ML19210B288
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 05/18/1976 |
| From: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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ENVIRONMENTAL D! PACT APPRAISAL BY THE OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION SUPPORTING AMENDMENT NO. 17 TO LICENSE NO. DPR-50 METROPOLITAN EDISON COMPANY JERSEY CENTRAL P0k'ER AND LICHT COMPANY PENNSYLVANIA ELECTRIC COMPANY THREE MILE ISLAND NUCLEAR STATION, U'ilT I I.
Descriotion of Proposed Action By letters dated July 9 and 15, 1975, August 8,1975, October 23, 1975, and February 11, 197c the Metropolitan Edison Company (Met Ed) provided infor=ation and supportive anal-ysis relative to a proposed change in the Appendix A Technical Specifications of Facility License No. DPR-28. The proposed change concerns revisions to the limiting conditions for operation to the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unic No.1 (n!I-1) as a result of the implementation of the Acceptance Criteria for the Emergency Core Cooling System (ECCS) and reload for cycle 2 operation.
The imple=entation of the ECCS Acceptance Criteria will permit operation of TMI-1 at a power level previously evaluated in the Final Environmental State-ment (FES) issued in December 1972. The FES concluded that based upon an evaluation of the proposed operating conditions, an operating license should be issued for TMI-1.
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Environmental Iepacts of Proposed Action The NRC has evaluated the potential environmental impacts associated with this proposed license amendment as required by the NEPA and Section 51.7 of Part 51 CFR.
The potential NEPA concerns associated with the implementation of the ECCS Criteria for TMI-1 and cycle 2 operation can be defined as:
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Changes in benefits accruing from plant operation due to revisions to reactor power limits.
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Variation in environmental impacts resulting from changes in non-radiological effluent releases.
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Variation in environmental i= pacts resulting from changes in radiological effluent releases.
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2-This NRC evaluatien has concluded that operating power will be as previously evaluated and presented in the FES of Dececher 1972. Therefore, no recultant changes in these (3) criteria are expected. Since this change will not result in todified power levels, no changes in the Cost /Eenefit balance and environ-cental icpacts (other than expressed in the FES) arc predicted. The FES evaluaticn of TMI-1 cooling water flow, thermal effluents, chemical effluents, radiological source ter and effluents during cperation cau posculated accident conditions need not be revired as a result of the implerentation of the ECCS Acceptance Criteria or cycle 2 operation.
III. Conclusions and Basis for Necative Declaration On the basis of the NRC cvaluation and information supplied by Met Ed, it is concluded that the implerentation of the ECCS Acceptance Criteria for IMI-l or cycle 2 operation vill produce no discernible environmental impacts other than these previously addressed in the FES of December 1972. The issuance of this change to the Appendix A Technical Specifications will permit operaticn at a power level previcusly evaluated in the FES and will not affect the Cost /Eenefit balance, nor the evaluation of the radiological and non-radiolcgical effluents as prescnted in the FES. This atendrent will not require changes to the Environ-mental Technical Specifications (Appendix B).
llaving reached these conclusions, the Con =iccion has deternined that an environ-cental impact statement need not be prepared for the prcposed license amend-ment and that a Negative Declaration shall be issued to this effect.
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR RECULATORY COMMISSION DOCKET NO. 50-289 METROPOLITAN EDISON COMPANY JERSEY CENTRAL PCWER AND LIGHT COMPANY PENNSYLVANIA ELECTRIC COMPANY NOTICE OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE AND NEGATIVE DECLARATION Notice is hereby given that the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has issued A=endment No. 17 to Facility Operating License No.
DPR-50 issued to Metropolitan Edison Company, Jersey Central Power and Light Company, and Pennsylvania Electric Company which revised Technical Specifications for operation of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit No. 1, located in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The amendment is effective as of its date of issuance.
The amendment revises the Technical Specifications to establish operating limits for TMI-1 as reloaded for cycle 2 operation based upon an acceptable Emergency Core Cooling System evaluation model conforming to the requirements of 10 CFR 50.46, and terminates the operating restrictions imposed by the Commission's December 27, 1974 Order for Modification of License.
The applications for the amendment comply with the standards and require =ents of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the Commission's rules and regulations. The Commission has =ade appropriate findings as required m'
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Notices of Proposed Issuance of Amendment to Facility Operating License in connection with this action were published in the FEDERAL REGISTER on Septe=ber 30,1975 (40 F.R. 44896) and March 8, 1976 (41 F.R. 9938). No request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene was filed following notice of the proposed action.
The Co=sission has prepared an environuental i= pact appraisal for the revised Technical Specifications and has concluded that an environ = ental impact statement for this particular action is not warranted because there will be no environmental i= pact attributable to the action other than that which has already been predicted and described in the Commission's Final Environmental Statement for the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit No. 1, issued in December 1972, and that a negative declaration to this effect is appropriate.
For further details with respect to this action, see (1) the applications for amendment dated August 8,1975, as suppcrted by filings dated July 9 and 15,1975, and October 23, 1975; and January 13, 1976, as amended February 11, 1976, and April 2, 1976, and supported by filings dated January 23, 1976, April 5 and 8, 1976, (2) Amendment No.
17to License No. DPR-50, (3) the Co= mission's related Safety Evaluation, and (4) the Com=ission's Environ = ental I= pact Appraisal. All of these items are available for public inspection at the Coc=ission's Public Document Room, 1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., and at the Government Publications Section, State Library of Pennsylvania, Box 1601 (Education Building),
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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3-A copy of items (2), (3), and (4) may be obtained upon request addressed to the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Coc=1ssien, Washington, D.C.
20555, Attention:
Director, Division of Operating Reactors.
Dated at Bethesda, Maryland, this 18th day of May 1976.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 1
i ggds.,.f AM Robert W. Reid, Chief Operating Reactors Branch #4 Division of Operating Reactors I585 203