ML19210D947

Responds to 781011 Request for Opinion Re Type of Condenser Cooling Acceptable for Large Nuclear Facility.Technology Other than once-through Cooling Required for Facility to Receive State Water Quality Permit

ML19210D947
Person / Time
Site:	Perkins
Issue date:	10/19/1978
From:	Benton L NORTH CAROLINA, STATE OF
To:	Barth C NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE LEGAL DIRECTOR (OELD)
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ch Norh oroino Jeoartmen o. 4a ura Em i igJf Resources & 'omrhunity Jeveooment James 3. Hunt, Jr . Goverto e I h: :rd .N Le< . Set.+rv DIVISION OF ENVIRONMENTAL PANAGEMENT Environmental Operaticns Secticn October 19, 1973 Mr. Charles A. Barth Counsel for NRC Staff

) f7ynp U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissicn II / ,

n'a shi ng ton , D. C. 20555

Dear Mr. Barth:

Your letter of October 11, 1973 to Mr. William A. Raney, Jr. ccncerning condenser cooling has been referred to me for response.

You asked the view o' 'ha Stats of North Carolina "as to what tvpe of con-denseEccoling woula' be acceptable for a nuclear facility cf the size of Perkins to be constructed in the future and to come on line af ter July .1,1983."

In view of the remand of the EPA regulaticas concerning thernal discharges by the U. S. Court of Appeals, North Carolina has no effluent lirits for thermal discharges from steam electric plants.

For this reason the effluent limits for thermal discharges from such plants would be based on the mainter.ance of water cuality standards for the receiving waters. Temperature standarcs for North Carolina waters are found in 15 N.C. Administrative Code 23 .0211(c) (3) (J),

23 .0211(d) (3) (H), and 23 .0211(e) (3) (F). -

Othe than the Atlantic Ocean, I knew cf no ecdy of water in horth Carolina that cculd be usec for cnce through cccling of a 4CCC MWe facilit without causing a violation of water cuality s tandards for temperature. Therefore, it is my ,

,coinion tnat some tecnnelogy cther than ence through 'coolir.g would b,e recuired in creer for such a facility to receive a Ncrth Carolina water quality pernit.

Very truly yours ,

Original S's,-d 03 L. P. SENTON, JR. J4}4 7g L. P. Senten, Cr.ief ,,si(,m Environmental Cpeations r. '

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