[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 151 (Friday, August 5, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 51945]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-18657]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Excess Uranium Management: Effects of DOE Transfers of Excess 
Uranium on Domestic Uranium Mining, Conversion, and Enrichment 
Industries; Request for Information

AGENCY: Office of Nuclear Energy, Department of Energy.

ACTION: Extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: On July 19, 2016, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) 
published a request for information (RFI) seeking comment on certain 
issues related to DOE's preparation for a potential new Secretarial 
Determination covering continued transfers of uranium for cleanup 
services at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant and for down-
blending of highly-enriched uranium to low-enriched uranium. The RFI 
established an August 18, 2016 deadline for the submission of written 
comments. DOE is extending the comment period to September 19, 2016.

DATES: DOE will accept comments, data, and information responding to 
this RFI submitted on or before September 19, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons may submit comments by any of the 
following methods.
    1. Email: [email protected]. Submit electronic 
comments in Microsoft Word or PDF and avoid the use of special 
characters or any form of encryption.
    2. Postal Mail: Ms. Cheryl Moss Herman, U.S. Department of Energy, 
Office of Nuclear Energy, Mailstop NE-52, 19901 Germantown Rd., 
Germantown, MD 20874-1290. If possible, please submit all items on a 
compact disk (CD), in which case it is not necessary to include printed 
copies.
    3. Hand Delivery/Courier: Ms. Cheryl Moss Herman, U.S. Department 
of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy, Mailstop NE-52, B-409, 19901 
Germantown Rd., Germantown, MD 20874-1290. Phone: (301) 903-1788. If 
possible, please submit all items on a CD, in which case it is not 
necessary to include printed copies.
    Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name 
for this request for information. No facsimiles (faxes) will be 
accepted.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Cheryl Moss Herman, U.S. 
Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy, Mailstop NE-52, B-409, 
19901 Germantown Rd., Germantown, MD 20874-1290. Phone: (301) 903-1788. 
Email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July 19, 2016, the U.S. Department of 
Energy (DOE) published a request for information (RFI) in the Federal 
Register (81 FR 46917). DOE noted that it is preparing for a potential 
new Secretarial Determination covering continued transfers of uranium 
for cleanup services at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant and for 
down-blending of highly-enriched uranium to low-enriched uranium. The 
RFI solicited information about the uranium markets and domestic 
uranium industries, potential effects of the proposed transfers in the 
uranium markets and possible consequences for the domestic uranium 
mining, conversion, and enrichment industries. The RFI established an 
August 18, 2016, deadline for the submission of written comments. DOE 
has received requests from the public for extension of the public 
comment period. In response to those requests and other considerations, 
DOE is extending the comment period to September 19, 2016 to provide 
the public additional time for comment.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on August 1, 2016.
Raymond Furstenau,
Associate Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, 
Office of Nuclear Energy.
[FR Doc. 2016-18657 Filed 8-4-16; 8:45 am]
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