[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 43 (Friday, March 3, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 11612]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-352 and 50-353]


Peco Energy Company, Limerick Generating Station, Unit 1 and 2; 
Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) is 
considering issuance of an amendment to Facility Operating License No. 
NPF-39 and NPF-85, issued to PECO Energy Company (the licensee), for 
operation of the Limerick Generating Station (LGS), Units 1 and 2, 
located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

Environmental Assessment

Identification of the Proposed Action

    The proposed action would clarify several administrative 
requirements, delete redundant administrative requirements, and correct 
typographical errors in the LGS, Units 1 and 2, Technical 
Specifications (TSs) in accordance with the licensee's application for 
amendment dated September 27, 1999.

The Need for the Proposed Action

    The proposed action would provide clarity and administrative 
correctness to the TSs.

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed Action

    The NRC has completed its evaluation of the proposed action and 
concludes that the changes to the TSs are administrative in nature.
    The proposed action will not significantly increase the probability 
or consequence of accidents, no changes are being made in the types of 
any effluents that may be released off site, and there is no 
significant increase in occupational or public radiation exposure. 
Therefore, there is no significant radiological environmental impacts 
associated with the proposed action.
    With regard to potential nonradiological impacts, the proposed 
action does not involve any historic sites. It does not affect 
nonradiological plant effluents and has no other environmental impact. 
Therefore, there are no significant nonradiological environmental 
impacts associated with the proposed action.
    Accordingly, the NRC concludes that there are no significant 
environmental impacts associated with the proposed action.

Alternatives to the Proposed Action

    As an alternative to the proposed action, the staff considered 
denial of the proposed action (i.e., the ``no-action'' alternative). 
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 for the 
Limerick Generating Station, Units 1 and 2.

Agencies and Persons Consulted

    In accordance with its state policy, on October 8, 1999, the staff 
consulted with the Pennsylvania State official, Mr. David Ney of the 
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, regarding the 
environmental impact of the proposed action. The state official had no 
comment.

Finding of No Significant Impact

    On the basis of the environmental assessment, the NRC concludes 
that the proposed action will not have a significant effect on the 
quality of the human environment. Accordingly, the NRC 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 September 27, 1999, which is available for 
public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, The Gelman 
Building, 2120 L Street, NW., Washington, DC. Publically available 
records will be accessible electronically from the ADAMS Public Library 
component on the NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov (the electronic 
reading room).

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 28th day of February, 2000.

    For Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Bartholomew C. Buckley,
Sr. Project Manager, Section 2, Project Directorate I, Division of 
Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 00-5157 Filed 3-2-00; 8:45 am]
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