[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 214 (Tuesday, November 6, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 62684]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-21777]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-269, 50-270, and 50-287]


Duke Power Company, LLC; Oconee Nuclear 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 amendments to Renewed Facility Operating Licenses Nos. DPR-
38, DPR-47, and DPR-55, issued to Duke Power Company, LLC (the 
licensee), for operation of the Oconee Nuclear Station, Units 1, 2, and 
3, located in Seneca, South Carolina. Therefore, as required by Title 
10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 51, 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 is administrative in nature and would revise 
the Technical Specifications (TSs) to remove requirements that are no 
longer applicable due to the completion of the control room intake/
booster fan modifications.
    The proposed action is in accordance with the licensee's 
application dated January 31, 2007.

The Need for the Proposed Action

    The proposed action removes requirements from the TSs that are no 
longer applicable.

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed Action

    The NRC has completed its safety evaluation of the proposed action 
and concludes that there are no environmental impacts.
    The details of the staff's safety evaluation will be provided in 
the license amendments that will be issued as part of the letter to the 
licensee approving the license amendments.
    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. There is no significant 
increase in the amount of any effluent released off site. 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 non-radiological 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 resources than 
those previously considered in the Final Environmental Statement for 
the Oconee Nuclear Station, Units 1, 2, and 3, dated March 1972 and 
Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (NUREG-1437, 
Supplement 2) dated December 9, 1999.

Agencies and Persons Consulted

    In accordance with its stated policy, on October 18, 2007, the 
staff consulted with the South Carolina State official, Mr. R. Mike 
Gandy of the Department of Health and Environmental 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 January 31, 2007. 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 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 send an e-mail to 
[email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 31st day of October 2007.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Leonard N. Olshan,
Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch II-1, Division of Operating 
Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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