Notice of Intent To Conduct Scoping Process and Prepare Environmental Impact Statement; Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc.; Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station, Unit 1, 75627-75629 [2023-24329]
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Notice of Intent To Conduct Scoping
Process and Prepare Environmental
Impact Statement; Dominion Energy
South Carolina, Inc.; Virgil C. Summer
Nuclear Station, Unit 1
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Intent to conduct scoping
process and prepare environmental
impact statement; public scoping
meeting, and request for comment.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) will conduct a
scoping process to gather information
necessary to prepare an environmental
impact statement (EIS) to evaluate the
environmental impacts for the
subsequent license renewal (SLR) of
Renewed Facility Operating License No.
NPF–12 for Virgil C. Summer Nuclear
Station, Unit 1 (V.C. Summer). The NRC
is seeking public comment on this
action and has scheduled two public
scoping meetings on this action.
DATES: The NRC will hold two public
scoping meetings: one through an online
webinar and teleconference call and one
in-person meeting near the V.C.
Summer facility. Both meetings will
include a presentation on the license
renewal process and a transcribed
public comment session. The online
webinar will be held on November 9,
2023, at 2 p.m. eastern time (ET). The
in-person meeting will be held on
November 14, 2023, at 6 p.m. ET at the
McCrorey-Liston School of Technology,
1978 State Highway 215, Blair, SC
29015. Details on both meetings can be
found on the NRC’s Public Meeting
Schedule at https://www.nrc.gov/pmns/
mtg. Submit comments on the scope of
the EIS by December 4, 2023. Comments
received after this date will be
considered if it is practical to do so, but
the NRC is able to ensure consideration
only for comments received on or before
this date. See Section IV, ‘‘Public
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Scoping Meeting,’’ of this notice for
additional information.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by any of the following methods;
however, the NRC encourages electronic
comment submission through the
Federal rulemaking website:
• Federal rulemaking website: Go to
https://regulations.gov and search for
Docket ID NRC–2023–0152. Address
questions about Docket IDs in
Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 301–415–0624; email:
Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical
questions, contact the individual listed
in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section of this document.
• Email comments to:
SummerEnvironmental@nrc.gov.
• Mail comments to: Office of
Administration, Mail Stop: TWFN–7–
A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001, ATTN: Program Management,
Announcements and Editing Staff.
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: Kim
Conway, Office of Nuclear Material
Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415–
1335; email: Kimberly.Conway@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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I. Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2023–
0152 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 website: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2023–0152.
• 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
‘‘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, at
301–415–4737, or by email to
PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. The ADAMS
accession number for each document
referenced in this document (if it is
available in ADAMS) is provided the
first time that it is referenced.
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• NRC’s PDR: The PDR, where you
may examine and order copies of
publicly available documents, is open
by appointment. To make an
appointment to visit the PDR, please
send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov
or call 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415–
4737, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. ET,
Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.
• Public Library: A copy of the SLR
application for V.C. Summer, including
the environmental report (ER), is
available for public review at the
following public library location:
Fairfield County Library, 300 W
Washington St., Winnsboro, SC 29180.
B. Submitting Comments
The NRC encourages electronic
comment submission through the
Federal rulemaking website (https://
www.regulations.gov). Please include
Docket ID NRC–2023–0152 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 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. Discussion
On August 17, 2023, Dominion
Energy South Carolina, Inc. submitted to
the NRC an application for SLR of
Renewed Facility Operating License No.
NPF–12 for V.C. Summer, Unit 1, for an
additional 20 years of operation
(ADAMS Accession No. ML23233A172).
This submission initiated the NRC’s
proposed action of determining whether
to grant the SLR application. The V.C.
Summer unit is a pressurized-water
reactor designed by Westinghouse and
is located near Jenkinsville, South
Carolina. The current operating license
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for V.C. Summer expires August 6,
2042. The SLR application was
submitted pursuant to part 54 of title 10
of the Code of Federal Regulations (10
CFR), ‘‘Requirements for Renewal of
Operating Licenses for Nuclear Power
Plants,’’ and seeks to extend the
renewed facility operating license for
V.C. Summer Unit 1 to midnight on
August 6, 2062. A notice of receipt of
the SLR application was published in
the Federal Register on September 11,
2023 (88 FR 62409). A notice of
acceptance for docketing of the
application and opportunity to request a
hearing was published in the Federal
Register on October 16, 2023 (88 FR
71384) and is available on the Federal
rulemaking website (https://
www.regulations.gov) by searching for
Docket ID NRC–2023–0152.
III. Request for Comment
This notice informs the public of the
NRC’s intention to conduct
environmental scoping and prepare an
EIS related to the SLR application for
V.C. Summer, and to provide the public
an opportunity to participate in the
environmental scoping process, as
defined in 10 CFR 51.29, ‘‘Scopingenvironmental impact statement and
supplement to environmental impact
statement.’’
The regulations in 36 CFR 800.8,
‘‘Coordination with the National
Environmental Policy Act,’’ allow
agencies to use their National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42
U.S.C. 4321, et seq.) (NEPA) process to
fulfill the requirements of Section 106 of
the National Historic Preservation Act of
1966 (54 U.S.C. 300101, et seq.) (NHPA).
Therefore, pursuant to 36 CFR 800.8(c),
the NRC intends to use its process and
documentation required 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, V.C. Summer
submitted an ER as part of the SLR
application. The ER was prepared
pursuant to 10 CFR part 51,
‘‘Environmental Protection Regulations
for Domestic Licensing and Related
Regulatory Functions,’’ and is available
in ADAMS under Accession No.
ML23233A174. The ER will also be
available for viewing at https://
www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/
licensing/renewal/subsequent-licenserenewal.html. In addition, the SLR
application, including the ER, is
available for public review at the
Fairfield County Library, 300 W
Washington St., Winnsboro, SC 29180.
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The NRC intends to gather the
information necessary to prepare a sitespecific EIS related to the SLR
application for V.C. Summer. The sitespecific EIS will evaluate the
environmental impacts of subsequent
license renewal for V.C. Summer and
reasonable alternatives thereto. Possible
alternatives to the proposed action
include the no action alternative and
reasonable alternative energy sources.
This notice is being published in
accordance with NEPA and the NRC’s
regulations at 10 CFR part 51.
As part of its environmental review,
the NRC will first conduct a scoping
process for the site-specific EIS and, as
soon as practicable thereafter, will
prepare a draft site-specific EIS for
public comment. Participation in this
scoping process by members of the
public and local, State, Tribal, and
Federal government agencies is
encouraged. The scoping process for the
site-specific EIS will be used to
accomplish the following:
a. Define the proposed action that is
to be the subject of the site-specific EIS;
b. Determine the scope of the sitespecific EIS and identify the significant
issues to be analyzed in depth;
c. Identify and eliminate from
detailed study those issues that are
peripheral or are not significant or that
have been covered by prior
environmental review;
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 site-specific EIS under
consideration;
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 NRC’s
tentative planning and decision-making
schedule;
g. Identify any cooperating agencies
and, as appropriate, allocate
assignments for preparation and
schedules for completing the sitespecific EIS to the NRC and any
cooperating agencies; and
h. Describe how the site-specific EIS
will be prepared, including any
contractor assistance to be used.
The NRC invites the following entities
to participate in scoping:
a. The applicant, Dominion Energy
South Carolina, Inc.;
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;
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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
under 10 CFR 2.309.
IV. Public Scoping Meeting
In accordance with 10 CFR 51.26(b),
the scoping process for an EIS may
include a public scoping meeting to
help identify significant issues related
to the proposed action and to determine
the scope of issues to be addressed in
the EIS.
The NRC is announcing that it will
hold an online webinar and
teleconference call and an in-person
public scoping meeting for the V.C.
Summer SLR site-specific EIS. Both
meetings will include a presentation on
the license renewal process and a
transcribed public comment session.
The online webinar will be held on
November 9, 2023, at 2 p.m. ET. The inperson meeting will be held on
November 14, 2023, at 6 p.m. ET at the
McCrorey-Liston School of Technology,
1978 State Highway 215, Blair, SC
29015. Details on both meetings can be
found on the NRC’s Public Meeting
Schedule at https://www.nrc.gov/pmns/
mtg. A court reporter will transcribe all
comments received during each public
scoping meeting. To be considered,
comments must be provided either at a
transcribed public meeting or in writing,
as discussed in the ADDRESSES section of
this notice.
Persons interested in attending this
meeting should monitor the NRC’s
Public Meeting Schedule website at
https://www.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg for
additional information and the agenda
for the meeting. Please contact the
environmental project manager, Kim
Conway, no later than November 6,
2023, if accommodations or special
equipment is needed to attend or to
provide comments, so that the NRC staff
can determine whether the request can
be accommodated.
The public scoping meeting will
include: (1) an overview by the NRC
staff of the environmental and safety
review processes, the proposed scope of
site-specific EIS, and the proposed
review schedule; and (2) the
opportunity for interested government
agencies, organizations, and individuals
to submit comments or suggestions on
environmental issues or the proposed
scope of the V.C. Summer SLR sitespecific EIS.
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Participation in the scoping process
for the V.C. Summer SLR site-specific
EIS does not entitle participants to
become parties to the proceeding to
which the site-specific EIS relates.
Matters related to participation in any
hearing are outside the scope of matters
to be discussed at this public meeting.
Dated: October 31, 2023.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Theodore B. Smith,
Chief, Environmental Review License Renewal
Branch, Division of Rulemaking,
Environment, and Financial Support, Office
of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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Vistra Operations Company LLC;
Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant,
Units 1 and 2
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Draft supplemental
environmental impact statement; public
meeting and request for comment.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is issuing for public
comment draft Supplement 60, License
Renewal, to the Generic Environmental
Impact Statement (GEIS) for License
Renewal of Nuclear Plants, NUREG–
1437, regarding the renewal of Facility
Operating License Nos. NPF–87 and
NPF–89 for an additional 20 years of
operation for Comanche Peak Nuclear
Power Plant, Units 1 and 2 (CPNPP).
The CPNPP facility is in Somervell
County, Texas. Possible alternatives to
the proposed action (license renewal)
include no action and reasonable
replacement power alternatives.
DATES: The staff will hold a local public
meeting on the draft Supplemental
Environmental Impact Statement on
December 7, 2023, from 7:00 p.m. to
9:00 p.m. central time, including a
presentation on the preliminary findings
and a transcribed public comment
session. The public meeting details will
be announced in the near future on the
NRC’s Public Meeting Schedule at
https://www.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg.
Members of the public are invited to
submit comments by December 18,
2023. Comments received after this date
will be considered, if it is practical to do
so, but the NRC is able to ensure
consideration only for comments
received on or before this date.
SUMMARY:
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[Docket No. 50-395; NRC-2023-0152]
Notice of Intent To Conduct Scoping Process and Prepare
Environmental Impact Statement; Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc.;
Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station, Unit 1
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Intent to conduct scoping process and prepare environmental
impact statement; public scoping meeting, and request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will conduct a
scoping process to gather information necessary to prepare an
environmental impact statement (EIS) to evaluate the environmental
impacts for the subsequent license renewal (SLR) of Renewed Facility
Operating License No. NPF-12 for Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station, Unit
1 (V.C. Summer). The NRC is seeking public comment on this action and
has scheduled two public scoping meetings on this action.
DATES: The NRC will hold two public scoping meetings: one through an
online webinar and teleconference call and one in-person meeting near
the V.C. Summer facility. Both meetings will include a presentation on
the license renewal process and a transcribed public comment session.
The online webinar will be held on November 9, 2023, at 2 p.m. eastern
time (ET). The in-person meeting will be held on November 14, 2023, at
6 p.m. ET at the McCrorey-Liston School of Technology, 1978 State
Highway 215, Blair, SC 29015. Details on both meetings can be found on
the NRC's Public Meeting Schedule at https://www.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg.
Submit comments on the scope of the EIS by December 4, 2023. Comments
received after this date will be considered if it is practical to do
so, but the NRC is able to ensure consideration only for comments
received on or before this date. See Section IV, ``Public
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Scoping Meeting,'' of this notice for additional information.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods;
however, the NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the
Federal rulemaking website:
Federal rulemaking website: Go to https://regulations.gov
and search for Docket ID NRC-2023-0152. Address questions about Docket
IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; telephone: 301-415-0624;
email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact the
individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this document.
Email comments to: [email protected].
Mail comments to: Office of Administration, Mail Stop:
TWFN-7-A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001, ATTN: Program Management, Announcements and Editing Staff.
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: Kim Conway, Office of Nuclear Material
Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-1335; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2023-0152 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 website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2023-0152.
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 ``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, at 301-415-4737,
or by email to [email protected]. The ADAMS accession number for
each document referenced in this document (if it is available in ADAMS)
is provided the first time that it is referenced.
NRC's PDR: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies
of publicly available documents, is open by appointment. To make an
appointment to visit the PDR, please send an email to
[email protected] or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, between 8
a.m. and 4 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Public Library: A copy of the SLR application for V.C.
Summer, including the environmental report (ER), is available for
public review at the following public library location: Fairfield
County Library, 300 W Washington St., Winnsboro, SC 29180.
B. Submitting Comments
The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the
Federal rulemaking website (https://www.regulations.gov). Please
include Docket ID NRC-2023-0152 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 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. Discussion
On August 17, 2023, Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc. submitted
to the NRC an application for SLR of Renewed Facility Operating License
No. NPF-12 for V.C. Summer, Unit 1, for an additional 20 years of
operation (ADAMS Accession No. ML23233A172). This submission initiated
the NRC's proposed action of determining whether to grant the SLR
application. The V.C. Summer unit is a pressurized-water reactor
designed by Westinghouse and is located near Jenkinsville, South
Carolina. The current operating license for V.C. Summer expires August
6, 2042. The SLR application was submitted pursuant to part 54 of title
10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ``Requirements for
Renewal of Operating Licenses for Nuclear Power Plants,'' and seeks to
extend the renewed facility operating license for V.C. Summer Unit 1 to
midnight on August 6, 2062. A notice of receipt of the SLR application
was published in the Federal Register on September 11, 2023 (88 FR
62409). A notice of acceptance for docketing of the application and
opportunity to request a hearing was published in the Federal Register
on October 16, 2023 (88 FR 71384) and is available on the Federal
rulemaking website (https://www.regulations.gov) by searching for
Docket ID NRC-2023-0152.
III. Request for Comment
This notice informs the public of the NRC's intention to conduct
environmental scoping and prepare an EIS related to the SLR application
for V.C. Summer, and to provide the public an opportunity to
participate in the environmental scoping process, as defined in 10 CFR
51.29, ``Scoping-environmental impact statement and supplement to
environmental impact statement.''
The regulations in 36 CFR 800.8, ``Coordination with the National
Environmental Policy Act,'' allow agencies to use their National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321, et seq.) (NEPA)
process to fulfill the requirements of Section 106 of the National
Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (54 U.S.C. 300101, et seq.) (NHPA).
Therefore, pursuant to 36 CFR 800.8(c), the NRC intends to use its
process and documentation required 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, V.C. Summer
submitted an ER as part of the SLR application. The ER was prepared
pursuant to 10 CFR part 51, ``Environmental Protection Regulations for
Domestic Licensing and Related Regulatory Functions,'' and is available
in ADAMS under Accession No. ML23233A174. The ER will also be available
for viewing at https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/subsequent-license-renewal.html. In addition, the SLR
application, including the ER, is available for public review at the
Fairfield County Library, 300 W Washington St., Winnsboro, SC 29180.
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The NRC intends to gather the information necessary to prepare a
site-specific EIS related to the SLR application for V.C. Summer. The
site-specific EIS will evaluate the environmental impacts of subsequent
license renewal for V.C. Summer and reasonable alternatives thereto.
Possible alternatives to the proposed action include the no action
alternative and reasonable alternative energy sources. This notice is
being published in accordance with NEPA and the NRC's regulations at 10
CFR part 51.
As part of its environmental review, the NRC will first conduct a
scoping process for the site-specific EIS and, as soon as practicable
thereafter, will prepare a draft site-specific EIS for public comment.
Participation in this scoping process by members of the public and
local, State, Tribal, and Federal government agencies is encouraged.
The scoping process for the site-specific EIS will be used to
accomplish the following:
a. Define the proposed action that is to be the subject of the
site-specific EIS;
b. Determine the scope of the site-specific EIS and identify the
significant issues to be analyzed in depth;
c. Identify and eliminate from detailed study those issues that are
peripheral or are not significant or that have been covered by prior
environmental review;
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 site-specific EIS under consideration;
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 NRC's tentative planning and
decision-making schedule;
g. Identify any cooperating agencies and, as appropriate, allocate
assignments for preparation and schedules for completing the site-
specific EIS to the NRC and any cooperating agencies; and
h. Describe how the site-specific EIS will be prepared, including
any contractor assistance to be used.
The NRC invites the following entities to participate in scoping:
a. The applicant, Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc.;
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 under 10 CFR 2.309.
IV. Public Scoping Meeting
In accordance with 10 CFR 51.26(b), the scoping process for an EIS
may include a public scoping meeting to help identify significant
issues related to the proposed action and to determine the scope of
issues to be addressed in the EIS.
The NRC is announcing that it will hold an online webinar and
teleconference call and an in-person public scoping meeting for the
V.C. Summer SLR site-specific EIS. Both meetings will include a
presentation on the license renewal process and a transcribed public
comment session. The online webinar will be held on November 9, 2023,
at 2 p.m. ET. The in-person meeting will be held on November 14, 2023,
at 6 p.m. ET at the McCrorey-Liston School of Technology, 1978 State
Highway 215, Blair, SC 29015. Details on both meetings can be found on
the NRC's Public Meeting Schedule at https://www.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg. A
court reporter will transcribe all comments received during each public
scoping meeting. To be considered, comments must be provided either at
a transcribed public meeting or in writing, as discussed in the
ADDRESSES section of this notice.
Persons interested in attending this meeting should monitor the
NRC's Public Meeting Schedule website at https://www.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg
for additional information and the agenda for the meeting. Please
contact the environmental project manager, Kim Conway, no later than
November 6, 2023, if accommodations or special equipment is needed to
attend or to provide comments, so that the NRC staff can determine
whether the request can be accommodated.
The public scoping meeting will include: (1) an overview by the NRC
staff of the environmental and safety review processes, the proposed
scope of site-specific EIS, and the proposed review schedule; and (2)
the opportunity for interested government agencies, organizations, and
individuals to submit comments or suggestions on environmental issues
or the proposed scope of the V.C. Summer SLR site-specific EIS.
Participation in the scoping process for the V.C. Summer SLR site-
specific EIS does not entitle participants to become parties to the
proceeding to which the site-specific EIS relates. Matters related to
participation in any hearing are outside the scope of matters to be
discussed at this public meeting.
Dated: October 31, 2023.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Theodore B. Smith,
Chief, Environmental Review License Renewal Branch, Division of
Rulemaking, Environment, and Financial Support, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards.
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