ML20058L603

EAP & Finding of No Significant Impact Re Exemption from Revised 10CFR50.120

ML20058L603
Person / Time
Site:	Fort Saint Vrain
Issue date:	11/17/1993
From:	Joseph Austin NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
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NUDOCS 9312170102
Download: ML20058L603 (3)

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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF COLORADO FORT ST. VRAIN NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION DOCKET N0. 50-267 ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND FINDING QF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering issuance of an exemption from the revised 10 CFR 50.120 requirements of the Code of Federal Reaulations to the Public Service Company of Colorado (PSC or the licensee) for the Fort St. Vrain (FSV) Nuclear Generating Station, pursuant to 10 CFR 50.12.

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT.

Jdentification of ProDosed Action:

The proposed action would grant an exemption from the training requirements of 10 CFR 50.120. By letter dated August 9,1993, the licensee requested this exemption.

The Need for the Proposed Action:

The FSV Nuclear Generation Station is being dismantled in accordance with the approved FSV Decommissioning Plan (DP). This exemption would relieve the licensee from the requirements of 10 CFR 50.120 which are not applicable to a reactor that has been defueled, and is being dismantled.

However, this exemption would not relieve the licensee from the training

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2 Environmental Imoacts of the Proposed Action:

The proposed exemption from the requirements of 10 CFR Part 50.120 will not have an impact on any of the accidents evaluated for the FSV DP.

The nuclear fuel has been transferred to an Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation, and there are no credible accident scenarios at the FSV Station that could result in offsite doses that would exceed a small fraction of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's " Protective Action Guidelines."

Based on the staff's review of PSC's August 9, 1993, submittal, and previously analyzed accidents in the DP, the staff concl des i that an accident with the potential for causing a radiological release from FSV is small. The proposed action does not increase the probability or consequences of any accidents, no changes are being made in the types of any effluent that may be released offsite, and there is no significant increase in the allowable individual or cumulative occupational radiation exposures on-site.

Accordingly, the NRC staff concludes that this proposed action would result in no significant radiological environmental impact.

With regard to potential non-radiological impacts, the proposed action does not effect non-radiological plant effluents and has no other environmental impact. Therefore, the NRC staff concludes that there are no significant non-radiological environmental impacts associated with the proposed action.

Alternatives to the Prooosed Action:

Since the NRC has concluded that there are no significant environmental i effects that would result from the proposed action, any alternatives with equal or greater environmental impacts need not be evaluated.

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Alternative Use of Resources:

This action does not involve the use of any resources not previously considered in the Supplement to the Environmental Report for FSV.

agencies and Persons Consulted:

The licensee initiated this exemption. The NRC staff has reviewed the request. The State of Colorado was contacted, and did not provide comments.

FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT:

Based upon this environmental assessment, the NRC staff concludes that the proposed action will not have a signifi nt effect on the quality of the human environment. Therefore, the NRC staff will not prepare an environmental impact statement for the proposed exemption.

For further details with respect to this action, the licensee's application dated August 9, 1993, and the NRC staff's Safety Evaluation, included in the exemption, are available for public inspection at the NRC's Public Document Room, the Gelman Building, 2120 L Streat, N.W., Washington DC 20037, and at the local public document room at the Greeley Public Library, City Complex Juilding, Greeley, CO 80631.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, .'

this 17th day of November,1993.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION l

ohn H. Austin, Chief Decommissioning and Regulatory Issues Branch Division of Low-level Waste Management and Decommissioning Office of huclear Material Safety and Safeguards I

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