ML032940048
| ML032940048 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Fort Calhoun  |
| Issue date: | 10/20/2003 |
| From: | Kuo P Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs |
| To: | Anschutz S US Dept of Interior, Fish & Wildlife Service |
| Cushing J, NRR/DRIP/RLEP, 415-1424 | |
| References | |
| TAC MB3402 | |
| Download: ML032940048 (4) | |
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October 20, 2003 Mr. Steven Anschutz Nebraska Field Supervisor U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Ecological Services Office, Nebraska Field Office 203 West Second Street Federal Building, 2nd Floor Grand Island, Nebraska 68801
SUBJECT:
RESPONSE TO THE U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE LETTER OF OCTOBER 2, 2003, ACKNOWLEDGING COMPLETION OF THE INFORMAL CONSULTATION PROCESS, FOR THE FORT CALHOUN STATION, UNIT 1, LICENSE RENEWAL (TAC NO. MB3402)
Dear Mr. Anschutz:
On October 2, 2003, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff received a letter from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service). The letter provided the results of the meetings between the Service and the Omaha Public Power District (OPPD), the licensee of the Fort Calhoun Station, Unit 1 (FCS). The purpose of the meetings was to discuss the Services request for a pallid sturgeon larval monitoring study or structural modifications at the FCS. The meeting resulted in the Service and OPPD agreeing that instead of a larval monitoring study or structural modifications, OPPD would fund a pallid sturgeon habitat restoration/conservation project on the Missouri River. The project involves notching of the revetments and/or wing dikes along the Missouri River within the boundaries of the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge or other pallid sturgeon habitat restoration/conservation projects mutually agreed upon by OPPD, the Service, and the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.
Based on OPPDs agreement to complete the conservation measure, the Service concurred that the proposed federal action is not likely to adversely affect the pallid sturgeon. The Service requested that their October 2, 2003, be placed on the FCS docket, and that the NRC provide a docketed response acknowledging the letter closing the informal consultation process.
The NRC has placed the Services October 2, 2003, letter on the FCS docket. This letter is the docketed response acknowledging closing of informal consultation process.
The NRC would like to express its appreciation for the timely response by the Service on this issue. Messrs. Joseph Cothern and John Dunn of the Environmental Protection Agency were also very helpful in providing information to the NRC during the consultation process.
S. Anschutz 2
If you have any questions, please contact the environmental license renewal project manager, Jack Cushing, by telephone at (301) 415-1424 or by e-mail at jxc9@nrc.gov.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Pao-Tsin Kuo, Program Director License Renewal and Environmental Impacts Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No.: 50-285 cc: See next page
S. Anschutz 2
If you have any questions, please contact the environmental license renewal project manager, Jack Cushing, by telephone at (301) 415-1424 or by e-mail at jxc9@nrc.gov.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Pao-Tsin Kuo, Program Director License Renewal and Environmental Impacts Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No.: 50-285 cc: See next page DISTRIBUTION:
PUBLIC Environmental R/F P. T. Kuo J. Cushing J. Tappert M. Masnik A. Fernandez Accession no.: ML032940048
- See previous concurrence DOCUMENT NAME: C:\\ORPCheckout\\FileNET\\ML032940048.wpd OFFICE PM:RLEP LA:RLEP SC:RLEP OGC (Subject to changes NLO)
PD:RLEP NAME J. Cushing L. Jenkins J. Tappert (AKugler)
A. Fernandez*
P.T. Kuo DATE 10/15/03 10/17/03 10/17/03 10/ 15 /03 10/20/03 OFFICIAL FILE COPY
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Ft. Calhoun Station, Unit 1
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Washington, DC 20005-3502 Chairman Washington County Board of Supervisors P.O. Box 466 Blair, NE 68008 Mr. Joseph Cothern Environmental Services Division Region VII U. S. Environmental Protection Agency 901 North 5th Street Kansas City Kansas 66101 Mr. John Kramer, Resident Inspector U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Post Office Box 310 Fort Calhoun, NE 68023 Regional Administrator, Region IV U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 611 Ryan Plaza Drive, Suite 400 Arlington, TX 76011 Ms. Sue Semerera, Section Administrator Nebraska Health and Human Services Systems Division of Public Health Assurance Consumer Services Section 301 Centennial Mall, South P.O. Box 95007 Lincoln, NE 68509-5007 Mr. David J. Bannister Manager - Fort Calhoun Station Omaha Public Power District Fort Calhoun Station FC-1-1 Plant P.O. Box 550 Fort Calhoun, NE 68023-0550 Mr. John B. Herman Manager - Nuclear Licensing Omaha Public Power District Fort Calhoun Station FC-2-4 Adm.
P.O. Box 550 Fort Calhoun, NE 68023-0550 Mr. Richard P. Clemens Division Manager - Nuclear Assessments Omaha Public Power District Fort Calhoun Station P.O. Box 550 Fort Calhoun, NE 68023-0550 Mr. Daniel K. McGhee Bureau of Radiological Health Iowa Department of Public Health 401 SW. 7th Street Suite D Des Moines, IA 50309 Mr. John Fassell, LLRW Program Manager Health and Human Services Regulation and Licensure Consumer Health Services 301 Centennial Mall, South P.O. Box 95007 Lincoln, NE 68509-5007 W. Dale Clark Library Attn: Margaret Blackstone 215 South 15th Street Omaha, NE 68102 Blair Public Library Attn: Ruth Peterson 210 South 17th Street Blair, NE 68008-2055 Mr. Fred Emerson Nuclear Energy Institute 1776 I Street, NW., Suite 400 Washington, DC 20006-3708
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P.O. Box 550 Fort Calhoun, NE 68023-0550