Strata Energy, Inc.; Ross Uranium In-Situ Recovery Facility; Source and Byproduct Materials License, 69554-69555 [2016-24196]

Download as PDF 69554 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 194 / Thursday, October 6, 2016 / Notices determination is in the ITAAC Closure Verification Evaluation Form (VEF) for each ITAAC. The VEF is a form that represents the NRC staff’s structured process for reviewing ICNs. Each ICN presents a narrative description of how the ITAAC was completed. The NRC’s ICN review process involves a determination on whether, among other things: (1) Each ICN provides sufficient information, including a summary of the methodology used to perform the ITAAC, to demonstrate that the inspections, tests, and analyses have been successfully completed; (2) each ICN provides sufficient information to demonstrate that the acceptance criteria of the ITAAC are met; and (3) any NRC inspections for the ITAAC have been completed and any ITAAC findings associated with that ITAAC have been closed. 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VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:46 Oct 05, 2016 Jkt 241001 Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Unit 4, Docket No. 5200026 A complete list of the review status for VEGP Unit 4 ITAAC, including the submission date and ADAMS Accession Number for each ICN received, the ADAMS Accession Number for each VEF, and the ADAMS Accession Numbers for the inspection reports associated with these specific ITAAC, can be found on the NRC’s Web site at https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/newreactors/new-licensing-files/vog4icnsr.pdf. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 29th day of September 2016. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Jennifer Dixon-Herrity, Acting Chief, Licensing Branch 4, Division of New Reactor Licensing, Office of New Reactors. [FR Doc. 2016–24192 Filed 10–5–16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590–01–P NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [Docket No. 40–09091; NRC–2011–0148] Strata Energy, Inc.; Ross Uranium InSitu Recovery Facility; Source and Byproduct Materials License Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Record of decision; update. AGENCY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued an updated Record of Decision (ROD) related to the license for Strata Energy, Inc. (Strata), Ross Uranium In-Situ Recovery (ISR) Facility in Crook County, Wyoming. Strata’s request for a source and byproduct materials license for the Ross ISR facility was contested through the NRC’s adjudicatory process. On June 29, 2016, the Commission denied a petition for review of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board’s (ASLB) decision. The ROD has been updated to account for the ASLB’s decision and the Commission’s ruling. DATES: The ROD was updated as of September 28, 2016. ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2011–0148 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You may access 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–2011–0148. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00046 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 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 publiclyavailable 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 WBA 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. 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: Jessie Muir-Quintero, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415–7476; email: Jessie.MuirQuintero@nrc.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Discussion The NRC issued a license to Strata for its Ross ISR Facility in Crook County, Wyoming in April 2014. Along with the issuance of the license, the NRC published a ROD that supported its decision to approve Strata’s license application for the Ross ISR Facility. After the license was issued, the NRC’s ASLB, an independent, trial-level adjudicatory body, granted a hearing request from joint intervenors, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Powder River Basin Resource Council. The ASLB held an evidentiary hearing from September 30, 2014, through October 1, 2014, for three admitted contentions on environmental matters related to the licensing of the Ross ISR Facility. In its initial decision following the hearing, the ASLB ruled in favor of Strata and the NRC on all three contentions. In doing so, the ASLB supplemented the ROD to include a revised license condition (10.12) and additional analyses that were placed on the record by various parties. In June 2016, the Commission denied a petition for review of the ASLB’s decision. The NRC’s initial ROD was published on April 24, 2014. The updated ROD E:\FR\FM\06OCN1.SGM 06OCN1 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 194 / Thursday, October 6, 2016 / Notices accounts for the ASLB’s decision and the Commission’s ruling. 69555 II. Availability of Documents The documents identified in the following table are available to interested persons as indicated. Item No. Document title ADAMS Accession No. 1 ....... 2 ....... 3 ....... 4 ....... 5 ....... 6 ....... 7 ....... 8 ....... 9 ....... 10 ..... 11 ..... 12 ..... Generic Environmental Impact Statement for In-Situ Leach Uranium Milling Facilities, May 2009 .................................... Strata Energy, Inc., Materials License Application, January 4, 2011 .................................................................................. Supplemental Information, February 28, 2011 ..................................................................................................................... ASLB Decision, February 10, 2012 ...................................................................................................................................... Response to Request for Additional Information, March 30, 2012 ...................................................................................... Response to Request for Additional Information, April 6, 2012 ........................................................................................... Clarification to RAI Responses, August 10, 2012 ................................................................................................................ Technical Report Replacement Pages, January 18, 2013 ................................................................................................... Containment Barrier Wall Construction Update, October 14, 2013 ..................................................................................... Safety Evaluation Report Suggested Corrections, October 17, 2013 ................................................................................. Technical Report Replacement Pages, February 19, 2014 ................................................................................................. Environmental Impact Statement for the Ross ISR Project in Crook County, Wyoming, Supplement to the Generic Environmental Impact Statement for In-Situ Leach Uranium Milling Facilities, Draft Report for Public Comments, March 31, 2013. Environmental Impact Statement for the Ross ISR Project in Crook County, Wyoming, Supplement to the Generic Environmental Impact Statement for In-Situ Leach Uranium Milling Facilities, Final Report, February 28, 2014. Programmatic Agreement for Protection of Cultural Resources, April 2014 ....................................................................... NRC Safety Evaluation Report, April 18, 2014 .................................................................................................................... Source and Byproduct Materials License SUA–1601, April 24, 2014 ................................................................................. NRC Staff’s Record of Decision, April 24, 2014 .................................................................................................................. Natural Resource Defense Council’s Powder River Basin Resource Council’s Petition for Review of Atomic Safety and Licensing Board’s January 23, 2015 Initial Decision Denying Environmental Contentions 1 Through 3, and Interlocutory Decisions Denying Environmental Contentions 4⁄5 and 6⁄7, February 17, 2015. ASLB Decision, January 23, 2015 ....................................................................................................................................... Commission Decision, CLI–16–13 Memorandum and Order, June 29, 2016 ..................................................................... NRC Staff’s Updated Record of Decision, September 28, 2016 ......................................................................................... ML091530075 ML110120063 ML110800187 ML12041A295 ML121030404 ML121020343 ML12227A369 ML130370654 ML13295A230 ML13296A026 ML14051A020 ML13078A036 13 ..... 14 15 16 17 18 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 19 ..... 20 ..... 21 ..... Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 28th day of September 2016. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Craig G. Erlanger, Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety, Safeguards and Environmental Review, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. [FR Doc. 2016–24196 Filed 10–5–16; 8:45 am] www.prc.gov. Those who cannot submit comments electronically should contact the person identified in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section by telephone for advice on filing alternatives. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: BILLING CODE 7590–01–P David A. Trissell, General Counsel, at 202–789–6820. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION Table of Contents [Docket Nos. CP2016–149; CP2016–166; MC2016–211 and CP2016–300; MC2016–212 and CP2016–301] New Postal Products Postal Regulatory Commission. Notice. AGENCY: ACTION: The Commission is noticing recent Postal Service filings for the Commission’s consideration concerning negotiated service agreements. This notice informs the public of the filing, invites public comment, and takes other administrative steps. DATES: Comments are due: October 11, 2016 (Comment due date applies to all Docket Nos. listed above) ADDRESSES: Submit comments electronically via the Commission’s Filing Online system at https:// sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES SUMMARY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:46 Oct 05, 2016 Jkt 241001 I. Introduction II. Docketed Proceeding(s) I. Introduction The Commission gives notice that the Postal Service filed request(s) for the Commission to consider matters related to negotiated service agreement(s). The request(s) may propose the addition or removal of a negotiated service agreement from the market dominant or the competitive product list, or the modification of an existing product currently appearing on the market dominant or the competitive product list. Section II identifies the docket number(s) associated with each Postal Service request, the title of each Postal Service request, the request’s acceptance date, and the authority cited by the Postal Service for each request. For each PO 00000 Frm 00047 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 ML14056A096 ML14111A346 ML14108A088 ML14069A315 ML14073A107 ML15048A103 ML15023A566 ML16181A107 ML16230A021 request, the Commission appoints an officer of the Commission to represent the interests of the general public in the proceeding, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 505 (Public Representative). Section II also establishes comment deadline(s) pertaining to each request. The public portions of the Postal Service’s request(s) can be accessed via the Commission’s Web site (https:// www.prc.gov). Non-public portions of the Postal Service’s request(s), if any, can be accessed through compliance with the requirements of 39 CFR 3007.40. The Commission invites comments on whether the Postal Service’s request(s) in the captioned docket(s) are consistent with the policies of title 39. For request(s) that the Postal Service states concern market dominant product(s), applicable statutory and regulatory requirements include 39 U.S.C. 3622, 39 U.S.C. 3642, 39 CFR part 3010, and 39 CFR part 3020, subpart B. For request(s) that the Postal Service states concern competitive product(s), applicable statutory and regulatory requirements include 39 U.S.C. 3632, 39 U.S.C. 3633, 39 U.S.C. 3642, 39 CFR part 3015, and 39 CFR part 3020, subpart B. 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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 40-09091; NRC-2011-0148]


Strata Energy, Inc.; Ross Uranium In-Situ Recovery Facility; 
Source and Byproduct Materials License

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Record of decision; update.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued an 
updated Record of Decision (ROD) related to the license for Strata 
Energy, Inc. (Strata), Ross Uranium In-Situ Recovery (ISR) Facility in 
Crook County, Wyoming. Strata's request for a source and byproduct 
materials license for the Ross ISR facility was contested through the 
NRC's adjudicatory process. On June 29, 2016, the Commission denied a 
petition for review of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board's (ASLB) 
decision. The ROD has been updated to account for the ASLB's decision 
and the Commission's ruling.

DATES: The ROD was updated as of September 28, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2011-0148 when contacting the 
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You 
may access 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-2011-0148. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; 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 WBA 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. 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: Jessie Muir-Quintero, Office of 
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-7476; email: 
Jessie.Muir-Quintero@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Discussion

    The NRC issued a license to Strata for its Ross ISR Facility in 
Crook County, Wyoming in April 2014. Along with the issuance of the 
license, the NRC published a ROD that supported its decision to approve 
Strata's license application for the Ross ISR Facility.
    After the license was issued, the NRC's ASLB, an independent, 
trial-level adjudicatory body, granted a hearing request from joint 
intervenors, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Powder River 
Basin Resource Council. The ASLB held an evidentiary hearing from 
September 30, 2014, through October 1, 2014, for three admitted 
contentions on environmental matters related to the licensing of the 
Ross ISR Facility. In its initial decision following the hearing, the 
ASLB ruled in favor of Strata and the NRC on all three contentions. In 
doing so, the ASLB supplemented the ROD to include a revised license 
condition (10.12) and additional analyses that were placed on the 
record by various parties. In June 2016, the Commission denied a 
petition for review of the ASLB's decision. The NRC's initial ROD was 
published on April 24, 2014. The updated ROD

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accounts for the ASLB's decision and the Commission's ruling.

II. Availability of Documents

    The documents identified in the following table are available to 
interested persons as indicated.

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                                                               ADAMS
    Item No.                  Document title               Accession No.
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1...............  Generic Environmental Impact Statement     ML091530075
                   for In-Situ Leach Uranium Milling
                   Facilities, May 2009.
2...............  Strata Energy, Inc., Materials License     ML110120063
                   Application, January 4, 2011.
3...............  Supplemental Information, February 28,     ML110800187
                   2011.
4...............  ASLB Decision, February 10, 2012......     ML12041A295
5...............  Response to Request for Additional         ML121030404
                   Information, March 30, 2012.
6...............  Response to Request for Additional         ML121020343
                   Information, April 6, 2012.
7...............  Clarification to RAI Responses, August     ML12227A369
                   10, 2012.
8...............  Technical Report Replacement Pages,        ML130370654
                   January 18, 2013.
9...............  Containment Barrier Wall Construction      ML13295A230
                   Update, October 14, 2013.
10..............  Safety Evaluation Report Suggested         ML13296A026
                   Corrections, October 17, 2013.
11..............  Technical Report Replacement Pages,        ML14051A020
                   February 19, 2014.
12..............  Environmental Impact Statement for the     ML13078A036
                   Ross ISR Project in Crook County,
                   Wyoming, Supplement to the Generic
                   Environmental Impact Statement for In-
                   Situ Leach Uranium Milling
                   Facilities, Draft Report for Public
                   Comments, March 31, 2013.
13..............  Environmental Impact Statement for the     ML14056A096
                   Ross ISR Project in Crook County,
                   Wyoming, Supplement to the Generic
                   Environmental Impact Statement for In-
                   Situ Leach Uranium Milling
                   Facilities, Final Report, February
                   28, 2014.
14..............  Programmatic Agreement for Protection      ML14111A346
                   of Cultural Resources, April 2014.
15..............  NRC Safety Evaluation Report, April        ML14108A088
                   18, 2014.
16..............  Source and Byproduct Materials License     ML14069A315
                   SUA-1601, April 24, 2014.
17..............  NRC Staff's Record of Decision, April      ML14073A107
                   24, 2014.
18..............  Natural Resource Defense Council's         ML15048A103
                   Powder River Basin Resource Council's
                   Petition for Review of Atomic Safety
                   and Licensing Board's January 23,
                   2015 Initial Decision Denying
                   Environmental Contentions 1 Through
                   3, and Interlocutory Decisions
                   Denying Environmental Contentions \4/
                   5\ and \6/7\, February 17, 2015.
19..............  ASLB Decision, January 23, 2015.......     ML15023A566
20..............  Commission Decision, CLI-16-13             ML16181A107
                   Memorandum and Order, June 29, 2016.
21..............  NRC Staff's Updated Record of              ML16230A021
                   Decision, September 28, 2016.
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    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 28th day of September 2016.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Craig G. Erlanger,
Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety, Safeguards and Environmental 
Review, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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