Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 40 / Tuesday, March 3, 2009 / Notices 9315 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

L. Raghavan, 

Chief, Special Projects Branch, Division of 

Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of 

Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

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[Docket Nos. 50–315 and 50–316; NRC– 

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Indiana Michigan Power Company; 

Donald C. Cook Nuclear 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, Section 36a(a)(2) [10 CFR 

50.36a(a)(2)], for Facility Operating 

License Nos. DPR–58 and DPR–74, 

issued to Indiana Michigan Power 

Company (the licensee), for operation of 

the Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant, Unit 

1 and Unit 2, located in Berrien County. 

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 regulation 10 CFR 50.36(a)(2) 

specifies that the Radioactive Effluent 

Release Report submittal interval must 

not exceed 12 months. By application 

dated October 21, 2008 (Agencywide 

Documents Access and Management 

System (ADAMS) Accession Number 

ML082970187), the licensee proposed 

an amendment to Technical 

Specification 5.6.3 which would change 

the submittal date from ‘‘within 90 days 

of January 1 of each year’’ (i.e., prior to 

April 1, 2009) to ‘‘prior to May 1 of each 

year.’’ 

In the October 21, 2008, application, 

the licensee also requested a one-time 

exemption from the requirements of 10 

CFR 50.36a(a)(2) to support the 

implementation of the proposed 

amendment which results in the 2008 

Radioactive Effluent Release Report 

submittal exceeding the 12-month 

requirement. 

The Need for the Proposed Action 

The proposed action is required to 

support the implementation of the 

proposed amendment to Technical 

Specification 5.6.3. This amendment 

eliminates an undue administrative 

burden by extending the required 

submittal date for the Radioactive 

Effluent Release Report one additional 

month. As specified in 10 CFR 

50.36a(a)(2), the interval between 

submittals must not exceed 12 months. 

A one-time exemption is required 

because the proposed amendment 

would result in the 2008 Radioactive 

Effluent Release Report submittal 

exceeding the 12-month requirement. 

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed 

Action 

The NRC has completed its safety 

evaluation of the proposed action and 

concludes that there are no 

environmental impacts associated with 

the proposed exemption. The details of 

the staff’s safety evaluation will be 

provided in the exemption that will be 

issued as part of the letter to the 

licensee approving the exemption to the 

regulation. 

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. There is no 

significant increase in the amount of 

any effluent released offsite. 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 other than those 

previously considered in the Final 

Environmental Statement for the Donald 

C. Cook Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2, 

dated August 1973, and the Generic 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

License Renewal of the Donald C. Cook 

Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2 (NUREG– 

1437, Supplement 20), dated May 2005. 

Agencies and Persons Consulted 

On February 9, 2009, the staff 

consulted with the Michigan State 

official, Mr. Ken Yale, of the Michigan 

Department of Environmental Quality, 

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 October 21, 2008. Documents 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 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, http:// 

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 24th day 

of February 2009. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Terry A. Beltz, 

Senior Project Manager, Plant Licensing 

Branch III–1, Division of Operating Reactor 

Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation. 

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AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETINGS: Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission. 

DATES: Weeks of March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, 

April 6, 2009. 

PLACE: Commissioners’ Conference 

Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland. 

STATUS: Public and Closed. 

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