[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 69 (Tuesday, April 11, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18366-18367]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-5261]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 030-06111 And 070-00781]


Notice of Availability of Environmental Assessment and Finding of 
No Significant Impact For License Amendment For the Pennsylvania 
Department of Environmental Protection, Harrisburg, PA

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of Availability.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephen Hammann, Commercial and R&D 
Branch, Division of Nuclear Materials Safety, Region 1, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, 475 Allendale Road, King of Prussia, 
Pennsylvania 19406, telephone: (610) 337-5399; fax number: (610) 337-
5269; e-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Introduction

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering the issuance 
of amendments to Material License Nos. 37-03698-01 and SNM-719, issued 
to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) (the 
licensee), to authorize release of its Evangelical Press Building, 3rd 
and Reilly Streets, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for unrestricted use, and 
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 allow for the release 
of the licensee's Harrisburg, Pennsylvania facility for unrestricted 
use. The PADEP was authorized by the NRC in 1962 to use radioactive 
materials for instrument calibration, sample preparation, analysis of 
environmental samples, and measuring the physical properties of 
materials at the site. On August 19, 2005, the PADEP requested that NRC 
release the facility for unrestricted use. PADEP 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 release.
    The staff has prepared an EA in support of the proposed license 
amendment. The facility was surveyed and remediated as necessary by the 
licensee. The NRC staff has reviewed the information and final status 
survey submitted by PADEP. 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 an EA in support of the proposed license 
amendments to release the site for unrestricted use. The staff has 
found that the radiological environmental impacts from the proposed 
amendment 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, 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,

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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 [ML060820173]; Request for 
Amendment dated August 19, 2005 [ML060550247]; NRC's request for 
additional information dated September 28, 2005 [ML052720490]; and 
Final Status Survey Results dated November 7, 2005 [ML060550248]. If 
you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are problems in accessing 
the documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC 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.
    Documents related to operations conducted under these licenses 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 23rd day of March, 
2006.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
James P. Dwyer,
Chief, Commercial and R&D Branch, Division of Nuclear Materials Safety, 
Region 1.
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