[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 96 (Thursday, May 19, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 28963]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-2508]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 030-02981]


Notice of Availability of Environmental Assessment and Finding of 
No Significant Impact for License Amendment for Allegheny General 
Hospital's Facility at 3290 William Pitt Way in Pittsburgh, PA

AGENCY:  Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sandra Gabriel, Medical Branch, 
Division of Nuclear Materials Safety, Region I, 475 Allendale Road, 
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania 19406, telephone (610) 337-5182, fax 
(610) 337-5269; or by email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Introduction

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a license 
amendment to Allegheny General Hospital for Materials License No. 37-
01317-01, to authorize release of its facility at 3290 William Pitt Way 
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 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 facility at 3290 William Pitt Way in Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania, for unrestricted use. Allegheny General Hospital was 
authorized by NRC from March 31,1994, to use radioactive materials for 
research and development purposes at the site. In 1998, Allegheny 
General Hospital ceased operations with licensed materials at the 3290 
William Pitt Way site, and on April 7, 2004, requested that NRC release 
the facility for unrestricted use. Allegheny General Hospital 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 Allegheny General 
Hospital. 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 release the facility at 3290 William Pitt Way in 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for unrestricted use. The NRC staff has 
evaluated Allegheny General Hospital'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. 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: 
Environmental Assessment (ML050900146), letter dated April 7, 2004 with 
attached closeout survey results (ML042020449), letter dated September 
29, 2004 (ML042750483), and electronic mail dated March 24, 2005 
(ML050880370). Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who encounter 
problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, should contact 
the NRC PDR Reference staff by telephone at (800) 397-4209 or (301) 
415-4737, or by email to [email protected]. These documents may also be 
examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the NRC PDR, located at One White 
Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (First Floor), Rockville, MD 20852. 
The PDR is open from 7:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., Monday through Friday, 
except on Federal Holidays; and at the Region I Office, 475 Allendale 
Road, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania 19406.

    Dated at King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, this 10th day of May, 
2005.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Pamela J. Henderson,
Chief, Medical Branch, Division of Nuclear Materials Safety, Region I.
[FR Doc. E5-2508 Filed 5-18-05; 8:45 am]
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