ML20135F112

Forwards Copy of Nj Pollutant Discharge Elimination Sys Recently Issued to Facility,Effective 970401

ML20135F112
Person / Time
Site:	Hope Creek
Issue date:	03/05/1997
From:	Dawn Powell Public Service Enterprise Group
To:	NRC OFFICE OF INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (IRM)
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ML20135F115	List: ML20135F112 ML20135F118
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LR-E970163, NUDOCS 9703110195
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O PSIsG Public Service Electric and Gas Company P.O. Box 236 Hancocks Bricge, New Jersey 08038-0236 Nuclear Business Unit CERTIFIED MAIL RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED ARTICLE NUMBER P 462 769 842 MAR 0 51997 LR-E970163 United 'ates Nuclear Regulatory Commission Documtnr Control Desk Washington, D.C. 20555 Gentlemen:

HOPE CREEK GENERATING STATION FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE NO. NPF-57 DOCKET NO. 50-354 NJPDES PERMIT NO. NJ0025411 In accordance with Section 3.2 of the Hope Creek Environmental Protection Plan (EPP) , Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) is forwarding a copy of the New Jersey Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NJPDES) Permit recently issued to this facility. The NJPDES Permit is effective on April 1, 1997, and contains a number of new and modified conditions relating to effluent discharges.

If you have any questions regarding this submittal or would like a briefing on the renewed NJPDES Permit, please contact Mr. Edward J.

Keating of my staff at (609) 339-1459.

Sincerely, o k wl//

D. R. Powell Manager -

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Document Control Desk LR-E970163 C Mr. H. Miller, Administrator - Region I U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 475 Allendale Road King of. Prussia, PA 19406 Mr. D. Jaffe, Licensing Project. Manager - Hope Creek U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission One White Flint North

.11555 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852 Mr. R. Summers USNRC Senior Resident Inspector Mr. K. Tosch, Chief NJ Department of Environmental Protection Division of Environmental Quality Bureau of Nuclear Engineering CN 415 Trenton, NJ 08625-0415

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i CERTIFIED MAIL RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED P 642 591 847 Mr. Edward Keating PS&G - Hope Creek Generating Station P.O. Box 236 l4E

Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038

Dear Mr. Keating:

Re: NJPDES/DSW Permit No. NJ0025411 PSE&G - Hope Creek Generating Station  :

} Lower Alloways Creek Township, Salem County 4

Enclosed is the final NJPDES/DSW permit renewal, to discharge pollutants to Zone 5 of I. the Delaware River, issued in accordance with the New Jersey Pollutant Discharge j 3 Elimination System (NJPDES) Regulations, N.J.A.C. 7:14A-1 c.t seg. The facility has

! been classified as a major facility by the New Jersey Department of Environmental l Protection (the Department). Violation of any condition of this NJPDES permit may subject the permittee to significant penalties.

1 The Department's current Discharge Monitoring Report (DMR) Instruction Manual is available, if needed, by contacting the Bureau of Point Source Permitting - Region 2 at l (609)292-4860. Please note that if there is a discrepancy between the NJPDES permit and the DMR Instruction Manual, the NJPDES permit always takes precedence.

All monitoring shall be conducted in accordance with the Departmenfs current Fie.'d l Sampling Procedures Manual, which is available from the Maps and Publications Sales Office, Bureau of Revenue, CN-417, Trenton, New Jersey 08625,(609)777-1038.

l The permittee, or any interested party pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:14A-8.9(a), may submit a written request for an adjudicatory hearing within 30 calendar days following the receipt of this final NJPDES permit to contest the conditions of the permit. Any reasonably ascertainable issues must have been raised during the public comment period, pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:14A-8.4. The requirements for requesting an adjudicatory hearing can be found in N.J.A.C. 7:14A-8.9. The enclosed Administrative Hearina Reauest Checklist and Tracking Form for Permits must be completed and a copy of the completed form, along with the information required by Part Ill of that form, including attachments, must be NewJersey a an Equal Opporturury Etnployer Recycled Paper s

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submitted to each party listed on the form. If a STAY of contested conditions is requested l pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:14A-8.10, a copy of the STAY request and supporting l

documentation shall be sent to the parties listed on the Administrative Hearing Reauest Checklist and Tracking Form for Permits and to John Covino, DAG, Asst. Section Chief, Environmental Permitting and Counseling Section, Division of Law, Hughes Justice i

Complex, CN-093, Trenton, NJ 08625. '

An application for renewal of this NJPDES permit must be submitted at least 180 days prior to expiration of the permit pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:14A-2.l(g)5.

Should you have any questions regarding this action, please contact Suzanne U. Dietrick of my staff at (609) 292-4860. j l

l Sincerely, J &{% thw Debra Hammond, Chief Bureau of Point Source Permitting - Region 2 Division of Water Quality WFM342:sud Enclosures c: Final Permit Distribution List

. T Administrative Hearing Request Checklist and Tracking Form for Permits

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I. Permit Being Appealed: '

e Title and Type of Permit issuance Date of Permit Permit Number II. Person Requesting Hearing:

Name/ Company Name of Attorney (if applicable)

Address Address of Attorney III. Please Include the Following Information as Part of Your Request:

A. The date the permittee received the final permit; B. A copy of the permit, list of all permit conditions and issues contested:

C. The legal and factual questions at issue; D. A statement as to whether or not the permittee raised each legal and factual issue during the public comment period on the permit:

E. Suggested revised or alternative permit conditions:

F. An estimate of the time required for the hearing; G. A request, if necessary, for a barrier-free hearing location for physically disabled persons:

H. A clear indication of any willingness to negotiate a settlement with the Department prior to the ,

Department's processing of your hearing request to the Office of Administrative Law; and  !

I. This form, completed, signed, and dated with all of the information listed above, including '

attachments, to:

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1. Office of Legal Affairs l ATTENTION: Adjudicatory Hearing Requests Department of Environmental Protection 401 East State Street CN 402, Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0402

2. Director Division of '.'/ater Quai,ty CN 029. Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0029

3. All co-permittees (w/ attachments) l IV. Signature: Date: I m3me ms w.s

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New Jersey Department of Enviromental Protection Division of Water Quality l NJPDES Permit No. NJ0025411 PSE&G Hope Creek Generating Station l l

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he following language was not included in the Fact Sheet of the draft permit issued October 31, 1996. It is being included in the final permit in order to complete the Administrative Record for the i

permit. Documents used in the preparation of this language will also be added to the Adminstrative

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A discussion of Hope Creek's compliance with 33 U.S.C.

1326(b) (Section 316(b)) was i i

inadvertently omitted from the Fact Sheet / Statement of Basis accompanying the draft l 4

permit. Hope Creek has a shoreline intake structure which withdraws cooling water for the Service Water System. After use in the Service Water System, the cooling water is utilized as makeup water for the closed cycle cooling system which relies on a natural draft cooling tower for evaporative cooling of the condenser cooling water.

4 ne Hope Creek intake structure is equipped with Ristroph travelling screens and a fish retum system. ne intake structure is located parallel to and nearly flush with the shoreline. This location increases tidal flushing of the forebay, and eliminates long intake canals and blind pockets, thus reducing the entrapment potential. The intake structure is equipped with vertical travelling screens, and a fish retum system that includes screen panel buckets, a low pressure fish removal system, a high pressure debris removal system,

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1 s and troughs to return debris and fish to the river. Such operation reduces impingement mortality.

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There are low flow velocities through the trash racks and travelling screens. The intake 4

flow velocities through the trash racks and travelling screens are approximately 0.1 foot per second and 0.39 foot per second, respectively. This reduces the swim speed necessary for a 3

fish to escape the intake's attractive forces and allows most organisms to escape

impingement.

I ne volumes of water associated with Hope Creek's closed cycle cooling system are l relatively low, approximately 76 cubic feet per second during normal operations. Because

of the low flow volume the number of organisms susceptible to entrainment and I impingement is low. Water usage at the Station during normal operations accounts for less i1 l than 0.02 percent of the tidal flow of the Estuary.

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The Department determines that the location, design, construction, and capacity of Hope Creeks cooling water intake structure continues to reflect the best technology available for minimizing adverse impact. This technology significantly minimizes the potential mortality of aquatic life typically associated with cooling water intake structures, i.e.

impingement and entrainment. There are no better technologies and practices available to Ho, Creek which would minimize any alleged remaining adverse environmental impacts j

at Hope Creek's cooling water intake structure.

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,q Ji Documents added to the Administrative Record:

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A le:ter, dated September 3,1975, from Donald T. Graham, Acting Director, NJDEP to Mr. R.L. Mitti, General Manager Projects of PSE&G regarding the Coastal Area F Permit Application, CA #74 014, Hope Creek Generating Station with attachment entitled CAFRA Opinion No. 20.

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" Hope Creek Generating Station, Applicant's Environmental Reporting-Operating License Stage, Volume 1, PSE&G" dated March 1983.

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A letter, dated October 18, 1983, from Lawrence Schmidt Acting Director, Planning Group, NJDEP to Mr. James Moran of PSE&G regarding Hope Creek Environmental Report.

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Final Environmental Statement - PSE&G Hope Creek Generating Station prepared by the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, dated December 1984.

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