[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 18 (Friday, January 27, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 4624]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-1045]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 40-0299]


Notice of Availability of Environmental Assessment and Finding of 
No Significant Impact for License Amendment for Umetco Minerals 
Corporation, East Gas Hills, WY

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul Michalak, Project Manager, Fuel 
Cycle Facilities Branch, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, 
Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555. Telephone: (301) 415-7612; 
fax number: (301) 415-5955; e-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Introduction

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) proposes to issue a license 
amendment for License Condition 35 (alternate concentration limit (ACL) 
for ground water compliance monitoring), to Materials License SUA-648, 
for the Umetco Minerals Corporation (Umetco), East Gas Hills, Wyoming 
uranium mill site. The purpose of this amendment is to increase the 
Lead-210 (Pb-210) ACL from 46.7 pCi/L to 189 pCi/L in the Southwestern 
Flow Regime (SWFR). 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 staff has prepared the EA in support of the proposed license 
amendment. Much of the information relied upon in preparation of the EA 
was obtained from the licensee's ACL application and from two previous 
EAs for Umteco site activities related to their revised soil 
decommissioning plan and a recent application for several ACLs. Since 
this action relates to ground water, the primary focus of the 
evaluation of potential environmental impacts relates to ground water. 
In particular, current and future ground water use, and predicted 
concentrations of Pb-210 at the designated point of exposure were 
considered in the analysis. Staff has concluded that there would be no 
effect to the following resources: Visual resources, vegetation and 
soils, ambient air quality, and transportation. Staff has also 
determined that the proposed action is not the type of activity that 
has the potential to cause effects on cultural or historic resources.

III. Finding of No Significant Impact

    On the basis of the EA, NRC has concluded that there are no 
significant environmental impacts from the proposed amendment and has 
determined not to prepare an environmental impact statement.

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 as follows:

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                                      ADAMS  accession
              Document                       No.              Date
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NRC's EA for Umteco's Revised Soil         ML010460319         2/23/2001
 Decommissioning Plan...............
NRC's EA for Umteco's ACLs                 ML020840234         3/24/2002
 Application........................
Umetco's ACL Amendment Request......       ML051780369         6/17/2005
NRC's EA for ACL Amendment Request..       ML060200288         1/20/2006
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If you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are problems in 
accessing the documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC's 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, O1 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 23rd day of January, 2006.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Paul Michalak,
Project Manager, Fuel Cycle Facilities Branch, Division of Fuel Cycle 
Safety and Safeguards, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and 
Safeguards.
 [FR Doc. E6-1045 Filed 1-26-06; 8:45 am]
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