ML082260169

Comments from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Draft Supplement 35 to NUREG-1437, Draft SEIS for License Renewal of Susquehanna Steam Electric Station

ML082260169
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Site:	Susquehanna
Issue date:	07/21/2008
From:	Chezik M T, Darby V US Dept of Interior, Fish & Wildlife Service
To:	NRC/NRR/ADRO/DLR
References
ER 08/0449, NUREG-1437, TAC MD3021, TAC MD3022
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Please accept the attached (215) 597-5378.ValinciaDarby@ios.doi.gov Monday, July 21, 2008 12:35 PM SusquehannaEIS Resource DaveDensmore@fws.gov Comments on Susquehanna Steam Electric Station DEIS ER 08/449 er08-449.pdf DOI comments on the subject DEIS. If there are questions you may contact this office at Thank you Valincia Darby Regional Environmental Protection Assistant U.S. Department of the Interior, OEPC 200 Chestnut Street, Rm. 244 Philadelphia, PA 19106 Phone: (215) 597-5378 Fax: (215) 597-9845 Valincia 1

IN RE%0United States Department of the Interior OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 7"-' f/Office of Environmental Policy and Compliance TAKE PRIDE Custom House, Room 244 INAMERICA 200 Chestnut Street PLY REFER TO: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-2904 July 21, 2008 ER 08/0449 Chief, Rulemaking, Directives and Editing Branch U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Mail Stop T6-D59 Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 Re: Draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, Supplement 35, Susquehanna Steam Electric Station(SSES), Units 1 and 2, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania (NUREG- 1437)

Dear Sir/Madam:

The Department of the Interior has reviewed the subject document.

Please consider these comments carefully before proceeding to a final Environmental Impact Statement.

Chapter 4, Environmental Impacts of Operation, relies heavily on the GEIS in its analysis.

For many of the issues discussed in this chapter, the following sentences constitute the only analysis: "The NRC staff has not identified any new and significant information during its independent review of the SSES ER, or the site audit, the scoping process, and evaluation of other available information, such as the EA that evaluated impacts.....

Therefore, the NRC staff concludes that there would be no impacts of [plant operation on the issue] during the renewal term beyond those discussed in the GEIS." This text does not assure the reader that the preparers of the SSES ER, site audit, scoping process, EA, or other available information actually evaluated the issue and found no impacts. For example, when these sentences are inserted under the issue entitled"Premature Emergence of Aquatic Insects," the reader cannot know whether premature emergence of aquatic insects has ever been studied in the vicinity of the SSES. The document should clarify this discussion for each issue.Thank you for the opportunity to comment. If you have any questions regarding our response, please contact the Fish and Wildlife Service's Pennsylvania Field Office at 814-234-4090.

Sincerely, Michael Chezik Regional Environmental Officer D. Densmore, FWS, State College, PA