ML050540039
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March 4, 2005 MULTIPLE ADDRESSES
SUBJECT:
DRAFT SAFETY EVALUATION REPORT FOR THE EXELON EARLY SITE PERMIT APPLICATION
Dear Sir or Madam:
On February 10, 2005, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff issued its draft safety evaluation report (DSER) for the application by Exelon Generation Company, LLC (Exelon) for an early site permit (ESP) for the Exelon Generation Company (EGC) ESP site.
We are enclosing a CD-ROM copy of this document for your information.
The DSER provides information to stakeholders regarding the status of completion of the staffs review of safety aspects of Exelons ESP application and the remaining information needed for issuance of the final SER (FSER). Because the DSER contains open items (subjects for which Exelon has been requested to provide additional information), the NRC staff has not made a decision regarding whether to recommend to the Commission that an ESP be issued for the EGC ESP site.
In addition, the staff has not, at this time, completed its review of the information in Section 2.5, Geology, Seismology, and Geotechnical Engineering, and Section 3.4.2, 10 CFR 100.23Geologic and Seismic Siting Criteria, of Exelon's site safety analysis report (SSAR).
Therefore, the staff plans to issue a supplemental DSER that will summarize the results of its technical evaluation of the suitability of the proposed EGC ESP site in terms of the sites seismology and geology. The staff expects to issue the supplemental DSER no later than May 31, 2005. In the letter dated November 15, 2004, the staff indicated that the supplemental DSER will likely result in a delay in the issuance of the FSER. The staff plans to provide a revised schedule in the letter transmitting the supplemental DSER.
At the time the DSER was issued, the NRC informed Exelon that it would withhold the DSER from public disclosure for 14 calendar days to allow Exelon the opportunity to verify, in consultation with the State of Illinois and the Illinois Emergency Management Agency, the NRC staffs conclusion that the DSER does not contain proprietary or sensitive information that should be withheld from public release in accordance with NRC regulations. By letter dated February 23, 2005, Exelon requested an additional 7 calendar days for Exelon and the State of Illinois to complete their review. Therefore, the staff extended the proprietary review period.
Upon completion of the proprietary review period, the State of Illinois identified a few sentences in Chapter 13, Conduct of Operations, which contained information from the State and local emergency plans that the State of Illinois requested to be withheld from public disclosure. In accordance with SECY-04-0191, Withholding Sensitive Unclassified Information Concerning Nuclear Power Reactors From Public Disclosure, and the accompanying staff requirements memorandum dated November 9, 2004, the staff agrees that this information should be withheld from public disclosure. On the basis of this determination, the staff redacted Chapter 13 to remove the sensitive information. In some cases the text was rewritten to remove the sensitive information and in other cases the text was removed in its entirety.
Accordingly, the staff has made the DSER available for public inspection on the NRCs public web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-licensing/esp/clinton.html. In addition, the document is available through the NRCs Public Document Room and the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of ADAMS, the NRCs document management system. ADAMS is accessible from the NRC web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room). The ADAMS accession number for the DSER is ML050630183.
Please contact John Segala, the NRCs project manager for review of the Exelon ESP application, at (301) 415-1858 (jps1@nrc.gov) if you have any questions or comments concerning this matter, or if you have any trouble using the CD-ROM.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Laura A. Dudes, Section Chief New Reactors Section New, Research and Test Reactors Program Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No.52-007
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Mr. David Lochbaum Union of Concerned Scientists 1707 H Street, NW Suite 600 Washington, DC 20006-3919 Mr. Paul Gunter Director of the Reactor Watchdog Project Nuclear Information & Resource Service 1424 16th Street, NW, Suite 404 Washington, DC 20036 Mr. Adrian Heymer Nuclear Energy Institute Suite 400 1776 I Street, NW Washington, DC 20006-3708 Mr. Russell Bell Nuclear Energy Institute Suite 400 1776 I Street, NW Washington, DC 20006-3708 Mr. Thomas P. Miller U.S. Department of Energy Headquarters - Germantown 19901 Germantown Road Germantown, MD 20874-1290 Mr. James Riccio Greenpeace 702 H Street, NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20001 Mr. Rod Krich Vice President, Licensing Projects Exelon Nuclear 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville, IL 60555 Ms. Patricia Campbell Morgan Lewis 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, DC 20004 Mr. Ernie H. Kennedy Vice President New Plants Nuclear Plant Projects Westinghouse Electric Company 2000 Day Hill Road Windsor, CT 06095-0500 Dr. Regis A. Matzie Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Westinghouse Electric Company 2000 Day Hill Road Windsor, CT 06095-0500 Ms. Marilyn Kray Vice President, Project Development Exelon Generation 200 Exelon Way, KSA3-N Kennett Square, PA 19348 Mr. Thomas Mundy Director, Project Development Exelon Generation 200 Exelon Way, KSA3-N Kennett Square, PA 19348 Mr. William Maher Exelon Generation 200 Exelon Way, KSA2-N Kennett Square, PA 19348 Mr. Thomas S. O'Neill Associate General Counsel Exelon Nuclear 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville, IL 60555 Mr. John Loaniddi Parsons Energy and Chemicals 2675 Morgantown Road Reading, PA 19607 Ms. Amy Lientz CH2MHILL 151 N. Ridge Ave. Ste 150 Idaho Falls, Idaho 83402-4039
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