[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 181 (Tuesday, September 19, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48528-48529]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-23177]



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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-286]


Power Authority of the State of New York; Indian Point Nuclear 
Generating Unit No. 3 Environmental Assessment and Finding of No 
Significant Impact

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) is 
considering issuance of a one time schedular exemption from the 
requirements of 10 CFR 50.71(e)(4) for the submittal of the periodic 
Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR) update from Facility Operating 
License No. DPR-64, issued to the Power Authority of the State of New 
York (the licensee) for the Indian Point Nuclear Generating Unit No. 3 
(IP3), located at the licensee's site in Westchester County, New York.

Environmental Assessment

Identification of the Proposed Action

    The proposed schedular exemption would reschedule the required FSAR 
update from July 22, 1995, to December 27, 1995 (i.e. 6 months after 
restart from the extended shutdown). Title 10 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations (10 CFR), 10 CFR 50.71(e)(4) requires that FSAR revisions 
must be submitted annually or 6 months after a refueling outage 
provided the interval between updates does not exceed 2 years. In 
addition, 10 CFR 50.54(a)(3) requires that changes to the quality 
assurance program description that do not reduce commitments must be 
submitted to the NRC in accordance with the FSAR update requirements of 
10 CFR 50.71(e).
    The licensee shut down IP3 in February 1993 for a performance 
improvement outage. The plant was recently restarted on June 27, 1995. 
Although this extended shutdown was not a refueling outage, the number 
of facility changes made by the licensee during the shutdown equates it 
to one. As such, a one time FSAR update schedular exemption would 
enable the licensee to include most of the modifications, technical 
specifications amendments, and other changes completed during the 
extended shutdown in the next FSAR update.
    The proposed action is in accordance with the licensee's 
application for exemption dated June 20, 1995.

The Need for the Proposed Action

    The proposed schedular exemption is needed to permit the licensee 
to include most of the modifications, technical specifications 
amendments, and other changes completed during the extended shutdown in 
the next FSAR update. 

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Literal compliance with the FSAR update schedule of 10 CFR 50.71(e)(4) 
would result in an FSAR update which would be incomplete and not 
adequately reflect the actual design of the facility.

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed Action

    The proposed action to allow the licensee an additional 6 months to 
update the IP3 FSAR is administrative in nature. The Commission has 
completed its evaluation of the proposed action and concludes that the 
probability or consequences of accidents will not increase, 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 is administrative in nature and involves 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.

Alternatives to the Proposed Action

    Since the Commission has concluded there is no measurable 
environmental impact associated with the proposed action, any 
alternatives with equal or greater environmental impact need not be 
evaluated. However, 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 
considered are the same.

Alternative Use of Resources

    This action does not involve the use of any resources not 
previously considered in the ``Final Environmental Statement for the 
Indian Point Nuclear Generating Station Unit No. 3,'' dated February 
1975.

Agencies and Persons Consulted

    In accordance with its stated policy, on August 17, 1995, the staff 
consulted with the New York State official, Jack Spath of the New York 
State Energy Research and Development Authority, 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 the proposed action, see the 
licensee's letter dated June 20, 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 White Plains 
Public Library, 100 Martine Avenue, White Plains, New York.


    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th day of September 1995.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Ledyard B. Marsh,
Director, Project Directorate I-1, Division of Reactor Projects--I/II, 
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 95-23177 Filed 9-18-95; 8:45 am]
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