[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 211 (Wednesday, October 30, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56068-56069]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-27794]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No.: 040-07455]


Notice of Consideration of Amendment Request for Decommissioning 
the Whittaker Corporation's Greenville, Pennsylvania, Site, and 
Opportunity for Hearing

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering issuance of 
an amendment of Source Material License No. SMA-1018, issued to 
Whittaker Corporation, Inc., to consolidate existing contaminated 
materials at its Greenville, Pennsylvania, site to a centralized 
location at this site and partially decommission the remediated areas.
    In a letter dated May 24, 1995, the licensee requested that License 
No. SMA-1018 be amended to authorize the planned relocation of 
contaminated materials. The amendment would authorize the licensee to 
consolidate the waste to a centralized location in accordance with the 
Decommissioning Work Plan and partially remediate and decommission 
select locations of the Whittaker Corporation's Greenville, 
Pennsylvania, site. Radioactive contamination of the Whittaker 
Corporation's Greenville site resulted from the processing of ferro-
columbium and ferro-nickel alloys by an aluminathermic melting process. 
The columbium ores and nickel scrap used in this process contained 
natural thorium and uranium. Concentrations of Ra-226 have also been 
noted in some of the waste slag. Manufacturing operations occurred from 
the 1960's through 1974.
    The NRC will require the licensee to meet NRC's decommissioning 
criteria for those areas proposed to be released for unrestricted use. 
During remediation activities the licensee will also be required to 
maintain radiation exposures and effluents within NRC's radiation 
protection limits and as low as reasonably achievable.
    Prior to the issuance of the proposed amendment, 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.
    The NRC hereby provides notice that this is a proceeding on an 
application for a license amendment falling within the scope of Subpart 
L, Informal Hearing Procedures for Adjudications in Materials Licensing 
Proceedings of NRC's rules and practices 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 Office 
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 requestor 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);
    (3) The requestor's area 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. 2.1025(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, Whittaker Corporation, 1955 N. Surveyor Avenue, 
Simi Valley, California 93063-3386, Attention: Mr. Richard Levin, Chief 
Financial Officer and General Counsel, 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. Any hearing 
that is requested and granted will be held in accordance with the 
Commission's Informal Hearing Procedures for Adjudications in Materials 
Licensing Proceedings in 10 CFR Part 2, Subpart L.
    For further details with respect to the proposed action, see the 
licensee's request for license amendment dated May 24, 1995, which is 
available for public inspection and copying at the

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NRC's Public Document Room, 2120 L Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20555.
    For additional information, contact Donna S. Moser, Health 
Physicist, Materials Decommissioning Section, Low-Level Waste and 
Decommissioning Projects Branch, Division of Waste Management, Office 
of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, (301) 415-6753.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 23rd 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. 96-27794 Filed 10-29-96; 8:45 am]
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