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Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants Regarding Point Beach Nuclear Plant Units 1 and 2(NUREG-1437, Supplement 23) Final ReportOn this page: Download complete document The following links on this page are to documents in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). See our Plugins, Viewers, and Other Tools page for more information. For successful viewing of PDF documents on our site please be sure to use the latest version of Adobe.
Publication InformationManuscript Completed: July 2005 Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs AbstractThe U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) considered the environmental
impacts of
renewing nuclear power plant operating licenses (OLs) for a 20-year period
in its Generic
Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants
(GEIS), NUREG-1 437,
Volumes 1 and 2, and codified the results in Title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations (CFR)
Part 51. In the GEIS (and its Addendum 1), the staff identifies 92 environmental
issues and This supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) has been prepared in response to an application submitted to the NRC by the Nuclear Management Company, LLC (NMC), on behalf of the owner, the Wisconsin Electric Power Company (WEPCO), to renew the OLs for Point Beach Nuclear Plant Units 1 and 2 (PBNP) for an additional 20 years under 10 CFR Part 54. This SEIS includes the NRC staff's analysis that considers and weighs the environmental impacts of the proposed action, the environmental impacts of alternatives to the proposed action, and mitigation measures available for reducing or avoiding adverse impacts. It also includes the staff's recommendation regarding the proposed action. Regarding the 69 issues for which the GEIS reached generic conclusions,
neither NMC nor the
staff has identified information that is both new and significant for
any issue that applies to
PBNP. In addition, the staff determined that information provided during
the scoping and the
draft SEIS comment processes did not call into question the conclusions
in the GEIS.
Therefore, the staff concludes that the impacts of renewing the PBNP
OLs would not be greater
than impacts identified for these issues in the GEIS. For each of these
issues, the staff's Regarding the remaining 23 issues, those that apply to PBNP are addressed in this SEIS. With the exception of the chronic effects of electromagnetic fields (for which the magnitude of impact is uncertain"), for each applicable issue, the staff concludes that the significance of the potential environmental impacts of renewal of the OLs would be SMALL. The staff also concludes that additional mitigation measures are not likely to be sufficiently beneficial as to be (a) Environmental impacts are not detectable or are so minor that they would neither destabilize nor noticeably alter any important attribute of the resource. August 2005 ... , NUREG-1437, Supplement 23 Abstract warranted. The staff determined that information provided during the public comment period I did not identify any new issue that requires site-specific assessment. The NRC staff's recommendation is that the Commission determine that the adverse I environmental impacts of license renewal for PBNP would not be so great that preserving the option of license renewal for energy-planning decisionmakers would be unreasonable. This recommendation is based on (1) the analysis and findings in the GEIS; (2) the Environmental Report submitted by NMC; (3) consultation with Federal, State, and local agencies; (4) the I staff's own independent review; and (5) the staff's consideration of public comments. (a) Environmental impacts are not detectable or are so minor that they will neither destabilize nor noticeably alter any important attribute of the resource. |
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