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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: [email protected] 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. 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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 ........................................................................