ML020070569
| ML020070569 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Surry, North Anna  |
| Issue date: | 01/04/2002 |
| From: | Charemagne Grimes Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs |
| To: | Metz C State of VA, Dept of Historic Resources |
| Kugler A, NRR/DRIP/RLEP, 415-2828 | |
| References | |
| Download: ML020070569 (5) | |
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January 3, 2002 Ms. Cara H. Metz, Director Division of Resource Services and Review Virginia Department of Historic Resources 2801 Kensington Avenue Richmond, VA 23221
Dear Ms. Metz:
This letter responds to issues raised in your letter dated February 13, 2001, to Mr. William Corbin of Virginia Electric and Power Company (VEPCo), regarding the license renewal Environmental Reports for the Surry and North Anna Power Stations. Our response has benefitted from productive discussions between representatives of my staff and Dr. Ethel Eaton of your staff, including a meeting held at the Virginia Department of Historic Resources on September 21, 2001, for Surry.
In response to your original letter, VEPCo authorized cultural resource assessments of the Surry and North Anna sites. These assessments were conducted by the Louis Berger Group, Inc., and the completed reports were delivered to VEPCo in March 2001, with an addendum to the North Anna report delivered in October 2001. A copy of the Surry report was provided to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) during our recent visit to the site in September 2001. Also during this September visit, Dr. Eaton and our consulting archaeologist, Dr. W. Bruce Masse of Los Alamos National Laboratory, had the opportunity to tour the grounds of the Surry Power Plant. Dr. Masse later reviewed the assessment report and pertinent archival records on file at the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. We received a copy of the North Anna report and its addendum following our visit to that site in October 2001.
The NRC is acutely aware of the richness of the history in and around Gravel Neck Peninsula, and the lower James River in general. We are also aware of the potential for significant intact historic and archaeological resources to be present in the undeveloped portions of the Surry and North Anna Power Stations. We have discussed this topic at considerable length with the station managers and with other appropriate representatives from VEPCo, and are confident they share our concern for these cultural resources. Station procedures provide for the protection of cultural resources during future site activities.
Dr. Eaton, our reviewers, and the cultural resources assessment reports are in agreement that there is little likelihood that intact cultural resources exist in the presently developed portions of the Surry and North Anna Power Stations.
Because there are current operating procedures that take into account the inadvertent discovery of historic and archaeological remains at both stations, and because the license renewal is not expected to result in major refurbishment nor the need to expand operations into the currently undeveloped portions of the stations, we believe that license renewal is unlikely to
C. Metz affect cultural resources. We therefore also consider it unnecessary at this time to enter into a programmatic agreement pursuant to the license renewal. However, should conditions specific to either of the stations change, or should the NRC license renewal process change in general, we would be prepared to reconsider this decision.
Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns about the license renewal process. We will send you copies of the completed draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statements for both the Surry and North Anna Power Stations as soon as they become available for review. Also, if you do not yet have a copy of the Berger Group cultural resource assessment reports for the two stations and wish to obtain copies for your files, we would be happy to provide you with copies.
Sincerely, Original Signed By: CIGrimes Christopher I. Grimes, Program Director License Renewal and Environmental Impacts Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-280, 50-281, 50-338, and 50-339
Enclosure:
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C. Metz affect cultural resources. We therefore also consider it unnecessary at this time to enter into a programmatic agreement pursuant to the license renewal. However, should conditions specific to either of the stations change, or should the NRC license renewal process change in general, we would be prepared to reconsider this decision.
Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns about the license renewal process. We will send you copies of the completed draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statements for both the Surry and North Anna Power Stations as soon as they become available for review. Also, if you do not yet have a copy of the Berger Group cultural resource assessment reports for the two stations and wish to obtain copies for your files, we would be happy to provide you with copies.
Sincerely, Original Signed By: CIGrimes Christopher I. Grimes, Program Director License Renewal and Environmental Impacts Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-280, 50-281, 50-338, and 50-339
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DATE 12/13/01 12/13/01 12/14/01 01/04/02 01/03/02 OFFICIAL FILE COPY
Virginia Electric and Power Company North Anna Power Station Surry Power Station cc:
Mr. David R. Lewis, Esquire Shaw Pittman 2300 N Street, NW Washington, DC 20037 Mr. Richard H. Blount, II Site Vice President Surry Power Station Virginia Electric and Power Company 5570 Hog Island Road Surry, Virginia 23883 Dr. W. T. Lough Virginia State Corporation Commission Division of Energy Regulation P.O. Box 1197 Richmond, Virginia 23209 Robert B. Stroube, M.D., M.P.H.
Acting Deputy State Health Commissioner Office of the Commissioner Virginia Department of Health Room 214 P. O. Box 2448 Richmond, Virginia 23218 Old Dominion Electric Cooperative 4201 Dominion Blvd.
Glen Allen, Virginia 23060 Mr. Stephen P. Sarver, Director Nuclear Licensing & Operations Support Virginia Electric and Power Company Innsbrook Technical Center 5000 Dominion Blvd.
Glen Allen, Virginia 23060-6711 Office of the Attorney General Commonwealth of Virginia 900 East Main Street Richmond, Virginia 23219 Mr. William Corbin Virginia Electric and Power Company Innsbrook Technical Center 5000 Dominion Boulevard Glenn Allen, Virginia 23060-6711 Mr. Alan Nelson Nuclear Energy Institute 1776 I Street NW Suite 400 Washington, D.C. 20006 Senior Resident Inspector Surry Power Station U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 5850 Hog Island Road Surry, Virginia 23883 Chairman Board of Supervisors of Surry County Surry County Courthouse Surry, Virginia 23683 Mr. Alan Zoellner Government Information Department Swem Library College of William and Mary P.O. Box 8794 Williamsburg, VA 23187-8794 Caudle A. Julian U.S. NRC, Region II Sam Nunn Atlanta Federal Center, 23 T85 61 Forsyth Street, S.W.
Atlanta, Georgia 30303-3415 Mr. C. Lee Lintecum County Administrator Louisa County P.O. Box 160 Louisa, Virginia 23093
Virginia Electric and Power Company North Anna Power Station Surry Power Station 2
Mr. David A. Heacock Site Vice President North Anna Power Station P.O. Box 402 Mineral, Virginia 23117 Senior Resident Inspector North Anna Power Station U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1024 Haley Drive Mineral, Virginia 23117 Government Information Librarian Alderman Library University of Virginia 160 McCormick Road P.O. Box 40154 Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4154 Mr. Jerry Rosenthal Concerned Citizens for Louisa 877 Holland Creek Road Louisa, Virginia 23093 Ms. Lillian Cuoco Dominion Nuclear Connecticut, Inc.
Millstone Power Station Rope Ferry Road Building 475/5 Waterford, Connecticut 06385 Ms. JoAnn Tetrault, Director Louisa County Public Library 881 Davis Highway Mineral, VA 23117 David W. Sutherland Chesapeake Bay Field Office U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 177 Admiral Cochrane Drive Annapolis, Maryland 21401 John P. Wolflin, Supervisor Chesapeake Bay Field Office U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 177 Admiral Cochrane Drive Annapolis, Maryland 21401