[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 217 (Wednesday, November 9, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 78865-78866]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-27058]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-609; NRC-2013-0235]
Construction Permit Application for the Northwest Medical
Isotopes, LLC, Medical Radioisotope Production Facility
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft environmental impact statement; public meeting and
request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for
public comment a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for the
construction permit application submitted by Northwest Medical
Isotopes, LLC (NWMI) for the NWMI Medical Radioisotope Production
Facility (NWMI facility). The proposed NWMI facility would be located
in Columbia, Missouri. Possible alternatives to the proposed action
(issuance of the construction permit) include no action, an alternative
site, and two alternative technologies. The NRC staff plans to hold a
public meeting during the public comment period to present an overview
of the draft EIS and to accept public comments on the document.
DATES: Submit comments by December 29, 2016. Comments received after
this date will be considered, if it is practical to do so but the
Commission is able to ensure consideration only for comments received
on or before this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods
(unless this document describes a different method for submitting
comments on a specific subject):
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0235. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this document.
Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration,
Mail Stop: OWFN-12-H08, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001.
For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Drucker, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-6223; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2013-0235 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain
publicly-available information related to this action by any of the
following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0235.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection 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 (if it is available
in ADAMS) is provided the first time that it is referenced. The draft
EIS for the construction permit for the proposed NWMI facility is
available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML16305A029.
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.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC-2013-0235 in the subject line of your
comment submission, to ensure that the NRC is able to make your comment
submission available to the public in this docket.
The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact
information that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your
comment submission. The NRC posts all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as entering the comment submissions into
ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove
identifying or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons
for submission to the NRC, you should inform those persons not to
include identifying or contact information that
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they do not want to be publicly disclosed in their comment submission.
Your request should state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment
submissions to remove such information before making the comment
submissions available to the public or entering the comment submissions
into ADAMS.
II. Discussion
The NRC is issuing for public comment a draft EIS for the
construction permit for the proposed NWMI facility. This draft EIS
includes the preliminary analysis that evaluates the environmental
impacts of the proposed action and alternatives to the proposed action.
The preliminary recommendation is that after weighing the
environmental, economic, technical, and other benefits against
environmental and other costs, and considering reasonable alternatives,
the NRC staff recommends, the issuance of the requested construction
permit to NWMI, unless safety issues mandate otherwise.
III. Public Meeting
The NRC staff will hold a public meeting prior to the close of the
public comment period to present an overview of the draft EIS for the
proposed construction permit and to accept public comment on the
document. The meeting will be held on December 6, 2016, at the Holiday
Inn Columbia-East, 915 Port Way, Columbia, Missouri 65201. The meeting
will convene at 6:00 p.m. and will continue until approximately 8:00
p.m., as necessary. The meeting will be transcribed and will include:
(1) A presentation of the contents of the draft EIS; and (2) the
opportunity for interested government agencies, organizations, and
individuals to provide comments on the draft EIS. Additionally, the NRC
staff will host an informal discussion 1 hour before the start of the
meeting at the same location. No comments on the draft EIS will be
accepted during the informal discussion. To be considered in the final
EIS, comments must be provided either at the transcribed public meeting
or submitted in writing by the comment deadline identified in the DATES
section of this document. Persons may pre-register to attend or present
oral comments at the meeting by contacting the NRC Environmental
Project Manager, David Drucker, by telephone at 1-800-368-5642, ext.
6223, or by email at [email protected] no later than Thursday,
December 1, 2016. Members of the public may also register to provide
oral comments within 15 minutes of the start of the meeting. Individual
oral comments may be limited by the time available, depending on the
number of persons who register. If special equipment or accommodations
are needed to attend or present information at the public meeting, the
need should be brought to Mr. Drucker's attention no later than
Tuesday, November 29, 2016, to provide the NRC staff adequate notice to
determine whether the request can be accommodated.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 3rd day of November, 2016.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Jeffery J. Rikhoff,
Acting Chief, Environmental Review and Projects Branch, Division of
License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2016-27058 Filed 11-8-16; 8:45 am]
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