ML19350C168
| ML19350C168 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Maine Yankee |
| Issue date: | 03/24/1981 |
| From: | Clark R Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Groce R Maine Yankee |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8103310407 | |
| Download: ML19350C168 (3) | |
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Dear Mr. Groce:
We have completed our investigation of the three specimens of the federally endangered shortnose sturgeon that were taken by Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company (MY) personnel from the Maine Yankee Atomic Power Station intake trash racks during 1980. The initial telephonic notification of the taking of the first specimen in June resulted in a list of questions prepared by our staff and conmunicated to you on June 13, 1980, to be answered by the licensee.. A' second specimen taken'also in June precipitateo an infornal consultation with a representative from the National Marine Fishery Service (NMFS) on July 15, 1980, at the Maine Yankee Station.
This meeting was attended by representatives from Maine Department of Marine Resources and the licensee and their consultants in addition to NMFS and the NRR personnel. Topics covered at the meeting included details of the two captures; the status of past and present aquatic monitoring by the licensee; the pathology report on the condition and possible cause of death of the two specimens by the State of Maine fish pathologist; findings on the activity of sturgeon in adjacent waters by the licensee's former c~onsultant; and the status of population of shortnose sturgeon in the Kennebeck River which connects with Montsweag Bay by the state fisheries biologist.
Based.on the information presented at the meeting, a review of your submittal
'of August 4, 1980 and the fact that only one additional-specimen was subsequently taken (your letter dated Novemb'er 14,1980), we conclude that:
e Continued cperation of the station under present conditions and
-procedures will not have a detrimental or detectable impact on the shortnose strugeon population inhabiting the Montsweag Bay, The present plant operating procedures and impingement monitoring e
required by the NPDES permit are judged adequate to detect significant changes in the level of collection of specimens on the trash racks should the rate of collection change.significantly.
Additional monitoring requirements are not required.
e e Formal' consultation with HMFS is not. recommended.
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Mrs. L. Patricia Doyle, ' resident Maine Yankee Atomic Pcwer Cocpany SAFE POWER FOR MAINE Edison Drive Pest Office Box 774 Augusta, Maine 5
Camden, Maine 04843 Mr. Donald E. Vandenburgh
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First Selectman of Wiscasset Vice President - Engineering Yankee Atomic Electric Corpany.
Municipal Buildi a U. S. Route 1 20 Turnpike Road-Wiscasset, Maine 04578L Westboro, Massach'setts 01581 u
Stanley R. Tupper, Esq.
John A. Ritsher, Esquire Tupper and Bradley Ropes & Gray
._n 102 Townsend Avenue 225 Franklin Street
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, Boston, Massachusetts 02110.
Boathbay Harbor, Maine 04538 David Santee Miller, Esq.
Mr. Jchn M. R. Paterson 213 Morgan Street, N.
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Assistant Attorney General -
Washington, D. C.
20001 State of Maine Augusta, Maine 04330 Mr. Paul Swetland Resident Inspector / Maine Yankee Mr. Nicholas Barth c/o U.S.N.R.C.
Executive Director P. O. Box E Sheepscot Valley Conservation Wiscasset, Maine 04578 Asscciatien, Inc.
P. O. Sex 125 Mr. Charles 3. Brinkman Alan, Maine 04535 Manager - Washington Ntn: lear Operations Wiscassett Public Library Association C-E Power Systems High Street Certustion Engineering, Inc.
Wiscasset, Maine 04578 4353 Cerdell Avenue, Suite A-1 Bethesda, Maryland 20014 Mr. Torbet H. Macdonald, Jr.
Office of Energy Resources Director, Criteria and Standards Divisica State House Station !53 Office of Radiation Progrars (ASR-450)
Augusta, Maine 04333 U.S. Envircnmental Protection Agency Washingte'n, D. C.
20450 Robert M. Lazo, Esq., Chairman
. Atomic Safety and Licensins Board U.S. Envi renmental Protection Agency U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Regien I Office Washington, D. C.
20555 ATTN: EIS C00RDINATOR JFK Federal Building Dr. Cadet H. Hand,-Jr., Director Besten, Massachusetts, 02203 Sodega Marine Laboratory University of-California Bodega Bay, California 94923 Mr. Gustave A. Linenberger Atcmic Safety and Licensing Board State Planning Officer.
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Executive Department-Washington, D. C.
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