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and provide the facility name, docket
number, document description,
document date, and ADAMS accession
number for each exemption issued.
Additional details on each exemption
issued, including the exemption request
submitted by the respective licensee and
the NRC’s decision, are provided in
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TMI–2 SOLUTIONS; THREE MILE ISLAND NUCLEAR STATION, UNIT 2; DOCKET NO. 50–320
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Document description
TMI–2 Solutions [Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 2]—Request for Exemption from Enhanced Weapons, Firearms Background Checks, and Security
Event Notifications Implementation.
TMI–2 Solutions [Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 2], Supplement to Request for Exemption from Enhanced Weapons, Firearms Background Checks,
and Security Event Notifications Implementation.
Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 2—Exemption from Select Requirements
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Document date
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December 20, 2023.
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April 18, 2024.
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June 13, 2024.
CONSTELLATION ENERGY GENERATION, LLC; ZION NUCLEAR POWER STATION, UNITS 1 AND 2 INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL
STORAGE INSTALLATION; DOCKET NOS. 50–295, 50–304, 72–1037
ADAMS
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Constellation Energy Generation, LLC [Zion Nuclear Power Station, Units 1 and 2
Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation]—Request for Exemption from Enhanced Weapons, Firearms Background Checks, and Security Event Notifications Implementation.
Zion Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation—Exemption from Select Requirements of 10 CFR part 73.
Dated: July 12, 2024.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Yoira Diaz-Sanabria,
Chief, Storage and Transportation Licensing
Branch, Division of Fuel Management, Office
of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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Accelerated Decommissioning
Partners Crystal River Unit 3, LLC;
Crystal River Nuclear Power Station,
Unit 3; Environmental Assessment and
Finding of No Significant Impact
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is issuing a finding
of no significant impact (FONSI) and
accompanying environmental
assessment (EA) regarding the NRC’s
consideration of a license amendment
request by Accelerated
Decommissioning Partners Crystal River
Unit 3, LLC (ADP) to approve the
License Termination Plan (LTP) for the
Crystal River Nuclear Power Station,
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Unit 3 (CR3), located in Citrus County,
Florida. If approved, the amendment
would add a license condition to the
ADP license reflecting the NRC’s
approval of its LTP and establishing
criteria for determining when changes to
the LTP require prior NRC approval.
ADP would use the LTP to meet the
requirements for terminating the license
and releasing the site for unrestricted
use. Based on the EA, the NRC staff has
concluded that there will be no
significant impacts to environmental
resources from the requested license
amendment, and therefore, a FONSI is
appropriate.
The EA and FONSI referenced in
this document are available on July 17,
2024.
DATES:
Please refer to Docket ID
NRC–2024–0124 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of
information regarding this document.
You may obtain publicly available
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• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
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questions about Docket IDs in
Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 301–415–0624; email:
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The NRC is considering issuance of a
license amendment request to approve
the LTP for the CR3, located in Citrus
County, Florida, as part of ADP’s part 50
of title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR), ‘‘Domestic
Licensing of Production and Utilization
Facilities,’’ Facility Operating License
No. DPR–72. If granted, the license
amendment would add a condition to
ADP’s license reflecting the NRC’s
approval of ADP’s LTP and establishing
criteria for determining when changes to
the LTP require prior NRC approval. As
required by 10 CFR part 51,
‘‘Environmental Protection Regulations
for Domestic Licensing and Related
Regulatory Functions,’’ the NRC
prepared an EA. Based on the results of
the EA, the NRC has determined not to
prepare an environmental impact
statement for the license amendment
request and is issuing a FONSI.
Construction of the CR3 began in
1968, and the NRC issued an operating
license to Duke Energy Florida (DEF) in
1977. The CR3 began commercial
operation in March 1977. The CR3
stopped operations in 2009 and was
officially retired on February 5, 2013.
On December 2, 2013, DEF submitted
a Post-Shutdown Decommissioning
Activities Report (PSDAR) to NRC
selecting SAFSTOR as the plant
decommissioning strategy. SAFSTOR is
a method of decommissioning in which
the nuclear facility is placed and
maintained in a safe stable condition for
a number of years until it is
subsequently decontaminated and
dismantled to levels that permit license
termination. During SAFSTOR, a facility
is left intact, but the fuel has been
removed from the reactor vessel and
radioactive liquids have been drained
from systems and components and then
processed. Radioactive decay occurs
during SAFSTOR period, thus reducing
the quantity of contaminated and
radioactive material that must be
disposed of during decontamination and
dismantlement. In January 2018, DEF
certified to the NRC that DEF had
removed all spent fuel assemblies from
the CR3 spent fuel pool and loaded the
final storage cask used to store spent
fuel at the CR3 Independent Spent Fuel
Storage Installation.
In 2020, the NRC approved the
requested transfer of the CR3 from DEF
to ADP to commence decontamination,
dismantlement, and demolition. On
October 1, 2020, ADP updated the
PSDAR to change the plant
decommissioning strategy from
SAFSTOR to DECON, which is an
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option for reactor decommissioning in
which the equipment, structures, and
portions of a facility and site containing
radioactive contaminants are removed
or decontaminated to a level that
permits termination of the license
shortly after cessation of operations.
ADP submitted the LTP on December
12, 2022, in accordance with 10 CFR
50.82(a)(9), and submitted an updated
LTP on March 29, 2024.
II. Environmental Assessment
Description of the Proposed Action
The proposed action is the review and
subsequent approval, if appropriate, of a
license amendment to ADP to approve
the LTP for the CR3. If approved, the
amendment would add a license
condition to the ADP license reflecting
the NRC’s approval of the LTP and
establishing criteria for determining
when changes to the LTP require prior
NRC approval. The proposed action is
described in ADP’s 2022 LTP
application, as supplemented by the
updated 2024 LTP, and responses to
requests for additional information
dated May 9, 2024.
Purpose and Need for the Proposed
Action
The purpose of and need for the
proposed action is to allow completion
of decommissioning of the CR3 site by
ADP, termination of the CR3 operating
license by the NRC, and subsequent
release of the site for unrestricted use.
The NRC regulation at 10 CFR 50.82 sets
forth the process for the licensee to
decommission its nuclear power plant,
including submission of the LTP. The
NRC will approve the LTP, provided
that the LTP meets the criteria in 10
CFR 50.82(a)(10).
Environmental Impacts of the Proposed
Action
The NRC staff considered the
potential impacts of the proposed action
on land use; visual and scenic
resources/aesthetics; climatology,
meteorology, and air quality; noise;
geology and soils; water resources;
historic and cultural resources;
ecological resources; socioeconomics;
public and occupation health;
transportation and traffic;
environmental justice; and waste
management. The Decommissioning
Generic Environmental Impact
Statement (GEIS) (NUREG–0586,
Supplement 1, Volume 1) generically
addressed many of the potential
environmental impacts of
decommissioning at the CR3. During its
review of the LTP, the NRC concluded
that the impacts for most resource
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areas—onsite land use; water resources;
air quality; ecology, not including
threatened and endangered species or
outside the operational area;
socioeconomics; historic and cultural
resources within the operational area;
aesthetics; noise; and transportation—
were still bounded by the
Decommissioning GEIS. Therefore, the
NRC does not expect impacts associated
with these issues beyond those
discussed in the GEIS, which concluded
that the impact level for these issues
was SMALL.
Although the Decommissioning GEIS
did evaluate radioactive waste
management, the NRC staff determined
that the GEIS had underestimated the
volume of low-level radioactive waste
that the CR3 would produce.
Consequently, the NRC staff determined
the effects of the proposed action of
radioactive waste management for CR3
on a site-specific basis.
In the Decommissioning GEIS, the
NRC staff concluded that it could not
necessarily determine the
environmental impacts of
decommissioning generically for six
environmental resource areas (offsite
land use, threatened and endangered
species, aquatic ecology beyond the
operational area, terrestrial ecology
beyond the operational area,
environmental justice, and historic and
cultural resources beyond the
operational area). The Decommissioning
GEIS determined that for these six
resource areas a site-specific analysis
would be required as was done in the
CR3 EA. In addition, topics not
included in the Decommissioning GEIS
that the NRC staff evaluated in the CR3
EA include the affected environment,
climate change, cumulative impacts,
and nonradioactive waste management.
In the CR3 EA, the NRC staff
evaluated the potential environmental
impacts on the six site-specific
environmental resource areas as well as
the four resource areas not evaluated in
the Decommissioning GEIS and did not
identify any significant impacts. For the
proposed action there are no planned
activities outside of the operational area,
and ADP plans to use best management
practices and obtain all necessary
licenses from Federal or State agencies
to limit potential impacts and protect
surrounding lands. Therefore, the
proposed action would result in no
significant impacts and there would be
no significant cumulative effects when
added to the past, present, or reasonably
foreseeable future actions at the CR3
site.
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Environmental Impacts of the
Alternatives to the Proposed Action
As an alternative to the proposed
action, the staff considered the ‘‘noaction’’ alternative. Under the no-action
alternative, the NRC would not approve
the LTP or the license amendment
request because regulatory requirements
have not been met.
If the NRC was unable to approve the
LTP because the regulatory
requirements were not met, ADP would
need to take additional actions to
prepare an LTP that meets the
requirements in 10 CFR 50.82(a)(10).
Under that scenario, ADP would
resubmit the LTP, activities at the CR3
would likely continue, and the
environmental impacts would not
change as a result of the additional time
required for the LTP resubmission.
Agencies and Persons Consulted
On May 20, 2024, the NRC staff
provided a copy of the draft EA to the
Florida Department of Health for its
review and comment. In a letter dated
June 7, 2024, the State responded with
no comments on the draft EA.
NRC staff conducted National Historic
Preservation Act consultation pursuant
to 36 CFR 800.8(c), including submitting
required notification to the Florida State
Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO)
and Advisory Council on Historic
Preservation (ACHP). The NRC staff
solicited comments from the public on
the historic and cultural resources
sections of the draft EA and findings.
Staff published the draft sections on the
NRC website and electronically notified
the four Federally recognized Indian
Tribes with historic and ancestral ties to
the project vicinity, the Florida SHPO,
and members of the public who have
indicated their interest in the CR3. No
members of the public commented on
the historic and cultural resources
sections of the draft EA and findings.
The NRC staff received a response from
the Seminole Tribe of Florida indicating
that the Tribe had no objections or other
comments. The NRC staff did not
receive a response from the other Indian
Tribes it contacted. Staff made a
determination of no historic properties
affected and has received SHPO
concurrence and no objections from
other parties. The Florida SHPO
responded on May 20, 2024, with its
concurrence with NRC staff’s
determination. The ACHP responded on
May 20, 2024, confirming receipt of
NRC’s notification pursuant to 36 CFR
800.8(c).
III. Finding of No Significant Impact
Based on its review of the proposed
license amendment request, in
accordance with the requirements of 10
CFR part 51, the NRC staff has
determined that issuing the requested
amendment, if appropriate, amending
ADP’s DPR–72 license would not
significantly affect the quality of human
environment. No significant radiological
or non-radiological impacts are
expected from the proposed action.
Therefore, the NRC staff has determined
that pursuant to 10 CFR 51.31,
‘‘Determinations based on
environmental assessment,’’ preparation
of an EIS is not required for the
proposed action, and pursuant to 10
CFR 51.32, ‘‘Finding of no significant
impact,’’ a FONSI is appropriate. In
accordance with 10 CFR 51.32(a)(4), this
FONSI incorporates the EA set forth in
this notice by reference.
IV. Availability of Documents
The documents identified in the
following table are available to
interested persons through ADAMS.
ADAMS accession
No.
Document description
ADP CR3, LLC, License Amendment Request, Addition of License Condition 2.C.21, ‘‘License Termination Plan,’’ dated December 12, 2022 ........................................................................................................................................................................
ADP CR3, LLC, Response to Request for Additional Information Regarding the LTP, dated March 29, 2024 ..........................
ADP CR3, LLC, Response to Request for Additional Information for the EA of the LTP, dated May 9, 2024 ...........................
Crystal River LTP Environmental Assessment .............................................................................................................................
NUREG–0586, Supplement 1, Volume 1 GEIS on Decommissioning Nuclear Facilities ............................................................
Crystal River Unit 3—Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report, dated December 2, 2013 ........................................
Crystal River Unit 3—30-Day Spent Fuel Cask Registration and Certification of Permanent Removal of All Spent Fuel Assemblies from the Spent Fuel Pools, dated January 15, 2018 .................................................................................................
Transmittal of Draft EA to Florida Department of Health, dated May 20, 2024 ...........................................................................
Florida Department of Health Comments on Draft EA, dated June 7, 2024 ................................................................................
Request to initiate Section 106 Consultation Regarding the License Termination Plan for Crystal River, Unit 3, April 2, 2024
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Florida SHPO Response to initiate Section 106 Consultation Regarding the License Termination Plan for Crystal River, Unit
3, dated May 20, 2024 ...............................................................................................................................................................
ACHP Response to initiate Section 106 Consultation Regarding the License Termination Plan for Crystal River, Unit 3,
dated May 20, 2024 ...................................................................................................................................................................
NRC Request for Concurrence with Endangered Species Act Determinations for Crystal River Unit 3 Nuclear Generating
Plant License Termination Plan, dated February 29, 2024 .......................................................................................................
Supplemental to Request for Concurrence with Endangered Species Act Determinations for Crystal River Unit 3 Nuclear
Generating Plant License Termination Plan, dated June 18, 2024 ..........................................................................................
RAI2 NRC Response to FWS ESA Crystal River Unit 3 LTP, dated July 3, 2024 ......................................................................
FWS Concurrence for Crystal River Unit 3 ...................................................................................................................................
Dated: July 12, 2024.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Christopher M. Regan,
Director, Division of Rulemaking,
Environmental, and Financial Support, Office
of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-302 and 72-1035; NRC-2024-0124]
Accelerated Decommissioning Partners Crystal River Unit 3, LLC;
Crystal River Nuclear Power Station, Unit 3; Environmental Assessment
and Finding of No Significant Impact
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a
finding of no significant impact (FONSI) and accompanying environmental
assessment (EA) regarding the NRC's consideration of a license
amendment request by Accelerated Decommissioning Partners Crystal River
Unit 3, LLC (ADP) to approve the License Termination Plan (LTP) for the
Crystal River Nuclear Power Station, Unit 3 (CR3), located in Citrus
County, Florida. If approved, the amendment would add a license
condition to the ADP license reflecting the NRC's approval of its LTP
and establishing criteria for determining when changes to the LTP
require prior NRC approval. ADP would use the LTP to meet the
requirements for terminating the license and releasing the site for
unrestricted use. Based on the EA, the NRC staff has concluded that
there will be no significant impacts to environmental resources from
the requested license amendment, and therefore, a FONSI is appropriate.
DATES: The EA and FONSI referenced in this document are available on
July 17, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2024-0124 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You
may obtain publicly available information related to this document
using any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2024-0124. 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.
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]. For the convenience of the reader,
instructions about obtaining materials referenced in this document are
provided in the ``Availability of Documents'' section.
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. eastern time (ET), Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Amy Minor, Office of Nuclear Material
Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001, telephone: 816-200-1454; email: [email protected].
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The NRC is considering issuance of a license amendment request to
approve the LTP for the CR3, located in Citrus County, Florida, as part
of ADP's part 50 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10
CFR), ``Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities,''
Facility Operating License No. DPR-72. If granted, the license
amendment would add a condition to ADP's license reflecting the NRC's
approval of ADP's LTP and establishing criteria for determining when
changes to the LTP require prior NRC approval. As required by 10 CFR
part 51, ``Environmental Protection Regulations for Domestic Licensing
and Related Regulatory Functions,'' the NRC prepared an EA. Based on
the results of the EA, the NRC has determined not to prepare an
environmental impact statement for the license amendment request and is
issuing a FONSI.
Construction of the CR3 began in 1968, and the NRC issued an
operating license to Duke Energy Florida (DEF) in 1977. The CR3 began
commercial operation in March 1977. The CR3 stopped operations in 2009
and was officially retired on February 5, 2013.
On December 2, 2013, DEF submitted a Post-Shutdown Decommissioning
Activities Report (PSDAR) to NRC selecting SAFSTOR as the plant
decommissioning strategy. SAFSTOR is a method of decommissioning in
which the nuclear facility is placed and maintained in a safe stable
condition for a number of years until it is subsequently decontaminated
and dismantled to levels that permit license termination. During
SAFSTOR, a facility is left intact, but the fuel has been removed from
the reactor vessel and radioactive liquids have been drained from
systems and components and then processed. Radioactive decay occurs
during SAFSTOR period, thus reducing the quantity of contaminated and
radioactive material that must be disposed of during decontamination
and dismantlement. In January 2018, DEF certified to the NRC that DEF
had removed all spent fuel assemblies from the CR3 spent fuel pool and
loaded the final storage cask used to store spent fuel at the CR3
Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation.
In 2020, the NRC approved the requested transfer of the CR3 from
DEF to ADP to commence decontamination, dismantlement, and demolition.
On October 1, 2020, ADP updated the PSDAR to change the plant
decommissioning strategy from SAFSTOR to DECON, which is an option for
reactor decommissioning in which the equipment, structures, and
portions of a facility and site containing radioactive contaminants are
removed or decontaminated to a level that permits termination of the
license shortly after cessation of operations. ADP submitted the LTP on
December 12, 2022, in accordance with 10 CFR 50.82(a)(9), and submitted
an updated LTP on March 29, 2024.
II. Environmental Assessment
Description of the Proposed Action
The proposed action is the review and subsequent approval, if
appropriate, of a license amendment to ADP to approve the LTP for the
CR3. If approved, the amendment would add a license condition to the
ADP license reflecting the NRC's approval of the LTP and establishing
criteria for determining when changes to the LTP require prior NRC
approval. The proposed action is described in ADP's 2022 LTP
application, as supplemented by the updated 2024 LTP, and responses to
requests for additional information dated May 9, 2024.
Purpose and Need for the Proposed Action
The purpose of and need for the proposed action is to allow
completion of decommissioning of the CR3 site by ADP, termination of
the CR3 operating license by the NRC, and subsequent release of the
site for unrestricted use. The NRC regulation at 10 CFR 50.82 sets
forth the process for the licensee to decommission its nuclear power
plant, including submission of the LTP. The NRC will approve the LTP,
provided that the LTP meets the criteria in 10 CFR 50.82(a)(10).
Environmental Impacts of the Proposed Action
The NRC staff considered the potential impacts of the proposed
action on land use; visual and scenic resources/aesthetics;
climatology, meteorology, and air quality; noise; geology and soils;
water resources; historic and cultural resources; ecological resources;
socioeconomics; public and occupation health; transportation and
traffic; environmental justice; and waste management. The
Decommissioning Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) (NUREG-
0586, Supplement 1, Volume 1) generically addressed many of the
potential environmental impacts of decommissioning at the CR3. During
its review of the LTP, the NRC concluded that the impacts for most
resource areas--onsite land use; water resources; air quality; ecology,
not including threatened and endangered species or outside the
operational area; socioeconomics; historic and cultural resources
within the operational area; aesthetics; noise; and transportation--
were still bounded by the Decommissioning GEIS. Therefore, the NRC does
not expect impacts associated with these issues beyond those discussed
in the GEIS, which concluded that the impact level for these issues was
SMALL.
Although the Decommissioning GEIS did evaluate radioactive waste
management, the NRC staff determined that the GEIS had underestimated
the volume of low-level radioactive waste that the CR3 would produce.
Consequently, the NRC staff determined the effects of the proposed
action of radioactive waste management for CR3 on a site-specific
basis.
In the Decommissioning GEIS, the NRC staff concluded that it could
not necessarily determine the environmental impacts of decommissioning
generically for six environmental resource areas (offsite land use,
threatened and endangered species, aquatic ecology beyond the
operational area, terrestrial ecology beyond the operational area,
environmental justice, and historic and cultural resources beyond the
operational area). The Decommissioning GEIS determined that for these
six resource areas a site-specific analysis would be required as was
done in the CR3 EA. In addition, topics not included in the
Decommissioning GEIS that the NRC staff evaluated in the CR3 EA include
the affected environment, climate change, cumulative impacts, and
nonradioactive waste management.
In the CR3 EA, the NRC staff evaluated the potential environmental
impacts on the six site-specific environmental resource areas as well
as the four resource areas not evaluated in the Decommissioning GEIS
and did not identify any significant impacts. For the proposed action
there are no planned activities outside of the operational area, and
ADP plans to use best management practices and obtain all necessary
licenses from Federal or State agencies to limit potential impacts and
protect surrounding lands. Therefore, the proposed action would result
in no significant impacts and there would be no significant cumulative
effects when added to the past, present, or reasonably foreseeable
future actions at the CR3 site.
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Environmental Impacts of the Alternatives to the Proposed Action
As an alternative to the proposed action, the staff considered the
``no-action'' alternative. Under the no-action alternative, the NRC
would not approve the LTP or the license amendment request because
regulatory requirements have not been met.
If the NRC was unable to approve the LTP because the regulatory
requirements were not met, ADP would need to take additional actions to
prepare an LTP that meets the requirements in 10 CFR 50.82(a)(10).
Under that scenario, ADP would resubmit the LTP, activities at the CR3
would likely continue, and the environmental impacts would not change
as a result of the additional time required for the LTP resubmission.
Agencies and Persons Consulted
On May 20, 2024, the NRC staff provided a copy of the draft EA to
the Florida Department of Health for its review and comment. In a
letter dated June 7, 2024, the State responded with no comments on the
draft EA.
NRC staff conducted National Historic Preservation Act consultation
pursuant to 36 CFR 800.8(c), including submitting required notification
to the Florida State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) and Advisory
Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP). The NRC staff solicited
comments from the public on the historic and cultural resources
sections of the draft EA and findings. Staff published the draft
sections on the NRC website and electronically notified the four
Federally recognized Indian Tribes with historic and ancestral ties to
the project vicinity, the Florida SHPO, and members of the public who
have indicated their interest in the CR3. No members of the public
commented on the historic and cultural resources sections of the draft
EA and findings. The NRC staff received a response from the Seminole
Tribe of Florida indicating that the Tribe had no objections or other
comments. The NRC staff did not receive a response from the other
Indian Tribes it contacted. Staff made a determination of no historic
properties affected and has received SHPO concurrence and no objections
from other parties. The Florida SHPO responded on May 20, 2024, with
its concurrence with NRC staff's determination. The ACHP responded on
May 20, 2024, confirming receipt of NRC's notification pursuant to 36
CFR 800.8(c).
III. Finding of No Significant Impact
Based on its review of the proposed license amendment request, in
accordance with the requirements of 10 CFR part 51, the NRC staff has
determined that issuing the requested amendment, if appropriate,
amending ADP's DPR-72 license would not significantly affect the
quality of human environment. No significant radiological or non-
radiological impacts are expected from the proposed action. Therefore,
the NRC staff has determined that pursuant to 10 CFR 51.31,
``Determinations based on environmental assessment,'' preparation of an
EIS is not required for the proposed action, and pursuant to 10 CFR
51.32, ``Finding of no significant impact,'' a FONSI is appropriate. In
accordance with 10 CFR 51.32(a)(4), this FONSI incorporates the EA set
forth in this notice by reference.
IV. Availability of Documents
The documents identified in the following table are available to
interested persons through ADAMS.
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ADAMS accession
Document description No.
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ADP CR3, LLC, License Amendment Request, Addition of ML22355A441.
License Condition 2.C.21, ``License Termination
Plan,'' dated December 12, 2022.....................
ADP CR3, LLC, Response to Request for Additional ML24089A036.
Information Regarding the LTP, dated March 29, 2024.
ADP CR3, LLC, Response to Request for Additional ML24131A075.
Information for the EA of the LTP, dated May 9, 2024
Crystal River LTP Environmental Assessment........... ML24081A068.
NUREG-0586, Supplement 1, Volume 1 GEIS on ML023470304.
Decommissioning Nuclear Facilities..................
Crystal River Unit 3--Post-Shutdown Decommissioning ML13340A009.
Activities Report, dated December 2, 2013...........
Crystal River Unit 3--30-Day Spent Fuel Cask ML18015A006.
Registration and Certification of Permanent Removal
of All Spent Fuel Assemblies from the Spent Fuel
Pools, dated January 15, 2018.......................
Transmittal of Draft EA to Florida Department of ML24143A024.
Health, dated May 20, 2024..........................
Florida Department of Health Comments on Draft EA, ML24159A779.
dated June 7, 2024..................................
Request to initiate Section 106 Consultation ML24054A076
Regarding the License Termination Plan for Crystal (Package).
River, Unit 3, April 2, 2024........................
Florida SHPO Response to initiate Section 106 ML24143A021.
Consultation Regarding the License Termination Plan
for Crystal River, Unit 3, dated May 20, 2024.......
ACHP Response to initiate Section 106 Consultation ML24143A013.
Regarding the License Termination Plan for Crystal
River, Unit 3, dated May 20, 2024...................
NRC Request for Concurrence with Endangered Species ML24060A086.
Act Determinations for Crystal River Unit 3 Nuclear
Generating Plant License Termination Plan, dated
February 29, 2024...................................
Supplemental to Request for Concurrence with ML24190A138.
Endangered Species Act Determinations for Crystal
River Unit 3 Nuclear Generating Plant License
Termination Plan, dated June 18, 2024...............
RAI2 NRC Response to FWS ESA Crystal River Unit 3 ML24191A423.
LTP, dated July 3, 2024.............................
FWS Concurrence for Crystal River Unit 3............. ML24190A191.
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Dated: July 12, 2024.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Christopher M. Regan,
Director, Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support,
Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2024-15712 Filed 7-16-24; 8:45 am]
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