[Federal Register: September 5, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 172)]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-269, 50-270, and 50-287]
Duke Energy Corp.; Oconee Nuclear 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 amendments to Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-
38, DPR-47, and DPR-55, issued to Duke Energy Corporation (the
licensee), for operation of Oconee Nuclear Station, Units 1, 2, and 3,
located in Seneca, South Carolina. 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 is administrative in nature and would
incorporate several editorial changes in the Technical Specifications.
The proposed action is in accordance with the licensee's
application dated July 11, 2002.
The Need for the Proposed Action
The proposed action corrects several errors in the Technical
Specifications.
Environmental Impacts of the Proposed Action
The NRC has completed its evaluation of the proposed action and
concludes that there are no environmental impacts.
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 Oconee Nuclear Station, Units 1, 2, and 3 dated March 1972 and the
Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (NUREG-1437,
Supplement 2), dated December 9, 1999.
Agencies and Persons Consulted
On August 7, 2002, the staff consulted with the South Carolina
State official, Mr. Henry Porter of the Division of Waste Management,
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 July 11, 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 29th day of August 2002.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Leonard N. Olshan,
Project Manager, Section 1, Project Directorate II-1, Division of
Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 02-22597 Filed 9-4-02; 8:45 am]
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