[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 80 (Friday, April 25, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 20412]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-10239]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-272 AND 50-311]
PSEG Nuclear, LLC; Salem Nuclear Generating Station, Unit Nos. 1
and 2; Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering the issuance
of amendments to Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-70 and DPR-75,
issued to PSEG Nuclear, LLC (the licensee), for operation of the Salem
Nuclear Generating Station (Salem), Unit Nos. 1 and 2, located in Salem
County, New Jersey. Therefore, as required by Title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations (10 CFR) section 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 allow the licensee to make various
administrative and editorial changes to the Salem Technical
Specifications (TSs) in accordance with the licensee's application
dated January 29, 2003.
The Need for the Proposed Action
The proposed action would correct administrative and editorial
errors to the Salem TSs.
Environmental Impacts of the Proposed Action
The NRC has completed its evaluation of the proposed action and
concludes, as set forth below, that there are no significant
environmental impacts associated with the administrative and editorial
changes to the Salem TSs.
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
related to operation of Salem Nuclear Generating Station, Units 1 and
2, dated April 1973.
Agencies and Persons Consulted
On March 26, 2003, the staff consulted with the New Jersey State
official, Mr. Dennis Zannoni of the New Jersey 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 January 29, 2003. Documents may be examined,
and/or copied for a fee, at the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR),
located at One White Flint North, Public File Area O1 F21, 11555
Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland. Publicly available
records will be accessible electronically from the Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System (ADAMS) Public Electronic Reading Room on
the Internet at the NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who encounter
problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, should contact
the NRC's PDR reference staff by telephone at 1-800-397-4209 or 301-
415-4737, or by e-mail to [email protected].
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 17th day of April, 2003.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
James W. Clifford,
Chief, Section 2, Project Directorate I, Division of Licensing Project
Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 03-10239 Filed 4-24-03; 8:45 am]
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