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I. Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2018–
0009 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 Website: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2018–0009.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
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ADAMS Public Documents collection at
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ML17340A300.
• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and
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White Flint North, 11555 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
• NRC’s Clearance Officer: A copy of
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charge by contacting NRC’s Clearance
Officer, David Cullison, Office of the
Chief Information Officer, U.S. Nuclear
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out the information that must be
comment submission in order to ensure provided to the NRC by any low-level
that the NRC is able to make your
waste generator or governor of a state on
comment submission available to the
behalf of generators seeking emergency
public in this docket.
access to an operating low-level waste
The NRC cautions you not to include
disposal facility. The information is
identifying or contact information in
required to allow the NRC to determine
comment submissions that you do not
if denial of disposal constitutes a
want to be publicly disclosed in your
serious and immediate threat to public
comment submission. All comment
health and safety or common defense
submissions are posted at https://
and security. Part 62 of 10 CFR also
www.regulations.gov and entered into
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routinely edited to remove identifying
this part upon application of an
or contact information.
interested person or upon its own
If you are requesting or aggregating
initiative.
comments from other persons for
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inform those persons not to include
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identifying or contact information that
address the following questions:
they do not want to be publicly
1. Is the proposed collection of
disclosed in their comment submission. information necessary for the NRC to
Your request should state that comment properly perform its functions? Does the
submissions are not routinely edited to
information have practical utility?
remove such information before making
2. Is the estimate of the burden of the
the comment submissions available to
information collection accurate?
the public or entering the comment into
3. Is there a way to enhance the
ADAMS.
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected?
II. Background
4. How can the burden of the
In accordance with the Paperwork
information collection on respondents
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.
be minimized, including the use of
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automated collection techniques or
public comment on its intention to
other forms of information technology?
request the OMB’s approval for the
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day
information collection summarized
of April, 2018.
below.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
1. The title of the information
David Cullison,
collection: 10 CFR part 62 Criteria and
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief
Procedures for Emergency Access to
Information Officer.
Non-Federal and Regional Low-Level
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Waste Disposal Facilities.
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY
Not applicable.
5. How often the collection is required COMMISSION
or requested: On occasion.
[Docket No. 52–047; NRC–2016–0119]
6. Who will be required or asked to
respond: Generators of low-level
Early Site Permit Application:
radioactive waste or the governor of a
Tennessee Valley Authority; Clinch
state on behalf of any generator or
River Nuclear Site
generators located in his or her state
who are denied access to a non-Federal
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory
or regional low-level radioactive wastes Commission.
and who wish to request emergency
ACTION: Draft environmental impact
access for disposal of a non-Federal or
statement; public meetings and request
regional low-level waste disposal
for comment.
facility pursuant to title 10 of the Code
of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) part 62. SUMMARY: The U.S Nuclear Regulatory
7. The estimated number of annual
Commission (NRC) and the U.S. Army
responses: 1.
Corps of Engineers (USACE), Nashville
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District, are issuing for public comment
NUREG–2226, ‘‘Environmental Impact
Statement for the Early Site Permit
(ESP) for the Clinch River Nuclear
(CRN) Site: Draft Report for Comment.’’
The site is located in Roane County,
Tennessee, along the Clinch River,
approximately 25 miles west-southwest
of downtown Knoxville, Tennessee. The
purposes of this notice are to inform the
public that the NRC staff has issued a
draft environmental impact statement
(DEIS) as part of the review of the
application for the ESP and to provide
the public with an opportunity to
comment on the DEIS process as
defined in the regulations.
Submit comments by July 10,
2018. 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 on or before this date. The
DEIS public meetings will be held on
June 5, 2018.
DATES:
In addition to the public
meetings for comment (described
below), you may submit comment by
any of the following methods:
• Federal Rulemaking website: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2016–0119. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer
Borges; telephone: 301–287–9127;
email: Jennifer.Borges@nrc.gov. For
technical questions, contact the
individuals listed in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this
document.
• NRC Project Email Address:
Electronic comments may be sent by
email to the NRC at
ClinchRiverESPEIS@nrc.gov.
• Mail comments to: May Ma, Office
of Administration, Mail Stop: TWFN–
07–A60, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001.
For additional direction on accessing
information and submitting comments,
see ‘‘Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments’’ in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
this document.
ADDRESSES:
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Patricia Vokoun, telephone: 301–415–
3470, email: Patricia.Vokoun@nrc.gov;
or Tamsen Dozier, telephone: 301–415–
2272, email: Tamsen.Dozier@nrc.gov.
Both are staff members of the Office of
New Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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I. Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2016–
0119 when contacting the NRC about
the availability of information regarding
this document. You may obtain
publicly-available information related to
this action by the following methods:
• Federal Rulemaking website: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2016–0119.
• 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
ADAMS) is provided the first time that
it is mentioned in the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section. In addition, for the
convenience of the reader, the ADAMS
accession numbers are provided in a
table in the section of this notice
entitled Availability of Documents.
• 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.
• Project website: Go to https://
www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/esp/
clinch-river.html.
• Local Libraries: You may examine
copies of public documents at the Oak
Ridge Public Library, 1401 Oak Ridge
Turnpike, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and
the Kingston Public Library, 1004
Bradford Way, Kingston, Tennessee.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC–2016–
0119 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 received through the
Federal Rulemaking website (https://
www.regulations.gov) in the
Regulations.gov docket (NRC–2016–
0119), and will also enter the comment
submissions into ADAMS. Comments
submitted through the NRC project
email address will be processed into
ADAMS, and all comments will be
compiled and addressed in Appendix E
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of the final EIS. 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. Introduction
Pursuant to part 52 of title 10 of the
Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR),
on May 12, 2016, Tennessee Valley
Authority (TVA) submitted an
application for an ESP for the Clinch
River Nuclear Site, located on
approximately 935 acres in Roane
County, Tennessee, along the Clinch
River, approximately 25 miles westsouthwest of downtown Knoxville,
Tennessee.
III. Further Information
A notice of intent to prepare an
environmental impact statement (EIS)
and to conduct scoping process was
published in the Federal Register on
April 13, 2017 (82 FR 17885). A notice
of receipt and availability of the
application, including the
environmental report (ER), was
published in the Federal Register on
June 23, 2016 (81 FR 40929). A notice
of acceptance for docketing of the
application for the ESP was published
in the Federal Register on January 12,
2017 (82 FR 3812). A notice of hearing
and opportunity to petition for leave to
intervene in the proceeding on the
application was published in the
Federal Register on April 4, 2017 (82 FR
16436).
The purposes of this notice are to
inform the public that the NRC staff has
issued a DEIS as part of the review of
the application for the ESP and to
provide the public with an opportunity
to provide comments. As set forth in 10
CFR 51.20(b)(1), issuance of an ESP
under 10 CFR part 52 is an action that
requires an EIS. This notice is being
published in accordance with the
National Environmental Policy Act of
1969, as amended (NEPA) and the
NRC’s regulations in 10 CFR part 51.
In addition, as outlined in 36 CFR
800.8(c), ‘‘Coordination with the
National Environmental Policy Act,’’ the
NRC staff has been coordinating
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compliance with Section 106 of the
National Historic Preservation Act
(NHPA) with steps taken to meet the
requirements of the NEPA. Pursuant to
36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC staff used the
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
on 36 CFR 800.3 through 800.6.
In accordance with 10 CFR 51.45 and
51.50, TVA submitted the
environmental ER as part of the
application; the ER is available in
ADAMS under Accession No.
ML16144A145.
Document title
Regulatory Guide 1.206, ‘‘Combined License Applications for Nuclear
Power Plants’’.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Policy Statement on the Treatment of
Environmental Justice Matters in NRC Regulatory and Licensing Actions.
The NRC may post materials related
to this document, including public
comments, on the Federal Rulemaking
website at https://www.regulations.gov
under Docket ID NRC–2016–0119. The
Federal Rulemaking website allows you
to receive alerts when changes or
additions occur in a docket folder. To
subscribe: (1) Navigate to the docket
folder (NRC–2016–0119); (2) click the
‘‘Sign up for Email Alerts’’ link; and (3)
enter your email address and select how
frequently you would like to receive
emails (daily, weekly, or monthly).
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IV. Public Meetings for Comment
The NRC and the USACE staff will
hold two identical public meetings to
present a brief overview of the DEIS and
to accept public comments on the
document. The meetings will be held at
Noah’s Event Venue, 1200 Ladd
Landing Blvd., Kingston, Tennessee, on
June 5, 2018. The first meeting will
convene at 2:00 p.m. and will continue
until approximately 4:00 p.m. The
second meeting will convene at 7:00
p.m., with a repetition of the overview
portions of the first meeting, and will
continue until approximately 9:00 p.m.
The meetings will be transcribed and
will include the following:
(1) A brief presentation of the
contents of the DEIS; and
(2) the opportunity for interested
government agencies, organizations, and
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The DEIS is available in ADAMS
under Accession Nos. ML18100A220
and ML18100A223. The following table
indicates how the key reference
documents related to the application
and the NRC staff’s review processes
may be accessed.
ADAMS accession No. or website
10 CFR part 51, ‘‘Environmental Protection Regulations for Domestic
Licensing and Related Regulatory Function’’.
10 CFR part 52, ‘‘Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals for Nuclear
Power Plants’’.
10 CFR part 100, ‘‘Reactor Site Criteria’’ ................................................
NUREG–1555, ‘‘Standard Review Plans for Environmental Reviews for
Nuclear Power Plants’’.
NUREG/BR–0298, ‘‘Brochure on Nuclear Power Plant Licensing Process’’.
Regulatory Guide 4.2, ‘‘Preparation of Environmental Reports for Nuclear Power Stations (Supplement 1)’’.
Regulatory Guide 4.7, ‘‘General Site Suitability Criteria for Nuclear
Power Stations’’.
Fact Sheet on Nuclear Power Plant Licensing Process ..........................
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III. Availability of Documents
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part051/.
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part052/.
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part100/.
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1555/.
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/brochures/
br0298/.
ML13067A354.
ML12188A053.
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/licensingprocess-fs.html.
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/reg-guides/power-reactors/rg/01-206/.
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2004-08-24/pdf/04-19305.pdf.
individuals to submit comments on the
draft report.
Additionally, the NRC staff will host
informal discussions for 1 hour prior to
the start of each public meeting. No
formal comments will be accepted
during the informal discussions. To be
considered, comments must be provided
either at a transcribed public meeting or
in writing, as discussed below.
Persons may register to attend or
present oral comments at the meeting on
the DEIS by contacting Ms. Patricia
Vokoun by telephone at 1–800–368–
5642, extension 3470, or by email to the
NRC at ClinchRiverESPEIS@nrc.gov no
later than May 30, 2018. Members of the
public may also register to speak at the
meeting prior to the start of the
presentation. 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 preparation of the final EIS. If
special equipment or accommodations
are needed to attend or present
information at the public meeting, the
need should be brought to Ms. Vokoun’s
attention no later than May 29, 2018, so
that the NRC staff can determine
whether the request can be
accommodated.
After receipt and consideration of
comments on the DEIS, the NRC will
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prepare and issue the final EIS, which
will also be available to the public.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day
of April 2018.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Anna H. Bradford,
Deputy Director, Division of New Reactor
Licensing, Office of New Reactors.
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[NRC–2018–0030]
Information Collection: NRC Form 7,
‘‘Application for NRC Export or Import
License, Amendment, Renewal, or
Consent Request(s)’’
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Renewal of existing information
collection; request for comment.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) invites public
comment on the renewal of Office of
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approval for an existing collection of
information. The information collection
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 52-047; NRC-2016-0119]
Early Site Permit Application: Tennessee Valley Authority; Clinch
River Nuclear Site
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft environmental impact statement; public meetings and
request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers (USACE), Nashville
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District, are issuing for public comment NUREG-2226, ``Environmental
Impact Statement for the Early Site Permit (ESP) for the Clinch River
Nuclear (CRN) Site: Draft Report for Comment.'' The site is located in
Roane County, Tennessee, along the Clinch River, approximately 25 miles
west-southwest of downtown Knoxville, Tennessee. The purposes of this
notice are to inform the public that the NRC staff has issued a draft
environmental impact statement (DEIS) as part of the review of the
application for the ESP and to provide the public with an opportunity
to comment on the DEIS process as defined in the regulations.
DATES: Submit comments by July 10, 2018. 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 on or before
this date. The DEIS public meetings will be held on June 5, 2018.
ADDRESSES: In addition to the public meetings for comment (described
below), you may submit comment by any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2016-0119. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer Borges; telephone: 301-287-
9127; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individuals listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section
of this document.
NRC Project Email Address: Electronic comments may be sent
by email to the NRC at [email protected].
Mail comments to: May Ma, Office of Administration, Mail
Stop: TWFN-07-A60, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001.
For additional direction on accessing information and submitting
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patricia Vokoun, telephone: 301-415-
3470, email: [email protected]; or Tamsen Dozier, telephone: 301-
415-2272, email: [email protected]. Both are staff members of the
Office of New Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2016-0119 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may
obtain publicly-available information related to this action by the
following methods:
Federal Rulemaking website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2016-0119.
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 [email protected]. 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. In addition, for the convenience of
the reader, the ADAMS accession numbers are provided in a table in the
section of this notice entitled Availability of Documents.
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.
Project website: Go to https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/esp/clinch-river.html.
Local Libraries: You may examine copies of public
documents at the Oak Ridge Public Library, 1401 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Oak
Ridge, Tennessee, and the Kingston Public Library, 1004 Bradford Way,
Kingston, Tennessee.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC-2016-0119 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 received through
the Federal Rulemaking website (https://www.regulations.gov) in the
Regulations.gov docket (NRC-2016-0119), and will also enter the comment
submissions into ADAMS. Comments submitted through the NRC project
email address will be processed into ADAMS, and all comments will be
compiled and addressed in Appendix E of the final EIS. 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. Introduction
Pursuant to part 52 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations
(10 CFR), on May 12, 2016, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) submitted
an application for an ESP for the Clinch River Nuclear Site, located on
approximately 935 acres in Roane County, Tennessee, along the Clinch
River, approximately 25 miles west-southwest of downtown Knoxville,
Tennessee.
III. Further Information
A notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement
(EIS) and to conduct scoping process was published in the Federal
Register on April 13, 2017 (82 FR 17885). A notice of receipt and
availability of the application, including the environmental report
(ER), was published in the Federal Register on June 23, 2016 (81 FR
40929). A notice of acceptance for docketing of the application for the
ESP was published in the Federal Register on January 12, 2017 (82 FR
3812). A notice of hearing and opportunity to petition for leave to
intervene in the proceeding on the application was published in the
Federal Register on April 4, 2017 (82 FR 16436).
The purposes of this notice are to inform the public that the NRC
staff has issued a DEIS as part of the review of the application for
the ESP and to provide the public with an opportunity to provide
comments. As set forth in 10 CFR 51.20(b)(1), issuance of an ESP under
10 CFR part 52 is an action that requires an EIS. This notice is being
published in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of
1969, as amended (NEPA) and the NRC's regulations in 10 CFR part 51.
In addition, as outlined in 36 CFR 800.8(c), ``Coordination with
the National Environmental Policy Act,'' the NRC staff has been
coordinating
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compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act
(NHPA) with steps taken to meet the requirements of the NEPA. Pursuant
to 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC staff used the 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 on 36 CFR
800.3 through 800.6.
In accordance with 10 CFR 51.45 and 51.50, TVA submitted the
environmental ER as part of the application; the ER is available in
ADAMS under Accession No. ML16144A145.
III. Availability of Documents
The DEIS is available in ADAMS under Accession Nos. ML18100A220 and
ML18100A223. The following table indicates how the key reference
documents related to the application and the NRC staff's review
processes may be accessed.
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Document title ADAMS accession No. or website
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10 CFR part 51, ``Environmental https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
Protection Regulations for Domestic doc-collections/cfr/part051/.
Licensing and Related Regulatory
Function''.
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Regulatory and Licensing Actions.
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The NRC may post materials related to this document, including
public comments, on the Federal Rulemaking website at https://www.regulations.gov under Docket ID NRC-2016-0119. The Federal
Rulemaking website allows you to receive alerts when changes or
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IV. Public Meetings for Comment
The NRC and the USACE staff will hold two identical public meetings
to present a brief overview of the DEIS and to accept public comments
on the document. The meetings will be held at Noah's Event Venue, 1200
Ladd Landing Blvd., Kingston, Tennessee, on June 5, 2018. The first
meeting will convene at 2:00 p.m. and will continue until approximately
4:00 p.m. The second meeting will convene at 7:00 p.m., with a
repetition of the overview portions of the first meeting, and will
continue until approximately 9:00 p.m. The meetings will be transcribed
and will include the following:
(1) A brief presentation of the contents of the DEIS; and
(2) the opportunity for interested government agencies,
organizations, and individuals to submit comments on the draft report.
Additionally, the NRC staff will host informal discussions for 1
hour prior to the start of each public meeting. No formal comments will
be accepted during the informal discussions. To be considered, comments
must be provided either at a transcribed public meeting or in writing,
as discussed below.
Persons may register to attend or present oral comments at the
meeting on the DEIS by contacting Ms. Patricia Vokoun by telephone at
1-800-368-5642, extension 3470, or by email to the NRC at
[email protected] no later than May 30, 2018. Members of the
public may also register to speak at the meeting prior to the start of
the presentation. 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
preparation of the final EIS. If special equipment or accommodations
are needed to attend or present information at the public meeting, the
need should be brought to Ms. Vokoun's attention no later than May 29,
2018, so that the NRC staff can determine whether the request can be
accommodated.
After receipt and consideration of comments on the DEIS, the NRC
will prepare and issue the final EIS, which will also be available to
the public.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day of April 2018.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Anna H. Bradford,
Deputy Director, Division of New Reactor Licensing, Office of New
Reactors.
[FR Doc. 2018-08714 Filed 4-25-18; 8:45 am]
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