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final environmental impact statements—general requirements
§51.90 Final environmental impact statement—general.
After receipt and consideration of comments requested pursuant to §§51.73 and 51.117, the NRC staff will prepare a final environmental impact statement in accordance with the requirements in §§51.70(b) and 51.71 for a draft environmental impact statement. The format provided in section 1(a) of appendix A of this subpart should be used.
§51.91 Final environmental impact statement—contents.
(a)(1) The final environmental impact statement will include responses to any comments on the draft environmental impact statement or on any supplement to the draft environmental impact statement. Responses to comments may include:
(i) Modification of alternatives, including the proposed action;
(ii) Development and evaluation of alternatives not previously given serious consideration;
(iii) Supplementation or modification of analyses;
(iv) Factual corrections;
(v) Explanation of why comments do not warrant further response, citing sources, authorities or reasons which support this conclusion.
(2) All substantive comments received on the draft environmental impact statement or any supplement to the draft environmental impact statement (or summaries thereof where the response has been exceptionally voluminous) will be attached to the final statement, whether or not each comment is discussed individually in the text of the statement.
(3) If changes in the draft environmental impact statement in response to comments are minor and are confined either to factual corrections or to explanations of why the comments do not warrant further response, the changes may be made by attaching errata sheets to the draft statement. The entire document with a new cover may then be issued as the final environmental impact statement.
(b) The final environmental impact statement will discuss any relevant responsible opposing view not adequately discussed in the draft environmental impact statement or in any supplement to the draft environmental impact statement, and respond to the issues raised.
(c) The final environmental impact statement will state how the alternatives considered in it and decisions based on it will or will not achieve the requirements of sections 101 and 102(1) of NEPA and of any other relevant and applicable environmental laws and policies.
(d) The final environmental impact statement will include a final analysis and a final recommendation on the action to be taken.
§51.92 Supplement to the final environmental impact statement.
(a) If the proposed action has not been taken, the NRC staff will prepare a supplement to a final environmental impact statement for which a notice of availability has been published in the Federal Register as provided in §51.118, if:
(2) There are new and significant circumstances or information relevant to environmental concerns and bearing on the proposed action or its impacts.
(b) In a proceeding for a combined license application under 10 CFR part 52 referencing an early site permit under part 52, the NRC staff shall prepare a supplement to the final environmental impact statement for the referenced early site permit in accordance with paragraph (e) of this section.
(c) The NRC staff may prepare a supplement to a final environmental impact statement when, in its opinion, preparation of a supplement will further the purposes of NEPA.
(d) The supplement to a final environmental impact statement will be prepared in the same manner as the final environmental impact statement except that a scoping process need not be used.
(e) The supplement to an early site permit final environmental impact statement which is prepared for a combined license application in accordance with §51.75(c)(1) and paragraph (b) of this section must:
(1) Identify the proposed action as the issuance of a combined license for the construction and operation of a nuclear power plant as described in the combined license application at the site described in the early site permit referenced in the combined license application;
(2) Incorporate by reference the final environmental impact statement prepared for the early site permit;
(3) Contain no separate discussion of alternative sites;
(4) Include an analysis of the economic, technical, and other benefits and costs of the proposed action, to the extent that the final environmental impact statement prepared for the early site permit did not include an assessment of these benefits and costs;
(5) Include an analysis of other energy alternatives, to the extent that the final environmental impact statement prepared for the early site permit did not include an assessment of energy alternatives;
(6) Include an analysis of any environmental issue related to the impacts of construction or operation of the facility that was not resolved in the proceeding on the early site permit; and
(7) Include an analysis of the issues related to the impacts of construction and operation of the facility that were resolved in the early site permit proceeding for which new and significant information has been identified, including, but not limited to, new and significant information demonstrating that the design of the facility falls outside the site characteristics and design parameters specified in the early site permit.
(f)(1) A supplement to a final environmental impact statement will be accompanied by or will include a request for comments as provided in §51.73 and a notice of availability will be published in the Federal Register as provided in §51.117 if paragraphs (a) or (b) of this section applies.
(2) If comments are not requested, a notice of availability of a supplement to a final environmental impact statement will be published in the Federal Register as provided in §51.118.
[72 FR 49515, Aug. 28, 2007]
§51.93 Distribution of final environmental impact statement and supplement to final environmental impact statement; news releases.
(a) A copy of the final environmental impact statement will be distributed to:
(2) The applicant or petitioner for rulemaking and any other party to the proceeding.
(3) Appropriate State, regional and metropolitan clearinghouses.
(4) Each commenter.
(b) Additional copies will be made available in accordance with §51.123.
(c) If the final environmental impact statement is unusually long or there are so many comments on a draft environmental impact statement or any supplement to a draft environmental impact statement that distribution of the entire final statement to all commenters is impracticable, a summary of the final statement and the substantive comments will be distributed. When the final environmental impact statement has been prepared by adding errata sheets to the draft environmental impact statement as provided in §51.91(a)(3), only the comments, the responses to the comments and the changes to the environmental impact statement will be distributed.
(d) A supplement to a final environmental impact statement will be distributed in the same manner as the final environmental impact statement to which it relates.
(e) News releases stating the availability and place for obtaining or inspecting a final environmental impact statement or supplement will be provided to local newspapers and other appropriate media.
(f) A notice of availability will be published in the Federal Register in accordance with §51.118.
§51.94 Requirement to consider final environmental impact statement.
The final environmental impact statement, together with any comments and any supplement, will accompany the application or petition for rulemaking through, and be considered in, the Commission's decisionmaking process. The final environmental impact statement, together with any comments and any supplement, will be made a part of the record of the appropriate adjudicatory or rulemaking proceeding.