[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 187 (Wednesday, September 26, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 49219]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-24047]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-73]
General Electric Company; The General Electric Nuclear Test
Reactor Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering
issuance of an amendment for Facility Operating License No. R-33,
issued to the General Electric Company (the licensee), for operation of
the General Electric Nuclear Test Reactor, located in Sunol,
California. 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
The proposed action would correct typographical errors in section
numbers referenced in the Technical Specifications.
The proposed action is in accordance with the licensee's
application dated July 3, 2001.
Need for the Proposed Action
The proposed action would make the Technical Specifications
accurate.
Environmental Impacts of the Proposed Action
The NRC has completed its evaluation of the proposed action and
concludes that the proposed action is administrative in nature and will
have no significant environmental impacts.
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, 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 resource than
those previously considered in the Environmental Assessment for the
General Electric Nuclear Test Reactor dated April 13, 2001.
Agencies and Persons Consulted
On August 10, 2001, the staff consulted with the California
Department of Health official, Steve Hsu, 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 July 3, 2001. Documents may be examined, and/or
copied for a fee, at the NRC's Public Document Room, located at One
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville,
Maryland. Publically available records will be accessible
electronically from the ADAMS Public Library component on the NRC Web
site, http://www.nrc.gov (the Public Electronic Reading Room). If you
do not have access to ADAMS or if there are problems in accessing the
documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC Public Document Room (PDR)
Reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, or 301-415-4737, or by e-mail at
[email protected].
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day of September, 2001.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Patrick M. Madden,
Chief, Non-Power Reactors Section, Operational Experience and Non-Power
Reactors Branch, Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs, Office of
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 01-24047 Filed 9-25-01; 8:45 am]
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