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(Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1861) 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

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BILLING CODE 7555–01–P 

NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT 

CORPORATION 

Sunshine Act Meetings; Regular Board 

of Directors Meeting 

TIME AND DATE: 2:00 p.m., Thursday, 

December 17, 2020. 

PLACE: Via Conference Call. 

STATUS: Open (with the exception of 

Executive Session). 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: The General 

Counsel of the Corporation has certified 

that in his opinion, one or more of the 

exemptions set forth in 5 U.S.C. 552 

(b)(2) and (4) permit closure of the 

following portion(s) of this meeting: 

• Executive Session 

Agenda: 

I. CALL TO ORDER 

II. Executive Session: Report from CEO 

III. Executive Session: Report of CFO 

IV. Action Item Approval of Minutes 

V. Action Item Acceptance of Revised 

Audit Committee Charter 

VI. Discussion Item NeighborWorks 

Compass Update 

VII. Management Program Background 

and Updates 

VIII. Adjournment 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Lakeyia Thompson, Special Assistant, 

(202) 524–9940; Lthompson@nw.org. 

Lakeyia Thompson, 

Special Assistant. 

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BILLING CODE 7570–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 70–1151; NRC–2020–0263] 

Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC; 

Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility; and 

US Ecology, Inc.; Idaho Resource 

Conservation and Recovery Act 

Subtitle C Hazardous Disposal Facility 

Located Near Grand View, Idaho 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Environmental assessment and 

finding of no significant impact; 

issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing an 

environmental assessment (EA) and 

finding of no significant impact (FONSI) 

related to a request for alternate 

disposal, exemptions, and associated 

license amendment for the disposition 

of waste containing byproduct material 

and special nuclear material (SNM) 

from the Westinghouse Electric 

Company, LLC’s (WEC) Columbia Fuel 

Fabrication Facility (CFFF) in Hopkins, 

South Carolina, under License Number 

SNM–1107. Additionally, the NRC is 

considering the related action of 

approving exemptions to US Ecology, 

Inc. (USEI) from the NRC licensing 

requirements to allow USEI to receive 

and dispose the material from CFFF 

without an NRC license. The USEI 

disposal facility, located near Grand 

View, Idaho, is a Subtitle C Resource 

Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) 

hazardous waste disposal facility 

permitted by the State of Idaho to 

receive low-level radioactive waste and 

is not licensed. Approval of the 

alternate disposal request from WEC 

and the exemptions requested by WEC 

and USEI would allow WEC to transfer 

the specific waste from CFFF for 

disposal at USEI. 

DATES: The EA and FONSI referenced in 

this document are available on 

December 9, 2020. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2020–0263 when contacting the 

NRC about the availability of 

information regarding this document. 

You may obtain publicly available 

information related to this document 

using any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2020–0263. Address 

questions about Docket IDs in 

Regulations.gov to Jennifer Borges; 

telephone: 301–287–9127; email: 

Jennifer.Borges@nrc.gov. For technical 

questions, contact the individual listed 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this document. 

• 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 pdr.resource@

nrc.gov. 

• Attention: The PDR, where you may 

examine and order copies of public 

documents is currently closed. You may 

submit your request to the PDR via 

email at PDR.Resource@nrc.gov or call 

1–800–397–4209 between 8:00 a.m. and 

4:00 p.m. (EST), Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Tiktinsky, Office of Nuclear 

Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–8740, email: David.Tiktinsky@

nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

By letter dated May 8, 2020 (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML20129J935; Package 

No. ML20129J934), as supplemented on 

September 22, 2020 (ADAMS Accession 

No. ML20266G551), and October 13, 

2020 (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML20287A545), WEC requested an 

exemption and associated license 

amendment to License SNM–1107, 

issued for the operation of CFFF located 

in Hopkins, South Carolina. The 

requests are for NRC authorization for 

an alternate disposal of specified NRClicensed byproduct and SNM from the 

CFFF. As required by section 51.21 of 

title 10 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (10 CFR), the NRC 

conducted an EA. Based on the results 

of the EA that follows, the NRC has 

determined that pursuant to 10 CFR 

51.31, preparation of an environmental 

impact statement for the exemption 

request is not required and pursuant to 

10 CFR 51.32, issuance of a FONSI is 

appropriate. 

A corresponding exemption request 

from USEI, dated May 11, 2020 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML20280A601), 

would allow for possession and disposal 

of the byproduct and SNM materials at 

the USEI disposal site. USEI is a RCRA 

Subtitle C hazardous waste disposal 

facility located near Grand View, Idaho. 

II. Environmental Assessment 

Description of the Proposed Action 

WEC and USEI requested NRC 

approval for a 10 CFR 20.2002 alternate 

disposal request, exemptions to 10 CFR 

part 70.3 and 10 CFR 30.3, and a 

conforming WEC license amendment to 

allow WEC to transfer specific waste 

from CFFF for disposal at the USEI 

disposal facility. 

Waste being considered in this 

request includes approximately 2,550 

cubic meters (m3; 90,000 cubic feet (ft3)) 

of radiologically contaminated soil, 

sludge, and debris associated with the 

East Lagoon, a treatment/settling pond 

that received effluents from multiple 

sources throughout the site. The East 

Lagoon is in the process of being closed 

in accordance with a consent agreement 

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Carolina Department of Health and 

Environmental Control (SCDHEC). In 

addition to the material from the East 

Lagoon, the request also includes 

approximately 1,430 m3 (50,400 ft3) of 

previously dredged CaF2 sludge being 

stored on site. WEC proposes to mix 

these materials with Portland cement to 

stabilize the material for shipping. WEC 

proposes to transport this aggregated 

waste stream to USEI using a 

combination of trucks and railcars. 

In addition to this soil and sludge, the 

request also includes the shipping and 

disposal of up to 526 obsolete UF6

cylinders previously used for 

transportation. The cylinders are 

contaminated with SNM and U–238, 

and represent a disposal volume of 

approximately 651 m3 (23,000 ft3) prior 

to downsizing. The UF6 Cylinders are 

solid form (steel), approximately 1.8 m 

(6 ft) in length and 0.76 m (2.5 ft) in 

diameter. The UF6 Cylinders are empty 

and have been through the UF6 Cylinder 

internal wash/rinse process following 

their last use. The UF6 Cylinders will be 

downsized to eliminate void space prior 

to packaging for shipment offsite for 

disposal. The UF6 Cylinders would be 

transported to the USEI site by trucks, 

separate from the aggregated waste 

shipments. 

Both waste streams would be 

transported from CFFF in South 

Carolina to the USEI facility, Grand 

View, Idaho in the Owyhee Desert. The 

USEI facility is a RCRA Subtitle C 

hazardous waste disposal facility 

permitted by the State of Idaho. The 

USEI site has both natural and 

engineered features that limit the 

transport of radioactive material. The 

natural features include a low 

precipitation rate [i.e., 18.4 cm/year (7.4 

in./year)] and a long vertical distance to 

groundwater (i.e., 61-meter (203-ft) thick 

on average unsaturated zone below the 

disposal zone). The engineered features 

include an engineered cover, liners, and 

leachate monitoring systems. Because 

the USEI facility is not licensed by the 

NRC, this proposed action requires the 

NRC to exempt USEI from the Atomic 

Energy Act of 1954, and NRC licensing 

requirements with respect to USEI’s 

requested receipt and disposal of this 

material. 

Need for the Proposed Action 

The need for the proposed action is to 

authorize a safe and appropriate method 

of disposal for the subject waste 

material generated during day-to-day 

activities and currently being stored at 

the CFFF. Specifically, the East Lagoon 

is in the process of being closed in 

accordance with a consent agreement 

and regulations set by the SCDHEC. 

Thus, material associated with the East 

Lagoon must be removed from the site 

in order to comply with regulatory 

requirements. The proposed alternate 

disposal would also conserve low-level 

radioactive waste disposal capacity at 

licensed low-level radioactive disposal 

sites while ensuring that the material 

being considered is disposed of safely in 

a regulated facility. 

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed 

Action 

The NRC staff reviewed the 

information provided by WEC to 

support their 10 CFR 20.2002 alternate 

disposal request and for the specific 

exemptions from 10 CFR 30.3 and 10 

CFR 70.3 in order to dispose of the 

aggregated waste and UF6 cylinders at 

USEI. Under the 10 CFR 20.2002 

criteria, a licensee may seek NRC 

authorization to dispose of licensed 

material using procedures not otherwise 

authorized by NRC regulations. The 

licensee’s supporting analysis must 

show that the radiological doses arising 

from the proposed 10 CFR 20.2002 

disposal will be as low as reasonably 

achievable and within the 10 CFR part 

20 dose limits. 

WEC performed a radiological 

assessment in consultation with USEI. 

Based on this assessment, WEC 

concludes that potential doses to 

members of the public, including 

transportation workers and USEI 

workers involved in processing and 

disposing of the waste upon its arrival 

at USEI, are less than 1 mrem/y, well 

within the ‘‘few mrem’’ criteria that the 

NRC established (see NUREG–1757, 

Volume 1, Revision 2). 

As documented in the Safety 

Evaluation Report (SER), the NRC staff 

reviewed scenarios and related input 

parameters considered by WEC and 

USEI and found that they are 

appropriate for the scenarios 

considered. The NRC staff also reviewed 

the projected doses from the postclosure and intruder scenarios at USEI 

and found them acceptable. NRC staff 

did note that the inadvertent intruder 

construction scenario had potential 

doses that were larger than the other 

inadvertent intruder scenarios 

evaluated, but the NRC does not 

consider this scenario to be feasible due 

to the configuration of the disposal cells 

and USEI’s waste disposal practices. 

NRC staff also notes that the proposed 

disposals are also subject to regulation 

under RCRA. 

Based upon its evaluation above and 

its assessment of the potential impacts 

of the proposed action, in addition to 

focusing on the potential radiological 

impacts discussed above, this EA next 

considers potential environmental 

impacts from non-radiological materials. 

With regard to potential nonradiological impacts, the NRC staff 

concludes that approval of the proposed 

request to dispose of material with small 

amounts of radioactive material would 

not have significant environmental 

impacts, including effects on nonradiological effluents, air quality, or 

noise. In addition, approval of the 

proposed action will not significantly 

increase the probability or consequences 

of accidents as well as occupational and 

public radiation exposure because of the 

quantities and forms of material 

involved, as further evaluated in the 

NRC’s SER. 

Therefore, due to the very small 

amounts of radioactive material 

involved, the evaluation above, and the 

NRC staff’s analysis in the SER, the NRC 

staff finds that the environmental 

impacts of the proposed action are not 

significant. 

Environmental Impacts of the 

Alternatives to the Proposed Action 

As an alternative to the proposed 

action, the NRC staff considered the noaction alternative in which the NRC 

staff would deny the disposal request. 

Denial of the request would require 

WEC to find another disposal pathway 

for this material, and would ultimately 

only change the location of the disposal 

site. All other factors would remain the 

same or similar. Therefore, the no-action 

alternative was not further considered. 

NRC staff also notes that pursuing the 

no-action alternative would result in the 

licensee potentially violating the 

SCDHEC requirements to remove the 

material from the East Lagoon so that it 

can be remediated while it identifies 

another disposal option. 

Agencies and Persons Consulted 

In accordance with its stated policy, 

on November 23, 2020, the staff 

consulted with SCDHEC and the Idaho 

Department of Environmental Quality 

regarding the environmental impacts of 

the proposed action. The state officials 

concurred with the EA and FONSI. 

III. Finding of No Significant Impact 

The proposed action consists of NRC 

approval of (a) WEC’s and USEI’s 

alternate disposal requests under 10 

CFR 20.2002, (b) WEC and USEI’s 

exemption requests under 10 CFR 

30.11(a) and 10 CFR 70.11(a), and (c) the 

issuance of a conforming license 

amendment to WEC. Based on this EA, 

the NRC finds that there are no 

significant environmental impacts from 

the proposed action. Therefore, the NRC 

has determined, pursuant to 10 CFR 


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1See Docket No. RM2018–3, Order Adopting 

Final Rules Relating to Non-Public Information, 

June 27, 2018, Attachment A at 19–22 (Order No. 

4679). 

51.31, that preparation of an 

environmental impact statement is not 

required for the proposed action and a 

FONSI is appropriate. 

IV. Availability of Documents 

The documents identified in the 

following table are available to 

interested persons through one or more 

of the following methods, as indicated. 

Document ADAMS 

accession No. 

Request for Alternate Disposal Approval and Exemption for Specific Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility Waste (License No. 

SNM–1197, Docket No. 70–1151), dated May 8, 2020.

ML20129J934 

(Package). 

Request for Exemptions under 10 CFR 30.11 and 10 CFR 70.17 for Alternate Disposal of Wastes from Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility Under 10 CFR 20.2002, dated May 11, 2020.ML20280A601. 

Response to Request for Additional Information—Alternate Disposal Approval and Exemptions for Specific Columbia Fuel 

Fabrication Facility Waste (License No. SNM–1107, Docket No. 70–1151), dated September 22, 2020.

ML20266G551. 

Response to Request for Additional Information—Alternate Disposal Approval and Exemptions for Specific Columbia Fuel 

Fabrication Facility Waste (License No. SNM–1107, Docket No. 70–1151), dated October 13, 2020.

ML20287A545. 

Safety Evaluation Report .................................................................................................................................................................. ML20302A085. 

NUREG–1757, Volume 1, Revision 2, ‘‘Consolidated Decommissioning Guidance’’ ...................................................................... ML063000243. 

Dated: December 3, 2020. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Damaris Marcano, 

Acting Chief, Fuel Facility Licensing Branch, 

Division of Fuel Management, Office of 

Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. 

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BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. CP2020–198; MC2021–39 and 

CP2021–40] 

New Postal Products 

AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commission is noticing a 

recent Postal Service filing for the 

Commission’s consideration concerning 

a negotiated service agreement. This 

notice informs the public of the filing, 

invites public comment, and takes other 

administrative steps. 

DATES: Comments are due: December 

11, 2020. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments 

electronically via the Commission’s 

Filing Online system at http://

www.prc.gov. Those who cannot submit 

comments electronically should contact 

the person identified in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section by 

telephone for advice on filing 

alternatives. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David A. Trissell, General Counsel, at 

202–789–6820. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Contents 

I. Introduction 

II. Docketed Proceeding(s) 

I. Introduction 

The Commission gives notice that the 

Postal Service filed request(s) for the 

Commission to consider matters related 

to negotiated service agreement(s). The 

request(s) may propose the addition or 

removal of a negotiated service 

agreement from the market dominant or 

the competitive product list, or the 

modification of an existing product 

currently appearing on the market 

dominant or the competitive product 

list. 

Section II identifies the docket 

number(s) associated with each Postal 

Service request, the title of each Postal 

Service request, the request’s acceptance 

date, and the authority cited by the 

Postal Service for each request. For each 

request, the Commission appoints an 

officer of the Commission to represent 

the interests of the general public in the 

proceeding, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 505 

(Public Representative). Section II also 

establishes comment deadline(s) 

pertaining to each request. 

The public portions of the Postal 

Service’s request(s) can be accessed via 

the Commission’s website (http://

www.prc.gov). Non-public portions of 

the Postal Service’s request(s), if any, 

can be accessed through compliance 

with the requirements of 39 CFR 

3011.301.1

The Commission invites comments on 

whether the Postal Service’s request(s) 

in the captioned docket(s) are consistent 

with the policies of title 39. For 

request(s) that the Postal Service states 

concern market dominant product(s), 

applicable statutory and regulatory 

requirements include 39 U.S.C. 3622, 39 

U.S.C. 3642, 39 CFR part 3030, and 39 

CFR part 3040, subpart B. For request(s) 

that the Postal Service states concern 

competitive product(s), applicable 

statutory and regulatory requirements 

include 39 U.S.C. 3632, 39 U.S.C. 3633, 

39 U.S.C. 3642, 39 CFR part 3035, and 

39 CFR part 3040, subpart B. Comment 

deadline(s) for each request appear in 

section II. 

II. Docketed Proceeding(s) 

1. CP2020–198; Filing Title: Notice of 

the United States Postal Service of 

Filing Modification One to International 

Priority Airmail, Commercial ePacket, 

Priority Mail Express International, 

Priority Mail International & First-Class 

Package International Service with 

Reseller Contract 5 Negotiated Service 

Agreement; Filing Acceptance Date: 

December 3, 2020; Filing Authority: 39 

CFR 3040.130 through 3040.135, and 39 

CFR 3035.105; Public Representative: 

Gregory S. Stanton; Comments Due: 

December 11, 2020. 

2. Docket No(s).: MC2021–39 and 

CP2021–40; Filing Title: USPS Request 

to Add Priority Mail Contract 682 to 

Competitive Product List and Notice of 

Filing Materials Under Seal; Filing 

Acceptance Date: December 3, 2020; 

Filing Authority: 39 U.S.C. 3642, 39 CFR 

3040.130 through 3040.135, and 39 CFR 

3035.105; Public Representative: 

Kenneth R. Moeller; Comments Due: 

December 11, 2020. 

This Notice will be published in the 

Federal Register. 

Erica A. Barker, 

Secretary. 

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