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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 designated 

agency thereof may participate as a nonparty 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=ML203

40A053) and on the NRC’s public 

website at https://www.nrc.gov/aboutnrc/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 

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 

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 docket 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. 

Dated: September 26, 2024. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Randolph W. Von Till, 

Chief, Uranium Recovery and Materials 

Decommissioning Branch, Division of 

Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery, and 

Waste Programs, Office of Nuclear Material 

Safety and Safeguards. 

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[Docket No. 50–395; NRC–2023–0152] 

Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc.; 

Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station, Unit 

No. 1; Notice of Intent To Prepare 

Environmental Impact Statement 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) will prepare a 

supplemental environmental impact 

statement (SEIS) 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 No. 1 (V.C. Summer). 

DATES: October 1, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: 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 

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• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

https://www.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. 

• 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, 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. 

• 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. eastern 

time (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 West 

Washington St., Winnsboro, SC 29180. 

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: 

I. Background 

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, 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 renewed 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 to midnight on August 6, 

2062. 

On November 3, 2023, the NRC 

published a notice of intent to conduct 

a scoping process and prepare a sitespecific environmental impact 

statement (EIS) (88 FR 75627). 

Consistent with Commission Legal 

Issuance (CLI)–22–03, the SLR 

application contained an ER in which 

the impacts of all environmental issues 

were evaluated on a site-specific basis, 

and the NRC staff initiated a review to 

address the impacts for all such issues 

during the SLR period in a site-specific 

EIS. The NRC staff stated in the original 

notice of intent that it would first 

conduct a scoping process for the sitespecific EIS and then prepare a draft 

site-specific EIS for public comment. 

During the 30-day scoping period, the 

NRC received comments through 

written correspondence and two public 

meetings. 

II. Discussion 

On August 6, 2024, the NRC 

published a final rule in the Federal 

Register (89 FR 64166) revising its 

environmental protection regulations in 

10 CFR part 51, ‘‘Environmental 

protection regulations for domestic 

licensing and related regulatory 

functions.’’ The final rule updates the 

potential environmental impacts 

associated with the renewal of an 

operating license for a nuclear power 

plant for up to an additional 20 years for 

either an initial license renewal or one 

period of SLR. Revision 2 to NUREG– 

1437, ‘‘Generic Environmental Impact 

Statement for License Renewal of 

Nuclear Plants’’ (LR GEIS) (ADAMS 

Package Accession No. ML24087A133) 

provides the technical basis for the final 

rule. The revised LR GEIS supports the 

updated list of environmental issues 

and associated environmental impact 

findings contained in table B–1 in 

appendix B to subpart A of the revised 

10 CFR part 51 for both initial license 

renewals and one period of SLR. 

The final rule became effective on 

September 5, 2024, 30 days after its 

publication in the Federal Register, and 

staff must now consider the new and 

modified issues, as applicable, in its 

license renewal EISs. Accordingly, the 

NRC staff intends to prepare a plantspecific supplement to the LR GEIS for 

the V.C. Summer SLR application. In 

contrast to the previously planned sitespecific EIS, the SEIS will rely on the 

LR GEIS determinations for Category 1 

(generic) issues that apply to all or a 

distinct subset of nuclear power plants. 

Site-specific information will be 

considered only on Category 2 (sitespecific) issues and will be screened for 

new and significant information on 

Category 1 issues. 

The NRC staff has determined that the 

original scoping period conducted for a 

site-specific EIS review is sufficient to 

include any comments that would have 

been submitted for a SEIS that relies on 

site-specific determinations for Category 

2 issues and on the LR GEIS generic 

determinations for Category 1 issues; 

therefore, an additional scoping period 

will not be conducted. All information 

submitted during the 30-day scoping 

period that began November 3, 2023, 

will be considered and evaluated as 

appropriate during the development of 

the staff’s SEIS for the V.C. Summer 

SLR. When issued, the draft SEIS will 

be made available for public comment 

in accordance with 10 CFR 51.73. 

Dated: September 26, 2024. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Stephen Koenick, 

Chief, Environmental Project Management 

Branch 1, Division of Rulemaking, 

Environment, and Financial Support, Office 

of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. 

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[NRC–2024–0171] 

Performance Review Boards for Senior 

Executive Service 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Appointments. 

SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) has announced 

appointments to the NRC Performance 

Review Board (PRB) that is responsible 

for making recommendations on 

performance appraisal ratings and 

performance awards for NRC Senior 

Executives and Senior Level System 

employees and appointments to the 

NRC PRB Panel responsible for making 

recommendations to the appointing and 

awarding authorities for NRC PRB 

members. 

DATES: October 1, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2024–0171 when contacting the 

NRC about the availability of 

information regarding this document. 

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