Site-Specific Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants: Regarding Subsequent License Renewal for Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Unit Nos. 3 and 4, Final Report (NUREG-1437, Supplement 5a, Second Renewal)

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Manuscript Completed: March 2024
Date Published: March 2024

Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC, the Commission) staff prepared this site-specific environmental impact statement (EIS) to supplement the "Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, Supplement 5, Second Renewal, Regarding Subsequent License Renewal for Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Unit Nos. 3 and 4, Final Report" (NUREG-1437, Supplement 5, Second Renewal) (FSEIS), issued in October 2019. This EIS includes the NRC staff’s site-specific evaluation of the environmental impacts of subsequent license renewal (SLR) for Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Unit Nos. 3 and 4 (Turkey Point, Turkey Point Units 3 and 4) for each of the environmental issues that the FSEIS dispositioned as Category 1 issues (generic to all or a distinct subset of nuclear power plants) consistent with Table B–1 in Appendix B to Subpart A of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51 and NUREG-1437,"Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants," Revision 1, Final Report (LR GEIS).

This EIS considers information contained in the Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) June 9, 2022, submittal (FPL 2022a), which supplements its 2018 SLR application that was considered in the FSEIS. The EIS also considers whether there is significant new information that would change the NRC staff’s conclusions concerning Category 2 issues (specific to individual nuclear power plants) in the FSEIS. The NRC staff prepared the EIS in accordance with the Commission’s decisions in Commission Legal Issuance (CLI)-22-02 and CLI-22-03, both dated February 24, 2022. These decisions, confirmed in CLI-22-06 issued on June 3, 2022, directed the NRC staff to modify the expiration dates of the Turkey Point subsequent renewed licenses, which were issued on December 4, 2019, to reflect the end dates of the previous renewed licenses (i.e., July 19, 2032, for Turkey Point Unit 3 and April 10, 2033, for Turkey Point Unit 4). Together, this EIS and the previous FSEIS evaluate, on a site-specific basis, all of the environmental impacts of continued operation during the SLR term for Turkey Point Unit 3 from July 19, 2032, to July 19, 2052, and for Turkey Point Unit 4 from April 10, 2033, to April 10, 2053.

Based on the October 2019 FSEIS and the NRC staff’s evaluation in this EIS, the staff's recommendation is that the adverse environmental impacts of SLR for Turkey Point (i.e., the continued operation of Turkey Point for a period of 20 years beyond the expiration dates of the initial renewed licenses) are not so great that preserving the option of SLR for energy-planning decision-makers would be unreasonable. The NRC staff based its recommendation on the following:

• FPL's environmental report, as supplemented
• the NRC staff’s consultations with Federal, State, Tribal, and local government agencies
• the NRC staff’s independent environmental review, which is documented in the FSEIS and this EIS
• the NRC staff’s consideration of public comments