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assistance in using the internet to locate 

docket submissions. 

V. Authority and Signature 

Loren Sweatt, Principal Deputy 

Assistant Secretary of Labor for 

Occupational Safety and Health, 

directed the preparation of this notice. 

The authority for this notice is the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. 3506 et seq.) and Secretary of 

Labor’s Order No. 5–2007 (72 FR 

31159). 

Signed at Washington, DC, on December 

16, 2020. 

Loren Sweatt, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor 

for Occupational Safety and Health. 

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BILLING CODE 4510–26–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 30–10716; NRC–2020–0214] 

Sigma-Aldrich Company; Fort Mims 

Site 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: License amendment request; 

opportunity to provide comment, 

request a hearing, and petition for leave 

to intervene. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is considering 

issuance of an amendment to NRC 

Materials License No. 24–16273–01, 

issued to Sigma-Aldrich Company (the 

licensee), for possession of byproduct 

material incident to radiological survey, 

storage of waste awaiting disposal, and 

decontamination and remediation of the 

Fort Mims Site. The proposed 

amendment is to revise the 

decommissioning plan and terminate 

the license for the licensee’s Fort Mims 

Site in Maryland Heights, Missouri. 

DATES: Submit comments by January 20, 

2021. Request for a hearing or petition 

for leave to intervene must be filed by 

February 19, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: (unless 

this document describes a different 

method for submitting comments on a 

specific subject); 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–2020–0214. 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. 

• Mail comments to: Office of 

Administration, Mail Stop: TWFN–7– 

A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001, ATTN: Program Management, 

Announcements and Editing 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: 

George Alexander, Office of Nuclear 

Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

814–415–6755; email: 

George.Alexander@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2020– 

0214 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information regarding 

this document. You may obtain publicly 

available information related to this 

action by any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2020–0214. 

• 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. The ADAMS accession number 

for each document referenced in this 

document (if that document is available 

in ADAMS) is provided the first time 

that a document is referenced. The 

license amendment requests to revise 

the decommissioning plan, dated 

August 22, 2019 and supplemented on 

October 19, 2020, and to terminate the 

license, dated April 27, 2020, are 

available in ADAMS under Accession 

Nos. ML19273A163, ML20294A191, 

and ML20120A544, respectively. 

• 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. 

B. Submitting Comments 

The NRC encourages electronic 

comment submission through the 

Federal Rulemaking website (https://

www.regulations.gov). Please include 

Docket ID NRC–2020–0214 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. Introduction 

The NRC received, by letters dated 

August 22, 2019, as supplemented on 

October 19, 2020, and April 27, 2020, an 

application to amend Sigma-Aldrich’s 

decommissioning plan and terminate 

NRC Materials License No. 24–16273– 

01, respectively. In its revised 

decommissioning plan (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML19273A160), the 

licensee requests the option to perform 

direct dose assessment of residual 

radioactivity, in addition to using 

derived concentration guideline levels 

(DCGLs), to demonstrate compliance 

with the license termination criteria in 

section 20.1402 of title 10 of the Code 

of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), at the 

Fort Mims Site in Maryland Heights, 

Missouri. Under Sigma-Aldrich’s 

license, the licensee shall conduct its 

decommissioning program in 

accordance with its decommissioning 

plan. This decommissioning plan, dated 

October 22, 2008 (ADAMS Accession 

No. ML083010187), states that the 

licensee will rely on the screening 

values in Appendix H of NUREG–1757, 

Volume 2, Revision 1 (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML063000252) to 

demonstrate that the Fort Mims Site 

meets the release criteria for 

unrestricted use specified in 10 CFR 

20.1402. By letter dated May 12, 2009 

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(ADAMS Accession No. ML091330309), 

the NRC approved Sigma-Aldrich’s 

decommissioning plan, which does not 

include the use of a dose assessment 

approach to demonstrate compliance. 

The licensee’s commitments in its 

current decommissioning plan include 

remediating all residual activity to 

levels below approved screening values. 

The NRC guidance in NUREG–1757, 

Volume 2, Revision 1 allows for the use 

of either the DCGL or dose assessment 

approach to demonstrate compliance 

with 10 CFR 20 1402. NRC staff is 

reviewing the license amendment 

requests to revise the decommissioning 

plan and terminate the license 

concurrently because, if the staff 

approves the revised decommissioning 

plan and determines that the site meets 

the radiological criteria for unrestricted 

use under 10 CFR 20.1402, the license 

can be terminated without additional 

site characterization or soil remediation. 

The NRC staff found the application 

for the license amendment acceptable 

for a technical review (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML20213C693). Prior to 

approving the licensee’s requested 

actions to amend the decommissioning 

plan and terminate Materials License 

No. 24–16273–01, the NRC will need to 

make the safety and environmental 

findings required by the Atomic Energy 

Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and 

the NRC’s regulations. The NRC’s 

findings will be documented in a safety 

evaluation report and an environmental 

assessment. The environmental 

assessment will be the subject of a 

subsequent notice in the Federal 

Register. 

III. Opportunity To Request a Hearing 

and Petition for Leave To Intervene 

Within 60 days after the date of 

publication of this notice, any persons 

(petitioner) whose interest may be 

affected by this action may file a request 

for a hearing and petition for leave to 

intervene (petition) with respect to the 

action. Petitions shall be filed in 

accordance with the Commission’s 

‘‘Agency Rules of Practice and 

Procedure’’ in 10 CFR part 2. Interested 

persons should consult a current copy 

of 10 CFR 2.309. The NRC’s regulations 

are accessible electronically from the 

NRC Library on the NRC’s website at 

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/cfr/. If a petition is filed, the 

Commission or a presiding officer will 

rule on the petition and, if appropriate, 

a notice of a hearing will be issued. 

As required by 10 CFR 2.309(d) the 

petition should specifically explain the 

reasons why intervention should be 

permitted with particular reference to 

the following general requirements for 

standing: (1) The name, address, and 

telephone number of the petitioner; (2) 

the nature of the petitioner’s right to be 

made a party to the proceeding; (3) the 

nature and extent of the petitioner’s 

property, financial, or other interest in 

the proceeding; and (4) the possible 

effect of any decision or order which 

may be entered in the proceeding on the 

petitioner’s interest. 

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.309(f), 

the petition must also set forth the 

specific contentions which the 

petitioner seeks to have litigated in the 

proceeding. Each contention must 

consist of a specific statement of the 

issue of law or fact to be raised or 

controverted. In addition, the petitioner 

must provide a brief explanation of the 

bases for the contention and a concise 

statement of the alleged facts or expert 

opinion which support the contention 

and on which the petitioner intends to 

rely in proving the contention at the 

hearing. The petitioner must also 

provide references to the specific 

sources and documents on which the 

petitioner intends to rely to support its 

position on the issue. The petition must 

include sufficient information to show 

that a genuine dispute exists with the 

applicant or licensee on a material issue 

of law or fact. Contentions must be 

limited to matters within the scope of 

the proceeding. The contention must be 

one which, if proven, would entitle the 

petitioner to relief. A petitioner who 

fails to satisfy the requirements at 10 

CFR 2.309(f) with respect to at least one 

contention will not be permitted to 

participate as a party. 

Those permitted to intervene become 

parties to the proceeding, subject to any 

limitations in the order granting leave to 

intervene. Parties have the opportunity 

to participate fully in the conduct of the 

hearing with respect to resolution of 

that party’s admitted contentions, 

including the opportunity to present 

evidence, consistent with the NRC’s 

regulations, policies, and procedures. 

Petitions must be filed no later than 

60 days from the date of publication of 

this notice. Petitions and motions for 

leave to file new or amended 

contentions that are filed after the 

deadline will not be entertained absent 

a determination by the presiding officer 

that the filing demonstrates good cause 

by satisfying the three factors in 10 CFR 

2.309(c)(1)(i) through (iii). The petition 

must be filed in accordance with the 

filing instructions in the ‘‘Electronic 

Submissions (E-Filing)’’ section of this 

document. 

A State, local governmental body, 

Federally recognized Indian Tribe, or 

agency thereof, may submit a petition to 

the Commission to participate as a party 

under 10 CFR 2.309(h)(1). The petition 

should state the nature and extent of the 

petitioner’s interest in the proceeding. 

The petition should be submitted to the 

Commission no later than 60 days from 

the date of publication of this notice. 

The petition must be filed in accordance 

with the filing instructions in the 

‘‘Electronic Submissions (E-Filing)’’ 

section of this document, and should 

meet the requirements for petitions set 

forth in this section. Alternatively, a 

State, local governmental body, 

Federally recognized Indian Tribe, or 

agency thereof may participate as a nonparty under 10 CFR 2.315(c). 

If a petition is submitted, any person 

who is not a party to the proceeding and 

is not affiliated with or represented by 

a party may, at the discretion of the 

presiding officer, be permitted to make 

a limited appearance pursuant to the 

provisions of 10 CFR 2.315(a). A person 

making a limited appearance may make 

an oral or written statement of his or her 

position on the issues but may not 

otherwise participate in the proceeding. 

A limited appearance may be made at 

any session of the hearing or at any 

prehearing conference, subject to the 

limits and conditions as may be 

imposed by the presiding officer. Details 

regarding the opportunity to make a 

limited appearance will be provided by 

the presiding officer if such sessions are 

scheduled. 

IV. Electronic Submissions (E-Filing) 

All documents filed in NRC 

adjudicatory proceedings, including a 

request for hearing and petition for 

leave to intervene (petition), any motion 

or other document filed in the 

proceeding prior to the submission of a 

request for hearing or petition to 

intervene, and documents filed by 

interested governmental entities that 

request to participate under 10 CFR 

2.315(c), must be filed in accordance 

with the NRC’s E-Filing rule (72 FR 

49139; August 28, 2007, as amended at 

77 FR 46562; August 3, 2012). The EFiling process requires participants to 

submit and serve all adjudicatory 

documents over the internet, or in some 

cases to mail copies on electronic 

storage media. Detailed guidance on 

making electronic submissions may be 

found in the Guidance for Electronic 

Submissions to the NRC and on the NRC 

website at https://www.nrc.gov/sitehelp/e-submittals.html. Participants 

may not submit paper copies of their 

filings unless they seek an exemption in 

accordance with the procedures 

described below. 

To comply with the procedural 

requirements of E-Filing, at least 10 

days prior to the filing deadline, the 

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participant should contact the Office of 

the Secretary by email at 

hearing.docket@nrc.gov, 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. 

Information about applying for a 

digital ID certificate is available on the 

NRC’s public website at https://

www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals/ 

getting-started.html. Once a participant 

has obtained a digital ID certificate and 

a docket has been created, the 

participant can then submit 

adjudicatory documents. Submissions 

must be in Portable Document Format 

(PDF). Additional guidance on PDF 

submissions is available on the NRC’s 

public website at https://www.nrc.gov/ 

site-help/electronic-sub-ref-mat.html. A 

filing is considered complete at the time 

the document is submitted through the 

NRC’s E-Filing system. To be timely, an 

electronic filing must be submitted to 

the E-Filing system no later than 11:59 

p.m. Eastern Time on the due date. 

Upon receipt of a transmission, the EFiling system time-stamps the document 

and sends the submitter an email notice 

confirming receipt of the document. The 

E-Filing system also distributes an email 

notice that provides access to the 

document to the NRC’s Office of the 

General Counsel and any others who 

have advised the Office of the Secretary 

that they wish to participate in the 

proceeding, so that the filer need not 

serve the document on those 

participants separately. Therefore, 

applicants and other participants (or 

their counsel or representative) must 

apply for and receive a digital ID 

certificate before adjudicatory 

documents are filed so that they can 

obtain access to the documents via the 

E-Filing system. 

A person filing electronically using 

the NRC’s adjudicatory E-Filing system 

may seek assistance by contacting the 

NRC’s Electronic Filing Help Desk 

through the ‘‘Contact Us’’ link located 

on the NRC’s public website at https:// 

www.nrc.gov/site-help/esubmittals.html, by email to 

MSHD.Resource@nrc.gov, or by a tollfree call at 1–866–672–7640. The NRC 

Electronic Filing Help Desk is available 

between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., Eastern 

Time, Monday through Friday, 

excluding government holidays. 

Participants who believe that they 

have a good cause for not submitting 

documents electronically must file an 

exemption request, in accordance with 

10 CFR 2.302(g), with their initial paper 

filing stating why there is good cause for 

not filing electronically and requesting 

authorization to continue to submit 

documents in paper format. Such filings 

must be submitted by: (1) First class 

mail addressed to the Office of the 

Secretary of the Commission, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, Attention: 

Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff; or 

(2) courier, express mail, or expedited 

delivery service to the Office of the 

Secretary, 11555 Rockville Pike, 

Rockville, Maryland 20852, Attention: 

Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff. 

Participants filing adjudicatory 

documents in this manner are 

responsible for serving the document on 

all other participants. Filing is 

considered complete by first-class mail 

as of the time of deposit in the mail, or 

by courier, express mail, or expedited 

delivery service upon depositing the 

document with the provider of the 

service. A presiding officer, having 

granted an exemption request from 

using E-Filing, may require a participant 

or party to use E-Filing if the presiding 

officer subsequently determines that the 

reason for granting the exemption from 

use of E-Filing no longer exists. 

Documents submitted in adjudicatory 

proceedings will appear in the NRC’s 

electronic hearing docket which is 

available to the public at https://

adams.nrc.gov/ehd, unless excluded 

pursuant to an order of the Commission 

or the presiding officer. If you do not 

have an NRC-issued digital ID certificate 

as described above, click ‘‘cancel’’ when 

the link requests certificates and you 

will be automatically directed to the 

NRC’s electronic hearing dockets where 

you will be able to access any publicly 

available documents in a particular 

hearing docket. Participants are 

requested not to include personal 

privacy information, such as social 

security numbers, home addresses, or 

personal phone numbers in their filings, 

unless an NRC regulation or other law 

requires submission of such 

information. For example, in some 

instances, individuals provide home 

addresses in order to demonstrate 

proximity to a facility or site. With 

respect to copyrighted works, except for 

limited excerpts that serve the purpose 

of the adjudicatory filings and would 

constitute a Fair Use application, 

participants are requested not to include 

copyrighted materials in their 

submission. 

For further details with respect to this 

action, see the application for license 

amendment to revise the 

decommissioning plan, dated August 

22, 2019 and supplemented on October 

19, 2020, and to terminate the license, 

dated April 27, 2020. 

Attorney for licensee: Leigh Davidson, 

Corporate Counsel, Milliporesigma 

(Sigma Aldrich MFG), 3050 Spruce 

Street, St. Louis, MO 63103. 

NRC Branch Chief: Bill Von Till. 

Dated: December 16, 2020. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Randolph W. Von Till, 

Chief, Uranium Recovery and Materials 

Decommissioning Branch, Division of 

Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery and 

Waste Programs, Office of Nuclear Material 

Safety and Safeguards. 

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BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2020–0001] 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

TIME AND DATE: Weeks of December 14, 

21, 28, 2020, January 4, 11, 18, 25, 2021. 

PLACE: Commissioners’ Conference 

Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland. 

STATUS: Public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

Week of December 14, 2020 

Thursday, December 17, 2020 

2:30 p.m. Affirmation Session (Public 

Meeting) (Tentative) 

a. Interim Storage Partners, LLC (WCS 

Consolidated Interim Storage 

Facility), Appeals of LBP–19–7: 

Fasken Proposed New Contention 

Based on Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement (Tentative) 

(Contact: Denise McGovern: 301–415– 

0681) 

Additional Information: Due to 

COVID–19, there will be no physical 

public attendance. The public is invited 

to attend the Commission’s meeting live 

via teleconference. Details for joining 

the teleconference in listen only mode 

can be found at https://www.nrc.gov/ 

pmns/mtg. 

b. Interim Storage Partners, LLC (WCS 

Consolidated Interim Storage 

Facility), Sierra Club Appeal of 

LBP–19–9 (Denying Motion to