RBG-37-774, Annual Environ Operating Rept (Nonradiological) for Period 910829-920828

Annual Environ Operating Rept (Nonradiological) for Period 910829-920828

ML20127P718
Person / Time
Site:	River Bend
Issue date:	08/28/1992
From:	England L, Odell W, Stoma S GULF STATES UTILITIES CO.
To:	NRC OFFICE OF INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (IRM)
References
RBG-37-774, NUDOCS 9212030082
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poried Atryst 29, 1991 to Augunt 28, 1992. This rcgrar t is r,utsnitted in i

accorchnce witt Stamet. ion S.4.1 of Afgxsicix B (Fnvirormntal Protu: tion Plan) t to River Ibnd Station Licmse Noiber tJV-47.

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August 29, 1991 - August 28, 1992

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1.0 UtrRODUCTlay0NPerIVES . . . . . . . . . . . . .............,............ 1 2.b DNIHCTM2 ITAL PRCTnX.'TIQ4 ISSUES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2.1 Aquatic Iscues ............ .. .................... .... 2 2.2 Terrestrial Issues .......... ......................... .2 4 I

2.3 tbi c o I s suea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3.0 COE ISTDCY REY,7JIRDF2tTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2- .l;

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3.1 Plant Desiga and Cpiration ......... ..................... 2 +

3.2 RJporting Related to NPDES Perndt and State Cortification . 4 3.3 Charrges Roquired for Ccanpliance with Other Environnental Regulations .. .............................. ............... 4 4.0 DNUmFENTAL CCNDITIOis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S 4.1 Unusual or Inportant Divironmental Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , .i 4.2 Enviromental Ibnitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4 . 2.1 - Agtntic Fbnitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - S i 4.2.2 Terres trial Fbnitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 -

4.2.3 lbine }bnitorinj . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......................._S-5.0 ADMINISTRATlVE PRCCEDURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-5.1 Resiew and Audit ........... ............................. 6 5.2 Records N tention ., ...... ........................ ..... 6

$3 Changes in Environnental Protection Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 6 5.4 Plant Reporting Requirennnts . . . . . . . . . -. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

5. 4 .1 Routine Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

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.. ._ _ MWIRCitfiNT6L_OPERATJIOJENPT_fCR__199182 1.0 ItqPODUCTJCi@BJECTIWS The Annual Environmental Operating Report for the period of August 29, 1991 (anniversary of license issuance) through August 28,- 1992, is subnitted in :

accordance with Subsection 5.4.1 of *ppendix B to River Bend Station Facility Operating License Humber NPF-47.

River Ibnd Station (RBS) consists of a 936 ffdE General Electric boiling water reactor located on a 3,342 acre site in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 4.1 lan (2.5 mi) southeast of St. Francisville. Waste heat from RBS is dissipatcd '

via a closed-cycle system using four mchanical draft cooling towrs thich draw mkeup water frca the Mississippi Rivet , 3.3 (air) km (2.0 mi) to the southwest.

Blowdown from the norm 1 cooling tower system is dischatx3ed to the Mississippi River through a suberned pipe alxxit 200 mters (660 ft) downstream fran the makeup water intake.

Appendix B to the RSS operating license is the Environmental Protection Plan (Nonradiological), or EPP, which has the following principal objectives:

1. To verify that the facility is operated in an -environmentally .

acceptable manner, as established in the Final Environmental Staterrunt Related to the Operation of. River Bond Station (NURFB-1073, connonly referred to as the FES-OL) and other Nuclear Regulato1T Caimission (NRC) impact assessments.

2. To coordinate NRC requirements and maintain consistency with other=

Federal, State, and local requirements for environmental protection.

3. To keep _ the NRC infornyxi of = the environnantal effects of facility construction and operation and of actions taken to control . those offects.

2.C RIAgtRERAk PRQTE TICtLIESTRE In the FPS-OL dated January 1985, the- NRC staff considered the .uvironmental

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i.apacts asociated with the operation of ' River Bend Station Unit 1. - Certain-environmental issues were identified which required study or licenso conditions to resolve environmental concerns and to assure adequate protection 'of -the environment.

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D(VJBONMENTAL_0PEPATIID_PK@8TEfm112)/.92 11 Muatip_Icques No cpecific aquatic icsues wre identified by the NRC staff in the FES-OL. Envilurgiental concerns which relate to water quality are regulated by way of the facility's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Pemit and Louisiana Water Discharge Permit.

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2.2 Terrestriallesues Jalt drif t deposition from the normal cooling towra may cause changes in, or danage to,- nearby vegetation on EB3 property (FES-OL Section 5 5.1) . >

A nonitoring program to identify the extent of impacts 6td the mitigative actions necessary, if any, is specified in EPP Section 4.2.2.

2.3 NoineJesuen Operation of the normal cooling towers, the service water cooling - tower and pain staticn transfcImers at RBS may increase noise levels at nearby recidences (FES-OL Section 5.12). A monitorjng program to identify the ,

extent _ of impacts and the mitigative actions necessary, if any, 's specified in EPP Section 4.2.3.

-3.0 CCFSJSEWLPJMPJmiTS 3.1 PlantJesigniand_ Operation In accord oce tath the EPP, RBS persorail prepare and record _an environnatal evaluation of any proroced change in plant design or operation or perforltance of any test or experiment which nay significantly affect the-environment. Such evaluations are not perfomed on activities which do not affect the environment or are required for ccepliance with non-NRC environmental regulations. The environmental evaluation process is administered through programs governing design Edification and the -

development / revision of written procedures. Before engaging in. additional

_ constniction or operational activities which may significantly affact the i 2 i-L l

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envirorcent a determination is mde and recorded as to whether any proposed i change involves an unreviewed environmental question determination (ULQD).

A proposed activity involves a UD2D if it concerns:

a) A matter which my recult in a significant incresce in any adverco environmental impact previously evaluated in the FES-OL, environmental inpact appraisals, or in any decisions of the Atomic Safety and Licensing bcard; ,

b) a significant change in effluent or power levels; or- ,

c) a matter, nc. previously reviewod and evaluated in the -

documents specified in (a) arovo, which nay have a significant adverse environmental inpact.

If the activity noets any of these criteria it must either not be performed as proposed or a written evaluation must be prepared and submitted for i prior NEC approval.

During this reporting period a n'odification was coupleted which was evaluated for its environmental impact under the design nodification -

program referred to above The closed loop nodification of the Ibrnel-Gervice Water System-(MR 91-0047), t i

In 154-91-0047, Attachment B, an -Unroviewed Environmental Question ,.

r Determination (UU2D) was made that addressed the following enviromental

. iscues surrounding t.his proposed modification:

1. the visible plume fran the new cooling tower,

2. the drift from the cooling tower and its predicted effects,

3. the blowdown from the cooling tower, including water treatment chemicals in the blowdown, 3

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4. the noise frm the new cooling towr fans and the additional or ,

replaconent pumps and rrotors associated with the nodified cooling water cystem.

The UITaD (Attach B of MR 91-0047) concluded that the~ E?P will not be - I affected by the changes mde by MR 91-0047. The records of these -i environmental deteratinations are mintained in the station Pernanent Plant'

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File as part of documentation associated with the Mx11fication Request ,

program and/or the prxeduro development system.

3.2 ReparIitrLFoletuLtp.NPDEUelmtit_ andJt; ate Certif.ication 4

Violations of the NPDES and Louisiana Water Discharge permits have been rercrted to the URC via copies of the nonroutino reporta sent to the other ,

agencies pursuant to permit requirenents (cee Tztble 1). '

On January 27, 1992 a renewal application with notifications for Inuisiana a Water Discharge Permit No. WP0409 was submitted to the LADEQ. GSU shall continuo to operate RES under the terms and condit tons of the previous permit, v.hien expired on May 28, 1992, until final Atior. frca IADEQ. +

3,3 ChanggJequ i ni f otCapliancp_with_Othe tEnvironmental ,

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- iMring the period covered by this report the only changes in plant design.

or operation and performnce of tests or experiments rnquired to achieve

cmpliance with non-NRC environmenta] regulations wre

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a) completion of biononitoring requirenents for NPDES Outfall 001 -  ;

A (cooling terwer blowdown and previously nonitored low volume waste to the Mississippi Riveri, b) isolation of service water system from the condenser cooling-system and addition of a fifth ind'2ced draft multicell cooling towr -

c) addition of chemical storage areas for service water treatment

' chemicals and chemical metal-cleaning wastewater storage, d) closure and renoval of underground storage tanks associated with station vehicle refuel facility, 4

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_ j e) addition of above grourd fuel storage tanks associated with ,

the station vehicle refuel facility.

Such changes are not subject to the EPP requirerrent for environnental evaluation described in Soction 3.1. '

4.O DMRCliMDITAis...gCRIDUIClis 4.1 UnupuaLQr_ImpgriantJayironrtpntaLR(entg During the period coverod by this report there were no unusual or impenant events, causally related to RBS operation, which resulted in significant environmental ifnpacts.

4.2 EnvirpnmentaLiknitpdng 4.2.1 ANAtigjbnitQrmg. - Water quality nonitoring was performed in accordance with the requirements established in the station's NPDES and Iouisiana Water Discharge permits. Results were doonented in monthly Discharge Ibnitoring Reports and nonroutine reports (Table 1), as required, submitted to the USEPA and LD1W 4.2,2 IntstdaLit?niforirra. -

Subsection 4.2i2 of the EPP requires nonitoring by aerial photograph beginning two years prior to cooling tower operation and during the following first and third years of operation, This requirement was empleted in 1989 wiwn the

" third year" set of stereo color infrhred :transprencies were monitored. River . Bend Station continued to perform terrestrial nonitoring with aerial photography, and has expanded this monitoring -

to address a -licensing conmitment. to. monitor for and report the ,

ov.istance cd e C and gas wel.',s and pipelines within 2 miles of-the plant. No emege in vegetative canunitics or individual trees, attributable to salt drift impacts, nsve been observea. No evidence -

of-new oil / gas wells or- pipelines within 2 miles of RBS have. been observed. l

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The requirenent; to conduct an environmental rLise nonitoring program (EPP Subsection 4.2.3) was completed during 1986/87_ and the_ results were included in the second Annual Environmental Operating Report, In general, the acoustic  :

l environnent in the vicinity of FBS proved to be substantially more L ccciplex than anticipated, tot neither the magnitude ofj increases i attributable to plant operation nor ccomunity reaction exceeded FES-OL predictions.

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_ DEKMWNcMERATJ!D REP 0ffLIRB_.1991M2 As a result of completing MR 91-0047 with the addition of equipnent to cupport the closed loop normal service water system an environmental evaluation for noise impact was made. Conclusions of -

that evaluation (attach B of MR 91-0047), were that these rrdifications, which will involve comparable equignent, will not-affect plant noise emiscions.

To support this conclusion, sound test were conducted by GEA Power Cooling Systems, Inc. -on October 28,1992. Results of these test -i revealed that the average noise levels in close proximity to River Bend and the currounding connonity would not be increased by these axlifications as compared to 1980 and 1907 surveys.

S.0 /OMINISTPATIVFePROCEUJRES 5.1 Feviw_arklAudit GSU has provided for independent review and audit of compliance with the EPP. The main group responsible for audits of EPP-related activities, the -

RBS Quality Assurance Department, reported directly t. the Manager -

Oversight during the period covered in this report. All findings 4dentified during the reporting period were satisfactorily resolved and did not indicate a significant deterioration on the activities being audited.

5.2 Rgords_BeWntion Records and logs relative to environmcmtal aspects of plant operation and audit activities are retained in the RBS Pernanent Plant File. These records and logs are available to tne NRC on request. Rmrds of modifications to station structures, systems, and components annined to potentially affect the continued protection of the environmew will be retained for the life of the plant. Other records, data, and logs relating to the EPP will . be retained for five years or, where applicable, in accordance with the requiretrent 4 of the USEPA and LDEQ.

- 5.3 CipngcsJn 3tvLroprentaLEngintion_ Elan There were no requests for changes to the EPP during the period-covered by this report.

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DNIffMOUAL,_O, PERATING_MJ9RT_FOR.,J991LQR 5.4 Elm 1LRetorting_Rsquirenvfnts 5.4.1 Foutino..Pepptto. -

This Annuai Environmental Operating Report was prepared to meet the reporting recprements of- EPP Subsection 5.4.1 for the period frca August 29, 1991,-through Inyust 28, 1992. Sunmarios and analyses of the results - of nonitoring programs, including ccmparisons with related properitoneal studies, ,

operational controls, and previous reports are presented in Section l 4.2 above. Durinr3 the period of this report thoro were no I indications of significant harmfut effects or evidence of trends to#ard irreversible danage to the environment causally related. to the operation of River Bend Station.

t 5.4.2 Ifontcytino_ReppIp3 - All nonroutine events frcm August 29, 1991, through Angust 28, 1992, that were reportable were identified to other federal, state, or local agencies in accordancc with their ,

reporting requirements in lieu ~ of requirements of EPP Subsection 5.4.2 (see Table 1) . The NRC was provided vitb a epy of each written nonIUJtine report to another- agency.

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DNilGU101TAtuCETtATI!EltE1WLf0Pu1991/92 l TABLE 1 IOMXJTIllE REIORTS 'IO IEERAL NiD STATE i DNIR'teMAL RD7JIRIORY M:21CIES ,

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09-04-91 Letter USEPA RBG-35,519-10-07-91 Letter LDEQ Rbo-35,725

10-07-91 Letter UEEPA RBG-35,728 10-22-91 Letter LDEQ RB0-35,820 11-OS-91 Letter -LDEQ PJG-35,092 11-12-91 Letter LDtQ RBG-35,935

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11-27-91 Letter USACE RBO-36,030 01-02-92 Lutter (Iermit Appl.) LLEQ 0B0- 3 6, "2 01-02-92 Letter (Permit Appl.). USEPA R$G-36,193 01 27-92 Letter U$ EPA RBG-36,326 01-27-92 Letter LDEQ .RBO-36,327-02-07-92 Letter LDEQ Ph1-36,468 02-19292 Letter UFEPA Ebo-36,518~

02-27-92 Letter LDPCC RB0436,55$

03-A3-92 Letter' 'LLEQ R3G-36,608

03 13-92 Letter USEPA RBG-36,609 03-20-92 Letter LDEQ .' RBG-3 6,6 34 l 03-31-92 Letter USEPA TB0-36,690 l-l 0$*26-92 Lvtter LDEQ RbO-36,879-05-26 Letter. USEPA RSG-36,880.

p 06-12-92 Letter LDEQ RBG-36,977 06-12-92 Letter USEPA -

RBG-36,976 07-02-92 Letter LDEQ. RBO-37,108-07-02-92 Lett er USLFA R8G-37,109' i- . .

l 17-92 Letter LDEQ RBG-37,193 1.

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a Agency abbreviations: USEPA - L U. 6. Environmental' Protection Agency (Region VI)

LDEO = Loulatana Depar* ment of Environmental Osality LDPSC a Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections.  ;

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