80 FR 30501 - Combined License Application for Turkey Point Nuclear Plant, Units 6 and 7

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 102 (May 28, 2015)

On June 30, 2009, the Florida Power and Light Company (FPL) submitted an application for combined licenses (COL) for two nuclear power reactors, Turkey Point Units 6 and 7, at the Turkey Point site near Homestead, Florida (Application). On March 5, 2015, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Jacksonville District, issued a Federal Register notice in which the NRC solicited comments on NUREG-2176, ``Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Combined Licenses (COLs) for Turkey Point Nuclear Plant, Units 6 and 7,'' to support the environmental review of the application. The public comment period closed on May 22, 2015. The NRC has decided to reopen the public comment period to allow more time for members of the public to develop and submit their comments. The reopened comment period will expire on July 17, 2015.

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 102 (Thursday, May 28, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30501-30502]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-12935]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 52-040 and 52-041; NRC-2009-0337]


Combined License Application for Turkey Point Nuclear Plant, 
Units 6 and 7

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft environmental impact statement; request for comment; 
reopening of comment period.

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SUMMARY: On June 30, 2009, the Florida Power and Light Company (FPL) 
submitted an application for combined licenses (COL) for two nuclear 
power reactors, Turkey Point Units 6 and 7, at the Turkey Point site 
near Homestead, Florida (Application). On March 5, 2015, the U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers (USACE), Jacksonville District, issued a Federal Register 
notice in which the NRC solicited comments on NUREG-2176, ``Draft 
Environmental Impact Statement for Combined Licenses (COLs) for Turkey 
Point Nuclear Plant, Units 6 and 7,'' to support the environmental 
review of the application. The public comment period closed on May 22, 
2015. The NRC has decided to reopen the public comment period to allow 
more time for members of the public to develop and submit their 
comments. The reopened comment period will expire on July 17, 2015.

DATES: The comment period for the document published on March 5, 2015 
(80 FR 12043), has been reopened. Comments should be filed no later 
than July 17, 2015. Comments received after this date will be 
considered, if it is practical to do so, but the Commission is able to 
ensure consideration only for comments received on or before this date.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods 
(unless this document describes a different method for submitting 
comments on a specific subject):
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2009-0337. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact 
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of 
this document.
     Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration, 
Mail Stop: OWFN-12-H08, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 
DC 20555-0001.
    For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting 
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alicia Williamson, telephone: 301-415-
1878; email: [email protected] or Jennifer Dixon-Herrity, 
telephone: 301-415-2967; email:[email protected]. Both are 
staff of the Office of New Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2009-0337 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information regarding this action. You may 
obtain publicly-available information related to this action by the 
following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2009-0337.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available 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 [email protected]. The 
ADAMS accession number for each document referenced (if it is available 
in ADAMS) is provided the first time that it is mentioned in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section. The draft environmental impact 
statement (DEIS) is available in ADAMS under Accession Nos. ML15055A103 
and ML15055A109.
     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.
     Project Web site: In addition, the DEIS can be accessed 
online at the Turkey Point COL specific Web page at http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/col/turkey-point/documents.html.

B. Submitting Comments

    Please include Docket ID NRC-2009-0337 in the subject line of your 
comment submission.
    The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact 
information that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your 
comment submission. The NRC posts all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as entering the comment submissions into 
ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove 
identifying or contact information.
    If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons 
for submission to the NRC, 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 submission. Your request should 
state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to 
remove such information before making the comment submissions available 
to the public or entering the comment submissions into ADAMS.

II. Discussion

    By letter dated June 30, 2009, FPL submitted the application for 
COLs for Turkey Point Units 6 and 7, in which it proposed to construct 
and operate two new nuclear power units at its Turkey Point site near 
Homestead, Florida. Among other items, the application included an 
environmental report (ER), which documented FPL's assessment of

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the environmental impacts of the proposal. The NRC staff published a 
notice of intent to prepare a DEIS and to conduct a scoping process in 
the Federal Register on June 15, 2010 (75 FR 33851). On March 5, 2015 
(80 FR 12043), the NRC solicited comments on NUREG-2176, ``Draft 
Environmental Impact Statement for Combined Licenses (COLs) for Turkey 
Point Nuclear Plant, Units 6 and 7,'' to support the environmental 
review for the application. The public comment period closed on May 22, 
2015.
    The NRC's regulations set a minimum public comment period of 45 
days for a draft environmental impact statement, and contemplate 
reasonable requests for a 15-day extension, if practicable (10 CFR 
51.73). In the Federal Register notice announcing the availability of 
the Turkey Point DEIS, the NRC staff allowed 75 days for public 
comment, i.e., the NRC staff already included two 15-day extensions to 
the minimum comment period for the DEIS (80 FR 12043). On May 5, 2015, 
the USACE forwarded to the NRC staff a request from the Seminole Tribe 
of Florida (Tribe) to extend the comment period on the DEIS until July 
13, 2015. The Tribe requested this additional time in order to 
formulate comments on the DEIS after the Tribe meets with the USACE and 
the NRC staff to discuss the DEIS. The meeting is currently scheduled 
for June 23, 2015. In the peculiar circumstances present here, the 
Tribe was unable to meet with the USACE and the NRC staff in time to 
submit comments within the original comment period, i.e., by May 22, 
2015. The NRC staff has reviewed the Tribe's request, and considered 
that the meeting with the Tribe cannot be held until close to the last 
week of June and that two other Federal agencies have requested to 
extend the comment period. The NRC staff has determined that the 
Tribe's requested extension is warranted to allow the Tribe to provide 
reasoned comments in light of information discussed in the meeting 
scheduled for June 23, 2015, and is practicable, within the constraints 
of the NRC staff review schedule for the application. The NRC staff, 
however, is not limiting the reopened comment period to the Tribe. 
Accordingly, the NRC has decided to reopen the public comment period on 
the DEIS (NUREG-2176) until July 17, 2015.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 21st day of May, 2015.
    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Frank M. Akstulewicz,
Director, Division of New Reactor Licensing, Office of New Reactors.
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