Notice of Availability of Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for License Amendment Request To Revert to Operating Status From Restoration and Decommissioning Status, Cogema Mining Inc., Christensen and Irigaray Ranch Facilities, Johnson and Campbell Counties, WY, 53052 [E8-21275]
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Notice of Availability of Environmental
Assessment and Finding of No
Significant Impact for License
Amendment Request To Revert to
Operating Status From Restoration
and Decommissioning Status, Cogema
Mining Inc., Christensen and Irigaray
Ranch Facilities, Johnson and
Campbell Counties, WY
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
AGENCY:
Ron
C. Linton, Project Manager, Uranium
Recovery Licensing Branch, Division of
Waste Management and Environmental
Protection, Office of Federal and State
Materials and Environmental
Management Programs, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555. Telephone: 301–415–7777;
fax number: 301–415–5369; e-mail:
ron.linton@nrc.gov.
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I. Introduction
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC) is issuing a license amendment to
source Materials License No. SUA–1341
issued to Cogema Mining, Inc.
(COGEMA) (the licensee), to authorize a
return to uranium production
operations and the recovery of uranium
by in situ leach (ISL) extraction
techniques as previously licensed by the
NRC at its Christensen and Irigaray
Ranch Facilities, Johnson and Campbell
Counties, Wyoming. NRC has prepared
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
On April 3, 2007, COGEMA requested
that NRC approve an amendment to
authorize a return to uranium
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production operations and the recovery
of uranium by ISL extraction techniques
at the licensee’s Christensen and
Irigaray Ranch facilities in Johnson and
Campbell Counties, Wyoming.
Specifically, COGEMA’s source
materials license will be amended to
allow for the resumption of uranium
recovery operations by the injection of
lixiviant with license conditions that are
essentially the same as those contained
in the last operational license, SUA–
1341, Amendment 3. COGEMA’s
request for the proposed amendment
was noticed in the Federal Register on
March 17, 2008, with a notice of an
opportunity to request a hearing. The
Federal Register notice of an
opportunity to request a hearing was
also posted on NRC’s public Web site
under ‘‘Hearing Opportunities and
License Applications.’’ No hearing
requests were received.
The staff has prepared the EA in
support of the proposed license
amendment. The NRC staff found that
the type of impacts would be similar to
those that already exist and that have
been evaluated in previous
environmental reviews. The staff
reviewed impacts to land use,
transportation, geology and soils,
ecology, air quality, noise, cultural and
historical resources, visual and scenic
resources, socioeconomic resources,
public and occupational health, and
waste management. All impacts were
found to be low with the exception of
some moderate short-term visual
impacts to the Pumpkin Buttes which
have been determined by the Bureau of
Land Management to be a Native
American traditional cultural property.
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 that
preparation of an environmental impact
statement is not warranted.
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: ML071020274, Letter
from T. Hardgrove, COGEMA Mining,
Re: Request for Amendment to License
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SUA–1341 for Restart of Irigaray/
Christensen Ranch Facilities;
ML082110026, Environmental
Assessment Regarding the License
Amendment Request to Return to
Operating Status from Decommissioning
Status Cogema Mining, Inc. Irigaray and
Christensen Ranch Projects Wyoming. 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, 301–
415–4737 or by e-mail to
pdr.resource@nrc.gov.
These documents may also be viewed
electronically on the public computers
located at the NRC’s Public Document
Room (PDR), O 1 F21, One White Flint
North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville,
Maryland 20852. The PDR reproduction
contractor will copy documents for a
fee.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day
of September 2008.
For The Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Keith I. McConnell,
Deputy Director, Decommissioning and
Uranium Recovery, Licensing Directorate,
Division of Waste Management, and
Environmental Protection, Office of Federal
and State Materials and Environmental
Management Programs.
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 040-08502]
Notice of Availability of Environmental Assessment and Finding of
No Significant Impact for License Amendment Request To Revert to
Operating Status From Restoration and Decommissioning Status, Cogema
Mining Inc., Christensen and Irigaray Ranch Facilities, Johnson and
Campbell Counties, WY
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ron C. Linton, Project Manager,
Uranium Recovery Licensing Branch, Division of Waste Management and
Environmental Protection, Office of Federal and State Materials and
Environmental Management Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555. Telephone: 301-415-7777; fax number: 301-415-
5369; e-mail: ron.linton@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a license
amendment to source Materials License No. SUA-1341 issued to Cogema
Mining, Inc. (COGEMA) (the licensee), to authorize a return to uranium
production operations and the recovery of uranium by in situ leach
(ISL) extraction techniques as previously licensed by the NRC at its
Christensen and Irigaray Ranch Facilities, Johnson and Campbell
Counties, Wyoming. NRC has prepared 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
On April 3, 2007, COGEMA requested that NRC approve an amendment to
authorize a return to uranium production operations and the recovery of
uranium by ISL extraction techniques at the licensee's Christensen and
Irigaray Ranch facilities in Johnson and Campbell Counties, Wyoming.
Specifically, COGEMA's source materials license will be amended to
allow for the resumption of uranium recovery operations by the
injection of lixiviant with license conditions that are essentially the
same as those contained in the last operational license, SUA-1341,
Amendment 3. COGEMA's request for the proposed amendment was noticed in
the Federal Register on March 17, 2008, with a notice of an opportunity
to request a hearing. The Federal Register notice of an opportunity to
request a hearing was also posted on NRC's public Web site under
``Hearing Opportunities and License Applications.'' No hearing requests
were received.
The staff has prepared the EA in support of the proposed license
amendment. The NRC staff found that the type of impacts would be
similar to those that already exist and that have been evaluated in
previous environmental reviews. The staff reviewed impacts to land use,
transportation, geology and soils, ecology, air quality, noise,
cultural and historical resources, visual and scenic resources,
socioeconomic resources, public and occupational health, and waste
management. All impacts were found to be low with the exception of some
moderate short-term visual impacts to the Pumpkin Buttes which have
been determined by the Bureau of Land Management to be a Native
American traditional cultural property.
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 that
preparation of an environmental impact statement is not warranted.
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: ML071020274, Letter from T.
Hardgrove, COGEMA Mining, Re: Request for Amendment to License SUA-1341
for Restart of Irigaray/Christensen Ranch Facilities; ML082110026,
Environmental Assessment Regarding the License Amendment Request to
Return to Operating Status from Decommissioning Status Cogema Mining,
Inc. Irigaray and Christensen Ranch Projects Wyoming. 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, 301-415-4737 or by e-mail to
pdr.resource@nrc.gov.
These documents may also be viewed electronically on the public
computers located at the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR), O 1 F21, One
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. The
PDR reproduction contractor will copy documents for a fee.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day of September 2008.
For The Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Keith I. McConnell,
Deputy Director, Decommissioning and Uranium Recovery, Licensing
Directorate, Division of Waste Management, and Environmental
Protection, Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental
Management Programs.
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