[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 127 (Monday, July 3, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34560-34561]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-16247]



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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-272]


Public Service Electric and Gas; Environmental Assessment and 
Finding of No Significant Impact

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) is 
considering issuance of an exemption from Facility Operating License 
No. DPR-70, issued to the Public Service and Gas Company, (the 
licensee) for the Salem Nuclear Generating Station, Unit 1. The plant 
is located at the licensee's site in Salem County, New Jersey.

Environmental Assessment

Identification of Proposed Action

    The proposed action would grant an exemption from a requirement of 
Section III.D.1.(a) of appendix J to 10 CFR part 50, which requires a 
set of three Type A tests (Containment 

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Integrated Leakage Rate Test or CILRT) be performed at approximately 
equal intervals during each 10-year service period. The licensee's 
request for an exemption would defer the next scheduled CILRT for one 
outage, from Refuel 12 to Refuel 13.
    The proposed action is in accordance with the licensee's request 
for exemption dated April 4, 1995.

The Need for the Proposed Action

    The proposed action is needed because the licensee's current 
schedule would require a CILRT to be performed during Refuel 12 
(September 1995). Minimal safety benefit would be realized by 
performing the scheduled CILRT, since the majority of primary 
containment leakage has previously been identified through the 
performance of the Local Leak Rate Tests (LLRT). Without the exemption, 
the licensee would incur additional cost and downtime of the unit.

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed Action

    The Commission has completed its evaluation of the proposed action 
and concludes that the proposed exemption would not significantly 
increase the probability or amount of expected containment leakage, and 
that containment integrity would thus be maintained.
    The change will not increase the probability or consequences of 
accidents, no changes are being made in the types of any effluents that 
may be released offsite, and there is no significant increase in the 
allowable individual or cumulative occupational radiation exposure. 
Accordingly, the Commission concludes that there are no significant 
radiological environmental impacts associated with the proposed action.
    With regard to potential nonradiological impacts, the proposed 
action does involve features located entirely within the restricted 
area as defined in 10 CFR part 20. It does not affect nonradiological 
plant effluents and has no other environmental impact. Accordingly, the 
Commission concludes that there are no significant nonradiological 
environmental impacts associated with the proposed action.

Alternative to the Proposed Action

    Since the Commission has concluded there is no measurable 
environmental impacts associated with the proposed action, any 
alternatives with equal or greater environmental impact need not be 
evaluated. As an alternative to the proposed action, the staff 
considered denial of the proposed action. 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

    This action does not involve the use of any resources not 
previously considered in the ``Final Environmental Statement related to 
the operation of Salem Nuclear Generating Station,'' dated April 1973.

Agencies and Persons Consulted

    In accordance with its stated policy, on May 31, 1995, the NRC 
staff consulted with the New Jersey State official, Mr. Dennis Zannoni 
of the Department of Environmental Protection regarding the 
environmental impact of the proposed action. The State official had no 
comments.

Finding of No Significant Impact

    Based upon the environmental assessment, the Commission concludes 
that the proposed action will not have a significant effect on the 
quality of the human environment. Accordingly, the Commission has 
determined not to prepare an environmental impact statement for the 
proposed action.
    For further details with respect to this proposed action, see the 
licensee's letter dated April 4, 1995, which is available for public 
inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, The Gelman 
Building, 2120 L Street NW., Washington, DC and at the local public 
document room located at the Salem Free Public Library, 112 West 
Broadway, Salem, NJ 08079.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 27th day of June 1995.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John F. Stolz,
Director, Project Directorate I-2, Division of Reactor Projects--I/II, 
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 95-16247 Filed 6-30-95; 8:45 am]
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