[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 6 (Wednesday, January 9, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1248-1249]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-498]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-338]


Virginia Electric and Power Company; North Anna Power Station, 
Unit 1, 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 (FOL) No. NPF-4, 
issued to Virginia Electric and Power Company (the licensee), for 
operation of the North Anna Power Station, Unit 1, located in Louisa 
County, Virginia. As required by 10 CFR 51.21, the NRC is issuing this 
environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact.

Environmental Assessment

Identification of the Proposed Action

    The proposed action would revise the FOL and Technical 
Specifications (TS) to remove expired license conditions, make 
editorial changes, relocate license conditions, remove redundant 
license conditions that are covered elsewhere in the license, and 
remove license conditions and TS associated with completed 
modifications.
    The proposed action is in accordance with the licensee's 
application dated January 9, 2001.

The Need for the Proposed Action

    The proposed action is needed because some requirements in the 
North Anna, Unit 1, FOL have become obsolete. In addition, the need for 
editorial changes has been identified.

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed Action

    The NRC has completed its evaluation of the proposed action and 
concludes that the proposed license amendment and associated changes to 
the TS are administrative in nature and have no effect on plant 
equipment or plant operation.
    The proposed action will not significantly increase the probability 
or consequences of accidents, no changes are being made in the types of 
effluents that may be released off site, and there is no significant 
increase in occupational or public radiation exposure. Therefore, there 
are no

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significant radiological environmental impacts associated with the 
proposed action.
    With regard to potential non-radiological impacts, the proposed 
action does not have a potential to affect any historic sites. It does 
not affect non-radiological plant effluents and has no other 
environmental impact. Therefore, there are no significant non-
radiological environmental impacts associated with the proposed action.
    Accordingly, the NRC concludes that there are no significant 
environmental impacts associated with the proposed action.

Environmental Impacts of the 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

    The action does not involve the use of any different resource than 
those previously considered in the Final Environmental Statement for 
the North Anna Power Station, Unit 1, dated April 1973.

Agencies and Persons Consulted

    On December 20, 2001, the staff consulted with the Virginia State 
official, Mr. Les Foldesi of the Virginia Department of Health, Bureau 
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 January 9, 2001. Documents may be examined, 
and/or copied for a fee, at the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR), 
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 Public Electronic Reading Room). Persons 
who do not have access to ADAMS or who encounter problems in accessing 
the documents located in ADAMS, should contact the NRC PDR Reference 
staff by telephone at 1-800-397-4209, or 301-415-4737, or by e-mail at 
[email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 3rd day of January, 2002.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Stephen R. Monarque,
Project Manager, Section 1, Project Directorate II, Division of 
Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 02-498 Filed 1-8-02; 8:45 am]
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