[Federal Register: January 25, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 17)]
[Notices]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-245, 50-336 and 50-423]
Dominion Nuclear Connecticut, Inc.; Millstone Nuclear Power
Station, Units 1, 2, and 3 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. DPR-21
issued to Dominion Nuclear Connecticut, Inc. (the licensee) for the
Millstone Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1, a permanently shutdown nuclear
facility located in Waterford, Connecticut, and to Facility Operating
License Nos. DPR-65 and NPF-49, issued to Dominion Nuclear Connecticut,
Inc., for operation of the Millstone Nuclear Power Station, Units 2 and
3, located in Waterford, Connecticut. 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 revise the physical protection (security)
related license condition to indicate that the physical security
program plans listed may, rather than do, contain safeguards
information; and change the name of the `Millstone Nuclear Power
Station' to the `Millstone Power Station.'
The proposed action is in accordance with the licensee's
application dated August 8, 2001.
The Need for the Proposed Action
Currently, License Condition 2.C.(4) for Units 1 and 2 and License
Condition 2.E for Unit 3, identifies the plans which describe the NRC
approved program for physical protection of Millstone Units 1, 2, and
3. They are the Millstone Nuclear Power Station Physical Security Plan,
the Millstone Nuclear Power Station Suitability, Training, and
Qualification Plan, and the Millstone Nuclear Power Station Safeguards
Contingency Plan. License Conditions 2.C.(4) and 2.E also indicate that
the plans contain safeguards information protected under 10 CFR 73.21.
However, Revision 15 to the Millstone Nuclear Power Station
Suitability, Training, and Qualification Plan removed safeguards
information to allow declassification of the document. The proposed
revision to the license conditions would allow declassification of the
document. Additionally, the licensee also proposed the deletion of the
word ``Nuclear'' from the title of the physical security program plans
listed under the security related license condition and when it is used
in the phrase ``Millstone Nuclear Power Station'' elsewhere in the
operating license. This change is purely administrative and does not
alter any regulatory requirements or commitments made by the licensee.
Environmental Impacts of the Proposed Action
The NRC has completed its evaluation of the proposed action and
concludes that the issuance of the proposed amendment will not have an
environmental impact. The proposed changes to the licenses are
considered editorial or administrative in nature. The licensee does not
propose any changes to structures, systems, components, site boundaries
or operational practices.
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 Millstone Nuclear Power Station.
Agencies and Persons Consulted
On December 12, 2001, the staff consulted with the State of
Connecticut official, Mr. Michael Firsick of the Connecticut 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 August 8, 2001. 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 ADAMS Public Library component on the NRC Web
site,
http://www.nrc.gov (the Public Electronic Reading Room). 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 at
pdr@nrc.gov.
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For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day of January 2002.
Stephen Dembek,
Chief, Section 2, Project Directorate IV, Division of Licensing Project
Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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