[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 215 (Wednesday, November 6, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59843-59845]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-24199]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 11006367; NRC-2019-0213]


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 considering 
issuing an export license (XW025), requested by Perma-Fix Northwest 
Richland, Inc. (PFNW). On September 27, 2019, PFNW filed an application 
with the NRC for a license to export radioactive waste. The request 
seeks NRC approval for the export of low-level radioactive waste to 
Italy. The NRC is providing notice of the opportunity to request a 
hearing on PFNW's revised application. The request seeks the NRC's 
approval of the application authorizing the export of radioactive waste 
to Italy.

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DATES: Comments must be filed by December 6, 2019. Requests for a 
hearing or a petition for leave to intervene must be filed by December 
6, 2019.

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-2019-0213. 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: Gary Langlie, Office of International 
Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001; telephone: 301-287-9076, email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to NRC-2019-0213 or Docket No. 11006367 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 https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2019-0213.
     NRC's Public Website: Go to https://www.nrc.gov and search 
for XW025, Docket No. 11006367, or Docket ID NRC-2019-0213.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the 
ADAMS Public Documents collection at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, 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. ML19280A054.
     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-2019-0213 or Docket No. 11006367 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 https://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 September 27, 2019, NRC received an application from Perma-Fix 
Northwest Richland, Inc. (PFNW) requesting a license for a specific 
export license (XW025) for the export of low-level radioactive waste to 
Italy (ADAMS Accession No. ML19280A054).
    In accordance with paragraph 110.70(b) of title 10 of the Code of 
Federal Regulation (10 CFR) the NRC is noticing the receipt of an 
export license application submitted by PFNW on September 27, 2019, for 
the export of Italian-origin radioactive waste from the State of 
Washington to Italy.

III. Opportunity To Request a Hearing and Petition for Leave To 
Intervene

    The NRC is noticing the request to issue the 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).

IV. 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 https://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 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 https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals/getting-started.html. Once a participant

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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 https://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 https://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 
follows.

                                         NRC Export License 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,    The radioactive waste    Not to exceed 0.1   Storage or         Italy.
 Inc. (PFNW), September 27,       consists of personal     terabecquerel       disposal by the
 2019, October 7, 2019, XW025,    protective equipment,    (TBq).              original
 11006367, ML19280A054.           plastic, paper, and                          generator.
                                  small quantities of
                                  glass contaminated
                                  primarily with carbon-
                                  14, hydrogen-3, and
                                  trace amounts of other
                                  mixed fission product
                                  radionuclides. The
                                  exported waste stream
                                  will be a solid form
                                  and consist of
                                  contaminated residual
                                  ash and residual metal
                                  or non-combustible
                                  material that cannot
                                  be recycled.
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    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 31th day of October 2019.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David L. Skeen,
Deputy Director, Office of International Programs.
[FR Doc. 2019-24199 Filed 11-5-19; 8:45 am]
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