[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 101 (Tuesday, May 27, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28841-28842]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-13144]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 030-18286]


Notice of Availability of Environmental Assessment and Finding of 
No Significant Impact for a License Amendment for Covance Laboratories, 
Madison, WI

I. Introduction

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering the 
issuance of an amendment to Covance Laboratories, Inc.'s (Covance) 
Byproduct Material License No. 48-11805-02, authorizing Covance to 
release its Deming Way facility located in Madison, Wisconsin, for 
unrestricted use. In December 1989, the NRC granted

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Covance a license for the Deming Way facility for in-vitro research and 
development utilizing tracer quantities of H-3 and C-14, and chemical 
analyses utilizing Ni-63 as a foil or plated source for gas 
chromatography. On November 22, 2002, Covance notified the NRC that it 
was ceasing operations at the Deming Way facility and requested release 
of this facility for unrestricted use. The NRC staff has prepared an 
Environmental Assessment (EA) in support of this licensing action in 
accordance with the requirements of 10 CFR part 51. The conclusion of 
the EA is a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the proposed 
licensing action.

II. EA Summary

    The proposed amendment would allow Covance to remove the Deming Way 
facility from its license and release the facility for unrestricted 
use. Covance provided survey results which demonstrate that the Deming 
Way facility is in compliance with 10 CFR 20.1402, ``Radiological 
Criteria for Unrestricted Use.''
    The staff has examined Covance's request and the information that 
the licensee has provided in support of its request, to ensure that the 
NRC's decision is protective of the public health and safety and the 
environment.

III. Finding of No Significant Impact

    The staff has prepared the EA (summarized above) in support of 
Covance's proposed license amendment to release the Deming Way facility 
for unrestricted use. On the basis of the EA, the staff has concluded 
that the environmental impacts from the proposed action would not be 
significant. Accordingly, the staff has determined that a FONSI is 
appropriate, and has determined that the preparation of an 
environmental impact statement is not warranted.

IV. Further Information

    In accordance with 10 CFR 2.790 of the NRC's ``Rules of Practice,'' 
Covance's request, the EA summarized above, and the documents related 
to this proposed action are available electronically for public 
inspection and copying from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) 
component of NRC's document system (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from 
the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm.html. These documents 
include Covance's letter to NRC dated November 22, 2002, with 
enclosures (Accession No. ML030640568); Covance's letter to NRC dated 
January 31, 2003, with enclosures (Accession No. ML030790430); 
Covance's letter to NRC dated March 13, 2003 (Accession No. 
ML030790430); and the EA summarized above (Accession No. ML031330660). 
Any questions with respect to this action should be directed to Dr. 
Peter J. Lee, Division of Nuclear Materials Safety, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Region III, 801 Warrenville Road, Lisle, 
Illinois 60532-4351; telephone (630) 829-9870 or by email at 
[email protected].

    Dated at Lisle, Illinois, this 12th day of May, 2003.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Christopher G. Miller,
Chief, Decommissioning Branch, Division of Nuclear Materials Safety, 
RIII.
[FR Doc. 03-13144 Filed 5-23-03; 8:45 am]
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