[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 225 (Tuesday, November 23, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 68179]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-25904]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 030-20681]


Notice of Availability of Environmental Assessment and Finding of 
No Significant Impact for License Amendment for E.I. Du Pont de Nemours 
and Company, Inc.'s Facility in Newark, DE

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kathy Dolce Modes, Materials Security 
& Industrial Branch, Division of Nuclear Materials Safety, Region I, 
475 Allendale Road, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, 19406, telephone 
(610) 337-5251, fax (610) 337-5269; or by e-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering the issuance 
of a license amendment to E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Inc. 
for Materials License No. 07-13441-02, to authorize release of its 
Delaware Technology Park facility in Newark, Delaware for unrestricted 
use. NRC 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. The amendment will be issued following 
the publication of this Notice.

II. EA Summary

    The purpose of the proposed action is to authorize the release of 
the licensee's Delaware Technology Park facility in Newark, Delaware 
for unrestricted use. The licensee's Delaware Technology Park facility 
was added to their NRC license on August 8, 1997, to use radioactive 
materials for research and development purposes. On July 16, 2004, E.I. 
du Pont de Nemours and Company, Inc. requested that NRC release the 
Delaware Technology Park facility for unrestricted use. E.I. du Pont de 
Nemours and Company, Inc. has conducted surveys of the facility and 
determined that the facility meets the license termination criteria in 
subpart E of 10 CFR part 20. E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Inc. 
will continue licensed activities at another location, as authorized by 
the license.
    The NRC staff has prepared an EA in support of the proposed license 
amendment. The facility was remediated and surveyed prior to the 
licensee requesting the license amendment. The NRC staff has reviewed 
the information and final status survey submitted by E.I. du Pont de 
Nemours and Company, Inc. Based on its reviews, the staff has 
determined that there are no additional remediation activities 
necessary to complete the proposed action. Therefore, the staff 
considered the impact of the residual radioactivity at the facility and 
concluded that since the residual radioactivity meets the requirements 
in subpart E of 10 CFR part 20, a Finding of No Significant Impact is 
appropriate.

III. Finding of No Significant Impact

    The staff has prepared the EA (summarized above) in support of the 
proposed license amendment to release the facility for unrestricted 
use. The NRC staff has evaluated E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 
Inc.'s request and the results of the surveys and has concluded that 
the completed action complies with the criteria in subpart E of 10 CFR 
part 20. The staff has found that the environmental impacts from the 
proposed action are bounded by the impacts evaluated by NUREG-1496, 
Volumes 1-3, ``Generic Environmental Impact Statement in Support of 
Rulemaking on Radiological Criteria for License Termination of NRC-
Licensed Facilities' (ML042310492, ML042320379, and ML042330385). On 
the basis of the EA, the NRC has concluded that the environmental 
impacts from the proposed action are expected to be insignificant and 
has determined not to prepare an environmental impact statement for the 
proposed action.

IV. Further Information

    Documents related to this action, including the application for the 
license amendment and supporting documentation, are available 
electronically at the NRC's Agencywide Document Access and Management 
System (ADAMS), which provides text and image files of NRC's public 
documents. The ADAMS accession numbers for the documents related to 
this Notice are: ML043000055 (the Environmental Assessment), 
ML042110242 (Initial Request), ML042660405 (Decommissioning Report), 
and ML042790369 (Decommissioning Report--Revision 1). On October 25, 
2004, the NRC terminated public access to ADAMS and initiated an 
additional security review of publicly available documents to ensure 
that potentially sensitive information is removed from the ADAMS 
database accessible through the NRC's web site. Interested members of 
the public may obtain copies of the referenced documents for review 
and/or copying by contacting the Public Document Room (PDR) pending 
resumption of public access to ADAMS. The NRC Public Documents Room is 
located at NRC Headquarters in Rockville, MD, and can be contacted at 
(800) 397-4209, (301) 415-4737 or by e-mail to: [email protected].
    These documents may also be viewed electronically on the public 
computers located at the NRC's PDR, O 1 F21, One White Flint North, 
11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. The PDR reproduction 
contractor will copy documents for a fee.

    Dated at King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, this 16th day of 
November, 2004.

    For The Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John D. Kinneman,
Chief, Materials Security & Industrial Branch, Division of Nuclear 
Materials Safety, Region I.
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