62728 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 207 / Wednesday, October 27, 2004 / Notices 

Commission, the Rancho Seco ISFSI 

license, SNM–2510, would be amended 

to allow this action. 

The Commission may issue either a 

notice of hearing or a notice of proposed 

action and opportunity for hearing in 

accordance with 10 CFR 72.46(b)(1) 

regarding the proposed amendment or, 

if a determination is made that the 

proposed amendment does not present 

a genuine issue as to whether public 

health and safety will be significantly 

affected, take immediate action on the 

proposed amendment in accordance 

with 10 CFR 72.46(b)(2) and provide 

notice of the action taken and an 

opportunity for interested persons to 

request a hearing on whether the action 

should be rescinded or modified. 

For further details with respect to this 

amendment, see the application dated 

July 29, 2004, which is publicly 

available in the records component of 

NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access 

and Management System (ADAMS). The 

NRC maintains ADAMS, which 

provides text and image files of NRC’s 

public documents. These documents 

may be accessed through the NRC’s 

Public Electronic Reading Room on the 

Internet at http://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/adams.html. If you do not have 

access to ADAMS or if there are 

problems in accessing the documents 

located in ADAMS, contact the NRC 

Public Document Room (PDR) Reference 

staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737 

or by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 15th day 

of October 2004.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Amy M. Snyder, 

Project Manager, Spent Fuel Project Office, 

Office of Nuclear Material Safety and 

Safeguards.

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[Docket Nos. 50–498 and 50–499] 

STP Nuclear Operating Company, et al. 

South Texas Project, Units 1 and 2; 

Notice of Withdrawal of Application for 

Amendment to Facility Operating 

License 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (the Commission) has 

granted the request of STP Nuclear 

Operating Company (the licensee) to 

withdraw its September 22, 2003 

(ML032691397), application for 

proposed amendment to Facility 

Operating License No. NPF–76 and 

Facility Operating License No. NPF–80 

for the South Texas Project, Units 1 and 

2, respectively. The facility is located in 

Matagorda County, Texas. 

The proposed amendment would 

have revised the Technical 

Specifications (TSs) to change the TS 

3.3.2 requirements for Loss of Power 

Instrumentation (Functional Unit 8). 

The Commission had previously 

issued a Notice of Consideration of 

Issuance of Amendment published in 

the Federal Register on November 12, 

2003 (68 FR 64139). However, by letter 

dated September 30, 2004 

(ML042800236), the licensee withdrew 

the proposed change. 

For further details with respect to this 

action, see the application for 

amendment dated September 22, 2003, 

and the licensee’s letter dated 

September 30, 2004, which withdrew 

the application for license amendment. 

Documents may be examined, and/or 

copied for a fee, at the NRC’s Public 

Document Room (PDR), located at One 

White Flint North, Public File Area O1 

F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), 

Rockville, Maryland. Publicly available 

records will be accessible electronically 

from the Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS) Public Electronic Reading 

Room on the internet at the NRC Web 

site, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/

adams/html. Persons who do not have 

access to ADAMS or who encounter 

problems in accessing the documents 

located in ADAMS, should contact the 

NRC PDR Reference staff by telephone 

at 1–800–397–4209, or 301–415–4737 or 

by email to pdr@nrc.gov.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day 

of October 2004. For the Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

David H. Jaffe, 

Senior Project Manager, Section 1, Project 

Directorate IV, Division of Licensing Project 

Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation.

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Nuclear Power Plants That Employ 

Boiling-Water Reactor (BWR) Mark I 

and II Designs Receipt of Request for 

Action Under 10 CFR 2.206 

Notice is hereby given that by petition 

dated August 10, 2004, the Nuclear 

Security Coalition (Coalition), 

consisting of 39 separate organizations, 

has requested that the Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission (NRC) take 

action to: (1) Issue a demand for 

information to the licensees for all Mark 

I and II BWRs and conduct a 6-month 

study of options for addressing 

structural vulnerabilities; (2) present the 

findings of the study at a national 

conference attended by all interested 

stakeholders, providing for transcribed 

comments and questions; (3) develop a 

comprehensive plan that accounts for 

stakeholder concerns and addresses 

structural vulnerabilities of all Mark I 

and II BWRs within a 12-month period; 

(4) issue orders to the licensees for all 

Mark I and II BWRs compelling 

incorporation of a comprehensive set of 

protective measures, including 

structural protections; and (5) make 

future operation of each Mark I and II 

BWR contingent on addressing its 

structural vulnerability with 

participation and oversight by a panel of 

local stakeholders. 

As the basis for this request, the 

Coalition states that nuclear power 

plants are critical national 

infrastructures and are prime targets of 

attacks, that the NRC ‘‘requires only a 

light defense of nuclear power plants,’’

and that BWRs of the Mark I and II 

designs are particularly vulnerable. 

The petition is being treated pursuant 

to 10 CFR 2.206 of the Commission’s 

regulations. The petition has been 

referred to the Director of the Office of 

Nuclear Reactor Regulation. As 

provided by section 2.206, appropriate 

action will be taken on this petition 

within a reasonable time. Members of 

the Coalition met with the Petition 

Review Board (PRB) on September 23, 

2004, to discuss the petition; the 

summary of the meeting, with the 

transcript attached, was published on 

October 13, 2004. The results of that 

discussion have been considered in the 

PRB’s determination regarding the 

Coalition’s request for action and in 

establishing the schedule for reviewing 

the petition. A copy of the petition, and 

the meeting summary dated October 13, 

2004, are available for inspection at the 

Commission’s Public Document Room, 

located at One White Flint North, Public 

File Area O1 F21, 11555 Rockville Pike 

(first floor), Rockville, Maryland. 

Publicly available records will be 

accessible from the Agencywide 

Documents Access and Management 

System (ADAMS) Public Electronic 

Reading Room on the Internet at the 

NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov/

reading-rm/adams.html. Persons who 

do not have access to ADAMS or who 

encounter problems in accessing the 

documents located in ADAMS, should 

contact the NRC PDR Reference staff by 

telephone at 1–800–397–4209 or 301–

415–4737, or by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov.

Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 207 / Wednesday, October 27, 2004 / Notices 62729

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 19th day 

of October 2004.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

J.E. Dyer, 

Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation.

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[Docket No. 030–06021] 

Notice of Availability of Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact for License 

Amendment for Rohm and Haas 

Company’s Facility in Bristol, PA

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission.

ACTION: Notice of availability of 

Environmental Assessment and Finding 

of No Significant Impact. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Marjorie McLaughlin, Nuclear Materials 

Safety Branch 2, Division of Nuclear 

Materials Safety, Region I, 475 

Allendale Road, King of Prussia, 

Pennsylvania, 19406, telephone (610) 

337–5240, fax (610) 337–5269; or by

e-mail: MMM3@NRC.GOV.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

(NRC) is issuing a license amendment to 

Rohm and Haas Company for Materials 

License No. 37–01665–01, to authorize 

release of its facility in Bristol, 

Pennsylvania for unrestricted use. NRC 

has prepared an Environmental 

Assessment (EA) in support of this 

action in accordance with the 

requirements of 10 CFR part 51. Based 

on the EA, the NRC has concluded that 

a Finding of No Significant Impact 

(FONSI) is appropriate. The amendment 

will be issued following the publication 

of this notice. 

II. EA Summary 

The purpose of the action is to 

authorize the release of the licensee’s 

Bristol, Pennsylvania facility for 

unrestricted use. Rohm and Haas 

Company was authorized by NRC from 

December 4, 1958, to use radioactive 

materials for research and development 

purposes at the Bristol, Pennsylvania 

site. On July 22, 2004, Rohm and Haas 

Company requested that NRC release 

the facility for unrestricted use. Rohm 

and Haas Company has conducted 

surveys of the facility and determined 

that the facility meets the license 

termination criteria in subpart E of 10 

CFR part 20. Rohm and Haas Company 

will continue licensed activities at other 

locations, as authorized by the license. 

The NRC staff has prepared an EA in 

support of the license amendment. The 

facility was remediated and surveyed 

prior to the licensee requesting the 

license amendment. The NRC staff has 

reviewed the information and final 

status survey submitted by Rohm and 

Haas. Based on its reviews, the staff has 

determined that there are no additional 

remediation activities necessary to 

complete the proposed action. 

Therefore, the staff considered the 

impact of the residual radioactivity at 

the facility and concluded that since the 

residual radioactivity meets the 

requirements in subpart E of 10 CFR 

part 20, a Finding of No Significant 

Impact is appropriate. 

III. Finding of No Significant Impact 

The staff has prepared the EA 

(summarized above) in support of the 

license amendment to release the 

facility for unrestricted use. The NRC 

staff has evaluated Rohm and Haas 

Company’s request and the results of the 

surveys and has concluded that the 

completed action complies with the 

criteria in subpart E of 10 CFR part 20. 

The staff has found that the 

environmental impacts from the action 

are bounded by the impacts evaluated 

by NUREG–1496, Volumes 1–3, 

‘‘Generic Environmental Impact 

Statement in Support of Rulemaking on 

Radiological Criteria for License 

Termination of NRC-Licensed 

Facilities’’ (ML042310492, 

ML042320379, and ML042330385). On 

the basis of the EA, the NRC has 

concluded that the environmental 

impacts from the action are expected to 

be insignificant and has determined not 

to prepare an environmental impact 

statement for the action. 

IV. Further Information 

Documents related to this action, 

including the application for the license 

amendment and supporting 

documentation, are available 

electronically at the NRC’s Electronic 

Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/

reading-rm/adams.html. From this site, 

you can access the NRC’s Agencywide 

Document Access and Management 

System (ADAMS), which provides text 

and image files of NRC’s public 

documents. The ADAMS accession 

numbers for the documents related to 

this Notice are: The Environmental 

Assessment (ML042880387), 

Amendment request and Final Status 

Survey results (ML042080055 and 

ML042220108), Additional Survey 

Information (ML042470162), Gas 

chromatograph source leak test results 

(ML042470170, ML042540075, and 

ML042540081) and additional 

information concerning the storage 

locker (ML042470164). Persons who do 

not have access to ADAMS or who 

encounter problems in accessing the 

documents located in ADAMS, should 

contact the NRC PDR Reference staff by 

telephone at (800) 397–4209 or (301) 

415–4737, or by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov.

These documents may be viewed 

electronically at the NRC Public 

Document Room (PDR), O 1 F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, MD, 20852. The PDR 

reproduction contractor will copy 

documents for a fee. The PDR is open 

from 7:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except on Federal 

holidays.

Dated in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, 

this 20th day of October, 2004.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

John D. Kinneman, 

Chief, Materials Security and Industrial 

Branch, Division of Nuclear Materials Safety, 

Region I.

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Proposed Generic Communication; 

Establishing and Maintaining a Safety 

Conscious Work Environment; 

Correction

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission.

ACTION: Notice of opportunity for public 

comment; correction. 

SUMMARY: This document corrects a 

notice appearing in the Federal Register

on October 14, 2004 (69 FR 61049), that 

requests public comment on a guidance 

document for licensees on establishing 

and maintaining a safety conscious 

work environment. This action is 

necessary to correct an erroneous Web 

site.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Lisamarie Jarriel, Agency Allegations 

Advisor, Office of Enforcement, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, (301) 415–

8529, email LLJ@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On page 

61049, in the second column, in the 

second complete paragraph, in the last 

sentence, the Web site is corrected to 

read, ‘‘http://www.nrc.gov/what-we-do/

regulatory/allegations/scweguide.html.’’

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 21st day 

of October 2004.