[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 168 (Friday, August 29, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52063-52064]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-22105]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-250 and 50-251]


Florida Power and Light, Turkey Point Units 3 and 4; 
Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering 
issuance of amendments to Facility Operating License (FOL) Nos. DPR-31 
and DPR-41, issued to Florida Power and Light Company (the licensee), 
for operation of the Turkey Point Nuclear Plant Units 3 and 4, located 
in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Therefore, pursuant to Title 10 of the 
Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) part 50, 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 
revise the Turkey Point, Units 3 and 4, FOLs and Technical 
Specifications (TSs) to correct, update, and reorder the TS Index, 
reformat TS equations with more appropriate mathematical symbols, 
delete irrelevant information, correct an error in the titling of a 
figure, correct ACTION and APPLICABILITY statements to improve 
consistency and readability, and would enhance, through administrative 
means, the overall clarity of the TSs.
    The proposed action is in accordance with the licensee's 
application dated December 20, 2002, as supplemented in a letter dated 
August 15, 2003.
    The Need for the Proposed Action: The proposed action is needed in 
order to achieve consistency with previously approved TS amendments, 
and other parts of the existing TSs through administrative changes.
    Environmental Impacts of the Proposed Action: The NRC has completed 
its evaluation of the

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proposed action and concludes that the proposed license amendment and 
associated changes to the TSs are administrative in nature and have no 
effect on the physical aspect or operation of components or structures 
within the restricted area as defined in 10 CFR part 20.
    The proposed action will not significantly increase the probability 
or consequences of accidents, no changes are being made in the types or 
amounts of any effluents that may be released offsite, 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 impacts. 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 Turkey Point Nuclear Plant, Units 3 and 
4, dated July 1972.
    Agencies and Persons Consulted: Based upon a letter dated March 8, 
1991, from Ms. Mary E. Clark of the State of Florida, Department of 
Health and Rehabilitative Services, to Ms. Deborah A. Miller, Licensing 
Assistant, NRC, the State of Florida does not desire notification of 
issuance of license amendments.

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 December 20, 2002. 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 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 25th day of August 2003.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Eva A. Brown,
Project Manager, Section 2, Project Directorate II, Division of 
Licensing Project Management, Nuclear Regulation Reactor.
[FR Doc. 03-22105 Filed 8-28-03; 8:45 am]
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