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2. Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: Go to 

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for documents filed under Docket ID 

[NRC–2009–0345]. Address questions 

about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher, 

301–492–3668; e-mail 

Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. 

3. Fax comments to: Rulemaking and 

Directives Branch, Office of 

Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission at (301) 492–3446. 

Requests for technical information 

about DG–5034 may be directed to the 

NRC contact, Robert Norman at (301) 

415–2278 or e-mail to 

Robert.Norman@nrc.gov. 

Comments would be most helpful if 

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received after that date will be 

considered if it is practical to do so, but 

the NRC is able to ensure consideration 

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this date. Although a time limit is given, 

comments and suggestions in 

connection with items for inclusion in 

guides currently being developed or 

improvements in all published guides 

are encouraged at any time. 

Electronic copies of DG–5034 are 

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Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 30th day 

of July, 2009. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

John N. Ridgely, 

Acting Chief, Regulatory Guide Development 

Branch, Division of Engineering, Office of 

Nuclear Regulatory Research. 

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[NRC–2009–0343; Docket No. 030–01239] 

Notice of Availability of Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact for License 

Amendment to Byproduct Materials 

License No. 06–00253–04 for 

Amendment of the License and 

Unrestricted Release of the Hartford 

Hospital’s Research Facilities in 

Hartford, CT 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Issuance of Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact for License 

Amendment. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Penny Lanzisera, Senior Health 

Physicist, Medical Branch, Division of 

Nuclear Materials Safety, Region I, 475 

Allendale Road, King of Prussia, 

Pennsylvania 19406; telephone (610) 

337–5169; fax number (610) 337–5269; 

or by e-mail: penny.lanzisera@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is considering the 

issuance of a license amendment to 

Byproduct Materials License No. 06– 

00253–04. This license is held by 

Hartford Hospital (the Licensee), for, in 

part, Surgical Research on the second 

floor of the Crane-East Building, 

Medical Research on the third floor of 

the Crane-East Building, Animal Care 

and Research on the fourth floor of the 

Crane-East Building, Immunochemistry 

Research on the third floor of the Bliss 

Wing, and Special Hematology Research 

on the third floor of the High Building 

(the Facility), located at 80 Seymour 

Street in Hartford, Connecticut. Issuance 

of the amendment would authorize 

release of the Facility for unrestricted 

use. The Licensee requested this action 

in a letter dated March 28, 2008. 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 Part 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 March 28, 2008 license 

amendment request, resulting in release 

of the Facility for unrestricted use. 

License No. 06–00253–04 was issued on 

October 11, 1956, pursuant to 10 CFR 

Part 30, and has been amended 

periodically since that time. This 

license authorized the Licensee to use, 

in part, unsealed byproduct material for 

purposes of conducting research and 

development activities on laboratory 

bench tops and in hoods. 

The Facility consists of office space 

and laboratories located in three 

buildings. The Facility is located in a 

commercial area. Within the Facility, 

use of licensed materials was confined 

to 13,350 square feet in the Crane—East 

Building, 2,400 square feet in the Bliss 

Wing, and 210 square feet in the High 

Building. 

In July 2002, the Licensee ceased 

licensed activities and initiated a survey 

and decontamination of the Facility. 

Based on the Licensee’s historical 

knowledge of the site and the conditions 

of the Facility, the Licensee determined 

that only routine decontamination 

activities, in accordance with their NRCapproved, operating radiation safety 

procedures, were required. The Licensee 

was not required to submit a 

decommissioning plan to the NRC 

because worker cleanup activities and 

procedures are consistent with those 

approved for routine operations. The 

Licensee conducted surveys of the 

Facility and provided information to the 

NRC to demonstrate that it meets the 

criteria in Subpart E of 10 CFR Part 20 

for unrestricted release. 

Need for the Proposed Action 

The Licensee has ceased conducting 

licensed activities at the Facility, and 

seeks the unrestricted use of its Facility. 


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Environmental Impacts of the Proposed 

Action 

The historical review of licensed 

activities conducted at the Facility 

shows that such activities involved use 

of the following radionuclides with halflives greater than 120 days: Hydrogen3 and carbon-14. Prior to performing the 

final status survey, the Licensee 

conducted decontamination activities, 

as necessary, in the areas of the Facility 

affected by these radionuclides. 

The Licensee conducted a final status 

survey on March 26, 2000, with followup surveys conducted on April 9, 2009. 

This survey covered all laboratories, 

counting rooms, offices, and animal 

facilities located in the three research 

buildings. The final status survey report 

was attached to the Licensee’s 

amendment request dated March 28, 

2008, with follow-up surveys provided 

on April 14, 2009. The Licensee elected 

to demonstrate compliance with the 

radiological criteria for unrestricted 

release as specified in 10 CFR 20.1402 

by using the screening approach 

described in NUREG–1757, 

‘‘Consolidated NMSS Decommissioning 

Guidance,’’ Volume 2. The Licensee 

used the radionuclide-specific derived 

concentration guideline levels (DCGLs), 

developed there by the NRC, which 

comply with the dose criterion in 10 

CFR 20.1402. These DCGLs define the 

maximum amount of residual 

radioactivity on building surfaces, 

equipment, and materials, and in soils, 

that will satisfy the NRC requirements 

in Subpart E of 10 CFR Part 20 for 

unrestricted release. The Licensee’s 

final status survey results were 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 

NRC–Licensed 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 human 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 release. 

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. 

Conclusion 

The NRC staff has concluded that the 

proposed action is consistent with the 

NRC’s unrestricted release 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. 

Agencies and Persons Consulted 

NRC provided a draft of this 

Environmental Assessment to the 

Connecticut Department of 

Environmental Protection for review on 

June 8, 2009. On July 14, 2009, the 

Connecticut Department of 

Environmental Protection responded by 

e-mail. The State agreed with the 

conclusions of the EA, and otherwise 

had no comments. 

The NRC staff has determined that the 

proposed action is of a procedural 

nature, and will not affect listed species 

or critical habitat. Therefore, no further 

consultation is required under Section 7 

of the Endangered Species Act. The 

NRC staff has also determined that the 

proposed action is not the type of 

activity that has the potential to cause 

effects on historic properties. Therefore, 

no further consultation is required 

under Section 106 of the National 

Historic Preservation Act. 

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 Agencywide 

Documents Access and Management 

System (ADAMS), which provides text 

and image files of NRC’s public 

documents. The documents related to 

this action are listed below, along with 

their ADAMS accession numbers. 

1. Letter dated March 28, 2008 

requesting amendment (ML081050466). 

2. Letter dated April 7, 2009 

providing additional information 

(ML090980511). 

3. Swipe Survey Analysis information 

dated April 9, 2009 (ML091110096). 

4. Letter dated May 28, 2009 

providing additional information 

(ML091490256). 

5. NUREG–1757, ‘‘Consolidated 

NMSS Decommissioning Guidance;’’ 

6. Title 10 Code of Federal 

Regulations, Part 20, Subpart E, 

‘‘Radiological Criteria for License 

Termination;’’ 

7. Title 10, Code of Federal 

Regulations, Part 51, ‘‘Environmental 

Protection Regulations for Domestic 

Licensing and Related Regulatory 

Functions;’’ and 

8. NUREG–1496, ‘‘Generic 

Environmental Impact Statement in 

Support of Rulemaking on Radiological 

Criteria for License Termination of 

NRC–Licensed Nuclear Facilities.’’ 

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) 


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Reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301– 

415–4737, or by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov. 

These documents may also be viewed 

electronically on the public computers 

located at the NRC’s PDR, O 1 F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. The PDR 

reproduction contractor will copy 

documents for a fee. 

Dated at Region I, 475 Allendale Road, 

King of Prussia, PA this 28th day of July 

2009. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

James P. Dwyer, 

Chief, Commercial and R&D Branch, Division 

of Nuclear Materials Safety, Region I. 

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[NRC–2008–0639; Docket Nos. 030–05224 

and 040–08478] 

Notice of Availability of Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact for License 

Amendments to Byproduct Materials 

License No. 29–00170–03 and Source 

Materials License No. SMB–1260, 

Incorporating the Decommissioning 

Plan for Bell Laboratories Murray Hill 

Facility in Murray Hill, NJ 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Issuance of Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact for License 

Amendment. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Steve Hammann, Health Physicist, 

Commercial and R&D Branch, Division 

of Nuclear Materials Safety, Region I, 

475 Allendale Road, King of Prussia, 

Pennsylvania; telephone 610–337–5399; 

fax number 610–337–5269; or by e-mail: 

stephen.hammann@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is considering the 

issuance of license amendments to 

Byproduct Materials License No. 29– 

00170–03 and Source Materials License 

No. SMB–1260. The licenses are held by 

Bell Laboratories (the Licensee), for its 

Murray Hill Facility, located at 600 

Mountain Avenue in Murray Hill, New 

Jersey (the Facility). Issuance of the 

amendments would incorporate the 

Decommissioning Plan (DP) into the 

licenses to allow completion of 

decommissioning activities at the site 

and subsequent release of the Facility, 

except one room in the Radiation Lab, 

for unrestricted use and the termination 

of its NRC materials licenses. The room 

which is not being released is covered 

by NRC License No. 29–00170–08. The 

NRC has evaluated and approved the 

Licensee’s DP. The findings of this 

evaluation are documented in a Safety 

Evaluation Report which will be issued 

along with the amendments. The 

Licensee requested these actions in a 

letter dated June 12, 2008. The 

Licensee’s amendment requests were 

noted in the Federal Register on 

December 8, 2008 (73 FR 74529). This 

Federal Register notice also provided an 

opportunity for a hearing on these 

licensing actions. No hearing requests 

were received. The NRC has prepared 

an Environmental Assessment (EA) in 

support of the proposed actions in 

accordance with the requirements of 

Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations 

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

on the EA, the NRC has concluded that 

a Finding of No Significant Impact 

(FONSI) is appropriate with respect to 

the proposed actions. The amendments 

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 actions would approve 

the Licensee’s June 12, 2008 license 

amendment requests to incorporate the 

DP into the licenses, resulting in 

decommissioning of the facility and 

subsequent release of the Facility, 

except one room in the Radiation Lab, 

for unrestricted use and the termination 

of its NRC materials licenses. The room 

which is not being released is covered 

by NRC License No. 29–00170–08. 

License No. 29–00170–03 was issued on 

January 25, 1957, pursuant to 10 CFR 

Part 30, and License No. SMB–1260 was 

issued on December 2, 1975, pursuant to 

10 CFR Part 40. Both licenses have been 

amended periodically since the issue 

dates. These licenses authorized the 

Licensee to use sealed and unsealed 

byproduct material and source material 

for the purpose of conducting research 

and development activities on 

laboratory bench tops and in hoods. 

The Facility is situated on 196 acres 

and encompasses fifteen buildings. The 

buildings in which licensed materials 

were used consist of office space and 

laboratories. The Facility is located in a 

mixed residential/commercial area. 

Within the Facility, use of licensed 

materials was confined to Buildings 

1,2,6,7 and 15. Notification that all 

licensed activities had ceased was 

received April 26, 2007. 

Need for the Proposed Action 

The proposed actions are to approve 

the DP so that the Licensee may 

complete Facility decommissioning 

activities. Completion of the 

decommissioning activities will reduce 

residual radioactivity at the Facility. 

NRC regulations require licensees to 

begin timely decommissioning of their 

sites, or any separate buildings that 

contain residual radioactivity, upon 

cessation of licensed activities, in 

accordance with 10 CFR 30.36(d) and 10 

CFR 40.42(d). The proposed licensing 

actions will support such a goal. NRC is 

fulfilling its responsibilities under the 

Atomic Energy Act to make a decision 

on the proposed license amendments for 

decommissioning that ensures 

protection of the public health and 

safety. 

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed 

Action 

The historical review of licensed 

activities conducted at the Facility 

shows that such activities involved 

research and development activities 

using sealed and unsealed byproduct 

material and source material. The 

licensed materials were always stored 

and used inside buildings with no 

releases. 

The NRC staff has reviewed the 

Licensee amendment requests for the 

Facility and examined the impacts of 

these license amendment requests. 

Potential impacts include water 

resource impact (e.g., water may be used 

for dust control), air quality impacts 

from dust emissions, temporary local 

traffic impacts resulting from 

transporting debris, human health 

impacts, noise impacts from equipment 

operation, scenic quality impacts, and 

waste management impacts. 

Based on its review, the staff has 

determined that no surface water or 

ground water impacts are expected from 

the decommissioning activities. 

Additionally, the staff has determined 

that significant air quality, noise, land 

use, and off-site radiation exposure 

impacts are also not expected. No 

significant air quality impacts are 

anticipated because of the limited 

amount of contamination and the 

controls that will be implemented by 

the Licensee during decommissioning 

activities. In addition, the 

environmental impacts associated with 

the decommissioning activities are 

bounded by impacts evaluated by 

NUREG–0586, ‘‘Final Generic 

Environmental Impact Statement on the 

Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities,’’ 

(GEIS). Generic impacts for this type of 

decommissioning process were 


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