[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 198 (Thursday, October 10, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53240-53241]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-26054]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No.: 070-364]


Consideration of Amendment Request for Decommissioning the 
Babcock and Wilcox Facility in Parks Township, Pennsylvania, and 
Opportunity for a Hearing

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of consideration of amendment request for 
decommissioning the Babcock and Wilcox Facility in Parks Township, 
Pennsylvania, and opportunity for a hearing.

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    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering issuance of a 
license amendment to Special Nuclear Material License No. SNM-414 (SNM-
414), issued to the Babcock and Wilcox Company, Pennsylvania Nuclear 
Service Operations (the licensee), to authorize decommissioning of its 
former plutonium processing facility in Parks Township, Pennsylvania. 
This amendment does not relate to the decommissioning of the licensee's 
Shallow Land Disposal Area, which is under a separate license.
    The licensee has been decommissioning the buildings at the Parks 
Township facility in accordance with the conditions discussed in SNM-
414. On January 26, 1996, the licensee submitted a site decommissioning 
plan (SDP) to NRC for review that summarized the decommissioning 
activities that will be undertaken to remediate the building slabs, 
basements, sub-surface utilities and soil at the Parks Township 
facility. Radioactive contamination at the licensee's Parks Township 
facility discussed in the SDP consists of soils and building rubble 
contaminated with uranium, transuranic radionuclides, and byproduct 
material resulting from licensed operations that occurred from the late 
1950s until the early 1990s.
    The NRC will require the licensee to remediate the Parks Township 
facility to meet NRC's decommissioning criteria, and during the 
decommissioning activities, to maintain effluent and doses within NRC 
requirements and as low as reasonably achievable.
    Prior to approving the decommissioning plan, NRC will have made 
findings required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and 
NRC's regulations. These findings will be documented in a Safety 
Evaluation Report and an Environmental Assessment. Approval of the SDP 
will be documented in an amendment to SNM-414.
    The NRC hereby provides notice that this is a proceeding on an 
application for amendment of a license falling within the scope of 
Subpart L ``Informal Hearing Procedures for Adjudication in Materials 
Licensing Proceedings,'' of NRC's rules and practice for domestic 
licensing proceedings in 10 CFR Part 2. Pursuant to Sec. 2.1205(a), any 
person whose interest may be affected by this proceeding may file a 
request for a hearing in accordance with Sec. 2.1205(c). A request for 
a hearing must be filed within thirty (30) days of the date of 
publication of this Federal Register notice.
    The request for a hearing must be filed with the Office of the 
Secretary either:
    1. By delivery to the Docketing and Service Branch of the Secretary 
at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852-
2738; or
    2. By mail or telegram addressed to the Secretary, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555. Attention: Docketing and 
Service Branch
    In addition to meeting other applicable requirements of 10 CFR Part 
2 of the NRC's regulations, a request for a hearing filed by a person 
other than an applicant must describe in detail:
    1. The interest of the requester in the proceeding;
    2. How that interest may be affected by the results of the 
proceeding, including the reasons why the requestor should be permitted 
a hearing, with particular reference to the factors set out in 
Sec. 2.1205(g);

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    3. The requester's areas of concern about the licensing activity 
that is the subject matter of the proceeding; and
    4. The circumstances establishing that the request for a hearing is 
timely in accordance with Sec. 2.1205(c).
    In accordance with 10 CFR Sec. 2.1205(e), each request for a 
hearing must also be served, by delivering it personally or by mail, 
to:
    1. The applicant, Babcock and Wilcox Company, R. D. 1, Box 355, 
Vandergrift, PA 15690 Attention: Mr. Don K. Sgarlata; and
    2. The NRC staff, by delivery to the Executive Director for 
Operations, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 
20852, or by mail, addressed to the Executive Director for Operations, 
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555.
    For further details with respect to this action, the site 
decommissioning plan is available for inspection at the NRC's Public 
Document Room, 2120 L Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20555 and in NRC's 
Local Public Document Room located at the Apollo Memorial Library, 219 
North Pennsylvania Avenue, Apollo, PA 15613.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 3rd day of October, 1996.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Michael F. Weber,
Chief, Low-Level Waste and Decommissioning Projects Branch, Division of 
Waste Management, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 96-26054 Filed 10-9-96; 8:45 am]
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