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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
 

Uranium Mill Facilities: Availability of Draft Final Staff 
Technical Position on Alternate Concentration Limits for Title II 
Uranium Mills

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is announcing the 
availability of its ``Draft Final Staff Technical Position on Alternate 
Concentration Limits for Title II Uranium Mills.'' This Draft Final 
Technical Position offers guidance for preparing and reviewing 
applications for the establishment of alternate concentration limits 
(ACLs) at Title II uranium mill tailings sites, pursuant to Criterion 5 
of appendix A to 10 CFR part 40.
    The Draft Final Staff Technical Position represents a revised and 
updated version of NRC's Draft Technical Position on ACLs, which was 
announced in the Federal Register on June 30, 1988 (53 FR 24820). The 
revisions were made largely in response to comments that NRC received 
on the Draft Technical Position. A revision deserving mention in this 
notice is the omission of the maximum annual individual risk permitted, 
which had been indicated in the Draft Technical Position to be 
approximately 1  x  10-6, with this value representing the 
combined total risk from radiological and nonradiological hazardous 
constituents. A value for the maximum risk level in the current draft 
is pending the results of ongoing discussions between the staffs from 
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and NRC on the maximum risk 
level that should be permitted. However, the staff considers the 
maximum risk level to be more of a staff review standard than a guide 
to the licensees; therefore, the omission of the maximum risk level 
from the current draft of the Technical Position is not considered a 
limitation for preparing and submitting ACL applications by the 
licensees. The staff intends to use this Draft Final Technical Position 
to review ACL applications by licensees.

ADDRESSES: Requests for copies of the Draft Final Technical Position 
should be addressed to Anne E. Garcia, Repository Licensing & QA 
Project Directorate, Division of High Level Waste, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards, Mailstop 4-H-3 OWFN, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555. Telephone: (301) 504-2438.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Comments and requests for further information on the Draft Final Staff 
Technical Position should be transmitted to Latif S. Hamdan, Uranium 
Recovery Branch, Division of Low-Level Waste and Decommissioning, 
Office of Nuclear material Safety and Safeguards, Mailstop 5-E-4 OWFN, 
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555. Telephone: 
(301) 504-2528. Comments will be received through April 29, 1994.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 14th day of March, 1994.

    For The Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Joseph J. Holonich,
Acting Chief, Uranium Recovery Branch, Division of Low-Level Waste 
Management and Decommissioning, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and 
Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 94-6556 Filed 3-18-94; 8:45 am]
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