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letters), and December 30, 2003, and 

February 10, February 18, February 25, 

March 17, May 12, and July 20, 2004. 

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(first floor), Rockville, Maryland. 

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Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th day 

of November, 2004.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Richard B. Ennis, 

Senior Project Manager, VY Section, Project 

Directorate I, Division of Licensing Project 

Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation.

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 030–17845] 

Notice of Availability of Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact for License 

Amendment for Ponce School of 

Medicine’s Facility in Ponce, PR

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Orysia Masnyk Bailey, Materials 

Security & Industrial Branch, Division 

of Nuclear Materials Safety, Region I, 

475 Allendale Road, King of Prussia, 

Pennsylvania, 19406, telephone (404) 

562–4739, fax (404) 562–4955; or by email: omm@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

(NRC) is issuing a license amendment to 

the Ponce School of Medicine for 

Materials License No. 52–19547–01, to 

authorize release of its facility in Ponce, 

Puerto Rico 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 

Ponce, Puerto Rico facility for 

unrestricted use. The Ponce School of 

Medicine was authorized by the NRC 

from October 15, 1981 to use radioactive 

materials for research and development 

purposes at the site. On February 4, 

2003, the Ponce School of Medicine 

requested that the NRC release the 

facility for unrestricted use. The Ponce 

School of Medicine 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 release. 

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 the Ponce 

School of Medicine. 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 the Ponce School of 

Medicine’s request and the results of the 

survey 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 in the NRC’s Agencywide 

Document Access and Management 

System (ADAMS), which provides text 

and image files of NRC’s documents. 

The ADAMS accession numbers for the 

documents related to this Notice are: 

The Environmental Assessment 

(ML042720062), and Letter dated 

February 4, 2003 transmitting the Final 

Status Survey Report (ML030430358). 

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 at 

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 at King of Prussia, Pennsylvania this 

10th 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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