[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 157 (Wednesday, August 15, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45832-45833]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-16067]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 030-05004]


Notice of License Termination and Release of the Northern States 
Power Company Pathfinder Site in Sioux Falls, SD, 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: Chad J. Glenn, Materials 
Decommissioning Section, Division of Waste Management and Environmental 
Protection, NRC, Washington, DC 20555; telephone: (301) 415-6722; fax: 
(301) 415-5369; 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 Northern 
States

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Power Company, dba Xcel Energy, Materials License No. 22-08799-02 and 
released its Pathfinder site in Sioux Falls, South Dakota for 
unrestricted use. The licensee's request for an amendment to authorize 
decommissioning of its Pathfinder site was noticed in the Federal 
Register on August 4, 2004 (69 FR 47185). A notice of availability of 
an environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact 
related to this action was published in the Federal Register on May 25, 
2005 (70 FR 30150) and the license was amended to authorize 
decommissioning activities in accordance with a NRC-approved 
decommissioning plan.
    In a letter dated February 26, 2007, Xcel Energy 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 inspections and confirmatory surveys including the collection 
of samples and independent measurements of on-site soils and building 
surfaces.
    The NRC staff evaluated Xcel Energy's request 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) to support its termination of the Northern States Power Company 
license for the Pathfinder site.

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 
``Completion of Decommissioning Activities Northern States Power 
Company DBA Xcel Energy Pathfinder Site, Sioux Falls, South Dakota 
(Docket No. 030-05004)'' is ML071900323. 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 8th day of August 2007.

    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. E7-16067 Filed 8-14-07; 8:45 am]
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