Notice of Availability of Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for License Amendment for Kennecott Uranium Company, Rawlins, WY, 29543-29544 [E5-2581]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 98 / Monday, May 23, 2005 / Notices items). Letters of appreciation sent to agency employees by staff of other Federal agencies as well as by the public and non-Federal organizations. 10. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt (N1–53–05– 1, 4 items, 3 temporary items). Working papers, such as research notes and questionnaires, relating to market research and product studies. Also included are electronic copies of records created using electronic mail and word processing. Recordkeeping copies of final study reports are proposed for permanent retention. 11. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt (N1–53–05– 5, 4 items, 4 temporary items). Records relating to the production and inventory control of bond stock, including electronic copies of records created using electronic mail and word processing. 12. 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Tennessee Valley Authority, Agency-wide (N1–142–05–1, 5 items, 5 temporary items). Files relating to technical training, including course plans and content, class rosters, and individual training records. Also included are electronic copies of records created using electronic mail and word processing. This schedule authorizes the agency to apply the proposed disposition instructions to any recordkeeping medium. Dated: May 13, 2005. Michael J. Kurtz, Assistant Archivist for Records Services— Washington, DC. [FR Doc. 05–10244 Filed 5–20–05; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7515–01–P VerDate jul<14>2003 16:20 May 20, 2005 Jkt 205001 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Review; Comment Request U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). ACTION: Notice of the OMB review of information collection and solicitation of public comment. AGENCY: SUMMARY: The NRC has recently submitted to OMB for review the following proposal for the collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). The NRC hereby informs potential respondents that an agency may not conduct or sponsor, and that a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. 1. Type of submission, new, revision, or extension: Extension. 2. The title of the information collection: 10 CFR 81, Standard Specifications for Granting of Patent Licenses. 3. The form number if applicable: Not applicable. 4. How often the collection is required: Applications for licenses are submitted once. Other reports are submitted annually or as other events require. 5. Who will be required or asked to report: Applicants for and holders of NRC licenses to NRC inventions. 6. An estimate of the number of annual responses: 1. 7. The estimated number of annual respondents: 1. 8. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to complete the requirement or request: 37; however, no applications are anticipated during the next three years. 9. An indication of whether Section 3507(d), Pub. L. 104–13 applies: Not applicable. 10. Abstract: 10 CFR Part 81 establishes the standard specifications for the issuance of licenses to rights in inventions covered by patents or patent applications invested in the United States, as represented by or in the custody of the Commission and other patents in which the Commission has legal rights. A copy of the final supporting statement may be viewed free of charge at the NRC Public Document Room, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Room 0–1F21, Rockville, MD 20852. OMB clearance requests are PO 00000 Frm 00071 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 29543 available at the NRC Worldwide Web site: https://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/ doc-comment/omb/. The document will be available on the NRC home page site for 60 days after the signature date of this notice. Comments and questions should be directed to the OMB reviewer listed below by June 22, 2005. Comments received after this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but assurance of consideration cannot be given to comments received after this date. John A. Asalone, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (3150–0121), NEOB–10202, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503. Comments can also be e-mailed to John_A._Asalone@omb.eop.gov or submitted by telephone at (202) 395– 4650. The NRC Clearance Officer is Brenda Jo. Shelton, 301–415–7233. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 16th day of May, 2005. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Brenda Jo. Shelton, NRC Clearance Officer, Office of Information Services. [FR Doc. E5–2582 Filed 5–20–05; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590–01–P NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [Docket No. 40–8584] Notice of Availability of Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for License Amendment for Kennecott Uranium Company, Rawlins, WY Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Notice of availability. AGENCY: FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephen J. Cohen, Project Manager, Fuel Cycle Facilities Branch, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC, 20555–0001. Telephone: (301) 415–7182; fax number: (301) 415–5955; e-mail: sjc7@nrc.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Introduction The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing an amendment to Materials License No. SUA–1350 issued to Kennecott Uranium Company (the licensee), to authorize the reclamation of contaminated soil and ground water at its Sweetwater Uranium Project near Rawlins, Wyoming. NRC has prepared E:\FR\FM\23MYN1.SGM 23MYN1 29544 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 98 / Monday, May 23, 2005 / Notices an Environmental Assessment (EA) in support of this amendment in accordance with the requirements of 10 CFR Part 51. Based on the EA, the NRC has concluded that a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) is appropriate. The amendment will be issued following the publication of this Notice. II. EA Summary The purpose of the proposed amendment is to authorize the remediation of soil and ground water contaminated with diesel range organics (DRO), radium-226, and minute amounts of volatile organic compounds at the licensee’s Sweetwater Uranium Project. Specifically, the amendment will allow the licensee to excavate contaminated soils and extract contaminated ground water from the catchment basin area and dispose of these contaminated materials (11e.(2) byproduct material) within the existing tailings impoundment. On May 12, 2004, Kennecott Uranium Company requested that NRC approve the proposed amendment. The staff has prepared the EA in support of the proposed license amendment. Staff considered impacts to land use, geology and soils, water resources, ecology, meteorology, climatology, air quality, socioeconomics, historical and cultural resources, public and occupational health, and transportation. The staff found that the impacts of the proposed action were not significant because these actions would remove contamination sources and residual contamination, and they will occur within a small portion of the NRClicensed area that was previously used as part of the milling process. Consequently, these actions will prevent the spread of contamination to environmental resources without causing significant impacts to historical and cultural resources, local economy and social resources, and transportation networks. III. Finding of No Significant Impact On the basis of the EA, NRC has concluded that there are no significant environmental impacts from the proposed amendment and has determined not to prepare an environmental impact statement. IV. Further Information Documents related to this action, including the application for amendment and supporting documentation, are available electronically at the NRC’s Electronic Reading Room at https://www.nrc.gov/ reading-rm/adams.html. From this site, you can access the NRC’s Agencywide Document Access and Management System (ADAMS), which provides text and image files of NRC’s public documents. The ADAMS accession numbers for the documents related to this notice are as follows: ADAMS accession No. Document Sweetwater Uranium Project, Request for Amendment to License Conditions 11.3 and 11.5 ................................ Sweetwater Uranium Project, Request for Amendment to License Condition 9.10 ................................................. Sweetwater Uranium Project, Revised Site Contour Map, Contours for Contaminated Soil, Excavated Areas ...... E-mail Acknowledgment of May 12, 2004, Amendment Request ............................................................................ Fax Report on the Threatened and Endangered Species of Sweetwater County ................................................... Request for Additional Information Concerning Source Materials License SUA–1350 ............................................ Sweetwater Uranium Project, Response to October 28, 2004, Request for Additional Information ........................ E-mail Acknowledgment of Response to Request for Additional Information .......................................................... Sweetwater Uranium Project Response to Comments Regarding Natural Uranium and Thorium-230 Remediation in Subsurface Soils ....................................................................................................................................... Draft Environmental Assessment for Amendment to Source Materials License SUA–1350 for the Catchment Basin Reclamation ................................................................................................................................................. Wyoming DEQ’s Review of the Draft Environmental Assessment, Catchment Basin Remediation Amendment Request .................................................................................................................................................................. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Comments on Draft Environmental Assessment for Kennecott Sweetwater Proposed Amendment ............................................................................................................................................................ Environmental Assessment for Amendment of Source Materials License SUA–1350 for the Catchment Basin Reclamation ........................................................................................................................................................... If you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301– 415–4737, or by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov. These documents may also be viewed electronically on the public computers located at the NRC’s PDR, O 1 F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. The PDR reproduction contractor will copy documents for a fee. 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(American Centrifuge Plant) NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [Docket No. 70–7004–ML and ASLBP No. 05–838–01–ML] USEC, Inc.; Establishment of Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Pursuant to delegation by the Commission dated December 29, 1972, published in the Federal Register, 37 FR VerDate jul<14>2003 Date PO 00000 Frm 00072 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 A Licensing Board is being established pursuant to a May 12, 2005 Commission memorandum and order (CLI–05–11, 60 NRCl) in this proceeding regarding the application of the USEC, Inc., (USEC) for a license to possess and use source, byproduct, and special nuclear material and to enrich natural uranium to a maximum of ten percent U–235 by the gas centrifuge E:\FR\FM\23MYN1.SGM 23MYN1

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[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 98 (Monday, May 23, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29543-29544]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-2581]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 40-8584]


Notice of Availability of Environmental Assessment and Finding of 
No Significant Impact for License Amendment for Kennecott Uranium 
Company, Rawlins, WY

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephen J. Cohen, Project Manager, 
Fuel Cycle Facilities Branch, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and 
Safeguards, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC, 20555-0001. Telephone: 
(301) 415-7182; fax number: (301) 415-5955; e-mail: sjc7@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Introduction

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing an amendment to 
Materials License No. SUA-1350 issued to Kennecott Uranium Company (the 
licensee), to authorize the reclamation of contaminated soil and ground 
water at its Sweetwater Uranium Project near Rawlins, Wyoming. NRC has 
prepared

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an Environmental Assessment (EA) in support of this amendment in 
accordance with the requirements of 10 CFR Part 51. Based on the EA, 
the NRC has concluded that a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) 
is appropriate. The amendment will be issued following the publication 
of this Notice.

II. EA Summary

    The purpose of the proposed amendment is to authorize the 
remediation of soil and ground water contaminated with diesel range 
organics (DRO), radium-226, and minute amounts of volatile organic 
compounds at the licensee's Sweetwater Uranium Project. Specifically, 
the amendment will allow the licensee to excavate contaminated soils 
and extract contaminated ground water from the catchment basin area and 
dispose of these contaminated materials (11e.(2) byproduct material) 
within the existing tailings impoundment.
    On May 12, 2004, Kennecott Uranium Company requested that NRC 
approve the proposed amendment. The staff has prepared the EA in 
support of the proposed license amendment. Staff considered impacts to 
land use, geology and soils, water resources, ecology, meteorology, 
climatology, air quality, socioeconomics, historical and cultural 
resources, public and occupational health, and transportation. The 
staff found that the impacts of the proposed action were not 
significant because these actions would remove contamination sources 
and residual contamination, and they will occur within a small portion 
of the NRC-licensed area that was previously used as part of the 
milling process. Consequently, these actions will prevent the spread of 
contamination to environmental resources without causing significant 
impacts to historical and cultural resources, local economy and social 
resources, and transportation networks.

III. Finding of No Significant Impact

    On the basis of the EA, NRC has concluded that there are no 
significant environmental impacts from the proposed amendment and has 
determined not to prepare an environmental impact statement.

IV. Further Information

    Documents related to this action, including the application for 
amendment and supporting documentation, are available electronically at 
the NRC's Electronic Reading Room at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
adams.html. From this site, you can access the NRC's Agencywide 
Document Access and Management System (ADAMS), which provides text and 
image files of NRC's public documents. The ADAMS accession numbers for 
the documents related to this notice are as follows:

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                                            ADAMS accession
                 Document                         No.            Date
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Sweetwater Uranium Project, Request for         ML041450434     05/12/04
 Amendment to License Conditions 11.3 and
 11.5.....................................
Sweetwater Uranium Project, Request for         ML041480493     05/12/04
 Amendment to License Condition 9.10......
Sweetwater Uranium Project, Revised Site        ML041530053     05/25/04
 Contour Map, Contours for Contaminated
 Soil, Excavated Areas....................
E-mail Acknowledgment of May 12, 2004,          ML041800207     06/24/04
 Amendment Request........................
Fax Report on the Threatened and                ML050450091      9/21/04
 Endangered Species of Sweetwater County..
Request for Additional Information              ML043070658     10/28/04
 Concerning Source Materials License SUA-
 1350.....................................
Sweetwater Uranium Project, Response to         ML043520255     12/15/04
 October 28, 2004, Request for Additional
 Information..............................
E-mail Acknowledgment of Response to            ML050100257     01/04/05
 Request for Additional Information.......
Sweetwater Uranium Project Response to          ML050350266      1/18/05
 Comments Regarding Natural Uranium and
 Thorium-230 Remediation in Subsurface
 Soils....................................
Draft Environmental Assessment for              ML050610246      2/28/05
 Amendment to Source Materials License SUA-
 1350 for the Catchment Basin Reclamation.
Wyoming DEQ's Review of the Draft               ML050980238     04/04/05
 Environmental Assessment, Catchment Basin
 Remediation Amendment Request............
Fish and Wildlife Service's Comments on         ML051170286     04/14/05
 Draft Environmental Assessment for
 Kennecott Sweetwater Proposed Amendment..
Environmental Assessment for Amendment of       ML051220285      5/20/05
 Source Materials License SUA-1350 for the
 Catchment Basin Reclamation..............
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    If you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are problems in 
accessing the documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC's Public 
Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or 
by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov.
    These documents may also be viewed electronically on the public 
computers located at the NRC's PDR, O 1 F21, One White Flint North, 
11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. The PDR reproduction 
contractor will copy documents for a fee.

    Dated at Rockville, MD, this 6th day of May, 2005.

    For The Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Stephen J. Cohen,
Project Manager, Uranium Processing Section, Fuel Cycle Facilities 
Branch, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. E5-2581 Filed 5-20-05; 8:45 am]
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