ML073480447

05/14/2007 to 05/17/2007 - Summary of Meeting with PPL Susquehanna, LLC, Environmental Site Audit Related to the Review of the License Renewal Application

ML073480447
Person / Time
Site:	Susquehanna
Issue date:	04/04/2008
From:	Stuyvenberg D NRC/NRR/ADRO/DLR
To:	Susquehanna Steam Electric Co
Stuyvenberg, A L, NRR/DLR/ 415-4006
References
TAC MD3021, TAC MD3022
Download: ML073480447 (9)

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April 4, 2008

LICENSEE: PPL Susquehanna, LLC

FACILITY: Susquehanna Steam Electric Station

SUMMARY

OF ENVIRONMENTAL SITE AUDIT RELATED TO THE REVIEW OF THE LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION FOR SUSQUEHANNA STEAM ELECTRIC STATION, UNITS 1 AND 2 (TAC NOS. MD3022 AND MD3021)

From May 14, 2007 to May 17, 2007, a review team consisting of thirteen U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff members and nine contractors from Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) participated in a site audit at the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station (SSES),

as part of the environmental review of the SSES license renewal application. The site audit provided NRC staff the opportunity to review documentation (including plant environmental procedures), gather information to ensure that environmental requirements of license renewal (as codified in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 51, or 10 CFR Part 51) are met, and to interface with officials in State and local government agencies to obtain related information.

On Tuesday, May 15, 2007, the environmental review team participated in a general site tour of the SSES site with PPL Susquehanna, LLC (PPL) staff. The general site tour focused on areas relevant to the environmental review, including the intake structure, discharge structure, cooling towers, meteorological towers, water-sampling locations, site structures, the Riverlands, and other elements of the site environs. During the rest of the site audit, the team members examined the data used by PPL in preparing the Environmental Report, interviewed PPL representatives in discipline-specific groups, and participated in discipline-specific tours of the site.

Discipline-specific tours included radioactive waste processing systems and areas, non-radioactive and mixed-waste processing areas, meteorological towers and instruments, groundwater wells, transmission line right-of-ways, the river water intake structure, the Riverlands area, and the onsite environmental laboratory, as well as a boat tour to more closely examine the intake structure, above-water portions of the discharge, sections of the Susquehanna River upstream and downstream from the intake structure, and the shoreline of Gould Island. The NRC staff who participated in discipline-specific tours and interviews looked for potential impacts in the areas of air quality, water use and quality, terrestrial and aquatic ecology, human health and radiation protection, historic and archaeological resources, socioeconomics, land use, and environmental justice.

In addition, the NRC staff reviewed PPL's process for identifying new and significant information (information that would challenge the generic conclusions reached in the Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, NUREG-1437). PPL had identified no new and significant information, and the NRC staff's independent review during the course of the site audit did not identify any either.

The NRC team members met onsite with officials from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP), the Pennsylvania Bureau of Radiation Protection (a division of PADEP), and staff from the Susquehanna River Basin Commission. Additionally, team members met offsite with State officials in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Informat ion gathered through these offsite meetings will assist the environmental review team in its evaluation.

At the conclusion of the site audit, the NRC staff and ANL contractors summarized the status of the review with PPL representative and identified specific informational items NRC staff would need to complete their environmental review. Enclosure 2 contains a list of PPL's responses.

These responses are publicly available, and can be found in the Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) using the accession numbers listed in Enclosure 2.

ADAMS is accessible at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/dologin.htm or through the NRC's Electronic Reading Room link at http://www.nrc.gov. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS, or who encounter problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, should contact the NRC's Public Document Room staff at 1-800-397-4209, or 301-415-4737, or by e-mail at pdr@nrc.gov

. In closing, the NRC staff indicated that the review team did not identify any significant issues during its site audit or during offsite meetings with other agencies. However, the NRC staff further indicated that the review was ongoing and that any additional information necessary to support the review would be formally handled through requests for additional information.

/RA/

Drew Stuyvenberg, Project Manager Projects Branch 1 Division of License Renewal Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

Docket Nos. 50-387 and 50-388

Enclosures:

As stated

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The NRC team members met onsite with officials from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP), the Pennsylvania Bureau of Radiation Protection (a division of PADEP), and staff from the Susquehanna River Basin Commission. Additionally, team members met offsite with State officials in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Informat ion gathered through these offsite meetings will assist the environmental review team in its evaluation.

At the conclusion of the site audit, the NRC staff and ANL contractors summarized the status of the review with PPL representative and identified specific informational items NRC staff would need to complete their environmental review. Enclosure 2 contains a list of PPL's responses.

These responses are publicly available, and can be found in the Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) using the accession numbers listed in Enclosure 2.

ADAMS is accessible at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/dologin.htm or through the NRC's Electronic Reading Room link at http://www.nrc.gov. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS, or who encounter problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, should contact the NRC's Public Document Room staff at 1-800-397-4209, or 301-415-4737, or by e-mail at pdr@nrc.gov

. In closing, the NRC staff indicated that the review team did not identify any significant issues during its site audit or during offsite meetings with other agencies. However, the NRC staff further indicated that the review was ongoing and that any additional information necessary to support the review would be formally handled through requests for additional information.

/RA/ Drew Stuyvenberg, Project Manager Projects Branch 1 Division of License Renewal Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

Docket Nos. 50-387 and 50-388

Enclosures:

As stated

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Adams Accession No.: ML073480447 OFFICE LA:DLR PM:DLR:RERB PM:DLR:RPB1 BC:DLR:RPB1

NAME IKing JDavis AStuyvenberg LLund DATE 12/19/07 3/27/08 3/27/08 4/4/08 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY Letter to PPL Susquehanna from D. Stuyvenberg, dated April 4, 2008

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SUMMARY

OF ENVIRONMENTAL SITE AUDIT RELATED TO THE REVIEW OF THE LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION FOR SUSQUEHANNA STEAM ELECTRIC STATION, UNITS 1 AND 2 (TAC NOS. MD3022 AND MD3021)

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A. Stuyvenberg L. Lopas J. Davis fmonette@anl.gov E. Gettys R. Guzman P. Krohn (RI)

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L. Subin DLR/RERB DLR/RPB1 DLR/RPB2 LIST OF PARTICIPANTS FOR SUSQUEHANNA STEAM ELECTRIC STATION, UNITS 1 AND 2 ENVIRONMENTAL SITE AUDIT MAY 15-17, 2007

PARTICIPANT AFFILIATION Drew Stuyvenberg U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

Jennifer Davis NRC Andrew Carrera NRC Ekaterina Lenning NRC Elizabeth Wexler NRC Nathan Goodman NRC Eric Benner NRC Sarah Lopas NRC Jeffrey Rikhoff NRC Jessie Muir NRC Harriet Nash NRC Steve Klementowicz NRC Dennis Beissel NRC Fred Monette Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)

Halil Avci ANL Bill Metz ANL Ellen Moret ANL Bill Vinikour ANL Kirk LaGory ANL Ron Kolpa ANL Dan O'Rourke ANL John Quinn ANL Duane Filchner PPL Susquehanna, LLC (PPL)

Mike Detamore PPL John Krais PPL Bill Texter PPL Dave Flyte PPL Curt Saxton PPL Jerome Fields PPL Luis Ramos PPL John Diltz PPL Joseph Scopelliti PPL John Fridman PPL Tim Belles PPL Jerrold McCormick PPL Tony Piemontoso PPL Frank Hickey PPL Cory Poncavage PPL Roger Stigers PPL Mike Micca PPL Bill Rigotti PPL Lyle Harvey PPL ENCLOSURE 1 Jerry Dorn PPL Ted Jacobsen PPL Al Tope PPL Earl Burnside PPL Bill Taylor PPL Stephen Bogle PPL Ray Doebler PPL James Willliams PPL Gary Owens PPL Art Fitch PPL Jon Cudworth TetraTech Anne Lovell TetraTech James Oliver TetraTech Brian Mangan Ecology III James Montgomery Ecology III Fred Polaski Exelon Mike Banko FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC), Beaver Valley Power Station (BVPS) Julie Firestone FENOC, BVPS James Holmes Pennsylvania Division of Environmental Protection (PADEP) Len Nawrocki PADEP Eric Roof Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC)

John Dayman SRBC Rich Janati PADEP, Bureau of Radiation Protection Brad Fuller PADAP, Bureau of Radiation Protection Information Submitted by PPL Susquehanna Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Units 1 and 2 Following the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Environmental Site Audit

Document Name ADAMS Accession Number Environmental Audit Document Requests, Supplemental Information ML071800069 Environmental Audit Document Requests, Other Reference Information ML071800156 Responses to Environmental Audit Questions ML071790414 Follow-up to Environmental Audit Document Requests for Supplemental Information ML072200111

ENCLOSURE Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Units 1 and 2

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Cornelius J. Gannon Vice President - Nuclear Operations PPL Susquehanna, LLC 769 Salem Blvd., NUCSB3 Berwick, PA 18603-0467

Robert M. Paley General Manager - Plant Support PPL Susquehanna, LLC 769 Salem Blvd., NUCSB2 Berwick, PA 18603-0467

Rocco R. Sgarro Manager - Nuclear Regulatory Affairs PPL Susquehanna, LLC Two North Ninth Street, GENPL4 Allentown, PA 18101-1179

Supervisor - Nuclear Regulatory Affairs PPL Susquehanna, LLC 769 Salem Blvd., NUCSA4 Berwick, PA 18603-0467

Michael H. Crowthers Supervisor - Nuclear Regulatory Affairs PPL Susquehanna, LLC Two North Ninth Street, GENPL4 Allentown, PA 18101-1179

Ronald E. Smith General Manager - Site Preparedness and Services PPL Susquehanna, LLC 769 Salem Blvd., NUCSA4 Berwick, PA 18603-0467

Michael H. Rose Manager - Quality Assurance PPL Susquehanna, LLC 769 Salem Blvd., NUCSB2 Berwick, PA 18603-0467

Joseph J. Scopelliti Community Relations Manager, Susquehanna PPL Susquehanna, LLC 634 Salem Blvd., SSO Berwick, PA 18603-0467

Bryan A. Snapp, Esq.

Associate General Counsel PPL Services Corporation Two North Ninth Street, GENTW3 Allentown, PA 18101-1179

Document Control Services PPL Susquehanna, LLC Two North Ninth Street, GENPL4 Allentown, PA 18101-1179

Richard W. Osborne Allegheny Electric Cooperative, Inc.

212 Locust Street P.O. Box 1266 Harrisburg, PA 17108-1266

Director, Bureau of Radiation Protection Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Rachel Carson State Office Building P.O. Box 8469 Harrisburg, PA 17105-8469

Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Units 1 and 2

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Senior Resident Inspector U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission P.O. Box 35, NUCSA4 Berwick, PA 18603-0035

Regional Administrator, Region 1 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 475 Allendale Road King of Prussia, PA 19406

Board of Supervisors Salem Township P.O. Box 405 Berwick, PA 18603-0035

Dr. Judith Johnsrud National Energy Committee Sierra Club 443 Orlando Avenue State College, PA 16803