ML20116D333
| ML20116D333 | |
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| Site: | Vogtle  |
| Issue date: | 10/27/1992 |
| From: | Matthews D Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| NUDOCS 9211050316 | |
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7590-01 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSlQN GEORGI A__EQER COMPANY. ET AL.
DOCKET @S. 50-424 AND 50-425 NOTICE Of ISSUANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND EINDING Of NO SIGNiflCANT IMPACT The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) is considering issuance of amendments to Facility Operating License Nos. NPF-68 and NPF-81 issued to Georgia Power Cortpany (the licer ee), for operation of the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2 (Vogtle or the facility), located in Burke County, Georgia.
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT Identification of Proposed Action:
By letter dated September 18, 1992, as revised October 7 and 15, 1992, and supplemented October 7 and 23, 1992, Georgia Power Company proposed amendrents that would revise facility Operating License Nos. NPT-68 and NPF-81, currently held by Georgia Power Company, Oglethorpe Power Corporation,-
Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia, and City of Dalton, Georgia (the Owners), to allow Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc. (hereafter called Southern Nuclear), to become the operator of Vogtle Units 1 and 2.
Southern Nuclear would become the exclusive operating licensee, to possess, manage, use, operate, and maintain the facility. Georgia Power Company is the current operator of the facility. The proposed action would involve no change in ownership -- the current Owners would remain on-the licenses as licensed owners and would continue to own the assets of the facility in the same percentages as now.
Southern Nuclear would have no entitlement to power output from Vogtle or authority to dispatch, broker or market the energy generated.-
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As described in the application, Georgia Power Company and Southern i
Nuclear are wholly owned subsidiaries of the Southern Company, Georgia Power Company states that there would be no significant change in nuclear personnel or support organizations, and that the on-site organization responsible for operations of the Vogtle facility would be transferred intact to Southern Nuclear.
The transfer of any right under the operating licenses is subject to NRC approval pursuant to 10 CFR 50.80(a).
Such approval is proposed to be given through an Order approving this transfer.
Need for the Proposed Action:
The proposed changes are needed to reflect the addition of Southern Nuclear as the licensed operator for Vogtle.
Southern Nuclear would have exclusive responsibility and control over the physical construction, operation and maintenance of the facility.
Southern Company incorporated Southern Nuclear for the purpose of consolidating personnel within the Southern Electric System engaged in nuclear operations into a single, integrated organization to pursue a higher degree of performance in multiple-unit nuclear operations.
-Enyironmental Imnacts of the Proposed Actioni The licensee anticipates that no changes in the on-site nuciear operating organization would result from the proposed license amendments, except that the on-site nuclear operating organization would become employees-of Southern Nuclear and, where appropriate, titles would be -changed to reflect the exclusive licensed operator status of Southern Nuclear.
The offsite corporate organizations would continue to provide support and quality p
3 assurance for Vogtle.
The corporate support responsibility for the environmental program would be assigned to the Southern Nuclear Manager -
Environmental Services.
Southern Nuclear Environmental Services would be complemented with certain support services provided by Georgia Power Company.
There would be no other changes to the facility or to the operating, maintenance, engineering, or other nuclear-related personnel which might affect the environmental program.
Accordingly, the Commission concludes that this proposed action would result in no radiological or nonradiological environmental impact.
Alternative to the Proposed Action:
Since the Commission concluded that there are no significant environmental effects that would result from the proposed action, any alternative with equal or greater environmental impacts need not be evaluated.
The principal alternative would be to deny the requested amendments.
i This would not reduce the environmental impact of plant operations and would result in the facility Operating Licenses, Technical Specifications, and others documents not properly reflecting the organizational relationships between Georgia Power Company, Southern Nuclear and the Vogtle facility.
Alternative Usp of Resources:
This action does not involve the use of resources not previously considered in the " Final Environmental Statement Relating to Operation of Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2,+ dated March 1985.
l Acencies and Persons Consulted 1-The NRC staff has reviewed the licensee's request and did not consult j
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1 GJDJpG OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACJ The Comissiot, has determined not to prepare an environmental impact statement for the proposed license amendments.
Based on the foregoing environmental assessment, we conclude that the proposed action will not have a significant adverse effect on the quality of the human environment.
Far further details with respect to this action see the application for amendments dated September 18, 1992, as revised October 7 and 15, 1992, and supplements dated October 7 and 23, 1992.
Also see the NRC's " Summary Of September 28, 1992, Heetins elegarding License Amendment Applications For Hatch And Vogtle Plants " dated October 9, 1992.
These documents are available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, 2120 L Street, NW., Washington, DC and at the Burke County Library, 412 Fourth Street, Waynesboro, Georgia 30830.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 27th day of October 1992.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 44 David B. Matthews, Director Project Directorate 11-3 Division of Reactor Projects - I/II Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation A-