[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 72 (Tuesday, April 15, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21302-21303]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-08546]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 40-09075; NRC-2012-0277]
Issuance of Materials License and Record of Decision for
Powertech (USA) Inc., Dewey-Burdock Facility
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: License and record of decision; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a
license to Powertech (USA) Inc. (Powertech (USA)) for its Dewey-Burdock
Uranium In-Situ Recovery (ISR) Facility in Fall River and Custer
Counties, South Dakota. Materials License SUA-1600 authorizes Powertech
(USA) to operate its facilities as proposed in its license application,
as amended, and to possess uranium source and byproduct material at the
Dewey-Burdock Facility. Furthermore, Powertech (USA) will be required
to operate under the conditions listed in Materials License SUA-1600.
In addition, the NRC staff has published a record of decision (ROD)
that supports the NRC's decision to approve Powertech (USA)'s license
application for the Dewey-Burdock Facility and to issue the license.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2012-0277 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-2012-0277. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-
3422; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individual 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 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 a table 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: Ron Burrows, Office of Federal and
State Materials and Environmental Management Programs, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-
6443; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC has issued a license to Powertech
(USA) Inc. (Powertech (USA)) for its Dewey-Burdock Uranium In-Situ
Recovery (ISR) Facility in Fall River and Custer Counties, South
Dakota. Materials License SUA-1600 authorizes Powertech (USA) to
operate its facilities as proposed in its license application, as
amended, and to possess uranium source and byproduct material at the
Dewey-Burdock Facility. Furthermore, Powertech (USA) will be required
to operate under the conditions listed in Materials License SUA-1600.
The NRC staff's ROD that supports the NRC's decision to approve
Powertech (USA)'s license application for the Dewey-Burdock Facility
and to issue the license is available in ADAMS under Accession No.
ML14066A466.
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRC's ``Rules of Practice,''
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 the NRC's Agencywide Document Access and
Management System (ADAMS), which provides text and image files of the
NRC' public documents. The ADAMS accession numbers for the documents
related to this notice are:
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1............................. Applicant's ML091200014
Application,
February 28, 2009.
2............................. Generic Environmental ML091530075
Impact Statement for
In-Situ Leach
Uranium Milling
Facilities, May 2009.
3............................. Resubmission of ML092870160
Application, August
10, 2009.
4............................. Response to Request ML102380530
for Additional
Information, August
12, 20110.
5............................. Response to Request ML112071064
for Additional
Information, June
28, 2011.
6............................. Ground Water Model, ML120620195
February 27, 2012.
7............................. Clarification of ML121030013
Oxidation-Reduction
Potential
Measurement, April
11, 2012.
8............................. Clarification of ML12173A038
Regional
Meteorological Data,
June 13, 2012.
9............................. Clarification of ML12179A534
Response to Request
for Additional
Information, June
27, 2012.
10............................ Supplemental Sampling ML12305A056
Plan and Responses
to Comments
Regarding Draft
License; October 19,
2012.
11............................ Comments on Draft ML13022A386
Supplemental
Environment Impact
Statement, January
8, 2013.
12............................ Supplemental ML14024A477
Environmental Impact ML14024A478
Statement for the
Dewey-Burdock ISR
Facility in Fall
River and Custer
Counties, South
Dakota, January 31,
2014.
13............................ Programmatic ML14066A344
Agreement for
Protection of
Cultural Resources,
Executed April 7,
2014.
14............................ NRC Safety Evaluation ML14043A347
Report, April 8,
2014.
15............................ Source Materials ML14043A392
License for Dewey-
Burdock, April 8,
2014.
15............................ NRC Staff's Record of ML14066A466
Decision, April 8,
2014.
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Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day of April, 2014.
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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