[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 112 (Monday, June 13, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34166-34167]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-3058]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 030-14680]


Notice of Availability of Environmental Assessment and Finding of 
No Significant Impact for License Amendment for Merck & Co., Inc. in 
Rahway, NJ

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of Availability.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Betsy Ullrich, Commercial & 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

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Merck & Co., Inc. (Merck) for Materials License No. 29-00117-06, to 
authorize disposal of soil contaminated with hydrogen-3 (tritium) 
pursuant to 10 CFR 20.2002. 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 disposal of 61 cubic 
meters (80 cubic yards) of solid material (soil) containing 28 
megabequerels (756 microcuries) total of tritium pursuant to 10 CFR 
20.2002 to an industrial landfill. The licensee provided a dose 
analysis to justify the disposal. The licensee performed dose 
assessments of the disposal of this material and determined that such 
disposal would result in doses of much less than 0.1 millirem in a year 
to a member of the public.
    The NRC staff has prepared an EA in support of the license 
amendment. The soil was excavated and surveyed prior to the licensee 
requesting the license amendment. The NRC staff has reviewed the 
information and performed dose assessments of the disposal of the soil 
to an industrial landfill, based on the information submitted by the 
licensee. Based on its review, the staff has determined that such 
disposal would result in doses of much less than 1 millirem in a year 
to members of the public. Therefore, the staff concluded that such 
disposal meets the requirements of 10 CFR Part 20.2002, and 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 dispose of 80 cubic yards of soil contaminated 
with 756 microcuries of tritium. The NRC staff has evaluated the 
licensee's request and has concluded that the completed action complies 
with the criteria of 10 CFR Part 20.2002. 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 [ML051570224] and the Merck & Co, Inc. 
amendment request dated February 23, 2004 [ML040711197]. 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 at King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, this 6th day of June, 
2005.

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