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Northeast Nuclear Energy Company; Millstone Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1; Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact

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 [Federal Register: November 9, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 218)]
[Notices]
[Page 67417]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr09no00-123]

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-245]


Northeast Nuclear Energy Company; Millstone Nuclear Power
Station, Unit 1; 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 Northeast Nuclear Energy Company, the licensee, for the
Millstone Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1 (MP1), a permanently shutdown
nuclear reactor facility located in Waterford, Connecticut.

Environmental Assessment

Identification of Proposed Action

    The proposed action would revise certain License Conditions, delete
other License Conditions, and delete some Confirmatory Orders to
reflect the permanently shutdown and defueled status of the plant. The
proposed action is in accordance with the licensee's application for
amendment dated June 6, 2000.

The Need for the Proposed Action

    Currently, the MP1 Operating License (DPR-21) is written to apply
to an operating facility. MP1 is permanently shutdown and defueled;
therefore, the licensee determined that changes to certain License
Conditions and Confirmatory Orders were necessary to reflect the
permanently shutdown and defueled status of the plant.

Environmental Impact of the Proposed Action

    The Commission has completed its evaluation of the proposed
amendment to the MP1 License and concludes that issuance of the
proposed amendment will not have an environmental impact. The proposed
changes to the License Conditions and Orders are consistent with the
regulations and regulatory guidance for a permanently shutdown and
defueled facility and are considered editorial and administrative in
nature. The licensee does not propose any disposal or relocation of
nuclear fuel or any changes to structures, systems, components, or site
boundaries.
    The proposed action will not increase the probability or
consequences of accidents, no changes are being made in the types of
any 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 non-radiological impacts, the proposed
action does not involve any historical sites. It does not affect non-
radiological plant effluents and has no other environmental impact.
Therefore, there are no significant non-radiological environmental
impacts associated with the proposed action.
    Accordingly, the NRC concludes that there are no significant
environmental impacts associated with the proposed action.

Alternative 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

    This action does not involve the use of any resources not
previously considered in the Final Environmental Statement for MP1.

Agencies and Persons Contacted

    In accordance with its stated policy, on September 25, 2000, 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 Commission 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 June 6, 2000, which may be examined, and/or
copied for a fee, at the Commission's Public Document Room, located at
One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville,
Maryland. Publicly available records are accessible electronically from
the ADAMS Public Library component on the NRC Web site, http://
www.nrc.gov/NRC/ADAMS/index.html (the Electronic Reading Room).

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 31st day of October 2000.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John B. Hickman,
Project Manager, Decommissioning Section, Project Directorate IV &
Decommissioning, Division of Licensing Project Management, Office of
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 00-28775 Filed 11-8-00; 8:45 am]
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