ML19309A042
| ML19309A042 | |
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| Site: | Crystal River  |
| Issue date: | 11/20/1971 |
| From: | Muntzing L US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
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| NUDOCS 8003240876 | |
| Download: ML19309A042 (4) | |
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r"N UNITED STATES OP /FERICA ATO:1IC ENERGY C0:0 ISSION In the Matter of
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DETERl:INATION NOT TO SUSPEND CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES AT T11E CRYSTAL RIVER UNIT 3 NUCLEAR GT;MI RATING PLANT AUTHORIZED PURSUANT TO CPPR-51 PENDI"G CO:!PLETION OF !! EPA E*nIn0NMi2:TLI. !!EV1EU The Florida Pcuor Corporntion (the licensce) is the holder of Construction Pemit No. CPPR-51 (the construction pernit), issue 6 by the Atomic Energy Commission on September 25, 1968. The construction pemit authorizes the licensee to construct a pressurized water nuclear reactor, designated as the Crystal River Unit 3 Nuclear Cencrating Plant, at a site in Citrus County, Florida, approximately 70 miles north of Tampa, Florida. The facility is designed for initial operation at approximately 2452 megavatts (thermal).
In accordance with section E.3 of the Co:mniscion's regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 - (NEPA),
Appendix D of 10 CFR Part 50 (Appendix D), the licensee has furnished to the Commission a written statement of reasons, with supporting factual submission, why the construction permit should not be suspended, in whole or in part, pending coupletion of the NEPA environmental review.
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in light of the criteria oct out in section E.2 of Appendix D, and has determined, af ter considering and balancing the critoria in section E.2 of Appendix D, that construction activitics at the O
Crystal River Unit 3 Nuclear Generating Plant authorized pursuant to CPPR-51 chould not be cuspended pending corpletion of the NEPA environcental review.
Further detoils of this determination are set forth in a document entitica "Diccuccion end Findings by the Division of Reactor Licensing, U. S. Atouic Encrcy Commission, Relating to Consideration of Suspension Pending NEPA Environmental Revicu of the Construction Peruit for the Crystal River Unit 3 Nuclear Cancrating Plant, Docket No. 50-302, Novenber 1971."
Ponding completion of the full NEPA review, the holder of Construction Permit No. CPPR-51 proceeds uith construction at its own risk. The determination herein and the discussion and findings referred to above do not preclude the Commission, as a result of its ongoing environ = ental review, from continuing, codifying or terminatinC the construction permit or from appropriately conditioning the permit to protect environmental valtes.
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Any person whose interect may be affected by this proceeding, other than the licenece, may file a request for a hearing uithin thirty (30) days af ter publication of this determination in the FEDERAL REGISTER.
Such a request chall set forth the untters, with reference to the factors set out in section E.2 of _ Appendix D, alleged to warrant a determination other than that made by che Director of Regulation cud chn11 set forth the factuc1 bacia for the request.
If the Ccemission determines that the natters stated in such requent carrant a hearing, a notice of hearing vill be publiched in the PEDERAL 11GISTZR.
The liccusee's statement of reasons, furniched pursuant to section E.3 of Appendix D, as to why the construction permit should not be suspended pending completion of the NEPA environmental review, and the document entitled " Discussion and Findings by the Division of Reactor Licensing, U. S. Atomic Energy Cocuission Relating to Consideration of Suspension Pending HEPA Environmental Review of the Construction Permit for the Crystal River Unit 3 Nuclear Generating Plant, Docket No. 50-3G2 Ndvember 1971" are availabic for public inspection at the Commission's Public Docu=ent Room 1717 11 Street, U.~U., Washington, D.
C., at the Crystal River Public Library, Crystal River, Florida 32629. Copies i
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- addressed to the United Stat ts Atomic Energy Com: mission, Washington, D. C. 20545, Attention: Director, Division of Reactor Licensing.
FOR Tile NTOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION e,
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L. Manning :!untzing Director of Regulation Dated ct Esthesda, Ifaryland this *)p% day of !!ovember 1971 m
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