ML18039A076
| ML18039A076 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Nine Mile Point  |
| Issue date: | 07/13/1983 |
| From: | Haughey M Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Schwencer A Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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t UNITEDSTATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D. C. 20555 JUL 13 1983 Docket No. 50-410 MEMORANDUM FOR:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
DATE 5 TIME:
LOCATION:
PURPOSE:
A. Schwencer, Chief Licensing Branch No. 2 Division of Licensing Mary Haughey, Project Manager Licensing Branch No. 2, DL ENVIRONMENTALSITE VISIT NINE MILE POINT NUCLEAR STATION, UNIT NO. 2 Au ust 2 T983
T:00 PM - 10:00 PM (Pub'lic Meeting}
~23 1983
&:00 AM - 12:00 PM'Discussion}
Au ust 2
1983 ours'.
ne Mile. Point-2 Plant Sited Public Meeting:
Holiday Harbor Hotel 80 E. First Street
- Oswego, New York 13126
~A3 1983 Nine Mile Point-2 Site (Large East Conference Room}
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92 staff the. opportunity to observe items of interest at selected 1'ocations.
The public meeting allows the public to participate in the proceedings and make the NRC aware of any environmental concerns that may be of particular interest.
Au ust 3, 1983 - The NRC staff will meet with the applicant to scuss s te visit results.
The public is invited to attend as observers.
PARTICIPANTS*:
NRC T. Novak A. Schwencer M. Haughey C. Hickey R. Samworth G. LaRoche R. Mescott A. Brauner M. Kaltman M. Mangler J. Hawxhurst NMPC N. Rademacher, et al.
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Agenda cc. w/attachment:
See next page Mary Haughey, Project Manager Licensing Branch No. 2 Divfsion of Licensing "The.meetings between NMPC. and the. NRC'taff on the 2nd and 3rd ofugust 1983 are open for interested members. of the. public,, petitioners, intervenors or other parties to attend as observers pursuant to "Open Meeting and'tatement.
of NRC. Staff'olicy"', 43 Federal Re ister 28058, June 28, 1978.
Anyone wishing to attend these meetings s ou contact the NRC Project Manager,, Mary Haughey,,
at (.30ll 492-7897 by July 26, 1983.
Nine Mile Point 2'r.
Gerald K. Rhode Senior Vice President Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation 300 Erie Boulevard West
- Syracuse, New York 13202 CC:
Mr. Troy B. Conner, Jr.,
Esq.
Conner 5 Wetterhahn Suite 1050 1747 Pennsylvania Avenue-,
N.W.
Washington, D. C.
20006 Mr. Richard Goldsmith Syracuse University College of Law E. I. White Hall Campus
- Syracuse, New York 13210 Mr. Jay Dunkleberger, Director Technological Development Programs New York State Energy Office Agency Building 2.
Empire State Plaza Albany New York 12223 Ezra I. Bialik Assistant Attorney General
'nvironmental Protection Bureau New York State Department of Law 2 World Trade-Center New York, New York 10047 Resident Inspector Nine Mile Point. Nuclear Power Station P. 0. Box 126
- Lycoming, New York 13093 Mr. John W. Keib, Esg..
Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation 300 Erie Boulevard West
- Syracuse, New York 13202
A NINE MILE POINT 2 ENVIRONMENTAL SITE VISIT AGENDA Tuesda Au ust 2 1983 8:00 AM 9:00 AM Introduction of NRG staff and NMPC staff and consultants.
NRC staff will give brief descrip-tion of the scope of the site visit.
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM NRC. staff, NMPC staff and consultants will par-ticipate in a "site-overview tour."
This tour will cover site features of'eneral interest.
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Individual site tours encompassing the actual site and the surrounding areas will be made with the applicant and consultants.
The NRC review groups have expressed specific areas to be highlighted during. the tour as follows:
ENVIRONMENTAL AND HYDROLOGIC ENGINEERING A.
Aquatic Resources 1.
The Nine Mile Point 2 site in'eneral 2..
Lake Ontario* shoreline of the-site 3.
Existing wetlands on the site 4.
Revetment-ditch system 6.
Fish diversion/return system 7.
Condenser cooling water pumphouse C
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Time permitting, fish impingement sampling at Nine Mile Point 2
B.
Terrestrial Resources l.
Infrared and true color aerial photographs taken in August 1979.
2.
"Environmental Management and Construction Plan" for the transmission corridors as well as NMPC's Article VII Application to the New York State Public Service Commission 3.
Representative areas of each plant community or site, the area of maximum predicted drift deposition on land and the plant and animal sampling areas for Unit 2 4.
Flight over the site and the transmission corridor
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Hydrologic Engineering 1.
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Revetment and ditch on Lake Shore Flood control berms on east side of Unit 2 and west side of Unit 1 Bridge (or culvert) under access road going from Lake Road to parking lot south of Unit 1 (shown in Figure 2.4-1J Drainage culverts underneath Lake Road Groundwater dewatering system RADIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT 2.
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Locations of the nearest residence, garden, milk anima'I (cow and goat),
and meat animal in each of the 16 sectors Locations of air monitoring stations within 10 miles of the plant Locations of the site boundary. in each of the 16 sections around the plant Recreational areas along Lake Ontario within 10 miles of the plant Location of the liquid. effluent discharge into Lake Ontario Location of release points for routine releases of gaseous effluents Irrigation areas within 10 miles of the plant using Lake Ontario water
~ or other water potentially containing radioactive effluents from the plant SITE ANALYSIS l.
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Certain features in and around the site such as the rail line and spur, intake structure, Alcan Aluminum Corporation and the area in proximity to Lake Ontario and the Oswego River Observations of lake traffic and land traffic near the plant site Map of underground non-plant pipelines that may penetrate site boundaries METEOROLOGY AND EFFLUENTS TREATMENT l.
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Meeting with person(s) in charge of instrument maintenance and calibration for the meteorological monitoring system Discussion and review of maintenance and calibration procedures/records Observation of meteorological parameter recording devices Primary and secondary meteorological tower location Walk through control room Natural draft cooling tower/survey local terrain to identify/verify prominent features
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Visit to Fitzpatrick and Nine Mile Point 1 sites 8.
Discuss with a meteorologist the atmospheric transport and diffusion modeling in support of emergency dose calculations and projections Mednesda Au ust 3
1983 The NRC staff will meet with the applicant to discuss any items of environ-mental concern that-need further This meeting is open to public attendance as observers. only.
UNITED STATES NUCLEAR R EGULATORY COMMISSI THE LICENSING PROCESS 0
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Obtaining an NRCconstruction permit or a limited work.
authorization, pending a decision on issuance ofa construction permit is the first objective of a utilityor other company seeking to operate a nuclear power reactor or other nuclear facility under NRC license; The process is sct in motion with the filingand acceptance ofthe application, generally compris-ing ten or morc large volumes of material covering both safety and environmental factors, in accordance with NRC re-quirements and guidance. The second phase consists of safety, environmental, safeguards and antitrust reviews undertaken by the NRC staff. Third, a safety review is conducted by the in-dependent Advisory Comrninee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS); this revie>> is required by law. Fourth, a mandatory public hearing is conducted by a three.membcr Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB), which then makes an initialdeci-sion as to v hether the permit should be granted. This decision is subject to appeal to an Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board (ASLAB)and could ultimately go to the. Commissioners for final NRC decision. The law provides for appeal beyond the Commission in the Federal courts.
As soon as an initialapplication is accepted, or "docketed,"
by the NRC, a notice of that fact is published in the Federal
- Register, and copies of the application arc furnished to ap-propriate Stateand local authorities and to a local public docu-ment room (LPDR) established in the vicinityof the proposed site, as well as to the NRC-PDR in Washington, D.C. At the same time; a notice of a public hearing is published in the Federal Register (and local newspapers) which provides 30 days for members of the public to pctiYion to intervene in the pro-ceeding. Such petitions are cntertaincd and adjudicated by the.
ASLB appointed to the case, with rights of appeal by the pcti-tioncr to the ASLAB.
The NRC staff's safety, safeguards, environmental'and an-titrust reviews proceed in parallel. Mth the guidance of the Standard Format (Regulatory Guide 1.70), the applicant for a.
construction permit lays out the proposed nuclear plant design
'n a.Preliminary Safety Analysis Report (PSAR). Ifand when this report has been made sufficiently complete. to warrant review, the application is docketed and NRC staff evaluations begin. Even prior to submission of the report, NRC staff con-ducts a substantive review and inspection of thc applicant's quality assurance program covering design and procurcmcnt.
The safety review is performed by NRC staff in accordance with thc Standard Review Plan for Light-Water-Cooled Reac-tors, initially published in September 1975 and updated pcriodicalfy. This plan states the acceptance criteria used in evaluating the various systems, components and structures im-portant to safety and in assessing the proposed site, and it describes the procedures used in performing the safety review.
The NRC staff examines the applicant's PSAR to determine whether the plant design is safe and consistent with NRC rules and regu'iations; whether valid methods of calculation were employed and accurately carried out; whether the applicant has conducted his analysis and evaluation in sufficient depth and breadth to support staff approval <<ith respect to safety. When the staff is satisfied that the acceptance criteria of the Standard Review Plan have been mct by the applicant's preliminary report, a Safety Evaluaiion Report is prepared by the staff summarizing the results of their review regarding thc an-ticipated effects of thc proposed facility on the public health and safety.
Following publication of the staff Safety Evaluations(eport, the ACRS complcies its review and meets <<ith staff and appli-cant. The ACRS then prepares a lcrter report to the Chairman ofthe NRC presenting thc results of its independent evaluation and recommending whcthcr or not a construction permit should be issued. The staff issues a supplement to thc Safety Evaluation Report incorporating any changes or actions adopted as a result of ACRS recommendations. A public hear-ing can then bc held, generally in a community near the pro-posed site, on safety aspects of the licensing decision.
In appropriate
- cases, NRC may grant a Limited Work Authorization to an applicant in advance of the final dec Yiion on the construction permit in order to allo>> certain work to begin at the site, saving as much as seven momhs time. The authorization willnot be given, however, until NRC staff has completed environmental impact and site suitability rcvicws and the appointed ASLBhas conducted a public hearing on en-vironmental impact and site suitability <<~th a
favorable finding. To realize.the desired saving of time, thc applicant must submit the cnvironmemal portion of the application early.
The environmental review begins with a review of the appli-cant's Environmental Rcport (ERI for acceptability. Assuming the ER is sufficientlycomplete to <<arrant review, it is docketed and an analysis of the consequences to the environment of the construction and opcraiion of the proposed facilityat the pro-posed site is begun. Upon completion of this analysis, a Draft Environmental Statement is published and distributed with specifirrequests for review and comment by Federal, State and local agencies, other intercstcd parties and members of the public. Alloftheir comments are then taken into account in the preparation of a Final Environmental Statement.
Both the draft and the final statements are made available to the public at the time of respective publication. During this same time period NRC is conducting an analysis and preparing a report on site suitability aspects of the proposed licensing action.
Upon completion of these a'ctivities, a public hearing, with the appointed ASLB presiding, may be conducted on environmen-tal and site suitability aspects of the proposed licensing action (or a single hearing on both safety and environmental matters may be held, if that is indicated).
The amiirust revie>>s of license applications are carried put by the NRC and the Attorney General in advance of, or con-currently with, other licensing reviews. Ifan antitrust hearing is required, it is held separately from those on safety and en-vironmental aspects.
About two or three years before consiruction of the plant is scheduled to be complete, the apphcant files an application for an operating license. A process similar to that for the construc-tion permit is folio<<ed. The application is filed, NRC staff and the ACRS review it, a Safety Eialuation Report and an up-dated Environmental Statement are issued. A public hearing is not mandatory at this stage, but onc n:ay be held i('equested by al'fected members of the public or at the initiative of the Coinmission. Each license for operation of a nuclear reactor contains technical specifications>>hich set forth the particular safety and environmental protection measures to be imposed upon the facility and the conditions that must be mct for the facilityto operate.
Once
- licensed, a
nuclear faility remains under NRC surveillance and undergoes periodic inspections throughout its operating life. In cases where the NRC finds that substamial, additional protection is necessary for the public health and safety or the common defense and security, the NRC may re-quire "backfitting" of a licensed plant, that is, the addition, elimination or modilication ol'tructures, systems or com-ponems of the plant.
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