ML19261E417
| ML19261E417 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Zimmer |
| Issue date: | 06/05/1979 |
| From: | Ballard R Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Borgman E CINCINNATI GAS & ELECTRIC CO. |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7907060427 | |
| Download: ML19261E417 (3) | |
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a k + + * * *,o JUN 5 1979 Docket No. 50-353 Cincinnati Gas and Electric Company ATTil: Mr. Earl A. Borgmann Vice President - Engineering P. O. Box 960 Cincinnati, Ohio 45201 Gentlemen:
The NRC staff has reviewed the draft Environmental Technical Specifications (ETS) submitted for review by your letter dated December 14, 1978.
We have revised your draft extensively and have forwarded a copy of our _
revision under separate cover (draft dated May 16,1979).
We find these ETS as revised by our staff to be appropriate for incorporation into 3 7ur Environmental Report for the Zimmer Station.
The i1RC staff modifications to your proposed ETS differ somewhat from the stc'f position set forth in the Final Environmental Statement (FES) issued June 1977 for operation of the Zimer Station.
Requirements relating to monitoring of station impacts on water quality and monitoring of fish impingement are not included the ETS. The State of Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has addressed these matters in its review of the Zimmer Station and has imposed those requirements which it found appropriate in the NPDES discharge permit issued for the Station.
The NRC staff agrees with the position taken by the Ohio EPA.
Radiological environmental monitoring and meteorological monitoring will be covered in the radiation safety portion of the Technical Specifications (Appendix A to the proposed license).
The FES sets forth in some detail in Section 6.2.3.1 (page 6-5) the program which the applicant has committed to follow for monitoring potential effects of cooling tcwer drift.
These details are quoted in the FES from the presentation set forth in the applicant's Environmental Report (ER).
The ilRC staff does not require such a monitoring program to be conducted as rigorously as described in the ER.
Specifically, ground level color infra-red photogranhy is not required (other methods of assessing ground truth are acceptable), ground truth over 30% of the surveyed area is not required (52 coverage is acceptable to verify the aerial survey results),
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Ci.ncinnati Gas and Electric Company the performance of aerial surveys in August is not required (surveys may yield better results if the timing is nore flexible and focused cn periods of maximum predicted drift deposition damage), aerial photography is not required to be color infra-red (nultispectral or multi-band photography is also acceptable), and soil sampling is not now required (such sampling would be considered in the event that damage frca cooling tower drif t deposition is identified).
The Environmental Program Procedures Document which will contain the details of the environmental program now needs to be submitted for our review at an early date.
Please inform us as to when this Document Nill be submitted.
Sincerely, J'
ih7MLN Ronald L. Ballard, Chief Environmental Projects Branch 1 Division of Site Safety and Environmental Analysis cc:
See next page 793 291
Cincinnati Gas and Electric Company.
cc w/ encl.:
Charles Bechhoefer, Esq., Chairman Leah S. Kosik, Esq.
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 3454 Cornell Place U.S. Nucler.r Regulatory Commission Cincinnati, Ohio 45220 Washington, D. C. 20555 John D. Woliver, Esq.
Dr. Frank F. Hooper Clermont County Community Council School of Natural Resources Box 181 University of Michigan Batavia, Ohio 45103 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 Mr. Glenn 0. Bright Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washingtoa, D. C. 20555 Counsel for NRC Staff Office of the Executive Legal Director U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C. 205 ;
Mark J. Wetterhahn, Esq.
Troy B. Conner, Jr., Ese.
Conner, Moore and Corbei 1747 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D. C. 20006 Thomas A. Luebbers, Esq City Solicitor City Hall, Room 214 Cincinnati, Ohio 4520?
Dr. David B. Fankhauser 3569 Nine Mile Road Cincinnati, Ohio William J. Moran, Esq.
General Counsel Cincinnati Gas and Electric Company P. O. Box 960 Cincinnati, Ohio 45201 7g3 2.
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