W16 Innovative Transformation of NRC's Environmental Review Process

This session will showcase recent efforts by the NRC environmental staff to modernize the environmental review and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) compliance processes to be more agile and better suited to a faster paced review. The NRC reorganized the environmental staff into an environmental center of expertise to more efficiently and effectively address NEPA reviews across the agency. The session will demonstrate the staff’s commitment to modernization by highlighting its recent efforts to transform the environmental reviews in the agency. NRC presenters will highlight staff efforts in these areas as well as other NEPA related efforts (such as rulemaking; Title 41 of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST 41/Executive Order 13807, “Establishing Discipline and Accountability in the Environmental Review and Permitting Process for Infrastructure Projects,” dated August 15, 2017; and guidance development). Stakeholders will also provide their perspectives on the NRC’s environmental review process. The session will strive to foster constructive dialogue between the NRC staff and stakeholders. Attendees will leave the session with a greater appreciation of how the NRC environmental staff is meeting the challenge to streamline the agency’s environmental review process.

• Peyton Doub, Biologist, Environmental Review New Reactors Branch, Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support, NMSS/NRC tel: 301-415-6703, e-mail: Peyton.Doub@nrc.gov

   

• Introductory Remarks
  Peyton Doub, Biologist, Biologist, Environmental Review New Reactors Branch, Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support, NMSS/NRC
• Overview of NEPA Streamlining Efforts at the NRC
  Kenneth Erwin, Chief, Environmental Review New Reactors Branch, Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support, NMSS/NRC
• NEPA Streamlining in Action: Environmental Review Guidance for Micro-Reactors
  Peyton Doub, Senior Environmental Scientist, Environmental Review New Reactors Branch, Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support, NMSS/NRC and Mallecia Sutton, Licensing Project Manager, Advanced Reactor Licensing Branch, Division of Advanced Reactors and Non-Power Production Utilization Facilities, NMSS/NRC
• Modernization of NRC Guidance Including Incorporation of Recent Lessons Learned and FAST-41 Related Activities
  Laura Willingham, Project Manager, Environmental Review New Reactors Branch, Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support, NMSS/NRC and Tamsen Dozier , Environmental Project Manager, Environmental Review New Reactors Branch, Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support, NMSS/NRC
• Exploratory Process for a Generic Environmental Impact Statement for Advanced Nuclear Reactors
  Jack Cushing, Senior Environmental Project Manager, Environmental Review New Reactors Branch, Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support, NMSS/NRC and Donald Palmrose , Senior Nuclear Engineer, Environmental Review New Reactors Branch, Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support. NMSS/NRC
• NEI Perspective: Innovative Transformation of NRC’s Environmental Review Process
  Kati Austgen, Senior Project Manager, New Reactors, Nuclear Energy Institute

• Peyton Doub, Biologist, Environmental Review New Reactors Branch, Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support, NMSSNRC tel: 301-415-6703, e-mail: Peyton.Doub@nrc.gov