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Volume IV

Michigan

MI950007 (Feb. 10, 1995)

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Volume VI

California

CA950001 (Feb. 10, 1995)

Nevada

NV950001 (Feb. 10, 1995)

NV950001 (Feb. 10, 1995)

NV950002 (Feb. 10, 1995)

NV950005 (Feb. 10, 1995)

General Wage Determination

Publication

General wage determinations issued

under the Davis-Bacon and related Acts,

including those noted above, may be

found in the Government Printing Office

(GPO) document entitled ‘‘General Wage

Determinations Issued Under The DavisBacon and Related Acts’’. This

publication is available at each of the 50

Regional Government Depository

Libraries and many of the 1,400

Government Depository Libraries across

the county.

The general wage determinations

issued under the Davis-Bacon and

related Acts are available electronically

by subscription to the FedWorld

Bulletin Board System of the National

Technical Information Service (NTIS) of

the U.S. Department of Commerce at

(703) 487–4630.

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purchased from: Superintendent of

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Subscriptions include an annual edition

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each volume. Throughout the remainder

of the year, regular weekly updates are

distributed to subscribers.

Signed at Washington, DC this 15th day of

December 1995.

Philip J. Gloss,

Chief, Branch of Construction Wage

Determinations.

[FR Doc. 95–30947 Filed 12–21–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4510–27–M

NUCLEAR REGULATORY

COMMISSION

Docket Nos. 50–295 and 50–304]

Commonwealth Edison Co; Zion

Nuclear Power Station, Units 1 and 2,

Environmental Assessment and

Finding of No Significant Impact

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission (the Commission) is

considering issuance of an exemption

from certain requirements of its

regulations to Facility Operating License

Nos. DPR–39 and DPR–48, issued to

Commonwealth Edison Company

(ComEd, the licensee), for operation of

the Zion Nuclear Power Station, Units 1

and 2, located in Lake County, Illinois.

Environmental Assessment

Identification of the Proposed Action

The proposed action is in accordance

with the licensee’s application for and

exemption from certain requirements of

10 CFR 73.55, ‘‘Requirements for

Physical Protection of Licensed

Activities in Nuclear Power Reactors

Against Radiological Sabotage.’’ The

requested exemption would allow the

implementation of a hand geometry

biometric system of site access control

in conjunction with photograph

identification badges, and would allow

the badges to be taken off site.

The Need for the Proposed Action

Pursuant to 10 CFR 73.55(a), the

licensee is required to establish and

maintain an onsite physical protection

system and security organization.

In 10 CFR 73.55(d), ‘‘Access

Requirements,’’ it specifies in part that

‘‘The licensee shall control all points of

personnel and vehicle access into a

protected area.’’ In 10 CFR 73.55(d)(5),

it specifies in part that ‘‘A numbered

picture badge identification system shall

be used for all individuals who are

authorized access to protected areas

without escort.’’ It further indicates that

an individual not employed by the

licensee (e.g., contractors) may be

authorized access to protected areas

without an escort provided the

individual, ‘‘receives a picture badge

upon entrance into the protected area

which must be returned upon exit from

the protected area.’’

Currently, unescorted access for both

employee and contractor personnel into

the Zion Station, Units 1 and 2, is

controlled through the use of picture

badges. Positive identification of

personnel who are authorized and

request access into a the protected area

is established by security personnel

making a visual comparison of the

individual requesting access and that

individual’s picture badge. The picture

badges are issued, stored, and retrieved

at the entrance/exit location to the

protected area. In accordance with 10

CFR 73.55(d)(5), contractor personnel

are not allowed to take their picture

badges off site. In addition, in

accordance with the plant’s physical

security plan, the licensee’s employees

are also not allowed to take their picture

badges off site. The licensee proposes to

implement an alterative unescorted

access control system which would

eliminate the need to issue and retrieve

picture badges at the entrance/exit

location to the protected area. The

proposal would also allow contractors

who have unescorted access to keep

their picture badges in their possession

when departing the Zion site. In

addition, the site security plans will be

revised to allow implementation of the

hand geometry system and to allow

employees and contractors with

unescorted access to keep their picture

badges in their possession when leaving

the Zion site.

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed

Action

The Commission has completed its

evaluation of the proposed action. In

addition to their picture badges, all

individuals with authorized unescorted

access will have the physical

characteristics of their hand (hand

geometry) registered with their picture

badge number in a computerized access

control system. Therefore, all authorized

individuals must not only have their

picture badges to gain access into the

protected area, but must also have their

hand geometry confirmed.

All other access process, including

search function capability and access

revocation, will remain the same. A

security officer responsible for access

control will continue to be positioned

within a bullet-resistant structure. The

proposed system is only for individuals

with authorized unescorted access and

will not be used for individuals

requiring escorts.

The underlying purpose for requiring

that individuals not employed by the

licensee must receive and return their

picture badges at the entrance/exit is to

provide reasonable assurance that the

access badges could not be

compromised or stolen with a resulting

risk that an unauthorized individual

could potentially enter the protected

area. Although the proposed exemption

will allow individuals to take their

picture badges off site, the proposed

measures require not only that the

picture badge be provided for access to

the protected area, but also that
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verification of the hand geometry

registered with the badge be performed

as discussed above. Thus, the proposed

system provides an identity verification

process that is equivalent to the existing

process.

Accordingly, the Commission

concludes that the exemption to allow

individuals not employed by the

licensee to take their picture badges off

site will not result in an increase in the

risk that an unauthorized individual

could potentially enter the protected

area. Consequently, the Commission

concludes that there are no significant

radiological environmental impacts

associated with the proposed action.

The proposed exemption does not

affect nonradiological plant effluents

and has no other environmental impact.

Accordingly, the Commission concludes

that there are no significant

nonradiological environmental impacts

associated with the proposed action.

Alternatives to the Proposed Action

Since the Commission has concluded

there is no measurable environmental

impact associated with the proposed

action, any alternatives with equal or

greater environmental impact need not

be evaluated. The principal alternative

to the proposed action would be to deny

the requested action. Denial of the

requested action would not significantly

enhance the environment in that the

proposed action will result in a process

that is equivalent to the existing

identification verification process.

Alternative Use of Resources

This action does not involve the use

of resources not previously considered

in connection with the Nuclear

Regulatory Commission’s Final

Environmental Statement dated

December 1972, related to the operation

of the Zion Nuclear Power Station,

Units 1 and 2.

Agencies and Persons Consulted

In accordance with its stated policy,

on November 15, 1995, the NRC staff

consulted with the Illinois State official,

Mr. Frank Niziolek; Head, Reactor

Safety Section; Division of Engineering;

Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety;

regarding the environmental impact of

the proposed action. The State official

had no comments.

Finding of No Significant Impact

Based upon the foregoing

environmental assessment, the

Commission concludes that the

proposed action will not have a

significant effect on the quality of the

human environment. Accordingly, the

Commission has determined not to

prepare an environmental impact

statement for the proposed exemption.

For further details with respect to

this, see the licensee’s letter dated

October 25, 1995, which is available for

public inspection at the Commission’s

Public Document Room, 2120 L Street,

NW., Washington, DC, and at the local

public document room located at the

Waukegan Public Library, 128 N.

County Street, Waukegan, Illinois

60085.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 13th day

of December 1995.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Robert A. Capra,

Director, Project Directorate III–2, Division

of Reactor Projects—III/IV, Office of Nuclear

Reactor Regulation.

[FR Doc. 95–31157 Filed 12–21–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P

[Docket Nos. 50–413 and 50–414]

Duke Power Co. et al.; Catawba

Nuclear Station, Unit Nos. 1 and 2

Environmental Assessment and

Finding of No Significant Impact

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission (the Commission) is

considering issuance of amendments to

Facility Operating License Nos. NPF–35

and NPF–52, issued to Duke Power

Company, et al. (the licensee), for

operation of the Catawba Nuclear

Station, Units 1 and 2, located in York

County, South Carolina.

Environmental Assessment

Identification of the Proposed Action

By letter dated September 5, 1995,

Duke Power Company submitted a

proposal for amendments of the Facility

Operating Licenses that would allow the

Catawba Units 1 and 2 Containment

Airborne Particulate Radiation Monitors

(CAPRMs, 1/2 EMF38(L)) to be

reclassified in the Updated Final Safety

Analysis Report (UFSAR) as nonseismic Category I.

The Catawba operating license Safety

Evaluation Report (SER, NUREG–0954),

Section 5.2.5, states that the CAPRMs

are designed to seismic Category I

requirements. The basis for this

determination was Section 5.2.5 of the

Catawba UFSAR, which currently states

that the CAPRMs would remain

functional during and following a safe

shutdown earthquake (SSE) as

recommended in Position C.6 of

Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.45 ‘‘Reactor

Coolant Pressure Boundary Leakage

Detection Systems.’’

By letter dated September 8, 1994, the

licensee informed the staff that

sufficient documentation did not exist

to show that the subject monitors were

seismically qualified to withstand the

SSE. By letter dated September 5, 1995,

the licensee stated that the matter

involved an unreviewed safety question

and requested amendments to its

Facility Operating Licenses including

proposed changes to the UFSAR, which

would clarify that the CAPRMs are not

designed to remain functional following

the SSE. The licensee has proposed an

alternative to Position C.6 of RG 1.45 by

showing that adequate instrumentation

and procedures will be available to

assess conditions inside containment

following a seismic event comparable to

an SSE and that, accordingly, the

seismic qualification requirement for

the CAPRMs may be deleted from the

UFSAR.

The proposed action is in accordance

with the licensee’s application for

amendments dated September 5, 1995.

The Need for the Proposed Action

The proposed action is needed so that

the appropriate seismic qualification for

the CAPRMs can be reflected in the

UFSAR.

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed

Action

The Commission has completed its

evaluation of the proposed revisions to

the UFSAR. The proposed revisions

would permit the Containment Airborne

Particulate Radiation Monitors (1/

2EMF38(L)) at Catawba Units 1 and 2 to

be classified as non-seismic Category I.

The safety considerations associated

with this re-classification have been

evaluated by the NRC staff. The staff has

concluded that the licensee has

demonstrated an acceptable alternative

to Position C.6 of RG 1.45 by showing

that adequate instrumentation and

procedures will be available to assess

conditions inside containment

following a seismic event comparable to

an SSE. The proposed changes have no

adverse effect on the probability of any

accident. No changes are being made in

the types or amounts of any radiological

effluents that may be released offsite.

There is no significant increase in the

allowable individual or cumulative

occupational radiation exposure.

Accordingly, the Commission

concludes that there are no significant

radiological environmental impacts

associated with the proposed

amendments.

With regard to potential

nonradiological impacts, the proposed

action involves features located entirely

within the restricted area as defined in

10 CFR part 20. It does not affect

nonradiological plant effluents and has

no other environmental impact.