[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 140 (Tuesday, July 22, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43381-43382]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-18544]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 030-01295]


Notice of Finding of No Significant Impact and Availability of 
Environmental Assessment for License Amendment of Materials License No. 
06-13022-02; University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT

I. Introduction

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering the 
issuance of a license amendment to the University of Connecticut Health 
Center for Materials License No. 06-13022-02, to authorize release of 
its facility on the Newington Veterans Administration Campus in 
Newington, Connecticut for unrestricted use and has prepared an 
Environmental Assessment (EA) in support of this action in accordance 
with the requirements of 10 CFR Part 51. Based on the EA, the NRC has 
concluded that a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) is 
appropriate.

II. EA Summary

    The purpose of the proposed action is to allow for the release of 
the licensee's areas of use within Building No. 5 at the Veterans 
Administration Medical Center in Newington, Connecticut for 
unrestricted use. The University of Connecticut Health Center was 
authorized by NRC from 1970 to use radioactive materials for research 
and development purposes at the site. On August 7, 2002, the University 
of Connecticut Health Center requested that NRC release their 
facilities in Building No. 5 for unrestricted use. The University of 
Connecticut Health Center has conducted surveys of the facility and 
determined that the facility meets the license termination criteria in 
Subpart E of 10 CFR Part 20.

III. Finding of No Significant Impact

    The NRC staff has evaluated the University of Connecticut Health 
Center's request and the results of the surveys, and has prepared the 
EA (summarized above) in support of the proposed license amendment to 
release the University of Connecticut Health Center facility in 
Newington, Connecticut for unrestricted use. On the basis of the EA, 
the NRC has concluded that the environmental impacts from the proposed 
action are not expected to be significant and has determined not to 
prepare an environmental impact statement for the proposed action. As 
described in the EA, the NRC staff found no significant impacts based 
on its review of the adequacy of the radiation release criteria and the 
adequacy of the final status survey to meet NRC's unrestricted release 
criteria. In reviewing the amendment request the staff also determined 
that the environmental impacts were enveloped by the generic analysis 
performed in support of ``Radiological Criteria for License 
Termination'' (62 FR 39058).

IV. Further Information

    The EA and the documents related to this proposed action, including 
the application for the license amendment and supporting documentation, 
are available for inspection at NRC's Public Electronic Reading Room at 
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (ADAMS Accession Nos. 
ML031960106, ML022320664, ML022320354). These documents are also 
available for inspection and copying for a fee at the Region I Office, 
475 Allendale Road, King of Prussia, PA 19406. Any questions with 
respect to this action should be referred to Penny Lanzisera, Nuclear 
Materials Safety Branch 1, Division of Nuclear Materials Safety, Region 
I, 475 Allendale Road, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, 19406; telephone 
(610) 337-5169; fax (610) 337-5269.

    Dated at King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, this 15th day of July, 
2003.

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    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Pamela J. Henderson,
Chief Nuclear Materials Safety Branch 1, Division of Nuclear Materials 
Safety, Region I.
[FR Doc. 03-18544 Filed 7-21-03; 8:45 am]
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