[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 226 (Friday, November 22, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70077-70078]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-28058]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 40-09083; NRC-2009-0352]


Issuance of Materials License for U.S. Army Installation 
Management Command

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of issuance of materials license.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a 
license to the U.S. Army, Installation Management Command, for 
possession of depleted uranium (DU) from the Davy Crockett weapon 
spotting round at the U.S. Army's Schofield Barracks and Pohakuloa 
Training Area installations in Hawaii. The Army informed the NRC in 
November 2006 that it had discovered DU fragments at the Schofield 
Barracks. Following that discovery, the Army determined that the Davy 
Crockett system had been used at other Army installations. The Army has 
a sufficient amount of DU that, under the Atomic Energy Act and NRC 
regulations, it is required to have a radioactive materials license. 
The Army submitted a license application in November 2008 for the DU at 
the Hawaiian sites. In the future, the Army will request amendments the 
license to address Davy Crockett DU at the other sites.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2009-0352 when contacting the 
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You 
may access publicly-available information related to this document 
using any of the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2009-0352. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-
3422; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact 
the individual(s) listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section 
of this document.
     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

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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 document 
(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 the section of this 
document entitled, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
     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: Dominick Orlando, Office of Federal 
and State Materials and Environmental Management Programs, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-
6749, email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC has issued a license to the U.S. 
Army, Installation Management Command for possession of depleted 
uranium from the Davy Crockett weapon spotting round at the U.S. Army's 
Schofield Barracks and Pohakuloa Training Area installations in Hawaii. 
Materials License SUC-1593 authorizes possession only of existing 
depleted uranium from the Davy Crockett weapon and does not allow the 
U.S. Army to use the depleted uranium for other purposes or add to the 
existing depleted uranium inventory on the installations. The Army will 
also be required to conduct its operations in accordance with the 
conditions listed in Materials License SUC-1593.
    This notice also serves as the record of decision for the NRC's 
decision to approve the U.S. Army, Installation Management Command's 
license application for the Schofield Barracks and Pohakuloa Training 
Area and issue Materials License SUC-1593.
    The NRC considers the entire publicly available record for a 
license application to constitute the agency's record of decision. 
Documents related to the application carry NRC docket ID NRC-2009-0352. 
These documents for the U.S. Army, Installation Management Command 
license include the license application (ML090070095), the Safety 
Evaluation Report (SER) (ML13259A081), and the license (ML13259A062). 
Note that a complete listing of documents associated with the NRC 
staff's review of the Army's license application is included in the 
SER.
    The U.S. Army, Installation Management Command's request for a 
materials license was previously noticed in the Federal Register on 
August 13, 2009 (74 FR 40855), with a notice of an opportunity to 
request a hearing. On October 26, 2009, NRC staff received both 
comments on the license application and a request for a hearing. On 
November 24, 2009, an Atomic Safety and Licensing and Board (ASLBP) was 
established to preside over the proceeding (74 FR 62830). On January 
13, 2010, the ASLBP held oral arguments on standing and contention 
admissibility in Rockville, Maryland, with the petitioners 
participating by videoconference from the Hilo Campus of the University 
of Hawaii on the island of Hawaii. On February 24, 2010, the ASLB 
denied the request (ML100550704), and the ASLB's decision was appealed 
by one of the individuals to the Commission (ML100640665). On August 
12, 2010, the Commission affirmed the ALSB's decision (ML102240165).
    In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRC's ``Rules of Practice 
and Procedure,'' the details with respect to this action, including the 
SER and accompanying documentation and license, 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 
ADAMS, which provides text and image files of the NRC's public 
documents.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th day of November, 2013.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrew Persinko,
Deputy Director, Decommissioning and Uranium Licensing Directorate, 
Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection, Office of 
Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management Programs.
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