ML15056A053
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| ML15056A053 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Byron  |
| Issue date: | 03/23/2015 |
| From: | Lois James Division of License Renewal |
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| Shared Package | |
| ML15061A020 | List: |
| References | |
| NRC-1338, TAC MF1834, TAC MF1835 | |
| Download: ML15056A053 (22) | |
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Official Transcript of Proceedings NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Title:
Public Meeting RE Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Exelon Generation Company Byron Station Units 1 and 2 Evening Session Docket Number:
50-454 and 50-455 Location:
Byron, Illinois Date:
Tuesday, February 3, 2015 Work Order No.:
NRC-1338 Pages 1-21 NEAL R. GROSS AND CO., INC.
Court Reporters and Transcribers 1323 Rhode Island Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20005 (202) 234-4433
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 2
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3 Category 3 Public Meeting to Discuss the 4
Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement 5
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6 EXELON GENERATION COMPANY 7
BYRON STATION UNITS 1 AND 2 8
Regarding the Renewal of Facility Operating 9
License Nos. NPF-37 and NPF-66 for a 20-Year Period 10 Docket Nos. 50-454 and 50-455 11
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12 TUESDAY 13 FEBRUARY 3, 2015 14
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15 BYRON FOREST PRESERVE DISTRICT 16 7993 NORTH RIVER ROAD 17 BYRON, ILLINOIS 18
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19 The above-entitled matter commenced 20 pursuant to notice at 7:00 p.m.
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 PRESENT:
1 CHERYL HAUSMAN, Facilitator 2
LOIS M. JAMES, NRC Environmental Project Manager 3
BRIAN WITTICK, NRC Branch Chief 4
HARRAL LOGARAS, NRC Government Liaison 5
JAMES McGHEE, Senior Resident Inspector 6
JASON DRAPER, Resident Inspector 7
VIKTORIA MITLYNG, NRC Public Affairs Officer 8
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 P R O C E E D I N G S 1
(7:00 p.m.)
2 MS. JAMES: Good evening. Thank you for 3
coming. This is the public meeting to discuss the 4
preliminary results of the license renewal 5
environmental review for Byron Station. I'd like to 6
introduce Cheryl Hausman, our facilitator for the 7
evening.
8 MS. HAUSMAN: Good evening, everyone. I 9
would like to welcome you and thank you for 10 participating in the meeting to provide comments on the 11 US NRC's draft supplemental environmental impact 12 statement for license renewal of Byron Station's Unit 13 1 and 2.
14 My name is Cheryl Hausman and I will be your 15 facilitator for the meeting this evening. My role as 16 the facilitator is to help the meeting run smoothly, to 17 ensure that everyone who wishes to speak has an 18 opportunity to do so, and to keep us on time.
19 I would like to introduce the NRC staff at 20 this time.
21 MS. JAMES: My name is Lois James. I'm the 22 Project Manager for the environmental review of the 23 Byron license renewal application.
24 MR. WITTICK: Good evening. My name is 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 Brian Wittick. I am the Branch Chief for the 1
Environmental Projects Branch at the NRC headquarters.
2 MR. McGHEE: My name is James McGhee. I'm 3
the Senior Resident Inspector at the Byron Station, one 4
of the two inspectors that are stationed full time at 5
Byron.
6 MR. DRAPER: I'm Jason Draper, I'm a 7
Resident Inspector. I work with Jim.
8 MR. LOGARAS: I'm Harral Logaras. I'm a 9
Government Liaison from the Region III office.
10 MS. MITLYNG: And I am Viktoria Mitlyng, 11 Public Affairs, Region III, NRC.
12 MS. HAUSMAN: Thank you. This is a 13 Category 3 public meeting to encourage active 14 participation and information exchange with the NRC and 15 members of the public to obtain comments for the draft 16 environmental impact statement. The NRC invites and 17 encourages members of the public to present oral and 18 written comments on the appropriate scope of issues to 19 be considered in and the content of the draft 20 environmental impact statement.
21 Before we begin, I would like to go over a 22 few ground rules for the meeting this evening. I would 23 like to let everybody know that this meeting is being 24 transcribed, so I ask that you keep any background noise 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 to a minimum so the transcriptionist can be provided 1
accurate recording of the meeting. Also, a security 2
officer is present at the meeting. This is standard 3
practice for the NRC, and the security officer is here 4
for everyone's safety.
5 Please be respectful of others during the 6
meeting, and we will ensure that all the participants 7
who have a question or want to make a comment can be heard 8
and have time to do so. Please turn off all electronic 9
devices at this time or put them on vibrate. If you need 10 to take a phone call, that is certainly understandable, 11 but please do so in the lobby.
12 There are two exits out of the building, the 13 one on the left-hand side outside in the lobby and one 14 on the right-hand side. And the restrooms are out the 15 door in the lobby just in the back left-hand corner. If 16 we have to evacuate for any reason, please follow the 17 directions from the security officer.
18 The agenda for the meeting includes a 19 presentation by NRC staff to present an overview of 20 NRC's role and mission, a summary of the draft 21 environmental
- review, and upcoming milestones.
22 Following the presentation, we will take time to answer 23 questions from the audience, and then open the floor for 24 questions and comments. Please keep your questions and 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 comments relative to the topic.
1 Hopefully, everyone has signed in and 2
received copies of the agenda and presentation slides 3
and a feedback form. If you haven't signed in or need 4
some of the forms or the slides, they are at the 5
registration table in the lobby. When speaking, please 6
use a microphone. If you have a question or a comment, 7
step up to the microphone in the center of the room and 8
begin by stating your name.
9 Finally, the NRC is always looking to 10 improve our meetings and your feedback is important to 11 us. There are some postage-paid public meeting 12 feedback forms available and you can fill one out today 13 and give it to any NRC staff member or drop it in the 14 mail.
15 Any questions about the logistics of the 16 meeting?
17 (No response.)
18 MS. HAUSMAN: Okay. With that, I would 19 like to turn it over to Lois James.
20 MS. JAMES: Thank you, Cheryl. And thank 21 everyone here for coming to participate in the meeting 22 tonight. As I said, my name is Lois James. I'm the 23 project manager for the environmental review of the 24 Byron Station license renewal application. I hope the 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 information we provide in the presentation tonight will 1
help you understand what we've done so far and the role 2
you can play in helping us make sure the final 3
environmental impact statement is accurate and 4
complete. I would like to emphasize that the 5
environmental review is not complete yet and your input 6
would be vital to us.
7 I would like to start off by briefly going 8
over the agenda and the purpose. I will discuss the NRC 9
regulatory role, the preliminary findings of our 10 environmental impact statement, and I will present the 11 current schedule for completion of the final 12 environmental impact statement. Next slide.
13 The NRC was established to regulate 14 civilian use of nuclear material, including power 15 facilities. The NRC conducts license renewal for 16 plants whose owners wish to operate the plants beyond 17 their initial licensing term. The NRC license review 18 includes safety issues related to managing the effects 19 of aging, and environmental issues related to the 20 operation through the additional 20-year period.
21 Excuse me.
22 In all aspects of the NRC's regulation, our 23 mission is threefold:
24 To ensure adequate protection of the public 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 health and safety; 1
To promote common defense and security; and 2
To protect the environment.
3 We are here to discuss the potential 4
site-specific impacts of the Byron license renewal 5
environmental impact statement.
The generic 6
environmental impact statement or GEIS examines the 7
possible environmental impacts that could occur as a 8
result of renewing licenses of individual nuclear power 9
plants. The GEIS, to the extent possible, establishes 10 and bounds the significance of these potential impacts.
11 The analysis in the GEIS pertains to 12 operating power reactors. For each type of 13 environmental impact, the GEIS establishes generic 14 findings, covering as many plants as possible. For 15 some of these environmental issues, the GEIS found that 16 a generic evaluation is not sufficient, and a 17 plant-specific analysis is required.
18 The site-specific findings for Byron are 19 contained in the draft SEIS published in December 2014.
20 This document contains analyses of all applicable 21 site-specific issues, as well as a review of issues 22 covered by the GEIS to determine whether the conclusions 23 in the GEIS are valid for Byron. Next slide please.
24 The purpose and need of the proposed 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 federal action. First, what is the proposed federal 1
action? The proposed federal action is to issue a 2
renewed license. The purpose and need is to provide an 3
option that allows for power generation capability 4
beyond the term of the current operating license. The 5
definition of the purpose and need reflects the NRC's 6
recognition that unless there are findings in the safety 7
review required by the, or the NEPA environmental 8
analyses, the NRC does not have a role in the energy 9
planning decisions of the state regulators and utility 10 officials as to whether a particular nuclear power plant 11 should continue to operate. Next slide please.
12 How are the impacts defined? For each 13 environmental issue, an impact levels is assigned. The 14 NRC standard of significance for impacts was 15 established using the White House Council on 16 Environmental Quality terminology. For small impact, 17 the effects are not detectable or are so minor that they 18 will need to destabilize nor noticeably alter any 19 important resource attribute. For moderate impact, 20 the effects are sufficient to alter noticeably, but not 21 to destabilize an important attribute of the resource.
22 Large impacts are defined as effects are clearly 23 noticeable and are sufficient to destabilize an 24 important attribute of the resource.
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 While these impact designations are used 1
for most resources, there are three that have their own 2
designation level. They are:
3 Special status species or Endangered 4
Species Act, that is defined as no effect, or may affect 5
but not likely to adversely affect, may affect and is 6
likely to adversely affect.
7 Then we have cultural and historical, and 8
those are effects on any historical properties in the 9
area.
Last, we have environmental justice, and 10 that is described in terms of disproportionately high 11 and adverse impacts. Next slide please.
12 First, we will discuss cumulative impacts.
13 The NRC staff considers cumulative impacts.
14 Cumulative impacts include the effects on the 15 environment from other past, present, and reasonably 16 foreseeable future human actions. These effects not 17 only include the operation of Byron Station, but also 18 impacts some activities unrelated to Byron, such as 19 further urbanization or other energy-producing 20 facilities in the area.
21 The cumulative impact on all resource areas 22 for Byron were found to be small with the following 23 exceptions.
Cumulative impact on terrestrial 24 resources would be small to moderate, primarily due to 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 the agricultural runoff and residential development 1
over the period of the extended operation. The 2
cumulative impacts on aquatic ecology would be 3
moderate, primarily due to past river channelization 4
and damming and ongoing runoff and sedimentation. The 5
cumulative impact of global climate change would be 6
moderate, primarily due to the present and future global 7
emissions of greenhouse gases. Next slide please.
8 Site-specific environmental review of 9
Byron. As you can see from this slide, the 10 environmental impact on all the resources was small.
11 For special status species, there was no effect. For 12 historic and cultural resources, there was no adverse 13 effect. And for environmental justice, there was no 14 proportionately high and adverse impacts. Next slide 15 please.
16 The National Environmental Policy Act or 17 NEPA mandates that each environmental impact statement 18 consider alternatives to any proposed major federal 19 action. A major step in determining whether license 20 renewal is reasonable or not is comparing the likely 21 impacts of continued operations of the nuclear power 22 plant with likely impacts of alternative means of power 23 generation. An alternative must provide an option that 24 allows for power generation capability beyond the term 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 of the current nuclear power plant license to meet 1
future system generating needs.
2 In the draft SEIS, the NRC staff initially 3
considered 17 different alternatives, then narrowed 4
those down to five and considered those five in depth.
5 Those five were: new nuclear; integrated gasification 6
combined cycle; natural gas combined cycle; a 7
combination which includes natural gas combined-cycle, 8
wind, and solar. And then, finally, we considered the 9
purchase power. All NEPA environmental impact 10 statements have to also consider the no action 11 alternative. Next slide please.
12 Our preliminary conclusion is that the 13 adverse environmental impacts of the license renewal 14 for Byron Station are not great enough to deny the option 15 of license renewal for energy planning decision makers.
16 I wanted to mention here that in September 17 of 2014, the NRC issued the final Continued Storage 18 Rule, an associated generic environmental impact 19 statement. You can find this environmental impact 20 statement and other related documents at the website on 21 the bottom of the slide.
22 The last thing I'll cover is the 23 environmental review milestones. Most of these we have 24 completed. Today is the day that we are conducting the 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 draft public meeting. Comments are due by February 1
20th, and the final SEIS is scheduled to be issued in 2
July of 2015.
3 If you need additional information, you can 4
contact me. My contact information is on the slide.
5 The draft SEIS can also be viewed at the local public 6
library, and you can find it on the NRC website at this 7
location.
8 To provide
- comments, there's three 9
different ways provide comments after the meeting. One 10 is by mail. You can mail it to the Chief Rules, 11 Announcement and Directives Branch. You can also drop 12 by the NRC headquarters directly, the address is here.
13 And finally, you can go to the regulations.gov and 14 search for the docket, NRC-2013-0178, and provide your 15 comments there.
16 This concludes my presentation and I'll 17 turn it back over to Cheryl.
18 MS. HAUSMAN: Thank you, Lois. Before we 19 move into the public comment period, the NRC staff would 20 like to provide an opportunity to answer questions or 21 provide clarifications on the slide presentation you 22 have just seen. So, we'll take a few minutes for a brief 23 Q&A period regarding the presentation. This is the 24 part of the meeting where you have an opportunity to ask 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 questions on the material which has been presented. If 1
you have a question, please step up to the microphone 2
and introduce yourself. This first portion of the 3
meeting is just regarding the presentation, and then 4
following the brief Q&A we'll begin the public comment 5
portion of the meeting.
6 Does anybody have any questions on the 7
presentation or need any clarifications on any of the 8
slides?
9 (No response.)
10 MS. HAUSMAN: Is there anybody on the 11 bridge line that has a question or a comment about the 12 slide presentation?
13 PHONE OPERATOR: We have no questions from 14 the phone on this.
15 MS. HAUSMAN: Okay, thank you. All right.
16 We'll move into the public comment period. So, this is 17 the part of the meeting where you have an opportunity 18 to give your comments on the scope and content of the 19 draft environmental review. If you have a question or 20 comment, please step up to the microphone, introduce 21 yourself, and if you would like to mention any 22 organization affiliation, please do that as well. In 23 addition, if you can be as succinct as possible, we 24 should be able to get everyone's comments and complete 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 the meeting in a timely manner. If you wish to make a 1
comment outside the scope of this meeting, the NRC staff 2
will be available for approximately 30 minutes 3
following the meeting to answer questions.
4 I'll go to the phone lines first before I 5
open it up to the audience here. Does anybody in the 6
phone line have a question or comments regarding the 7
environmental impact review?
8 PHONE OPERATOR: There is nobody in the 9
queue at this time.
10 MS. HAUSMAN: Thank you. First, I would 11 like to invite Angela Mahoney.
12 MS. MAHONEY: Hello. I'm Angela Mahoney, 13 I'm one of the board members of Rockriversweep.org. We 14 are a 501C3 not-for-profit organization dedicated to 15 preserving the health and ecosystem of the Rock River.
16 We represent over 500 volunteers in 34 communities along 17 the Rock River, the 284 miles of the Rock River, and we 18 do this in a yearly one-day cleanup effort.
19 The Byron Generating Station of Exelon has 20 generously supported this effort and they were very 21 instrumental in the funding of the rockriversweep.org 22 as well as employee volunteers of the Byron Station that 23 contribute every year at the local cleanup efforts.
24 With their help, we are making a positive impact every 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 year to the river cleanliness. Thank you.
1 MS. HAUSMAN: Thank you. Anybody else 2
have a comment or question? Sir.
3 MR. FARMER: My name is Mitch Farmer, I 4
spoke a little earlier. I just wanted to augment some 5
of the comments I made earlier today and reflect on some 6
of the previous comments that were made earlier today.
7 But I do want to reiterate the fact that, just, I work 8
at Argonne National Lab. I'm a nuclear engineer, 9
that's a Department of Energy facility, and I've worked 10 in reactor safety for about 27 years, just for the 11 record.
12 I do want to go back and readdress the 13 primary concern here which was the environmental 14 statement. And I just want to reconfirm that I think 15 that Byron has a positive influence on the environmental 16 status of the area, and nuclear power in general does 17 that by reducing carbon emissions which are very 18 beneficial. And I think at this time everybody is aware 19 of the effect of greenhouse gases and global warming and 20 I think this is very important.
21 But I do want to come back and just talk 22 about a couple of other things, questions that were 23 raised. There was a concern about rising costs at Byron 24 that could be influencing the operation and maintenance 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 and, thereby, the safety of the plant. And I think, my 1
personal opinion is that there is not an increase in the 2
operation and maintenance costs. What's happened in 3
the industry is cheap natural gas from fracking.
4 That's undercut not only the nuclear industry but also 5
the coal industry and the ability to profitably produce 6
electricity.
7 But I do want to say that my personal 8
opinion is, and I think it's driven by regulation, that 9
has no significant impact on the safety of the plant.
10 I am familiar with the people who operate the plants and 11 I can tell you that safety is their number one priority.
12 And as a regulatory guide, the equipment that is used 13 to shut the plants down is under an in-service 14 inspection and maintenance program that is auditable.
15 And so, the first thing that any plant operator does is 16 ensure that his safety equipment is operational.
17 And therefore, any reduction in costs at a 18 plant are not going to impact the safety, I want to say 19 that. That's the number priority. If there are any 20 losses in safety, that would be a basis for pulling the 21 license. And I don't think that's going to happen.
22 I do want to say also that there has been 23 a continuous effort in the industry in terms of safety 24 over the years, and I think the industry has done a very 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 good job in responding and evolving safety culture.
1 And this was reconfirmed in terms of Fukushima. This 2
was an event that brought safety back to the forefront 3
of everybody's mind. But I do want to say that there 4
has been a continuous effort in the industry for the last 5
27 years of my career working on safety, and that's 6
continued to evolve. And that was in place before 7
Fukushima and it will remain in place for the balance 8
of the plant operations because it is the number one 9
priority. So, thank you.
10 MS. HAUSMAN: Thank you. Any other 11 comments or questions?
12 PHONE OPERATOR: There are none on the 13 phone line at this time.
14 MS. HAUSMAN: Thank you.
15 MR. O'BRIEN: Thank you. I'm Doug O'Brien 16 with the Illinois Clean Energy Coalition. And like 17 Mitch, I wanted to echo some of the things that I said 18 at the earlier meeting. And again, this is a meeting 19 that's about environmental impacts and that was touched 20 upon that one of the most important positive impacts of 21 nuclear power generation in Illinois is the fact that 22 it generates almost 50 percent of the electricity 23 produced in Illinois with zero carbon emissions.
24 The Illinois Clean Energy Coalition, in a 25
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 study last year of carbon emissions from electricity, 1
found that nuclear energy in Illinois prevents the 2
annual generation of over 90 million tons of CO2. And 3
that's the equivalent of the carbon pollution from all 4
the cars registered in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and 5
Wisconsin. In a recent multi-agency report produced by 6
the state of Illinois about the risks of losing nuclear 7
generation, it stated that the social costs of replacing 8
nuclear generation with fossil fuel generation could be 9
as high as $18 billion over the next decade in the form 10 of added public health costs and other expenditures 11 resulting from increased pollution. Last week in 12 Chicago, one of the leading environmental advocates in 13 the country, former EPA Administrator Carol Browner 14 made the case very clearly. After decades of pursuing 15 reductions in pollution and advocating policies to 16 limit climate change, she said we simply cannot make 17 meaningful environmental progress without using 18 nuclear energy as one of the power sources we rely upon.
19 The Illinois Clean Energy Coalition 20 strongly encourages the renewal of the operating 21 license for Byron Station. It's a key component in our 22 role as the leading generator of carbon-free energy in 23 the nation, and it's vital to our progress towards a 24 cleaner environment. Thank you.
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(202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 (202) 234-4433 MS. HAUSMAN: Thank you. Anybody else 1
with a question or comment? Everybody ready to call it 2
an evening?
3 All right. Well, with that, I'm going to 4
turn it over to Brian Wittick for closing remarks.
5 MR. WITTICK: Thank you, Cheryl. And 6
thank you, Lois, for the presentation.
7 I especially wanted to thank everyone here 8
for participation in this evening's meeting and as well 9
as participation in this afternoon's meeting. These 10 meetings are a very important part of our regulatory 11 process to gain insights from and engage with the public 12 in the development of our environmental impact 13 statements. As Lois mentioned previously, the public 14 comment period is open through the 20th of February.
15 Any additional comments that are desired to be 16 submitted, please submit them as shown up here on the 17 slide, or feel free to contact Lois to do so.
18 Also, as mentioned, NRC staff will be 19 available after the meeting for any further discussions 20 or questions that anyone may have. And with that, we 21 close the meeting. Thank you for coming.
22 (Whereupon, the meeting was concluded at 23 7:27 p.m.)
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