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Total Burden Hours: 280 hours. 

Total Annualized Capital/Startup 

Costs: n/a. 

Total Annual Cost Burden: $8,199. 

Total Annual Federal Costs: $348.72. 

Dated: October 31, 2023. 

Suzanne Mbollo, 

Grants Management Specialist, Institute of 

Museum and Library Services. 

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BILLING CODE 7036–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 70–00143; NRC–2022–0097] 

Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc.; U-Metal 

Project 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Environmental assessment and 

finding of no significant impact; 

issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing a finding 

of no significant impact (FONSI) and 

accompanying environmental 

assessment (EA) regarding the NRC’s 

consideration of a license amendment 

request to amend a Special Nuclear 

Material (SNM) license, SNM–124, held 

by Nuclear Fuel Service, Inc. (NFS) at 

the NFS site located in Erwin, 

Tennessee. If approved, the amendment 

would authorize NFS to operate 

uranium purification and conversion 

services (U-Metal Project) at the NFS 

site, pursuant to a contract with the U.S. 

Department of Energy’s National 

Nuclear Security Administration. Based 

on the EA, the NRC staff has concluded 

that there will be no significant impacts 

to environmental resources from the 

requested license amendment, and 

therefore, a FONSI is appropriate. 

DATES: The EA and FONSI referenced in 

this document is available on November 

6, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2022–0097 when contacting the 

NRC about the availability of 

information regarding this document. 

You may obtain publicly available 

information related to this document 

using any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking website: Go to

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2022–0097. Address 

questions about Docket IDs in 

Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; 

telephone: 301–415–0624; email: 

Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical 

questions, contact the individual listed 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this document. 

• 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, at 

301–415–4737, or by email to 

PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. For the 

convenience of the reader, instructions 

about obtaining materials referenced in 

this document are provided in the 

‘‘Availability of Documents’’ section of 

this document. 

• NRC’s PDR: The PDR, where you

may examine and order copies of 

publicly available documents, is open 

by appointment. To make an 

appointment to visit the PDR, please 

send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov 

or call 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415– 

4737, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern 

time (ET), Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ashley Waldron, Office of Nuclear 

Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–7317, email: Ashley.Waldron@

nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction

The NRC is considering issuance of a

license amendment request to amend 

NFS’s part 70 of title 10 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations (10 CFR) SNM 

license, SNM–124. The license 

amendment would authorize a change 

to current operations to include a UMetal Project at NFS’s site located in 

Erwin, Tennessee. As required by 10 

CFR part 51, ‘‘Environmental Protection 

Regulations for Domestic Licensing and 

Related Regulatory Functions,’’ the NRC 

prepared an EA. Based on the results of 

the EA, the NRC has determined not to 

prepare an environmental impact 

statement (EIS) for the license 

amendment request and is issuing a 

FONSI. 

NFS’s 10 CFR part 70 license was 

originally issued by the Atomic Energy 

Commission to W.R. Grace and 

Company, Davison Chemical Division, 

on September 18, 1957. W.R. Grace and 

Company authorized initial facility 

operations with enriched uranium. 

Later, the license was transferred to NFS 

on December 31, 1963. The license was 

renewed on the following dates: 

November 5, 1965; January 27, 1978; 

March 16, 1979; June 9, 1992; and July 

2, 1999. On August 9, 2012, the NRC 

renewed NFS’s license SNM–124 for a 

period of 25 years, which will allow 

operations through 2037. 

II. Environmental Assessment

Description of the Proposed Action

The proposed action is issuance of a 

license amendment to NFS’s 10 CFR 

part 70 SNM license, SNM–124, to 

authorize construction and operation of 

the U-Metal Project at the NFS facility 

pursuant to a contract with the U.S. 

Department of Energy’s National 

Nuclear Security Administration 

(NNSA). 

The proposed action is described in 

the NFS’s application and 

environmental report dated November 

18, 2021, as supplemented by letters 

dated on March 7, 2022, and January 31, 

2023. 

Need for the Proposed Action 

The proposed action is needed for 

NFS to maintain the ability to convert 

oxides to metal, provide a redundancy 

for the purification of uranium metals, 

and hedge against the technology risk 

associated with a new electrorefining 

facility. 

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed 

Action 

The NRC staff considered the 

potential impacts of the proposed action 

on land use, historical and cultural 

resources; visual and scenic resources; 

meteorology, climatology, and air 

quality; noise; geologic resource; water 

resources; ecological resources; 

socioeconomics; public and occupation 

health; transportation; environmental 

justice; and waste management. Given 

that construction would occur within 

the industrial facility footprint and 

within previous disturbed areas, and all 

other proposed activities would occur in 

an existing building, the activities 

associated with the proposed 

amendment would likely not alter any 

of the current characteristics of the site. 

Additionally, the proposed action 

would not result in significantly 

increased effluents. The proposed 

activities would not be expected to add 

to historical site contamination. 

Therefore, the proposed action would 

result in insignificant impacts and 

would not contribute to potential 

cumulative impacts when added to the 

past, present, or reasonably foreseeable 

future actions on the NFS site. Any 

future proposal to conduct NRCregulated activities beyond the scope of 

the present license amendment would 

be evaluated, as appropriate, as part of 


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a separate licensing and environmental 

review. 

Environmental Impacts of the 

Alternatives to the Proposed Action 

As an alternative to the proposed 

action, the NRC staff considered denial 

of the proposed action (i.e., the ‘‘noaction’’ alternative). Under the no-action 

alternative, the NRC would not amend 

the license to authorize construction 

and operation of new U-Metal Project at 

the NFS site. The NNSA would not have 

an option for conversion services to 

replace the legacy uranium processing 

equipment temporarily until the new 

electrorefining technology to purify 

high-enriched uranium metal is 

available, nor would NNSA have a 

redundancy for the purification of 

uranium metals. 

Agencies and Persons Consulted 

On March 29, 2023, the NRC staff 

provided a copy of the draft EA to the 

State of Tennessee Division of 

Radiological Health for its review and 

comment. In its May 4, 2023, email 

response, the State noted that it has no 

concerns regarding the environmental 

impact of the proposed action. The State 

official concurred with the EA and 

FONSI. 

The NRC completed consultation 

under section 106 of the National 

Historic Preservation Act by consulting 

with the Tennessee State Historic 

Preservation Office and four Federally 

recognized Indian Tribes in 

correspondence dated September 13, 

2022. In addition, the NRC staff, 

consulted with the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (FWS) and determined 

that the proposed action ‘‘may affect, 

but not likely to adversely affect’’ five 

threatened or endangered species, 

would have ‘‘no effect’’ on one 

additional species, and would have ‘‘no 

effect’’ on critical habitat. The NRC staff 

provided its effect determinations to 

FWS on August 18, 2023, and FWS 

concurred with those findings on 

September 28, 2023. Therefore, 

consultation has been completed under 

section 7 of the Endangered Species Act. 

III. Finding of No Significant Impact 

Based on its review of the license 

amendment request, in accordance with 

the requirements of 10 CFR part 51, the 

NRC staff has determined that issuing 

the requested amendment of SNM–124 

to add the U-Metal Project would not 

significantly affect the quality of human 

environment. No significant radiological 

or non-radiological impacts are 

expected from the proposed action. 

Therefore, the NRC staff has determined 

that pursuant to 10 CFR 51.31, 

‘‘Determinations based on 

environmental assessment,’’ preparation 

of an EIS is not required for the 

proposed action, and pursuant to 10 

CFR 51.32, ‘‘Finding of no significant 

impact,’’ a FONSI is appropriate. In 

accordance with 10 CFR 51.32(a)(4), this 

FONSI incorporates the EA set forth in 

this notice by reference. 

IV. Availability of Documents 

The documents identified in the 

following table are available to 

interested persons through ADAMS. 

Document description ADAMS accession No. 

Nuclear Fuel Services, License Amendment Application, dated November 18, 2021 ..................................... ML21327A099. 

Nuclear Fuel Services Supplemental Environmental Report, dated November 2021 and revised January 

2023.

ML22066B005 and ML23041A236. 

Tennessee Department of Environmental Quality email response NRC Request for Review of Draft EA, 

dated May 4, 2023.

ML23131A361. 

Letter to Tennessee State Historic Preservation Office initiating consultation under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, dated September 13, 2022.ML22098A154. 

NRC letters to Tribal nations initiating consultation under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation 

Act, dated September 13, 2022.

ML22256A146 (package). 

Fish and Wildlife Service, Information for Planning and Consultation identifying Threatened or Endangered 

Species, dated June 6, 2023.

ML23202A166. 

NRC letter to FWS regarding informal Section 7 consultation, determinations of effect, dated August 18, 

2023.

ML23228A158. 

Fish and Wildlife Service concurrence on NRC’s determinations of effect, dated September 28, 2023 ......... ML23272A109. 

Final Environmental Assessment for NFS Proposed U-Metal Project, dated October 26, 2023 ..................... ML23299A062. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Dated: October 31, 2023. 

Michelle S. Rome, 

Acting Chief, Environmental Review Materials 

Branch, Division of Rulemaking, 

Environmental, and Financial Support, Office 

of Nuclear Material Safety, and Safeguards. 

[FR Doc. 2023–24408 Filed 11–3–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. MC2024–29 and CP2024–29] 

New Postal Products 

AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commission is noticing a 

recent Postal Service filing for the 

Commission’s consideration concerning 

a negotiated service agreement. This 

notice informs the public of the filing, 

invites public comment, and takes other 

administrative steps. 

DATES: Comments are due: November 7, 

2023. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments 

electronically via the Commission’s 

Filing Online system at http://

www.prc.gov. Those who cannot submit 

comments electronically should contact 

the person identified in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section by 

telephone for advice on filing 

alternatives. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David A. Trissell, General Counsel, at 

202–789–6820. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Contents 

I. Introduction 

II. Docketed Proceeding(s) 

I. Introduction 

The Commission gives notice that the 

Postal Service filed request(s) for the 

Commission to consider matters related 

to negotiated service agreement(s). The 

request(s) may propose the addition or 

removal of a negotiated service 

agreement from the Market Dominant or 

the Competitive product list, or the 

modification of an existing product 

currently appearing on the Market 

Dominant or the Competitive product 

list. 

Section II identifies the docket 

number(s) associated with each Postal 

Service request, the title of each Postal 

Service request, the request’s acceptance 

date, and the authority cited by the 


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