Environmental Impact Statement - radioactive monticello

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Appendix A provided the public with information on the application located in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of NRC's document system (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at www.nrc.gov/reading-rm.html, the Public Electronic Reading Room. Toll free telephone numbers were provided in the Notice to assist the public with the use of ADAMS and in contacting key NRC personnel on the project. Although not required by NEPA, the NRC has elected to take steps during the scoping process to ensure that interested parties have additional opportunities to become informed about the project and to gain access to process and site-specific information to enhance their participation. at the level they so choose. In addition to the official source of information in the NRC Public Document Room and ADAMS, the NRC believed that it would be useful to the public to provide a copy of the environmental information associated with the application for inspection at a public library close to the site area; for the Monticello project, two public libraries (Monticello and Buffalo) were kind enough to support our effort. The local libraries also have information to assist the public in using ADAMS if an individual does not have intemet access from another source. Consequently, any individual who is interested in obtaining information from the NRC related to any environmental review for any license renewal project can go to any public library and use library resources to obtain access. The NRC has established an open process to permit all members of the public to participate in the scoping process. Comments can be provided to the NRC in person, by mail, and by e-mail. In addition, the NRC has elected to conduct public meetings during the scoping process to ensure that interested parties have an additional opportunity to gain access to information about the project and the process to effectively participate. The NRC provided the information about the public meetings in the Federal Register Notice and posted the meeting time and location at the NRC's website (www.nrc.gov). The NRC also published a press release to inform the media about the purpose, time and location of the meetings, but the NRC does not control the actions of the media; consequently, the NRC also pays for advertisements in a reasonable set of local newspapers (the St. Cloud Times and the Monticello Times) to share the information with the public. The NRC meetings were facilitated and, in advance of the meetings, the facilitator contacted elected and appointed officials as well as known representatives of interest groups so that they could inform their constituencies of the opportunity to participate in the meetings. Finally, the NRC placed posters about the meeting in public places in the Monticello site area. Two meetings were held on the same day to make it convenient for interested parties who had obligations (e.g., work or family) to choose whether they would participate in one or both meetings. Preregistering for either of the meetings assists the staff in determining the quantity of materials that it should bring to enhance the level of understanding and participation. During the days leading up to the meetings, the environmental review team generally conducts an audit in the site area and may no longer have access to office resources; consequently, the public was encouraged to contact the staff by June 23, 2005, to preregister. However, the NRC attempts to accommodate all interested parties at the public meetings whether they were preregistered or not. No member of the public was denied the opportunity to participate in the NUREG-1437, Supplement 26 A-12 August 2006 1
Appendix A scoping process. If an individual made the effort to attend the public meeting, then she or he was given the opportunity, to share her or his views on the record to ensure that it would be captured by the NRC and treated equally as any written comment submitted by August 2, 2005. If an individual was unable to attend the meeting or elected to defer offering her or his comments at that time, then she or he still had the opportunity to share views with the NRC through the end of the comment period as outlined in the Notice. Those who provided comments at the public meetings were not precluded in any way from providing additional comments through the end of the comment period. The comments raised concerns about the additional opportunities provided by the NRC to comment during the scoping process, but do not provide new and significant information. Therefore, the comments will not be evaluated further. Comment: In a telephone conversation with Jennifer Davis, NRC contact for Monticello on 8/1/05 at 3pm CST I learned that NRC has a generic EIS for all nuclear plants and that "2/3 of the issues contained therein won't be revisited." Even if true, this was not a great motivation to submit comment. This generic EIS however is NOT posted under "Documents Available for Comment" which is the hyperlink provided for Public Involvement on NRC's Monticello website, which I only found today. (MS-Y-2) Response: The impact evaluation performed by the staff and presented in the Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants NUREG-1437 (GELS) identified 92 environmental issues that were considered within the scope of a license renewal review. *For each of the 92 issues, the staff evaluated existing data from the nuclear power plants throughout the U.S. From this evaluation, the staff determined which issues were amenable to generic consideration and which issues can only be resolved on a site-specific basis. Sixty-nine of the issues were found to be generic to all sites, whereas, 23 of the issues would require a site-specific analysis. Generic issues are termed Category 1 because the conclusions related to their environmental impacts were found to be common to all plants or all plants with certain design features (e.g., cooling towers), mitigation of adverse impacts was considered, and it has been determined that additional mitigation measures are likely not to be beneficial to warrant implementation. Absent "new and significant information" that the NRC may obtain during its independent site-specific review, which includes public comments in the scoping process, Category 1 issues are not reevaluated in the site-specific EIS. Nevertheless, the conclusions from the applicable 69 Category 1 issues are adopted (using a NEPA concept known as tiering) in the site-specific EIS. Category 2 issues are those that require a site-specific review, prepared in the staff's site specific supplement to the GELS. The NRC staff evaluates site-specific data provided by the applicant, other Federal Agencies, State agencies, tribal and local governments, as well as information from members of the public. August 2006 A-13 NUREG-1437, Supplement 26 1
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