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intervene must be filed by April 15,
2024.
[Docket Nos. 50–269, 50–270, and 50–287;
NRC–2021–0146]
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://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2021–0146. 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 may be submitted
to the NRC electronically using the
email address OconeeEnvironmental@
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:
Lance Rakovan, Senior Environmental
Project Manager, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone:
301–415–2589; email: Lance.Rakovan@
nrc.gov.
Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC; Oconee
Nuclear Station, Units 1, 2, and 3; Draft
Supplemental Environmental Impact
Statement
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Request for comment; public
comment meetings; opportunity to
request a hearing and to petition for
leave to intervene.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is issuing for public
comment draft Site-Specific
Supplement 2, Second Renewal, to the
Generic Environmental Impact
Statement (GEIS) for License Renewal of
Nuclear Plants, NUREG–1437, regarding
the proposed subsequent renewal of
Renewed Facility Operating License
Nos. DPR–38, DPR–47, and DPR–55, for
an additional 20 years of operation for
Oconee Nuclear Station, Units 1, 2, and
3 (Oconee Station). Oconee Station is
located in Seneca, South Carolina,
approximately 30 miles west of
Greenville. Possible alternatives to the
proposed action of subsequent license
renewal (SLR) include no action and
reasonable replacement power
alternatives. A new notice of
opportunity to request a hearing and
petition for leave to intervene is also
being issued.
DATES: The staff will hold two public
meetings, one in-person near Oconee
Station and one through online webinar
and teleconference call, on the draft
site-specific environmental impact
statement (EIS), including a
presentation on the preliminary findings
and a transcribed public comment
session. The in-person meeting will be
held on February 21, 2024, at 7 p.m.
eastern time (ET) at the Madren
Conference Center on the grounds of
Clemson University. The virtual
meeting will be held February 27, 2024,
at 1 p.m. ET. The public meeting details
can be found on the NRC’s Public
Meeting Schedule at https://
www.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg. Members of the
public are invited to submit comments
within 45 days of an upcoming Federal
Register notice anticipated to be
published on February 16, 2024, by the
Environmental Protection Agency.
Comments received after that 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 that date. Requests
for a hearing or petitions for leave to
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ADDRESSES:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2021–
0146 when contacting the NRC about
the availability of information regarding
this document. You may obtain publicly
available information related to this
action using any of the following
methods:
• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2021–0146.
• 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
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301–415–4737, or by email to
PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. Draft SiteSpecific Supplement 2, Second
Renewal, to the GEIS for License
Renewal of Nuclear Plants, NUREG–
1437, is available in ADAMS under
Accession No. ML24033A298.
• 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 draft
Site-Specific Supplement 2, Second
Renewal, to the GEIS for License
Renewal of Nuclear Plants, NUREG–
1437, regarding the proposed
subsequent renewal of Renewed Facility
Operating License Nos. DPR–38, DPR–
47, and DPR–55, for an additional 20
years of operation for Oconee Station,
will be available for public review at the
Oconee County Public Library, 300 E
South 2nd St., Seneca, SC 29678.
B. Submitting Comments
The NRC encourages electronic
comment submission through the
Federal rulemaking website (https://
www.regulations.gov). Please include
Docket ID NRC–2021–0146 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. Discussion
The NRC is issuing for public
comment draft Site-Specific
Supplement 2, Second Renewal, to the
GEIS for License Renewal of Nuclear
Plants, NUREG–1437, regarding the
proposed subsequent renewal of
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Renewed Facility Operating License
Nos. DPR–38, DPR–47, and DPR–55, for
an additional 20 years of operation for
Oconee Station. Draft site-specific
Supplement 2, Second Renewal, to the
GEIS includes the preliminary analysis
that evaluates the environmental
impacts of the proposed action and
alternatives to the proposed action. It
considers the impacts of all subsequent
license renewal issues applicable to
Oconee Station subsequent license
renewal on a site-specific basis. The
NRC staff prepared the draft site-specific
Supplement 2, Second Renewal, to the
GEIS for Oconee Station in accordance
with the Commission’s decisions in
Commission Legal Issuance (CLI)–22–03
(ADAMS Accession No. ML22055A527),
that references CLI–22–02 (ADAMS
Accession No. ML22055A496), both
dated February 24, 2022. Based on the
NRC staff’s (i) review of the SLR
application, which includes the
environmental report, supplemental
documents, and the licensee’s responses
to the NRC staff’s requests for additional
information; (ii) consultation with
Federal, State, Tribal, and local
governmental agencies and
consideration of input from other
stakeholders; and (iii) independent
environmental review as documented in
the draft site-specific EIS, the NRC
staff’s preliminary recommendation is
that the adverse environmental impacts
of subsequent license renewal for
Oconee Station are not so great that
preserving the option of subsequent
license renewal for energy-planning
decisionmakers would be unreasonable.
III. Opportunity To Request a Hearing
and Petition for Leave To Intervene
As the Commission directed in CLI–
22–03, a new notice of opportunity to
request a hearing and petition for leave
to intervene is being issued.
Within 60 days after the date of
publication of this notice, any persons
(petitioner) whose interest may be
affected by this action may file a request
for a hearing and petition for leave to
intervene (petition) with respect to the
action. Petitions shall be filed in
accordance with the Commission’s
‘‘Agency Rules of Practice and
Procedure’’ in 10 CFR part 2. Interested
persons should consult 10 CFR 2.309. If
a petition is filed, the presiding officer
will rule on the petition and, if
appropriate, a notice of a hearing will be
issued.
Petitions must be filed no later than
60 days from the date of publication of
this notice in accordance with the filing
instructions in the ‘‘Electronic
Submissions (E-Filing)’’ section of this
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leave to file new or amended
contentions that are filed after the
deadline will not be entertained absent
a determination by the presiding officer
that the filing demonstrates good cause
by satisfying the three factors in 10 CFR
2.309(c)(1)(i) through (iii).
A State, local governmental body,
federally recognized Indian Tribe, or
designated agency thereof, may submit
a petition to the Commission to
participate as a party under 10 CFR
2.309(h) no later than 60 days from the
date of publication of this notice.
Alternatively, a State, local
governmental body, federally
recognized Indian Tribe, or agency
thereof may participate as a non-party
under 10 CFR 2.315(c).
For information about filing a petition
and about participation by a person not
a party under 10 CFR 2.315, see ADAMS
Accession No. ML20340A053 (https://
adamswebsearch2.nrc.gov/webSearch2/
main.jsp?Accession
Number=ML20340A053) and on the
NRC’s public website at https://
www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/
adjudicatory/hearing.html#participate.
IV. Electronic Submissions (E-Filing)
All documents filed in NRC
adjudicatory proceedings, including
documents filed by an interested State,
local governmental body, federally
recognized Indian Tribe, or designated
agency thereof that requests to
participate under 10 CFR 2.315(c), must
be filed in accordance with 10 CFR
2.302. The E-Filing process requires
participants to submit and serve all
adjudicatory documents over the
internet, or in some cases, to mail copies
on electronic storage media, unless an
exemption permitting an alternative
filing method, as further discussed, is
granted. Detailed guidance on electronic
submissions is located in the ‘‘Guidance
for Electronic Submissions to the NRC’’
(ADAMS Accession No. ML13031A056)
and on the NRC’s public website at
https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/esubmittals.html.
To comply with the procedural
requirements of E-Filing, at least 10
days prior to the filing deadline, the
participant should contact the Office of
the Secretary by email at
Hearing.Docket@nrc.gov, or by
telephone at 301–415–1677, to (1)
request a digital identification (ID)
certificate, which allows the participant
(or its counsel or representative) to
digitally sign submissions and access
the E-Filing system for any proceeding
in which it is participating; and (2)
advise the Secretary that the participant
will be submitting a petition or other
adjudicatory document (even in
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instances in which the participant, or its
counsel or representative, already holds
an NRC-issued digital ID certificate).
Based upon this information, the
Secretary will establish an electronic
docket for the proceeding if the
Secretary has not already established an
electronic docket.
Information about applying for a
digital ID certificate is available on the
NRC’s public website at https://
www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals/
getting-started.html. After a digital ID
certificate is obtained and a docket
created, the participant must submit
adjudicatory documents in Portable
Document Format. Guidance on
submissions is available on the NRC’s
public website at https://www.nrc.gov/
site-help/electronic-sub-ref-mat.html. A
filing is considered complete at the time
the document is submitted through the
NRC’s E-Filing system. To be timely, an
electronic filing must be submitted to
the E-Filing system no later than 11:59
p.m. ET on the due date. Upon receipt
of a transmission, the E-Filing system
time-stamps the document and sends
the submitter an email confirming
receipt of the document. The E-Filing
system also distributes an email that
provides access to the document to the
NRC’s Office of the General Counsel and
any others who have advised the Office
of the Secretary that they wish to
participate in the proceeding, so that the
filer need not serve the document on
those participants separately. Therefore,
applicants and other participants (or
their counsel or representative) must
apply for and receive a digital ID
certificate before adjudicatory
documents are filed to obtain access to
the documents via the E-Filing system.
A person filing electronically using
the NRC’s adjudicatory E-Filing system
may seek assistance by contacting the
NRC’s Electronic Filing Help Desk
through the ‘‘Contact Us’’ link located
on the NRC’s public website at https://
www.nrc.gov/site-help/esubmittals.html, by email to
MSHD.Resource@nrc.gov, or by a tollfree call at 1–866–672–7640. The NRC
Electronic Filing Help Desk is available
between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., ET, Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Participants who believe that they
have good cause for not submitting
documents electronically must file an
exemption request, in accordance with
10 CFR 2.302(g), with their initial paper
filing stating why there is good cause for
not filing electronically and requesting
authorization to continue to submit
documents in paper format. Such filings
must be submitted in accordance with
10 CFR 2.302(b)–(d). Participants filing
adjudicatory documents in this manner
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are responsible for serving their
documents on all other participants.
Participants granted an exemption
under 10 CFR 2.302(g)(2) must still meet
the electronic formatting requirement in
10 CFR 2.302(g)(1), unless the
participant also seeks and is granted an
exemption from 10 CFR 2.302(g)(1).
Documents submitted in adjudicatory
proceedings will appear in the NRC’s
electronic hearing docket, which is
publicly available at https://
adams.nrc.gov/ehd, unless excluded
pursuant to an order of the presiding
officer. If you do not have an NRCissued digital ID certificate as
previously described, click ‘‘cancel’’
when the link requests certificates and
you will be automatically directed to the
NRC’s electronic hearing dockets where
you will be able to access any publicly
available documents in a particular
hearing docket. Participants are
requested not to include personal
privacy information such as social
security numbers, home addresses, or
personal phone numbers in their filings
unless an NRC regulation or other law
requires submission of such
information. With respect to
copyrighted works, except for limited
excerpts that serve the purpose of the
adjudicatory filings and would
constitute a Fair Use application,
participants should not include
copyrighted materials in their
submission.
Detailed information about the
subsequent license renewal process can
be found on the NRC’s public website,
under Reactor License Renewal, at
https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/
licensing/renewal.html. Materials
involving the request to renew the
operating licenses for Oconee Station
are available for public inspection at the
NRC’s PDR, and at https://www.nrc.gov/
reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/
subsequent-license-renewal.html.
Dated: February 8, 2024.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Stephen S. Koenick,
Chief, Environmental Project Management
Branch 1, Division of Rulemaking,
Environmental, and Financial Support, Office
of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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Federal Register of January 31, 2024 (89
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on page 6139 in the first column, in the
7th line of the SUMMARY section, the
word ‘‘revise’’ is corrected to read
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Dated: February 7, 2024.
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recent Postal Service filing for the
Commission’s consideration concerning
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notice informs the public of the filing,
invites public comment, and takes other
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DATES: Comments are due: February 15,
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the person identified in the FOR FURTHER
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alternatives.
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David A. Trissell, General Counsel, at
202–789–6820.
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Table of Contents
I. Introduction
II. Docketed Proceeding(s)
I. Introduction
The Commission gives notice that the
Postal Service filed request(s) for the
Commission to consider matters related
to negotiated service agreement(s). The
request(s) may propose the addition or
removal of a negotiated service
agreement from the Market Dominant or
the Competitive product list, or the
modification of an existing product
currently appearing on the Market
Dominant or the Competitive product
list.
Section II identifies the docket
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date, and the authority cited by the
Postal Service for each request. For each
request, the Commission appoints an
officer of the Commission to represent
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proceeding, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 505
(Public Representative). Section II also
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pertaining to each request.
The public portions of the Postal
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39 U.S.C. 3642, 39 CFR part 3035, and
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-269, 50-270, and 50-287; NRC-2021-0146]
Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC; Oconee Nuclear Station, Units 1, 2,
and 3; Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Request for comment; public comment meetings; opportunity to
request a hearing and to petition for leave to intervene.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for
public comment draft Site-Specific Supplement 2, Second Renewal, to the
Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) for License Renewal of
Nuclear Plants, NUREG-1437, regarding the proposed subsequent renewal
of Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-38, DPR-47, and DPR-55,
for an additional 20 years of operation for Oconee Nuclear Station,
Units 1, 2, and 3 (Oconee Station). Oconee Station is located in
Seneca, South Carolina, approximately 30 miles west of Greenville.
Possible alternatives to the proposed action of subsequent license
renewal (SLR) include no action and reasonable replacement power
alternatives. A new notice of opportunity to request a hearing and
petition for leave to intervene is also being issued.
DATES: The staff will hold two public meetings, one in-person near
Oconee Station and one through online webinar and teleconference call,
on the draft site-specific environmental impact statement (EIS),
including a presentation on the preliminary findings and a transcribed
public comment session. The in-person meeting will be held on February
21, 2024, at 7 p.m. eastern time (ET) at the Madren Conference Center
on the grounds of Clemson University. The virtual meeting will be held
February 27, 2024, at 1 p.m. ET. The public meeting details can be
found on the NRC's Public Meeting Schedule at https://www.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg. Members of the public are invited to submit comments within 45
days of an upcoming Federal Register notice anticipated to be published
on February 16, 2024, by the Environmental Protection Agency. Comments
received after that 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 that date. Requests for a hearing or petitions
for leave to intervene must be filed by April 15, 2024.
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://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2021-0146. 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 may be submitted to the NRC electronically
using the email address [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: Lance Rakovan, Senior Environmental
Project Manager, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone:
301-415-2589; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2021-0146 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may
obtain publicly available information related to this action using any
of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2021-0146.
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]. Draft Site-Specific Supplement 2,
Second Renewal, to the GEIS for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants,
NUREG-1437, is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML24033A298.
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 draft Site-Specific
Supplement 2, Second Renewal, to the GEIS for License Renewal of
Nuclear Plants, NUREG-1437, regarding the proposed subsequent renewal
of Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-38, DPR-47, and DPR-55,
for an additional 20 years of operation for Oconee Station, will be
available for public review at the Oconee County Public Library, 300 E
South 2nd St., Seneca, SC 29678.
B. Submitting Comments
The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the
Federal rulemaking website (https://www.regulations.gov). Please
include Docket ID NRC-2021-0146 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. Discussion
The NRC is issuing for public comment draft Site-Specific
Supplement 2, Second Renewal, to the GEIS for License Renewal of
Nuclear Plants, NUREG-1437, regarding the proposed subsequent renewal
of
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Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-38, DPR-47, and DPR-55, for
an additional 20 years of operation for Oconee Station. Draft site-
specific Supplement 2, Second Renewal, to the GEIS includes the
preliminary analysis that evaluates the environmental impacts of the
proposed action and alternatives to the proposed action. It considers
the impacts of all subsequent license renewal issues applicable to
Oconee Station subsequent license renewal on a site-specific basis. The
NRC staff prepared the draft site-specific Supplement 2, Second
Renewal, to the GEIS for Oconee Station in accordance with the
Commission's decisions in Commission Legal Issuance (CLI)-22-03 (ADAMS
Accession No. ML22055A527), that references CLI-22-02 (ADAMS Accession
No. ML22055A496), both dated February 24, 2022. Based on the NRC
staff's (i) review of the SLR application, which includes the
environmental report, supplemental documents, and the licensee's
responses to the NRC staff's requests for additional information; (ii)
consultation with Federal, State, Tribal, and local governmental
agencies and consideration of input from other stakeholders; and (iii)
independent environmental review as documented in the draft site-
specific EIS, the NRC staff's preliminary recommendation is that the
adverse environmental impacts of subsequent license renewal for Oconee
Station are not so great that preserving the option of subsequent
license renewal for energy-planning decisionmakers would be
unreasonable.
III. Opportunity To Request a Hearing and Petition for Leave To
Intervene
As the Commission directed in CLI-22-03, a new notice of
opportunity to request a hearing and petition for leave to intervene is
being issued.
Within 60 days after the date of publication of this notice, any
persons (petitioner) whose interest may be affected by this action may
file a request for a hearing and petition for leave to intervene
(petition) with respect to the action. Petitions shall be filed in
accordance with the Commission's ``Agency Rules of Practice and
Procedure'' in 10 CFR part 2. Interested persons should consult 10 CFR
2.309. If a petition is filed, the presiding officer will rule on the
petition and, if appropriate, a notice of a hearing will be issued.
Petitions must be filed no later than 60 days from the date of
publication of this notice in accordance with the filing instructions
in the ``Electronic Submissions (E-Filing)'' section of this document.
Petitions and motions for leave to file new or amended contentions that
are filed after the deadline will not be entertained absent a
determination by the presiding officer that the filing demonstrates
good cause by satisfying the three factors in 10 CFR 2.309(c)(1)(i)
through (iii).
A State, local governmental body, federally recognized Indian
Tribe, or designated agency thereof, may submit a petition to the
Commission to participate as a party under 10 CFR 2.309(h) no later
than 60 days from the date of publication of this notice.
Alternatively, a State, local governmental body, federally recognized
Indian Tribe, or agency thereof may participate as a non-party under 10
CFR 2.315(c).
For information about filing a petition and about participation by
a person not a party under 10 CFR 2.315, see ADAMS Accession No.
ML20340A053 (https://adamswebsearch2.nrc.gov/webSearch2/main.jsp?AccessionNumber=ML20340A053) and on the NRC's public website
at https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/adjudicatory/hearing.html#participate.
IV. Electronic Submissions (E-Filing)
All documents filed in NRC adjudicatory proceedings, including
documents filed by an interested State, local governmental body,
federally recognized Indian Tribe, or designated agency thereof that
requests to participate under 10 CFR 2.315(c), must be filed in
accordance with 10 CFR 2.302. The E-Filing process requires
participants to submit and serve all adjudicatory documents over the
internet, or in some cases, to mail copies on electronic storage media,
unless an exemption permitting an alternative filing method, as further
discussed, is granted. Detailed guidance on electronic submissions is
located in the ``Guidance for Electronic Submissions to the NRC''
(ADAMS Accession No. ML13031A056) and on the NRC's public website at
https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html.
To comply with the procedural requirements of E-Filing, at least 10
days prior to the filing deadline, the participant should contact the
Office of the Secretary by email at [email protected], or by
telephone at 301-415-1677, to (1) request a digital identification (ID)
certificate, which allows the participant (or its counsel or
representative) to digitally sign submissions and access the E-Filing
system for any proceeding in which it is participating; and (2) advise
the Secretary that the participant will be submitting a petition or
other adjudicatory document (even in instances in which the
participant, or its counsel or representative, already holds an NRC-
issued digital ID certificate). Based upon this information, the
Secretary will establish an electronic docket for the proceeding if the
Secretary has not already established an electronic docket.
Information about applying for a digital ID certificate is
available on the NRC's public website at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals/getting-started.html. After a digital ID certificate is
obtained and a docket created, the participant must submit adjudicatory
documents in Portable Document Format. Guidance on submissions is
available on the NRC's public website at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/electronic-sub-ref-mat.html. A filing is considered complete at the
time the document is submitted through the NRC's E-Filing system. To be
timely, an electronic filing must be submitted to the E-Filing system
no later than 11:59 p.m. ET on the due date. Upon receipt of a
transmission, the E-Filing system time-stamps the document and sends
the submitter an email confirming receipt of the document. The E-Filing
system also distributes an email that provides access to the document
to the NRC's Office of the General Counsel and any others who have
advised the Office of the Secretary that they wish to participate in
the proceeding, so that the filer need not serve the document on those
participants separately. Therefore, applicants and other participants
(or their counsel or representative) must apply for and receive a
digital ID certificate before adjudicatory documents are filed to
obtain access to the documents via the E-Filing system.
A person filing electronically using the NRC's adjudicatory E-
Filing system may seek assistance by contacting the NRC's Electronic
Filing Help Desk through the ``Contact Us'' link located on the NRC's
public website at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html, by
email to [email protected], or by a toll-free call at 1-866-672-
7640. The NRC Electronic Filing Help Desk is available between 9 a.m.
and 6 p.m., ET, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Participants who believe that they have good cause for not
submitting documents electronically must file an exemption request, in
accordance with 10 CFR 2.302(g), with their initial paper filing
stating why there is good cause for not filing electronically and
requesting authorization to continue to submit documents in paper
format. Such filings must be submitted in accordance with 10 CFR
2.302(b)-(d). Participants filing adjudicatory documents in this manner
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are responsible for serving their documents on all other participants.
Participants granted an exemption under 10 CFR 2.302(g)(2) must still
meet the electronic formatting requirement in 10 CFR 2.302(g)(1),
unless the participant also seeks and is granted an exemption from 10
CFR 2.302(g)(1).
Documents submitted in adjudicatory proceedings will appear in the
NRC's electronic hearing docket, which is publicly available at https://adams.nrc.gov/ehd, unless excluded pursuant to an order of the
presiding officer. If you do not have an NRC-issued digital ID
certificate as previously described, click ``cancel'' when the link
requests certificates and you will be automatically directed to the
NRC's electronic hearing dockets where you will be able to access any
publicly available documents in a particular hearing docket.
Participants are requested not to include personal privacy information
such as social security numbers, home addresses, or personal phone
numbers in their filings unless an NRC regulation or other law requires
submission of such information. With respect to copyrighted works,
except for limited excerpts that serve the purpose of the adjudicatory
filings and would constitute a Fair Use application, participants
should not include copyrighted materials in their submission.
Detailed information about the subsequent license renewal process
can be found on the NRC's public website, under Reactor License
Renewal, at https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal.html. Materials involving the request to renew the operating
licenses for Oconee Station are available for public inspection at the
NRC's PDR, and at https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/subsequent-license-renewal.html.
Dated: February 8, 2024.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Stephen S. Koenick,
Chief, Environmental Project Management Branch 1, Division of
Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2024-02963 Filed 2-12-24; 8:45 am]
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