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| Site: | Monticello  |
| Issue date: | 04/18/2023 |
| From: | Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards |
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TEAMS TRANSCRIPT NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION TITLE: ENVIRONMENTAL SCOPING MEETING RELATED TO THE MONTICELLO NUCLEARL GENERATING PLANT SUBSEQUENT LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION LOCATION: WEBINAR CONFERENCE ID: 168211971 DATE: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2023 Brett Klukan (He/Him):
Welcome, everyone. Thank you for joining us this afternoon. We're going to give people some additional time to join us, so we'll probably get started around probably about a minute after 1:00 Central time. So just in a few minutes we'll get started here. But again, thank you for joining us this afternoon.
Again, welcome everyone. To the Nuclear Regulatory Commissions environmental scoping meeting related to the Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant subsequent license renewal or what we'll call SLR application.
My name is Brett Klukan. Normally I serve as the Regional Council for region, one of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. However, this afternoon I will be acting as a facilitator for this meeting. Our goals this afternoon are twofold. One, to provide you with an overview of the subsequent license renewal process, both with regards to safety and environmental reviews for the Monticello Nuclear generating plant, subsequent license renewal review, and two, to get your input on the environmental issues that the NRC should address as part of its environmental review.
Now a term you're going to hear a lot of this afternoon is scoping, which simply means determining the scope of the environmental review, which in this case is for the continued operation of Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant. This afternoon's meeting is just one way that you can participate in that process, and we'll be going into more detail about that later. However, before I go any further, I want to let you know that in response to your interests and recent news, the NRC staff will first address the tritiated water leak at Monticello. Before turning to his discussion of the SLR review.
Please note that this afternoon's meeting is being recorded and transcribed, so we ask that you help us get a full clear accounting of the meeting by staying on mute. If you were on the phone or on Teams and they're not speaking when it is not your turn to do so, we would also ask that when you were a muted, please keep your devices silence. It would also greatly help us for the purposes of the transcription if you could identify yourself in any group affiliation when you first speak.
Particularly those who are participating with us via the phone this afternoon, all the meeting attendees will have their microphones and cameras disabled during this presentation. When we get to the limited process, question, answer session and then the comment portion of the meeting, those of you on Teams can use the raise your hand feature to signal that you would like to speak those of you on phone. Can you star 5 again that is STAR 5 in order to raise your hand.
Once I've enabled your microphone, you will then have to unmute yourself before you ask your question or pose your comment. For those of you participating via phone, you can unmute yourself by pressing STAR 6. Again, that is Star 6. For the sake of simplicity, the order of the speakers will be determined by the order in which individuals raise their hands. So first come first serve.
One other item I'm hoping that you'll help us out with is by filling out the public meeting feedback form.
You can find a link to the public meeting feedback form on the energy public meeting schedule page for this meeting. Your opinion on how this meeting went will greatly help us to improve future meetings and so please we ask you to take a moment to let us know what you think. Now I'd like to take just a few moments to introduce some of the NRC staff in attendance today we have with us John Moses, the Deputy Division Director for the Division of Rulemaking, Environmental and Financial Support.
Jessica Hammock, the safety project manager; Jessica Umana, the environmental project manager; Viktoria Mytling the from the Office of Public Affairs, Valerie Myers, a senior health physicist from region three of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
And last but not least, Tammy Bloomer, the Director of the Division of Radiological Health and Safety and Security and Region 3 and without any further ado, I'd like to turn it over to Tammy for a statement regarding the tritiated water leak at Monticello. So whenever you're ready, Tammy?
Tammy Bloomer (She/Her):
Thank you, Brett. Good afternoon. As Brett mentioned, this is the webinar for Monticello's application for subsequent license renewal. However, I'm here with you today because members of the Monticello community continue to have concerns about the November 2022 water leak that contained tritium at the Monticello facility.
We understand you're concerned. We want to emphasize that you are safe and you're drinking water is safe.
Since the public meeting last week, we learned that the interim repair began to leak a small amount. As a result, the facility made the decision to shut down to do a complete repair of the leaking pipe. As of today, the pipe has been replaced and the facility will begin to restart.
From the first notification of the leak, our inspectors at the facility and my health physicists have assessed the situation and concluded that the public is safe, the environment is safe and the plant is safe. And we will continue to assess the situation as the facility continues to monitor on site wells.
We will have a public meeting in Monticello to discuss plant issues, questions and concerns related to the Monticello facility. Please contact our public affairs staff for further information on this future meeting.
Thank you for joining us. And Brett, I'll turn it back to you.
Brett Klukan (He/Him):
Thank you. Very thank you very much, Tammy. And now I'd like to turn it over to John Moses for opening remarks regarding the SLR scoping meeting. Thank you.
John Moses:
Thank you, Brett, and good afternoon, everyone. As Brett mentioned, my name is John Moses and I'm the Deputy Director of the Rulemaking Environmental and Financial Services Division at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Today's meeting is the 2nd environmental scoping meeting for the Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant Unit 1 Subsequent license renewal application.
The process encourages public participation and transparency and public participation. Openness, transparency are all key to all of NRCs activities, including the licensing of nuclear facilities.
After the presenters describe the agency's process to conduct safety and environmental reviews well pause and ask if there are any questions or comments about the NRC's license renewal process. Then Brett will turn to all of you and solicit your comments on or questions about the applicants environmental report. I'm looking forward to hearing your feedback on significant issues that you feel are important for the staff to consider in their detailed analysis of environmental issues. Which will be included in our review of the applicants environmental report. Our goal is to hear from you, collect any comments that you might have so that we might fully consider them during our review. We thank you in advance for your participation. And with that, I'll turn back over to our facilitator back to you, Brett.
Thank you very much, John. And now I'd like to turn it over to Jessica Hammock and Jessica Umana. I will be back after the presentation by Jessica and Jessica to answer to go over any questions you may have regarding the environmental scoping process. And then we'll turn to the public comment portion of the meeting. And again, I would ask as such that you please hold any questions you have until after Jessica and Jessica have completed the presentation. So with that, I'll turn it over to Jessica and Jessica. Thank you everyone.
Jessica Umana:
Thanks Brett.
Good afternoon. My name is Jessica Umana and the environmental project manager for Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant Subsequent license renewal, the environmental review, and I would like to welcome you to this webinar hosted by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission or hereafter referred to as the NRC. My colleague Jessica Hammock is a safety project manager and will be presenting to you today as well. Our goals today are to provide you with an overview of the subsequent license renewal process for safety and environmental for the Monticello review. And to solicit your input on the environmental issues that the NRC should address in our environmental review. The term you're going to hear a lot today is scoping, which means determining the scope of the environmental review, in this case for the continued operation of Monticello.
Today's meeting is just one way that you can participate in the process, and we'll be going into more detail about that later. Next slide please.
Our agenda today will provide an overview of the license renewal process. After this presentation, you'll have some time to ask clarifying, clarifying questions about the information for information presented after that comes the final and most important part of this webinar where we will open the virtual floor to receive your scoping comments. This is where you provide your input on what the NRC should
consider to be in the scope and the NRC's environmental review for Monticello subsequent license renewal.
Next slide.
Again, Jessica Hammock is the safety review lead for the Monticello subsequent license renewal and I am environmental lead for Monticello.
Next slide. OK, thanks. Here are the overall logistics for the webinar today. This is a comment gathering webinar by the NRC definitions. So we are actively seeking your input. Please note that we are transcribing and recording today's meeting so that the NRC staff can be sure to get a full accounting of the comments that you provide.
Next slide.
Now to provide you with some background information on Monticello. Monticello Unit One was first licensed in September 1970 and was granted an initial renewed license in 2006. The current renewed license expires in September 2030. If a license renewal is granted, it will be for an additional 20 years.
Next slide please.
Xcel Energy has filed an application for subsequent license renewal for Monticello by letter dated January 9th, 2023. A license renewal application is required to contain general information such as the applicants name and address, business and administrative information, and technical information which pertains to aging management. The technical information is the focus of the safety review. The application also includes an environmental report which is the applicants assessment for the environmental impacts of continued operation.
This information serves as a starting point for the staff to review the environmental aspects of the subsequent license renewal for Monticello. I'm now going to turn the presentation over to Jessica Hammock to cover the safety review for Monticello.
Jessica Hammock:
Thank you, Jessica. Once again, my name is Jessica Hammock, and I am the safety project manager for the Monticello subsequent license renewal review. I will now walk us through the NRC's subsequent license renewal review process, as shown on this slide. Starting from the left, the process begins once the subsequent license renewal application or SLRA, has been accepted for review, then the process breaks out into two parallel reviews. The safety review, which you see on the top and the environmental review in the middle. These two reviews evaluate separate aspects.
The license renewal application on the safety side of the review, following the staff review of the application, the Advisory Committee on reactor safeguards, or ACRS, completes an independent review of the application to make a recommendation to the Commission.
At the bottom of the flow chart, dotted lines lead to hearings. The dotted lines represent the opportunity for a hearing in accordance with the Atomic Energy Act, which establishes a process for members of the public to request involvement in hearings on a variety of nuclear civilian matters, including subsequent license renewal.
The Commission considers the outcome of the hearing process in its decision on whether or not to issue a renewed operating license.
Finally, with inputs from the environmental review, the ACRS recommendation on the safety review, as well as the staff findings from the safety review, a final decision is made by the NRC. Next slide please.
The Atomic Energy Act authorizes the NRC to issue licenses for commercial power reactors to operate for up to 40 years. These licenses can then be renewed for an additional 20 years at a time. This period following the initial licensing term is known as the period of extended operation. Now subsequent license renewals would allow plants to operate beyond the 60 years of that initial license, also known as the first renewal. Subsequent license renewals would also be for 20 years. The purpose of the safety review is to identify aging effects that could impair the ability.
Those systems, structures, and components, known as SSCs within the scope of license renewal to perform their intended functions and to demonstrate that these aging effects will be adequately managed during the period of extended operation. The scope has not changed from initial license renewal to subsequent license renewal.
As previously mentioned, on January 9th of 2023, Northern States Power Company also operating as Xcel Energy submitted the subsequent license renewal application for Monticello. After receiving the application, the NRC conducted an acceptance review. The first step of our review, the NRC determined the Xcel Energys application was sufficient and acceptable for docketing. On February 23rd, 2023. Then we move on to our technical review, which includes an aging management audit.
The aging management audit consists of three parts shown in the green squares at the top, the in office Technical Review audit, an onsite audit, and a breakout audit.
During all phases of the audit, the NRC staff reviews the application documents and references in greater detail as part of the safety review, the staff also reviews the applicants operating experience for information applicable to aging management.
Following the audit, an audit report is issued at the very end, the staff will document its review in a safety evaluation, also known as an SE.
Next slide please.
The NRC ensures the adequate protection of public health and safety and the environment through the regulatory process which is shown on this slide. The regulatory process consists of five major components. We develop regulations and guidance for applicants and licensees. We license or certify applicants to either use nuclear materials, operate nuclear facilities, or decommission.
We oversee licensee operations and facilities to ensure that licensees comply with safety requirements.
We evaluate operational experience at licensed facilities or involved license to activities and in support of our regulatory decisions, we conduct research, hold hearings to address the concerns of parties affected by the Agency decisions and obtain independent reviews.
With license renewal, the regulatory process now considers aging management, which is represented by
the red block and arrow on the right. Now, I will turn the meeting back over to Jessica Umana. We'll discuss the environmental review in greater detail.
Next slide.
Jessica Umana:
Thank you, Jessica.
I would like now to draw attention on the environmental review, the National Environmental Policy Act obligates federal agencies to consider environmental impacts and federal actions. The NRC specific environmental regulations are contained in 10 CFR part 51. The objective or environmental review.
Is to determine if the environmental impacts of subsequent license renewal are so great that subsequent license renewal would not be a reasonable option. Or, more plainly, if subsequent license renewal is unacceptable from an environmental standpoint. Next slide, please.
Our environmental review considers the impacts of continuing of continuation of operation for the plant for an additional 20 years and any proposed mitigation of those impacts as warranted. We also consider the impacts of reasonable alternatives to the proposed action of subsequent license renewal, including the impacts of not issuing a subsequence renewed license. The staff documents, its environmental review and an environmental impact statement or EIS.
The staff has developed the generic EIS that addressed a number of issues common to all nuclear power plants. The staff is supplementing that generic EIS with a site-specific EIS in which will address issues that are specific to Monticello. The staff also reexamines the conclusions reached in the generic EIS to determine if there are any new and significant information that would change us conclusions.
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For a subsequent license renewal. The NRC looks at a wide range of environmental impacts as part of preparing the EIS. As you can see on the slide, these are areas in which we will need your comments as part of the scoping process.
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In conducting our environmental review, we coordinate and consult with various local, state, federal and tribal officials and gather pertinent information from these sources to ensure it is considered in our analysis. As illustrated on this slide about consulting agencies. Examples include the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, EPA, the state has state historical preservation officer, and so on.
As part of the environmental review, as part of the environmental review, the staff may also hold public meetings to receive comments on the draft EIS.
I'm now going to go into details about the environmental scoping process.
Next slide.
The environment, the environmental review begins with a scoping process. The purpose of the scoping process is to identify significant issues that should be considered in the environmental review. We are now gathering information that we will use to prepare the environmental impact statement for subsequent license renewal. As part of that process today, we would like to collect your comments on the scope of the environmental review. That is the environmental impacts of the staff should consider in the areas illustrated in this diagram. The scoping period started on March 10th, 2023. When a notice of intent to prepare an EIS and conduct scoping was published in the Federal Register.
The NRC will be accepting comments on the scope and the environment or review until April 10th, 2023.
In general, we are looking for information about environmental impacts from the continued operation of Monticello for the period of the extended operation. You can assist us in that process by telling us, for example, what aspects of your local community we should focus on, what local environmental, social, and economic issues the NRC staff should examine during the environmental review and what reasonable alternatives are most appropriate for your local region.
These are just some examples of the input that we are looking for and they were present the kinds of information we are seeking through the environment of scoping period. Your comments today would be helpful in providing insight of this nature for the environmental analysis.
Next slide please.
Here are some important milestones in the environmental review process.
If you have the environmental scoping comments that you'd like to submit outside of today's meeting, you have until April 10th to do so, and that date is highlighted on the slide.
Please note that we plan to issue a draft supplemental EIS for public comment by February 2024. This is another way you could be involved in this process as well. Members of the public will have an opportunity to provide comments on the draft supplemental EIS. While this slide lists milestones for the environmental review and opportunities for public involvement, the safety review will be performed on a separate schedule and that schedule is available online.
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This slide identifies the primary point of contact with the NRC for the license renewal of the Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant. Uh, the last individual listed here is Brent Ballard, and he is the operating reactor project manager. And again, you see Jessica Hammock and my information listed up there as well.
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For those members of the public calling in from the Monticello area, the Monticello Great River Regional Library has agreed to make the license renewal application available for public inspection. The draft, the draft supplemental EIS will also be available at this library when it is published for comment. In addition, both these documents will be available on the NRC website.
Next slide.
As I mentioned earlier, the most important piece of today's meeting is to receive any comments that you may have on the scoping of the environmental review. Here are various ways that you can submit your comments for environmental review. You can provide written comments by mail to the NRC at the address provided here, or you can send your comments to that chronically by going to regulations.gov or via e-mail as indicated on the slide. Again, just a reminder that your comments should be submitted by April 10th.
Next slide.
And this concludes the presentation.
Brett Klukan (He/Him):
OK. Thank you, Jessica and Jessica.
We're now going to turn to, as indicated in our agenda, a limited question period for any questions you might have regarding the matters discussed in the presentations regarding the environmental review process, how it works, whatnot. So if you have any such questions, again on the process, there has just been discussed with respect to environmental scoping pre, please raise your hand at this time if you're participating via the app, use the raise hand feature within teams if you're participating.
The phone press star 5 again that is Star 5. So right now, we're simply looking for questions on the process. Again, that is star five. If you're participating via phone or use the raise hand function within the teams app.
OK, I'm not seeing any hands raised at this time, so I'm now going to open it up first to any elected officials or representatives of elected officials or representatives on government bodies of whether it's the federal, tribal, state or local levels who would like to make any official statements at this time.
If you would like to do so, please raise your hand using again the app or please press star 5 on your phone.
Not seeing any. Alright. We will now open it up to the public. So, if you, as a member of the public, have a comment that you would like to pose in response to as part of the to be captured as part of the environmental scoping process, please raise your hand at this time. And I'm gonna say it again and I'll say many times before this meeting is done, you can use the raised hand function within teams or if you're on the phone and press star five, that is again star five. We have one hand raised at this time.
Mr. Karl Pauls, I have allowed you to unmute yourself. So whenever you're ready, please feel free to unmute yourself and then state your name before you begin.
Yeah.
Karl Pauls:
Hi, my name is Karl Pauls or Karl Alex Pauls. It may be easier to find me using all three names. To clarify this is only about scoping and not any general statements.
Brett Klukan (He/Him):
OK.
Karl Pauls:
OK. Thank you.
Brett Klukan (He/Him):
Any anyone else from the members of the public who would like to ask or excuse me to pose a comment that they would like captured as part of the environmental scoping process.
Again, feel free to raise your hand within the app using the little function that looks like this.
I guess it actually looks like this to you.
Or if you're on the phone plus star 5 again, that is Star 5.
Alright, any giving you a couple minutes there to think if you pending members of the public have any comments that they would like to make at this time? Again, please feel free to raise your hand within teams or to if you're on the phone press star 5.
Karl, going back to you, did you have a general comment that you wanted to make it maybe?
Karl Pauls:
Yes, I'd be happy to.
Brett Klukan (He/Him):
OK.
Karl Pauls:
Ill fully introduce myself. My name is Karl Alex Pauls. I am speaking in favor of renewal and continued operation of the plant that Monticello. I've never been paid for my activism, but I am beginning to consider a future career nuclear energy. The time is short to act on climate change and preserving our low carbon nuclear fleet is important to the future of our climate.
For my daughter's sake, please do not ignore our duty to reduce emissions using every tool that we have.
My first suggestion is guidance for both the NRC and action from Xcel Energy. Both agencies should be more transparent in effluent levels. The nuclear industry has done themselves a great disservice by describing nuclear as safe. I personally avoid using the word safe.
I like to say that this technology is like a medical intervention and it is worth the risks. I'd like to ask NRC and Xcel to provide tritium concentrations both in millisievert ingested per liter as well as becquerel or giga becquerel as the the level might be even if these numbers sound scary, the public needs accurate and well widely reported information about effluent levels, especially when. The speculation around this accident is really frightfully inaccurate and so thank you very much and I hope that we can find it some mechanism to communicate effluent levels around these monitoring wells in in a real time manner. I
know that TEPCO for all the harm that they did in avoiding NRC recommendations, they have turned around their industry and provided us great transparency into the monitoring wells around Fukushima Daiichi.
Thank you for listening to my comments.
Brett Klukan (He/Him):
Karl, thank you very much for your comments and your participating this afternoon. Anyone else again, please use the raise hand function within teams or press star 5 on your phone.
We'll give individuals here minute or two to think about it.
And one more call. Uh sound a little bit like a broken record here, but one more call for any comments.
Again, I used the raised hand function within teams or press STAR 5 on your phone. Again, that is Star 5.
Alright, we have one individual who's raised their hand. Let me allow the microphone. Whenever you're ready. Ryan Pickering, please feel free to go ahead.
Ryan Pickering (Guest):
Thank you. Since we're open to making general comments, I thought I'd make mine now and then get back to my work day. My name is Ryan Pickering and I just like to 2nd the previous caller calling for transparency on tritium. This is in public discourse. This is seeming to be a challenge for folks and, you know, nuclear science is a little bit calm, complicated for lay people. So I'd also like to 2nd that call for.
Increased amount of transparency on tritium. Because even though the numbers sound big and they're inherently confusing, this gives experts and science communicators. Real numbers to communicate with the public. You know the whole. Umm, you know, question about how much tritium is in an exit sign and you know and how this tritium issue is coming up at multiple nuclear power plants who are either decommissioning or seeking relicense. The public deserves to understand this situation a little bit better, so I would appreciate the NRC publishing.
All anything and everything on tritium so that we can set the public at ease. Understanding that there is no threat to human or animal or plant life. Thank you.
Brett Klukan (He/Him):
Thank you very much for your comment and for attending the meeting this afternoon. Thank you.
Uh, any anyone else have a comment that they would like to offer as part of this meeting? Again, please use the raised hand function within teams or press STAR 5 on your phone.
Again.
Just waiting to see if anyone else has any additional comments. If you do, please use the raise hand function within teams or press star 5 on your phone.
Alright, one last call everyone. Just wanna make sure is there anyone who would like to make a a comment at this time again use the raise hand function within teams or press star 5 on your phone.
Now we're going to hold the meeting open until 3:00 PM.
And just to make sure that in case anyone joins late, but if you do feel the need to drop off at this time, you know, please feel free. But again, the NRC staff is going to stay on in case anyone joins late and wants to offer her a public comment and until 3:00 PM. So thank you, everyone.
So you'll see me periodically jump in just to remind people, but again it you know.
Feel free to leave at any time. We're just gonna stay on the line in case anyone wants to join us.
Just a clarification, because many of us are located on in either Washington, DC, myself outside of the Philadelphia region. When I said 3:00 PM, what I really meant was at 2:00 PM central time. So we're gonna stay on for about 20 more minutes to make sure that we don't have anyone arriving late, would like to offer our public comments as part of this meeting. And then at 2:00 PM central time, 3:00 PM Eastern Time, we will close out the meeting.
Again, thank you very much for attending and for those of you on the line are still with us. Again, we are going to hold the meeting open until 2:00 PM central 3:00 PM Eastern in case we have any late comers.
So thank you very much.
Just a periodic reminder everyone, because it looks like we may have had one individual join us, they if you would like to pose a public comment at this time regarding the environmental scoping process, please use the raised hand function within teams or press star five if you're participating via phone.
Again that is star 5 to raise your hand to let us know that you would like to offer a comment. So again use raise hand function within teams or press star 5 on your phone and again we will hold the meeting open until 2:00 PM central 3:00 PM eastern. Thank you.
Just a reminder, everyone that if you like to pose a public comment, please use the raise hand function within teams or if you're participating via phone, press star 5 again that star five we the NRC staff are holding the line open until 2:00 PM Central time, 3:00 PM Eastern Time. Just in case we have any late comers who would like to offer public comments. So again use the raise hand function within teams or press star 5 on your phone to let us know that you don't have a public comment that you'd like to offer.
Thank you.
Just wanted additional reminder everyone that if you'd like to offer a public comment, please use the raise hand function within teams or press star 5 in your phone and again we are holding the line open until 2:00 PM Central time, 3:00 PM Eastern Time. Thank you very much.
All I apologize for the repetition, but I'm gonna say it one more time. If you'd like to pose the public comment, please raise your hand using the raise hand function within teams or press star five if you're participating via phone. We are they holding the line open for five more minutes until 2:00 PM Central time 3:00 PM Eastern Time to allow any late comers to offer public comments as part of this meeting.
Again, thank you.
OK, everyone, one last call for public comments we have one minute before 3:00 PM Eastern Time 2:00 PM central time. I probably don't need to keep saying that or giving you both times, but.
Any anyone else would like to offer a public comment as part of the meeting this afternoon. Again, press star 5 on your phone or hit the raise hand function within teams.
OK, it is now the designated time, so without any further ado I would like to thank all of you for attending and turn it over to John Moses for closing remarks. Thank you.
John Moses:
Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you very much. And on behalf of the entire NRC, I want to thank you for taking the time to attend today's virtual public meeting and to answer your questions and comments, I'd like to briefly summarize some of our next steps. We're in the midst of, as we've talked about, a scoping period for the environmental review and we will accept your comments until April 10th, 2023. So you have. A little more than 10 days, so it'll be not this upcoming Monday, but the second Monday coming up.
At that point, our teams going to look at the comments that we heard today at the 1st in person public scoping meeting. Also look at any comments that we received by www.regulations.gov and and e-mail and then they'll gather those and put those comments. After their evaluation, they'll integrate those comments into our conclusions from the scoping process.
Umm. If you'd like to navigate to regulations.gov to submit your comments, you'll want to search for docket ID and RC-2023-0031. And you'll see that there's a link, it'll be active until we conclude this on the 10th, and you'll be able to press a button and then type in your comments.
Our team anticipates issuing a draft environmental impact statement in the winter of 2023. Once we issue that draft environmental impact statement, we'll have another comment round to seek your input on that draft document.
And so we appreciate your time this afternoon and. I want to make sure that everyone understands that if any safety issues come up. Obviously today, last week, via e-mail, postal mail or regulations.gov well share that with the safety team for their consideration as well. So thank you for this afternoon. And with that, I'll close the meeting.
Brett Klukan (He/Him):
Thank you everyone. I am terminating the meeting at this point.