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Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Combined Licenses (Cols) for William States Lee III Nuclear Station Units 1 and 2 NUREG-2111, Vol. 2 Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Combined Licenses (COLs) for William States Lee III Nuclear Station Units 1 and 2 Draft Report for Comment U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of New Reactors Washington, DC 20555-0001 Regulatory Division Special Projects Branch Charleston District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Charleston, SC 29403-5107 AVAILABILITY OF REFERENCE MATERIALS IN NRC PUBLICATIONS NRC Reference Material Non-NRC Reference Material As of November 1999, you may electronically access Documents available from public and special technical NUREG-series publications and other NRC records at libraries include all open literature items, such as NRC=s Public Electronic Reading Room at books, journal articles, and transactions, Federal http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm.html. 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NUREG-2111, Vol. 2 Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Combined Licenses (COLs) for William States Lee III Nuclear Station Units 1 and 2 Draft Report for Comment Manuscript Completed: November 2011 Date Published: December 2011 Division of New Reactor Licensing Office of New Reactors U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 Regulatory Division Special Projects Branch Charleston District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Charleston, SC 29403-5107 COMMENTS ON DRAFT REPORT Any party may submit comments on this report for consideration by the NRC staff. Comments may be accompanied by additional relevant information or supporting data. Please specify the report number NUREG-2111 in your comments and send them by the end of the 75-day comment period specified in the Federal Register notice announcing the availability of this draft. To submit comments: Chief, Rulemaking and Directives Branch Office of Administration Mail Stop: TWB-05-B01M U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 Fax: (301) 492-3446 Electronic comments may be submitted to the NRC by e-mail at [email protected] For any additional information or copies of this draft, contact: Ms. Sarah L. Lopas Office of New Reactors Mail Stop: T-7E18 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 Phone: 1-800-368-5642, extension 1147 Email: [email protected] Paperwork Reduction Act Statement This NUREG references information collection requirements that are subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). These information collection requirements were approved by the Office of Management and Budget, approval numbers 3150-0014; 3150- 0011; 3150-0021; 3150-0151; 3150-0008; 3150-0002; and 3150-0093. Public Protection Notification The NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a request for information or an information collection requirement unless the requesting documents displays a currently valid OMB control number. NUREG-2111 has been reproduced from the best available copy. 1 Abstract 2 This environmental impact statement (EIS) has been prepared in response to an application 3 submitted to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) by Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC 4 (Duke) for two combined construction permits and operating licenses (combined licenses or 5 COLs). The proposed actions requested in Duke’s application are (1) NRC issuance of COLs 6 for two nuclear power reactors at the William States Lee III Nuclear Station (Lee Nuclear 7 Station) site in Cherokee County, South Carolina, and (2) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 8 (USACE) permit action on a Department of the Army individual permit application to perform 9 certain construction activities on the site. USACE is participating with the NRC in preparing this 10 EIS as a cooperating agency and participates collaboratively on the review team. 11 This EIS includes the review team’s analysis that considers and weighs the environmental 12 impacts of building and operating two new nuclear units at the proposed Lee Nuclear Station 13 site and at alternative sites, and mitigation measures available for reducing or avoiding adverse 14 impacts. The EIS also addresses Federally listed species, cultural resources, and plant cooling 15 system design alternatives. 16 The EIS includes the evaluation of the proposed project’s impacts to waters of the United States 17 pursuant to Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. USACE will conduct a public interest review in 18 accordance with the guidelines promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 19 under authority of Section 404(b) of the Clean Water Act. The public interest review, which will 20 be addressed in the USACE’s permit decision document, will include an alternatives analysis to 21 determine the least environmentally damaging practicable alternative. 22 After considering the environmental aspects of the proposed NRC action, the NRC staff’s 23 preliminary recommendation to the Commission is that the COLs be issued as requested. This 24 recommendation is based on (1) the application, including Revision 1 of the environmental 25 report (ER) and the supplement to the ER, submitted by Duke; (2) consultation with Federal, 26 State, Tribal, and local agencies; (3) the staff’s independent review; (4) the staff’s consideration 27 of comments related to the environmental review that were received during the two public 28 scoping processes; and (5) the assessments summarized in this EIS, including the potential 29 mitigation measures identified in the ER and this EIS. USACE will issue its Record of Decision 30 based, in part, on this EIS. December 2011 iii Draft NUREG-2111 1 Contents 2 Abstract ......................................................................................................................................... iii 3 Executive Summary .................................................................................................................. xxxi 4 Abbreviations/Acronyms .......................................................................................................... xxxv 5 1.0 Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 1-1 6 1.1 Background .............................................................................................................. 1-3 7 1.1.1 Applications and Reviews ............................................................................. 1-3 8 1.1.1.1 NRC COL Application Review ....................................................... 1-4 9 1.1.1.2 USACE Permit Application Review ...............................................
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