2314 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 11 / Thursday, January 18, 2007 / Notices 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Dated this 5th day of January 2007 at 

Rockville, Maryland. 

Margaret M. Doane, 

Deputy Director, Office of International 

Programs. 

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[Docket No. 030–33881] 

Notice of Availability of Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact for License 

Amendment to Byproduct Materials 

License No. 37–30229–01, for 

Termination of the License and 

Unrestricted Release of the West 

Pharmaceutical Service’s Facility in 

Lionville, PA 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Issuance of Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact for License 

Amendment. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Dennis Lawyer, Health Physicist, 

Commercial and R&D Branch, Division 

of Nuclear Materials Safety, Region I, 

475 Allendale Road, King of Prussia, 

Pennsylvania; telephone (610) 337–

5366; fax number (610) 337–5393; or by 

e-mail: drl1@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. 37–

30229–01. This license is held by West 

Pharmaceutical Services (the Licensee), 

for its West Pharmaceutical Services 

facility located at 101 Gordon Drive in 

Lionville, Pennsylvania (the Facility). 

Issuance of the amendment would 

authorize release of the Facility for 

unrestricted use and termination of the 

NRC license. The Licensee requested 

this action in a letter dated February 17, 

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 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 February 17, 2006, 

license amendment request, resulting in 

release of the Facility for unrestricted 

use and the termination of its NRC 

materials license. License No. 37–

30229–01 was issued on July 26, 1995, 

pursuant to 10 CFR Part 30, and has 

been amended periodically since that 

time. This license authorized the 

Licensee to use unsealed byproduct 

material for purposes of conducting 

research and development activities on 

laboratory bench tops and in hoods. 

The Facility is a 260,000 square foot 

building consisting of office space and 

laboratories. The Facility is located in a 

mixed residential, light industrial, 

retail, and commercial area. Within the 

Facility, use of licensed materials was 

confined to the 528 square foot 

Radioisotope and Tissue Culture 

Laboratory. 

On February 14, 2005, 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 NRC-approved, 

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 

and for license termination. 

Need for the Proposed Action 

The Licensee has ceased conducting 

licensed activities at the Facility, and 

seeks the unrestricted use of its Facility 

and the termination of its NRC materials 

license. Termination of its license 

would end the Licensee’s obligation to 

pay annual license fees to the NRC. 

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 February 14, 2005, and 

September 6, 2006. The final status 

survey report was submitted with the 

Licensee’s amendment request dated 

February 17, 2006, and letter dated 

October 17, 2006. 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 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 and the termination of the NRC 

materials license 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. 


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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 and 

for license termination. 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 

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s 

Department of Environmental Protection 

for review on December 18, 2006. On 

December 21, 2006, the Commonwealth 

of Pennsylvania responded by e-mail. 

The Commonwealth 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 

Document 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. REG–1757, ‘‘Consolidated NMSS 

Decommissioning Guidance;’’

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 

Functions;’’

4. NUREG–1496, ‘‘Generic 

Environmental Impact Statement in 

Support of Rulemaking on Radiological 

Criteria for License Termination of NRCLicensed Nuclear Facilities;’’

5. West Pharmaceutical Services, 

Termination Request Letter dated 

February 17, 2006 [ML060580120]; 

6. West Pharmaceutical Services, NRC 

314 Signed and dated February 27, 2006 

[ML060580124]; 

7. West Pharmaceutical Services, 

letter dated May 19, 2006 

[ML061430439]; 

8. West Pharmaceutical Services, 

letter dated October 17, 2006 

[ML062980524]; 

9. West Pharmaceutical Services, 

letter dated November 17, 2006 

[ML063280230]. 

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@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: Region I, 475 Allendale Road, King 

of Prussia, Pennsylvania this 9th day of 

January 2007. 

For The Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

James P. Dwyer, 

Chief, Commercial and R&D Branch, Division 

of Nuclear Materials Safety, Region 1. 

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Notice of Sunshine Act Meetings 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

DATE: Weeks of January 15, 22, 29; 

February 5, 12, 19, 2007. 

PLACE: Commissioners’ Conference 

Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland. 

STATUS: Public and Closed. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

Week of January 15, 2007 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the Week of January 15, 2007. 

Week of January 22, 2007—Tentative 

Monday, January 22, 2007 

1:25 p.m. 

Affirmation Session (Public Meeting) 

(Tentative). 

a. Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, 

LLC, & Entergy Nuclear Operations, 

Inc. (Vermont Yankee Nuclear 

Power Station), LBP–06–20 (9/22/ 

06): Entergy Nuclear Generation 

Company & Entergy Nuclear 

Operations, Inc. (Pilgrim Nuclear 

Power Station), LBP–06–23 (10/16/ 

06) (Tentative) 

b. Exelon Generation Company, LLC 

(Early Site Permit for Clinton ESP) 

(Tentative) 

1:30 p.m. 

Discussion of Security Issues 

(Closed—Ex. 1). 

Tuesday, January 23, 2007 

1:30 p.m. 

Joint Meeting with Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission on Grid 

Reliability (Public Meeting) 

(Contact: Mike Mayfield, 301–415–

0561). 

This meeting will be webcast live at 

the Web address—http://www.nrc.gov. 

Week of January 29, 2007—Tentative 

Wednesday, January 31, 2007 

9:30 a.m. 

Discussion of Security Issues 

(Closed—Ex. 1 & 3). To be held at 

Department of Homeland Security 

Headquarters, Washington, DC. 


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