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[Docket Nos. 50–348 and 50–364]
Sunshine Act Meetings
Southern Nuclear Operating Company,
Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Power Plant,
Units 1 and 2; Environmental
Assessment and Finding of No
Significant Impact
Quarterly meeting.
October 5–6, 2005, 9
a.m.–5 p.m.
LOCATION: Crowne Plaza San Francisco
Union Square Hotel, 480 Sutter Street,
San Francisco, CA.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is considering
issuance of an exemption from title 10
of the Code of Federal Regulations (10
CFR) part 50, Appendix R, ‘‘Fire
Protection Program for Nuclear Power
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Facilities Operating Prior to January 1,
1979,’’ Section III.G.2.c, for Facility
Operating License Nos. NPF–2 and
NPF–8, issued to Southern Nuclear
Operating Company (SNC or the
licensee), for operation of the Joseph M.
Farley Nuclear Power Plant (FNP), Units
1 and 2, located in Houston County,
Alabama. Therefore, as required by 10
CFR 51.21, the NRC is issuing this
environmental assessment and finding
of no significant impact.
Environmental Assessment
Identification of the Proposed Action:
On December 29, 1986, the NRC staff
granted Exemption Request 1–3,
‘‘Service Water Intake Structure—Fire
Area 72,’’ from certain requirements of
Appendix R, Section III.G.2.c, that
require fire detection and fire
suppression capabilities and the
enclosure of cables, equipment, and
associated non-safety circuits of one
redundant train of safe shutdown
equipment in a one-hour rated fire
barrier. Exemption Request 1–3, issued
on December 29, 1986, listed a total of
ten items specific to Fire Area 72 for the
Service Water Intake Structure (SWIS),
which is common to FNP, Units 1 and
2.
By letters dated August 28, 2003,
December 28, 2004, and June 9, 2005,
SNC submitted proposed revisions to
Exemption Request 1–3. SNC stated that
the proposed revisions to Exemption
Request 1–3 would clarify FNP’s fire
protection licensing basis, delete
unnecessary attributes of the prior
approved exemption, and revise the
remaining exemption attributes to
remove references to the Kaowool onehour fire barrier material. SNC also
stated that the proposed revision to
Exemption Request 1–3 is part of SNC’s
comprehensive plan to respond to
concerns about Kaowool fire barrier
material. SNC’s August 28, 2003, letter
provided the disposition for the original
ten items plus one additional item
related to Exemption Request 1–3. For
two of these items, no change in the
basis for their inclusion as exemption
items was proposed and they were not
considered further. For two of the items
related to the service water swing pump
cables, the principal basis for their
inclusion as exemption items was not
changed, however an improvement in
defense-in-depth due the upgrading of
certain walls within the SWIS to 3-hour
rated fire barriers was recognized. For
two of the items related to the service
water header strainer motor operated
inlet valves and swing pump motor
operated discharge valves, the basis for
the exemption is revised to delete
reliance on Kaowool and to reflect the
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re-analysis that shows that damage to
cables in the strainer pit cannot result
in spurious operation of the valves. For
the discharge-to-wet pit and discharge
to storage pond flume valves, SNC
showed that, based on deterministic and
fire modeling results, that fire effects
will not result in the mis-positioning of
the valves. For the item related to
service water pump cables in Fire Area
72 A, an integrated risk assessment
shows that safe shutdown can be
achieved even if no credit is taken for
the Kaowool raceway enclosures. A
previously existing Exemption Request
1–3 item relating to the coordination
between safe shutdown and non-safe
shutdown circuits was found to have
been resolved by modifications to the
plant and, accordingly, is deleted from
Exemption Request 1–3. For the item
related to the redundant Train A and
Train B service water and related power
cables that enter the SWIS near the
ceiling in the northeast corner, an
integrated risk assessment shows that
fire damage would not occur to these
cables even if no credit were taken for
Kaowool. The proposed action, would
allow SNC to re-establish the basis for
Exemption Request 1–3 based on
programmatic and plant design
modifications, a deterministic reanalyses of fire protection
considerations, a risk-informed plant
change evaluation specifically
applicable to the SWIS, enhanced
controls on transient combustibles, the
existing fire detection and automatic fire
suppression capability to maintain
defense-in-depth, and the availability of
manual fire fighting and associated fire
fighting equipment.
The Need for the Proposed Action:
The proposed changes to Exemption
Request 1–3 from 10 CFR Part 50,
Appendix R, Section III.G.2.c is needed
to enable SNC to re-establish the bases
for the exemption that do not rely on the
use of the Kaowool fire barrier material
for the enclosure of certain redundant
cable trays in the SWIS Fire Area 72.
Environmental Impacts of the
Proposed Action: The NRC has
completed its safety evaluation of the
proposed action and concludes that the
proposed changes to Exemption Request
1–3 will not present an undue risk to
the public health and safety. The details
of the NRC staff’s Safety Evaluation will
be provided in the revised Exemption
Request 1–3 that will be issued in a
letter to the licensee approving the
changes to Exemption Request 1–3. The
action relates to revising the bases for
the adequacy of the fire protection
program at FNP.
The proposed action will not
significantly increase the probability or
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consequences of accidents. No changes
are being made in the types of 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 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.
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 related to the
operation of the FNP, Units 1 and 2,
dated December 1974, and the Final
Supplemental Environmental Impact
Statement (NUREG–1437, Supplement
18), dated March, 2005.
Agencies and Persons Consulted: In
accordance with its stated policy, on
August 4, 2005, the NRC staff consulted
with the Alabama State official, David
Walters, of the Office of Radiation
Control, Alabama Department of Public
Health, 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
letters dated August 28, 2003, December
28, 2004, and June 9, 2005. Documents
may be examined, and/or copied for a
fee, at the NRC’s Public Document
Room (PDR), located at One White Flint
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Dated in Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day
of August 2005.
For The Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Robert E. Martin,
Senior Project Manager, Section 1, Project
Directorate II, Division of Licensing Project
Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation.
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[Investment Company Act Release No.
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WNC Housing Tax Credit Fund VI, L.P.,
Series 13 and Series 14, and WNC
National Partners, LLC; Notice of
Application
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hearing. Interested persons may request
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Commission’s Secretary and serving
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the nature of the writer’s interest, the
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9303. Applicants, 17782 Sky Park
Circle, Irvine, California 92614.
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551–6817, or Mary Kay Frech, Branch
Chief, (202) 551–6821 (Division of
Investment Management, Office of
Investment Company Regulation).
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application. The complete application
may be obtained for a fee from the
Commission’s Public Reference Branch,
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20549–0102 (telephone (202) 551–5850).
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1. Each Series was formed in 2005 as
a California limited partnership. Each
August 4, 2005.
Series will operate as a ‘‘two-tier’’
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partnership, i.e., each Series will invest
Commission (‘‘Commission’’).
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Partnerships in turn will engage in the
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‘‘Act’’) granting relief from all
provisions of the Act, except sections 37 complexes expected to be qualified for
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through 53 of the Act and the rules and
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
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amended. The General Partner is a
than rule 38a–1.
California limited liability company
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14 (each a ‘‘Series,’’ and collectively, the
2. The objectives of each Series are (a)
‘‘Fund’’), and WNC National Partners,
to provide current tax benefits primarily
LLC (the ‘‘General Partner’’).
in the form of low income housing
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Applicants request an order to permit
offset their Federal income tax
each Series to invest in limited
liabilities, (b) to preserve and protect
partnerships that engage in the
capital, and (c) to provide cash
ownership and operation of apartment
distributions from sale or refinancing
complexes for low and moderate income transactions.
persons.
3. On April 18, 2005, the Fund filed
a registration statement under the
DATES: The application was filed on
April 18, 2005, and amended on July 22, Securities Act of 1933, pursuant to
which the Fund intends to offer
2005.
Hearing or Notification of Hearing: An publicly, in two series of offerings,
25,000 units of limited partnership
order granting the application will be
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interest (‘‘Units’’) at $1,000 per Unit.
The minimum investment will be five
Units for most investors, although
employees of the General Partner and/
or its affiliates and/or investors in
syndications previously sponsored by
the General Partner and/or its affiliates
may purchase a minimum of two Units.
Purchasers of the Units will become
limited partners (‘‘Limited Partners’’) of
the Series offering the Units.
4. A Series will not accept any
subscriptions for Units until the
requested exemptive order is granted or
the Series receives an opinion of
counsel that it is exempt from
registration under the Act.
Subscriptions for Units must be
approved by the General Partner. Such
approval will be conditioned upon
representations as to suitability of the
investment for each subscriber. The
suitability standards provide, among
other things, that investment in a Series
is suitable only for an investor who
either (a) has a net worth (exclusive of
home, furnishings, and automobiles), of
at least $35,000 and an annual gross
income of at least $35,000, or (b)
irrespective of annual income, has a net
worth (exclusive of home, furnishings,
and automobiles) of at least $75,000.
Units will be sold only to investors who
meet these suitability standards, or such
more restrictive suitability standards as
may be established by certain states for
purchasers of Units within their
respective jurisdictions. In addition,
transfers of Units will be permitted only
if the transferee meets the same
suitability standards as had been
imposed on the transferor Limited
Partner.
5. Although a Series’ direct control
over the management of each apartment
complex will be limited, the Series’
ownership of interests in Local Limited
Partnerships will, in an economic sense,
be tantamount to direct ownership of
the apartment complexes themselves. A
Series normally will acquire at least a
90% interest in the profits, losses, and
tax credits of the Local Limited
Partnerships. However, in certain cases,
the Series may acquire a lesser interest
in such partnerships. Each Local
Limited Partnership’s partnership
agreement will provide that
distributions of proceeds from a sale or
refinancing of an apartment complex
will be paid to a Series in the range of
from 10% to 50%.
6. Each Series will have certain voting
rights with respect to each Local
Limited Partnership. The voting rights
will include the right to dismiss and
replace the local general partner on the
basis of performance, to approve or
disapprove a sale or refinancing of the
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[Docket Nos. 50-348 and 50-364]
Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Joseph M. Farley Nuclear
Power Plant, Units 1 and 2; Environmental Assessment and Finding of No
Significant Impact
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering
issuance of an exemption from title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR) part 50, Appendix R, ``Fire Protection Program for
Nuclear Power
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Facilities Operating Prior to January 1, 1979,'' Section III.G.2.c, for
Facility Operating License Nos. NPF-2 and NPF-8, issued to Southern
Nuclear Operating Company (SNC or the licensee), for operation of the
Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Power Plant (FNP), Units 1 and 2, located in
Houston County, Alabama. Therefore, as required by 10 CFR 51.21, the
NRC is issuing this environmental assessment and finding of no
significant impact.
Environmental Assessment
Identification of the Proposed Action: On December 29, 1986, the
NRC staff granted Exemption Request 1-3, ``Service Water Intake
Structure--Fire Area 72,'' from certain requirements of Appendix R,
Section III.G.2.c, that require fire detection and fire suppression
capabilities and the enclosure of cables, equipment, and associated
non-safety circuits of one redundant train of safe shutdown equipment
in a one-hour rated fire barrier. Exemption Request 1-3, issued on
December 29, 1986, listed a total of ten items specific to Fire Area 72
for the Service Water Intake Structure (SWIS), which is common to FNP,
Units 1 and 2.
By letters dated August 28, 2003, December 28, 2004, and June 9,
2005, SNC submitted proposed revisions to Exemption Request 1-3. SNC
stated that the proposed revisions to Exemption Request 1-3 would
clarify FNP's fire protection licensing basis, delete unnecessary
attributes of the prior approved exemption, and revise the remaining
exemption attributes to remove references to the Kaowool one-hour fire
barrier material. SNC also stated that the proposed revision to
Exemption Request 1-3 is part of SNC's comprehensive plan to respond to
concerns about Kaowool fire barrier material. SNC's August 28, 2003,
letter provided the disposition for the original ten items plus one
additional item related to Exemption Request 1-3. For two of these
items, no change in the basis for their inclusion as exemption items
was proposed and they were not considered further. For two of the items
related to the service water swing pump cables, the principal basis for
their inclusion as exemption items was not changed, however an
improvement in defense-in-depth due the upgrading of certain walls
within the SWIS to 3-hour rated fire barriers was recognized. For two
of the items related to the service water header strainer motor
operated inlet valves and swing pump motor operated discharge valves,
the basis for the exemption is revised to delete reliance on Kaowool
and to reflect the re-analysis that shows that damage to cables in the
strainer pit cannot result in spurious operation of the valves. For the
discharge-to-wet pit and discharge to storage pond flume valves, SNC
showed that, based on deterministic and fire modeling results, that
fire effects will not result in the mis-positioning of the valves. For
the item related to service water pump cables in Fire Area 72 A, an
integrated risk assessment shows that safe shutdown can be achieved
even if no credit is taken for the Kaowool raceway enclosures. A
previously existing Exemption Request 1-3 item relating to the
coordination between safe shutdown and non-safe shutdown circuits was
found to have been resolved by modifications to the plant and,
accordingly, is deleted from Exemption Request 1-3. For the item
related to the redundant Train A and Train B service water and related
power cables that enter the SWIS near the ceiling in the northeast
corner, an integrated risk assessment shows that fire damage would not
occur to these cables even if no credit were taken for Kaowool. The
proposed action, would allow SNC to re-establish the basis for
Exemption Request 1-3 based on programmatic and plant design
modifications, a deterministic re-analyses of fire protection
considerations, a risk-informed plant change evaluation specifically
applicable to the SWIS, enhanced controls on transient combustibles,
the existing fire detection and automatic fire suppression capability
to maintain defense-in-depth, and the availability of manual fire
fighting and associated fire fighting equipment.
The Need for the Proposed Action: The proposed changes to Exemption
Request 1-3 from 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix R, Section III.G.2.c is
needed to enable SNC to re-establish the bases for the exemption that
do not rely on the use of the Kaowool fire barrier material for the
enclosure of certain redundant cable trays in the SWIS Fire Area 72.
Environmental Impacts of the Proposed Action: The NRC has completed
its safety evaluation of the proposed action and concludes that the
proposed changes to Exemption Request 1-3 will not present an undue
risk to the public health and safety. The details of the NRC staff's
Safety Evaluation will be provided in the revised Exemption Request 1-3
that will be issued in a letter to the licensee approving the changes
to Exemption Request 1-3. The action relates to revising the bases for
the adequacy of the fire protection program at FNP.
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 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 non-radiological impacts, the proposed
action does not have a potential to affect any historic 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.
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 related to the operation of the FNP,
Units 1 and 2, dated December 1974, and the Final Supplemental
Environmental Impact Statement (NUREG-1437, Supplement 18), dated
March, 2005.
Agencies and Persons Consulted: In accordance with its stated
policy, on August 4, 2005, the NRC staff consulted with the Alabama
State official, David Walters, of the Office of Radiation Control,
Alabama Department of Public Health, 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 letters dated August 28, 2003, December 28, 2004, and June
9, 2005. Documents may be examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the
NRC's Public Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint
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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, https://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
pdr@nrc.gov.
Dated in Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day of August 2005.
For The Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Robert E. Martin,
Senior Project Manager, Section 1, Project Directorate II, Division of
Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. E5-4351 Filed 8-10-05; 8:45 am]
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