[Federal Register: April 25, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 80)]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-272 AND 50-311]

 
PSEG Nuclear, LLC; Salem Nuclear Generating Station, Unit Nos. 1 
and 2; Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering the issuance 
of amendments to Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-70 and DPR-75, 
issued to PSEG Nuclear, LLC (the licensee), for operation of the Salem 
Nuclear Generating Station (Salem), Unit Nos. 1 and 2, located in Salem 
County, New Jersey. Therefore, as required by Title 10 of the Code of 
Federal Regulations (10 CFR) section 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 allow the licensee to make various 
administrative and editorial changes to the Salem Technical 
Specifications (TSs) in accordance with the licensee's application 
dated January 29, 2003.

The Need for the Proposed Action

    The proposed action would correct administrative and editorial 
errors to the Salem TSs.

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 administrative and editorial 
changes to the Salem TSs.
    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 resource than 
those previously considered in the Final Environmental Statement 
related to operation of Salem Nuclear Generating Station, Units 1 and 
2, dated April 1973.

Agencies and Persons Consulted

    On March 26, 2003, the staff consulted with the New Jersey State 
official, Mr. Dennis Zannoni of the New Jersey Department of 
Environmental Protection, regarding the environmental impact of the 
proposed action. The State official had no comments.

Finding of No Significant Impact

    On the basis of the 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 January 29, 2003. Documents may be examined, 
and/or copied for a fee, at the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR), 
located at One White Flint North, Public File Area O1 F21, 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's PDR reference staff by telephone at 1-800-397-4209 or 301-
415-4737, or by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov.    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 17th day of April, 2003.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
James W. Clifford,
Chief, Section 2, Project Directorate I, Division of Licensing Project 
Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 03-10239 Filed 4-24-03; 8:45 am]

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