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documents in paper format. Such filings 

must be submitted by: (1) First class 

mail addressed to the Office of the 

Secretary of the Commission, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, Attention: 

Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff; or 

(2) courier, express mail, or expedited 

delivery service to the Office of the 

Secretary, 11555 Rockville Pike, 

Rockville, Maryland, 20852, Attention: 

Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff. 

Participants filing adjudicatory 

documents in this manner are 

responsible for serving the document on 

all other participants. Filing is 

considered complete by first-class mail 

as of the time of deposit in the mail, or 

by courier, express mail, or expedited 

delivery service upon depositing the 

document with the provider of the 

service. A presiding officer, having 

granted an exemption request from 

using E-Filing, may require a participant 

or party to use E-Filing if the presiding 

officer subsequently determines that the 

reason for granting the exemption from 

use of E-Filing no longer exists. 

Documents submitted in adjudicatory 

proceedings will appear in the NRC’s 

electronic hearing docket which is 

available to the public at https://

adams.nrc.gov/ehd, unless excluded 

pursuant to an order of the Commission 

or the presiding officer. If you do not 

have an NRC-issued digital ID certificate 

as described above, click cancel when 

the link requests certificates and you 

will be automatically directed to the 

NRC’s electronic hearing dockets 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. For example, in some 

instances, individuals provide home 

addresses in order to demonstrate 

proximity to a facility or site. 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 are requested not to include 

copyrighted materials in their 

submission. 

For further details with respect to this 

action, see the application for license 

amendment dated December 14, 2016, 

as supplemented August 25, 2017. 

Attorney for licensee: Mr. M. Stanford 

Blanton, Balch & Bingham LLP, 1710 

Sixth Avenue North, Birmingham, AL 

35203–2015. 

NRC Branch Chief: Jennifer DixonHerrity. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 28th day 

of September 2017. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Jennifer Dixon-Herrity, 

Chief, Licensing Branch 4, Division of New 

Reactor Licensing, Office of New Reactors. 

[FR Doc. 2017–21495 Filed 10–4–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 50–331; NRC–2017–0200] 

NextEra Energy Duane Arnold, LLC.; 

Duane Arnold Energy Center, Unit 

No. 1 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Environmental assessment and 

finding of no significant impact; 

issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is making a finding 

of no significant impact for a proposed 

issuance of an amendment to Renewed 

Facility Operating License No. DPR–49 

held by NextEra Energy Duane Arnold, 

LLC. (NextEra, the licensee) for the 

operation of Duane Arnold Energy 

Center (DAEC), located in Linn County, 

Iowa. The proposed amendment would 

modify the DAEC Plume Exposure 

Pathway emergency planning zone 

(EPZ) boundary and revise the DAEC 

evacuation time estimate (ETE) study to 

account for the EPZ boundary changes. 

DATES: The environmental assessment 

(EA) referenced in this document is 

available on October 5, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2017–0200 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 Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2017–0200. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Carol 

Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; 

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 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

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. For the 

convenience of the reader, the ADAMS 

accession numbers are provided in a 

table in the ‘‘Availability of Documents’’ 

section of this document. 

• 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: 

Mahesh L. Chawla, Office of Nuclear 

Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 

20555–0001; telephone: 301–415–8371; 

email: Mahesh.Chawla@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The NRC is considering issuance of 

amendments pursuant to § 50.54 of title 

10 of the Code of Federal Regulations 

(10 CFR), ‘‘Conditions of licenses,’’ 

paragraph (q), to Renewed Facility 

Operating License No. DPR–49, held by 

NextEra Duane Arnold, LLC. (NextEra, 

the licensee) for the operation of Duane 

Arnold Energy Center (DAEC), located 

in Linn County, Iowa. 

In accordance with 10 CFR 51.21, the 

NRC has prepared an EA that analyzes 

the environmental effects of the 

proposed licensing action. Based on the 

results of the EA, and in accordance 

with 10 CFR 51.31(a), the NRC has 

prepared a finding of no significant 

impact (FONSI) for the proposed 

amendments. 

II. Environmental Assessment 

Description of the Proposed Action 

The proposed action would revise the 

DAEC Renewed Facility Operating 

License in order to set the DAEC Plume 

Exposure Pathway emergency planning 

zone (EPZ) boundary for an area beyond 

the 10-mile required EPZ pathway. The 

proposed action is in accordance with 

the licensee’s application dated March 

31, 2017 (ADAMS Accession Nos. 

ML17102B183 and ML17102B184) and 

with current NRC’s regulations in 10 

CFR 50.47, and 10 CFR part 50, 

appendix E. 

Notable proposed changes are (a) 

modification of Subarea 24 of the DAEC 

Plume Exposure Pathway EPZ by 

designating U.S. Highway 30 as its 

southern boundary, which will slightly 

decrease the total size of the EPZ, and 

(b) revision of the DAEC evacuation 


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time estimate (ETE) study to account for 

the EPZ boundary changes. 

Need for the Proposed Action 

Nuclear power plant owners, 

government agencies, and State and 

local officials work together to create a 

system for emergency preparedness and 

response that will serve the public in 

the unlikely event of an emergency. An 

effective emergency preparedness 

program helps decrease the 

consequences of an initiating event at a 

nuclear power reactor that proceeds to 

a severe accident. Emergency 

preparedness cannot affect the 

probability of the initiating event, but a 

high level of emergency preparedness 

increases the probability of accident 

mitigation if the initiating event 

proceeds beyond the need for initial 

operator actions. 

Each licensee is required to establish 

emergency plans to be implemented in 

the event of an accident. These 

emergency plans cover preparations for 

evacuation, sheltering, and other actions 

to protect residents near plants in the 

event of a serious incident. 

The NRC, as well as other Federal and 

state regulatory agencies review the 

subject plans to ensure that the 

condition of emergency preparedness 

provides reasonable assurance that 

adequate protective measures can and 

will be taken in the event of a 

radiological emergency. 

Separate from this EA, the NRC staff 

is evaluating NextEra’s proposed 

changes to the EPZ boundary for DAEC. 

This review will be documented in the 

safety evaluation report for the proposed 

license amendment. The staff’s review 

will determine whether there is 

reasonable assurance that adequate 

protective measures can and will be 

taken in the event of a radiological 

emergency in accordance with 10 CFR 

50.47 and the requirements in appendix 

E to 10 CFR part 50. 

The proposed action is needed to 

make DAEC’s EPZ boundary more 

consistent with the existing roads and 

easier to implement more effectively. 

While changing the southern boundary 

to Highway 30 will decrease the size of 

the EPZ slightly, it will enhance local 

law enforcement’s ability to evacuate 

the affected population as well as 

improve their ability to control access 

back into the evacuated areas. The 

licensee states in its application (Adams 

Accession No. ML171028184) that the 

changes to the EPZ were approved by 

both the State of Iowa and the Federal 

Emergency Management Agency 

(FEMA). 

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed 

Action 

The NRC has completed its evaluation 

of environmental effects of the proposed 

action. The proposed action consists of 

a modification to the DAEC EPZ 

boundary and revision to the DAEC ETE 

study to account for the EPZ boundary 

changes. Notable proposed changes are: 

(a) Modification of Subarea 24 of the 

DAEC Plume Exposure Pathway EPZ by 

designating U.S. Highway 30 as its 

southern boundary, which will slightly 

decrease the total size of the EPZ, and 

(b) revision of the DAEC ETE study to 

account for the EPZ boundary changes. 

The proposed changes would have no 

direct impacts on land use or water 

resources, including terrestrial and 

aquatic biota as the proposed action 

involves no new construction or 

modification of plant operational 

systems. There would be no changes to 

the quality or quantity of nonradiological effluents. No changes to the 

plant’s National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System permit are needed. 

Changes to the Southern boundary of 

the EPZ to Highway 30, a four-lane 

highway, could result in minor changes 

in vehicular traffic and associated air 

pollutant emissions, but no significant 

changes in ambient air quality would be 

expected. In addition, there would be no 

noticeable effect on socioeconomic 

conditions in the region, no 

environment justice impacts, and no 

impacts to historic and cultural 

resources. Therefore, there would be no 

significant non-radiological impacts 

associated with the proposed action. 

The NRC has concluded that the 

proposed action would not significantly 

affect plant safety and would not have 

a significant adverse effect on the 

probability of an accident occurring. 

There would be no change to 

radioactive effluents that affect radiation 

exposures to plant workers and 

members of the public. No changes 

would be made to plant buildings or the 

site property. Changing the southern 

boundary of the EPZ to Highway 30 will 

slightly decrease the size of the EPZ; 

therefore, some residents that are 

located within the original EPZ 

boundary would no longer be subject to 

actions under the DAEC emergency 

plan. In the event of an accident, those 

residents not located in the EPZ could 

potentially receive a slightly higher 

radiation dose than those remaining 

within the modified EPZ, as they would 

no longer get mandated instructions 

from local law enforcement or other first 

responders pertaining to sheltering, 

evacuation, or other actions DAEC 

deems necessary to take under its 

emergency plan. However, as stated 

above, the NRC would only approve a 

reduction in the overall size of the 

DAEC EPZ if there is reasonable 

assurance that adequate protective 

measures can and will be taken in the 

event of a radiological emergency in 

accordance with NRC’s regulations in 10 

CFR part 50. As a result, the potential 

radiological dose increase to the 

residents located outside of the EPZ 

would not be significant, and in any 

event, residents located outside of the 

EPZ would be evaluated on an ad-hoc 

basis based on specific conditions. 

Therefore, the proposed action would 

not result in a significant change to the 

radiation exposures to the public or 

radiation exposure to plant workers. 

Accordingly, the NRC concludes that 

there would be no significant 

environmental impacts associated with 

the proposed action. 

Environmental Impacts of the 

Alternatives to the Proposed Action 

As an alternative to the proposed 

action, the NRC considered denial of the 

proposed action (i.e., the ‘‘no-action’’ 

alternative). Denial of the license 

amendment request would result in no 

change in current environmental 

impacts. Therefore, the environmental 

impacts of the proposed action and the 

denial of the exemption request would 

be similar. 

Alternative Use of Resources 

There are no unresolved conflicts 

concerning alternative uses of available 

resources under the proposed action. 

Agencies and Persons Consulted 

On September 8, 2017, the NRC staff 

consulted with the Iowa State official 

regarding the environmental impact of 

the proposed action. The state official 

had no comments. 

III. Finding of No Significant Impact 

The licensee has requested a license 

amendment pursuant to 10 CFR 50.54(q) 

to modify the DAEC Plume Exposure 

Pathway Emergency Planning Zone 

boundary. The NRC is considering 

issuing the requested amendments. The 

proposed action would not significantly 

affect plant safety, would not have a 

significant adverse effect on the 

probability of an accident occurring, 

and would not have any significant 

radiological and non-radiological 

impacts. The reason the environment 

would not be significantly affected is 

because the proposed changes would 

only result in minor changes in 

associated vehicular traffic, along with 

resulting air pollutant emissions and 

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to radiation exposures to the public or 

plant workers. This FONSI incorporates 

by reference the EA in Section II of 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 not to prepare an 

environmental impact statement for the 

proposed action. 

The related environmental document 

is the ‘‘Generic Environmental Impact 

Statement for License Renewal of 

Nuclear Plants: Regarding Duane Arnold 

Energy Center, Final Report,’’ NUREG– 

1437, Supplement 42. The NUREG– 

1437, Supplement 42, provides the 

latest environmental review of current 

operations and description of 

environmental conditions at DAEC. 

The finding and other related 

environmental documents may be 

examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the 

NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR), 

located at One White Flint North, 11555 

Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 

20852. Publicly-available records will 

be accessible electronically from 

ADAMS Public Electronic Reading 

Room on the Internet at the NRC’s Web 

site: http://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 send an 

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./web link/ 

Federal 

Register 

citation 

NextEra Energy Duane Arnold, LLC, License Amendment Request (TSCR–165) for Revision to Emergency Planning Zone in 

the Duane Arnold Energy Center Emergency Plan, Dated March 31, 2017 .................................................................................. ML17102B183 

NextEra Energy Duane Arnold, LLC, Evaluation of Proposed Amendment for License Amendment Request (TSCR–165) for Revision to Emergency Planning Zone in the Duane Arnold Energy Center Emergency Plan, Dated March 31, 2017 .................... ML17102B184 

NUREG–1437, Supplement 42, Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants: Regarding 

Duane Arnold Energy Center, Final Report, Dated October 2010 .................................................................................................. ML102790308 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day 

of September 2017. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Mahesh L. Chawla, 

Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch 

LPL3, Division of Operating Reactor 

Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation. 

[FR Doc. 2017–21498 Filed 10–4–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2017–0122] 

Information Collection: Notices, 

Instructions and Reports to Workers: 

Inspection and Investigations 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of submission to the 

Office of Management and Budget; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) invites public 

comment on the renewal of Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval for an existing collection of 

information. The information collection 

is entitled, ‘‘Notices, Instructions and 

Reports to Workers: Inspection and 

Investigations.’’ 

DATES: Submit comments by November 

6, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly 

to the OMB reviewer at: Aaron Szabo, 

Desk Officer, Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs 3150–0044, NEOB– 

10202, Office of Management and 

Budget, Washington, DC 20503; 

telephone: 202–395–3621, email: oira_

submission@omb.eop.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Cullison, NRC Clearance Officer, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–2084; email: 

INFOCOLLECTS.resource@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2017– 

0122 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information for this 

action. You may obtain publiclyavailable information related to this 

action by any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2017–0122. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

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 

supporting statement is available in 

ADAMS under Accession No. 

ML17194A752. 

• 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. 

• NRC’s Clearance Officer: A copy of 

the collection of information and related 

instructions may be obtained without 

charge by contacting the NRC’s 

Clearance Officer, David Cullison, 

Office of the Chief Information Officer, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–2084; email: 

INFOCOLLECTS.resource@nrc.gov. 

B. Submitting Comments 

The NRC cautions you not to include 

identifying or contact information in 

comment submissions that you do not 

want to be publicly disclosed in your 

comment submission. All comment 

submissions are posted at http://

www.regulations.gov and entered into 

ADAMS. Comment submissions are not 

routinely edited to remove identifying 

or contact information. 

If you are requesting or aggregating 

comments from other persons for 

submission to the OMB, then you 

should inform those persons not to 

include identifying or contact 

information that they do not want to be 

publicly disclosed in their comment 


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