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License Renewal of Crow Butte ISR,
Uranium In Situ Recovery Project
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Environmental assessment and
finding of no significant impact;
issuance.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is considering
renewal of Crow Butte Resources, Inc.
(CBR or the applicant), Source Materials
License SUA–1534 for continued
uranium production operations and in
situ recovery (ISR) of uranium at the
Crow Butte Project in Crawford,
Nebraska.
SUMMARY:
The environmental assessment
and finding of no significant impact are
available as of October 30, 2014.
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Nathan Goodman, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards,
telephone: 301–415–2703, email:
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The NRC is considering renewal of
CBR’s Source Materials License SUA–
1534 for continued uranium production
operations and ISR of uranium at the
Crow Butte Project in Crawford,
Nebraska. The applicant is proposing
continued ISR operations and
processing materials into yellowcake to
be shipped for conversion. The NRC
staff has prepared an Environmental
Assessment (EA) in support of this
proposed license renewal, in accordance
with the requirements in Part 51 of Title
10 of the Code of Federal Regulations
(10 CFR). The NRC staff has also
completed a safety evaluation of the
proposed license renewal, pursuant to
10 CFR Part 40, and the results of the
safety evaluation are documented in a
separate Safety Evaluation Report (SER),
ADAMS Accession No. ML14149A433.
If approved, the NRC will issue the
renewed license following the
publication of this notice. The new
license will also be made publicly
available in ADAMS.
II. Environmental Assessment
Summary
On November 27, 2007, CBR
submitted an application to the NRC to
extend the current NRC License SUA–
1534 for an additional 10 years of
operation (ADAMS Accession Nos.
ML073480266, ML073480272,
ML073480274, and ML073480267). The
proposed action would permit CBR to
continue ISR operations and yellowcake
production at the CBR facility. The ISR
operations require an extraction step
and a uranium recovery step. Extraction
is accomplished by installing a series of
injection wells through which barren
lixiviant (a mixture of groundwater
charged with oxygen and bicarbonate) is
pumped into an underground geological
formation containing uranium deposits
(the ore body). Corresponding
production wells and pumps promote
flow through the ore body and allow for
the collection of uranium-rich pregnant
lixiviant. Uranium is removed from the
pregnant lixiviant by ion exchange, and
then from the ion exchange resin by
elution. After the uranium is removed,
the lixiviant can then be recharged and
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reinjected into the ore body to repeat the
extraction cycle. The elution liquid
containing the uranium (the ‘‘pregnant’’
eluant) is then processed by
precipitation, dewatering, and drying to
produce a transportable form of
uranium (yellowcake).
The NRC staff has assessed the
environmental impacts associated with
the request from CBR to renew its
Source Materials License No. SUA–1534
for CBR’s ISR facility located in
Crawford, Nebraska, as well as the no
action alternative, and has documented
the results in this EA. The NRC staff
performed its environmental review in
accordance with the requirements in 10
CFR Part 51. In conducting the
environmental review, the NRC staff
considered information in the license
renewal application (LRA); information
in the responses to the NRC staff’s
requests for additional information
(RAIs); communications with CBR, the
Nebraska State Historic Preservation
Office (SHPO), and the Nebraska
Department of Environmental Quality
(NDEQ); information from the NRC staff
site visits and inspections; consultation
with Native American Tribes and the
public; and the NRC staff’s independent
analysis.
In this EA, the NRC staff evaluated the
potential environmental impacts of the
proposed action and the no action
alternative on the affected environment,
specifically: land use; historical and
cultural resources; visual and scenic
resources; air quality; geology and soils;
water resources; ecological resources;
socioeconomics; environmental justice;
noise; transportation; and public and
occupational health and safety.
The NRC staff evaluated the potential
impacts and categorized the impacts as
follows:
• SMALL—environmental effects are
not detectable or are so minor that they
will neither destabilize nor noticeably
alter any important attribute of the
resource.
• MODERATE—environmental
effects are sufficient to alter noticeably,
but not to destabilize, important
attributes of the resource.
• LARGE—environmental effects are
clearly noticeable and are sufficient to
destabilize important attributes of the
resource.
Additionally, the NRC staff analyzed
the cumulative impacts from past,
present, and reasonably foreseeable
future actions when combined with the
environmental impacts from the
proposed action. For cumulative
impacts, the NRC staff evaluated
whether these actions would have a
significant impact on each resource
area.
The NRC staff has determined that
renewal of Source Material License
SUA–1534 will be consistent with the
requirements of 10 CFR Part 40 and will
not have long-term detrimental impacts
on the environment. The following
statements summarize the conclusions
resulting from the staff’s environmental
assessment:
(1) Impacts for all resource areas were
determined to be SMALL.
(2) Approval of the proposed action
would not alter the current land use at
the CBR facility. No new construction,
including roads, at the CBR facility is
anticipated. Traffic is not expected to
increase from current conditions.
(3) The NRC staff has determined that
impacts to water resources, discussed in
detail in Sections 4.6 and 4.13.6 of the
EA, would not be significant from the
relicensing of the CBR facility. Under
the license renewal, the facility would
continue to operate in accordance with
the State and Federal requirements that
minimize impacts to water resources.
(4) The proposed action would have
SMALL impacts to cultural resources.
Consultation was completed between
the NRC and Native American Tribes in
accordance with Section 106 of the
National Historic Preservation Act
(NHPA), and there were no sites
considered eligible for listing in the
National Register of Historic Places.
Additionally, there will be no
disproportionally high and adverse
impacts on minority and low-income
populations.
(5) Impacts to threatened and
endangered species are not expected
from the relicensing of the CBR facility
because no new construction or land
disturbance is anticipated.
(6) There would be no impacts to the
public pertaining to radiological and
non-radiological health associated with
relicensing the CBR facility. Under the
license renewal, the facility would
continue to operate in accordance with
the State and Federal requirements that
minimize radiological and nonradiological impacts.
(7) The NRC staff analyzed potential
cumulative impacts and concluded that
there would not be significant adverse
cumulative impacts to any resource
area.
III. Finding of No Significant Impact
(FONSI)
Based on its review of the proposed
action, in accordance with the
requirements in 10 CFR Part 51, the
NRC staff has concluded that the
proposed action, renewal of NRC Source
Materials License No. SUA–1534 for
CBR’s ISR facility located in Crawford,
Nebraska, will not have a significant
impact on the resource areas discussed
in this EA and will not significantly
affect the quality of the human
environment. Therefore, the NRC staff
has determined, pursuant to 10 CFR
51.31, that preparation of an
environmental impact statement is not
required for the proposed action and a
FONSI is appropriate.
IV. Availability of Documents
The documents identified in the
following table are available to
interested persons as indicated. For
additional information on accessing
ADAMS, see the ADDRESSES section of
this document.
Document
ADAMS Accession No.
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License Renewal Application ...........................................................................................................................
Applicant’s Response to Environmental RAIs .................................................................................................
Section 106 Documents:
NRC Staff Documentation of Section 106 Review Findings ....................................................................
Traditional Cultural Property Survey Report by Santee Sioux Nation and Crow Nation .........................
NRC Staff letter to Nebraska SHPO requesting concurrence on completion of Section 106 process ...
Nebraska SHPO response to concurrence letter .....................................................................................
Environmental Assessment ..............................................................................................................................
Safety Evaluation Report .................................................................................................................................
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electronic copy to Ms. Holiday at the
contact information listed above. All
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prior to the meeting, and must pertain
to the topic on the agenda for the
meeting.
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during the meetings, at the discretion of
the Chairman.
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Web site https://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/doc-collections/acmui/meetings/
2014.html on or about January 23, 2015.
This meeting will be held in
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of 1954, as amended (primarily Section
161a); the Federal Advisory Committee
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Commission’s regulations in Title 10,
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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
Dated: October 24, 2014
Andrew L. Bates,
Advisory Committee Management Officer.
The Section 106 documents listed in
the above table are also publicly
available on the NRC Web site at:
https://www.nrc.gov/info-finder/
materials/uranium/licensed-facilities/
crow-butte/section-106-license-renewaldocs.html.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day
of October, 2014.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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Safeguards and Environmental Review, Office
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
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teleconference meeting of the Advisory
Committee on the Medical Uses of
Isotopes (ACMUI) on December 10,
2014, to discuss the Committee’s
comments on NRC’s Advanced Notice of
Proposed Rulemaking for Title 10 of the
Code of Federal Regulations for Part 20.
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of the agenda and handouts, will be
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2014.html. The agenda and handouts
may also be obtained by contacting Ms.
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Dr. Bruce Thomadsen, ACMUI
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AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is advertising for
nominations for the position of
radiation therapy medical physicist on
the Advisory Committee on the Medical
Uses of Isotopes (ACMUI).
DATES: Nominations are due on or
before January 13, 2015.
Nomination Process: Submit an
electronic copy of resume or curriculum
vitae to Ms. Sophie Holiday,
Sophie.Holiday@nrc.gov. Please ensure
that the resume or curriculum vitae
includes the following information, if
applicable: Education; certification;
professional association membership
and committee membership activities;
duties and responsibilities in current
and previous clinical, research, and/or
academic position(s).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
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Regulatory Commission, Office of
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards;
(301) 415–7865; Sophie.Holiday@
nrc.gov.
SUMMARY:
The
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 040-8943; NRC-2008-0208]
License Renewal of Crow Butte ISR, Uranium In Situ Recovery
Project
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
renewal of Crow Butte Resources, Inc. (CBR or the applicant), Source
Materials License SUA-1534 for continued uranium production operations
and in situ recovery (ISR) of uranium at the Crow Butte Project in
Crawford, Nebraska.
DATES: The environmental assessment and finding of no significant
impact are available as of October 30, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2008-0208 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You
may obtain publicly-available information related to this document
using any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2008-0208. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-
3422; email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this document.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection 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 number for each document referenced in this document
(if that document is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time
that a document is referenced. For the convenience of the reader, the
ADAMS accession numbers are provided in a table in the ``Availability
of Documents'' section of this document.
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: Nathan Goodman, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, telephone: 301-415-2703, email:
Nathan.Goodman@nrc.gov; U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The NRC is considering renewal of CBR's Source Materials License
SUA-1534 for continued uranium production operations and ISR of uranium
at the Crow Butte Project in Crawford, Nebraska. The applicant is
proposing continued ISR operations and processing materials into
yellowcake to be shipped for conversion. The NRC staff has prepared an
Environmental Assessment (EA) in support of this proposed license
renewal, in accordance with the requirements in Part 51 of Title 10 of
the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR). The NRC staff has also
completed a safety evaluation of the proposed license renewal, pursuant
to 10 CFR Part 40, and the results of the safety evaluation are
documented in a separate Safety Evaluation Report (SER), ADAMS
Accession No. ML14149A433. If approved, the NRC will issue the renewed
license following the publication of this notice. The new license will
also be made publicly available in ADAMS.
II. Environmental Assessment Summary
On November 27, 2007, CBR submitted an application to the NRC to
extend the current NRC License SUA-1534 for an additional 10 years of
operation (ADAMS Accession Nos. ML073480266, ML073480272, ML073480274,
and ML073480267). The proposed action would permit CBR to continue ISR
operations and yellowcake production at the CBR facility. The ISR
operations require an extraction step and a uranium recovery step.
Extraction is accomplished by installing a series of injection wells
through which barren lixiviant (a mixture of groundwater charged with
oxygen and bicarbonate) is pumped into an underground geological
formation containing uranium deposits (the ore body). Corresponding
production wells and pumps promote flow through the ore body and allow
for the collection of uranium-rich pregnant lixiviant. Uranium is
removed from the pregnant lixiviant by ion exchange, and then from the
ion exchange resin by elution. After the uranium is removed, the
lixiviant can then be recharged and
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reinjected into the ore body to repeat the extraction cycle. The
elution liquid containing the uranium (the ``pregnant'' eluant) is then
processed by precipitation, dewatering, and drying to produce a
transportable form of uranium (yellowcake).
The NRC staff has assessed the environmental impacts associated
with the request from CBR to renew its Source Materials License No.
SUA-1534 for CBR's ISR facility located in Crawford, Nebraska, as well
as the no action alternative, and has documented the results in this
EA. The NRC staff performed its environmental review in accordance with
the requirements in 10 CFR Part 51. In conducting the environmental
review, the NRC staff considered information in the license renewal
application (LRA); information in the responses to the NRC staff's
requests for additional information (RAIs); communications with CBR,
the Nebraska State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), and the
Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality (NDEQ); information from
the NRC staff site visits and inspections; consultation with Native
American Tribes and the public; and the NRC staff's independent
analysis.
In this EA, the NRC staff evaluated the potential environmental
impacts of the proposed action and the no action alternative on the
affected environment, specifically: land use; historical and cultural
resources; visual and scenic resources; air quality; geology and soils;
water resources; ecological resources; socioeconomics; environmental
justice; noise; transportation; and public and occupational health and
safety.
The NRC staff evaluated the potential impacts and categorized the
impacts as follows:
SMALL--environmental effects are not detectable or are so
minor that they will neither destabilize nor noticeably alter any
important attribute of the resource.
MODERATE--environmental effects are sufficient to alter
noticeably, but not to destabilize, important attributes of the
resource.
LARGE--environmental effects are clearly noticeable and
are sufficient to destabilize important attributes of the resource.
Additionally, the NRC staff analyzed the cumulative impacts from
past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future actions when combined
with the environmental impacts from the proposed action. For cumulative
impacts, the NRC staff evaluated whether these actions would have a
significant impact on each resource area.
The NRC staff has determined that renewal of Source Material
License SUA-1534 will be consistent with the requirements of 10 CFR
Part 40 and will not have long-term detrimental impacts on the
environment. The following statements summarize the conclusions
resulting from the staff's environmental assessment:
(1) Impacts for all resource areas were determined to be SMALL.
(2) Approval of the proposed action would not alter the current
land use at the CBR facility. No new construction, including roads, at
the CBR facility is anticipated. Traffic is not expected to increase
from current conditions.
(3) The NRC staff has determined that impacts to water resources,
discussed in detail in Sections 4.6 and 4.13.6 of the EA, would not be
significant from the relicensing of the CBR facility. Under the license
renewal, the facility would continue to operate in accordance with the
State and Federal requirements that minimize impacts to water
resources.
(4) The proposed action would have SMALL impacts to cultural
resources. Consultation was completed between the NRC and Native
American Tribes in accordance with Section 106 of the National Historic
Preservation Act (NHPA), and there were no sites considered eligible
for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. Additionally,
there will be no disproportionally high and adverse impacts on minority
and low-income populations.
(5) Impacts to threatened and endangered species are not expected
from the relicensing of the CBR facility because no new construction or
land disturbance is anticipated.
(6) There would be no impacts to the public pertaining to
radiological and non-radiological health associated with relicensing
the CBR facility. Under the license renewal, the facility would
continue to operate in accordance with the State and Federal
requirements that minimize radiological and non-radiological impacts.
(7) The NRC staff analyzed potential cumulative impacts and
concluded that there would not be significant adverse cumulative
impacts to any resource area.
III. Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI)
Based on its review of the proposed action, in accordance with the
requirements in 10 CFR Part 51, the NRC staff has concluded that the
proposed action, renewal of NRC Source Materials License No. SUA-1534
for CBR's ISR facility located in Crawford, Nebraska, will not have a
significant impact on the resource areas discussed in this EA and will
not significantly affect the quality of the human environment.
Therefore, the NRC staff has determined, pursuant to 10 CFR 51.31, that
preparation of an environmental impact statement is not required for
the proposed action and a FONSI is appropriate.
IV. Availability of Documents
The documents identified in the following table are available to
interested persons as indicated. For additional information on
accessing ADAMS, see the ADDRESSES section of this document.
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Document ADAMS Accession No.
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License Renewal Application.................... ML073480266, ML073480272,
ML073480274, ML073480267
Applicant's Response to Environmental RAIs..... ML091980473
Section 106 Documents:
NRC Staff Documentation of Section 106 ML13260A566
Review Findings.
Traditional Cultural Property Survey Report ML13093A123
by Santee Sioux Nation and Crow Nation.
NRC Staff letter to Nebraska SHPO ML13105A359
requesting concurrence on completion of
Section 106 process.
Nebraska SHPO response to concurrence ML13266A266
letter.
Environmental Assessment....................... ML14288A517
Safety Evaluation Report....................... ML14149A433
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The Section 106 documents listed in the above table are also
publicly available on the NRC Web site at: https://www.nrc.gov/info-finder/materials/uranium/licensed-facilities/crow-butte/section-106-license-renewal-docs.html.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day of October, 2014.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Marissa G. Bailey,
Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety, Safeguards and Environmental
Review, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2014-25853 Filed 10-29-14; 8:45 am]
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