ML19282B539
| ML19282B539 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | New England Power |
| Issue date: | 02/16/1979 |
| From: | Deyoung R Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Harrington J NEW ENGLAND POWER CO. |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7903150311 | |
| Download: ML19282B539 (7) | |
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-'t NUCLEA3 REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D. C. 20555 FEB 161979 Docket Nos. STN 50-568 and STN 50-569 New England Power Company ATTN: Dr. Joseph Harrington Project Manager 20 Turnpike Road Westborough, Massachusetts 01581 Gentlemen:
Enclosed is our current schedule for the remainder of our NEP 1 & 2 environmental review (Enclosure 1). This schedule assumes that the Charlestown site disposal decision by GSA is early enough to permit us to receive USEPA input to our Final Environmental Statement in a timely manner (see Enclosure 2, last paragraph).
Sincerely, l
x4 Richard DeYouri Director Division of Site Safety and Environmental Analysis Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
Enclosures:
- 1. Environ. Review Schedule
- 2. Ltr fm L. Carothers dtd 9/28/77 cc: (Seeattachedlist) 7903150311
NEP 1 & 2 Environmental Review Schedule Event Date Issue Draf t Environmental Statement 03/30/79 Public Comment Period Ends 06/06/79 Receive Applicant's Response to Comments 07/06/79 Issue Final Environmental Statement 08/13/79
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20555 Re: New England Power 1 & 2, Charlestown, RI
Dear Mr. Cota:
As the time for publishing the Nuclear Regulatory Comission's draf t environmental impact statement on the New England Power Company's Charlestown project draws near, I want to clarify the pattern of coordination between the Commission and our office.
The Second Memorandum of Understanding between the Com=ission and the Environ-mental Protection Agency calls for EPA to assist NEC in preparing the draft and final environmental impact statements on those suHects for which EPA has principal regulatory responsibility and expertise. Th we are prepared to do, giving most attention to effects on water quality and marine ecology caused by the intake and discharge of condenser cooling water.
The second memorandum also prescribes a coordinated sequence of NRC and EPA decision making. EPA should draft an NPDES permit (not including alternative thermal effluent limits) for 7nclusion in the draft environmental impact statement. Af ter public hiiarings required by law to consider both the draft
'mpact statement in general and the specific subject of what alternative ithermal effluent limits to impose under section 316(a) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, EPA will make a determination on a final NPDES permit, including thermal effluent limits. This determ4ntion should roughly codncide with the filing by NRC of a final environmental impact statement; ideally, the final statement will contain a copy of the final NPDES permit issued by EPA.
When alternative thermal effluent limitations have been requested, the develop-ment of a final NPDES permit is a particularly sensitive and intec.sive process requiring a substantial commitment of personnel on our part. Our project manager, Sandy Gaines, explained to you and Myron Karman in July that we are most reluctant to make that commitment of time and money to the New England Power Company's Charlestown project until we are reasonably assured that the
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facility will be constructed on the site be ng proposed project site, creates about the disposal by the GeneraAuxiliary Landing Field in C any's anticipated ownership of the h
a significant uncertainty about the compThis uncertainty w f its own that approves tne sale of a final environmental impact statement od competing claims and site.
the site to New England Power, an have been settled.
NRC, with its acerb commentary on inforces our preference not to The opinion of Judge Pettine in CCRI v.GSA's cours It is true that nce of GSA.
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proceed with our decision making in a vahe lef t no room f h
Judge Pettine could find no legal basis the sale ocedure would be for GSA to decide on the company's application, but public commitments to the project.
the wiser and more legitimate pr abide by his explicit recom-of the land before NRC and EPA made anywith the judge's d both you and Mr. Karman expressed We agree mendation.
d agreed to delay issuing the final NRC l
In conversations with Mr. Gaines in Ju y, il after the GSA final statement has be an appreciation for our position an environmental impact statement untWe understand your desire RC's In our judgment, premature issuance issued.
now will keep the and to avoid costly delays.
impact statement will only invite litigat oOn the other hand, h
l it entails.of the company's application order y it is our intention not to make l
Company's NPDES permit application review After consideration of these many factors, l impact statement sanctioning sale of a final decision on New England Powerafter GSA is We could make the decision approxima We request that you delay filing any.
the Charlestown NALF to the comp disrupt is filed.
te=ent until that time so as not to six weeks after the CSA statement S'econd its final environmental impact staRC-EPA decision making set up by the pattern of coordinated N Memorandum of Understanding.
Sincerely yours, Leslie Carothers, Director Enforcement Division Myron Karman, NRC John DeVincentis, NEP ec:
Joseph Harrington, NEP
NEP-1 & NEP-2
'New England Power Company Docket Nos. STN 50-568 & STil 50-569 Mr. Richard A. Poirier, President Dr. Robert L. Conrad Rhode Island Association of Physicians Concerned Conservation Comissioners About Nuclear Power Pole 95 Stillwater Road 130 Kenyon Avenue Smithfield, Rhode Island 02917 Wakefield, Rhode Island 02879 Vincent J. Naggarato, Escuire James D. Thornton, Esquire Town Solicitor, Town of Westerly Thornton & Thornton, Inc.
Washington Trust Building - Suite 209 Trustees of the Thomas Lyman Arnold Trust Westerly, Rhode Island 02891 t,ashington Trust Building Westerly, Rhode Island 02891 Mr. John T. Scanlon, Executive Director
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Save the Bay, Inc.
Mr. Edward J. Xing, 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 Citizens of Rhode Island Box 525 Mr. Henry Shelton Charlestcwn, Rhode Island 02813 Coalition for Consumer Justice 428 Dexter Street Mr. Richard G. Schoon Central Falls, Rho n: Island 02863 Executive Vice President Greater Providence Chamber of Commerc Vi BW Dept. of Environmental Management ro dence Rho 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 Chairman 286 Doyle Avenue SRI Conservation District Providence, Rhode I' land 02906 Liberty Lane s
West Kingston, RI 02892 Edward H. Newman, Esquire Solicitor, Town of Richmond Director 42 Granite Street Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Westerly, Rhode Island 02891 Council
- One Ashburton Place Barry N. Capalbo, Esquire Boston, MA 02108 Solicitor, Town of Hopkinton Hopkinton, Rhode Island 02883 Di rector U. S. Heritage Conservation Mr. Raymond L. Thorp, Jr.
and Recreation Service Chairman for Intervention Washington, D. C. 20240 The Taxpayers and Vaters of Charlestown Bradford, Rhode Island 02808
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-NEP-1 and flEP-2 STil 50-568 & STN 50-559 Robert K. Gad, III, Esquire J. Peter Doherty, Esquire Special Assistant Attorney General Ropes and Gray State of Rhode Island and 225 Franklin Street Boston, Massachusetts 02110 Providence Plantations 55 Pine Street New England Power Company Providence, Rhode Island 02903 ATTN: Mr. James E. Tribble V. James Santaniello, Esquire Vice President Town Solicitor 20 Turnpike Road 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 P. O. Box 8223 Chairman Aquidneck Island Ecology Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19101 108 North Champlin Place Newport, Rhode Island 02340 Mr. James T. Kaull The Providence Journal and Archibald B. Kenyon, Jr., Esquire Evening Bulletin Town Solicitor 75 Fountain St eet Town of South Kingston Providence, Rr ade Island 02902 51 Tower Hill Road Wakefield, Rhode Island 02879 Energy ^dvisc.-
Office of the Governor
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John P. Toscano, Jr.
State House Providence, Rhode Island 02903 Town Solicitor 23 Canal Street Westerly, Rhode Island 02891 Wallace Stickney U. S. Environmental Vroi:ection Agency JFK Federal Building ' 02203 Boston, Massachusetts Mr. Eric D. Schneider Ms. Claudine C. Schneider Janet D. Smith, Regional Power Plant 56 Central Street Attorney Narragansett, Rhode Island 02882 Region I U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Rhode Islanders for Safe Power JFK Federal Building c/o Mary Ann Scott-Ketner Boston, Massachusetts 02203 R05 700 Ministerial Road Wakefield, Rhode Island 02879 Robert Ostrum General Services Administration Washington, D. C. 20407
NEP 1 & NEP 2 New England Power Company Docket Nos. STN 50-568 & STN 50-569 Regional Director, North Atlantic Region National Park Service 15 State Street Boston, MA 02109 Director Geological Survey Reston, ya 22092 Director of State Planning State of New Hampshire 26 Pleasant Street Concord, NH 03301 Chief Statewide Planning Program 265 Melrose Street Providence, RI 02907 J. W. O'Connell, Director Real Property Division, Public Buildings Service General Services Administration 702 John W. McCormack Post Office and Courthouse Boston, MA 02109 Roy Julian Office of Real Property General Services Administration Washington, D. C.
20405 Mr. Robert Chase U.S. Department of Energy Region I 150 Causeway Street Boston, MA 02114
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