ML20235V618
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| Site: | Vogtle  |
| Issue date: | 02/09/1989 |
| From: | NRC |
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February 9, 1989 APPENDIX B l
TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE NO. NPF-68 AND FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE N0. NPF-79 V0GTLE ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANT UNITS 1 AND 2 GEORGIA POWER COMPANY DOCKET NOS. 50-424 AND 50-425 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION PLAN (NONRADl0 LOGICAL)
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1.0 Objectives of the Environmental Protection Plan i
i The Environmental Protection Plan (EPP) is to provide for protection of nonradiological environmental values during operation of the nuclear 1
facility. The principal objectives of the EPP are as follows:
(1) Verify that the facility is operated in an environmentally acceptable i
manner, as established by the Final Environmental Statement - Operating Licensing Stage (FES-OL) and other NRC environmental impact assessments.
(2) Coordinate NRC reovirements and maintain consistency with other Federal, State and local requirements for environmental protection.
(3) Keep NRC informed of the environmental effects of facility construction and operatinn and of actions taken to control those effects.
Environmental concerns identified in the FES-OL which relate to water quality P
matters are regulated by way of the licensee's NJPDES permit.
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o o 2.0 Environmental Protection Issues L
In the FES (NilREG-1087), dated March, 1985, the staff considered the environmental impacts associated with the o,peratice of the two unit Yogtle Electric Generating Plant (VEGPi. Certain environmental issues were identified which required study, or license conditions to resolve concerns and assure adequate protection of the environment.
I 2.1 Aquotic Issues i
No specific aquatic issues were identified in the FES-OL.
2.7 Terrestrial Issues No specific terrestrial issues were identified in the FES-OL.
2.3 Issues Related to Maintenance of Transmission Line Corriders
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Routine maintenance requirements for the extent of use of herbicides, trinr.irg of the trees, and for preservation of National Natural Landmarks and Historic Places are discussed in Section 4.2.3.
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2.4 Noise Issues Noise levels at residences along the transmission lines could be sligntly above ambient levels. Ponitoring requirements for reise associated with transmission facilities are specified in Section 4.2.4.
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3.0 Consistency Requirements 3.1 Plant Design ati Operation The licensee may wake changes in plant design or operation or perform tests or experiments affecting the environment provided such activities de not involve an unreviewed environmental question and de not involve a change in the EPP*,
Change's in plant design or operation or performance of tests or experiments which do not affect the environment are not sub,iect to the requirements of this EPP. Activities gcverned by Section 3.3 ar.e not subject to the requirements of this Section.
Before engaging in additional construction or operational activities which mav significantly affect the environment, the licensee shall preoare and record an environmental evaluation of such activity. Activities are
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excluded from this requirement if all measurable nonradiological environ-mental effects are confined to the on-site areas previously disturbed during site preparation and plant construction. When the evaluation F
indicates that such activity involves an unreviewed environmental question, the licensee shall provide a written evaluation of such activity and obtain prior NRC approval. When such activity involves a change in the EPP, such activity and change to the EPP may be implemented only in accordance with an appropriate license amendment as set forth in Section 5.3 of this EPP, This provision loes not relieve the licensee of the requirements of 10 CFR 50.59.
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A proposed change, test or experiment shall be deemed to involve an unreviewed environmental question if it concerns:
(1) a matter which may result in a significant increase in any adverse environmental impact previously evaluated in the FES-OL, environmental impact appraisals, or in any decisions of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board; or (2) a significant-l change in effluents or power level; or (3) a matter, not previously reviewed and evaluated in the documents specified in (1) of this Subsection, which may have a significant adverse environmental impact.
The licensee shall maintain records of changes in plant design or operation and of tests and experiments carried out pursuant to this Sub-section. These records shall include written evaluations which provide bases for the determination that the change, test, or experiment does not involve an unreviewed environmental question or constitute a decrease in the effectiveness of this EPP to meet the objectives specified in Section 1.0.
The licensee shall include as part of the Annual Environmental Operating Report (perSubsection5.4.1)briefdescriptions, analyses, interpretations, and evaluations of such changes, tests and experiments.
3.2 Reporting Related to the NPDES Pemit and State Certification Changes to, or renewals of, the NPDES Pemit or the State certification shall be reported to the NRC within 30 days following the date the change or renewal is approved.
If a permit or certification, in part or in its entirety, is appealed and stayed, the NRC shall be notified within 30 days following the date the stay is granted.
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,9 The licensee shall notify the NRC of changes to the effective NPDES Permit proposed by the licensee by providing NRC with a copy of the proposed change at the same time it is submitted to the permitting agency. The licensee shall provide the NRC a copy of the application for renewal of the NPDE$
Permit at the same time the application is submitted to the permitting agency.
3.3 Changes Required for Compliance with Other Environmental Regulations Changes in plant design or operation and performance of tests or experiments '
which are required to achieve compliance with other Federal, State, and local environmental regulations are not subject to the requirements of Section 3.1.
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4.0 Environmental Conditions i
4.1 Unusual or Important Environmental Events Any occurrence of an unusual or important event that indicates or could result in significant environmental impact causally related to plant operation shall be recorded and reported to the NRC within 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> followed by a written report per Subsection 5.4.2.
The following are examples: excessive bird impaction events; onsite plant or animal disease outbreaks; mortality or unusual occurrence of any species protected by the Endangered Species Act of 1973; fish kills or impingement events on the intake screens; increase in nuisance organisms or conditions; unanticipated or emergency discharge of waste water or chemical substances; and damage to vegetation resulting from cooling tower operations.
No routine monitoring programs are required to implement this condition.
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4.7 Environmental Monitoring e
4.2.1 Aquatic Monitoring The certifications and pemits required under the Clean Water Act provide mechanisms for protecting water quPlity and, indirectly, equatic biota.
The NRC will rely on the decisions made by the State of Georgia under the authority of the Clean Water Act for any requireNnts for aquatic monitoring.
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4.2.2 Terrestrial Monitoring Terrestrial monitoring is not required.
4.2.3 Maintenance of Transmission Line Corridors The use of herbicides within the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant transmission line corridors"(VEGP-Thalmann, VEGP-Scherer, Georgia side of VEGP-South Carolina Electric and Gas, cnd VEGP-Goshen) shall conform to the approved use of selected herbicides as registered by the Environmental Protection Agency and approved by the State of Georgia authorities and applied as directed on the herbicide label.
Rece*ds shall be maintained in accordance with EPA or State of Georgia requirements by the licensee's Transmission Operating and Maintenance Department concerning herbicide use. Such records shall be made readily available to the NRC upon request. There shall be no routine reporting requirement associated with this condition.
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4.2.3.1 Ebenezer Creek Any routine maintenance involving trimming of the trees within the National Natural Landmark area necessary to maintain conductor clearance shall be done by hand (Section 5.2.2, FES-OL).
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4.2.3.2 Francis Plantation
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Routine maintenance invn1ving trimming of the trees within the National
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1 Register of Historic Places property necessary to maintain conductor clearance shall be done by hand (Memorandum of Agreement between Advisory
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(NRC), State Historic Preservation Officer (SHP0) for Georgia Power Compan.v).
4.2.3.3 Cultural Properties Along Transmission Line Corridors Routine maintenance activities in these areas will be in accordance with' the Final ' Cultural Resource Management Plan.
i 4.2.4 Noise Monitoring Complaints received by Georgia Power Company regarding noise along the hich voltage transmission lines (VEGP-Goshen VEGP-Scherer, VEGP-Thaiman, and Georgia side of VEGP-SCEG) and a report of the actions taken in response to e
any complaints shall be submitted to the NRC in the annual report (FES-OL Section 5.12.2).
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5.0 Administrative Procedures 5.1 Review and Audit The licer.see shall provide for review and audit of compliance with the EPP.
The audits shall be conducted independently of the individual or groups responsible for performine the specific activity. A description of the orpenization structure utilized to achieve the independent review and audit function and results of the audit activities shall be maintained and made available for inspection.
5.2 Records Retention i.'
Records and legs relative to the environmental aspects of station op? ration shall be made and retained in a manner converient for review and inspection.
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These records and logs shall be made available to NP.C on request.
Records of modifications to station structures, systems and components.
determined to potentially affect the continued protection of the environ-nent shall be retained for the life of the station. All other records, data and logs relating to this EPP shall be retained for five years cr where applicable, in accordance with the requirements of other agencies.
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5.3 Changes in Environmental Protection Plan Requests for changes in the EPP shall include an assessment of the environmental impact nf the proposed change and a supporting. justification.
Implementation of such changes in the EPP shall not commence prior to NRC approval of the proposed changes in the form of a license amendment incorporating the appropriate revision to the EPP.
5.4 Plant Reporting Requirements 5.4.1 Routine Reports An Annual Environmental Operating Report describing implementation of this EPP for the previous year shall be submitted to the NRC prior to May 1 of each year. The period of the first report shall begin with the date of issuance of the Operating License for Unit 1, and the initial report shall be submitted prior to May 1 of the year following issuance of the Operating
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License for Unit 1.
The report shall include summaries and analyses of the results of the environmental protection activities required by Subsection 4.2 (if any) of this EPP for the report period, including a comparison with related preopera-tional studies,. operational controls (as appropriate), and previous nonradiological environmental monitoring reports, and.an assessment of the observed impacts of the plant operation on the environment. If harmful 5-2
i effects or evidence of trends toward irreversible damage to the environment are observed, the licensee shall provide a detailed analysis of the data and a proposed course of mitigating action.
The Annual Environmental Operating Report shall also include:
fli A list of EPP nnncompliances and the corrective actions taken to remedy them.
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A list of all changes in station design or operation, tests, and experiments made in accordance with Subsection 3.1 which involvei a potentially significant unreviewed environmental question.
j (3) A list of nonroutine reports submitted in accordance with Subsectior 5.4.2.
In the event that some results are not available by the report due date, the report shall be submitted noting and explaining the missing results. The 9
missing results shall be submitted as soon as possible in a supplementary report.
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Nonroutine Reports A written report'shall be submitted to the NRC within 30 days of occurrence of a nonroutine event. The report shall: (a) describe, analyre, and evaluate 1
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the event, including extent and magnitude of the impact, and plant operating characteristics; (b) describe the probable cause of the event; (c) indicate the action taken to correct the reported event; (d) indicate the corrective action taken to preclude repetition of the event and to prevent similar occurrences involving similar components or systems; and (e) indic.ute the agencies notified and their preliminary responses.
Events reportable under this subsection which also require reports to other Federal. State or local agencies shall be reported in accordance with those.,
reporting requirements in lieu of the requirements of. this subsection. The NRC shall be provided with a copy of such report at the same time it is submitted to the other agency.
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February 9, 1989 Aopendix C Antitrust Conditions The following antitrust conditions are hereby incorporated in Facility Operating License NPF-79:
(1) As used herein:
(a) " Entity" means any financially responsible person, private or public corporation, municipality, county, cooperative, association, joint stock association or business trust, owning, operating or proposing to own or operate equipment or facilities within ths State of Georgia (other than Chatham, Effingham, Fannin, Towns and Union Counties) for the generation, transmission or distribution of electricity, provided that, except for municipalities, counties, or rural electric cooperatives, " entity" is_ restricted to those which are or will be public utilities under the laws of the State of Georgia or under the laws of the United States, and are or will be providing retail electric service under a contract or rate sch6dule on file with and subject to the regulation of the Public Service Commission of the State of Georgia or any regulatory agency of the United States, and provided further, that as to municipalities, counties or rural electric cooperatives, " entity" is restricted to those which provide electricity to the public at retail within the State of Georgia (other than Chatham, Effingham, Fannin, Towns and Union Counties) or to responsible and legally qualified organizations of such municipalities, counties and/or cooperatives in the State of Georgia (other than Chatham, Effingham, Fannin, Towns and Union Counties) to the extent they may bind their meubers.
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(b) " Licensee" means Georgia Power Company, any successor, assignee of
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this license, or assignee of all or substantially all of Georgia Power Company's assets, and any affiliate or subsidiary of Georgia Power Company to the extent it engages in the ownership of any bulk power supply generation or transmission resource in the State of Georgia (but specifically not including (1) flood rights and other land rights acquired in the State of Georgia incidental to hydro-electric generation facilities located in another state and (2) facilities located west of the thread of the stream on that part of the Chattahoochee River serving as the boundary between the States of Georgia and Alabama).
(2) Licensee recognizes that it is often in the public interest for those engaging in bolk power supply and purchases to interconnect, coordinate for reliability and economy, and engage in bulk power supply transactions in order to increase interconnected system reliability and reduce the costs of electric power. Such arrangements must provide for licensee's costs (including a reasonable return) in connection therewith and allow other participating entities full access to the benefits available from I
interconnected bulk power supply operations and must provide net benefits to licensee.
In entering into such arrangements neither licensee nor any other participant should be required to violate the principles of sound engineering practice or forego a reasonably contemporaneous altern-ative arrangement with another, developed in good faith in ams length
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negotiations (but not including arrangements between licensee and its affiliates or subsidiaries which impair entities' rights hereunder more than they would be impaired were such arrangements made in good faith between licensee and a non-affiliate or non-subsidiary) which affords it greater benefits. Any such arrangement must provide for adequate notice and joint planning procedures consistent with sound engineering practice, and must relieve licensee from obligations undertaken by it in the event such procedures are not followed by any participating e nti ty.-
Licensee recognizes-that each entity may acquire some or all of its bulk power supply from sources other than aoolicant.
In the implementation of the obligations stated in the succeeding para-graphs, licensee and entities shall act in accordance with the #oregoing orinciples. and these princioles are conditions to each of licensee's obligations herein undertaken.
(3) Licensee shall interconnect with any entity which provides, or which has undertaken fim contractual obligations to provide, some or all of its bulk power supply from sources other than licensee on terms to be included in an interconnection agreement which shall crovide for appropriate allo-cation of the costs of interconnection facilities; provided, however, that if an entity undertakes to negotiate such a fim contractual obligation, the licensee shall, in good faith, negotiate with such entity concerning any proposed ~1 interconnection. Such interconnection agreement shall provide, without undue preference or discrimination, for the following, among other a
things, insofar as consistent with the operating necessities of licensee's and any participating entity's systems:
(a) maintenance and coordination of reserves, including, where appropriate, the purchase and sale thereof, (b) emergency support.
-(c) maintenance support, (d) economy energy exchanges, (e) purchase and sale of firm and non-firin capacity and energy, (f) economic dispatch of power resources within the State of Georgia, provided, however, that in no event shall such arrangements impose a higher percentage of reserve requirements on the participating entity than that maintained-by licensee for similar resources.
(4) Licensee shall sell full requirements power to 'any entity. Licensee shall sell partial requirements power to any entity. Such sales shall be made pursuant to rates on fi!e with the Federal Power Consnission, or any successor regulatory agency, and subject to reasonable tems and conditions.
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system to any entity or entities with which it is interconnected, pursuant to rate schedules on file with the Federal Power Comission which will fully compensate licensee for the use of itt system, to the extent that such arrangements can be accommodated from a functional engineering standpoint and to the extent that licensee has surolus line capacity or reasonably available funds to finance new construction for this purpose. To the extent the entity or. entities are able, they
'shall reciprocally provide transmission service to licensee. Trans-mission service will be provided under this subparagraph for the delivery of power to an entity for its or its members' consumption and.
retail distribution or for casual resale to another_ entity for (1) its consumption or (2) its retail distribution. Nothing contained herein shall require the licensee to transmit bulk power so as to have.the effect of making the Tennessee Valley Authority ("TVA")lor its dis-tributors, directly or indirectly, a source of power supply outside-
- the area detemined by the TVA Board of' Directors by resolution of May 16, 1966 to be the area for which the TVA or its distributors were the primary source of power supply on July 1,1957, the date-specified in the Revenue Bond Act of 1959, 16 USC 831 n-4 (b) Licensee shall t ransmit over its system from any entity or entities-with which it is interconnected, pursuant to rate schedules on file with the: Federal Power Comission.which will fully compensate licensee for the use of its system, bulk powee which results from any such entity having excess capacity available from self-owned generating d
resources in the State of Georgia, to the extent such excess necessarily-results for economic unit sizing or from failure to forecast load accurately or from such generatir.g resources becoming operational earlier than the planned in-service date, to the extent that such arrangements can be accommodated from a functional engineering stand-point, and to the extent licensee has surplus line capacity available.
(6) Upon. request, licensee shall provide service to any' entity purchasing partial requirements service, full requirements service or transmission service from licensee at a delivery voltage appropriate for loads served by such entity, commensurate with licensee's available transmission facilities. Sales of such service shall be made pursuant to rates on file with the Federal Power Comission or any successor regulatory agency, and subject to reasonable tems and conditions.
(7) Upon reasonable notice licensee shall grant any entity the opportunity to purchase an appropriate share in the ownership of, or, at the option of the entity, to purchase an appropriate share of unit power from, each of the following nuclear generating units at licensee's costs, to the ex-tent the same are constructed and operated: Hatch 2. Vogtle 1. Vogtle 2, and any other nuclear generating unit constructed by licensee in the State of Georgia which, in the application filed with the USAEC or its successor agency, is scheduled for comercial operation prior to January 1, 1989.
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An entity's request for a snare must have regard for the economic size of such nuclear unit (s), for the entity's load size, growth and characteristics, and for demands upon licensee's system from other entities and licensee's retail customers, all in accordance with sound engineering practice. Execu-tory agreements to accomplish the foregoing shall contain provisions reasonably specified by licensee requiring the entity to consummate and pay for such purchase by an early date or dates certain.
For purooses of this provision, " unit power" shall mean capacity and associated energy from s
a specified generating unit.
(8) To effect the foregoing conditions, the following steps shall be taken:
(a) Licensea shall file with the appropriate regulatory authorities and thereafter maintain in force as needed an appropriate transmission tcriff available to any entity; (b) Licensee shall file with the appropriate regulatory authorities and thereafter maintain in force as needed an appropriate partial require-ments tariff available to any entity; licensee shall have its liability limited to the partial requirements service actually contracted for ar.d the entity shall be made responsible for the security of the bulk power supply resources acquired by the entity from sources other than the licensee; (c) Licensee shall amend the general terms and conditions of its current Federal Power Commission tariff and thereafter maintain in force as needed provisions to enable any entity to receive bulk power at trans-mission voltage at appropriate rates; (d) Licensee shall not have the unilateral right to defeat the intended access by each entity to citernative sources of bulk power supoly oro-vided by the conditions to this license; but licensee shall retain the right to seek regulatory approval of changes in its tariffs to the end that it be adequately compensated for services it provides, specifically including, but not limited to, the provisions of Section 205 of the Federal Power Act; (e) Licensee shall use its best efforts to amend any outstanding contract to which it is a party that contains provisions which are inconsistent with the conditions of this license; (f) Licensee affirms that no consents are or will become necessary from licensee's parent, affiliates or subsidiaries to enable licensee to carry out its obligations hereunder or to enable the entities to enjoy their rights hereunder; (g) All provisions of these conditions shall be subject to and implemented in accordance with the laws of the United States and of the State of Georgia, as applicable, and with rules, regulations and orders of agencies of both, as applicable.
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