[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 23 (Friday, February 3, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7481-7482]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-02260]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 11006549; NRC-2023-0024]
Eastern Technologies, Inc.
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Export license application; opportunity to provide comments,
request a hearing, and petition for leave to intervene.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received and is
considering issuing an export license (XW031), requested by Eastern
Technologies, Inc. (ETI) by application dated November 28, 2022. The
application seeks the NRC's approval to return residual radioactive
waste to the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant in the United Arab Emirates
(UAE) after treatment at an ETI facility in Ashford, Alabama. The NRC
is providing notice of the opportunity to comment, request a hearing,
and petition to intervene on ETI's application.
DATES: Submit comments by March 6, 2023. A request for a hearing or
petition for leave to intervene must be filed by March 6, 2023.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods;
however, the NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the
Federal rulemaking website:
Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2023-0024. Address
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 301-415-0624; 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.
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: 404-997-4443, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to NRC-2023-0024 or Docket No. 11006549 when
contacting the NRC about the availability of information for this
action. You may obtain publicly available information related to this
action by the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2023-0024.
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 is
available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML23005A300.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents, by appointment, at the NRC's PDR, Room P1 B35, One White
Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. To make
an appointment to visit the PDR, please send an email to
[email protected] or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, between 8
a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern time (ET), Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays.
B. Submitting Comments
The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the
Federal rulemaking website (https://www.regulations.gov). Please
include NRC-2023-0024 or Docket No. 11006549 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 November 28, 2022, ETI submitted an application to the NRC for a
license to export radioactive waste. ETI states that it has entered
into commercial agreements with the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant in the
UAE to provide dissolvable protective clothing and related products.
Following their use, contaminated dissolvable protective clothing and
other related items will be transported to ETI for dissolving and
decontamination at the ETI facility
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located in Ashford, Alabama, which is licensed by the state of Alabama.
ETI seeks a specific license from the NRC to export residual
radioactive waste to the generator in UAE. Resultant contaminants to be
exported will include cobalt-60 (Co-60), cobalt-58 (Co-58), and
manganese-54 (Mn-54) in the form of solid particulate metal oxides, not
to exceed 0.0037 TBq. ETI requests an expiration date of December 31,
2028.
In accordance with section 110.70 paragraph (b) of title 10 of the
Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), the NRC is providing notice of
the receipt of the application; providing the opportunity to submit
written comments concerning the application; and providing the
opportunity to request a hearing or petition for leave to intervene,
for a period of 30 days after publication of this notice in the Federal
Register.
A hearing request or petition for leave to intervene must include
the information specified in 10 CFR 110.82(b). Any request for hearing
or petition for leave to intervene shall be served by the requestor or
petitioner in accordance with 10 CFR 110.89(a), either by delivery, by
mail, or filed with the NRC electronically in accordance with the NRC's
E-Filing rule (72 FR 49139; August 28, 2007, as amended at 77 FR 46562;
August 3, 2012). Detailed guidance on electronic submissions is located
in the ``Guidance for Electronic Submissions to the NRC'' (ADAMS
Accession No. ML13031A056) and on the NRC's public website at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html.
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.
The information concerning this application for an export license
is as follows.
NRC Export License Application
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Application Information
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Name of Applicant............ Eastern Technologies, Inc. (ETI).
Date of Application.......... November 28, 2022.
Date Received................ January 3, 2023.
Application No............... XW031.
Docket No.................... 11006549.
ADAMS Accession No........... ML23005A300.
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Description of Material
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Material Type................ Low-level radioactive waste in the form
of small, solid particulate metal oxides
consisting of cobalt-60, cobalt[dash]58,
and manganese-54 resulting from the
decontamination of dissolvable
protective clothing and other related
items.
Total Quantity............... Not to exceed 0.0037 TBq per shipment.
End Use...................... Storage and ultimate disposal of low-
level radioactive waste.
Country of Destination....... United Arab Emirates.
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Dated: January 30, 2023.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Peter J. Habighorst,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of International Programs.
[FR Doc. 2023-02260 Filed 2-2-23; 8:45 am]
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