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National Science Board; Sunshine Act
Meetings; Impromptu Notice of Change
(Addition of Agenda Item)
The National Science Board’s (NSB)
Audit & Oversight (A&O) Committee,
pursuant to NSF regulations (45 CFR
part 614), the NSF Act, as amended (42
U.S.C. 1862n–5), and the Government in
the Sunshine Act (5 U.S.C. 552b),
hereby gives notice of an Impromptu
Change in regard to the addition of an
agenda item that will be discussed
during the closed session of the A&O
Committee meeting scheduled for
February 16, 2011, at 9:15 a.m., as
follows:
ORIGINAL DATE AND TIME:
No change.
5
minute update on Cyber issues at NSF.
SUBJECT MATTER (AGENDA ITEM ADDED):
STATUS:
No change.
LOCATION:
No change.
Please
refer to the National Science Board Web
site https://www.nsf.gov/nsb for
additional information and schedule
updates (time, place, subject matter or
status of meeting) may be found at
https://www.nsf.gov/nsb/notices/. Point
of contact for this meeting is: Jennie
Moehlmann, National Science
Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd.,
Arlington, VA 22230. Telephone: (703)
292–7000.
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Notice of Availability of Final
Environmental Impact Statement for
the AREVA Enrichment Services LLC
Proposed Eagle Rock Enrichment
Facility in Bonneville County, ID
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of Availability of Final
Environmental Impact Statement.
AGENCY:
Notice is hereby given that
the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) has published the
Final Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS) for the AREVA Enrichment
Services LLC (AES) Proposed Eagle
Rock Enrichment Facility (EREF). On
December 30, 2008, AES submitted a
license application to the NRC that
proposes the construction, operation,
and decommissioning of a gas
centrifuge-based uranium enrichment
facility on a presently undeveloped site
near Idaho Falls in Bonneville County,
Idaho (the ‘‘proposed action’’). This
application is for a license to possess
and use byproduct material, source
material, and special nuclear material at
the proposed uranium enrichment
facility. The application included an
Environmental Report (ER) regarding
the proposed action.
AES subsequently submitted revisions
to the license application on April 23,
2009 (Revision 1), and April 30, 2010
(Revision 2), which included ER
Revision 1 and ER Revision 2,
respectively. License application
Revision 1 addresses the expansion of
the proposed EREF to increase its
production capacity from 3.3 million
Separative Work Units (SWUs) per year
to 6.6 million SWUs per year; and ER
Revision 1 includes information on the
environmental impacts of the proposed
6.6-million-SWU-per-year EREF.
Revision 2 to the license application
and the ER incorporates into Revision 1
additional information that AES
previously provided the NRC in
response to NRC staff requests for
additional information for its safety and
environmental reviews, as well as
supplemental information on a
proposed electrical transmission line
required to power the proposed EREF.
On June 17, 2009, AES submitted a
request for an exemption from certain
NRC regulations so that it could
commence certain preconstruction
activities (e.g., site preparation) on the
proposed EREF site prior to the NRC’s
decision on whether to grant or deny a
license. On March 17, 2010, the NRC
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granted an exemption authorizing AES
to conduct the requested
preconstruction activities.
The Final EIS is being issued as part
of the NRC’s process to decide whether
to issue a license to AES, pursuant to
Title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR) parts 30, 40, and
70, to construct and operate the
proposed uranium enrichment facility.
Specifically, AES proposes to use gas
centrifuge technology to enrich the
uranium-235 isotope found in natural
uranium to concentrations up to 5
percent by weight. The enriched
uranium would be used to manufacture
nuclear fuel for commercial nuclear
power reactors. In the Final EIS, the
NRC staff assessed the potential
environmental impacts from the
preconstruction, construction,
operation, and decommissioning of the
proposed EREF project.
The Final EIS was prepared in
compliance with the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as
amended (NEPA), and the NRC’s
regulations for implementing NEPA in
10 CFR part 51. The NRC staff assessed
the impacts of the proposed action on
land use, historic and cultural
resources, visual and scenic resources,
air quality, geology and soils, water
resources, ecological resources, noise,
transportation, public and occupational
health, waste management,
socioeconomics, and environmental
justice. Additionally, the NRC staff
analyzed and compared the benefits and
costs of the proposed action. In
preparing this Final EIS, the NRC staff
also reviewed, considered, evaluated,
and addressed the public comments
received on the Draft EIS.
In addition to the proposed action, the
NRC staff considered the no-action
alternative and other alternatives. Under
the no-action alternative, the NRC
would deny AES’s request to construct
and operate a uranium enrichment
facility at the EREF site. The no-action
alternative serves as a baseline for
comparison of the potential
environmental impacts of the proposed
action. Other alternatives the NRC staff
considered but eliminated from further
analysis include: (1) Alternative sites for
the EREF; (2) alternative sources of
enriched uranium; and (3) alternative
technologies for uranium enrichment.
These alternatives were eliminated from
further analysis due to economic,
environmental, national security,
technological maturity, or other reasons.
The Final EIS also discusses alternatives
for the disposition of depleted uranium
hexafluoride (UF6) resulting from
enrichment operations over the lifetime
of the proposed EREF.
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
National Science Board; Sunshine Act Meetings; Impromptu Notice
of Change (Addition of Agenda Item)
The National Science Board's (NSB) Audit & Oversight (A&O)
Committee, pursuant to NSF regulations (45 CFR part 614), the NSF Act,
as amended (42 U.S.C. 1862n-5), and the Government in the Sunshine Act
(5 U.S.C. 552b), hereby gives notice of an Impromptu Change in regard
to the addition of an agenda item that will be discussed during the
closed session of the A&O Committee meeting scheduled for February 16,
2011, at 9:15 a.m., as follows:
ORIGINAL DATE AND TIME: No change.
SUBJECT MATTER (agenda item added): 5 minute update on Cyber issues at
NSF.
STATUS: No change.
LOCATION: No change.
UPDATES AND POINT OF CONTACT: Please refer to the National Science
Board Web site https://www.nsf.gov/nsb for additional information and
schedule updates (time, place, subject matter or status of meeting) may
be found at https://www.nsf.gov/nsb/notices/. Point of contact for this
meeting is: Jennie Moehlmann, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson
Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230. Telephone: (703) 292-7000.
Daniel A. Lauretano,
Counsel to the National Science Board.
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