75704 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 233 / Monday, December 6, 2010 / Notices 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. 50–275–LR; 50–323–LR] 

Pacific Gas and Electric Company 

(Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, 

Units 1 And 2); Notice of Appointment 

of Adjudicatory Employee 

Commissioners: Gregory B. Jaczko, Chairman; 

Kristine L. Svinicki; George Apostolakis; 

William D. Magwood, IV; William C. 

Ostendorff 

Pursuant to 10 CFR 2.4, notice is 

hereby given that Dr. Tianqing Cao, 

Senior Seismologist, Office of Nuclear 

Material Safety and Safeguards, has 

been appointed as a Commission 

adjudicatory employee within the 

meaning of section 2.4, to advise the 

Commission regarding issues relating to 

pending appeals filed by the applicant 

and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

staff in this case, as well as a waiver 

request filed by the petitioner pursuant 

to 10 CFR 2.335(b). Dr. Cao has not 

previously performed any investigative 

or litigating function in connection with 

this proceeding. Until such time as a 

final decision is issued in this matter, 

interested persons outside the agency 

and agency employees performing 

investigative or litigating functions in 

this proceeding are required to observe 

the restrictions of 10 CFR 2.347 and 

2.348 in their communications with Dr. 

Cao. 

It is so ordered. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day 

of November, 2010. 

Annette L. Vietti-Cook, 

Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2010–30480 Filed 12–3–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 30–36974; NRC–2010–0374] 

Notice of Availability of Draft 

Supplement to the Environmental 

Assessment for the Proposed Pa’ina 

Hawaii, LLC Irradiator in Honolulu, HI 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing and 

publishing for public comment a Draft 

Supplement to the Environmental 

Assessment (EA) for the irradiator 

proposed by Pa’ina Hawaii, LLC 

(Pa’ina). On June 23, 2005, Pa’ina 

submitted an application to NRC 

requesting a license to possess and use 

byproduct material in connection with a 

proposed underwater irradiator. NRC 

completed the Final EA and Finding of 

No Significant Impact (FONSI) for this 

action on August 10, 2007, and 

subsequently issued a license to Pa’ina 

on August 17, 2007. The license 

authorizes Pa’ina to possess and use 

byproduct material (sealed sources) in a 

commercial underwater irradiator to be 

located adjacent to Honolulu 

International Airport on Palekona Street 

near Lagoon Drive. NRC is issuing this 

Draft Supplement to the EA in response 

to a decision of the Atomic Safety and 

Licensing Board (Board) from the NRC’s 

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 

Panel (ASLBP). As directed by the 

Board, this Draft Supplement addresses 

the following three areas: (1) 

Environmental impacts of accidents that 

might occur during the transport of 

cobalt-60 sources to and from Pa’ina’s 

irradiator, (2) electron-beam technology 

as an alternative to cobalt-60 irradiation, 

and (3) alternative sites for Pa’ina’s 

irradiator. 

DATES: The public comment period on 

the Draft Supplement begins on the date 

of publication of this notice and ends on 

January 6, 2011. Written comments 

should be submitted as described in the 

ADDRESSES section of this notice. 

Comments submitted by mail should be 

postmarked by January 6, 2011, to 

ensure consideration. Comments 

received or postmarked after January 6, 

2011 will be considered to the extent 

practical, but the Commission is able to 

assure consideration only for comments 

received on or before this date. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any one of the following methods. 

Please include the Docket ID NRC– 

2010–0374 in the subject line of your 

comments. Because your comments will 

not be edited to remove any identifying 

or contact information, the NRC 

cautions you against including any 

information in your submission that you 

do not want to be publicly disclosed. 

The NRC requests that any party 

soliciting or aggregating comments 

received from other persons for 

submission to the NRC inform those 

persons that the NRC will not edit their 

comments to remove any identifying or 

contact information, and therefore, they 

should not include any information in 

their comments that they do not want 

publicly disclosed. 

Electronic Mail: Comments may be 

sent by electronic mail to the following 

address: PainaEA@nrc.gov. 

Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for documents filed under Docket ID 

NRC–2010–0374. Comments may be 

submitted electronically through this 

Web site. Address questions about NRC 

dockets to Carol Gallagher, 301–492– 

3668, e-mail Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. 

Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, 

Chief, Rules, Announcements, and 

Directives Branch (RADB), Division of 

Administrative Services, Office of 

Administration, Mail Stop: TWB5– 

B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001, or by fax to RADB at 301–492– 

3446. 

Comments submitted in writing or in 

electronic form will be posted on the 

NRC Web site and on the Federal 

rulemaking Web site http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Johari Moore, Project Manager, 

Environmental Review Branch A, 

Division of Waste Management and 

Environmental Protection, Office of 

Federal and State Materials and 

Environmental Management Programs, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Rockville, Maryland 20852. Telephone: 

301–415–7694; fax number: 301–415– 

5369; e-mail: Johari.Moore@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

By letter dated August 17, 2007, the 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

(NRC) issued Materials License No. 53– 

29296–01 to Pa’ina authorizing 

possession and use of byproduct 

material (sealed sources) in a 

commercial underwater irradiator to be 

located immediately adjacent to 

Honolulu International Airport on 

Palekona Street near Lagoon Drive. Also 

on August 17, 2007, NRC published a 

Notice of Availability in the Federal 

Register for the EA and FONSI prepared 

in support of this licensing action (72 

FRN 46249). On September 4, 2007, 

Concerned Citizens of Honolulu filed 

contentions challenging the NRC staff’s 

analysis in the Final EA. In an August 

27, 2009 decision, the Board found that 

the staff needed to supplement the 

Pa’ina EA in order to address (1) 

environmental impacts of accidents that 

might occur during the transport of 

cobalt-60 sources to and from Pa’ina’s 

irradiator, (2) electron-beam technology 

as an alternative to cobalt-60 irradiation, 

and (3) alternative sites for Pa’ina’s 

irradiator. The Board’s findings on these 

issues were affirmed in a July 8, 2010 

decision by the NRC’s Commission. In 

the Draft Supplement issued today, the 

NRC staff addresses each of the issues 

identified by the Board. 


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