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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
 

Release of Site for Unrestricted Use and Removal From the Site 
Decommissioning Management Plan, Pawling Site, NY

July 8, 1994.
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
    This notice is to inform the public that the U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission (NRC) is releasing the formerly licensed Gulf 
Nuclear Fuel Corporation (GNFC) site (currently owned by the National 
Park Service) near Pawling, New York, for unrestricted use. General 
Atomics Company was the last licensee for the activities carried out at 
this GNFC site. Following a series of corporation changes, Chevron 
Corporation is the corporate successor to General Atomics. Remedial 
action has been completed at the site because residual radioactive 
material had been present in excess of NRC's current unrestricted use 
criteria. The Pawling site was listed in the NRC's Site Decommissioning 
Management Plan, but has now been removed.
    Results of the radiological surveys and analyses performed indicate 
that, after the remedial actions, residual radioactive material on 
building surfaces and in soils at the site is less than the criteria 
found in the NRC's ``Guidelines for Decontamination of Facilities and 
Equipment Prior to Release for Unrestricted Use or Termination of 
Licenses for Byproduct, Source, or Special Nuclear Material,'' August 
1987. After reviewing Chevron Corporation's reports and radiological 
surveys of this facility, and Oak Ridge Institute for Science and 
Education's confirmatory radiological survey, NRC staff concludes that 
further remedial action is not required, and that the site is suitable 
for unrestricted use.
    As noted in the Action Plan (57 FR 13389), this is the final action 
of the NRC on the Pawling site. NRC will not require any additional 
decommissioning in response to future NRC criteria or standards, except 
in the event that additional contamination, or noncompliance with the 
decommissioning plans approved by NRC in December 1992 and July 1993, 
is found, indicating a significant threat to public health and safety. 
Noncompliance would occur if the licensee had not complied with an 
approved decommissioning plan, or had provided false information.

    Dated: at Rockville, MD, this 8th day of July 1994.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John H. Austin,
Chief, Low-Level Waste and Decommissioning Projects Branch, Division of 
Waste Management, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 94-17501 Filed 7-18-94; 8:45 am]
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