[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 17 (Friday, January 25, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3742-3743]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-1893]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-245, 50-336 and 50-423]


Dominion Nuclear Connecticut, Inc.; Millstone Nuclear Power 
Station, Units 1, 2, and 3 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-21 
issued to Dominion Nuclear Connecticut, Inc. (the licensee) for the 
Millstone Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1, a permanently shutdown nuclear 
facility located in Waterford, Connecticut, and to Facility Operating 
License Nos. DPR-65 and NPF-49, issued to Dominion Nuclear Connecticut, 
Inc., for operation of the Millstone Nuclear Power Station, Units 2 and 
3, located in Waterford, Connecticut. Therefore, 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 physical protection (security) 
related license condition to indicate that the physical security 
program plans listed may, rather than do, contain safeguards 
information; and change the name of the `Millstone Nuclear Power 
Station' to the `Millstone Power Station.'
    The proposed action is in accordance with the licensee's 
application dated August 8, 2001.

The Need for the Proposed Action

    Currently, License Condition 2.C.(4) for Units 1 and 2 and License 
Condition 2.E for Unit 3, identifies the plans which describe the NRC 
approved program for physical protection of Millstone Units 1, 2, and 
3. They are the Millstone Nuclear Power Station Physical Security Plan, 
the Millstone Nuclear Power Station Suitability, Training, and 
Qualification Plan, and the Millstone Nuclear Power Station Safeguards 
Contingency Plan. License Conditions 2.C.(4) and 2.E also indicate that 
the plans contain safeguards information protected under 10 CFR 73.21. 
However, Revision 15 to the Millstone Nuclear Power Station 
Suitability, Training, and Qualification Plan removed safeguards 
information to allow declassification of the document. The proposed 
revision to the license conditions would allow declassification of the 
document. Additionally, the licensee also proposed the deletion of the 
word ``Nuclear'' from the title of the physical security program plans 
listed under the security related license condition and when it is used 
in the phrase ``Millstone Nuclear Power Station'' elsewhere in the 
operating license. This change is purely administrative and does not 
alter any regulatory requirements or commitments made by the licensee.

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed Action

    The NRC has completed its evaluation of the proposed action and 
concludes that the issuance of the proposed amendment will not have an 
environmental impact. The proposed changes to the licenses are 
considered editorial or administrative in nature. The licensee does not 
propose any changes to structures, systems, components, site boundaries 
or operational practices.
    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 significant radiological environmental impacts associated with 
the proposed action.
    With regard to potential nonradiological impacts, the proposed 
action does not have a potential to affect 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.

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 Millstone Nuclear Power Station.

Agencies and Persons Consulted

    On December 12, 2001, the staff consulted with the State of 
Connecticut official, Mr. Michael Firsick of the Connecticut Department 
of Environmental Protection, 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 August 8, 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].


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    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day of January 2002.
Stephen Dembek,
Chief, Section 2, Project Directorate IV, Division of Licensing Project 
Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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