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Requests Addl Info for Continuing Environ Review of Subj Facility.Reply Should Consist of Sequentially Numbered Revisions to Environ Rept
ML19274D095
Person / Time
Site: New England Power
Issue date: 01/04/1979
From: Ballard R
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To: Harrington J
NEW ENGLAND POWER CO.
References
NUDOCS 7901090408
Download: ML19274D095 (5)


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Dr. Joseph Harrington Project Manager 20 Turnpike Road Westborough, Massachusetts 01581 Gentlemen:

As a result of our continuing NEP 1 & 2 environmental review, we find that we need additional information to complete our evaluation. The specific information required is identified in the enclosure to this letter.

Your reply should consist of a sequentially numbered revision to your Environmental Report for NEP a 2 and should be distributed in accordance with our letter to you of June 9,1978 signed by Marie Slater.

Please inform us of the date when this information can be given to us.

Sincerely,

$;itK%id(%6 Environmental Projects Branch 1 Division of Site Safety and Environmental Analysis

Enclosure:

Questions on NEP 1 & 2 cc: Service inst 790109080g

NEP-1 & NEP-2 New England Power Company bocket Nos. STN 50-568 & STN 50-569 Mr. Richard A. Poirier, President Dr. Robert L. Conrad Rhode Island Association of Physicians Concerned Conservation Commissioners About Nuclear Power Pole 95 Stillwater Road 130 Kenyon Avenue Smithfield, Rhode Island 02917 Wakefield, Rhode Island 02879 Vincent J. Naggarato, Esaui. '

James D. Thornton, Esquire Town Solicitor, Town of Westerly Thornton & Thornton, Inc.

Washington Trust Building - Suite 209 Trustees of the Thomas Lyman Arnold Trust Westc-ly, Rhode Island 02891 Washington Trust Building Westerly, Rhode Island 02891 Mr. John T. Scanlon, Executive Director Save the Bay, Inc.

Mr. Edward J. King, President 655 Main Street New England Council for East Greenwich. Rhode Island 02818 Economic Development 1032 Statler Office Building Dr. Samuel Seeley, President Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Concerned Citizeris of Rhode Island Box 525 Mr. Hei:ry Shelton Charlestown, Rhode Island 02813 Coalition for Consumer Justice 428 Dexter Street Mr. Richard 3. Schoon Central Falls, Rhode Island 02863 Executive Vice President Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce Mr. Victor Bell 10 Dorrance Street Dept. of Environmental Management Providence, Rhode Island 02903 Office of Planning & Program Development 83 Park Street Mr. Harold Ward Providence, Rhode Island 02903 Chairman of the Board Conservation Law Foundation of Rhode Island 286 Doyle Avenue Providence, Rhode Island 02906 Edward H. Newman, Esquiru Solicitor, Town of Richraond 42 Granite Street Westerly, Rhode Island 02891 Barry N. Capalbo, Esquire Solicitor, Town of Hopkinton Hopkinton, Rhode Island 02883 Mr. Raymond L. Thorp, Jr.

Chairman for Intervention

'The Taxpayers and Voters of Charlestown Bradford, Rhode Island 02808

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.New England Power Company

-NEP-1 and NEP-2 STN 50-568 & STN 50-569 Robert K. Gad, III, Esquire J. Peter Doherty, Esquire Ropes and Gray Special Assistant Attorney General 225 Franklin Street State of Rhode Island and Boston, Massachusetts 02110 Providence Plantations 55 Pine Street New England Power Company Providence, Rhode Island 02903 ATTN: Mr. James E. Tribble Vice President V. James Santaniello, Esquire 20 Turnpike Road Town Solicitor Westborough, Massachusetts 01581 Town of West Greenwich Manning, West, Santaniello & Pari Mr. C. Robert McLean, President 711 Industrial Bank Building Charlestown Town Council Providence, Rhode Island 02903 Town Hall Charlestown, Rhode Island 02813 Mr. Frank G. Cole, Project Manager United Engineers Constructors Ms. Beth Paul Milham 30 South 17th Street Chairman P. O. Box 8223 Aquidneck Island Ecology Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19101 108 North C~namplin Place Newport, Rhode Island 02840 Mr. James T. Kaull The Providence Journal and Archibald B. Kenyon, Jr., Esquire Evening Bulletin Town Solicitor 75 Fountain Street Town of South Kingston Providence, Rhode Island 02902 51 Tower Hill Road Wakefield, Rhode Island 02879 Energy dvisor Office of the Governor John P. Toscano, Jr.

State House Town Solicitor Providence, Rhode Island 02903 23 Canal Street Westerly, Rhode Island 02891 l

Wallace Stickney U. S. Environmental Protection Agency

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JFK Federal Building Mr. Eric D. Schneider Boston, Massachusetts 02203 Ms. Claudine C. Schneider 56 Central Street Sanford Gaines, Region I Office Narragansett, Rhode Island 02882 U. S. Environmental Protection Agency JFK Federal Building Rhode Islanders for Safe Power Boston, Massachusetts 02203 c/o Mary Ann Scott-Ketner RDS 700 Ministerial Road Robert Ostrum Wakefield, Rhode Island 02879 General Services Administration Washington, D. C. 20407

Enclosure

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REQUEST FOR ADDITI0tlAL IflFORMATI0ft flEP 1 & 2 301.85 For each candidate site (alternate sites and proposed site) identify and give acreages of flational Forests, Parks, and Monuments, natural landmarks, state and local jurisdiction of forests and parks, or privately dedicated wildlife area; of which a portion or all is within a 5-mile radius of the site bascd on readily available reconnaissance-level information.

301.86 As defined by the Soil Conservation Service, how much prime or unique agricultural land exists on the following sites: Moore, Comerford, Errol, and Bear Swamp?

301.87 Please identify the Federal and state listed rare, threatened, and endangered plant and animal species likely to be impacted by construction and operation of the plant using the Moore, Comerford, Errol, and Bear Swamp sites.

301.88 As defined by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, identify those candidate sites which are located within a floodplain.

301.89 For each candidate site, please identify and quantify the major land-use classifications (e.g., residential, agricultural, recrea-tional, etc.). Please approximate the proportions of these land-uses that will be disturbed as a result of construction of the plant.

301.90 For each candidate site, please identify and quantify major habitats (e.g., wetlands, hardwood forest, coniferous forest, mixed hard-wood-coniferous forest, grcssland, agricultural land).

Please approximate the proportions of these habitats that will be disturbed as a result of construction of the plant.

301.91 Indicate those portions of proposed transmission lines associated with each candidate site that will cross flational Forests, Parks, and Monuments, and state and local jurisdiction of forests and parks based on readily available reconnaisance-level information.

301.92 Indicate the approximate prooortions of major habitats (forests, agricultural lands, and settled areas) that will be crossed by the proposed transmission lines assoicated with each candidate site.

301.93 In Table II of the " Revised Transmission Section For Each Candidate Site" in a letter to NRC dated October 31, 1978, reference was made to the number of miles of new rights-of-way and number of miles of existing rights-of-way that will require widening.

How many acres of forest land will need to be cleared for these additional rights-of-way requirements?

301.94 In response to question 350.19 of your letter to NRC dated October 31, 1978, reference was made to a proposal entitled

" Natural Area Management Plant for the Charlestown Rhode Island Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Site."

Please provide a copy of this report.

To what agency has this proposal been sent?

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