ML103400163
| ML103400163 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Columbia  |
| Issue date: | 01/18/2011 |
| From: | Dan Doyle License Renewal Projects Branch 1 |
| To: | Energy Northwest |
| doyle, D, NRR/DLR/RPB1, 415-3748 | |
| References | |
| TAC ME3121 | |
| Download: ML103400163 (9) | |
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SUBJECT:
SUMMARY
OF SITE VISIT IN SUPPORT OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW OF THE LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION FOR COLUMBIA GENERATING STATION (TAC NO. ME3121)
From June 8-10,2010, environmental review team members from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and contractors from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) visited the Columbia Generating Station (CGS) to conduct interviews and collect technical information on CGS in support of the CGS license renewal environmental review. The primary goal of the site visit was to review documentation, gather information to ensure that environmental requirements of license renewal as codified in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 51 (10 CFR Part 51) were met, and to meet with representatives from Federal, State, local, and tribal government agencies. Enclosure 1 is a list of representatives from NRC, PNNL, Washington State agencies, other Federal agencies, affected tribes, and Energy Northwest personnel who partiCipated in the site visit.
The data collection site visit began on June 8, 2010, with a kickoff meeting where participants were introduced and logistics were discussed. Following the kickoff meeting, the environmental review team participated in a general site tour of the CGS site with Energy Northwest personnel.
The general site tour provided an overview of the site and focused on areas relevant to the environmental review.
During the remainder of the site visit, review team members collected and reviewed data and information presented in Energy Northwest's Environmental Report (ADAMS accession number ML100250666) and met in small sessions with Energy Northwest technical personnel. Review team members also participated in tours of on-site National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System-permitted outfalls, the circulating water system, in-scope transmission line rights-of-way, non-radioactive and universal waste processing and storage areas, and the meteorological towers and monitoring equipment.
The review team also met with representatives from the Washington State Department of Ecology and the Washington State Department of Health. Information from these state agencies will assist the environmental review team in its evaluation of CGS for license renewal.
The NRC invited representatives and officials of affected American Indian tribes to participate in the data collection site visit. Five tribal representatives of three tribes partiCipated. During one breakout meeting concerning potential impacts to cultural and archaeological resources at CGS, Mr. Casey Mitchell of the Nez Perce made the following three requests: 1) he requested copies of all documents sent by Energy Northwest to the NRC in support of the review of this topic; 2) he requested to review and provide comments on Energy Northwest's procedures for protecting cultural and archaeological resources; and 3) he offered to provide training to Energy Northwest staff regarding the tribal perspective on the importance of safeguarding cultural and
-2 archaeological resources. The NRC provided electronic copies of the requested documents to Mr. Mitchell and the NRC strongly encourages Energy Northwest to accommodate the other two requests.
The NRC also reviewed Energy Northwest'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). The review team did not identify any new and significant information during the site visit.
At the conclusion of the data collection site visit, the NRC summarized the status of the review with Energy Northwest representatives. Most of the review team's questions were answered during the visit. In order to resolve the remaining questions, the NRC submitted a request for information (RAI) letter on July 2,2010 (ADAMS accession number ML101750655). Energy Northwest responded to the RAls by letter on August 5, 2010 (ADAMS accession number ML102300503). Enclosure 2 is a table of documents requested by the review team during the site visit and provided by Energy Northwest to assist the team in its environmental review.
These documents are publicly available and can be found in ADAMS using the accession numbers listed in Enclosure 2. The NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) is accessible at 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's Public Document Room staff at 1-800-397-4209 (or 301-415 4737) or bye-mail at pdr.resource@nrc.gov.
While the NRC review team did not identify any significant issues during its site visit, the environmental review was ongoing and that any additional information necessary to support the review would be formally requested.
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Daniel I. Doyle, Project Manager Projects Branch 1 Division of License Renewal Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-397
Enclosures:
As stated cc w/encls: Distribution via Listserv
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS COLUMBIA GENERATING STATION LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION REVIEW NAME Daniel Doyle April BeBault Dennis Beissel Ron Cohen Dennis Logan Jeff Rikhoff Allison Travers Amoret Bunn Ellen Kennedy George Last Bruce McDowell Jeremy Rishel J.H. Snooks Massoud Tafazzoli Garth Lien Greg Olesen Barbara Harper Mary Burandt Mark French Jack Baker Brad Barfuss Nishant Chadha Jim Chasse David Clymer Doug Coleman Don Coody Marsha Eades Sudesh Gambhir Don Gregoire ENVIRONMENTAL SITE VISIT JUNE 8-10,2010 AFFILIATION U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
NRC NRC NRC NRC NRC NRC Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
PNNL PNNL PNNL PNNL AREVA AREVA Bonneville Power Administration Bonneville Power Administration Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Dept of Energy - Office of River Protection Dept of Energy - Richland Operations Office Energy Northwest Energy Northwest Energy Northwest Energy Northwest Energy Northwest Energy Northwest Energy Northwest Energy Northwest Energy Northwest Energy Northwest ENCLOSURE 1
- 2 Mot Hedges Brian Jones Bill Kiel Tom Krueger Andy Langdon Steven Link Clay Madden Steve McNutt Abbas Mostala Robert Nielson Terry Northstrom Jeff Person Jeff Pickles Jeffrey Smith Luis Valencia Steve Vaughn Eileen Webb Jon Weers Rick Welch Bryan Whitehead Casey Mitchell Josiah Pinkham Michael Sobotta Richard Domingue Justin Yeager Jeff Ayres Rick Bond Lynn Albin Doris Squeochs Energy Northwest Energy Northwest Energy Northwest Energy Northwest Energy Northwest Energy Northwest Energy Northwest Energy Northwest Energy Northwest Energy Northwest Energy Northwest Energy Northwest Energy Northwest Energy Northwest Energy Northwest Energy Northwest Energy Northwest Energy Northwest Energy Northwest Energy Northwest Nez Perce Tribe Nez Perce Tribe Nez Perce Tribe National Marine Fisheries Service National Marine Fisheries Service WA State Dept of Ecology WA State Dept of Ecology WA State Dept of Health Wanapum Band
References Requested for Docketing at the Columbia Generating Station Environmental Site Visit June 8-10, 2010 Meteorology and Air Compliance to site audit needs question MET-1 (meteorological data).
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tqNRC request 3054 {EFSEC order 672 updates) itted air emission sources and associated emission
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Terrestrial Ecology Monitoring Program for Columbia Generating Station, Report for 1975 to 2002 (EN 2903) ies list, e-mail communication from R.E. Welch to J.P.
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Ecological Summa Avian spec Chasse, 2 Rare Plant and Vegetation Survey, Riparian Zone, December 2008 Link 2008.)
and Vegetation Survey, Uplands, July 2009 (Link 2009)
I Ecological Monitoring Program - 1987 Annual Report 988}
- Responses to site audit needs questions TE-1 (photos and maps),
TE-2 (t-line maintenance plans), TE-3 (pesticides/herbicides), rE-4 ADAMS Accession Number ML102380287 ML102380287 ML102380287 ML102380288 ML102380288 ML102380288 ML102380288 ML102380289 ML102380287,
! ML102380289 (surveys), TE-5 (tour), TE-6 (bird strikes), TE-7 (wildlife management plans), TE-8 (migratory bird nesting), TE-9 (invasive species), and TE-10 (ponds)
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Response to site audit needs question AQ-1 (ER references):
2, Washington Public Power Supply System, Richland,
- Technical Review of the Aquatic Monitoring Program of WNP ML102380293, Washington, September 1982 (WPPSS 1982)
ML102380289, ML102380294, 2 - 1985 Annual Report, Washington Public Power Supply
- Operational Ecological Monitoring Program for Nuclear Plant ML102380295 System, prepared April 1986 (WPPSS 1986)
- Operational Ecological Monitoring Program for Nuclear Plant 2 - 1986 Annual Report, Washington Public Power Supply System, prepared April 1987 (WPPSS 1987)
- Operational Ecological Monitoring Program for Nuclear Plant 2 - 1987 Annual Report, Washington Public Power Supply System, prepared April 1988 (WPPSS 1988)
Operational Ecological Monitoring Program for Nuclear Plant 2 - 1995 Annual Report, Washington Public Power Supply SJ'stem, prepared April 1996 (WPPSS 1996}
Energy Northwest Columbia Generating Station Effluent Mixing ML102380294
- Study, prepared June 2008 (EN 2008)
Response to NRC request 3007 (circulating water system)
ML102380287 Discharge Monitoring Reports for the last six months ML102380295
1 Table of estimated urn in rates for Wells 1 and 2 from October ML102380295 ENCLOSURE 2
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- 2 2009 through May 2010 Procedure SWP-CHE-01 ML102380295
~i!E?Certification Agreement for Hanford No.2, dated May 17, 1972 ML102380295 Nonradiological Waste Responses to site audit needs questions NRW-1 (annual report ML102380295 summaries for waste streams), NRW-4 (Section 312 Tier II annual reports), and NRW-6 (universal waste)
Environmental Justice Responses to site audit needs questions EJ-1 (subsistence ML102380287
- consumption) and EJ-2 (wildlife sampling) i Socioeconomics I Responses to site audit needs questions SO-1 (payments), SO-2 ML102380287 (payment adjustments), SO-3 (height data), and SO-4 (noise)
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None Archaeological and Cultural Resources Hanford Cultural Resources Management Plan, DOE/RL-98-10, Rev ML102380295 0., U.S. Department of Energy, Richland, Washington, February 2003, Website: http://www.hanford.gov/doe/history=rmp, accessed September 9, 2008 (US DOE 2003)
Rivers of North America, A.C. Benke and C.E Cushing, Editors, ML102380296 Elsevier Academic Press, Burlington, MA and London, U.K. (Benke and Cushing 2005)
Cultural Resources Review for Security Upgrades/Easement to ML102380296 Energy Northwest, letter from PNNL to Fluor Hanford, dated May 13,
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Notice to Proceed, Columbia Generating Station Access Road ML102380296 Improvement, email communication from EL. Kennedy, PNNL, to S.J. Urban, Energy Northwest, July 16, 2008 (PNNL 2008b)
Draft Supplement to the Environmental Statement, Fiscal Year 1975 ML102380296 Proposed Program, Ashe-Hanford 500 kV Transmission Line, Bonneville Power Administration, March 8, 1974 (BPA 1974a)
Draft Supplement to the Environmental Statement, Fiscal Year 1975 ML102380296 Proposed Program, Richland Area Electrical Service Transmission Lines and Substations, Bonneville Power Administration, March 1974 (BPA 1974b)
Responses to site audit needs questions CR-9 (aerial photographs)
ML102380296, and CR-14 (T-line vegetation management)
ML102380287 Map of leased land from DOE with a narrative about CGS related ML102380287, activities outside ~1(Jcks A & B (NRC request 3046)
ML102380296 Written response from EN describing the work process and how ML102380287 procedures are implemented to ensure protection of cultural resources (NRC request 3049)
Letter transmitting cultural resource protection procedures (SWP ML102380296 ENW-04) to SHPO and any response from SHPO (NRC request 3047)
Written response from EN describing routine activities that occur in ML102380287, the culturally sensitive areas around the river pump house (NRC ML102380296 request 3048)
I ML102380287 Latitude and longitude for soil sample locations 1, 7, and 23
- 3 Map of siren locations and latitude and longitude of each siren location I ML102380296 Alternatives None Cumulative Impacts EN's unsolicited proposal to DOE for the Mid-Columbia Energy Initiative (NRC request 3043)
- 2 archaeological resources. The NRC provided electronic copies of the requested documents to Mr. Mitchell and the NRC strongly encourages Energy Northwest to accommodate the other two requests.
The NRC also reviewed Energy Northwest'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). The review team did not identify any new and significant information during the site visit.
At the conclusion of the data collection site visit, the NRC summarized the status of the review with Energy Northwest representatives. Most of the review team's questions were answered during the visit. In order to resolve the remaining questions, the NRC submitted a request for information (RAI) letter on July 2,2010 (ADAMS accession number ML101750655). Energy Northwest responded to the RAls by letter on August 5, 2010 (ADAMS accession number ML102300503). Enclosure 2 is a table of documents requested by the review team during the site visit and provided by Energy Northwest to assist the team in its environmental review.
These documents are publicly available and can be found in ADAMS using the accession numbers listed in Enclosure 2. The NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) is accessible at 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's Public Document Room staff at 1-800-397-4209 (or 301-415 4737) or bye-mail at pdr.resource@nrc.gov.
While the NRC review team did not identify any significant issues during its site visit, the environmental review was ongoing and that any additional information necessary to support the review would be formally requested.
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Daniel I. Doyle, Project Manager Projects Branch 1 Division of License Renewal Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-397
Enclosures:
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