TMI-2's Answer to TMIA's Motion on Water Use at Three Mile Island

TMI-2 SOLUTIONS, LLC’S ANSWER OPPOSING THREE MILE ISLAND ALERT’S PETITION FOR RECONSIDERATION OF CLI-21-08

Answer to TMIA Petition for Reconsideration (07.12.21).pdf

[decomm_wkg] FRN Re: Categorical Exclusions from Environmental Review

Dated 4/30/2021 Docketed 5/10/2021
Categorical Exclusions from Environmental Review
N2
Michael J.  Keegan
Don't Waste Michigan

ML21028A663
https://adamswebsearch2.nrc.gov/webSearch2/main.jsp?AccessionNumber=ML21028A663 

Document Title:    Federal Register Notice Re: Categorical Exclusions from Environmental Review
Document Type:    Federal Register NoticeRulemaking- Proposed Rule
Document Date:    04/30/2021

Summary of June 15, 2021, Meeting with Exelon Generation Company, LLC Vessel Nozzle Repair Related To A Planned Request For An Alternative Related To Reactor Pressure (EPID L-2021-LRM-0056)

Subject:  Summary of June 15, 2021, Meeting with Exelon Generation Company, LLC Vessel Nozzle Repair Related To A Planned Request For An Alternative Related To Reactor Pressure (EPID L-2021-LRM-0056)

ADAMS Accession No. ML21176A082

ML21176A082.pdf

NRC Begins Environmental Justice Review of Agency Programs

 Nuclear Regulatory Commission - News Release

No: 21-027 July 8, 2021

CONTACT: David McIntyre, 301-415-8200

NRC Begins Environmental Justice Review of Agency Programs

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is conducting a systematic review of how the agency’s programs, policies and activities address environmental justice. As part of the review, agency staff will seek public comment related to how the NRC addresses environmental justice, given its mission of protecting people and the environment.

“We anticipate that these meetings will invite a wide range of useful perspectives, from community groups, non-governmental organizations, labor unions, and nuclear power plant operators,” said NRC Chairman Christopher T. Hanson. “What we learn will help enhance the staff’s reviews of license applications and other activities that we regulate.”

The Commission directed the review in a staff requirements memorandum dated April 23, giving the staff nine months to conduct the review. An Environmental Justice Review Team has been established within the NRC Office of the Executive Director for Operations and has begun reviewing recent Executive Orders and assessing practices of other federal, state and tribal governments. The team will also review the adequacy of the NRC’s 2004 Policy Statement on the Treatment of Environmental Justice Matters in NRC Regulatory and Licensing Actions. The team will evaluate whether the NRC should incorporate environmental justice beyond implementation through the National Environmental Policy Act, as set out in the policy statement, and consider whether there may be benefits from establishing formal mechanisms to gather external stakeholder input.

The Environmental Justice Review Team will hold two public meetings by webinar July 15 to provide an overview of its review and receive public comment. The webinars will be held from 1:30-3p.m. and 8-9:30p.m., both Eastern Time. Details for accessing the webinars are available in the public meetings notices linked above.

A notice will be published on July 9 in the Federal Register asking specific questions to inform the team’s review and describing other means to provide public comment.

21-027.pdf

PA DEP News Release : ADVISORY – JULY 13 – HARRISBURG – Environmental Quality Board to Consider Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Final Regulation

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA

Dept. of Environmental Protection

Commonwealth News Bureau

Room 308, Main Capitol Building

Harrisburg PA., 17120

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

07/8/2021

CONTACT:

Jamar Thrasher, DEP

717-787-1323

 

ADVISORY – JULY 13 – HARRISBURG – Environmental Quality Board to Consider Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Final Regulation

Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Environmental Quality Board will hold a meeting on Tuesday July 13, 2021 to consider the final form rulemaking for Pennsylvania to take part in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). The meeting will be held at 9:00 AM and will be streamed at pacast.com/live/dep. The Rachel Carson State Office Building remains closed to the public.

The final RGGI regulation takes into account the thousands of comments received across 10 virtual public hearings and 60 day comment period. The final version of the regulation, along with supporting documents, can be found at dep.pa.gov/rggi under “Consideration of Final Rulemaking: CO2 Budget Trading Program (25 Pa. Code Chapter 145).”

Benefits of the regulation, if enacted, include:

• Less air pollution – RGGI would eliminate more than 188 million tons of carbon pollution over 10 years

• Improved health by preventing $6.3 billion of health care costs due to cleaner air

• Up to 30,000 new jobs created and an increase in Gross State Product by $2 billion

More information about RGGI and Pennsylvania can be found at dep.pa.gov/rggi

WHAT: Environmental Quality Board Meeting

WHEN: Tuesday, July 13, 2021, at 9:00 AM

WHERE: Streaming at pacast.com/live/dep

New Mexico Congressional Delegation, Governor Send Letter To Energy Secretary Opposing Nuclear Waste Interim Site

 Sen. Heinrich & Lujan, new Rep. Melanie Stansbury, and Gov. Lujan Grisham to DOE Secretary Granholm:

We are strongly opposed to the interim storage of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level waste (HLW) in New Mexico.

Letter attached.

New post on Los Alamos Reporter

Congressional Delegation, Governor Send Letter To Energy Secretary Opposing Nuclear Waste Interim Site by Los Alamos Reporter CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION NEWS U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján, and U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury and New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham sent a letter to U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm opposing the interim storage of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level waste (HLW) in New Mexico. “We are strongly opposed to the interim storage of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level waste (HLW) in New Mexico.  There is currently no permanent disposal strategy for SNF and HLW in place at the Department of Energy.  This leaves us extremely concerned that ‘interim’ storage sites with initial 40-year leases, like one proposed for Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensing in New Mexico, will become the country’s de facto permanent nuclear waste storage facilities.  We cannot accept that result,” they wrote. There are currently two pending applications before the NRC for licenses to construct and operate consolidated interim storage facilities (CISFs) - one in Andrews, Texas, and one in Lea County, New Mexico.  “Without a strategy in place at the Department of Energy for permanent waste disposal, any CISF constructed in or near New Mexico could become a waste storage site that is, in essence, permanent.  New Mexico has not and will not consent to such a situation,” they continued. The New Mexico lawmakers cautioned that, “We cannot repeat such harms by establishing interim nuclear waste storage sites, especially without a permanent waste disposal strategy.  We would welcome collaborative work to establish a coherent, consent-based federal policy on managing and disposing of SNF and HLW, and look forward to engaging in that work with you.”   Last month, Senator Heinrich raised his concerns about interim storage directly with Secretary Granholm during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources hearing to review the President’s Fiscal Year 2022 budget request for the U.S. Department of Energy. The full text of the letter is available here and below: Dear Secretary Granholm, We are strongly opposed to the interim storage of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level waste (HLW) in New Mexico.  There is currently no permanent disposal strategy for SNF and HLW in place at the Department of Energy.  This leaves us extremely concerned that “interim” storage sites with initial 40-year leases, like one proposed for Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensing in New Mexico, will become the country’s de facto permanent nuclear waste storage facilities.  We cannot accept that result.   As you have recognized, the consent of those affected is a critical component of any approach to nuclear waste storage.  There are currently two pending applications before the NRC for licenses to construct and operate consolidated interim storage facilities (CISFs) - one in Andrews, Texas, and one in Lea County, New Mexico.  Without a strategy in place at the Department of Energy for permanent waste disposal, any CISF constructed in or near New Mexico could become a waste storage site that is, in essence, permanent.  New Mexico has not and will not consent to such a situation.  New Mexico is proud to host Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.  The people of New Mexico have long been at the forefront of our national security mission and the discovery of nuclear science and technologies.  Unfortunately, in some cases, this has resulted in situations that have harmed the health and wellbeing of New Mexicans. We cannot repeat such harms by establishing interim nuclear waste storage sites, especially without a permanent waste disposal strategy.  We would welcome collaborative work to establish a coherent, consent-based federal policy on managing and disposing of SNF and HLW, and look forward to engaging in that work with you.

Letter to Sec. Granholm-Nuclear Waste and Holtec.pdf

Petition for Reconsideration, TMI-2 License Transfer, (Docket No. 50-320 LT, July 1, 2021)

 Petition for Reconsdieration, Docket No. 50-320 LT, TMI-2, July 1, 2021).pdf