ML20127N293

Notice of Issuance of EA & Finding of No Significant Impact.Amend Would Extend Expiration Date of OL

ML20127N293
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Site:	Oyster Creek
Issue date:	01/25/1993
From:	Stolz J Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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7590-01 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION GPU NUCLEAR CORPORATION DOCKET NO. 50-219 NOTICE OF ISSUANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND FINDING 0F NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) is considering it.suance of an amendment to Facility Operating License No. DPR-16, issued to the GPU Nuclear Corporation (the licensee), for operation of the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station, located in Ocean County, New Jersey.

Identification of Proooted Action:

The amendment would consist of a change to the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station Facility Operating License No. DPR-16 to extend the expiration date of the operating license from December 15, 2004 to April 9, 2009.

These dates represent 40 years from the dates of issuance of the construction permit and the operating license, respectively.

The license amendment is in response to the licensee's application dated October 4, 1991, as supplemented December 11 and 24, 1991, May 19, June 3 and 24, and November 5, 1992.

Summary of Environmental Assessment:

The NRC staff has reviewed the potential environmental impact of the proposed change in the expiration date of the operating license for the Oyster b

Creek Nuclear Generating Station.

The staff reviewed the Final Environmental cNQ "8'

Statement Related to Operation of Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station, 08 to dated December 1974, the Environmental Assessment for the Oyster Creek Full W

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Term Operating License issued April 10, 1986, and Supplement 1 to the-Environmental Assessment issued June 19, 1991, and additional information k

_ provided by the licensee in its license amendment submittal, as supplemented,

__to determine if_ any significant environmental impacts,__other than those

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. previously considered, would be associated with the proposed license extension.

With regard to normal plant operation, occupational radiation exposures 1

to personnel have decreased as a result of recent plant improvements.

Further reductions in radiation dose rates are expected as a result of the ongoing as low as is reasonably achievable (ALARA) program.

Accordingly, the NRC staff concludes, that as a result of the license extension, the radiological impact on the general public would not increase over that previously evaluated in the FES and the occupational exposures will be consistent with the industry average and in accordance with 10 CFR Part 20.

The NRC staff has in the past concluded that the environmental impacts associated with the uranium fuel cycle are very small.when compared with the dose commitments resulting from natural background sources.

The environmental impacts attributable to transportation of fuel and waste to and from the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station, with respect to normal conditions of transport and possible accidents in transport, would be bounded as set forth in Summary Table S-4 of 10 CFR 51.52, and the values in Table S-4 would continue to represent the contribution of transportation to the environmental costs associated with reactor operation.

The NRC staff has concluded that the proposed extension would not cause a significant increase in the nonradiological impact to the environment and would not change any conclusions previously reached by the NRC staff.

FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT:

The NRC staff has reviewed the proposed change to the expiration date of the operating license for the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station relative

. to the requirements set forth in 10 CFR Part 51.

Based upon the environmental assessment, the staff conclud1d that there are no significant radiological or nonradiological impacts associated with the proposed action and that the proposed license amendment will not have a significant effect on the quality of the human environment.

Therefore, the Commission has determined, pursuant to 10 CFR 51.31, not to prepare an environmental impact statement for the proposed amendment.

For further details with respect to this action, see (1) the application I

for amendment dated October 4, 1991, as supplemented December 11 and 24, 1991, May 19, June 3 and 24, and November 5, 1992; (2) the Final Environmental Statement Related to Operation of the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station issued December-1974; (3) the Environmental Assessment for the Oyster Creek Full-Term Operating License issued April 10, 1984, and Supplement I to the Environmental Assessment issued June 19, 1991; and (4) the Environmental Assessment dated January 25, 1993.

These documents are available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, 2120 L Street, NW., Washington, DC 20555, and at the local public document room located at the Ocean County Library Reference Department, 101 Washington Street, Toms River, New Jersey 08753.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 25th day of January 1993.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION r

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