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Carolina Power & Light Company,
Brunswick Steam Electric Plant, Units
1 and 2; Environmental Assessment
and Finding of No Significant Impact
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is considering
issuance of exemptions, pursuant to
Title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR) Section 73.5,
‘‘Specific exemptions,’’ from the
implementation date for certain new
requirements of 10 CFR part 73,
‘‘Physical protection of plants and
materials,’’ for Facility Operating
License Nos. DPR 71 and DPR–62,
issued to Carolina Power & Light
Company (CP&L, the licensee), for
operation of the Brunswick Steam
Electric Plant, Units 1 and 2 (BSEP),
located in Brunswick County, North
Carolina. In accordance with 10 CFR
51.21, ‘‘Criteria for and identification of
licensing and regulatory actions
requiring environmental assessments,’’
the NRC prepared an environmental
assessment documenting its finding.
The NRC concluded that the proposed
actions will have no significant
environmental impact.
Environmental Assessment
Identification of the Proposed Actions
The proposed actions would exempt
the BSEP, Units 1 and 2 from the
required implementation date of March
31, 2010, for two new requirements of
10 CFR part 73. Specifically, BSEP
would be granted exemptions from
being in full compliance with certain
new requirements contained in 10 CFR
73.55, ‘‘Requirements for physical
protection of licensed activities in
nuclear power reactors against
radiological sabotage,’’ by the March 31,
2010, deadline. CP&L has proposed an
alternate full compliance
implementation date of December 20,
2010, approximately 9 months beyond
the date required by 10 CFR part 73. The
proposed actions, extensions of the
schedule for completion of certain
actions required by the revised 10 CFR
part 73, do not involve any physical
changes to the Units 1 and 2 reactors,
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fuel, plant structures, support
structures, water, or land at the BSEP
site.
The proposed actions are in
accordance with the licensee’s
application dated November 30, 2009
(Agencywide Documents Access and
Management System (ADAMS)
Accession No. ML093370132).
The Need for the Proposed Actions
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The proposed actions are needed to
provide the licensee with additional
time to perform the required changes to
the BSEP, Units 1 and 2 security
systems, which involve significant
physical modifications, e.g., design and
construction of a new security building
to support the new physical protection
program requirements, relocation of
certain security equipment to the new
building, the addition of uninterrupted
power supply, and infrastructure
upgrades. In addition, these
modifications must be coordinated with
the Unit 1 refueling outage in spring
2010.
Environmental Impacts of the Proposed
Actions
The NRC has completed its
environmental assessment of the
proposed exemptions. The staff has
concluded that the proposed actions to
extend the implementation deadline
would not significantly affect plant
safety and would not have a significant
adverse effect on the probability of an
accident occurring.
The proposed actions would not
result in an increased radiological
hazard beyond those previously
analyzed in the environmental
assessment and finding of no significant
impact made by the Commission in
promulgating its revisions to 10 CFR
part 73 as discussed in a Federal
Register notice dated March 27, 2009
(74 FR 13967). There will be no change
to radioactive effluents that affect
radiation exposures to plant workers
and members of the public. Therefore,
no changes or different types of
radiological impacts are expected as a
result of the proposed exemptions.
The proposed actions do not result in
changes to land use or water use, or
result in changes to the quality or
quantity of non-radiological effluents.
No changes to the National Pollution
Discharge Elimination System permit
are needed. No effects on the aquatic or
terrestrial habitat in the vicinity of the
plant, or to threatened, endangered, or
protected species under the Endangered
Species Act, or impacts to essential fish
habitat covered by the MagnusonSteven’s Act are expected.
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There are no impacts to the air or
ambient air quality. There are no
impacts to historical and cultural
resources. There would be no impact to
socioeconomic resources. Therefore, no
changes to or different types of nonradiological environmental impacts are
expected as a result of the proposed
exemptions.
Accordingly, the NRC concludes that
there are no significant environmental
impacts associated with the proposed
actions. In addition, in promulgating its
revisions to 10 CFR part 73, the
Commission prepared an environmental
assessment and published a finding of
no significant impact (Part 73, Power
Reactor Security Requirements, 74 FR
13926, 13967 (March 27, 2009)).
The licensee currently maintains a
security system acceptable to the NRC
and will continue to provide acceptable
physical protection of BSEP. Therefore,
the extension of the implementation
date for certain new requirements of 10
CFR part 73 to December 20, 2010,
would not have any significant
environmental impacts.
The NRC staff’s safety evaluation will
be provided in the exemptions that will
be issued as part of the letter to the
licensee approving the exemptions to
the regulation, if granted.
Environmental Impacts of the
Alternatives to the Proposed Actions
As an alternative to the proposed
actions, the NRC staff considered denial
of the proposed actions (i.e., the ‘‘no
action’’ alternative). Denial of the
exemption requests would result in no
change in current environmental
impacts. If the proposed actions were
denied, the licensee would have to
comply with the March 31, 2010,
implementation deadline. The
environmental impacts of the proposed
exemptions and the ‘‘no action’’
alternative are similar.
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Alternative Use of Resources
The actions do not involve the use of
any different resources than those
considered in the Final Environmental
Statement for the BSEP dated January
1976, and the Generic Environmental
Impact Statement for License Renewal
of Nuclear Plants, NUREG–1437,
Supplement 25, dated March 2006
(ADAMS Accession No. ML060900480).
Agencies and Persons Consulted
In accordance with its stated policy,
on January 19, 2010, the NRC staff
consulted with the North Carolina State
official, Mr. Dale Dusenbury of the
North Carolina Department of
Environment and Natural Resources
regarding the environmental impact of
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the proposed actions. The State official
had no comments.
Finding of No Significant Impact
On the basis of the environmental
assessment, the NRC concludes that the
proposed actions 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 actions.
For further details with respect to the
proposed actions, see the licensee’s
letter dated November 30, 2009.
Attachment 1 of the November 30, 2009,
submittal contains security-related
information and, accordingly, is not
available to the public. Other parts of
this document 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 O–
1F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor),
Rockville, Maryland 20852. Publicly
available records will be accessible
electronically from the 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 send an
e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day
of February 2010.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Farideh E. Saba,
Senior Project Manager, Plant Licensing
Branch II–2, Division of Operating Reactor
Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation.
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Notice of Environmental Assessment
Related to the Issuance of a License
Amendment to Masters Materials
License 03–23853–01VA, for
Unrestricted Release of a Department
of Veterans Affairs Facility in
Gainesville, FL
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Issuance of Environmental
Assessment and Finding of No
Significant Impact for License
Amendment.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Katie Streit, Health Physicist, Materials
Control, ISFSI, and Decommissioning
Branch, Division of Nuclear Materials
Safety, Region III, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, 2443
Warrenville Road, Lisle, Illinois 60532;
Telephone: (630) 829–9621; fax number:
(630) 515–1259; or by e-mail at
Katherine.Streit@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is proposing to
amend a materials permit held under
Master Byproduct Materials License No.
03–23853–01VA. The permit is held by
the Department of Veterans Affairs (the
Licensee), for its Veteran Affairs (VA)
North Florida/South Georgia Veterans
Health System located in Gainesville,
Florida. Issuance of the amendment
would authorize release of Building 26
(the Facility) for unrestricted use. The
Licensee will continue its operation of
other facilities under this permit and its
master materials license. The Licensee
requested this action in a letter dated
October 29, 2009 (ML093060270). The
NRC has prepared an Environmental
Assessment (EA) in support of this
proposed action in accordance with the
requirements of Title 10, Code of
Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 51 (10
CFR Part 51). Based on the EA, the NRC
has concluded that a Finding of No
Significant Impact (FONSI) is
appropriate with respect to the
proposed action. The amendment will
be issued to the Licensee following the
publication of this FONSI and EA in the
Federal Register.
II. Environmental Assessment
Identification of Proposed Action
The proposed action would approve
the Licensee’s October 29, 2009,
materials permit amendment request,
resulting in release of the Facility for
unrestricted use. License No. 03–23853–
01VA was issued on March 17, 2003,
pursuant to 10 CFR Parts 30 and 35, and
has been amended periodically since
that time. This master license authorizes
the Licensee to use byproduct materials
at several Licensee facilities around the
country, as authorized on a site-specific
basis by permits issued by the
Licensee’s National Radiation Safety
Committee. Under the license, the
permits authorize the use of by-product
materials for various medical and
veterinary purposes, and for portable
gauges.
Under the master material license
permit, building 26 was used as a
radioactive waste storage facility located
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[NRC-2010-0066; Docket Nos. 50-325 and 50-324]
Carolina Power & Light Company, Brunswick Steam Electric Plant,
Units 1 and 2; Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant
Impact
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering
issuance of exemptions, pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR) Section 73.5, ``Specific exemptions,'' from the
implementation date for certain new requirements of 10 CFR part 73,
``Physical protection of plants and materials,'' for Facility Operating
License Nos. DPR 71 and DPR-62, issued to Carolina Power & Light
Company (CP&L, the licensee), for operation of the Brunswick Steam
Electric Plant, Units 1 and 2 (BSEP), located in Brunswick County,
North Carolina. In accordance with 10 CFR 51.21, ``Criteria for and
identification of licensing and regulatory actions requiring
environmental assessments,'' the NRC prepared an environmental
assessment documenting its finding. The NRC concluded that the proposed
actions will have no significant environmental impact.
Environmental Assessment
Identification of the Proposed Actions
The proposed actions would exempt the BSEP, Units 1 and 2 from the
required implementation date of March 31, 2010, for two new
requirements of 10 CFR part 73. Specifically, BSEP would be granted
exemptions from being in full compliance with certain new requirements
contained in 10 CFR 73.55, ``Requirements for physical protection of
licensed activities in nuclear power reactors against radiological
sabotage,'' by the March 31, 2010, deadline. CP&L has proposed an
alternate full compliance implementation date of December 20, 2010,
approximately 9 months beyond the date required by 10 CFR part 73. The
proposed actions, extensions of the schedule for completion of certain
actions required by the revised 10 CFR part 73, do not involve any
physical changes to the Units 1 and 2 reactors, fuel, plant structures,
support structures, water, or land at the BSEP site.
The proposed actions are in accordance with the licensee's
application dated November 30, 2009 (Agencywide Documents Access and
Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML093370132).
The Need for the Proposed Actions
The proposed actions are needed to provide the licensee with
additional time to perform the required changes to the BSEP, Units 1
and 2 security systems, which involve significant physical
modifications, e.g., design and construction of a new security building
to support the new physical protection program requirements, relocation
of certain security equipment to the new building, the addition of
uninterrupted power supply, and infrastructure upgrades. In addition,
these modifications must be coordinated with the Unit 1 refueling
outage in spring 2010.
Environmental Impacts of the Proposed Actions
The NRC has completed its environmental assessment of the proposed
exemptions. The staff has concluded that the proposed actions to extend
the implementation deadline would not significantly affect plant safety
and would not have a significant adverse effect on the probability of
an accident occurring.
The proposed actions would not result in an increased radiological
hazard beyond those previously analyzed in the environmental assessment
and finding of no significant impact made by the Commission in
promulgating its revisions to 10 CFR part 73 as discussed in a Federal
Register notice dated March 27, 2009 (74 FR 13967). There will be no
change to radioactive effluents that affect radiation exposures to
plant workers and members of the public. Therefore, no changes or
different types of radiological impacts are expected as a result of the
proposed exemptions.
The proposed actions do not result in changes to land use or water
use, or result in changes to the quality or quantity of non-
radiological effluents. No changes to the National Pollution Discharge
Elimination System permit are needed. No effects on the aquatic or
terrestrial habitat in the vicinity of the plant, or to threatened,
endangered, or protected species under the Endangered Species Act, or
impacts to essential fish habitat covered by the Magnuson-Steven's Act
are expected.
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There are no impacts to the air or ambient air quality. There are
no impacts to historical and cultural resources. There would be no
impact to socioeconomic resources. Therefore, no changes to or
different types of non-radiological environmental impacts are expected
as a result of the proposed exemptions.
Accordingly, the NRC concludes that there are no significant
environmental impacts associated with the proposed actions. In
addition, in promulgating its revisions to 10 CFR part 73, the
Commission prepared an environmental assessment and published a finding
of no significant impact (Part 73, Power Reactor Security Requirements,
74 FR 13926, 13967 (March 27, 2009)).
The licensee currently maintains a security system acceptable to
the NRC and will continue to provide acceptable physical protection of
BSEP. Therefore, the extension of the implementation date for certain
new requirements of 10 CFR part 73 to December 20, 2010, would not have
any significant environmental impacts.
The NRC staff's safety evaluation will be provided in the
exemptions that will be issued as part of the letter to the licensee
approving the exemptions to the regulation, if granted.
Environmental Impacts of the Alternatives to the Proposed Actions
As an alternative to the proposed actions, the NRC staff considered
denial of the proposed actions (i.e., the ``no action'' alternative).
Denial of the exemption requests would result in no change in current
environmental impacts. If the proposed actions were denied, the
licensee would have to comply with the March 31, 2010, implementation
deadline. The environmental impacts of the proposed exemptions and the
``no action'' alternative are similar.
Alternative Use of Resources
The actions do not involve the use of any different resources than
those considered in the Final Environmental Statement for the BSEP
dated January 1976, and the Generic Environmental Impact Statement for
License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, NUREG-1437, Supplement 25, dated
March 2006 (ADAMS Accession No. ML060900480).
Agencies and Persons Consulted
In accordance with its stated policy, on January 19, 2010, the NRC
staff consulted with the North Carolina State official, Mr. Dale
Dusenbury of the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural
Resources regarding the environmental impact of the proposed actions.
The State official had no comments.
Finding of No Significant Impact
On the basis of the environmental assessment, the NRC concludes
that the proposed actions 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
actions.
For further details with respect to the proposed actions, see the
licensee's letter dated November 30, 2009. Attachment 1 of the November
30, 2009, submittal contains security-related information and,
accordingly, is not available to the public. Other parts of this
document 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
O-1F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland 20852.
Publicly available records will be accessible electronically from the
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 send
an e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day of February 2010.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Farideh E. Saba,
Senior Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch II-2, Division of
Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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