ML19250C479
| ML19250C479 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Prairie Island  |
| Issue date: | 11/02/1979 |
| From: | Schwencer A Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| NUDOCS 7911260269 | |
| Download: ML19250C479 (2) | |
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7590-01 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION DOCKET NOS. 50-282 AND 50-306 NORTHERN STATES POWER COMPANY NOTICE OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE AND NEGATIVE DECLARATION The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission (}he Comission) has issued Amendment No. 40 to Facility Operating License No. OPR-42, and Amendment No. 34 to Facility Operating License No. DPR-60 issued to Northern States Power Company (the licensee), which revised Tech-nical Specifications for operation of Prai. ie Island Nuclear Generating Plant, Unit Nos. I and 2 (the facilities) located '.n Goodhue County, Minnesota. The amendnents are effective as of the date of issuance.
i The amendments permit the addition of a special chlorination program for the circulating water system which is necessary to destroy the parasitic amoeba discovered in this system.
The application for the anendments complies with the standards and requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the Commission's rules and regulations.
The Comission has made :.ppropriate findings as required by the Act and the Comission's rules and regulations in 10 CFR Chapter I, which are set forth in the license amendments. Prior public notice of these amendments was not required since the amendments do not involve a significant hazards consideration.
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, The Comission has prepared an Environmental Impact Appraisal for the revised Technical Specifications and has concluded that an environ-mental impact statement for this particular action is not warranted because there will be no enviro. mental impact attributable to the action n
other than that which has already been predicted and described in the Commission's Final Environmental Statement for the facility dated May 1973.
For further details with respect to this action, see (1) the application for amendments dated October 30, 1979, (2) Amendment Nos. 40 and 34 to License Nos. DPR-42 and DPR-60, and (3) the Commission's related Environmental Impact Appraisal.
All of these items are available for public inspection at the Comission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. and at the Environmental Conservation Library, 300 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401.
A copy of items (2) and (3) may be obtained upon request addressed to the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C.
20555, Attention:
- Director, Division of Operatiog Reactors.
Dated at Bethesda, Maryland, this 2nd day of November,1979.
FOR THE NUCLEAR hEGULATORY COMMISSION
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i A. Schwencer, Chief Operating Reactors Branch #1 Division of Operating Reactors 1390 080