ML20246P070

Approves Inplace Disposal of Residual Contaminated Soils at Plant Under 10CFR20.302(a),per Util .No License Amend & Environ Assessment Necessary

ML20246P070
Person / Time
Site:	Maine Yankee
Issue date:	08/31/1989
From:	Leeds E Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Frizzle C Maine Yankee
References
TAC-71167, NUDOCS 8909110033
Download: ML20246P070 (3)

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August 31, 1989 Docket No. 50-309 Mr. C. D. Frizzle, President Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company 83 Edison Drive i

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SUBJECT:

APPROVAL UNDER 10 CFR 20.302(a) FOR IN-PLACE DISPOSAL OF RESIDUALCONTAMINATEDSOILSATMAINEYANKEE(TACNO.71167)

REFERENCES:

- (a) Letter, dated November 2, 1988, from G. D. Whittier to U.S. NRC Document Control Desk.

(b) Final Environmental Statement related to the operation of Maine Yankee Atomic Power Station (Maine Yankee),

dated July 1972.

Accompanying reference (a), you submitted an application for disposal of the subject licensed material not previously considered by the staff in the Maine Yankee Final Environmental Statement (FES),) reference (b). prepared in accor This application, of the licensed material, thoroughly analyzes and evaluates the information pertinent to the effects on the environment of the disposal of the licensed material, and commits you to follow specific procedures to minimize the risk of unexpected or hazardous exposure.

In the FES for the operation of Maine Yankee, the staff' considered the potential effects on the environment of licensed raterial from operation of the plant and, in the evaluation of radiological impact, concluded that:

" Operation of the plant will contribute only an extremely small increment of the radiation dose that persons living in the area normally receive from background radiation. Fluctuations of the natural background dose may be expected to exceed the small dose increment contributed by the station."

Since the disposal proposed in reference (a) involves licensed materials containing less than 2 percent of the radioactivity, primarily cesium-137 already considered acceptable in the FES, and involves exposure pathways much less significant and radiochemical forms much less mobile than those considered l

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in the FES, we consider this site-specific application for Maine Yankee to have insignificant radiological impact. We accept your evaluations documented in Attachment 1 of reference (a) as further assurance that the proposed disposal procedures will have a negligible effect on the environment and on the general population in comparison to normal backgrcund radiation.

i In conclusion, we find your documented in reference (a) proposal with evaluations and commitments as to be acceptable.

Since no license amendment is necessary and in accordance with the provisions of 10 CFR 51.22(c)(9), no environmental assessment is required.

Sincerely, Q44 Eric J. Leeds, Project Manager Project Directorate I-3 Division of Reactor Projects I/II Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation ec:

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7 tate Planning Officer Executive Department 189 State Street Augusta, Maine 04330:

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Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company P. O. Box 408' Wiscasset, Maine 04578 Mr. J. H. Garrity, Vice President Licensing and Engineering Maine' Yankee Atomic Power Company 83 Edison Drive l

Augusta, Maine 04336 1

1 Regional Administrator, Region I l

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First Selectman of Wiscasset Municipal Building l

U.S. Route 1 Wiscasset, Maine 04578 Mr. Cornelius F. Holden Resident Inspector Maine-Yankee Atomic Power Station l

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission P. O. Box E Wiscasset, Maine 04578 Mr. P. L. Anderson, Project Manager H

Yankee Atomic Electric Company 580 Main Street Bolton, Massachusetts 01740-1398

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