[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 107 (Monday, June 6, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32852-32853]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-2866]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 030-36120]


Notice of Availability of Environmental Assessment and Finding of 
No Significant Impact for License Amendment for the Department of 
Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Center for 
Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Betsy Ullrich, Commercial and R&D 
Branch, Division of Nuclear Materials Safety, Region I, 475 Allendale 
Road, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, 19406, telephone (610) 337-5040, 
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 the Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug 
Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (FDA/
CFSAN) for Materials License No. 19-30771-01, to authorize release of 
its facility in Washington, DC 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,

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Washington, DC, facility for unrestricted use. The FDA/CFSAN was 
authorized by NRC from 1965 to use radioactive materials for research 
and development purposes at the site. On January 31, 2005, the FDA/
CFSAN requested that NRC release the facility for unrestricted use. The 
FDA/CFSAN 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 the FDA/CFSAN. 
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 for unrestricted use. The NRC 
staff has evaluated the FDA/CFSAN'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 
radiological environmental impacts from the 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). The staff has also found that the non-
radiological impacts are not significant. 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 
Environment Assessment (ML051430302), Final Status Survey Report, 
Federal Building 8, 200 C Street, SW., Washington, DC, December 22, 
2004, Final Report (ML050340555). 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 e-mail to [email protected].
    Documents related to operations conducted under this license not 
specifically referenced in this Notice may not be electronically 
available and/or may not be publicly available. Persons who have an 
interest in reviewing these documents should submit a request to NRC 
under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Instructions for 
submitting a FOIA request can be found on the NRC's Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/foia/foia-privacy.html.

    Dated in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, this 27th day of May, 
2005.

    For The Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
James Dwyer,
Chief, Commercial and R&D Branch, Division of Nuclear Materials Safety, 
Region I.
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