residents near the site at the White Plains Public Library 
located at 100 Martine Avenue, White Plains, NY 10601; at the Hendrick 
Hudson Free Library located at 185 Kings Ferry Road, Montrose, NY 
10548; and at the Field Library located at 4 Nelson Avenue, Peekskill, 
NY 10566.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 21st day of December 2015.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
James G. Danna,
Chief, Projects Branch 2, Division of License Renewal, Office of 
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2015-32777 Filed 12-28-15; 8:45 am]
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