Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Units 3 and 4 – Subsequent License Renewal: NRC subsequent licence renewal review for Florida Power & Light Company — issued, 19.1 months from docketing to decision. Sourced dates and schedule.
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Current state
| Type | Subsequent licence renewal |
| Outcome | Issued |
| Applicant | Florida Power & Light Company |
| Facility | Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station (Turkey Point 3, Turkey Point 4) |
| Docket | 50-250, 50-251 |
| Submitted | 2018-01-30 |
| Docketed (accepted for review) | 2018-05-02 |
| NRC planned schedule | — |
| NRC target date | — |
| Final safety evaluation | 2019-07-22 |
| Decision | 2019-12-04 |
| Review time (docketed → decision) | 19.1 mo |
| Submitted → decision | 22.1 mo |
| NRC-reported review duration | — |
| NRC-reported resources vs estimate | — |
Review time is measured in average months from the date the NRC docketed the application to the decision. The NRC's own reported durations may measure to the final safety evaluation instead.
Notes
SLR status page lists 'Application Received 01/31/18'; the FR notice, plant page and NRC News Release 19-062 all say January 30, 2018 (supplements through March 1 / April 10, 2018). Used 2018-01-30. Contested: hearing requests filed in 2018; at issuance FR notice said 'All contested issues were subsequently decided by an NRC Atomic Safety and Licensing Board ... appeals from the Board's decisions are pending before the Commission.' Measure the original review as 2018-01-30 -> 2019-12-04. The 2022 reversion (CLI-22-02/03) and 2024 restoration are a second, environmental-only review: ER Supplement 2 received 2022-06-09 -> record of decision 2024-09-04. 24-072 press release was read from a third-party mirror (tmia.com) because the nrc.gov copy is not served (HTML page body empty, PDF path 403/404). NRC decision target: originally 2019-10, latest 2019-11. Schedule: NRC page lists an Original Schedule Letter (April 26, 2018), Revised Schedule Letter (January 30, 2019), Revised/Corrected Schedule letter (May 9, 2019) and Updated Budget Estimate and Revised Environmental Review Schedule (August 15, 2019). Post-2022 environmental re-review target for the record of decision was 'TBD'. Effective final decision 2024-09-04: Record of decision after the post-CLI-22-02 site-specific EIS (NRC page actual date); NRC News Release 24-072 (Sept. 17, 2024) announced the restored expiration dates. The fetched sources do not separately date the license action that restored the dates.
Timeline
- 2018-01-30 — Application submitted. (source)
- 2018-04-18 — FR notice of receipt/availability (83 FR 17196). (source)
- 2018-05-02 — FR notice of acceptance and opportunity for hearing (83 FR 19304). (source)
- 2018-08-14 — FR notice establishing ASLB; hearing requests by Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and by Friends of the Earth/NRDC/Miami Waterkeeper. (source)
- 2019-05-21 — SER with open items issued. (source)
- 2019-07-22 — Final SER issued. (source)
- 2019-07-22 — Final safety evaluation issued. (source)
- 2019-10-25 — Final SEIS issued. (source)
- 2019-12-04 — Subsequent renewed licenses DPR-31 and DPR-41 issued (to 2052/2053). (source)
- 2019-12-04 — Issued. (source)
- 2022-02-24 — Commission orders CLI-22-02 and CLI-22-03: expiration dates reset to end of initial period of extended operation pending new environmental review. (source)
- 2022-06-09 — Licensee submits ER Supplement 2. (source)
- 2023-12-06 — FR notice establishing ASLB on Miami Waterkeeper hearing request (draft site-specific EIS). (source)
- 2024-03-29 — Final site-specific EIS supplement published. (source)
- 2024-09-04 — NRC record of decision (actual date on NRC schedule). (source)
- 2024-09-17 — NRC announces expiration dates restored to July 19, 2052 and April 10, 2053. (source)
The timeline is append-only: corrections are added as new entries. See the NNN Data License Terms for reuse of the event history.
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Sources
- https://www.nrc.gov/licensing-applications/power-reactor-licensing/turkey-point-nuclear-plant-units-3-4-subsequent-license-renewal-application
- https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/04/18/2018-08092
- https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/12/10/2019-26500
- https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/08/14/2018-17373
- https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/12/06/2023-26715
- https://www.nrc.gov/sites/default/files/doc_library/cdn/legacy/reading-rm/doc-collections/news/2019/19-062.pdf
- https://tmia.com/sites/tmia.com/files/media/24-072.pdf
- https://web.archive.org/web/20180528/https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/applications/turkey-point-subsequent.html
- https://www.nrc.gov/licensing-applications/operating-reactor-licensing/reactor-license-renewal/status-subsequent-license-renewal-applications