ML19318J062
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| ML19318J062 | |
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| Issue date: | 11/14/2019 |
| From: | Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards |
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| Download: ML19318J062 (16) | |
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Draft Environmental Assessment for Westinghouse License Renewal November 14, 2019
NRC Review Westinghouse submitted a license renewal application to the NRC requesting to renew its operating license for an additional 40 years.
The NRC is conducting a safety and environmental review of the application. Both reviews are ongoing.
Safety Evaluation Report (SER)
Environmental Assessment (EA)
The NRC provides oversight through inspections of the site.
Sources
Preliminary Findings in Draft EA No significant impacts to most resources areas.
No change to noise, land use, aesthetics, or transportation impacts.
Westinghouse must comply with NRC dose limits for workers and the public.
Expect Westinghouse to comply with new air and water permits from DHEC and NRC effluent limits.
No adverse impacts identified to endangered or threatened species.
No impacts to historic or cultural resources, if present.
Impacts are not expected to be disproportionately high and adverse for low-income and minority groups because there are no offsite impacts.
Preliminary Findings in Draft EA Impacts to soil, surface water, and groundwater are noticeable but not significant with mitigation and monitoring.
Uranium and Technetium-99 are present in the onsite groundwater in the shallow aquifer.
No pathway for consumption of onsite groundwater or surface water.
Water samples from Mill Creek and Congaree River are below limits.
Mill Creek Gator Pond Upper Sunset Lake Lower Sunset Lake Mill Creek
URANIUM PLUME Source: 2019 Annual Groundwater Report TC-99 PLUME Source: 2019 Annual Groundwater Report
Mitigation and Monitoring Westinghouse has developed a conceptual site model as a tool to make decisions based on data and site hydrogeology.
Westinghouse created new procedures to make decisions based on sampling results.
NRC license during the renewal period will require Westinghouse to:
Continue monitoring of soil, vegetation, air, river, surface water, sediment, and groundwater.
Enter exceedances of regulatory limits for water into its Corrective Action Program.
Westinghouse must re-submit its environmental monitoring program for NRC review and approval.
Comment on Draft EA Comment period runs from October 28 to November 27.
Submit comments:
Tonight (verbal or written),
Email to WEC-CFFF-EA@nrc.gov, Online at https://www.regulations.gov at Docket ID NRC-2015-0039, or Mail to Office of Administration, Mailstop T7-A60M, US NRC, Washington, DC 20555-0001 Attn Program Management, Announcements, and Editing Staff.
Next Steps Public comments and NRCs responses will be provided as appendix in the final environmental assessment.
The current schedule is to complete the review in April 2020.
Questions
Public Comments
Contact Us Jessie Muir Quintero Environmental Project Manager NRC/NMSS/REFS/ERMB (301) 415-7476 Jessie.Quintero@nrc.gov Marilyn Diaz-Maldonado Project Manager NRC/NMSS/DFM/FFLB (301) 415-7110 Marilyn.Diazmaldonado@nrc.gov Tom Vukovinsky Senior Fuel Facility Project Inspector NRC/Region II (404) 997-4622 Thomas.Vukovinsky@nrc.gov