ML20236P232
| ML20236P232 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 07/31/1987 |
| From: | Stello V NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
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| References | |
| SECY-87-194, NUDOCS 8708120264 | |
| Download: ML20236P232 (6) | |
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The Commissioners FROM:
Victor Stello, Jr.
Executive Director for Operations
SUBJECT:
ISSUANCE OF FINAL SUPPLEMENT 2 TO THE PROGRAMMATIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT (PEIS) ON THE THI-2 CLEANUP PURPOSE:
To inform the Commission of the publication of the staff's final Supplement No. P. to thc Programmatic Environmc.ntal Impact Statement (PEIS) which deals with the disposal of accident-generated water.
DISCUSSION:
As indicated in the staff's most recent update on activities related to the disposal of accident-genertted water at TMI-2 (SECY-87-112), a draft Supplement No. 2 to the PEIS was published for comment in December 1986. The draft supplement presented an evaluation of the potential environmental impacts of the licensee's proposed method of disposal and alternative methods identified by the staff.
In the draft, the staff concluded that insignificant environmental impacts would result from disposal of the water via the licensee's method or any of the nine alterne.tive methods con-sidered.
' Subsequent to its publication, the draft supplement was provided for comment to appropriate Federal and State agencies and to interested members of the public. At the request of the Commission's Advisory Panel on the Decontamination of THI-2, the original 45-day comment period was extended to 90 days.
During this period, the staff participated in several public meetings in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area to discuss the draft supplement.
Contact:
W. Travers, NRR FTS 590-1120 8708120264 870731 PDR SECY 87-194 PDR l
4 The final version of PEIS Supplement No. 2, which reflects the staff's evaluation of comments received on the draft,.was issued in June 1987.
In response to Commission direction provided in the Secretary's April 30, 1987 memorandum to the EDO, the staff, in the final version, considered whether additional disposal methods should be evaluated and assessed the alternatives to determine if
- any one was clearly superior to the others.
The conclusions reached by the staff in the final supplement are:
The licensee's proposed method of water disposal.and the eight alternative methods evaluated in this report could each be implemented without significant environmental im-pact. The p>tential health impact to both workers and the offsite public from any of the methods of water disposal is very small.
The most significant potential impact associated with taking action to dispose of the water is the risk of physical injury associated with transportation accidents.
No method is clearly preferable from an environmental impact perspective.
Although the quantitative estimate for some potential impactr varied among alternatives, the staff does not consider these differences sufficiently large to allow for either identification of a clearly preferable method or rejection of any of the nine methods of water disposal evaluated.
Storage of the accident generated water on the TMI site for an indefinite period, although involving small potential environmental impact, is inappropriate because it only postpones action that ultimately will be required to dispose of the existing water.
Additionally, extended storage presents no significant environmental advantage over relatively near-term action to dispose of the water.
l Because of the relatively long radiological half-life-and relatively small quantity of contaminants in the water, the environmental impacts of disposti following even a relatively long storage period would not be significantly different fron impacts associated with nearer-term disposal.
The estimated environmental impacts resulting from the im-plementation of any disposal method evaluated in this supplement fall within the range of impacts estimated in the NRC staff's original PEIS (NRC 1981).
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Commissioners The licensee's proposed action of onsite evaporation combined with offsite disposal of evaporator bottoms is an environmentally acceptable disposal cethod.
In accordance with recent Commission guidance provided in the Secretary's June 24, 1987 memorandum to the EDO, the staff is preparing a notice of opportunity for a hearing on the licensee's requested license change.
The Office of.the General Counsel has reviewed this paper and has no legal objection.
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In accordance with recent Commission guidance provided in the Secretary's June 24, 1987 memorandum to the EDO, the staff is preparing a notice of opportunity for a hearing on the licensee's requested license change.
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In accordance with recent Commission guidance, provided in the Secretary's June 24, 1987 memorandum to the EDO, the staff is preparing a notice of opportunity for a hearing on the licensee's requested license change.
If a hearing is requested the staff expects to be a party to the proceeding and, based on the con-clusions reached in the PEIS supplement, will support the requested license amendment and the licensee's proposed disposal method.
The Office of the General Counsel has reviewed and has no legal objection to this paper.
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