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balancing of the factors specified in 10 

CFR 2.309(c)(1)(i)–(viii). 

For further details with respect to this 

license amendment application, see the 

application for amendment dated [date], 

which is available for public inspection 

at the Commission’s PDR, located at 

One White Flint North, File Public Area 

O1 F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first 

floor), Rockville, Maryland. Publicly 

available records will be accessible 

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documents located in ADAMS, should 

contact the NRC PDR Reference staff by 

telephone at 1–800–397–4209, 301– 

415–4737, or by e-mail to 

pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 

Attorney for licensee: David W. 

Jenkins, Attorney, FirstEnergy 

Corporation, Mail Stop A–GO–15, 76 

South Main Street, Akron, OH 44308. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 16th day 

of February 2010. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Michael Mahoney, 

Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch III– 

2, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, 

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

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[Docket No. 030–36492; NRC–2010–0057] 

Notice of Environmental Assessment 

Related to the Issuance of a License 

Amendment to Byproduct Material 

License No. 12–32489–01, for the 

Unrestricted Release of a Former 

Facility for Department of the Army, 

Great Lakes, IL 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Issuance of Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact for license 

amendment. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Katie Streit, Health Physicist, Materials 

Control, ISFSI, and Decommissioning 

Branch, Division of Nuclear Materials 

Safety, Region III, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, 2443 

Warrenville Road, Lisle, Illinois 60532; 

Telephone: (630) 829–9621; fax number: 

(630) 515–1259; or by e-mail at 

Katherine.Streit@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is considering the 

issuance of an amendment to terminate 

NRC Byproduct Materials License No. 

12–32489–01, which is held by 

Department of the Army, (the licensee) 

U.S. Army Dental Research Detachment. 

The issuance of the amendment would 

approve the licensee’s September 29, 

2009, request (ML092730395) to release 

for unrestricted use its building located 

at 310B, B Street, Building 1–H, Great 

Lakes, Illinois (the Facility). 

The NRC has prepared an 

Environmental Assessment (EA) in 

support of this proposed action in 

accordance with the requirements of 

Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations 

(CFR), Part 51 (10 CFR 51). Based on the 

EA, the NRC has concluded that a 

Finding of No Significant Impact 

(FONSI) is appropriate with respect to 

the proposed action. The amendment 

will be issued to the licensee following 

the publication of this FONSI and EA in 

the Federal Register. 

II. Environmental Assessment 

Identification of Proposed Action 

The proposed action would approve 

the licensee’s September 29, 2009, 

license amendment request, resulting in 

the release of the Facility for 

unrestricted use consistent with the 

provisions of 10 CFR Part 20, Subpart E. 

The licensee was issued License No. 12– 

32489–01 on April 9, 2004, pursuant to 

10 CFR Part 30 and was amended once 

on November 7, 2005. The Facility is a 

400 square foot research laboratory 

located in the basement. The license 

authorized the use of unsealed 

Hydrogen-3 and Carbon-14 for use 

during in-vitro research labeling 

activities. However, through review of 

license file documents, inspection 

reports, and the amendment request, it 

was confirmed that Hydrogen-3 was the 

only licensed material used in the 

facility. 

The licensee permanently ceased 

licensed activities at the Facility in 

September 2009 and initiated a final 

status survey of the facility. The 

licensee was not required to submit a 

decommissioning plan to NRC because 

worker cleanup activities and surveys 

are consistent with those approved for 

routine operations. The licensee 

submitted a Historical Site Assessment 

and Final Status survey dated 

September 29, 2009 (ML092730395) to 

the NRC which demonstrated that the 

Facility meets the criteria in Subpart E 

of 10 CFR Part 20 for unrestricted use. 


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Need for the Proposed Action 

The licensee has ceased conducting 

license activities at the Facility, and 

seeks the unrestricted use of the 

Facility. 

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed 

Actions 

The licensee’s historical review of 

past research activities determined that 

Hydrogen-3 was the only radionuclide 

used in the Facility. The final status 

survey of the Facility was performed 

during September 2009. The final status 

survey results were attached to the 

Licensee’s amendment request dated 

September 29, 2009 (ML092730395). 

The NRC evaluated the licensee’s 

compliance with the radiological 

criteria for unrestricted use as specified 

in 10 CFR 20.1402 by using the 

screening approach described in 

NUREG–1757, ‘‘Consolidated 

Decommissioning Guidance,’’ Volume 1. 

The NRC NUREG specifies 

radionuclide-specific Derived 

Concentration Guideline Levels 

(DCGLs), developed by the NRC, which 

comply with the dose criterion in 10 

CFR 20.1402. The DCGLs define the 

maximum amount of residual 

radioactivity on surfaces that will satisfy 

the NRC requirements in Subpart E of 

10 CFR Part 20 for unrestricted use. The 

Licensee’s final status survey results 

were well below these DCGLs and are in 

compliance with the As Low as 

Reasonably Achievable (ALARA) 

requirement of 10 CFR 20.1402. The 

NRC thus finds that the Licensee’s final 

status survey results are acceptable. 

Based on its review, the staff has 

determined that the affected 

environment and any environmental 

impacts associated with the proposed 

action are bounded by the impacts 

evaluated by the ‘‘Generic 

Environmental Impact Statement in 

Support of Rulemaking on Radiological 

Criteria for License Termination of NRCLicensed Nuclear Facilities’’ (NUREG– 

1496) Volumes 1–3 (ML042310492, 

ML042320379, and ML042330385). The 

staff finds there were no significant 

environmental impacts from the use of 

radioactive material at the Facility. 

The NRC staff reviewed the docket 

file records and the final status survey 

report to identify any non-radiological 

hazards that may have impacted the 

environment surrounding the Facility. 

No such hazards or impacts to the 

environment were identified. The NRC 

has identified no other radiological or 

non-radiological activities in the area 

that could result in cumulative 

environmental impacts. 

The NRC staff finds that the proposed 

release of the Facility for unrestricted 

use is in compliance with 10 CFR 

20.1402. Based on its review, the staff 

considered the impact of the residual 

radioactivity at the Facility and 

concluded that the proposed action will 

not have a significant effect on the 

quality of the environment. 

Environmental Impacts of the 

Alternatives to the Proposed Action 

Due to the largely administrative 

nature of the proposed action, its 

environmental impacts are small. 

Therefore, the only alternative the staff 

considered is the no-action alternative, 

under which the staff would leave 

things as they are by simply denying the 

amendment request. This no-action 

alternative is not feasible because it 

conflicts with 10 CFR 30.36(d) requiring 

that decommissioning of byproduct 

material facilities be completed and 

approved by the NRC after licensed 

activities cease. The NRC’s analysis of 

the licensee’s final status survey data 

confirmed that the Facility meets the 

requirements of 10 CFR 20.1402 for 

unrestricted use. Additionally, denying 

the amendment request would result in 

no change in current environmental 

impacts. The environmental impacts of 

the proposed action and the no-action 

alternative are therefore similar, and the 

no-action alternative is accordingly not 

further considered. 

Agencies and Persons Consulted 

NRC provided a draft of this 

Environmental Assessment to the 

Illinois Emergency Management Agency 

(IEMA) for review on December 28, 

2009. IEMA had no comments or 

questions. 

Conclusion 

The NRC staff has concluded that the 

proposed action is consistent with the 

NRC’s unrestricted use criteria specified 

in 10 CFR 20.1402. Because the 

proposed action will not significantly 

impact the quality of the human 

environment, the NRC staff concludes 

that the proposed action is the preferred 

alternative. 

III. Finding of No Significant Impact 

The NRC staff has prepared this EA in 

support of the proposed action. On the 

basis of this EA, the NRC finds that 

there are no significant environmental 

impacts from the proposed action, and 

that preparation of an environmental 

impact statement is not warranted. 

Accordingly, the NRC has determined 

that a Finding of No Significant Impact 

is appropriate. 

IV. Further Information 

Documents related to this action, 

including the application for license 

amendment and supporting 

documentation, are available 

electronically at the NRC’s Electronic 

Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/ 

reading-rm/adams.html. From this site, 

you can access the NRC’s image files of 

NRC’s public documents. If you do not 

have access to ADAMS, or if there are 

problems in accessing the documents 

located in ADAMS, contact the NRC 

Public Document Room (PDR) Reference 

staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, 

or by e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 

The documents related to this action are 

listed below, along with their ADAMS 

accession numbers. 

1. Department of the Army License 

Termination Request dated September 

29, 2009 (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML092730395). 

2. Title 10 Code of Federal 

Regulations, Part 20, Subpart E, 

‘‘Radiological Criteria for License 

Termination.’’ 

3. Title 10 Code of Federal 

Regulations, Part 51, ‘‘Environmental 

Protection Regulations for Domestic 

licensing and Related Regulatory 

Function.’’ 

3. NUREG–1757, Consolidated 

Decommissioning Guidance. 

These documents may also be viewed 

electronically on the public computers 

located at the NRC’s PDR, O1F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. The PDR 

reproduction contractor will copy 

documents for a fee. 

Dated at Lisle, Illinois, this 11th day of 

February 2010. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Christine A. Lipa, 

Chief, Materials Control, ISFSI, and 

Decommissioning Branch, Division of Nuclear 

Materials Safety, Region III. 

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Advisory Committee on Reactor 

Safeguards (ACRS) Meeting of the 

Subcommittee on Advanced Boiling 

Water Reactor (ABWR) 

The ACRS Subcommittee on ABWR 

will hold a meeting on March 2, 2010, 

at 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland, Room T2 B3. 

The meeting will be open to public 

attendance, with the exception of a 

portion that may be closed to protect 

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