ML20199K701
| ML20199K701 | |
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| Site: | Vogtle  |
| Issue date: | 04/04/1986 |
| From: | Conway R GEORGIA POWER CO. |
| To: | Youngblood B Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| GN-854, NUDOCS 8604100211 | |
| Download: ML20199K701 (13) | |
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sen.a m eresant April 4,1986 File: X7T02.6 Log: GN-854 Director of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Attention: Mr. B. J. Youngblood PWR Project Directorate #4 Division of PWR Licensing A U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 NRC DOCKET NUMBERS 50-424 AND 50-425 CONSTRUCTION PERMIT NUMBERS CPPR-108 AND CPPR-109 V0GTLE ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANT - UNITS 1 AND 2 NO ADVERSE EFFECTS /VEGP-ASSOCIATED TRANSMISSION LINES NATIONAL REGISTER ELIGIBLE ARCHAE 0 LOGICAL PROPERTIES
Dear Mr. Denton:
Enclosed is the original and one copy of documentation pursuant to 36 CFR 800 for a determination of no adverse effect to National Register eligible archaeological pmperties for the VEGP associated transmission lines. This documentation was prepared in consultation with the Historic Preservation Section, Georgia Department of Natural Resources. After review and signature, the original should be forwarded to the Executive Director, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, for their review.
This documentation demonstrates compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (as amended) and 36 CFR 800 (Protection of Historic and Cultural Properties). As discussed with Comission staff and the staff of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, it will not be necessary to seek determinations of National Register eligibility fmm the Keeper of the National Register prior to the completion of this documentation, given the suspension of 36 CFR 800.4(a)(4) by the Advisory Council (Federal Register: Vol. 42, No.108, 4 June,1982).
Georgia Power Company has communicated with the office of the Keeper regarding the submission of eligibility determination documentation as a contribution to that agency's resource management planning pmcess.
In accordance with those discussions, Georgia Power Company is working with the Historic Preservation Section, Georgia Department of Natural Resources with regard to the preparation of this documentation. We will provide you with a 8604100211 860404 k
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Georgia Power d Director of Nuclear Reactor Regulation April 4,1986 Page 2 copy of the documentation at the time ~of submittal to the Keeper. This documentation is currently scheduled to be submitted prior to November,1986.
If you have any questions concerning the enclosed or the preparation of documentation for submission to the Keeper, please contact us.
Very truly yours, R. E. Conway REC /DHW/sr Enclosures cc w/o enclosures:
M. A. Miller B. A. Jones E. A. Lyon 4
G. Bockhold, J r.
J. A. Bailey B. W. Churchill, Esquire L. T. Gucwa J. E. Joiner, Esquire R. A. Thomas W. C. Ramsey D. C. Teper Vogtle Project File
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Determination of No Adverse Effects to Archaeological Properties Eligible for Inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Associated Transmission Lines
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LA INTRODUCTION The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued construction permits for the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant (VEGP) and it's associated transmission lines to Georgia Power Company (Permittee) as agent for itself, Oglethorpe Power Corporation, the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia, and-the City of Dalton, Georgia. -These permits were issued pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.
Activities involved in the construction, operation and normal maintenance of the proposed VEGP-associated transmission lines are included under the scope of NRC's responsibilities for environmental assessment and evaluation.
Further, these permits were conditioned with the requirement that the Permittee consult with the Historic Preservation Section, Georgia Department of Natural Resources (HPS) concerning the potential effects associated with the construction, operation and normal maintenance of the VEGP-associated transmission lines, upon significant archaeological resources.
This report documents the finding by NRC and HPS that, given the cultural resource management planning processes to be implemented by the Permittee, the construction, operation and 1
normal maintenance of the VEGP-associated transmission lines will have no adverse effects upon those archaeological properties eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (eligible archaeological properties), which are located on the proposed transmission lines.
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DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPOSED UNDERTAKING _
This section describes each of the VEGP-associated transmission lines.
Figure 1 shows the routes referenced hereinafter.
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Vootle-Effinohan-Thalmann 500 kV Line (V-sTL)
The original plans for this line designated the terminal point as being a to-be-constructed electric substation in Effingham County, Georgia.
As then constituted, the V-ETL route covered 1
approximately 70 miles in Burke, Screven and Effingham I
counties.
In March, 1984 the Permittee determined that the
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proposed Effingham Substation should not be constructed at this i
1 time.
It was therefore recognized that CRM planning considerations would apply from VEGP to the existing electric substation at Thalmann (Glynn County), Georgia.
Thus. the final CRM study area covered approximately 153 miles in Burke, Screven, Effingham, Chatham, Bryan, Liberty, Long, McIntosh and i
Glynn Cvunties.
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Voctle-Scherer 500 kV Line (V-STL)
The original plans for this line designated the terminal point as a to-be-constructed addition to the electric tubstation at Wadley (Jefferson County), Georgia.
That route covered j
approximately 45 miles in Burke and Jefferson counties.
In March, 1984 the Permittee determined that the terminal point of this line would have to be redesignated from the Wadley Substation to the R. W.
Scherer Electric Generating Plant near Forsyth (Monroe County), Georgia.
Therefore, the final CRM study area was' divided into three sections.
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These secti6ns were the VEGP-Wadley Section (approximately 45
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ailes), the Wadley-Wallace Dsm Section (approximately 56 miles), and the Wallace Dam. Plant Schereg Section (approximate'ly Ca miles) in Burke, Jefferson-, Nashington, Putnam, Hancock, BaldWin, Jones &nd Monroe Counties, 13)
Vootle_-Goshen 230 kV line (V-GTL)
This 17 mile CRM study area is located between the VEGP (Burke County) and the Goshen Electric Substation (Richmond County).
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Voatle-South Carolina 230 kV Line (V-SCTL)
This 2.6 mile CRM study area is located between the VEGP and the west (Georgia) bank of the Savannah River, in Burke County.
, RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLANNING PROCESS _
The Permittee, in censultation with the NRC and HPS, is undertaking a program of cultural resource management planning in concert with the construction of the VEGP-associated transmission lines.
This program consists of the following stages:
(a) professionally conducted on-site recource inventories and assessments directed at the identification of eligible archaeological properties; (b) assessment of treatment alternatives which provide for either the avoidance of potential adverse effect or data recovery aimed at the negation of such potential adverse effect; (c) implementation of the selected treatment alternatives, either as a part of the engineering / construction processes (avoidance) or prior to actual construction (data recovery); and
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(d) development of a final resource management plan to address operational and normal maintenance activities in relation to eligible. archaeological properties.
I Resource inventory and assessment studisa have been 1
completed on the V-ETL (153 mile) route; the V-STL (149 mile) route, and t'ne V-GT'G (17 mile) route.
In consultation with the RPs, a t6tal of 54 eligible archaeological properties have been iden.tified on the V-ETL, a total of 51 such properties on the V-STL, brad 12 on the V-GTL.
No unavoidable conflicts between i
eligible ar6haeological propertiek and construction activities other than line tower siting and constructich have 'been
!.dentified.
Of the 1,412 line towers to be constructed on 1
these lines, 60 wers origi.nally identified to be in conflict with eif.gible archaaolog$ cal properties.
Of these 60 conflicts, 39 were resolved by inblementing engineering I
.alterhatiVes which moved tower 6 out of eliQible propetties.
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'lhe romeining 21 conflicts will be res0lvAd by archaeolo,qical data xepovt.y directed at pagatin's the potential adverse effect of line tpwer construction, prior to that constructi6n, HPS has expr'tsed L.onfiderse in this planning yrocess (Attachment a
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NO ADVERSE EFFEC 1,pffERMIJATION i
The NRC, HPS and the P6cmittee concur that the construction, operation and normal maintenance of the l
i VEGP-associated transmission lines will h4ve no adverse effect upon eligible archaeological properties in cot; sideration of the 1
resource management planning processes directed at eitbar the avoidance or negation of potentSal adverse effects 4 e
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Construction Phase A.
Avoidance of Potential Adverse Effick Avoidance of potential adverse effect is accomplished through implementation of engineering alternatives and alternative construction practices.
These alternatives irclude (but are not necessarily limited to):
- 1) siting of line towers (wherever engineeringly feasible) outside of inligible archaeological properties; 2) clearing of the line corridor by non-ground-disturbing methods; and 3) the siting of equipment-materials marshalling /laydown areas 3
outside of eligible archaeological properties.
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Negation of Adverse Effects Throuch_ Data Recovery The significance of eligible archaeological ptoperties on the VEGP-associated transmission lines is manifested in the data such properties contain which can contribute to the study of prehistory or history.
Therefore, potential adverse effect to such properties would occur as the loss of this data, resulting from project construction activities.
None of the eligible archaeological properties identified to date (or as may be expected to be identified in on-going studies) is:
_ (a) a National Historic Landmark, a National Historic Site in non-Federal ownership, or a property of national historic significance so designated within the National Park System:
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8 (b) important enough to the fulfillment of purposes set forth in the State Historic Preservati6n Plan to r.equire it's protection in place; (c) in itself, or as an element of a larger property, significantly valuable as.an exhibit in place for public understanding and enjoyment; (d) know.n or thought to have historic, cultural, or religious significance to a community, neighborhood, or social or ethnic group that would be impaired by its disturbance; or, (e) so complex, or containing such complicated data, that currently available technology, funding, time, or expertise are insufficient to recover the significant information contained in it.
Therefore, these properties would be amenable to treatment by data recovery aimed at negating potential adverse effect, prior to on-site construction involving these properties.
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Implementina strateav In implementing these resource treatment alternatives, certain eligible archaeological properties may be subject to treatment under both alternatives, in part by avoidanca o,f potential adverse effect and in part by negation of such potential effect through recommended data recovery.
In many cases, eligible archaeological propertie: are larger than the area actually needed for construction of line towers, although the siting of towers within these -
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o properties cannot be avoided by feasible engineering alternatives.
At such properties, it is possible to confine all line tower construction activities to an area identified as'a Desionated Work Area (DWA).
Thus, it is possible to limit adverse effect within such a DWA.
Nevertheless, adverse effect could occur as a result of line tower f:andation borings and other ground disturbing activities associated with essential construction.
Therefore, a property-specific data recovery plan will be prepared and implemented, which addresses the specific research potential identifiable within the DNA.
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recovery plans will be designed to explicate the research potential of the specific archaeological elements of the property that are located within the DWA, relate that research potential to both intra-and-inter-property research objectives, and provide for the conservation of that potential by the recovery of a usable sample of data.
All data recovery plans will be reviewed by HPS.
Funding will be made available by the Permittee for both fieldwork and post-field laboratory, analysis and reporting.
Copies of all data recovery reports will be filed with HPS (for their files and the Georgia Archaeological Report Files, University of Georgia, Department of Anthropology), and the U.S. Department of Interior, National Park Service, Archaeological Services Branch, Atlanta, Georgia.
All data recovery will be l
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directed under the supervision of persons who either meet i
or exceed the Professional Qualifications Standards established under 36 C.F.R.
Part 66 (Appendix C).
All data recovery will be undertaken pursuant to Part III (Recommendations for Archaeological Data Recovery) of Treatment of Archaeoloaical Properties:
A Handbook (Advisory Council on Historic Preservation:
1980), with t
the exception that public participation is not deemed appropriate in that such involvement could place eligible archaeological properties in jeopardy by exposing their 1
locations.
After completion of all necessary studies, the i
Permittee will develop, in consultation with HPS, a plan for the curation of all materials collected and produced as a part of the specific archaeological studies undertaken.
That plan will be developed pursuant to the 1980 Handbook referenced above.
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ODeration and Normal Maintenance Commitments to cultural resource management planning are 4
made for the life of the VEGP license.
After construction of the VEGP-associated transmission lines, the Permittee, in consultation with HPS, will develop a final resource management plan (or plans) to address operational and normal maintenance activities which could adversely affect eligible archaeological l
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RE: Draft Environmental Statement - Vogtle Plant Burke County, Georgia HP 84-11-19-003
Dear Ms. Adensam:
The Historic Preservation Section has reviewed the above referenced i
project.
A review process has been set up' for compliance which is appro-
.priate and is working well. We have no. concern for this project so long as this system of _ survey, review and implementation of the Cultural Resource Management Plan is followed.
If we may answer Questions concerning these comments, please contact j
Joe McCannon, Environmental Review Coordinator, at (404) 656-2840.
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Elizabe A. Lyon, Chief Historic Preservation Section EALsjak
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JAN.171986 Mr. James J. Shive Senior Archaeologist WD DW.
Georgia Power Company Land Department, 260/2nd Post Office Box 4545 Atlanta, Georgia 30302 RE: CRM/VEGP Transmission Lines - Plant Vogtle Determination of No Adverse Effect on Archaeological Resources Burke County, Georgia HP 850520-002 (Follow Up)
Dear Mr. Shive:
The Historic Preservation Section has reviewed the case report for the CRM/VEGP transmission lines - Plant Vogtle.
Based on our review of the extensive resource Inv.entories, testing and mitiga-tion reports, excellent cultural resource management plans for the various segments of the transmission corridor and our discussion at the meeting of July 23, 1985, we agree with your determination of no adverse effect.
The information obtained during the formulation of this case report provides a significant contribution to our knowledge of an archaeologically little known area of.the state.
We commend Georgia Power for the fine job of resouice protection planning i
which is evident in this proj m.
We regret any problems that the delay in receiving this letter ;ty have caused.
If we may be of f' n h,-
a<ssistance, please contact Joe McCannon, Environmental Review wordinator, at (404) 656-2840.
Sincerely, Elizab h A. Lyon, C ief i
Historic Preservation Section Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer EAL:jmk cc: Robert Garvey Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ATTACHMENT 2)
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