[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 37 (Monday, February 27, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11949-11950]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-03807]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 40-09092; NRC-2013-0164]


AUC, LLC., Reno Creek Uranium In-Situ Recovery Project

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 AUC, LLC (AUC) for its Reno Creek Uranium In-Situ Recovery 
(ISR) Facility in Campbell County, Wyoming. Under conditions listed in 
the license, the Source and Byproduct Materials License SUA-1602 
authorizes AUC to operate its facilities as proposed in its license 
application, as amended, and to possess uranium source and byproduct 
material at the Reno Creek ISR Facility. In addition, the NRC has 
published a record of decision (ROD) that supports the NRC's decision 
to approve AUC's license application for the Reno Creek ISR Facility 
and to issue the license.

DATES: February 27, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2013-0164 when contacting the 
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You 
may obtain 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-2013-0164. 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.
     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 mentioned in this 
document. 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: Don Lowman, Office of Nuclear Material 
Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 
DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-5452; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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    Part 40 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), 
authorizes the NRC to issue a license to AUC for its Reno Creek Uranium 
In-Situ Recovery (ISR) Facility in Campbell County, Wyoming. Under 
conditions in the license, the Source and Byproduct Materials License 
SUA-1602 authorizes AUC to operate its facilities as proposed in its 
license application, as amended, and to possess uranium source and 
byproduct material at the Reno Creek ISR Facility. The NRC's ROD that 
supports the decision to approve AUC's license application for the Reno 
Creek ISR Facility and to issue the license is available in ADAMS under 
Accession No. ML17011A195.
    By letter dated October 3, 2012, AUC, LLC submitted a license 
application to the NRC for a Source and Byproduct Materials License for 
the in-situ extraction and recovery of uranium at its Reno Creek ISR 
Project in Campbell County, Wyoming. On November 30, 2012, the NRC 
staff acknowledged receipt of the application and noted that the 
application was placed in ADAMS) under Accession No. ML122890785. The 
NRC staff also noted that it could not commence its acceptance review 
until March 2013. The staff commenced the acceptance review in March 
2013, and notified AUC on June 18, 2013, that the NRC staff had 
completed its acceptance review and found the application acceptable 
for detailed technical (safety) and environmental review. In addition 
to the application, the NRC staff held multiple public meetings with 
AUC to discuss various issues and submitted detailed requests for 
additional information to which AUC provided responses during the 
review process. The NRC's Safety Evaluation Report documenting its 
review of AUC's application was completed on September 30, 2016. The 
NRC issued its final environmental impact statement on December 16, 
2016
    In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRC's ``Rules of Practice,'' 
the details with respect to this action, including the Safety 
Evaluation Report and accompanying documentation and license, are 
available online in the ADAMS Public Documents collection 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's public documents.
    The ADAMS accession numbers for the documents related to this 
notice are:

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1....................  Generic Environmental   ML091530075
                        Impact Statement for
                        In-Situ Leach Uranium
                        Milling Facilities,
                        May 2009.
2....................  AUC, LLC's              ML122890785
                        Application, October
                        3, 2012.
3....................  NRC email informing     ML12349A262
                        AUC that License
                        Application Added to
                        ADAMS and Deferral of
                        Acceptance Review,
                        November 30, 2012.
4....................  NRC Request for         ML13365A110
                        Additional
                        Information.
5....................  Round 1--Response to    ML14169A452
                        Request for
                        Additional
                        Information, June 13,
                        2012.
6....................  NRC Results of Round 1  ML14247A276
                        RAI Response Package,
                        September 9, 2014.
7....................  AUC Revised RAI         ML15002A077
                        Response Package,
                        December 23, 2014.
8....................  Safety Evaluation       ML16237A141
                        Report, September 30,
                        2016.
9....................  Environmental Impact    ML16181A082
                        Statement for the
                        Reno Creek ISR
                        Project in Campbell
                        County, Wyoming,
                        Supplement to the
                        Generic Environmental
                        Impact Statement for
                        In-Situ Leach Uranium
                        Milling Facilities,
                        Draft Report for
                        Public Comments, June
                        30, 2016.
10...................  NUREG-1910, Suppl. 6,   ML16342A973
                        Environmental Impact
                        Statement for the
                        Reno Creek ISR
                        Project in Campbell
                        County, Wyoming,
                        Supplement to the
                        Generic Environmental
                        Impact Statement for
                        In-Situ Leach Uranium
                        Milling Facilities,
                        Final Report,
                        December 2016.
11...................  Source and Byproduct    ML16364A219
                        Materials License SUA-
                        1602, February 16,
                        2017.
12...................  NRC Staff's Record of   ML17011A195
                        Decision, February
                        03, 2017.
13...................  Safety Evaluation       ML16364A227
                        Report, Revision 1,
                        February 16, 2017.
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    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 16th day of February 2017.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrea Kock,
Deputy Director, Division of Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery and 
Waste Programs, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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