[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 186 (Tuesday, September 27, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56497-56498]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-5177]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 030-05982]


Notice of Availability of Environmental Assessment and Finding of 
No Significant Impact for License Amendment for Safety Light 
Corporation in Bloomsburg, PA

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Prince, Decommissioning Branch, 
Division of Nuclear Materials Safety, Region I, 475 Allendale Road, 
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, 19406, telephone (610) 337-5376, 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 Safety Light Corporation (SLC) to renew 
Materials License No. 37-00030-02, to authorize characterization and 
decommissioning under specified conditions at its facility in 
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. NRC has prepared an Environmental Assessment

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(EA) in support of this action in accordance with the requirements of 
10 CFR Part 51. The renewed license would also grant SLC exemptions 
from the financial assurance requirements for decommissioning contained 
in 10 CFR 30.32 and 30.35. Based on the EA, the NRC has concluded that 
a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) is appropriate.

II. EA Summary

    The purpose of the proposed action is to renew NRC Materials 
License No. 37-00030-02 for characterization and other decommissioning 
activities through December 2007, and pursuant to 10 CFR 30.11, grant 
SLC exemptions from the financial assurance requirements for 
decommissioning contained in 10 CFR 30.32 and 30.35. The renewed 
license will require that the SLC submit work plans and health and 
safety plans to the NRC for approval prior to beginning other 
decommissioning activities at the Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania facility. 
The renewed license will also require that SLC develop a plan for the 
orderly shutdown of licensed activities and make prescribed monthly 
deposits into the decommissioning trust fund during the license renewal 
period in accordance with the Settlement Agreement between NRC, SLC and 
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, as approved by the 
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board on June 29, 2005.
    The NRC staff has prepared an EA in support of the license 
amendment. The licensee does not have sufficient financial assurance to 
complete remediation activities. The issuance of this amendment covers 
existing material already present on the site from past operations and 
does not authorize an increase in the amount of material authorized by 
the license. No changes are being made to the type or amount of 
effluents that may be released from the site, and no significant 
increase in public radiation exposure is expected. By renewing the 
license, NRC can also require the completion of certain actions to 
provide for an orderly cessation of licensed activities, and require 
SLC to cooperate with the Environmental Protection Agency in its 
evaluation and conduct of future remediation activities. The actions to 
be taken by the licensee are also in the public interest, and the 
exemption of specific financial assurance requirements until December 
31, 2007 will not endanger life or property or common defense and 
security.
    Therefore, the NRC staff concluded that the action to renew License 
No. 37-00030-02 and grant SLC exemptions from the financial assurance 
requirements for decommissioning complies with 10 CFR Part 20 and 10 
CFR 30.11.

III. Finding of No Significant Impact

    The staff has prepared the EA (summarized above) in support of the 
license amendment to renew the license and grant the exemptions. 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. 
Accordingly, a FONSI is appropriate.

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 (ML052630022 and the SLC renewal request dated 
April 24, 2004 (ML041310318). 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 20th day of 
September, 2005.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Marie Miller,
Chief, Decommissioning Branch, Division of Nuclear Materials Safety, 
Region I.
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