ML20236F759
| ML20236F759 | |
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| Site: | Waltz Mill |
| Issue date: | 06/26/1998 |
| From: | Weiss S NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned) |
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| NUDOCS 9807020319 | |
| Download: ML20236F759 (3) | |
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7590-01-P UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGU!.ATORY COMMISSION WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION (CBS CORPORATION WESTINGHOUSE TEST REACTOR DOCKET NO. 50-22 ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) is considering issuance of an amendment to Facility License No. TR-2, now held by the CBS Corporation, formerly named the Westinghouse Electric Corporation. The license authorizes possession only of i
the Westinghouse Test Reactor (WTR), located in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. l
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ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT Identification of the Prooosed Action The proposed action would amend Facility License No. TR-2 for the WTR to reflect the change in the legal name of the licensee from Westinghouse Electric Corporation to l
CBS Corporation, which occurred on December 1,1997.
The proposed actien is in accordance with the licensee's application for amendment dated December 22,1997, as supplemented on June 15,1998.
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.The proposed action is needed to accurately reflect the legal name of the licensee.
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proposed action will not affect t. e financial qualifications of the licensee to possess and decommission the facility.
In light of the foregoing, the Commission concludes that the change 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 will be no significant increase in the allowable individual or cumulative occupational radiation exposure. Accordingly the Commission concludes that there are no significant radiological environmental impacts associated with the proposed action.
With regard to potential nonradiological impacts, the proposed action is 1 administrative in nature and does not involve any physical features of the plant. Thus, it 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.
Attematives to the Prooosed Action Since the Commission has concluded there is no measurable environmental impact associated with the proposed action, any alternatives with equal or greater environmental impact need not be evaluated. As an alternative to the proposed action, the staff I l
I 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 alternative action are similar.
Alter. native Use of Resources No alternatives appear that will have different or lesser effect on the use of available resources. I l
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in accordance with its stated policy, on June 23,1998, the NRC staff consulted with the Pennsylvania State Official, Ray Woods, of the Bureau of Radiation Protection, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, regarding the environmentalimpact I of the proposed action. The State official had no comments.
Findina of No Significant imoact Based upon the environmental assessment, the Commission concludes that the proposed action will not have a significant effect on the quality of the human environment.
Accordingly, the Commission has determined not to prepare an environmental impact statement for the proposed action.
For further details with respect to the proposed action, see the licensee's submittals dated December 22,1997 and June 15,1998, which are available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street, NW.,
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of June 1998.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION r tA4d Seymour H. Weiss, Director Non-Power Reactors and Decommissioning Project Directorate Division of Reactor Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation L___._____________.__- --