Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 184 / Friday, September 22, 2006 / Notices 55515 

Dated: September 19, 2006. 

Susanne Bolton, 

Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. 06–8029 Filed 9–21–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7555–01–M 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 70–7004] 

Safety Evaluation Report for the 

Proposed American Centrifuge Plant in 

Piketon, OH, NUREG–1851; Notice of 

Availability 

AGENCY: United States Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability of Safety 

Evaluation Report. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

(NRC) has issued a Safety Evaluation 

Report (SER) for the USEC Inc. (USEC) 

license application, dated August 23, 

2004, and as revised, for the possession 

and use of source, byproduct, and 

special nuclear materials at its proposed 

American Centrifuge Plant (ACP) in 

Piketon, Ohio. 

The SER discusses the results of the 

safety review performed by NRC staff in 

the following areas: General 

information, organization and 

administration, Integrated Safety 

Analysis (ISA) and ISA Summary, 

radiation protection, nuclear criticality 

safety, chemical process safety, fire 

safety, emergency management, 

environmental protection, 

decommissioning, management 

measures, materials control and 

accountability, and physical protection. 

The NRC is planning to conduct a 

public meeting in Ohio to provide an 

overview of the staff’s safety review and 

to address any comments or questions 

relating to the issuance of the SER. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The SER 

(NUREG–1851) is available for 

inspection and copying for a fee at the 

NRC’s Public Document Room, located 

at One White Flint North, Public File 

Area O1 F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first 

floor), Rockville, Maryland. The Public 

Document Room is open from 7:45 a.m. 

to 4:15 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except on Federal holidays. 

Publicly available records will be 

accessible electronically from the 

Agency-wide Documents Access and 

Management Systems (ADAMS) Public 

Electronic Reading Room, and on the 

Internet at the NRC Web site, http:// 

www.nrc.gov/NRC/ADAMS/index.html. 

Persons who do not have access to 

ADAMS or who encounter problems in 

accessing the documents located in 

ADAMS, should contact the NRC Public 

Document Room Reference staff by 

telephone at 1–800–397–4209, 301–

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

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stanley Echols, Mail Stop: T–8F42, 

Special Projects Branch, Division of 

Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, Office 

of Nuclear Material Safety and 

Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555–

0001, Telephone: (301) 415–6981, and email: fse@nrc.gov. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th day 

of September, 2006. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Joseph G. Giitter, 

Chief, Special Projects Branch, Division of 

Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, Office of 

Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. 

[FR Doc. 06–8013 Filed 9–21–06; 8:45 am] 

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[Docket Nos. 070–00026 and 040–03558] 

Notice of Availability of Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact for the 

Westinghouse Specialty Metals Plant 

in Blairsville, PA 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Issuance of Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mark Roberts, Senior Health Physicist, 

Decommissioning Branch, Division of 

Nuclear Materials Safety, Region I, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 475 

Allendale Road, King of Prussia, 

Pennsylvania; Telephone: (610) 337–

5094; fax number (610) 337–5069; or email: mcr@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) has decided to take 

no further regulatory action at the 

Westinghouse Specialty Metals Plant 

site, located in Derry Township, near 

Blairsville, PA, off Township Road 966 

(the Site). The Atomic Energy 

Commission (AEC) issued License Nos. 

SUC–509 and SNM–37 to Westinghouse 

Electric Corporation (Westinghouse) in 

the 1950s (pursuant to 10 CFR parts 40 

and 70, respectively), authorizing the 

use of low enriched uranium, highly 

enriched uranium, and depleted 

uranium for conducting research and 

development, and for manufacturing 

activities related to the production of 

commercial and naval nuclear fuel. The 

two licenses were terminated in 1961 

and 1964. The Site is currently being 

used for manufacturing operations that 

do not involve the use of licensed 

radioactive material. 

Subsequent NRC administrative 

reviews in the early 1990s and 

radiological surveys by Westinghouse 

identified residual radioactive 

contamination in excess of NRC criteria 

for release for unrestricted use. The 

Westinghouse corporate office at 4350 

Northern Pike in Monroeville, PA, took 

technical responsibility for remediating 

the Site, and transmitted documentation 

indicating that the Site now meets NRC 

criteria for release for unrestricted use. 

Following a favorable technical review, 

the NRC intends to inform 

Westinghouse via letter of its decision 

that the Site now meets current NRC 

criteria for release for unrestricted use 

and the NRC will take no further 

regulatory action regarding the Site. The 

NRC will remove the Site from the NRC 

listing of complex decommissioning 

sites. 

Westinghouse requested this action in 

a letter dated February 15, 2006. 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 letter will be 

issued to Westinghouse following the 

publication of this FONSI and EA in the 

Federal Register. 

II. Environmental Assessment 

Identification of Proposed Action 

The proposed action would approve 

Westinghouse’s February 15, 2006, 

request that the NRC concur that 

Westinghouse provided adequate 

documentation to conclude that the Site 

meets the requirements in 10 CFR 

20.1402 for release for unrestricted use 

and that the Site can therefore be 

removed from the NRC listing of 

complex decommissioning sites. 

The Site is situated on 485 acres and 

is located in a rural area with scattered 

residential and manufacturing 

properties within its vicinity. One of the 

four major buildings and two exterior 

areas at the Site contained radioactive 

contamination that has now been 

remediated. Within the buildings, use of 

licensed materials was primarily 

confined to the southeast quarter of the 


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