[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 128 (Tuesday, July 3, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35282-35283]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-16654]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-247]


Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.; Indian Point 
Nuclear Generating Unit No. 2; Environmental Assessment and Finding of 
No Significant Impact

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering 
issuance of an amendment to Facility Operating License No. DPR-26, 
issued to Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., (the 
licensee), for operation of the Indian Point Nuclear Generating Unit 
No. 2, located in Westchester County, New York.

Environmental Assessment

Identification of the Proposed Action

    The proposed action would revise the facility Technical 
Specifications (TSs) to correct various editorial errors and make other 
administrative changes.
    The proposed action is in accordance with the licensee's 
application for amendment dated February 14, 2000, as supplemented by 
letter dated May 3, 2001.

The Need for the Proposed Action

    The proposed action corrects various editorial errors and makes 
other administrative changes in the TSs. Specifically, the amendment 
makes administrative changes that revise: (a) TS Tables 3.6-1 and 4.4-1 
to correct listing and editorial errors, (b) TS 3.8.B.10 to reflect the 
wording in 10 CFR 50.54(m)(2)(iv), (c) Figures 3.10-2 through 3.10-6 to 
remove these figures, (d) Table 4.1-1 to reflect change in level 
indication components, (e) TS 4.19.B and 6.14.1.1 to correct editorial 
errors, (f) TS 6.12.1 to reflect an organizational title change, and 
(g) TS 6.13.2 to correct a typographical error. In its May 3 letter, 
the licensee requested that the proposed changes to TS 6.12.1 regarding 
references to the current sections of 10 CFR Part 20 be withdrawn.

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed Action

    The NRC has completed its evaluation of the proposed action and 
concludes that the administrative and editorial changes correct errors 
that currently exist in the TSs. The proposed action does not modify 
the facility or affect the manner in which the facility is operated.
    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

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Statement for the Indian Point Nuclear Generating Unit No. 2.

Agencies and Persons Consulted

    In accordance with its stated policy, on June 26, 2001, the staff 
consulted with the New York State official, Mr. John P. Spath of the 
Energy Research and Development Authority, 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 February 14, 2000, as supplemented by letter 
dated May 3, 2001. 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 Agencywide 
Documents Access and Management Systems (ADAMS) Public Electronic 
Reading Room on the Internet at the NRC web site, http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/ADAMS/index.html. If you do not have access to ADAMS or if there 
are problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, contact the 
NRC Public Document Room (PDR) Reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-
415-4737 or by email to [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 27th day of June 2001.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Richard P. Correia,
Acting Chief, Section 1, Project Directorate I, Division of Licensing 
Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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