Atomic Safety and Licensing Board; Honeywell International, Inc.; Metropolis Works Uranium Conversion Facility; Notice of Hearing, 58049-58050 [2011-23939]
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Atomic Safety and Licensing Board;
Honeywell International, Inc.;
Metropolis Works Uranium Conversion
Facility; Notice of Hearing
September 13, 2011.
Before Administrative Judges: Paul S.
Ryerson, Chairman; E. Roy Hawkens; Paul
B. Abramson.
On July 27, 2011, the Board granted 1
Honeywell International, Inc.’s
1 LBP–11–19, 74 NRC l , l (slip op. at 4) (July
27, 2011).
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(Honeywell) request for a hearing 2
concerning a NRC Staff decision 3
denying Honeywell’s license
amendment request for the use of an
alternate method for demonstrating
decommissioning funding assurance for
its Metropolis Works uranium
conversion facility in Metropolis,
Illinois.
Accordingly, the Board will conduct
an evidentiary hearing on Honeywell’s
request beginning at 9 a.m. Eastern
Standard Time (E.S.T.) on Thursday,
December 15, 2011 in the Atomic and
Safety Licensing Board Panel’s Hearing
Room, located on the third floor of Two
White Flint North, 11545 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20352. The
hearing will resume at 9 a.m. E.S.T. on
Friday, December 16, 2011, if necessary.
The Board intends to conduct a
conference call with the parties at a later
date to discuss further administrative
details concerning the hearing.
It is so ordered.
For the Atomic Safety and Licensing
Board.
Dated: September 13, 2011 in Rockville,
Maryland.
Paul S. Ryerson,
Chairman, Administrative Judge.
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Tennessee Valley Authority, Bellefonte
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) has prepared this
Environmental Assessment (EA)
associated with a request by the
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to
extend the construction permit (CP)
CPPR–122 for the Bellefonte Nuclear
Plant (BLN), Unit 1 pursuant to Title 10
of Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR)
50.55(b). Based on information provided
in TVA’s letter, dated October 8, 2010
(Agencywide Documents Access and
Management System (ADAMS)
Accession No. ML102870233), and the
2 Request for Hearing on Denial of
Decommissioning License Amendment Request
(June 22, 2011).
3 Letter from U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission to Honeywell International, Inc.,
Denial of Exemption Request from 10 CFR part 30,
Appendix C, Regarding Decommissioning Financial
Assurance Requirements, Honeywell Metropolis
Works, Material License No. SUB–526 (TAC No.
L32718) (Dec. 11, 2009) (ADAMS Accession No.
ML093170604).
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Land Use and Aesthetic Impacts
Land use and aesthetic impacts from
the proposed extension of the CP
include impacts from completing the
construction of BLN Unit 1. TVA states
in its 2010 FSEIS that BLN Unit 1 is
estimated to be 55-percent complete
with most of the plant physical
infrastructure work completed.
Remaining construction- and
refurbishment-related activities at BLN
Unit 1 include the need to: Rebuild the
Impacts on Air Quality
Main sources of potential air quality
impacts from extension of the CP for
BLN Unit 1 would be fugitive dust from
construction activities, including
exhaust emissions from motorized
equipment and workers’ vehicles
commuting to and from the BLN site.
The 1990 Clean Air Act amendments
include a provision that no Federal
agency shall support any activity that
does not conform to a state
Environmental Assessment
Plant Site and Environs
BLN Unit 1 is a pressurized-water
reactor site that has been partially
completed. The unit is located on a
peninsula between Town Creek and the
Tennessee River at River Mile 392 on
the west shore of Guntersville Reservoir
near Hollywood, Alabama. Most of the
1,600 acres of the site have been
previously impacted by construction for
both BLN Units 1 and 2.
Identification of the Proposed Action
TVA has requested extension of the
CP for BLN Unit 1 from October 1, 2011,
to October 1, 2020. The Atomic Energy
Commission (now the NRC) issued the
Final Environmental Statement (FES) in
June 1974 for BLN Units 1 and 2 (1974
FES). On December 24, 1974, CPs were
issued by the NRC. Much of the
construction work for BLN Units 1 and
2 was subsequently completed.
The Need for the Proposed Action
The extension of the CP for BLN Unit
1 would enable TVA to complete
construction of BLN Unit 1.
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power stores warehouse building;
replace the auxiliary boiler building;
replace auxiliary boiler; replace two
steam generators; replace the existing
analog and solid state instrumentation
and controls systems with digital
technology; replace the turbine rotating
assemblies; replace major pumps,
motors, heat exchangers, tanks, and
piping; refurbish major equipment, such
as reactor coolant pumps, diesel
generators, and plant electrical breakers;
upgrade plant barge unloading dock;
remove silt from the intake structure;
replace electric transmission system
equipment utilized for plant operation;
upgrade a cooling tower; update the
plant control room; build a new
simulator; install an intrusion barrier for
the intake pumping station and intake
channel; construct security upgrades;
construct nonplant-related
administrative building; construct
maintenance building; build
construction building; construct
fabrication building; construct training
building; and to potentially realign the
southern entrance road to a point 1,200
feet east of its existing location.
Additionally, clay borrow pits may be
dug in wooded areas immediately east
of the main buildings. The above
construction and refurbishment
activities would not involve significant
new land disturbing work. The work
would largely be done within existing
buildings and land areas previously
disturbed during initial construction for
the BLN units. The construction
activities would use best management
practices to limit the impacts from
excavation including air pollutant
emissions from earthwork (i.e., fugitive
dust), construction equipment, and
workers’ vehicles.
Based on the available information,
the NRC concludes that there would be
no significant impact on land use and
aesthetic resources in the vicinity of
BLN Unit 1. Land use would not change
and additional work to complete BLN
Unit 1 would either be confined to, or
occur adjacent to, areas previously
disturbed by construction activities. The
majority of these impacts were assessed
and documented in the 1974 FES.
NRC staff’s independent review of
references, the NRC staff did not
identify any significant impact
associated with the extension of the
BLN Unit 1 CP. The NRC staff is
documenting its environmental review
in this EA.
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Environmental Impacts of the Proposed
Action
This EA summarizes the radiological
and nonradiological impacts to the
environment that may result from the
proposed extension of the CP for BLN
Unit 1. Operational impacts are
addressed in the TVA’s May 2010 Final
Supplemental Environmental Impact
Statement, ‘‘Single Nuclear Unit at the
Bellefonte Plant Site’’ (2010 FSEIS),
attached to its letter of October 8, 2010.
Therefore, operational impacts are not
further discussed in this EA for the
purposes of evaluating TVA’s CP
extension request.
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[Docket No. 40-3392-MLA; ASLBP No. 11-910-01-MLA-BD01]
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board; Honeywell International, Inc.;
Metropolis Works Uranium Conversion Facility; Notice of Hearing
September 13, 2011.
Before Administrative Judges: Paul S. Ryerson, Chairman; E. Roy
Hawkens; Paul B. Abramson.
On July 27, 2011, the Board granted \1\ Honeywell International,
Inc.'s
[[Page 58050]]
(Honeywell) request for a hearing \2\ concerning a NRC Staff decision
\3\ denying Honeywell's license amendment request for the use of an
alternate method for demonstrating decommissioning funding assurance
for its Metropolis Works uranium conversion facility in Metropolis,
Illinois.
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\1\ LBP-11-19, 74 NRC -- , -- (slip op. at 4) (July 27, 2011).
\2\ Request for Hearing on Denial of Decommissioning License
Amendment Request (June 22, 2011).
\3\ Letter from U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to Honeywell
International, Inc., Denial of Exemption Request from 10 CFR part
30, Appendix C, Regarding Decommissioning Financial Assurance
Requirements, Honeywell Metropolis Works, Material License No. SUB-
526 (TAC No. L32718) (Dec. 11, 2009) (ADAMS Accession No.
ML093170604).
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Accordingly, the Board will conduct an evidentiary hearing on
Honeywell's request beginning at 9 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (E.S.T.)
on Thursday, December 15, 2011 in the Atomic and Safety Licensing Board
Panel's Hearing Room, located on the third floor of Two White Flint
North, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20352. The hearing
will resume at 9 a.m. E.S.T. on Friday, December 16, 2011, if
necessary.
The Board intends to conduct a conference call with the parties at
a later date to discuss further administrative details concerning the
hearing.
It is so ordered.
For the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board.
Dated: September 13, 2011 in Rockville, Maryland.
Paul S. Ryerson,
Chairman, Administrative Judge.
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