ML102950271

10/05-07/2010-Summary of Site Audit Related to the Review of the License Renewal Application for Seabrook Station, Unit 1 (TAC No. ME3959)

ML102950271
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Site:	Seabrook
Issue date:	11/10/2010
From:	Susco J J Division of License Renewal
To:	NextEra Energy Seabrook
SUSCO, J NRR/DLR 415-2927
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TAC ME3959
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NextEra Energy Seabrook , LLC FAC ILI TY: Seabrook Station

SUMMARY

OF SITE AUDIT RELATED TO THE REVIEW OF THE LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION F OR SEABROOK STATION, UNIT 1 (TAC NO. M E3959) From October 5-7,2010, a review team consisting of staff from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the staff) and contractors from Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) participated in a site audit at Seabrook Station related to the e nvironm ental review of the Seabrook Stat ion license renewal application.

The primary goal of the site visit was to review documentation , gather information to ensure that the environmenta l requirements of licen se renewal as codified in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 51 (10 CFR Part 51) were met, and to interface with officials in Federal, State , and local government agencies to obtain related informati on. En c losure 1 is a li st of representatives from NRC , ANL, New Hampshire (NH) State agencies, other Federal agencies, and NextEra Energy Seabrook, LLC (N extEra) who participated in the site audit. The audit began on October 5, 2010, with a k i ckoff meeting to introduce participants and to discuss logi stics of the audit. Following the kickoff m eet ing, the env ironmental review team participated in a general site tour of Seabrook Stat i on with NextEra staff. The general s it e tour provided an ecological overview of the site and focused on areas relevant to the environmental review. During the remainder of the s i te audit , the environmenta l rev i e w team examined data used by Next Era in preparation of the Environmental Report and met in smaller groups with NextEra repr esen tatives with corresponding environmental expertise.

Th ese groups partic i pated in variou s activities, in cluding tour s of onsite National Pollutant Discharge Elimination Systempermitted outfa ll s; circulating water systems; in-scope transm i s sion line rights-of-w ay; radioactive waste proce ss ing and storage areas; meteo r o logical towers and monitoring equ i pment; and Title V-permitted air emission po i nts. The environmental review team also met onsite with officials from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Division, the NH Depart men t of Environmental Services , the NH Division of Historical Resources , th e NH Div i sion of Public Health , the NH Fish and Game Department, and the NH Natural Heritage Bureau. Information gathered through particip ation of these agencies will assist the environmenta l review team i n its evaluat i on. In addit i on , the team reviewed NextEra's process for identifying new and significant information (information that would challenge the generic conclusions reached in the Generic Env i ronmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants , NUREG-1437).

N extE ra cited no new and significant information, and the team's independent r eview during the course of the site audit did not i dentify any either. At the conclusion of the site audit, the environmental review team summarized the status of the review with NextEra representatives.

Most of the team's questions were answered through the conduct of the audit. Those that were not will be answered by NextEra, as it responds to the team's request for additional information (RAI) letter (ADAMS accession number ML 102861217).

Enclosure 2 is a table of documents requested by the team during the site audit and provided by NextEra to assist the team i n its review. These documents will be made publically available in the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (AD AMS) at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.

Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who encounter problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS should contact the NRC's Public Document Room staff at 800-397-4209 (or 301-415-4737) or bye-mail at pdr.resource@nrc.gov.

While the NRC review team did not identify any significant issues during its site audit or during the meetings with other participants , the team indicated that the environmenta l review was ongoing and that any add iti ona l information necessary to support the review would be formally requested. Docket No. 50-443 Enclosures

As stated cc w/encls: Distribution via Listserv Jeremy Susco, Project Manager Projects Branch 1 Div i sion of License Renewal Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation NAME Briana Ba l sam April BeBa ult Paul a Cooper K e vin Folk Andy Imboden Stephen Klem e ntowicz D e nni s Lo ga n Mich e ll e Mo se r Bill Rautzen J effre y Rikhoff Jeremy Susco Alli so n Tr ave rs Brooke Traynham Young-Soo Chang Ron Kolpa Bill M e tz Dan O'Rourke John Quinn Sarah Burnum Ed Carle Tom Casey Rick Cl i che Sarah Cloutman Gebo Mike Collins Paul Fr eema n AI L egendre Ed M e tcalf Bill M e y e r Mik e O'Keefe M arty Peters David Robinson Peter Tutinas Paul Willoughby H e rb Giorgio Steven Dort J enna Flynn LIST OF PARTICIPANTS SEABROOK STATION LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION REVIEW ENVIRONMENTAL SITE AUDIT October 5-7 , 2010 ORGANIZATION U.S. Nuclear Regulatory CommisSion (NRC) NRC NRC NRC NRC NRC NRC NRC NRC NRC NRC NRC NRC Argonne Nationa l L aborator y (ANL) ANL ANL ANL ANL NextEra Energy Seabrook , LLC (NextEra)

NextEra NextEra NextEra NextEra NextEra NextEra NextEra NextEra NextEra NextEra NextEra NextEra NextE r a NextEra NextEra Energy Duane Arnold , LLC FirstEnergy National Ocean i c and Atmospheric Admin i st r ation , Fisheries ENCLOSURE 1

Br i an Valimont Christian Williams Tanya Krajcik Dennis O'Dowd Bruce Smith Melissa Coppola T i m Cooper Fred Polask i Laura Games Kurt Nelson W i lliam Temple Kathleen Yhip Kristi Hagood Phi l ip Moore Karen Patterson New England Archaeology New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services New Hampshire Division of Histor i cal Resources New Hampshire Division of Public Health Services New Hampshire Fish and Game Department New Hampshire Natural Heritage Bureau Northeast Utilities Polaski Consulting , LLC Public Service of New Hampshire (PSNH) PSNH PSNH Southern California Edison TetraTech NUS TetraTech NUS TetraTech NUS References Requested for Submittal at the Seabrook Station Environmental Site Audit October 5-7,2010 Meteorology and Air Quality Seabrook Station, Design Basis Document, Meteorological Monitoring System , DBD-MET -01 , Revision 2, January 7 , 2010. FPL Company -New England Division, 345 kV Seabrook Transmission Substation SF6 Emissions Reduction Partnership for Electric Power Systems, Annual Reports for 2005-2009.

NHDES, Stage 1111 Gasoline Vapor Recovery System, Certificate of Compliance , March 20 , 2008. NHDES, Title V Operating Permit , TV-OP-017 , Issued June 5, 2006. NHDES, Issuance of General State Permit: GSP-EG-225 , Issued July 2, 2008. Letter of Deficiency for the Title V air permit issued by New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services in 2010 and any subsequent related correspondence Aquatic Ecology ARCADIS et. al. (ARCADIS , Normandeau Associates Inc., Wayne C. Micheletti , I nc., and Harris Group, Inc.). 2008. Cooling Water Intake Structure information Document.

Prepared for FPL Energy Seabrook , L L C. July 2008. (Note that Appendix F is privileged and confidential.

If the NextEra fee l s it i s appropriate, you can request that this appendix be non-public by filling out an affidavit under 10 CFR 2.390.) F l orida Power and Light (FPL). 2006. Seabrook Station NPDES Permit NH0020338 Renewal Application.

September 2006. (Please include cover letter and Clean Water Act Section 316(a) and (b) certifications.)

NAI (Normandeau Associates , Inc.). 1988. Seabrook Environmental Studies , 1987. A Characterization of Baseline in the Hampton-Seabrook Area, 1975-1987. A preoperational study for Seabrook Station Technical Report XIX-I I. Prepared for NH Yankee Division Public Serv i ce Comr:>any of New Hampsh i re. November 1988. NAI (Normandeau Associates Inc.). 1991. Seabrook Station 1990 Environmental Stud i es in the Hampton -Seabrook Area: A Characterization of Environmental Conditions.

NAI (Normandeau Associates Inc.). 1994. Seabrook Station 1993 Environmental Studies i n the Hampton -Seabrook Area: A Characterization of Environmental Conditions.

Prepared for North Atlantic Energy Service Corporation. NAI (Normandeau Associates Inc.). 1995. Seabrook Station 1994 Environmenta l Monitoring in the Hampton -Seabrook Area: A Characterization of Environmental Conditions. Prepared for North Atlantic Energy Service Corporation.

NAI (Normandeau Associates , Inc.). 1997. Seabrook Station 1996 Environmenta l Mon i toring in the Hampton-Seabrook Area: A Characterization of Environmental Conditions.

NAI (Normandeau Associates Inc.). 2001. Seabrook Station Essential Fish Habitat Assessment.

R-18900.009. Prepared for North At l antic Energy Service Corporation.

NAI (Normandeau Associates, Inc.). 2008. Seabrook Station 2007 Environmenta l Monitoring in the Hampton-Seabrook Area: A Characterization of Environmental Conditions.

Prepared for FPL Energy Seabrook Station. NAI (Normandeau Associates, Inc.). 2010. Seabrook Station 2009 Environmenta l Monitoring in the Hampton-Seabrook Area: A Characterization of Environmental Conditions.

Prepared for FPL Energy Seabrook Station. NAI (Normandeau Associates, Inc.). 2010. Seabrook Station 2010 Environmental Monitoring Program Mid-Year Report. NAI and ARCADIS. (Normandeau Associates, Inc. and ARCADIS). 2008. Seabrook Nuclear Power Station EPA 316(b) Phase II Rule Project , Revised Proposal for Information Collection. ENCLOSURE 2

Section 7.0. Prepared for FPL Energy Seabrook Station. June 2008. NAI (Normandeau Associates, Inc.) and BBL (Blasland Bouck and Lee). 2006. Seabrook Nuclear Power Station EPA 316(b) Phase II Rule Project Proposal for Information Collection. Prepared for FPL Energy Seabrook Station. Bedford , New Hampshire, Normandeau Associates. May 2006. (Please also include associated letter to EPA dated May 4 , 2006.) NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service).

2004. Letter From L. Allen, Office of Protected Resources to A. Legendre , FPL Energy Seabrook Station Regarding Withdrawal of Application for I ncidenta l Take Authorization. May 7 , 2004. Padmanabhan M and Hecker GE. 1991. Comparative evaluation of hydraulic mode l and field thermal plume data Seabrook Nuclear Station. Alden Research Laboratory , Inc. Sponsored by New Hampsh i re Yankee Division of Public Service Company of New Hampshire.

Seabrook Station. 2010. Bivalve Larvae Entrainment Sampling.

ZN1120.02, Rev.OO , Chg. 03. Regulatory Compliance Procedure.

Seabrook Station. 2010. Icthyop l ankton Entrainment Sampling. ZN 1120.01, Rev.01 , Chg. 03. Regulatory Comp li ance Procedure. Hydrology Seabrook , 2010 , Environmental Reclamation of 32 Acres behind General Off i ce Building , Rev. 1 , Ma r ch 23 Radiation Safety & Control Services , Inc. (RSCS), 2009a , Site Conceptual Ground Water Model for Seabrook Station , Rev. 01, TSD #09-019, June 9 Radiation Safety & Control Services , Inc. (RSCS), 2009b , Tr i tium Distribution and Ground Water Flow at Seabrook Station, Rev. 00, TSD #09-039, August 31 NextEra Energy Seabrook, LLC, 2009 , Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan for NextEra Energy Seabrook, Rev. 41, July 1 NHDES , 2010 , NPDES Compliance Evaluation Inspection for NPDES Permit No. NH0020338 , letter from P. He i rtzler , Wastewater Engineering Bureau , to A. Legendre , NextEra Energy Seabrook LLC, Ju l y 20 NHDES , 2010, NPDES Compliance Evaluation Inspection for NPDES Permit No. NH0020338 , letter from P. He i rtzler , Wastewater Engineering Bureau, to A. Legendre, NextEra Energy Seabrook LLC , June 1 5 NextEra Energy Seabrook, 2010, Response to Letter of Deficiency

-NPDES Comp li ance Evaluation Inspect i on , letter from M. O'Keefe, Licensing Manager, to State of New Hampshire , Department of Env i ronmental Services, July 15 Well completion data and elevation data for wells TW-1 , TW-2, and TW-3 and the recent SW-series we ll s (circa 2009 and 2010) Current illustrations of tritium data (plume) and groundwater elevation contours in surfic i al and bedrock aquifers , September 2010 (prepared by RSCS) USEPA letter regarding timely and complete NPDES permit renewal application (circa 2006) Discharge Monitoring Reports (DMRs) for the last 12 months , as submitted to the USEPA per NPDES Permit #NH0101303 Archaeological and Cultural Resources Seabrook Station Program Manual , Environmental Compliance Manual, Rev. 4 1 (NAEC) the appendices Draft Cultural Resources Protection Plan (and fina l when available)

Cultural Resources Management Plan, Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant , Seabrook and Hampton Fa ll s , New Hampshire, May 2010 by Brian Valimont, New England Archaeology Co., LLC Socioeconomics V i sitor center attendance for the last three years Emergency preparedness fees for the last three years Mill rates and education takes for the l ast three ears raisal value of Seabrook Station for the last three ears At the conclusion of the site audit, the environmental review team summarized the status of the review with NextEra representative

s. Most of the team's questions were answered through conduct of the audit. Those that were not will be answered by Next Era , as it responds to the team's request for additional information (RAI) letter (ADAMS accession number ML 102861217). Enclosure 2 is a table of documents requested by the team during the site audit and provided by NextEra to assist the team in its review. These documents will be made publically available in the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.

Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who encounter problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS should contact the NRC's Public Document Room staff at 800-397-4209 (or 301-415-4737) or bye-mail at pdr.resource@nrc.gov.

While the NRC review team did not identify any significant issues during its site audit or during the meetings with other participants, the team indicated that the environmenta l review was ongoing and that any additional information necessary to support the review would be formally requested.

Docket No. 50-443 Enclosures

As stated cc w/encls: Distr i bution via Listserv DISTRIBUTION:

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