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Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants NUREG-1437 Supplement 44 Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants Supplement 44 Regarding Crystal River Unit 3 Nuclear Generating Plant Draft Report for Comment Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation 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. Register notices, Federal and State legislation, and Publicly released records include, to name a few, congressional reports. 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NUREG-1437 Supplement 44 Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants Supplement 44 Regarding Crystal River Unit 3 Nuclear Generating Plant Draft Report for Comment Manuscript Completed: May 2011 Date Published: May 2011 Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation 1 Proposed Action Issuance of a renewed operating license, DPR-72, for Crystal River Unit 3 2 Nuclear Generating Plant in the city of Crystal River, Citrus County, 3 Florida. 4 Type of Statement Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement 5 Agency Contact Daniel Doyle 6 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 7 Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation 8 Mail Stop O-11F1 9 Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 10 Phone: 301-415-3748 11 E-mail: Daniel.Doyle@nrc.gov 12 Comments Any interested party may submit comments on this supplemental 13 environmental impact statement. Please specify NUREG-1437, 14 Supplement 44, draft, in your comments. Comments must be received by 15 July 25, 2011. Comments received after the expiration of the comment 16 period will be considered if it is practical to do so, but assurance of 17 consideration of late comments will not be given. Comments may be 18 submitted electronically by searching for docket ID NRC-2009-0039 at the 19 federal rulemaking website, http://www.regulations.gov. Comments may 20 also be mailed to: 21 Cindy Bladey, Chief 22 Rules, Announcements, and Directives Branch 23 Division of Administrative Services 24 Office of Administration 25 Mail Stop: TWB-05-B01M 26 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 27 Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 28 Please be aware that any comments that you submit to the NRC will be 29 considered a public record and entered into the Agencywide Documents 30 Access and Management System (ADAMS). Do not provide information 31 you would not want to be publicly available. iii 1 ABSTRACT 2 This draft supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) has been prepared in response 3 to an application submitted by Florida Power Corporation, doing business as Progress Energy 4 Florida, Inc., to renew the operating license for Crystal River Unit 3 Nuclear Generating Plant 5 (CR-3) for an additional 20 years. 6 This draft SEIS includes the preliminary analysis that evaluates the environmental impacts of 7 the proposed action and alternatives to the proposed action. Alternatives considered include 8 replacement power from a new supercritical coal-fired plant, a new natural gas-fired 9 combined-cycle plant, a combination of alternatives that includes some natural gas-fired 10 capacity and energy conservation, and not renewing the license (the no-action alternative). 11 The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC’s) preliminary recommendation is that the 12 adverse environmental impacts of license renewal for CR-3 are not great enough to deny the 13 option of license renewal for energy-planning decisionmakers. This recommendation is based 14 on: (1) the analysis and findings in NUREG-1437, Volumes 1 and 2, Generic Environmental 15 Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants; (2) the environmental report 16 submitted by Florida Power Corporation; (3) consultation with Federal, State, and local 17 agencies; (4) the NRC’s environmental review; and (5) consideration of public comments 18 received during the scoping process. v 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 ABSTRACT ................................................................................................................................... v 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS .............................................................................................................. vii 4 FIGURES .................................................................................................................................... xv 5 TABLES ..................................................................................................................................... xvi 6 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................................... xxi 7 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS ....................................................................................... xxix 8 1.0 PURPOSE AND NEED FOR ACTION ............................................................................... 1-1 9 1.1 Proposed Federal Action ................................................................................................ 1-1 10 1.2 Purpose and Need for the Proposed Federal Action ...................................................... 1-1 11 1.3 Major Environmental Review Milestones ........................................................................ 1-2 12 1.4 Generic Environmental Impact Statement ...................................................................... 1-3 13 1.5 Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement ............................................................ 1-5 14 1.6 Cooperating Agencies .................................................................................................... 1-6 15 1.7 Consultations .................................................................................................................. 1-6 16 1.8 Correspondence ............................................................................................................. 1-7 17 1.9 Statutes and Regulatory Requirements.......................................................................... 1-7 18 1.10 References ................................................................................................................... 1-7 19 2.0 AFFECTED ENVIRONMENT ............................................................................................ 2-1 20 2.1 Facility Description ......................................................................................................... 2-1 21 2.1.1 Reactor and Containment Systems ........................................................................
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