[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 177 (Friday, September 12, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53760-53761]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-23254]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-498 and 50-499]
STP Nuclear Operating Company, et al., South Texas Project, Units
1 and 2; Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering
issuance of amendments to delete the anti-trust conditions contained in
Appendix C to Facility Operating Licenses (FOLs) Nos. NPF-76 and NPF-
80, issued to STP Nuclear Operating Company (the licensee), for
operation of South Texas Project (STP), Units 1 and 2, respectively.
STP, Units 1 and 2, are located in Matagorda County, Texas. Therefore,
as required by Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, 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 delete the antitrust conditions contained
in Appendix C to the FOLs for STP, Units 1 and 2.
The proposed action is in accordance with the licensee's
application dated August 20, 2002.
The Need for the Proposed Action
The proposed action is needed, according to the licensee's
application, in order to, among other things, remove certain
requirements that are no longer necessary following Texas's adoption of
a comprehensive restructuring system.
Environmental Impacts of the Proposed Action
The NRC has completed its evaluation of the proposed action and
concludes that the proposed license amendments represent administrative
actions which have no effect on plant equipment or 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 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 the same.
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
STP, Units 1 and 2, dated August 1986.
Agencies and Persons Consulted
On August 27, 2003, the staff consulted with the Texas State
official, Mr. Arthur Tate of the Texas Department of Health, Bureau of
Radiation Control, 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 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 Room O1-F21, 11555
Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland. Publicly available
records will be accessible electronically from the Agencywide Documents
Access and
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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 5th day of September, 2003.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Robert A. Gramm,
Chief, Section 1, Project Directorate IV, Division of Licensing Project
Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 03-23254 Filed 9-11-03; 8:45 am]
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