ML18031A129

Forwards Application to Susquehanna River Basin Commission, Er & Design Rept for Const of Pond Hill Reservoir.Er & Design Rept Not Encl

ML18031A129
Person / Time
Site:	Susquehanna
Issue date:	03/06/1979
From:	Curtis N PENNSYLVANIA POWER & LIGHT CO.
To:	Regan W Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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PLA-330, NUDOCS 7903270391
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TWO NORTH NINTH STREET, ALLENTOWN, PA. 18101 PHONE: (215) 821.5151 NORMAN W. CURTIS Vice President Engineering 8 Construction 821-538t March 6, 1979 Mr. William H. Regan, Jr., Chief Environmental Projects Branch 2 Division of Site Safety and Environmental Analysis U;S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington,,D.C. 20555 SUSQUEHANNA STEAM ELECTRIC STATION POND HILL RESERVOIR INFORMATION DOCKET,NOS. 50-387 ER 100450 PLA-330 FILE 991-2 AND 50-388

Dear Mr. Regan:

In response to Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC) regulations requiring low flow augmentation, PP&L is planning to construct the Pond Hill Reservoir. .The application for this reservoir was submitted to SRBC on March 6, 1979.

Enclosed for your information, are two copies of the application to SRBC, the Environmental Report and the Design Report for the Pond Hill Reservoir. The Pond Hill Environmental Report will be submitted as an amendment to the Susquehanna Environmental Report-Operating License Stage in the near future.

If you have any questions regarding this information, please let me know.

Very truly yours, N. W. Curtis Project Director-Susquehanna WEB:jm Enclosures

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BEFORE THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER BASIN COMMISSION In re: Application of Pennsylvania Power 4 Light Company on its behalf and on behalf of Allegheny Electric Cooperative, Inc. for review of pro-ject designed to provide low. flow augmentation for consumptive water use at the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Salem Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

TO THE COhQfISSION:

l. Applicant is Pennsylvania Power 4 Light Company (PPliL),

Two North Ninth Street, Allentown, Pennsylvania 18101.

2. Applicant is acting or itself and for Allegheny Electric Cooperative, Inc. (AE), 212 Locust Street, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17101.

3; 'pplicant's attorney is John Antonuk, Two North Ninth Street, All ntown,. Pennsylvania 18101.

4. PP5L and AE are owners as tenants in common of 908 (PP5L) and 104 (AE) undivided interests in the Susquehanna Steam lectric Station, Units 81 and 42.

S. PP5L is a corporation formed under the laws of the Common-

" wealth of Pennsylvania and is engaged,'nter alia, in he business of

=furnishing electricity to the public in twenty-nine counties in central eastern Pennsylvania.

6. AE is an electric cooperative associ"tion ir corporated under the provisions of the Pennsylvania Electric Cooperative Corporation

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Act, Act of June 21, 1957, P.L. 1969, and is engaged in the business of furnishing electricity to its members, all cooperatives, for resale in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

7. PP5L and AE are not affiliate'd vith one another.

8. The Susquehanna'team Electric Station, Units 91 and P2, (SSPS) is a two-unit nuclear fired electricity generating station currently being constructed near the vestern bank of the Susquehanna River in Salem Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

9. Mhen both of the above-described units (each with a nominal capability of 1050 megawatts) are generating electricity, their average consumptive use of water from the Susquehanna River, for cooling pur-poses, will be 50 cubic feet per second.

.10. PP5L has for several years been exploring alternative means of compensating for such consumptive use during periods of low flow (now defined at 18 C.F.R. 5803.61) in the Susquehann i River.

11. As part of the above-described exploration PPgL has, inter alia, discussed with the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Balti-more District (Corps), the possibility of purchasing water storage

I'rom the Corps 'owanesque Lake multi-purpose reservoir project located

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on the Cowanesque River in Tioga County, Pennsylvania.

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12. In response to those discussions and at the request of the Susquehanna River Basin 'Commission, the Corps has prooosed a study of the full range of water supply potential. at Cowanesaue Lake.

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13. Because of uncertainty. over the time required to complete such a study, Cowanesque Lake cannot presently be considered as an alternative for providing low flow augmentation for consumptive water use at SSES.

14; To the extent, however, that such a study could be satis-factorily concluded before irrevocable and substantial economic and environmental commitments are made to the presently proposed method for developing low flow augmentation capability, PP5L would consider the use of Cowanesque Lake as a method of developing such capability.

15. The presently proposed method of. developing low flow aug-mentation capability is by means of a reservoir project I.'termed the Pond Hill Reservoir) located on a small, unnamed east bank tributary of the Susquehanna River, approximately 7 miles northeast of the Borough of Berwick and one mile south of the village of Hocanaqua.

16. Pond Hill Reservoir's proposed 10,100 acre-feet of active storage will be sufficient to provide required flow augmentation should the most severe drought of record recur.

17. The pertinent location, design. and operational features. of the reservoir are detailed in Application Exhibit "A" titled "Design Report - Pond Hill Reservoir" which exhibit is attached hereto and made a part hereof.

18. A description of the impacts of the proposed reservoir upon the environment I'including social and'conomic impacts), a description of the present environment of the site and its vici-.:i.ty, and a dis-cussion of low flow augmentation alternatives considered are contained

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4 in Application 1 t Ex ii hibit "B" titled "Environmental Report - Pond Hill Reservoir , w h' ic e.zhibit is attached hereto and made a part hereof.

19. Of the present alternatives explored and considered in detail the 7

Pond Hill Reservoir represents the most feasible, from a combined environmental, operational and economic perspective, for

'providing low flow augmentation for consumptive water use at SSES.

20. Present schedules 'establish an in-service date for aug-mentation opera'tion of the Pond Hill Reservoir sometime during the summer of 1983 (assuming necessary government approvals and permits are received by January, 1981), 'which is the date upon and after which PP5L can and will begin to comply with requirements to augment Susquehanna River flows at periods of low flow defined in 18 C.F.R.

5803.61; provided that the Susquehanna River Basin Commission should determine such date to be a reasonable time for compliance in light of the progress in planning and construction of the SSES and the exploration of low flow augmentation alternatives by PPEL to comply with 5803.61 requirements.

21. Costs for the project as described in Exhibits "A" and "B" .

will be paid by PP4L and AE in shares proportionate to their undivided interest in SSES.

%KREFORE, Pennsylvania Power 4 Light Company 'requests that the Susquehanna River Basin Commis'sion review the Pond Hill Reservoir

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project pursuant to its compact and the regulations issued thereunder,

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0 issue its appr'oval of such project as a means of satisfying the requirements of 18 C.F.R. 5803.61, set July 31, 1983 as the date,

'under 18 C.F.R. 5803.61(f), after which the requirements of the section apply, and issue such other approvals as may be necessary or proper under the instant project review.

PENNSYLVANIA PONER 4 LIGHT COMPAiVE By:

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. Dated inarch 6, 1979 at Norman N. Curtis - Vice President Allentown, Pennsylvania Engineering 6 Construction