[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 190 (Monday, October 3, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57627-57628]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-5357]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 70-0925]


Notice of Availability of Environmental Assessment and Finding of 
No Significant Impact for License Amendment for Kerr McGee Cimarron 
Corporation Former Fuel Fabrication Facility in Crescent, OK

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ken Kalman, Project Manager, 
Decommissioning Directorate, Division of Waste Management and 
Environmental Protection, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and 
Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555. 
Telephone: (301) 415-6664; fax number: (301) 415-5398 e-mail: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering amending 
Material License No. SNM-928 issued to Kerr McGee Cimarron Corporation 
Cimarron or (the licensee), to authorize the deletion of License 
Condition 22 and revisions to License Conditions 23 and 27e of the 
license for its former fuel fabrication facility in Crescent, Oklahoma. 
NRC has prepared an Environmental Assessment (EA) in support of this 
amendment 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 proposed amendment is to authorize revisions to 
the license for the licensee's former fuel fabrication facility. 
Specifically, License Condition 22 will be deleted, as all requirements 
of this condition have been completed. License Conditions 23 and 27e 
will be revised. The actions required by these license conditions were 
addressed in the EA for approval of Cimarron's Decommissioning Plan 
(DP). That EA is summarized in the Federal Register notice of the 
Finding of No Significant Impact published on August 12, 1999, (64 FR 
44059).
    The licensee requested that License Condition 22 be deleted from 
the license, as the specific requirements of this license condition had 
been completed. License Condition 22 authorizes the licensee to breach 
the berms, close the two East and West Sanitary lagoons in Subarea L, 
and backfill the former burial ground in Subarea F. Cimarron backfilled 
the two sanitary lagoons in 1993. NRC staff reviewed the licensee's 
request and an NRC confirmatory survey of Subarea L demonstrated that 
all soil samples met the NRC's release criteria of License Condition 27 
of Cimarron's license (SNM-928) and the regulatory limits for 
unrestricted use. The staff determined that all work addressed in 
License Condition 22 has been completed and that all the requirements 
of this condition have been met. Therefore, the NRC staff concluded 
that this condition can be deleted from the license, and will not have 
a significant effect on the quality of the human environment.
    The licensee also requested that License Condition 23 be revised to 
reflect completion of some of the decommissioning activities identified 
in this condition. License Condition 23 authorizes the licensee to 
dispose of low-enriched uranium contaminated soil in an on-site burial 
cell in Subarea N. The licensee stated that all requirements in this 
license condition have been completed except for the requirement to 
``periodically monitor the disposal area for subsidence, erosion, and 
status of the vegetative cover for at least five years, and promptly 
repair any problems noted.'' The NRC staff conducted a confirmatory 
survey of the burial cell in Subarea N. The staff determined that the 
buried cell had been completed in accordance with License Condition 23. 
All measurements were below the release criteria of Cimarron's license 
(SNM-928) and the regulatory limits. The NRC staff has reviewed the 
licensee's request and determined that the licensee has met all of the 
requirements of License Condition 23, except for the last two sentences 
of License Condition 23d. This license condition will be revised and 
the last two sentences will become License Condition 23a. The NRC staff 
has concluded that this revision to the license will not have a 
significant impact on the quality of the human environment, because the 
revision is only deleting protective actions that have already been 
completed.
    License Condition 27e authorizes the licensee to make certain 
changes to the DP or Radiation Protection Plan (RPP) and associated 
procedures without prior NRC approval provided that those changes meet 
the specific criteria stated in License Condition 27e. The licensee 
requested that License Condition 27e be revised so that only changes to 
the facility or process, tests, and experiments described in the DP or 
the RPP are required to be reviewed by the As Low As Reasonably 
Achievable (ALARA) Committee. In addition, the licensee requested that 
the license condition be revised so changes to the associated radiation 
protection procedures would only require review and approval by the 
Radiation Safety Officer (RSO). The NRC staff has reviewed this request 
and found that the requested amendment to License Condition 27e should 
be granted. This proposed change to the license will have not have a 
significant effect on the quality of the human environment.

III. Finding of No Significant Impact

    Based upon the analysis contained in the EA, NRC staff concludes 
that the proposed action will not have a significant effect on the 
quality of the human environment, because it is only deleting license 
requirements that have been completed and making changes to a License 
Condition 27e, which relates to approval of changes to the procedures 
associated with the Decommissioning Plan or Radiation Protection 
Procedures. Accordingly, the staff and has determined that preparation 
of an environmental impact statement is not warranted.

IV. Further Information

    Documents related to this action, including the application for 
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 for 
License Amendment 19 of Cimarron Corporations License (SNM-928) 
Regarding License Conditions 22, 23, and 27e (ML052060071). If you do 
not have access to ADAMS or if there are problems in accessing the 
documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC's

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Public Document Room (PDR) Reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, (301) 
415-4737, or by e-mail to [email protected].
    These documents may also be viewed electronically on the public 
computers located at the NRC's PDR, O-1-F21, One White Flint North, 
11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. The PDR reproduction 
contractor will copy documents for a fee.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 27th day of September, 2005.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Daniel M. Gillen,
Deputy Director, Decommissioning Directorate Division of Waste 
Management and Environmental Protection, Office of Nuclear Material 
Safety and Safeguards.
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