[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 206 (Wednesday, October 24, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53666-53669]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-23164]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[License No. XW019; Docket No. 11005986; NRC-2012-7946]


Perma-Fix Northwest Richland, Inc.

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Export license application; opportunity to comment, request a 
hearing, and petition for leave to intervene.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is reviewing an 
export license application (XW019),

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submitted by Perma-Fix Northwest Richland, Inc. (PFNW). On August 30, 
2018, PFNW filed a revised application with the NRC for a license to 
export radioactive waste. The revised application seeks NRC approval of 
a license for the export of low-level radioactive waste to Mexico. The 
NRC is providing notice of the opportunity to submit comments and/or to 
request a hearing on PFNW's revised application.

DATES: Comments must be filed by November 23, 2018. Requests for a 
hearing or a petition for leave to intervene must be filed by November 
23, 2018.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-7946. Address 
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Jennifer Borges; 
telephone: 301-287-9127; email: [email protected]. For technical 
questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 
CONTACT section of this document.
     Email comments to: [email protected]. If you do not 
receive an automatic email reply confirming receipt, then contact us 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 R. Jones, Office of 
International Programs, telephone: 404-997-4443, email: 
[email protected], U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 
DC 20555-0001.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to NRC-2012-7946 or Docket No. 11005986 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 website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-7946.
     NRC's public website: Go to http://www.nrc.gov and search 
for XW019, Docket No. 11005986, Docket ID NRC-2012-7946, or ADAMS 
Accession No. ML18257A028.
     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 
export license application from PFNW is available in ADAMS under 
Accession No. ML18257A028.
     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-2012-7946 or Docket No. 11005986 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

    In accordance with 10 CFR 110.70(b) the NRC is noticing the receipt 
of revised export license application submitted by PFNW on September 
10, 2018, for the return of Mexican-origin radioactive waste, generated 
at the Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Plant. The radioactive waste was 
processed and treated by PFNW, located in Richland, Washington, and by 
Diversified Scientific Services, Inc., located in Kingston, 
Tennessee.\1\ The application requests removal of previous references 
to IW031. The NRC is noticing the application for a license to export 
radioactive waste; opening the opportunity for public comment; and 
opening the opportunity to file a request for a hearing or petition for 
leave to intervene for a period of 30 days after publication of this 
notice in the Federal Register. 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. Hearing 
requests and intervention petitions must include the information 
specified in 10 CFR 110.82(b).
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    \1\ The export application (XW019) replaces prior export 
applications that were submitted in February of 2012 and February 
2013, together with an import license application (IW031) that has 
now been withdrawn (ADAMS Accession No. ML17354A464).
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III. Electronic Submission (E-Filing)

    A request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene must be 
filed in accordance with the NRC's E-Filing rule (72 FR 49139; August 
28, 2007, as amended at 77 FR 46562; August 3, 2012). The E-Filing 
process requires participants to submit and serve all adjudicatory 
documents over the internet, or in some cases to mail copies on 
electronic storage media. Detailed guidance on making electronic 
submissions may be found in the Guidance for Electronic Submissions to 
the NRC and on the NRC website at http://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html. Participants may not submit paper copies of their 
filings unless they seek an exemption in accordance with the procedures 
described below.
    To comply with the procedural requirements of E-Filing, at least 10 
days prior to the filing deadline, the participant should contact the 
Office of the Secretary by email at [email protected], or by 
telephone at 301-415-1677, to (1) request a digital identification (ID) 
certificate, which allows the participant (or its counsel or 
representative) to digitally sign submissions and access the E-Filing 
system for any proceeding in which it is participating; and (2) advise 
the Secretary that the participant will be

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submitting a petition or other adjudicatory document (even in instances 
in which the participant, or its counsel or representative, already 
holds an NRC-issued digital ID certificate). Based upon this 
information, the Secretary will establish an electronic docket for the 
hearing in this proceeding if the Secretary has not already established 
an electronic docket.
    Information about applying for a digital ID certificate is 
available on the NRC's public website at http://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals/getting-started.html. Once a participant has obtained a 
digital ID certificate and a docket has been created, the participant 
can then submit adjudicatory documents. Submissions must be in Portable 
Document Format (PDF). Additional guidance on PDF submissions is 
available on the NRC's public website at http://www.nrc.gov/site-help/electronic-sub-ref-mat.html. A filing is considered complete at the 
time the document is submitted through the NRC's E-Filing system. To be 
timely, an electronic filing must be submitted to the E-Filing system 
no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the due date. Upon receipt of 
a transmission, the E-Filing system time-stamps the document and sends 
the submitter an email notice confirming receipt of the document. The 
E-Filing system also distributes an email notice that provides access 
to the document to the NRC's Office of the General Counsel and any 
others who have advised the Office of the Secretary that they wish to 
participate in the proceeding, so that the filer need not serve the 
document on those participants separately. Therefore, applicants and 
other participants (or their counsel or representative) must apply for 
and receive a digital ID certificate before adjudicatory documents are 
filed so that they can obtain access to the documents via the E-Filing 
system.
    A person filing electronically using the NRC's adjudicatory E-
Filing system may seek assistance by contacting the NRC's Electronic 
Filing Help Desk through the ``Contact Us'' link located on the NRC's 
public website at http://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html, by 
email to [email protected], or by a toll-free call at 1-866-672-
7640. The NRC Electronic Filing Help Desk is available between 9 a.m. 
and 6 p.m., Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, excluding government 
holidays.
    Participants who believe that they have a good cause for not 
submitting documents electronically must file an exemption request, in 
accordance with 10 CFR 2.302(g), with their initial paper filing 
stating why there is good cause for not filing electronically and 
requesting authorization to continue to submit documents in paper 
format. Such filings must be submitted by: (1) First class mail 
addressed to the Office of the Secretary of the Commission, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, Attention: 
Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff; or (2) courier, express mail, or 
expedited delivery service to the Office of the Secretary, 11555 
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, Attention: Rulemaking and 
Adjudications Staff. Participants filing adjudicatory documents in this 
manner are responsible for serving the document on all other 
participants. Filing is considered complete by first-class mail as of 
the time of deposit in the mail, or by courier, express mail, or 
expedited delivery service upon depositing the document with the 
provider of the service. A presiding officer, having granted an 
exemption request from using E-Filing, may require a participant or 
party to use E-Filing if the presiding officer subsequently determines 
that the reason for granting the exemption from use of E-Filing no 
longer exists.
    Documents submitted in adjudicatory proceedings will appear in the 
NRC's electronic hearing docket which is available to the public at 
https://adams.nrc.gov/ehd, unless excluded pursuant to an order of the 
Commission or the presiding officer. If you do not have an NRC-issued 
digital ID certificate as described above, click cancel when the link 
requests certificates and you will be automatically directed to the 
NRC's electronic hearing dockets where you will be able to access any 
publicly available documents in a particular hearing docket. 
Participants are requested not to include personal privacy information, 
such as Social Security numbers, home addresses, or personal phone 
numbers in their filings, unless an NRC regulation or other law 
requires submission of such information. For example, in some 
instances, individuals provide home addresses in order to demonstrate 
proximity to a facility or site. With respect to copyrighted works, 
except for limited excerpts that serve the purpose of the adjudicatory 
filings and would constitute a Fair Use application, participants are 
requested not to include copyrighted materials in their submission.
    The information concerning this application for an export license 
amendment/renewal follows.

                                NRC Export License Amendment/Renewal Application
                                            [Description of material]
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  Name of applicant, Date of
  application, Date received,                                                                    Country of
 Application No., Docket No.,       Material type       Total quantity        End use           destination
      ADAMS accession No.
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Perma-Fix Northwest Richland,   Class A, B, and/or C   Not to exceed     Storage and       Mexico.
 Inc. (PFNW), August 30, 2018,   radioactive waste in   total maximum     ultimate
 September 10, 2018, XW019,      the form of            quantity of       disposal of
 11005986, ML18257A028.          contaminated           1.027             radioactive
                                 aqueous, organic       terabecquerels    waste in Mexico.
                                 based fluids, semi-    (TBq), or
                                 solids, solids, and    radioactive
                                 other combustible      material.
                                 and non-combustible
                                 materials which may
                                 include liquids,
                                 containing carbon-
                                 14, hydrogen-3, and
                                 other mixed fission
                                 product
                                 radionuclides.
                                 Contaminated
                                 material generated
                                 from processing
                                 imported radioactive
                                 waste may include
                                 metals, resin,
                                 liquids, and sludge.
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    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day of October, 2018.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David L. Skeen,
Deputy Director, Office of International Programs.
[FR Doc. 2018-23164 Filed 10-23-18; 8:45 am]
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