[Federal Register: April 3, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 64)]
[Notices]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-443]
North Atlantic Energy Service Corporation, Seabrook Station, Unit
No. 1; Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering
issuance of an amendment to Facility Operating License No. NPF-86,
issued to North Atlantic Energy Service Corporation (the licensee), for
operation of the Seabrook Station, Unit No. 1, located in Rockingham
County, New Hampshire. Therefore, as required by 10
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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 make administrative changes to Technical
Specification Sections 1.9, Core Alteration; 1.14, Engineered Safety
Features Response Time; and 1.29, Reactor Trip Response Time.
The proposed action is in accordance with the licensee's
application dated August 6, 2001, as supplemented by letters dated
November 2, 2001, and February 1, 2002.
The Need for the Proposed Action
The proposed action will allow the licensee to implement Technical
Specification changes to support refueling outage 08, currently
scheduled for spring 2002.
Environmental Impacts of the Proposed Action
The NRC has completed its evaluation of the proposed action and
concludes that it has no environmental impact.
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 for
the Seabrook Station, Unit No. 1, dated December 1982.
Agencies and Persons Consulted
On February 13, 2001, the staff consulted with the New Hampshire
State official, Mike Nawoj, of the New Hampshire Office of Emergency
Management, and on February 19, 2002, the staff consulted with the
Massachusetts State official, James Muckerheid, of the Massachusetts
Emergency Management Agency, regarding the environmental impact of the
proposed action. The State officials 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 August 6, 2001, as supplemented by letters
dated November 2, 2001, and February 1, 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.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 27th day of March 2002.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
George F. Wunder,
Project Manager, Section 2 Project Directorate I, Division of Licensing
Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 02-8038 Filed 4-2-02; 8:45 am]
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