[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 210 (Tuesday, October 31, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63804-63805]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-18243]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 040-00017]


Notice of License Termination and Release of the Dow Chemical 
Company (TDCC) Site in Bay City, MI for Unrestricted Use

AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of license termination and site release for unrestricted 
use.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David W. Nelson, Materials 
Decommissioning Section, Division of Waste Management and Environmental 
Protection, NRC, Washington, DC, 20555; telephone: (301) 415-6626; fax: 
(301) 415-5397; or e-mail at: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Introduction

    Pursuant to 10 CFR part 20 subpart E, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission (NRC) is providing notice that it has terminated license 
STB-527 for the Dow Chemical Company (TDCC) (Licensee), and has 
released its Bay City, Michigan site for unrestricted use. The 
Licensee's requests for an amendment to

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authorize decommissioning of its Bay City, Michigan site was previously 
noticed in the Federal Register on July 19, 1996, and July 10, 1997.
    In letters dated July 21, 1997, April 13, 2005 and October 6, 2005, 
TDCC provided final radiological status surveys to demonstrate that the 
site met the license termination criteria in 10 CFR part 20 subpart E. 
NRC staff conducted numerous inspections and confirmatory surveys 
including the collection of samples and independent measurements of on-
site soils and building surfaces.
    The NRC staff evaluated TDCC's requests and reviewed the results of 
the final radiological surveys. Based on those reviews, the staff 
determined that the site met the unrestricted release criteria in 10 
CFR part 20 subpart E. The staff prepared a Safety Evaluation Report 
(SER) (ADAMS ML062500107) to support its termination of TDCC's Bay City 
license.

II. Further Information

    In accordance with 10 CFR part 2.790 of the NRC's ``Rules of 
Practice,'' details with respect to this action, including the SER, 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 number for the termination letter with enclosed SER, titled 
``Release of the Dow Chemical Company. Bay City, Michigan, and 
Termination of License (License No. STB-527)'' is ML062500107. If you 
do not have access to ADAMS or if there are problems in accessing a 
document 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].
    This document 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 NRC, Rockville, MD, this day of October 24th, 2006.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Keith I. McConnell,
Deputy Director, Decommissioning and Uranium Recovery Licensing 
Directorate, Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection, 
Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management 
Programs.
[FR Doc. E6-18243 Filed 10-30-06; 8:45 am]
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