[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 64 (Wednesday, April 5, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16636-16637]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-06725]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2017-0055; NRC-2017-0054]


Request for a License To Export Radioactive Waste; UniTech 
Service Group, Inc.

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Return of import license application and reopening of comment 
period for export license.

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SUMMARY: The NRC is reopening the opportunity for public comment and 
reopening the opportunity to request a hearing or a petition to 
intervene for an application to export radioactive waste filed by 
UniTech Service Group, Inc. (UniTech).

DATES: The comment period for the ``Request for a License to Export 
Radioactive Waste'' (82 FR 10919; February 16, 2017 (as corrected in 
March 06, 2017; 82 FR 12641)), has been reopened. Comments should be 
filed no later than May 5, 2017. 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:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for NRC-2017-0054. 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.

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     Email comments to: [email protected]. If you do not 
receive an automatic email reply confirming receipt, then contact the 
Office of the Secretary at 301-415-1677.
     Fax comments to: Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission at 301-415-1101.
     Mail comments to: Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, ATTN: Rulemakings and 
Adjudications Staff.
     Hand deliver comments to: 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 
Maryland 20852, between 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. (Eastern Time) Federal 
workdays; telephone: 301-415-1677.
    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: Andrea Jones, Office of International 
Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001; telephone: 301-287-9072, email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2017-0054, 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 NRC-2017-0054.
     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 in this document 
(if that document is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time 
that a document is referenced.
     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-2017-0054, in your comment submission.
    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 will post all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as enter 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, then you should inform those persons not to 
include identifying or contact information that 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 into ADAMS.

II. Discussion

    On October 27, 2016, the NRC received an application for a specific 
import license (IW034) from UniTech to import 10,000 metric tons of 
byproduct material in the form of radioactive-contaminated tools, 
metals, and other solid materials, along with incremental amounts of 
special nuclear material (less than fifteen grams per shipment). On 
October 27, 2016, the NRC also received an associated application for a 
specific export license (XW023) from UniTech to export 10,000 metric 
tons of byproduct material, along with incremental amounts of special 
nuclear material (less than fifteen grams per shipment). As further 
explained in the March 30, 2017, letter from David Skeen (ADAMS 
Accession No. ML17086A272), Deputy Director, Office of International 
Programs, NRC, to Glenn Roberts, Corporate Health Physicist, UniTech, 
the NRC has returned UniTech's application for a specific import 
license without action because the requested import activities are 
authorized under an NRC general import license.
    Therefore, the only regulatory action pending before the NRC is 
UniTech's application for a specific export license (XW023) to export 
low-level radioactive waste to Canada. The NRC is reopening both the 
public comment period and the opportunity to file a request for a 
hearing or petition for leave to intervene on XW023 for an additional 
30 days after publication of this notice in the Federal Register (FR). 
Any request for hearing or petition for leave to intervene shall be 
served by the requestor or petitioner upon the applicant, the office of 
the General Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555; the Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 
DC 20555; and the Executive Secretary, U.S. Department of State, 
Washington, DC 20520.
    A request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene may be 
filed with the NRC electronically in accordance with NRC's E-Filing 
rule promulgated in August 2007 (72 FR 49139; August 28, 2007). 
Information about filing electronically is available on the NRC's 
public Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html. To 
ensure timely electronic filing, at least 5 days prior to the filing 
deadline, the petitioner/requestor should contact the Office of the 
Secretary by email at [email protected], or by calling 301-415-
1677, to request a digital ID certificate and allow for the creation of 
an electronic docket.
    In addition to a request for hearing or petition for leave to 
intervene, written comments, in accordance with 10 CFR 110.81, should 
be submitted within thirty days after publication of this notice in the 
Federal Register to Office of the Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555, Attention: Rulemaking and 
Adjudications.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 30th day of March 2017.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David L. Skeen,
Deputy Director, Office of International Programs.
[FR Doc. 2017-06725 Filed 4-4-17; 8:45 am]
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