[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 238 (Monday, December 13, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72223-72224]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-27244]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 030-30416]


Notice of Availability of Environmental Assessment and Finding of 
No Significant Impact for License Amendment for APPTEC Laboratory 
Services, Inc.'s Facility in Camden, NJ

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of Availability.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Donna M. Janda, Materials Security and 
Industrial Branch, Division of Nuclear Materials Safety, Region I, 475 
Allendale Road, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, 19406, telephone (610) 
337-5371, fax (610) 337-5269; or by e-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Introduction

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a license 
amendment to AppTec Laboratory Services, Inc. (AppTec) for Materials 
License No. 29-28152-01, to terminate the license and authorize release 
of its facility in Camden, New Jersey, 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 action is to authorize the release of the 
licensee's Camden, New Jersey, facility for unrestricted use. AppTec 
was authorized by NRC from April 7, 1988, to use radioactive materials 
for research and development purposes at the site. On July 28, 2004, 
AppTec requested that NRC release the facility for unrestricted use. 
AppTec has conducted surveys of the facility and provided information 
to the NRC to demonstrate that the site meets the license termination 
criteria in Subpart E of 10 CFR Part 20 for unrestricted use.
    The NRC staff has prepared an EA in support of the 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 AppTec. Based on 
its review, 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 
license amendment to terminate the license and release the facility for 
unrestricted use. The NRC staff has evaluated AppTec'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 action are bounded by 
the impacts evaluated by NUREG-1496, Volumes 1-3,

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``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 action are expected to be insignificant and has determined not to 
prepare an environmental impact statement for the 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 Electronic Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. From this site, you can access 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: the 
Environmental Assessment (ML043410104); Decommissioning Report for 
AppTec Laboratory Services, Inc. (ML042320058); and Letter from New 
Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (ML043290287). Please 
note that 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 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 be viewed electronically at the NRC Public 
Document Room (PDR), 0 1 F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 
Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. The PDR reproduction contractor will copy 
documents for a fee. The PDR is open from 7:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., 
Monday through Friday, except on Federal holidays.

    Dated at King of Prussia, Pennsylvania this 6th day of December, 
2004.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
James P. Dwyer,
Chief, Commercial and R&D Branch, Division of Nuclear Materials Safety, 
Region I.
[FR Doc. 04-27244 Filed 12-10-04; 8:45 am]
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