Safety Evaluation Report for the Proposed American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon, OH, NUREG-1851; Notice of Availability, 55515 [06-8013]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 184 / Friday, September 22, 2006 / Notices Dated: September 19, 2006. Susanne Bolton, Committee Management Officer. [FR Doc. 06–8029 Filed 9–21–06; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7555–01–M NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [Docket No. 70–7004] Safety Evaluation Report for the Proposed American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon, OH, NUREG–1851; Notice of Availability United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Notice of Availability of Safety Evaluation Report. sroberts on PROD1PC70 with NOTICES AGENCY: SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a Safety Evaluation Report (SER) for the USEC Inc. (USEC) license application, dated August 23, 2004, and as revised, for the possession and use of source, byproduct, and special nuclear materials at its proposed American Centrifuge Plant (ACP) in Piketon, Ohio. The SER discusses the results of the safety review performed by NRC staff in the following areas: General information, organization and administration, Integrated Safety Analysis (ISA) and ISA Summary, radiation protection, nuclear criticality safety, chemical process safety, fire safety, emergency management, environmental protection, decommissioning, management measures, materials control and accountability, and physical protection. The NRC is planning to conduct a public meeting in Ohio to provide an overview of the staff’s safety review and to address any comments or questions relating to the issuance of the SER. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The SER (NUREG–1851) is available for inspection and copying for a fee at the NRC’s Public Document Room, located at One White Flint North, Public File Area O1 F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland. The Public Document Room is open from 7:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., Monday through Friday, except on Federal holidays. Publicly available records will be accessible electronically from the Agency-wide Documents Access and Management Systems (ADAMS) Public Electronic Reading Room, and on the Internet at the NRC Web site, https:// www.nrc.gov/NRC/ADAMS/. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who encounter problems in VerDate Aug<31>2005 20:37 Sep 21, 2006 Jkt 208001 accessing the documents located in ADAMS, should contact the NRC Public Document Room Reference staff by telephone at 1–800–397–4209, 301– 415–4737, or by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stanley Echols, Mail Stop: T–8F42, Special Projects 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) 415–6981, and email: fse@nrc.gov. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th day of September, 2006. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Joseph G. Giitter, Chief, Special Projects Branch, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. [FR Doc. 06–8013 Filed 9–21–06; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590–01–P NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [Docket Nos. 070–00026 and 040–03558] Notice of Availability of Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the Westinghouse Specialty Metals Plant in Blairsville, PA Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Issuance of Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact. AGENCY: FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Roberts, Senior Health Physicist, Decommissioning Branch, Division of Nuclear Materials Safety, Region I, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 475 Allendale Road, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania; Telephone: (610) 337– 5094; fax number (610) 337–5069; or email: mcr@nrc.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Introduction The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has decided to take no further regulatory action at the Westinghouse Specialty Metals Plant site, located in Derry Township, near Blairsville, PA, off Township Road 966 (the Site). The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) issued License Nos. SUC–509 and SNM–37 to Westinghouse Electric Corporation (Westinghouse) in the 1950s (pursuant to 10 CFR parts 40 and 70, respectively), authorizing the use of low enriched uranium, highly enriched uranium, and depleted uranium for conducting research and PO 00000 Frm 00100 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 55515 development, and for manufacturing activities related to the production of commercial and naval nuclear fuel. The two licenses were terminated in 1961 and 1964. The Site is currently being used for manufacturing operations that do not involve the use of licensed radioactive material. Subsequent NRC administrative reviews in the early 1990s and radiological surveys by Westinghouse identified residual radioactive contamination in excess of NRC criteria for release for unrestricted use. The Westinghouse corporate office at 4350 Northern Pike in Monroeville, PA, took technical responsibility for remediating the Site, and transmitted documentation indicating that the Site now meets NRC criteria for release for unrestricted use. Following a favorable technical review, the NRC intends to inform Westinghouse via letter of its decision that the Site now meets current NRC criteria for release for unrestricted use and the NRC will take no further regulatory action regarding the Site. The NRC will remove the Site from the NRC listing of complex decommissioning sites. Westinghouse requested this action in a letter dated February 15, 2006. The NRC has prepared an Environmental Assessment (EA) in support of this proposed action in accordance with the requirements of Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), part 51 (10 CFR part 51). Based on the EA, the NRC has concluded that a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) is appropriate with respect to the proposed action. The letter will be issued to Westinghouse following the publication of this FONSI and EA in the Federal Register. II. Environmental Assessment Identification of Proposed Action The proposed action would approve Westinghouse’s February 15, 2006, request that the NRC concur that Westinghouse provided adequate documentation to conclude that the Site meets the requirements in 10 CFR 20.1402 for release for unrestricted use and that the Site can therefore be removed from the NRC listing of complex decommissioning sites. The Site is situated on 485 acres and is located in a rural area with scattered residential and manufacturing properties within its vicinity. One of the four major buildings and two exterior areas at the Site contained radioactive contamination that has now been remediated. Within the buildings, use of licensed materials was primarily confined to the southeast quarter of the E:\FR\FM\22SEN1.SGM 22SEN1

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 70-7004]


Safety Evaluation Report for the Proposed American 
CentrifugePlant in Piketon, OH, NUREG-1851; Notice of Availability

AGENCY: United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of Availability of Safety Evaluation Report.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(NRC) has issued a Safety Evaluation Report (SER) for the USEC Inc. 
(USEC) license application, dated August 23, 2004, and as revised, for 
the possession and use of source, byproduct, and special nuclear 
materials at its proposed American Centrifuge Plant (ACP) in Piketon, 
Ohio.
    The SER discusses the results of the safety review performed by NRC 
staff in the following areas: General information, organization and 
administration, Integrated Safety Analysis (ISA) and ISA Summary, 
radiation protection, nuclear criticality safety, chemical process 
safety, fire safety, emergency management, environmental protection, 
decommissioning, management measures, materials control and 
accountability, and physical protection.
    The NRC is planning to conduct a public meeting in Ohio to provide 
an overview of the staff's safety review and to address any comments or 
questions relating to the issuance of the SER.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The SER (NUREG-1851) is available for 
inspection and copying for a fee at the NRC's Public Document Room, 
located at One White Flint North, Public File Area O1 F21, 11555 
Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland. The Public Document 
Room is open from 7:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., Monday through Friday, except 
on Federal holidays.
    Publicly available records will be accessible electronically from 
the Agency-wide Documents Access and Management Systems (ADAMS) Public 
Electronic Reading Room, and on the Internet at the NRC Web site, 
https://www.nrc.gov/NRC/ADAMS/. Persons who do not have access 
to ADAMS or who encounter problems in accessing the documents located 
in ADAMS, should contact the NRC Public Document Room Reference staff 
by telephone at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to 
pdr@nrc.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stanley Echols, Mail Stop: T-8F42, 
Special Projects 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-
6981, and e-mail: fse@nrc.gov.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th day of September, 2006.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Joseph G. Giitter,
Chief, Special Projects Branch, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and 
Safeguards, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 06-8013 Filed 9-21-06; 8:45 am]
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