ML20216H199
| ML20216H199 | |
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| Site: | Catawba  |
| Issue date: | 04/15/1998 |
| From: | Tam P NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned) |
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| NUDOCS 9804210085 | |
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UNITED STATES NUCI FAR REGULATORY COMMISSION I
DUKE ENERGY CORPORATION. ET AL.
DOCKET NOS. 50 413 AND 50-414 l
CATAWBA NUCLD/J STATION. UNITS 1 AND 2 ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND FINDING OF NO S!GNIFICANT IMPACT l
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) is considering issuance of amendments to Facility Operating License Nos. NPF-35 and NPF-52, issued to Duke Energy i
l Corporation, et al. (the licensee), for operation of the Catawba Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2, located in York County, South Carolina.
l ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT Identification of Prooosed Action:
The proposed s'etion would amend the Facility Operating Licenses (FOLs) for Units 1 and '.i and to delete license conditions that have been fulfilled, delete exemptions that are no longer needed, correct errors, and make other administrative and editorial changes.
The proposed action is in response to the licensee's application dated December 18, 1997, and revised by letter dated January 26,1998.
The Need for the Pronosed Action:
When the FOLs, NPF-35 and NPF-52, were issued to the licensee, the NRC staff deemed certain issues essential to safety and/or essential to meeting certain regulatory interests. These issues were imposed as license conditione in the FOLs, with deadlines for their implementation. Since the units were licensed to opersic in the 1980s, most of these 9804210085 980415 PDR ADOCK 05000413 p
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_,3 license conditions have been fulfilled. For the license conditions that have been fulfilled, the Scensee proposed to have them deleted from the FOLs.
The FOLs also included a number of exemptions from NRC regulations. The licensee stated that these exemptions have either expired, or are no longer needed since the units are in full compliance with the respective regulations. The licensee proposed to delete these exemptions from the FOLs.
The licensee also proposed to make changes to correct administrative errors such as words inadvertently omitted, documents erroneously cited, etc.
The proposed amendments involve administrative changes to the FOLs only. No actual plant equipment, regulatory requirements, operating practices, or analyses are affected by these proposed amendments.
EnvironmentalImoacts eithe Pronosed Actgn The Comm%on has completed its evaluation of the proposed action and concludes that there is no significant environmentalimpact if the amendments are granted. No changes will be made to the design and licensing bases, and applicable procedures at the two units at Catawba Nuclear Station will remain the same. Other than the administrative changes, no other changes will be made to the FOLs, including the Technical Specifications.
The changes will not increase the probability or consequences of accidents, no changes are being made in the types of any effluents that may be released offsite, and there is no significant increase in the allowable individual or cumulative occupations: radiation exposure.
Accordingly, the Commission concludes that there are no significant radiological environmental impacts associated with the proposed action.
With regard to potential nonradiologicalimpacts, the proposed action does not affect nonradiological plant effluents and has no other environmentalimpact. Accordingly, the
. Commission concludes that there are no significant nonradiological environmental impacts associated with the proposed action.
Altematives to the Pronosed Action:
Since the Commission has concluded there is no measurable environmental impact associated with the proposed action, any attematives with equal or greater environmental impact need not be evaluated. - As an attemative to the proposed action, the staff considered denial of the proposed action. Denial of the application would result in no change in current environmentalimpacts. The environmentalimpacts of the proposed action and the attemative action are similar.
Altemative Use of Resources:
This action does did not involve the use of any resources not previously considered in the Final Environmental Statement related to the Catawba Nuclear Station.
Aaencies and Persons Contaded:
In accordance with its stated policy, on April 1,1998, the staff consulted with the South Carolina State official, Virgil Autrey of the Bureau of Radiological Health, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, regarding the environmentalimpact of the proposed amendments. The State official had no comments.
FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT Based upon the foregoing environmental assessment, the Commission c.ncludes that the proposed amendments will not have a significant effect on the quali+y of the human environment. Accordingly, the Commission has determined nnt to prepara an environmental impact statement for the proposed amendments.
For further details with respect to the proposed action, see the licensee's request for the o
amendments dated December 18,1997, and revised by letter dated January 26,1998, which are available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, The l
4 Gelman Building,2120 L Street, NW., Washington DC, and at the local public document room located at the York County Library,138 East Black Street, Rock Hill, South Carolina.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 15tiday of April 1998.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGUI.ATORY COMMISSION p.-
Pet S. Tam, Senior Project Manager Project Directorate ll-2 Division of Reactor Projects - 1/ll Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation O
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