ML20216H815

NPDES Noncompliance Notification:On 990923,turtle Was Captured Alive at Dilution Intake Structure Trash Racks. Turtle Was Removed Alive & Moving About Actively.Turtle Was Transferred to Marine Mammal Stranding Center

ML20216H815
Person / Time
Site:	Oyster Creek
Issue date:	09/27/1999
From:	Roche M GENERAL PUBLIC UTILITIES CORP.
To:	Zalcman B NRC
References
6530-982-2418, NUDOCS 9910040046
Download: ML20216H815 (3)

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(. U.S. Route M South NUCLEAR Post Office Box 388 Forked River. NJ 087310388 Tel 609-971-4000 6530-982-2418 SEP 2 71999 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Mr. Barry Zalcman, Mailstop O-11-Fi (by cert. mail RRR#Z 051947 427)

Sea Turtle Coordinator Washington, DC 20555

Subject:

Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station Docket 50-219 Sea Turtle Incidental Capture Report 99-1

' This report provides detailed information regarding the recent incidental capture of a subadult Kemp's ridley sea tunle at the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station. The turtle was captured alive during the morning of September 23,1999 at the dilution intake structure trash racks. As indicated on the attached incident report, the tunle has been transferred to the Marine Mammal l Stranding Center in Brigantine, NJ. This is only the third incidental capture of a sea turtle at Oyster Creek since August of1994.

If you have any questions or require additional information, please do not hesitate to contact '

Mr. Malcolm Browne of our Environmental Affairs Department at (609) 971-4124.  !

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Michael B. Roche V. P. & Director OCNGS MBR/MAB/ew Enclosure cc: Ms. Mary Colligan (by cert. mail RRR# Z 051947 428) '

U.S. Depanment of Commerce /, j j National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration National Marine Fisheries Service Habitat and Protected Resources Division One Blackburn Drive Gloucester, MA 01930

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Administrator, Region 1 US Nuclear Regulatory Commission 475 AllendaleRoad King ofPrussia, PA 19406 US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Ms. Helen N. Pastis, Mailstop O-8-B1 (by cert. mail RRR# 2051947 430)

Washington, DC 20555 US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (by cert. mail RRR# Z 051947 431)

Document Control Desk -NRC Washington, DC 20555 Mr. Dave Jenkins (by cert. mail RRR# Z 051947 432)

NJ Department of Environmental Protection Division offish, Game, and Wildlife P.O. Box 236 Tuckahoe,NJ 08250 OCNGS NRC Resident Inspector, OC SEB l

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4 Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station Sea Turtle Incidental Capture Report 99 September 23,1999~

At approximately 0310 hours0.00359 days <br />0.0861 hours <br />5.125661e-4 weeks <br />1.17955e-4 months <br /> on Thursday, September 23, 1999, an Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station (OCNGS) operator removed a sea turtle in front of the trash rack in Bay # 4 of the dilution water intake structure. The tunle was carefully removed from the trash racks with a trash rake, and found to be alive and moving about actively. OCNGS Environmental Affairs personnel who took custody of the tunle confirmed it to be a subadult Kemp's ridley

/Lep/dochelvs kempi). The water temperature at the time of the incidental capture was

'approximately 67.2 F (19.6 C) and OCNGS was in operation at full power with four circulating water pumps and two dilution pumps operating. Although it is impossible to say precisely how

' long the tunle had been near the intake stmeture prior to removal, the intake trash racks had been mechanically cleaned the previous day.

The tunle measured 10.3 in (26.4 cm) carapace length straight line and weighed 6.3 lb (2.9 kg).

Sex was not determined. No tags were present on the tunle when captured.

' After the turtle was examined by Environmental Affairs personnel, it was transferred to the Marine Mammal Stranding Center (MMSC) in Brigantine, NJ MMSC personnel then began to locate a facility in a warmer climate to which the tunle can be transferred prior to eventually

- being released in the ocean.

USNRC and NMFS personnel were notified of the incidental capture within-24 hours on j

.-September 23,1999. '

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