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Document description ADAMS accession No. 

Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3 

Docket No. 50–382 

Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3—Request for a One-Time Exemption from 10 CFR part 73, appendix B, 

section VI, subsection C.3.(I)(1) Regarding Annual Force-on-Force Exercises due to COVID–19 Pandemic, 

dated November 12, 2020.

ML20317A301. 

Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3—Exemption from Annual Force-On-Force Exercise Requirement of 10 

CFR part 73, appendix B, ‘‘General Criteria for Security Personnel,’’ subsection VI.C.3.(I)(1) (EPID L–2020–LLE– 

0186 [COVID–19]), dated December 16, 2020.

ML20338A274. 

Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2 

Docket Nos. 50–390 and 50–391 

Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2—Request for Exemption Regarding Calendar Year 2020 Force-on-Force 

Exercise, dated November 4, 2020.

ML20309A695. 

Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2—Exemption from Annual Force-on-Force Exercise Requirement of 10 CFR 

part 73, appendix B, ‘‘General Criteria for Security Personnel,’’ subsection VI C.3(l)(1) (EPID L–2020–LLE–0179 

[COVID–19]), dated December 8, 2020.

ML20318A036. 

Dated: January 13, 2021. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

James G. Danna, 

Chief, Plant Licensing Branch I, Division of 

Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of 

Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

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Tennessee Valley Authority Bellefonte, 

Units 1 and 2 Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Environmental assessment and 

finding of no significant impact; 

issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is considering 

extending the completion dates for 

Construction Permit Nos. CPPR–122 and 

CPPR–123, issued to the Tennessee 

Valley Authority (TVA) for Bellefonte 

Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2 (BLN), 

located on the west shore of the 

Guntersville Reservoir at Tennessee 

River Mile (RM) 392 in Jackson County, 

Alabama. The NRC prepared this 

environmental assessment (EA) 

documenting the environmental review 

and finding of no significant impact 

(FONSI) for this proposed action. 

DATES: The EA and FONSI are available 

January 13, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2020–0273 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–2020–0273. Address 

questions about Docket IDs in 

Regulations.gov to Jennifer Borges; 

telephone: 301–287–9127; email: 

Jennifer.Borges@nrc.gov. For technical 

questions, contact the individuals listed 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this document. 

• NRC’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 or 

301–415–4737, or by email to 

pdr.resource@nrc.gov. For the 

convenience of the reader, the ADAMS 

accession numbers are provided in a 

table in the ‘‘Availability of Documents’’ 

section of this document. 

• Attention: The PDR, where you may 

examine and order copies of public 

documents, is currently closed. You 

may submit your request to the PDR via 

email at pdr.resource@nrc.gov or call 1– 

800–397–4209 or 301–415–4737, 

between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (EST), 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Omid Tabatabai, Office of Nuclear 

Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301– 

415–6616; email: Omid.Tabatabai@

nrc.gov, and Jeffrey Rikhoff, Office of 

Nuclear Materials Safety and 

Safeguards, telephone: 301–415–1090, 

email: Jeffrey.Rikhoff@nrc.gov. Both are 

staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The NRC is considering extending the 

completion dates specified in 

Construction Permit Nos. CPPR–122 and 

CPPR–123, issued to TVA for BLN, 

Units 1 and 2. The Bellefonte site is 

located on the west shore of the 

Guntersville Reservoir at Tennessee RM 

392, near Hollywood, Alabama, in 

Jackson County, about 6 miles eastnortheast of Scottsboro, Alabama. 

As required by section 51.21 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), 

‘‘Criteria for and identification of 

licensing and regulatory actions 

requiring environmental assessments,’’ 

the NRC has conducted an 

environmental review and prepared an 

EA that evaluates the environmental 

effects of extending the construction 

permit completion dates (proposed 

action). Based on the results of the 

environmental review conducted for 

this EA, and in accordance with 10 CFR 

51.31(a), the NRC has determined not to 

prepare an environmental impact 

statement and is issuing a FONSI. 

Facility Site and Environs 

The unfinished two-unit pressurizedwater reactor nuclear power plant is 

situated on a peninsula between Town 

Creek and the Tennessee River at RM 

392 on the west shore of Guntersville 

Reservoir in Jackson County near 

Hollywood, Alabama. Most of the 1,600- 

acre Bellefonte site has been impacted 

by the construction of BLN Unit 1 and 

2. 

The affected environment at the 

Bellefonte site is described in the June 

1974 final environmental statement 

(FES) for the construction of BLN Units 

1 and 2 (FES–CP) prepared by the U.S. 


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Atomic Energy Commission’s (AEC; 

now the NRC); the NRC’s January 2003 

BLN Units 1 and 2 construction permit 

extension EA; and the NRC’s September 

2011 BLN Unit 1 construction permit 

extension EA. Also, TVA has issued 

several EAs that describe the 

environment at the Bellefonte site, 

including a January 2006 final EA and 

a May 2010 final supplemental 

Environmental Impact Statement. 

Environmental conditions at the 

Bellefonte site have not changed 

appreciably from the descriptions 

portrayed in these documents. 

II. Environmental Assessment 

Description of the Proposed Action 

The proposed action would extend 

the construction completion date of the 

BLN Unit 1 construction permit (CPPR– 

122) from October 1, 2020, to October 1, 

2021, and the BLN Unit 2 construction 

permit (CPPR–123) from October 1, 

2014, to October 1, 2021. TVA 

submitted the extension request for Unit 

1 CPPR–122 on August 28, 2020, and 

the extension request for Unit 2 CPPR– 

123 on June 10, 2014, as supplemented 

on March 31, 2017. With respect to both 

construction permits, TVA submitted its 

requests at least 30 days before the 

expiration of the existing permits. 

Therefore, in accordance with 10 CFR 

2.109(a), ‘‘Effect of timely renewal 

application,’’ the existing construction 

permits remain in effect until the NRC 

completes its review of the requests. 

The proposed extensions would not 

allow any work to be performed that is 

not already authorized under the 

existing construction permits; the 

extensions would merely grant the 

permittee additional time to complete 

the construction of both units. 

Need for the Proposed Action 

The proposed action is needed to 

provide time for the continued 

construction of BLN Units 1 and 2. The 

construction permits, both issued 

December 24, 1974, were originally set 

to expire on December 1, 1979 (Unit 1) 

and September 1, 1980 (Unit 2). At the 

request of TVA, the NRC has 

subsequently extended the completion 

dates of both BLN Units 1 and 2 several 

times. The BLN Unit 2 construction 

permit completion date was last 

extended to October 1, 2014. Most 

recently, the NRC extended the BLN 

Unit 1 construction completion date to 

October 1, 2020. In its March 31, 2017 

and August 28, 2020 letters, TVA noted 

that it sold the Bellefonte property at 

auction, the sale of BLN Units 1 and 2 

did not close, and the purchaser filed a 

lawsuit against TVA. TVA stated that an 

extension is needed to allow the parties 

additional time to obtain a decision in 

the lawsuit. 

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed 

Action 

The AEC evaluated the environmental 

impacts from constructing BLN Units 1 

and 2 in the 1974 FES–CP. 

Subsequently, the NRC reevaluated the 

environmental impacts of completing 

the construction of BLN Units 1 and 2 

in several EAs. These include the 

January 2003 and September 2011 

construction permit extension EAs, both 

of which addressed environmental 

impact issues identified after the 

publication of the FES–CP. New issues 

included groundwater quality, public 

services, noise, socioeconomics, severe 

accident mitigation alternatives, cultural 

and historical resources, environmental 

justice, greenhouse gas emissions, and 

cumulative impacts. Additionally, these 

EAs evaluated changes to regional 

demography, natural resource use, 

meteorology, ecology, impacts to 

humans and the environment, severe 

accident mitigation design alternatives, 

and socioeconomic impacts, including 

environmental justice. Based on these 

reviews, NRC staff concluded that there 

were no significant differences in the 

environmental impacts previously 

addressed in the FES–CP. Further, the 

staff also did not identify any significant 

environmental impacts that have not 

already been addressed in the 

construction permit extension EAs. The 

NRC staff determined that the 

environmental impacts associated with 

completing the construction of BLN 

would be generally consistent with the 

impacts disclosed in the FES–CP and 

subsequent construction permit 

extension EAs. Specifically, in the 2011 

EA, the NRC staff concluded that the 

environmental impacts of extending the 

BLN Unit 1 construction permit would 

not be significant, and the completion of 

BLN Unit 1 would not result in any 

disproportionately high and adverse 

human health and environmental effects 

on minority and low-income 

populations and communities residing 

near the Bellefonte site. The staff also 

determined that the environmental 

impacts from completing BLN Unit 1 

would not be significant since the most 

environmentally disruptive construction 

activities have already been completed 

and any remaining construction 

activities would take place within 

completed structures at the Bellefonte 

site. Because of the conclusions reached 

in the January 2003 and September 2011 

EAs, the NRC staff issued FONSIs 

extending the construction permit 

completion dates for both units. 

In addition, extending the BLN Units 

1 and 2 construction permit completion 

dates would have no effect on federally 

listed species or critical habitats 

protected under the Endangered Species 

Act of 1973, as amended, because all 

ground and river disturbances 

associated with construction have long 

since been completed. Federal agencies 

are not required to consult with the U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service or National 

Marine Fisheries Service if they 

determine that an action will not affect 

listed species or critical habitats. Thus, 

the Endangered Species Act does not 

require consultation for the proposed 

action, and the staff considers NRC’s 

Section 7 obligations to be fulfilled. 

Since the proposed action would only 

extend the period of construction 

activities described in the FES–CP and 

subsequent construction permit 

extension EAs, it would not create any 

new or different impacts or significantly 

change the impacts from those 

previously evaluated in these 

environmental documents. The NRC 

concludes that, based on this 

information, extending the construction 

completion date of the BLN Unit 1 

construction permit (CPPR–122) from 

October 1, 2020, to October 1, 2021, and 

the BLN Unit 2 construction permit 

(CPPR–123) from October 1, 2014, to 

October 1, 2021, would have no 

significant environmental impacts. 

Environmental Impacts of the 

Alternatives to the Proposed Action 

As an alternative, the NRC considered 

denying the proposed action (i.e., the 

‘‘no-action’’ alternative). This 

alternative would result in expiration of 

the BLN Units 1 and 2 construction 

permits and, thus, would require the 

submittal of a new construction permit 

application in order to complete the 

nuclear facility with no significant 

environmental benefit. Therefore, the 

environmental impacts of the proposed 

action and the no-action alternative are 

similar. 

Several alternatives to constructing 

and operating BLN Units 1 and 2 were 

considered in the FES–CP, including 

various sources of base load generation 

and alternative plant locations. 

Alternatives considered include not 

requiring new generating capacity and 

combinations of power generation. 

Alternatives that could potentially 

replace new generating capacity include 

power purchases, repowering electrical 

generating plants, and energy 

conservation. Non-nuclear power 

generating alternatives include fossil 

fuel, wind, solar, biomass, and 

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energy profile similar to base load 

operation from BLN Units 1 and 2. 

Storage technology with wind or solar 

technology could augment the 

variability of wind and solar power with 

the dispatchability of fossil generation 

(coal and gas) or biomass generation. 

Alternative Use of Resources 

The proposed action does not involve 

any different environmental resources 

beyond those previously considered in 

the construction permit final 

environmental statement. 

Agencies and Persons Consulted 

The NRC staff did not consult with 

any other Federal agencies or with the 

State of Alabama regarding the 

environmental impacts of the proposed 

action. However, on December 1, 2020, 

the NRC notified the Alabama State 

official, Mr. David A. Turberville, 

Director, Office of Radiation Control of 

Alabama Department of Public Health, 

of the proposed action. Mr. Turberville 

had no comments. 

III. Finding of No Significant Impact 

The TVA has requested the NRC to 

extend the dates for completing the 

construction of BLN Units 1 and 2. The 

NRC is therefore considering extending 

the completion dates of Construction 

Permit Nos. CPPR–122 and CPPR–123, 

issued to TVA for BLN from October 1, 

2020, to October 1, 2021 (Unit 1), and 

CPPR–123 from October 1, 2014, to 

October 1, 2021 (Unit 2). Based on the 

review of available information, the 

NRC determined that the proposed 

action would not affect safety, would 

not have a significant adverse effect on 

the probability of an accident, and 

would not have any significant 

radiological and non-radiological 

environmental impacts beyond what has 

been described in the FES–CP and 

subsequent construction permit 

extension EAs. The NRC also 

considered information provided in the 

licensee’s application and related TVA 

environmental documents. 

Consistent with 10 CFR 51.21, the 

NRC conducted an environmental 

review of the proposed action, and this 

FONSI incorporates Section II of the EA 

by reference in this notice. Therefore, 

the NRC concludes that the proposed 

action will not have a significant effect 

on the quality of the human 

environment. Accordingly, the NRC has 

determined there is no need to prepare 

an environmental impact statement for 

the proposed action. 

This FONSI and other related 

environmental documents are accessible 

online in the ADAMS Public Documents 

collection at https://www.nrc.gov/ 

reading-rm/adams.html. Persons who 

do not have access to ADAMS or who 

encounter problems in accessing the 

documents located in ADAMS should 

contact the NRC’s PDR reference staff by 

telephone at 1–800–397–4209 or 301– 

415–4737, or by email to pdr.resource@

nrc.gov. 

IV. Availability of Documents 

The documents identified in the 

following table are available to 

interested persons through one or more 

of the following methods, as indicated. 

Document ADAMS accession No. 

AEC Final Environmental Statement Related to Construction of Bellefonte Nuclear Plant Units 1 and 2, June 1974 ..... ML100570049 

Letter from NRC to TVA, Regarding Issuance of Construction Permit Nos. CPPR–122 and CPPR-123, December 24, 

1974 ................................................................................................................................................................................. ML111110111 

NRC Generic Letter 87–15, Commission Policy Statement on Deferred Plants, October 7, 1987 ................................... ML20236L426 

NRC Environmental Assessment for Extension of Construction Permits, January 16, 2003 ............................................ ML030170463 

Letter from NRC to TVA, BLN Units 1 and 2—Extension of Construction Permit Expiration Dates, March 4, 2003 ........ ML012290092 

TVA Final Environmental Assessment for Bellefonte Nuclear Plant Redress, January 2006 ............................................ ML061810465 

Letter from NRC to TVA, BLN Units 1 and 2—Order Granting Reinstatement of Construction Permits Nos. CPPR–122 

and CPPR–123, March 9, 2009 ....................................................................................................................................... ML090610237 

TVA Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for Single Nuclear Unit at the Bellefonte Plant Site, May 

2010 ................................................................................................................................................................................. ML102870235 

Letter from NRC to TVA, BLN Units 1 and 2—Regarding Key Assumptions for Reactivation, August 4, 2010 ............... ML101880337 

Letter from TVA to NRC, BLN Unit 1 Request for Extension of Construction Permit CPPR–122, October 8, 2010 ........ ML102870233 

NRC Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact Related to the Request to Extend Construction 

Permit No. CPPR–122, September 9, 2011 .................................................................................................................... ML103630202 

Letter from NRC to TVA, BLN Unit 1—Extension of Construction Permit Expiration Date, September 30, 2011 ............ ML11245A128 

Letter from TVA to NRC, BLN Unit 2—Request for Extension of Construction Permit CPPR–123, June 10, 2014 ......... ML14168A489 

Letter from TVA to NRC, BLN Unit 2—Status Update Regarding Construction Permit CPPR–123, March 31, 2017 ...... ML17090A388 

Letter from ND to NRC, Application for Order Approving Construction Permit Transfers and Conforming Administrative 

Construction Permit Amendments, November 13, 2018 ................................................................................................. ML18318A428 

Letter from NRC to TVA, BLN Units 1 and 2—Status Update and Request for Extension of Unit 1 Construction Permit 

CPPR–122, August 28, 2020 ........................................................................................................................................... ML20244A305 

Dated: January 13, 2021. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Michael I. Dudek, 

Chief, New Reactor Licensing Branch, 

Division of New and Renewed Licenses, Office 

of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

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Sunshine Act Meetings 

TIME AND DATE: Weeks of January 11, 18, 

25, February 1, 8, 15, 22, 2021. 

PLACE: Commissioners’ Conference 

Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland. 

STATUS: Public. 

Week of January 11, 2021 

Friday, January 15, 2021 

10:00 a.m. Affirmation Session (Public 

Meeting) (Tentative) 

a. Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. 

(Indian Point Nuclear Generating 

Station Units 1, 2, and 3 and ISFSI), 

Memorandum and Order Ruling on 

Petitions to Intervene (Tentative) 

b. FirstEnergy Companies and TMI–2 

Solutions, LLC (Three Mile Island 

Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2), 

Petition to Intervene in License 

Transfer Proceeding (Tentative) 

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