ML20128D728
| ML20128D728 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Fort Saint Vrain  |
| Issue date: | 11/20/1992 |
| From: | Weiss S Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| NUDOCS 9212070363 | |
| Download: ML20128D728 (3) | |
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ut(ITED STATES NELEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND FINDING Of NO SIGNIflCANT IMPACT PUhllC SERVICE COMPANY OF COLORADO FORT ST. VRAIN NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION DOCKET NO. 50-267 The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) is considering issuance of an exemption from the emergency preparedness requirements of 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix E, Section IV.F.2 to the Public Service Company of Colorado (PSC or the licensee) for the Fort St. Vrain Nuclear Generating Station (FSV) and the adjacent Independent Spent fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI).
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT:
Identification of Pronosed Action:
The exemption will allow biennial exercise of the Decommissioning Emergency Response Plan following completion of the next scheduled (December 1992) emergency plan exercise.
FSV is permanently shut down and all spent fuel has now been transferred to the ISFSI which is separately licensed by PSC under 10 CfR Part 72.
PSC will begin dismantling FSV following the Commission's approval of its decommissioning plan.
Ihe Need for the Pronosed Action:
The exemption is needed to eliminate emergency plan exercise requirements that are appropriate for an operating plant but are not needed at the shutdown FSV or the ISFSI, Granting the proposed exemption would reduce unnecessary costs for PSC.
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. Environmental Irn_tet of the Pregn3rd Action:
The proposed action to reduce requirements for emergency plan exercises will have no environmental impact because TSV is permanently shut down and defueled and the worst case accidents at FSV or the adjacent ISFSI would result in radiation exposures that were less than the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Protective Action Guides. Therefore, the present Decommissioning Emergency Response Plan requires no offsite protective actions in the event of an accident.
The requested exemption would not authorize construction or operation, and would not authorize a change in licensed activities or effect changes in the permitted types or amounts of radiological effluents. With regard to potential non-radiological impacts, the Commission concludes that there are no measurable radiological or non-radiological impacts associated with the examption.
Alternatives to the Pregnard Action:
Since the Commission concluded that there are no significant environmental effects that would result from the proposed action, any alternatives with equal or greater environmental impacts need not be evaluated.
Alternative Use of Resources:
This action does not involve the use of any resources not previously considered in the Final Environmental Statement for FSV.
agttcies and Persons Consultid:
The licensee initiated this exemption.
The NRC staff is reviewing their request.
No other agencies or persons were consulted.
l FINDING 0F NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT:
The Commission has determined not to prepare an environmental impact statement for the proposed exemption.
Based upon this environmental assessment, the staff concludes that the proposed action will not have a significant effect on the quality of the human environment.
For further details with respect to this action, see the licensee's application dated May 13, 1992, which is available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street, N.W., Washington D.C. 20555, and at the local public document room at the Greely Public Library, City Complex Building, Greely Colorado 80631.
th Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20 day of Noverrber 1992.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION M
Seym iss, Director Non-Power Reactors and Decommissioning Project Directorate Division of Operating Reactor Support Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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