[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 21 (Wednesday, January 31, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 3496]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-1870]



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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.
[Docket No. 50-3]


Indian Point Unit No. 1; Issuance of Environmental Assessment and 
Finding of No Significant Impact

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) is 
considering the issuance of an order authorizing the decommissioning of 
Indian Point Unit No. 1 (IP-1) that is licensed to Consolidated Edison 
Company of New York, Inc. (Con Edison). The proposed Decommissioning 
Plan involves safe storage (SAFSTOR) of IP-1 until after IP-2 is 
permanently shut down, at which time both units would be decontaminated 
and dismantled. The staff has evaluated the proposed SAFSTOR of IP-1 to 
2013, consistent with the licensee's amended Decommissioning Plan. The 
IP-1 license is being renewed only to October 14, 2006, to be 
consistent with a Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment and 
Opportunity for Hearing which was published in the Federal Register on 
December 31, 1985 in order to put new Technical Specifications for the 
current shutdown condition in place.

Description of Proposed Action

    IP-1 has been shut down since October 31, 1974, and all spent fuel 
has been removed from the reactor and transferred to the IP-1 spent 
fuel storage pools. Approval of the Decommissioning Plan will allow Con 
Edison to retain IP-1 in a SAFSTOR status in accordance with an 
approved Decommissioning Plan. SAFSTOR of IP-1 will allow continued use 
of the site for electric power production by IP-2. A significant 
portion of IP-1 equipment is being used to support IP-2 operations.

Finding of No Significant Impact

    The staff has reviewed the proposed decommissioning relative to the 
requirements given in 10 CFR Part 51. In the SAFSTOR alternative, IP-1 
will be safely stored and subsequently decontaminated to levels that 
permit release of the property to unrestricted use. IP-1 data on 
radionuclide inventories for activation and contamination shows that 
cobalt-60 is the dominant gamma-emitting radionuclide and that an 
initial 378,000 curies of cobalt-60 in the reactor vessel and its 
internals at reactor shutdown will decrease the 2,390 curies by 2013. 
Data on primary system contamination shows that the inventory of 
cobalt-60 will decrease from 198 curies in 1988 to 7 curies in 2013 and 
that cesium-137 will decrease from 23 curies to 13 curies over the same 
period of time. Data on auxiliary systems contamination also shows a 
decrease during the SAFSTOR period. These reductions in radioactivity 
will reduce potential exposures to personnel during final dismantling 
and also may reduce waste volume for disposal.
    Based upon its Environmental Assessment, the staff concluded that 
there are no significant environmental impacts associated with the 
proposed decommissioning and that the proposed decommissioning will not 
have a significant effect on the quality of the human environment. 
Therefore, the Commission has determined, pursuant to 10 CFR 51.31, not 
to prepare an environmental impact statement for the proposed 
decommissioning of IP-1.
    For further details with respect to this action, see: (1) the 
licensee's application for authorization to decommission IP-1, dated 
October 17, 1980, as revised October 13, 1981; July 31, 1986; March 28, 
1988; August 10, 1989; March 28 and July 17, 1990; February 5, April 2, 
July 31, September 20, and October 12, 1993; May 13 and August 11, 
1994; and July 19, 1995; (2) the NRC's Environmental Assessment and 
Finding of No Significant Impact; and (3) the NRC's Safety Evaluation. 
These documents are 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 25th day of January 1996.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Seymour H. Weiss,
Director, Non-Power Reactors and Decommissioning Project Directorate, 
Division of Reactor Program Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 96-1870 Filed 1-30-96; 8:45 am]
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