[Federal Register: July 12, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 134)]
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-237 and 50-249]
Exelon Generation Company, LLC; Dresden Nuclear Power Station,
Units 2 and 3, Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant
Impact
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering
issuance of an exemption from Title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR) part 55, section 55(c) for Facility Operating
License Nos. DPR-19 and DPR-25, issued to Exelon Generation Company,
LLC (the licensee), for operation of the Dresden Nuclear Power Station,
Units 2 and 3 (Dresden), located in Morris, Illinois. Therefore, as
required by 10 CFR 51.21, the NRC is issuing this environmental
assessment and finding of no significant impact.
Environmental Assessment
Identification of the Proposed Action
The proposed action would exempt the licensee on a one-time-only
basis from the two-year requirement of 10 CFR 55.59(c) for conducting a
comprehensive licensed operator requalification written examination at
Dresden.
The proposed action is in accordance with the licensee's
application for exemption dated July 2, 2002, as supplemented by letter
dated July 8, 2002.
The Need for the Proposed Action
The proposed action would extend the date for the licensee to
complete the licensed operator requalification comprehensive written
examinations at Dresden. The proposed action would extend the date for
completing the examinations to August 2, 2002, (extending the
examination schedule to 30 months rather than the 24 months required by
10 CFR 55.59(c)). The need for this proposed action arose due to the
licensee erroneously scheduling the written examinations at an interval
greater than the required 24 months.
Environmental Impacts of the Proposed Action
The NRC has completed its evaluation of the proposed action and
concludes, as set forth below, that there are no significant
environmental impacts associated with the extension of the operator
requalification examinations to August 2, 2002.
The proposed action will not significantly increase the probability
or consequences of accidents, no changes are being made in the types of
effluents that may be released off site, and there is no significant
increase in occupational or public radiation exposure. Therefore, there
are no significant radiological environmental impacts associated with
the proposed action.
With regard to potential nonradiological impacts, the proposed
action does not have a potential to affect any historic sites. It does
not affect nonradiological plant effluents and has no other
environmental impact. Therefore, there are no significant
nonradiological environmental impacts associated with the proposed
action.
Accordingly, the NRC concludes that there are no significant
environmental impacts associated with the proposed action.
Environmental Impacts of the Alternatives to the Proposed Action
As an alternative to the proposed action, the staff considered
denial of the proposed action (i.e., the ``no-action'' alternative).
Denial of the application would result in no change in current
environmental impacts. The environmental impacts of the proposed action
and the alternative action are similar.
Alternative Use of Resources:
The action does not involve the use of any different resources than
those previously considered in the Final Environmental Statement for
Dresden, dated November 1973.
Agencies and Persons Consulted
On July 8, 2002, the staff consulted with the Illinois State
official, Frank Niziolek of the Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety,
regarding the environmental impact of the proposed action. The State
official had no comments.
Finding of No Significant Impact
On the basis of this environmental assessment, the NRC concludes
that the proposed action will not have a significant effect on the
quality of the human environment. Accordingly, the NRC has determined
not to prepare an environmental impact statement for the proposed
action.
For further details with respect to the proposed action, see the
licensee's letter dated July 2, 2002, as supplemented by letter dated
July 8, 2002. Documents may be examined, and/or copied for a fee, at
the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint North,
11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland. Publicly
available records will be accessible electronically from the Agencywide
Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Public Electronic
Reading Room on the internet at the NRC Web site, 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 PDR Reference staff by telephone at 1-800-397-4209 or
301-415-4737, or by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day of July, 2002.
Jon B. Hopkins,
Acting Chief, Section 2, Project Directorate III, Division of Licensing
Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 02-17650 Filed 7-11-02; 8:45 am]
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