[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.
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