[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 41 (Wednesday, March 1, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 11096]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-4886]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos.: 070-00784 and 040-07044]


Notice Consideration of the Approval of the Site Remediation Plan 
for the Formerly Licensed Union Carbide Facility in Lawrenceburg, TN

SUMMARY: The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering a 
Remediation (Decommissioning) Plan (RDP) submitted by UCAR Carbon 
Company, Inc. (UCAR) to authorize decommissioning of its formerly 
licensed Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) facility in Lawrenceburg, 
Tennessee.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 19, 1998, UCAR submitted the RDP 
of its formerly licensed facility in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. The RDP 
summarized the decommissioning activities that will be undertaken to 
remediate the contamination identified in three buildings, on an 
incinerator pad, and in the surrounding outdoor areas. Radioactive 
contamination at the UCC facility consists of building structures and 
soil contaminated with enriched uranium and thorium resulting from 
licensed operation that occurred from 1963 to 1974.
    NRC will require the licensee to remediate the UCC facility to meet 
NRC's decommissioning criteria, and during the decommissioning 
activities, to maintain effluents and doses within NRC requirements and 
as low as reasonably achievable.
    Prior to approving the RDP, 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.
    UCAR has submitted the RDP and NRC hereby provides notice that the 
RDP is under review. Please address any questions or comments to the 
information contact person listed below.
    The RDP for the formerly licensed UCC facility, Lawrenceburg, 
Tennessee, License Nos. SNM-00724 (Terminated) and SMB-00720 
(Terminated), is available for inspection at the NRC's Public Document 
Room, 2120 L Street NW, Washington, DC 20555.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rebecca Tadesse, Decommissioning 
Branch, Division of Waste Management, Office of Nuclear Material Safety 
and Safeguards, at (301) 415-6221 or e-mail [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day of February 2000.
    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Michael C. Layton,
Acting Chief, Decommissioning Branch, Division of Waste Management, 
Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 00-4886 Filed 2-29-00; 8:45 am]
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