67370 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 221 / Wednesday, November 17, 2004 / Notices 

Public File Area 01 F21, 11555 

Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, 

Maryland, and accessible electronically 

through 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. (Note: Public access to 

ADAMS has been temporarily 

suspended so that security reviews of 

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performed and potentially sensitive 

information removed. Please check the 

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resumption of ADAMS access.) Persons 

who don’t have access to ADAMS or 

who encounter problems accessing the 

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contact the NRC PDR Reference staff by 

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Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 10th day 

of November 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 REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 030–05235] 

Notice of Availability of Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact for License 

Amendment for the Exxon Mobil 

Research and Engineering Company’s 

Facility in Paulsboro, NJ

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Judy 

Joustra, Materials Security & Industrial 

Branch, Division of Nuclear Materials 

Safety, Region I, 475 Allendale Road, 

King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, 19406, 

telephone (610) 337–5355, fax (610) 

337–5269, or by e-mail: JAJ@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

(NRC) is terminating Materials License 

No. 29–00505–02 issued to The Exxon 

Mobil Research and Engineering 

Company (Exxon) and authorizing 

release of its facility in Paulsboro, New 

Jersey 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 license will be 

terminated following the publication of 

this notice. 

II. EA Summary 

The purpose of the action is to 

terminate the license and authorize the 

release of the licensee’s Paulsboro, New 

Jersey facility for unrestricted use. 

Exxon has been authorized by NRC 

since November 1, 1956 to use 

radioactive materials for research and 

development purposes at the site. On 

February 10, 2004, Exxon requested that 

NRC release the facility for unrestricted 

use. Exxon has conducted surveys of the 

facility and provided information to the 

NRC to demonstrate that the site meets 

the license termination criteria in 

subpart E of 10 CFR part 20 for 

unrestricted use. 

The NRC staff has prepared an EA in 

support of the license termination. The 

facility was remediated and surveyed 

prior to the licensee requesting the 

termination of the license. The NRC 

staff has reviewed the information and 

final status survey submitted by Exxon. 

Based on its review, 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 termination and release the 

facility for unrestricted use. The NRC 

staff has evaluated Exxon’s request and 

the results of the surveys and has 

concluded that the completed action 

complies with 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 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 (ML043130124), Letter 

dated February 10, 2004 requesting 

termination of the license 

(ML040630698), Letter dated May 13, 

2004 providing additional information 

(ML041730600), Letter dated August 23, 

2004 providing additional information 

(ML042450527), E-mail dated October 6, 

2004 providing additional information 

(ML042870539), and Letter dated 

October 18, 2004 from New Jersey 

Department of Environmental Protection 

(ML042990034). Please note that on 

October 25, 2004, the NRC terminated 

public access to ADAMS and initiated 

an additional security review of 

publicly available documents to ensure 

that potentially sensitive information is 

removed from the ADAMS database 

accessible through the NRC’s Web site. 

Interested members of the public may 

obtain copies of the referenced 

documents for review and/or copying by 

contacting the Public Document Room 

pending resumption of public access to 

ADAMS. The NRC Public Documents 

Room is located at NRC Headquarters in 

Rockville, MD, and can be contacted at 

(800) 397–4209, (301) 415–4737 or by 

‘‘e-mail to: pdr@nrc.gov.’’

These documents may also be viewed 

electronically on the public computers 

located at the NRC’s 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 at King of Prussia, Pennsylvania this 

9th day of November, 2004.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

John D. Kinneman, 

Chief, Materials Security & Industrial Branch, 

Division of Nuclear Materials Safety Region 

I.

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