[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 210 (Wednesday, October 31, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61692-61693]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-21428]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 40-9027]


Notice of Issuance of Decommissioning Amendment for Cabot 
Corporation

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved the Cabot 
Corporation (Cabot) decommissioning plan (DP) for the Reading site by 
amendment to their Source Material License, SMC-1562.
    The Reading site is located in Reading, PA, near the Buttonwood 
Street bridge. The site operated intermittently between April 1967 and 
May 1969 for the production of niobium by extraction from tin slag 
feedstock. The main processing building was removed from the license in 
August 1995 by license amendment.
    The licensee first submitted a DP for the Reading site on August 
28, 1998 (Accession No. 9809140068). The submittal was revised in March 
2000 to reflect revised dose modeling scenarios and in June 2005 
(ML051330369, ML051330364) to incorporate a rip-rap erosion barrier. 
Revision 3 to the DP was submitted later in June 2005, to reflect 
changes to the rip-rap design after licensee consultation with the City 
of Reading Redevelopment Authority (ML053560277).
    The licensee submitted revision 4 of the Reading site DP and 
related documents to the NRC for review and approval in August 2006, 
(Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) accession 
numbers ML062360159, ML062360164, and ML062210261) as supplemented on 
September 21, 2006 (ADAMS accession number ML062640081). This amendment 
revised the rip-rap cover design and include cover design analysis. An 
environmental assessment was completed on October 16, 2007 
(ML072390296). The NRC approved the DP by Amendment No. 9 to the Source 
Material License SMC-1562 on October 24, 2007.
    A ``Notice of Consideration of Amendment Request for 
Decommissioning the Cabot Performance Materials, Reading, Pennsylvania, 
Site, and Opportunity for a Hearing'' was published in the Federal 
Register on October 28, 1998 (63 FR 57715). Two parties requested 
hearings; Jobert Trucking and the City of Reading Redevelopment 
Authority. Jobert Trucking was denied standing by the court on May 16, 
2000 (ADAMS ML003715331) and the Redevelopment Authority request to 
withdraw hearing

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petition was granted on October 31, 2000 (ML003765068).
    Copies of the license amendments approving Cabot's proposed 
decommissioning plan are available for public inspection at the 
Commission's Public Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint 
North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland 20855-
2738. The NRC maintains ADAMS, which provides text and image files of 
NRC's public documents. The amendment may be accessed electronically 
from the ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room on the Internet at the 
NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html under ADAMS 
accession number ML072420136. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS, 
or have problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, may 
contact the NRC PDR Reference staff by phone at 1-800-397-4209, 301-
415-4737, or by e-mail to [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day of October, 2007.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Andrew Persinko,
Branch Chief, Reactor Decommissioning Branch, Division of Waste 
Management and Environmental Protection, Office of Federal and State 
Materials and Environmental Management Programs.
[FR Doc. E7-21428 Filed 10-30-07; 8:45 am]
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