ML022210256

Units 1 & 2, Environmental Assessment Exemption from Requirements of 10 CFR Part 40, Section 40.64(b) - Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation

ML022210256
Person / Time
Site:	Surry, North Anna, 07200002
Issue date:	09/10/2002
From:	Edison G, Stephen Monarque NRC/NRR/DLPM/LPD2
To:	Christian D Virginia Electric & Power Co (VEPCO)
References
-RFPFR, TAC MB3739, TAC MB3740, TAC MB3741, TAC MB3742
Download: ML022210256 (9)

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September 10, 2002 Mr. David A. Christian Senior Vice President - Nuclear Virginia Electric and Power Company Innsbrook Technical Center 5000 Dominion Blvd.

Glen Allen, Virginia 23060

SUBJECT:

NORTH ANNA POWER STATION, UNITS 1 AND 2 AND INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION (ISFSI), AND SURRY POWER STATION, UNITS 1 AND 2 AND ISFSI - ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT FOR AN EXEMPTION FROM THE REQUIREMENTS OF 10 CFR PART 40, SECTION 40.64(b)

(TAC NOS. MB3739, MB3740, MB3741, AND MB3742)

Dear Mr. Christian:

Enclosed is a copy of the Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact related to your application for exemption dated November 5, 2001. The proposed exemption would allow you to submit to the Commission once each year concurrently with your material status report a statement of your foreign origin source material inventory.

The assessment is being forwarded to the Office of the Federal Register for publication.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Stephen R. Monarque, Project Manager Gordon E. Edison, Sr. Project Manager Project Directorate II-1 Project Directorate II-1 Division of Licensing Project Management Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-280, 50-281, 50-338, 50-339, 72-2, and 72-16

Enclosure:

Environmental Assessment cc w/encl: See next page

September 10, 2002 Mr. David A. Christian Senior Vice President - Nuclear Virginia Electric and Power Company Innsbrook Technical Center 5000 Dominion Blvd.

Glen Allen, Virginia 23060

SUBJECT:

NORTH ANNA POWER STATION, UNITS 1 AND 2 AND INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION (ISFSI), AND SURRY POWER STATION, UNITS 1 AND 2 AND ISFSI - ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT FOR AN EXEMPTION FROM THE REQUIREMENTS OF 10 CFR PART 40, SECTION 40.64(b)

(TAC NOS. MB3739, MB3740, MB3741, AND MB3742)

Dear Mr. Christian:

Enclosed is a copy of the Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact related to your application for exemption dated November 5, 2001. The proposed exemption would allow you to submit to the Commission once each year concurrently with your material status report a statement of your foreign origin source material inventory.

The assessment is being forwarded to the Office of the Federal Register for publication.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Stephen R. Monarque, Project Manager Gordon E. Edison, Sr. Project Manager Project Directorate II-1 Project Directorate II-1 Division of Licensing Project Management Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-280, 50-281, 50-338, 50-339, 72-2, and 72-16

Enclosure:

Environmental Assessment cc w/encl: See next page DISTRIBUTION: See attached list Adams: ML022210256 *See previous concurrence OFFICE PDII-1/PM PDII-1/PM PDII-1/LA RLEP PDII-1/SC PDII/D D:DLPM ADPT:NRR NAME SMonarque GEdison* EDunnington* PTKuo JNakoski HBerkow JZwolinski BSheron DATE 8/12/02 8/9/02 8/8/02 8/13/02 08/13/02 08/14/02 8/26/02 OFFICE NMSS/SFPO/SLID NMSS NMSS OGC NSIR NMSS/D NRR/D NAME MJRoss-Lee BHorn MVirgilio SCollins DATE 8/16/02 9/04/02 8/14/02 8/21/02 08/27/02

OFFICIAL RECORD COPY DISTRIBUTION FOR THE NORTH ANNA AND SURRY ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT Dated:

Hard Copy:

Public PDII-1 R/F SMonarque EDunnington GEdison E-Mail:

HBerkow JNakoski PTKuo OGC ACRS GGrant JTappert

7590-01-P UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION NORTH ANNA POWER STATION, UNITS 1 AND 2 AND SURRY POWER STATION, UNITS 1 AND 2, DOCKET NOS. 50-338, 50-339, 50-280, AND 50-281 NORTH ANNA AND SURRY INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATIONS DOCKET NOS. 72-16 AND 72-2 ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering issuance of an exemption from Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 40, Section 40.64(b) for Facility Operating License Nos. NPF-4, NPF-7, DPR-32, and DPR-37, issued to Virginia Electric and Power Company (the licensee) for operation of the North Anna and Surry Power Stations, Units 1 and 2, and Special Nuclear Material License Nos. SNM-2507 and SNM-2501 for the Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installations (ISFSIs) at the North Anna and Surry Power Stations, respectively. As required by 10 CFR 51.21, the NRC is issuing this environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact.

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT Identification of the Proposed Action:

The proposed action is an exemption from the reporting requirements of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 40, Section 40.64(b) regarding the schedule for reporting foreign origin material inventory. The proposed exemption would allow the licensee to change the schedule for reporting its foreign origin source material inventory. Instead of

reporting within 30 days after September 30 each year, the licensee proposes to submit a statement of their foreign origin source material inventory once each year concurrently with submittal of their material status report.

The proposed action is in accordance with the licensees application for an exemption dated November 5, 2001.

The Need for the Proposed Action:

The proposed action will enable the licensee to make more effective use of its human resources. Utilities generally schedule refueling outages to occur during seasons of lower demand for electric power, i.e., fall and spring. Currently, the September 30 reporting schedule for foreign origin material inventory competes with refueling outages for human resources.

Changing the reporting schedule will free up resources to assist with refueling outages.

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed Action:

The NRC has completed its evaluation of the proposed action and concludes that the proposed action involves an administrative activity (a schedular change in reporting foreign origin material inventory) unrelated to plant operations.

The proposed action will not significantly increase the probability or consequences of accidents, no changes are being made in the types of effluents that may be released off site, and there is no significant increase in occupational or public radiation exposure. Therefore, there are no significant radiological environmental impacts associated with the proposed action.

With regard to potential nonradiological impacts, the proposed action does not have a potential to affect any historic sites. It does not affect nonradiological plant effluents and has no other environmental impact. Therefore, there are no significant nonradiological environmental impacts associated with the proposed action.

Accordingly, the NRC concludes that there are no significant environmental impacts associated with the proposed action.

Environmental Impacts of the Alternatives to the Proposed Action:

As an alternative to the proposed action, the staff considered denial of the proposed action (i.e., the no-action alternative). Denial of the application would result in no change in current environmental impacts. The environmental impacts of the proposed action and the alternative action are similar.

Alternative Use of Resources:

The action does not involve the use of any different resources than those previously considered in the Final Environmental Statements for the Surry and North Anna facilities.

Agencies and Persons Consulted:

On July 18, 2002, the staff consulted with the Virginia State official, Les Foldesi, of the Virginia Department of Health, regarding the environmental impact of the proposed action. The State official had no comments.

FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT On the basis of the environmental assessment, the NRC concludes that the proposed action will not have a significant effect on the quality of the human environment. Accordingly, the NRC has determined not to prepare an environmental impact statement for the proposed action.

For further details with respect to the proposed action, see the licensees letter dated November 5, 2001. Documents may be examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the NRCs Public Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor),

Rockville, Maryland. Publicly available records will be accessible electronically from the Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Public Electronic Reading Room on the internet at the NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams/html.

Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who encounter problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, should contact the NRC PDR Reference staff by telephone at 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10th day of September 2002 FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

/RA/

Herbert N. Berkow, Director Project Directorate II Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

Mr. David A. Christian Virginia Electric and Power Company cc:

Ms. Lillian M. Cuoco, Esq. Office of the Attorney General Senior Nuclear Counsel Commonwealth of Virginia Dominion Nuclear Connecticut, Inc. 900 East Main Street Millstone Power Station Richmond, Virginia 23219 Building 475, 5th Floor Rope Ferry Road Mr. Stephen P. Sarver, Director Rt. 156 Nuclear Licensing & Operations Waterford, Connecticut 06385 Support Innsbrook Technical Center Mr. Richard H. Blount, II Virginia Electric and Power Company Site Vice President 5000 Dominion Blvd.

Surry Power Station Glen Allen, Virginia 23060-6711 Virginia Electric and Power Company 5570 Hog Island Road Mr. David A. Heacock Surry, Virginia 23883-0315 Site Vice President North Anna Power Station Senior Resident Inspector Virginia Electric and Power Company Surry Power Station P. O. Box 402 U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Mineral, Virginia 23117-0402 5850 Hog Island Road Surry, Virginia 23883 Mr. C. Lee Lintecum County Administrator Chairman Louisa County Board of Supervisors of Surry County P.O. Box 160 Surry County Courthouse Louisa, Virginia 23093 Surry, Virginia 23683 Old Dominion Electric Cooperative Dr. W. T. Lough 4201 Dominion Blvd.

Virginia State Corporation Glen Allen, Virginia 23060 Commission Division of Energy Regulation Senior Resident Inspector P. O. Box 1197 North Anna Power Station Richmond, Virginia 23209 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1024 Haley Drive Robert B. Strobe, M.D., M.P.H. Mineral, Virginia 23117 State Health Commissioner Office of the Commissioner Bill Hoffman (5 copies)

Virginia Department of Health Environmental Review Coordinator P.O. Box 2448 US EPA Region 3 Richmond, Virginia 23218 1650 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19106-2029 Mr. William R. Matthews Vice President - Nuclear Operations Virginia Electric and Power Company Innsbrook Technical Center 5000 Dominion Boulevard Glen Allen, Virginia 23060-6711