[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 55 (Thursday, March 21, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17450-17451]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-06543]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 04008502; NRC-2009-0036]
Notice of Issuance of Materials License Renewal, Operating
License SUA-1341, Uranium One USA, Inc., Willow Creek Uranium In Situ
Recovery Project
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is providing
notice of issuance of a license renewal for Materials License No. SUA-
1341 to Uranium One USA, Inc. (Uranium One) for its Willow Creek
Uranium In Situ Recovery (ISR) Project in Johnson and Campbell
Counties, Wyoming.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2009-0036 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You
may access information related to this document, which the NRC
possesses and are publicly-available, using any of the following
methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2009-0036. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-492-
3668; email: [email protected].
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may access publicly-available documents online in the NRC
Library at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the
search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and then select ``Begin Web-
based ADAMS Search.'' For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's
Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-
4737, or by email to [email protected]. The ADAMS accession number
for each document referenced in this notice (if that document is
available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is
referenced. In addition, for the convenience of the reader, the ADAMS
accession numbers are provided in a table in Section II of this notice
entitled, Availability of Documents.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ron C. Linton, Project Manager, Office
of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management Programs,
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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555; telephone:
301-415-7777; email: [email protected].
I. Further Information
The license renewal authorizes Uranium One to continue operations
of its project as proposed in its license renewal application, as
amended, and to continue to possess uranium source and byproduct
material at the Willow Creek ISR Project. Uranium One will be required
to operate under the conditions listed in Materials License SUA-1341.
The licensee's request for renewal of its license was previously
noticed in the Federal Register on February 9, 2009 (74 FR 6436), with
a notice of an opportunity to request a hearing. The NRC received two
requests for a hearing on the license application. After an initial
hearing, the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board found that the
applicants did not have standing to intervene. In accordance with part
51 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), an
environmental assessment of this action was completed and a finding of
no significant impact was published in the Federal Register on July 15,
2011 (76 FR 41528); and on January 25, 2013, a supplemental
environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact relating
to this action was also published in the Federal Register (78 FR 5514).
The NRC has found that the renewal application for the source
materials license complies with the standards and requirements of the
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the NRC's rules
and regulations as set forth in 10 CFR Chapter 1. As required by the
Act and 10 CFR 40.32(a)-(e), the NRC staff has found that: (1) The
renewal application is for a purpose authorized by the Act; (2) Uranium
One is qualified by reason of training and experience to use source
material for the purpose it requested; (3) Uranium One's proposed
equipment and procedures for use at its Willow Creek Project are
adequate to protect public health and minimize danger to life or
property; (4) renewal and issuance of Materials License SUA-1341 to
Uranium One will not be inimical to the common defense and security or
to the health and safety of the public; and (5) after weighing the
environmental, economic, technical and other benefits against
environmental costs, that the action called for is the renewal of
Materials License SUA-1341. The NRC prepared a safety evaluation report
(SER) that documents the information that was reviewed and the NRC's
conclusions.
II. Availability of Documents
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRC's ``Agency Rules of
Practice and Procedure,'' the details with respect to this action,
including the SER and accompanying documentation and license, are
available electronically in the NRC Library at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. From this site, you can access ADAMS, which
provides text and image files of the NRC's public documents. The ADAMS
accession numbers for the documents related to this notice are:
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1 License Renewal Application (LRA), May 30, ML081850689
2008.
2 LRA Revision, October 31, 2008............. ML083110405
3 LRA Revision, July 17, 2009................ ML092110700
4 LRA Revision, November 19, 2010............ ML103280266
5 LRA Revision, March 7, 2012................ ML120820095
6 LRA Revision, July 10, 2012................ ML12206A436
7 Response to Confirmatory Action Letter, ML12268A270
September 21, 2012.
8 Final Environmental Assessment for the ML103270681
Renewal of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission License No. SUA-1341 For Uranium
One USA, Inc., Irigaray and Christensen
Ranch Projects (Willow Creek Project)
Wyoming, July 2011.
9 Supplemental Environmental Assessment ML12289A442
License Renewal Application Source Materials
License SUA-1341, January 2013.
10 NRC Safety Evaluation Report, March 2013.. ML13015A356
11 Source Materials License, Willow Creek ML13015A366
Project, March 2013.
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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 PDR's
Reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or via email 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.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 7th day of March, 2013.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrew Persinko,
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.
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