ML20092N646
| ML20092N646 | |
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| Site: | Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 12/31/1983 |
| From: | CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.) |
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| Download: ML20092N646 (4) | |
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Attachment Consumers Power Company Palisades Plant - Docket 50-255 7
1983 ANNUAL ENVIRONMENTAL OPERATING' REPORT f
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i 1983 ANNUAL ENVIRONMENTAL OPERATING REPORT 1
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1.0 BACKGROUND
Appendix B to Provisional Operating License No DPR-20 for the Palisades l
Plant, Consumers Power Company, is entitled " Environmental Protection Plan (Non-Radiological)". This document requires Consumers Power Company to submit to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission an Annual Environmental l
Operating Report which describes implementation for the Environmental Protection Plan. The period covered by this third annual report is l
January 1 to December 31, 1983.
j During this reporting period, the Palisades Plant generated a total of I
3,980,520 MWh gross of electrical energy with a capacity factor of 57.3%.
The plant shut down for refueling in August, and did not operate for the l
balance of the year.
i 2.0 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACTIVITIES l
t 2.1 METEOROLOGICAL MONITORING A cooling tower drift study was completed in 1978 and submitted to NRC.
That study showed that cooling tower effects on the environment were very l
F localized, and that overall environmental impact is negligible. No further work.was done during 1983 on this topic.
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i 2.2 HERBICIDE APPLICATION No herbicides were applied to power line right-of-way at the Palisades-l site in 1983.
2.4 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION PLAN INFORMATION A submission was made to NRC on February 8, 1984, of information. request-ed by NRC relative to Consumers Powei Company's application for a full term operating license forJthe Palisades Plant. This information included:
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Documents relating to application for a renewed NPDES permit.
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Documents relating to the' Palisades Thermal Plume study.
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Documents relating to cooling water modifications based on increased l
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Aerial photographs showing cooling tower drift impact, and also t
photos of plant modifications having potential environmental impact.
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i Since these submissions were made to NRC in February, these matters are l
not further discussed in this document.
l 3.0 NPDES COMPLIANCE EVALUATION INSPECTION A formal NPDES Compliance Evaluation Inspection was not conducted during 1983 by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. The MDNR chose instead to conduct was was termed a " Facility Inspection", mainly for the No purpose of familicrizing new staff members with the Palisades Plant.
new compliance problems were identified as a result of this visit.
4.0 SPILL PLAN The Palisades Plant did a major revision of the PIPP/SPCC Spill Plan during 1983. The new plan was signed off by the cognizant engineer on
'7 August 22, 1983, and submitted to MDNR for approval on October 7, 1983.
Formal approval has not yet been received from MDNR but the plan is of ficially in use as of August 22, 1983.
5.0 NPDES PERM'IT RELATED NON-COMPLIANCES Appendix B to Provisional Operating License Number DPR-20 for the Pali-sades Plant requires that the Annual Environmental Operating Report should include a list of Environmental Protection Plan (EPP) non-compliances and corresponding corrective actions.
During 1983 there were five instances when the permitted value for oil and grease was exceeded to a very small extent.
Also during 1983 there was one instance of exceeding the total residual chlorine limit, and two instances of exceeding the pH limit. There were also two failures during 1983 to take required environmental monitoring samples.
All 1983 non-comoliances are listed in Table 1.
During 1983 the overall-impact of Palisades Plant operations on the environment was negligible. There were no potentially significant unrevie~wed environmental issues which took place during the year. The total number of non-compliances for 1983 was down by 50% compared to 1982.
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TABLE 1 1983 NPDES NON-COMPLIANCES
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1 Outfall Permitted Measured Incident No Date Number Parameter Concentration Concentration PAL 83-04-AD80 4/9/83 001 pH 6.0 to 9.0 5.5 PAL 83-04-AD81 4/18/83 00G Oil & Grease 20 mg/l max 36.2 mg/l
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PAL 83-04-AD82 6/3/83 00F without any monitoring PAL 83-06-AD83 6/15/83 00G Oil & Grease 20 mg/l max 37.2 mg/l PAL 83-06-AD84 6/20/83 00G Oil & Grease 20 mg/l max 34.2 mg/l PAL 83-06-AD85 6/20/83 001 Total Residual 0.3 mg/l 0.42 mg/l Chlorine PAL 83-06-AD84 6/30/83 00G 011 & Grease 15 mg/l 18.6 ag/l Monthly Average PAL 83-08-AD86 8/15/83 00G 011 & Grease 20 mg/l max 35.2 mg/l 8/18/83 00G 011 & Grease 20 mg/l max 27.5 mg/l l
1 PAL-83-10-AD87 10/28/83 001 pH 6.0 to 9.0 9.8 PAL 83-11-AD88 11/20/83 00G.
Plant failed to take' weekly sample for Oil &
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- An NPDES Notification Report was not filed on this incident. There is presently a i
Deviation Report outstanding on this (D-NPS-84-05).
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