[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 73 (Monday, April 16, 2001)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-9318]



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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-416]


Entergy Operations, Inc.; Grand Gulf Nuclear Station, Unit 1; 
Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering 
issuance of an exemption from 10 CFR Part 50.71(e)(1) for Facility 
Operating License No. NPF-29 issued to Entergy Operations, Inc., the 
licensee, for operation of the Grand Gulf Nuclear Station (GGNS), Unit 
1, located in Claiborne County, Mississippi.

Environmental Assessment

Identification of the Proposed Action

    The proposed action would allow the licensee to revise the GGNS, 
Unit 1, Updated Final Safety Analysis Report (UFSAR) via the World Wide 
Web (WWW), and discontinue paper submittals of the updates to the NRC. 
The UFSAR would be maintained and updated on the WWW in accordance with 
the frequency outlined in 10 CFR Part 50.71(e).
    The proposed action is in accordance with the licensee's 
application for exemption dated November 28, 2000.

The Need for the Proposed Action

    The proposed action is needed to reduce and eliminate technical 
issues related to the present submission of UFSAR updates via CD-ROM. 
It would also improve public access to the GGNS, Unit 1, UFSAR.

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed Action

    The NRC has completed its evaluation of the proposed action and 
concludes that the proposed action is administrative in nature and 
unrelated to plant operations.
    The proposed action will not significantly increase the probability 
or consequences 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 are 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 
GGNS, Unit 1, dated September 1981, in NUREG-0777.

Agencies and Persons Consulted

    In accordance with its stated policy on March 30, 2001, the staff 
consulted with the Mississippi State official, Robert W. Goff, of the 
Mississippi Department of Health, Division of Radiological Health, 
regarding the environmental impact of the proposed action. The State 
official had no comments.

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 November 28, 2000. Documents may be examined, 
and/or copied for a fee, at the NRC's Public Document Room, located at 
One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, 
Maryland. Publicly 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 9th day of April, 2001.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Stuart A. Richards,
Director, Project Directorate IV & Decommissioning, Division of 
Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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