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issues of genuine concern. The principal 

goals of the scoping process are to: 

• Ensure that important issues and 

concerns are identified early and are 

properly studied; 

• Identify alternatives to be 

examined; 

• Identify significant issues to be 

analyzed; 

• Eliminate unimportant issues from 

detailed consideration; and 

• Identify public concerns. 

In addition to submission of written 

comments as described in the 

ADDRESSES section of this notice, the 

NRC scoping process will include a 

transcribed public scoping meeting, to 

be held on December 3, 2014, at The 

Livery Stable in Madison, Indiana, to 

solicit both oral and written comments 

from interested parties. The meeting 

will convene at 7:00 p.m. and will 

continue until approximately 10:00 p.m. 

In addition, the NRC staff will host 

informal discussions for 1 hour prior to 

the start of the public meeting. No 

formal oral comments on the proposed 

scope of the EIS will be accepted during 

the informal discussions. 

During the public meeting, a 

description of the NRC’s role and 

mission and an overview of the license 

termination safety review process and of 

the environmental review process will 

be provided. Time will be allotted for 

attendees to make oral comments. To be 

considered, comments must be provided 

either at the transcribed public meeting 

or in writing. 

Persons may register to attend or 

present oral comments at the scoping 

meeting by contacting Antoinette 

Walker-Smith at 301–415–6390, or by 

email to Antoinette.Walker-Smith@

nrc.gov, no later than November 21, 

2014. Members of the public may also 

register to attend or to speak at the 

meeting location prior to the start of the 

session. Individual oral comments may 

be limited by the time available, 

depending on the number of persons 

who register. Members of the public 

who have not registered may also have 

an opportunity to speak, if time permits. 

If special equipment or accommodations 

are needed to attend or present 

information at the public meeting, 

please contact Antoinette Walker-Smith 

no later than November 21, 2014, so that 

the NRC staff can determine whether the 

request can be accommodated. 

At the conclusion of the scoping 

process, the NRC staff will prepare a 

summary of public comments regarding 

the scope of the environmental review 

and significant issues identified. The 

NRC staff will send this summary to 

each participant in the scoping process 

for whom the staff has an address. Also, 

this summary and other project-related 

material will be available for public 

review in ADAMS at http://

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. 

E. The NEPA Process 

The EIS for the proposed JPG DU 

Impact Area license termination will be 

prepared pursuant to NEPA and the 

NRC’s NEPA-implementing regulations 

at 10 CFR Part 51. After the scoping 

process is complete, the NRC staff will 

prepare a draft EIS. There will be a 45- 

day comment period on the draft EIS 

and a public meeting to receive 

comments. Availability of the draft EIS, 

the dates of the public comment period, 

and information about the public 

meeting will be announced in the 

Federal Register, the local news media, 

and the NRC Web site: (http://

www.nrc.gov). The final EIS will be 

prepared based on consideration of any 

comments received on the draft EIS and 

will include responses to the comments 

received. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day 

of October, 2014. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Marissa Bailey, 

Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety, 

Safeguards, and Environmental Review, 

Office of Nuclear Material Safety and 

Safeguards. 

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[Docket Nos. 52–027 and 52–028; NRC– 

2008–0441] 

Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station, 

Units 2 and 3; South Carolina Electric 

& Gas Company; Tier 1 Editorial and 

Consistency Changes 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Exemption and combined 

license amendment; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is granting an 

exemption to allow a departure from the 

certification information of Tier 1 of the 

generic design control document (DCD) 

and issuing License Amendment No. 15 

to Combined Licenses (COL), NPF–93 

and NPF–94. The COLs were issued to 

South Carolina Electric & Gas Company 

(SCE&G), and South Carolina Public 

Service Authority (the licensee), for 

construction and operation of the Virgil 

C. Summer Nuclear Station (VCSNS), 

Units 2 and 3 located in Fairfield 

County, South Carolina. The 

amendment consists of changes to 

Figure 2.2.5–1, Tables; 2.6.3–4, 3.5–3, 

3.5–7, 2.2.3–1, 3.5–1, 3.3–6, 2.7.1–4, 

2.6.6–1, 2.2.3–4, 2.3.10–2, and 2.1.1–1, 

and Section 3.2, Item 1.e) of Appendix 

C to the COLs. The granting of the 

exemption allows the changes to Tier 1 

information asked for in the 

amendment. Because the acceptability 

of the exemption was determined in 

part by the acceptability of the 

amendment, the exemption and 

amendment are being issued 

concurrently. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2008–0441 when contacting the 

NRC about the availability of 

information regarding this document. 

You may obtain information related to 

this document, which the NRC 

possesses and is publicly-available, 

using any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2008–0441. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Carol 

Gallagher; telephone: 301–287–3422; 

email: Carol.Gallagher@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 publiclyavailable documents online in the NRC 

Library at http://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/adams.html. To begin the search, 

select ‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and 

then 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 that document is available in 

ADAMS) is provided the first time that 

a document is referenced. The request 

for the amendment and exemption was 

submitted by the letter dated July 2, 

2013 (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML13189A285). The licensee 

supplemented this request by letter 

dated September 26, 2013 (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML13273A394). 

• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and 

purchase copies of public documents at 

the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Denise McGovern, Office of New 

Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001; telephone: 301–415–0681; email: 

Denise.Mcgovern@nrc.gov. 

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I. Introduction 

The NRC is granting an exemption 

from the provisions of Title 10 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 

Part 52, Appendix D, Section III.B, 

‘‘Design Certification Rule for the 

AP1000 Design, Scope, and Contents 

and issuing License Amendment No. 15 

to COLs, NPF–93 and NPF–94, to the 

licensee. The exemption is required by 

Paragraph B.6.c of Section VIII, 

‘‘Processes for Changes and 

Departures,’’ Appendix D to 10 CFR Part 

52 to allow the licensee to depart from 

Tier 1 information. With the requested 

amendment, the licensee sought 

changes to the UFSAR Tier 1 and 

Appendix C to the COL. 

Part of the justification for granting 

the exemption was provided by the 

review of the amendment. Because the 

exemption is necessary in order to issue 

the requested license amendment, the 

NRC granted the exemption and issued 

the amendment concurrently, rather 

than in sequence. This included issuing 

a combined safety evaluation containing 

the NRC staff’s review of both the 

exemption request and the license 

amendment. The exemption met all 

applicable regulatory criteria set forth in 

10 CFR 50.12, 10 CFR 52.7, and 

52.63(b)(1). The license amendment was 

found to be acceptable as well. The 

combined safety evaluation is available 

in ADAMS under Accession No. 

ML14182A574. 

Identical exemption documents 

(except for referenced unit numbers and 

license numbers) were issued to the 

licensee for VCSNS Units 2 and 3 (COLs 

NPF–93 and NPF–94). These documents 

can be found in ADAMS under 

Accession Nos. ML14182A516 and 

ML14182A541, respectively. The 

exemption is reproduced (with the 

exception of abbreviated titles and 

additional citations) in Section II of this 

document. The amendment documents 

for COLs NPF–93 and NPF–94 are 

available in ADAMS under Accession 

Nos. ML14182A451 and ML14182A509, 

respectively. A summary of the 

amendment documents is provided in 

Section III of this document. 

II. Exemption 

Reproduced below is the exemption 

document issued to VCSNS, Units 2 and 

3. It makes reference to the combined 

safety evaluation that provides the 

reasoning for the findings made by the 

NRC (and listed under Item 1) in order 

to grant the exemption: 

1. In a letter dated July 2, 2013 and 

as supplemented by the letter dated 

September 26, 2013, South Carolina 

Electric & Gas Company (licensee) 

requested from the Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (Commission) an 

exemption from the provisions of Title 

10 of the Code of Federal Regulations 

(10 CFR) Part 52, Appendix D, Section 

III.B, ‘‘Design Certification Rule for the 

AP1000 Design, Scope, and Contents,’’ 

as part of license amendment request 

(LAR 13–25), ‘‘Tier 1 Editorial and 

Consistency Changes.’’ 

For the reasons set forth in Section 3.1 

of the NRC staff Safety Evaluation, 

which can be found in ADAMS under 

Accession No. ML14182A574, the 

Commission finds that: 

A. The exemption is authorized by 

law; 

B. the exemption presents no undue 

risk to public health and safety; 

C. the exemption is consistent with 

the common defense and security; 

D. special circumstances are present 

in that the application of the rule in this 

circumstance is not necessary to serve 

the underlying purpose of the rule; 

E. the special circumstances outweigh 

any decrease in safety that may result 

from the reduction in standardization 

caused by the exemption; and 

F. the exemption will not result in a 

significant decrease in the level of safety 

otherwise provided by the design. 

2. Accordingly, the licensee is granted 

an exemption to the provisions of 10 

CFR Part 52, Appendix D, Section III.B, 

to allow deviations from the certified 

Design Control Document (DCD) Tier 1 

Figure 2.2.5–1, Tables; 2.6.3–4, 3.5–3, 

3.5–7, 2.2.3–1, 3.5–1, 3.3–6, 2.7.1–4, 

2.6.6–1, 2.2.3–4, 2.3.10–2, and 2.1.1–1, 

and Section 3.2, Item 1.e), as described 

in the licensee’s request dated July 2, 

2013 and supplemented on September 

26, 2013. This exemption is related to, 

and necessary for the granting of 

License Amendment No. 15, which is 

being issued concurrently with this 

exemption. 

3. As explained in Section 5.0 of the 

NRC staff Safety Evaluation (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML14182A574), this 

exemption meets the eligibility criteria 

for categorical exclusion set forth in 10 

CFR 51.22(c)(9). Therefore, pursuant to 

10 CFR 51.22(b), no environmental 

impact statement or environmental 

assessment needs to be prepared in 

connection with the issuance of the 

exemption. 

4. This exemption is effective as of 

July 31, 2014. 

III. License Amendment Request 

The request for the amendment and 

exemption was submitted by the letter 

dated July 2, 2013 (ADAMS Accession 

No. ML13189A285). The licensee 

supplemented this request by letter 

dated September 26, 2013 (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML13273A394). The 

proposed license amendment request 

revises Figure 2.2.5–1, Tables; 2.6.3–4, 

3.5–3, 3.5–7, 2.2.3–1, 3.5–1, 3.3–6, 

2.7.1–4, 2.6.6–1, 2.2.3–4, 2.3.10–2, and 

2.1.1–1, and Section 3.2, Item 1.e of 

Appendix C to the COLs. 

The Commission has determined for 

these amendments that the application 

complies with the standards and 

requirements of the Atomic Energy Act 

of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the 

Commission’s rules and regulations. 

The Commission has made appropriate 

findings as required by the Act and the 

Commission’s rules and regulations in 

10 CFR Chapter I, which are set forth in 

the license amendment. 

A notice of consideration of issuance 

of amendment to facility operating 

license or combined license, as 

applicable, proposed no significant 

hazards consideration determination, 

and opportunity for a hearing in 

connection with these actions, was 

published in the Federal Register on 

October 1, 2013 (78 FR 60321). No 

comments were received during the 60- 

day comment period. 

The Commission has determined that 

these amendments satisfy the criteria for 

categorical exclusion in accordance 

with 10 CFR 51.22(c)(9). Therefore, 

pursuant to 10 CFR 51.22(b), no 

environmental impact statement or 

environmental assessment need be 

prepared for these amendments. 

IV. Conclusion 

Using the reasons set forth in the 

combined safety evaluation, the staff 

granted the exemption and issued the 

amendment that the licensee requested 

on July 2, 2013, and supplemented by 

letter dated September 26, 2013. The 

exemption and amendment were issued 

on July 31, 2014 as part of a combined 

package to the licensee (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML14182A432). 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 27th day 

of October 2014. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Denise L. McGovern, 

Senior Project Manager, Licensing Branch 4, 

Division of New Reactor Licensing, Office of 

New Reactors. 

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