ML19347C681
| ML19347C681 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | McGuire, Mcguire  |
| Issue date: | 12/10/1980 |
| From: | Youngblood B Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Parker W DUKE POWER CO. |
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| NUDOCS 8101050102 | |
| Download: ML19347C681 (3) | |
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Duke Power Company Power Building 422 South Churen Street Charlotte, North Carolina 23242
Dear Mr. Parker:
SUBJECT:
tiCGUIRE NUCLEAR STATION, UNITS 1 Ai.D 2 EiiVIRoteENTAL PROTECTION PLAN (NON-RADIOLOGICAL)
We have reviewed your July 17, 1980 comments on our proposea Environmental Protection Plan (EPP) for McGuire Nuclear Station Units 1 and 2 and have modified the EPP as a result of concerns raised by your staff and of other applicants in the licensins process regarding aquatic environmental issues.
The new draft that is attached is consistent with the NRC staff effort to stancardize environmental programs for operating nuclear plants.
You will note that the " Issues" section has been consicerdoly aobreviated, as has the section on Review ana Audit. However, other requirements that your staff commented upon, such as for suomittal of evaluations of station design and operation relative to unevaluated environmental questions, and for submittal of an Annual Operating Report, remain. These requirements are consistent with our regulatians and, as explainea below, are also consistent with legisation pertaining to NRC's responsibility for environmental matters at operating nuclear power plants.
The issues addressed in the EPP, as modified, and protection of non-radiological-
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environmental values are consistent with NRC responsibilities as defined in Tennessee Valley Authirity (Yellow Creek Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2)
ALAB-0515, 8 NRC 702 (1978).
In that decision, the Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board found that hEPA does not autnorize NRC to impose water quality monitoring programs of its own. The Board did not decide that the NRC had no l
authority under NEPA to maintain cognizance of non-radiological environmental l
matters. Thus, under NEPA we are expected to be aware of environmental conditions at our licensed facilities (40 CFR 1505.3). This expectation extends to the aquatic segment of the environment. Reliance on the NPDES permit process to establish monitoring and reporting requirements for -
water quality related matters and the requirement in the Environmental 1-8101050109
/r..villiam 0. Parker, Jr. DEC 10,c_e,0 Protection Plan :nat our licensees provide us with copies of corresponcence pertaiing to tnese matters are consistent witn cotn dEPA and Section 311(c) of the Feceral nater Pollution Centrol Act A...enaments of 1972 as interpretec ay ALAB 515. We believe tnat the EPP will provice neecea infonaation for
.;RC to carry out its legislative iaandate for protection of tne environment.
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wcGuire EPP
Mr. William 0. Parker, Jr.
Vice President, Steam Production Duke Pcwer Company P. O. Box 2178 422 South Church Street Char 1otte, North Carolina 28242 cc:
Mr. W. L. Porter Dr. Cadet H. Hand, Jr.
Director Duke Power Company Bodega Marine Lab of California P. C. Box 2178
". O. Box 247 422 South Church Street Bodega Bay, California 94923 Charlotte, North Carolina 28242 Richard P. Wilson, Esc.
Mr. R. S. Hcward Assistant Attorney General Pcwer Systems Division State of South Carolina Westinghouse Electric Corpora':on 2600 Bull Street P. O. Box 355 Columoia, South Carolina 29201 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15230 Office of Intergovernmental Relations Mr. E. J. Keith 116 West Jones Street EDS Nuclear Incorporated Raleigh, North Carolina 27603 220 Montgomery Street San Francisco, California 94104 County Manager of Mecklenburg County 720 East Fourth Street Mr. J. E. Houghtaling Charlotte, North Carolina 28202 NUS Corporation 2536 Countryside Boulevard U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Clearwater, Florida 33515 ATTN:
EIS Coordinator Region IV Office Mr. Jesse L. Riley, President 345 Courtland Street, N. U.
The Carolina Environmental Study Grcup Atlanta, Georgia 30308 854 Henley Place Char 1otte, North Car 01ina 28207 Mr. Tom Donat Resident Inspector McGuire NPS J. Michael McGarry, III, Esq.
c/o USNRC Debevoise & Liberman Post Office Box 216 1200 Seventeentn Street, N. W.
Cornelius, North Carolina 28031 Washington, D. C.
20036 Rober t M. Lazo, Esq., Chairman Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C.
20555 Dr. Emmeth A. Luebke Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C.
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