[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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