[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 191 (Wednesday, October 2, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 80269-80270]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-22710]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-237 and 50-249; NRC-2020-0277]


NextEra Energy Point Beach, LLC; Point Beach Nuclear Plant, Units 
1 and 2; Notice of Intent To Prepare Supplement to the Supplemental 
Environmental Impact Statement

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff will 
prepare a supplement to the 2021 draft Supplemental Environmental 
Impact Statement (SEIS) to evaluate the environmental impacts for the 
subsequent license renewal (SLR) of Renewed Facility Operating License 
Nos. DPR-24 and DPR-27 for Point Beach Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2 
(Point Beach). The NRC staff will address new information following the 
issuance of the 2021 draft SEIS. The draft SEIS supplement will be 
issued for public comment.

DATES: October 2, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2020-0277 when contacting the 
NRC about the availability of information for this action. You may 
obtain publicly available information related to this action by any of 
the following methods:
    <bullet> Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2020-0277.
    <bullet> 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 <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#623226304c3007110d17100107220c10014c050d14"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="97c7d3c5b9c5f2e4f8e2e5f4f2d7f9e5f4b9f0f8e1">[email protected]</span></a>. 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.
    <bullet> 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 
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e0b0a4b2ceb285938f95928385a08e9283ce878f96"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="247460760a7641574b51564741644a56470a434b52">[email protected]</span></a> 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.
    <bullet> Public Library: A copy of the SLR application for Point 
Beach, including the applicant's environmental report, will be 
available for public review at the following public library location: 
Lester Public Library, 1001 Adams Street, Two Rivers, WI 54241.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kevin Folk, telephone: 301-415-6944; 
email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#672c02110e094921080b0c2709150449000811"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b5fed0c3dcdb9bf3dad9def5dbc7d69bd2dac3">[email protected]</span></a>; or Karen Loomis, telephone: 301-415-5142; 
email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a0ebc1d2c5ce8eeccfcfcdc9d3e0ced2c38ec7cfd6"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="87cce6f5e2e9a9cbe8e8eaeef4c7e9f5e4a9e0e8f1">[email protected]</span></a>. Both are staff in the Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    By letter dated November 16, 2020 (ADAMS Package Accession No. 
ML20329A292), NextEra submitted to the NRC an application for the SLR 
of Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-24 and DPR-27 for Point 
Beach Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2, respectively, for an additional 20 
years of operation. This submission initiated the NRC's proposed action 
of determining whether to issue the subsequent renewed facility 
operating licenses. Point Beach is located in northeastern Manitowoc 
County, Wisconsin, approximately 29 miles southeast of Green Bay, 
Wisconsin.
    The current facility operating license for Point Beach, Unit 1, 
expires at midnight on October 5, 2030, and the current facility 
operating license for Point Beach, Unit 2 expires at midnight on March 
8, 2033.
    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 included an 
environmental report. The applicant seeks to extend the facility 
operating license for Unit 1 to midnight on October 5, 2050, and for 
Unit 2 to midnight on March 8, 2053. A notice of acceptance for 
docketing of the application and of an opportunity to request a hearing 
was published in the Federal Register on January 22, 2021 (86 FR 6684). 
Thereafter, a notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact 
statement and conduct a scoping process was published in the Federal 
Register on February 1, 2021 (86 FR 7747) and is available on the 
Federal rulemaking website (https://www.regulations.gov) by searching 
for Docket ID NRC-2020-0277.
    On November 9, 2021, a notice was published in the Federal Register 
(86 FR 62220), stating that the NRC staff had issued its draft SEIS, 
documenting its

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preliminary analysis and recommendation on the proposed action 
(subsequent license renewal) for Point Beach. The draft SEIS is 
available in ADAMS under Package Accession No. ML21306A226.

II. Discussion

    On August 6, 2024, the NRC published a final rule (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 a single SLR term. 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 renewal and a single term of SLR.
    The final rule became effective 30 days after its publication in 
the Federal Register, and the NRC staff must consider the new and 
modified issues, as applicable, in its license renewal EISs after that 
date (i.e., on or after September 5, 2024). Accordingly, the NRC staff 
will prepare a supplement to the 2021 draft SEIS for the Point Beach 
SLR application in accordance with the NRC's regulations in 10 CFR 
51.72, to address new information since the draft SEIS was published. 
This new information includes the new and modified environmental issues 
associated with the NRC's August 2024 publication of the final rule, 
``Renewing Nuclear Power Plant Operating Licenses--Environmental 
Review'' (89 FR 64166) and revised LR GEIS (NUREG-1437, Revision 2).

    Dated: September 27, 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.
[FR Doc. 2024-22710 Filed 10-1-24; 8:45 am]
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