[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 128 (Monday, July 6, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 36453]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-17774]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-22]


Westinghouse Electric Corporation (CBS Corporation) Westinghouse 
Test Reactor; Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant 
Impact

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) is 
considering issuance of an amendment to Facility License No. TR-2, now 
held by the CBS Corporation, formerly named the Westinghouse Electric 
Corporation. The license authorizes possession only of the Westinghouse 
Test Reactor (WTR), located in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

Environmental Assessment

Identification of the Proposed Action

    The proposed action would amend Facility License No. TR-2 for the 
WTR to reflect the change in the legal name of the licensee from 
Westinghouse Electric Corporation to CBS Corporation, which occurred on 
December 1, 1997.
    The proposed action is in accordance with the licensee's 
application for amendment dated December 22, 1997, as supplemented on 
June 15, 1998.

Need for the Proposed Action

    The proposed action is needed to accurately reflect the legal name 
of the licensee.

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed Action

    The proposed action does not modify the WTR facility configuration, 
procedures or requirements, or affect licensed activities. The 
employees responsible for the licensed WTR facility will still be 
responsible notwithstanding the new name of the licensee. The proposed 
action will not affect the financial qualifications of the licensee to 
possess and decommission the facility.
    In light of the foregoing, the Commission concludes that 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 will be 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 does not involve any physical 
features of the plant. Thus, 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. 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

    No alternatives appear that will have different or lesser effect on 
the use of available resources.

Agencies and Persons Contacted

    In accordance with its stated policy, on June 23, 1998, the NRC 
staff consulted with the Pennsylvania State Official, Ray Woods, of the 
Bureau of Radiation Protection, Pennsylvania 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 the proposed action, see the 
licensee's submittals dated December 22, 1997 and June 15, 1998, which 
are available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document 
Room, the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street, NW., Washington DC.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of June 1998.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Seymour H. Weiss,
Director, Non-Power Reactors and Decommissioning Project Directorate, 
Division of Reactor Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 98-17774 Filed 7-2-98; 8:45 am]
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