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[Docket No.: 40–8452; NRC–2012–0095]
License Amendment for Anadarko
Petroleum Corporation, Bear Creek
Facility, Converse County, Wyoming
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Environmental assessment and
finding of no significant impact;
issuance.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is considering the
issuance of a license amendment to
Source Materials License SUA–1310
issued to Anadarko Petroleum
Corporation (APC or the licensee) to
authorize alternate concentration limits
(ACLs) at its point of compliance (POC)
wells and the deletion of License
Condition (LC) No. 47 for its Bear Creek
Uranium Mill facility in Converse
County, Wyoming. The NRC has
prepared an environmental assessment
(EA) for this proposed action in
accordance with its regulations. Based
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on the EA, the NRC has concluded that
a Finding of No Significant Impact
(FONSI) is appropriate with respect to
the proposed action. The amendment
will be issued following the publication
of this document.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID
NRC–2012–0095 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of
information regarding this document.
You may access information related to
this document, which the NRC
possesses and is publicly available,
using any of the following methods:
• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2012–0095. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol
Gallagher; telephone: 301–492–3668;
email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For
technical questions, contact the
individual(s) listed in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this
document.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may access publicly
available documents online in the NRC
Library at https://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/adams.html. To begin the search,
select ‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and
then select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS
Search.’’ For problems with ADAMS,
please contact the NRC’s Public
Document Room (PDR) reference staff at
1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by
email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The
ADAMS accession numbers for the
referenced documents are: The
licensee’s license amendment request
and environmental evaluation dated
November 28, 2011 (ADAMS Accession
Nos. ML12046A858, ML12046A857,
ML12046A856, and ML12046A854);
and EA for License Amendment No. 51
dated February 27, 2013 (ADAMS
Accession No. LML12145A264).
• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and
purchase copies of public documents at
the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Thomas McLaughlin, Project Manager,
Materials Decommissioning 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 20555–0001; telephone:
301–415–5869; email:
Thomas.McLaughlin@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Bear Creek Uranium Mill
operated from September 1977 until
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January 1986, and generated 4.7 million
tons of uranium ore ‘‘tailings’’ that were
placed in an onsite earthen
impoundment. Decommissioning of the
mill occurred between August 1987 and
March 1989. Reclamation of the tailings
impoundment began in June 1997 and
was completed in November 1999.
Following a final inspection of the
completed tailings reclamation
activities, in July 2001, the NRC staff
concluded that reclamation of the
facility had been completed in
accordance with the requirements of
part 40, Appendix A of Title 10 of the
Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR)
and the licensee’s approved tailings
reclamation plan (ADAMS Accession
No. ML011910515). The licensee
addressed, and the NRC approved, the
remaining site-wide reclamation plan
elements through separate licensing
actions, including mill demolition,
relocation of lined evaporation pond
sediments, soil decommissioning plan,
and ground water remediation. In
November 2010, the NRC staff notified
APC that assumptions contained in
APC’s 1997 ACL application were
incorrect, and requested that a new ACL
application be submitted (ADAMS
Accession No. ML103280165). On
November 28, 2011, APC submitted the
license renewal application. The current
licensing action is in preparation for the
termination of the license and transfer
of the site to the U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE) for Long-Term Care and
Surveillance.
II. Environmental Assessment
Summary
The purpose of the proposed
amendment is to prepare the site for
transfer to DOE. By letter dated
November 28, 2011, the licensee
submitted a request to the NRC for
approval of ACLs for nickel, radium,
and uranium for its POC wells and to
establish new point of exposure (POE)
wells at the northern edge of its
boundary which will be part of the
Long-Term Surveillance Boundary
(LTSB). The elimination of LC No. 47 is
a necessary step for the transfer of the
license to DOE. On April 26, 2012, NRC
issued a Federal Register Notice (77 FR
24993) requesting comments on the
licensee’s proposed amendment. No
comments were received.
The NRC staff, in coordination with
the Wyoming Department of
Environmental Quality, has prepared
the EA in support of the proposed
license amendment. The EA assessed
the potential environmental impacts
associated with this request for a license
amendment to establish ACLs at the
POC wells and designate new POE wells
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at the LTSB, and documented the
results of the assessment in this EA. The
NRC staff performed this assessment in
accordance with the requirements of
part 51 of 10 CFR, ‘‘Environmental
Protection Regulations for Domestic
Licensing and Related Regulatory
Functions.’’
In conducting the assessment, the
NRC staff considered the following:
• Information in the ACL application
and supporting documentation;
• Information in modeling reports
and NRC staff review reports;
• Information in land use and
environmental monitoring reports;
• Personal communications with
licensee staff, the State of Wyoming, and
Federal agencies;
• Information from NRC staff site
visits and inspections;
• 10 CFR Part 40, Appendix A,
‘‘Criteria Relating to the Operation of
Uranium Mills and the Disposition of
Tailings or Wastes Produced by the
Extraction or Concentration of Source
Material From Ores Processed Primarily
for Their Source Material Content’’;
• NUREG–1620, Rev. 1, ‘‘Standard
Review Plan for the Review of a
Reclamation Plan for Mill Tailings Sites
Under Title II of the Uranium Mill
Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978’’
(ADAMS Accession No. ML031550522);
and
• NUREG–1748, ‘‘Environmental
Review Guidance for Licensing Actions
Associated with NMSS Programs, Final
Report’’ (ADAMS Accession No.
ML032540811).
As an alternative to the proposed
action, the NRC staff considered denial
of the proposed action (i.e., the ‘‘noaction alternative’’). Denial of the
proposed license amendment would
result in no change in current
environmental impacts. The
environmental impacts of the proposed
action and the alternative action, both of
which involve ground water quality, are
similar since the ACLs in both
alternatives are the same, as the licensee
has requested the same values for
nickel, radium, and uranium at the
POCs. For the proposed action, only the
POE well locations (i.e., monitoring
locations relocated to the northern site
boundary) are changed. In either
alternative, offsite ground water quality
is either at or below the designated POE
compliance values.
III. Finding of No Significant Impact
Based on the analysis contained in the
EA, the NRC staff concluded that there
are no significant environmental
impacts from the proposed action, and
that the preparation of an
Environmental Impact Statement is not
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warranted. Accordingly, the NRC
determined that a Finding of No
Significant Impact is appropriate.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd
day of April 2013.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrew Persinko,
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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[Docket Nos.: 52–034 and 52–035; NRC–
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Luminant Generation Company, LLC.,
Combined License Application for
Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant,
Units 3 and 4, Environmental
Assessment and Finding of No
Significant Impact
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is considering
issuance of an exemption from Section
50.71(e)(3)(iii) of Title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations (10 CFR), for the
Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant
(CPNPP), Units 3 and 4, Combined
License (COL) Application, Docket
Numbers 52–034 and 52–035, submitted
by Luminant Generation Company, LLC.
(Luminant) for the proposed facility to
be located in Somervell County, Texas.
In accordance with 10 CFR 51.21, the
NRC is issuing this environmental
assessment and finding of no significant
impact.
Environmental Assessment—
Identification of the Proposed Action
The proposed action is a one-time
schedule exemption from the
requirements of 10 CFR 50.71(e)(3)(iii).
During the period from the docketing of
a COL application until the NRC makes
a finding under 10 CFR 52.103(g)
pertaining to facility operation,
Luminant must, pursuant to 10 CFR
50.71(e)(3)(iii), submit an annual update
to the Final Safety Analysis Report
(FSAR). The proposed exemption would
allow Luminant to submit its COL
application FSAR update, scheduled for
June 2013, on or before November 30,
2013, and to submit the subsequent
FSAR annual update in November 2014.
The current FSAR update schedule
could not be changed, absent the
exemption. The NRC is authorized to
grant the exemption pursuant to 10 CFR
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The proposed action is in accordance
with Luminant’s request dated January
28, 2013, and can be found in the
Agencywide Documents Access and
Management System (ADAMS) under
Accession No. ML13031A041.
Need for the Proposed Action
Since the CPNPP, Units 3 and 4, COL
application references the US–APWR
DCD, the proposed action is needed in
order to provide Luminant sufficient
time to fully incorporate into the COL
application (COLA) FSAR, Revision 4 of
the United States—Advanced
Pressurized Water Reactor (US–APWR)
Design Control Document (DCD), which
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. plans
to submit to the NRC on or before
August 31, 2013. Luminant has
requested a one-time exemption from
the requirements specified in 10 CFR
50.71(e)(3)(iii) in order to reduce the
burden associated with identifying all
committed changes that were made to
the DCD, since Revision 3 to the US–
APWR DCD.
The only alternative would be not
issuing the exemption. Because this
alternative would require Luminant to
issue COLA FSAR, Revision 4 between
US–APWR DCD, Revisions 3 and 4,
Luminant would need to identify all
changes made since the issuance of US–
APWR DCD, Revision 3, and revise the
COLA FSAR to account for any changes
that have not yet been incorporated into
US–APWR DCD, Revision 4.
Additionally, the NRC reviewers would
need to review US–APWR DCD,
Revision 3, identify all committed
changes to the COLA FSAR, and review
all Updated Tracking Reports in order to
understand how COLA Revision 4 is
linked to the latest US–APWR DCD
revision.
Environmental Impacts of the Proposed
Action
The NRC has completed its evaluation
of the proposed action and concludes
that there are no environmental impacts
associated with the proposed
exemption. The proposed exemption is
solely administrative in nature in that it
pertains to the schedule for submittal to
the NRC of revisions to a COL
application under 10 CFR Part 52.
The proposed action will not increase
the probability or consequences of
accidents. No changes are being made in
the types of effluents that may be
released offsite. There is no increase in
the amount of any effluent released
offsite. There is no increase in
occupational or public radiation
exposure. Therefore, there are no
radiological environmental impacts
associated with the proposed action.
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With regard to potential nonradiological impacts, the proposed
action does not have any foreseeable
impacts to land, air, or water resources,
including impacts to biota. In addition,
there are also no known socioeconomic
or environmental justice impacts
associated with the proposed action.
Therefore, there are no non-radiological
environmental impacts associated with
the proposed action. Accordingly, the
NRC concludes that there are no
environmental impacts associated with
the proposed action.
Environmental Impacts of the
Alternatives to the Proposed Action
As an alternative to the proposed
action, the NRC staff considered denial
of the proposed action (i.e., the ‘‘noaction’’ alternative). Denial of the
application would result in no change
in current environmental impacts.
Therefore, the environmental impacts of
the proposed action and the alternative
action are similar.
Alternative Use of Resources
The proposed action does not involve
the use of any different resources than
those previously considered in NUREG–
1943, ‘‘Final Environmental Impact
Statement for Combined Licenses
(COLs) for Comanche Peak Nuclear
Power Plant, Units 3 and 4,’’ dated May
13, 2011.
Agencies and Persons Consulted
On March 11, 2013, the NRC staff
consulted with an official from the
Texas Department of State Health
Services (DSHS), Radiation Inspection
Branch regarding the environmental
impact of the proposed action. The
representative from the Texas DSHS had
no comments.
Finding of No Significant Impact
On the basis of the environmental
assessment, the NRC concludes that the
proposed action will not have an effect
on the quality of the human
environment. Accordingly, the NRC has
determined not to prepare an
environmental impact statement for the
proposed action.
For further details with respect to the
proposed action, see Luminant’s letter
dated January 28, 2013. Documents may
be examined, and/or copied for a fee, at
the NRC’s Public Document Room
(PDR), located at One White Flint North,
Public File Area O1 F21, 11555
Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville,
Maryland. Publicly available records
will be accessible electronically from
the Agencywide Documents Access and
Management System (ADAMS) Public
Electronic Reading Room on the Internet
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No.: 40-8452; NRC-2012-0095]
License Amendment for Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, Bear Creek
Facility, Converse County, Wyoming
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact;
issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering
the issuance of a license amendment to Source Materials License SUA-
1310 issued to Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (APC or the licensee) to
authorize alternate concentration limits (ACLs) at its point of
compliance (POC) wells and the deletion of License Condition (LC) No.
47 for its Bear Creek Uranium Mill facility in Converse County,
Wyoming. The NRC has prepared an environmental assessment (EA) for this
proposed action in accordance with its regulations. Based
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on the EA, the NRC has concluded that a Finding of No Significant
Impact (FONSI) is appropriate with respect to the proposed action. The
amendment will be issued following the publication of this document.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2012-0095 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You
may access information related to this document, which the NRC
possesses and is publicly available, using any of the following
methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0095. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-492-
3668; email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact
the individual(s) listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section
of this document.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may access publicly available documents online in the NRC
Library at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the
search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and then select ``Begin Web-
based ADAMS Search.'' For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's
Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-
4737, or by email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The ADAMS accession numbers
for the referenced documents are: The licensee's license amendment
request and environmental evaluation dated November 28, 2011 (ADAMS
Accession Nos. ML12046A858, ML12046A857, ML12046A856, and ML12046A854);
and EA for License Amendment No. 51 dated February 27, 2013 (ADAMS
Accession No. LML12145A264).
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas McLaughlin, Project Manager,
Materials Decommissioning 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 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-5869; email:
Thomas.McLaughlin@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Bear Creek Uranium Mill operated from September 1977 until
January 1986, and generated 4.7 million tons of uranium ore
``tailings'' that were placed in an onsite earthen impoundment.
Decommissioning of the mill occurred between August 1987 and March
1989. Reclamation of the tailings impoundment began in June 1997 and
was completed in November 1999. Following a final inspection of the
completed tailings reclamation activities, in July 2001, the NRC staff
concluded that reclamation of the facility had been completed in
accordance with the requirements of part 40, Appendix A of Title 10 of
the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) and the licensee's approved
tailings reclamation plan (ADAMS Accession No. ML011910515). The
licensee addressed, and the NRC approved, the remaining site-wide
reclamation plan elements through separate licensing actions, including
mill demolition, relocation of lined evaporation pond sediments, soil
decommissioning plan, and ground water remediation. In November 2010,
the NRC staff notified APC that assumptions contained in APC's 1997 ACL
application were incorrect, and requested that a new ACL application be
submitted (ADAMS Accession No. ML103280165). On November 28, 2011, APC
submitted the license renewal application. The current licensing action
is in preparation for the termination of the license and transfer of
the site to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for Long-Term Care and
Surveillance.
II. Environmental Assessment Summary
The purpose of the proposed amendment is to prepare the site for
transfer to DOE. By letter dated November 28, 2011, the licensee
submitted a request to the NRC for approval of ACLs for nickel, radium,
and uranium for its POC wells and to establish new point of exposure
(POE) wells at the northern edge of its boundary which will be part of
the Long-Term Surveillance Boundary (LTSB). The elimination of LC No.
47 is a necessary step for the transfer of the license to DOE. On April
26, 2012, NRC issued a Federal Register Notice (77 FR 24993) requesting
comments on the licensee's proposed amendment. No comments were
received.
The NRC staff, in coordination with the Wyoming Department of
Environmental Quality, has prepared the EA in support of the proposed
license amendment. The EA assessed the potential environmental impacts
associated with this request for a license amendment to establish ACLs
at the POC wells and designate new POE wells at the LTSB, and
documented the results of the assessment in this EA. The NRC staff
performed this assessment in accordance with the requirements of part
51 of 10 CFR, ``Environmental Protection Regulations for Domestic
Licensing and Related Regulatory Functions.''
In conducting the assessment, the NRC staff considered the
following:
Information in the ACL application and supporting
documentation;
Information in modeling reports and NRC staff review
reports;
Information in land use and environmental monitoring
reports;
Personal communications with licensee staff, the State of
Wyoming, and Federal agencies;
Information from NRC staff site visits and inspections;
10 CFR Part 40, Appendix A, ``Criteria Relating to the
Operation of Uranium Mills and the Disposition of Tailings or Wastes
Produced by the Extraction or Concentration of Source Material From
Ores Processed Primarily for Their Source Material Content'';
NUREG-1620, Rev. 1, ``Standard Review Plan for the Review
of a Reclamation Plan for Mill Tailings Sites Under Title II of the
Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978'' (ADAMS Accession
No. ML031550522); and
NUREG-1748, ``Environmental Review Guidance for Licensing
Actions Associated with NMSS Programs, Final Report'' (ADAMS Accession
No. ML032540811).
As an alternative to the proposed action, the NRC staff considered
denial of the proposed action (i.e., the ``no-action alternative'').
Denial of the proposed license amendment would result in no change in
current environmental impacts. The environmental impacts of the
proposed action and the alternative action, both of which involve
ground water quality, are similar since the ACLs in both alternatives
are the same, as the licensee has requested the same values for nickel,
radium, and uranium at the POCs. For the proposed action, only the POE
well locations (i.e., monitoring locations relocated to the northern
site boundary) are changed. In either alternative, offsite ground water
quality is either at or below the designated POE compliance values.
III. Finding of No Significant Impact
Based on the analysis contained in the EA, the NRC staff concluded
that there are no significant environmental impacts from the proposed
action, and that the preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement
is not
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warranted. Accordingly, the NRC determined that a Finding of No
Significant Impact is appropriate.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd day of April 2013.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrew Persinko,
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.
[FR Doc. 2013-10265 Filed 4-30-13; 8:45 am]
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