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located on the Willow Creek Irigaray 

site. Yellowcake is the uranium oxide 

product of the ISR milling process that 

is used to produce various products, 

including fuel for commerciallyoperated nuclear power reactors. 

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed 

Action 

The NRC staff has assessed the 

potential environmental impacts from 

the construction, operation, aquifer 

restoration, and decommissioning of the 

proposed Ludeman Satellite. The NRC 

staff assessed the impacts of the 

proposed action on land use; historical 

and cultural resources; visual and 

scenic resources; climatology, 

meteorology and air quality; geology, 

minerals, and soils; water resources; 

ecological resources; socioeconomics; 

noise; traffic and transportation; public 

and occupational health and safety; and 

waste management. All impacts were 

determined to be SMALL. The NRC staff 

concluded that license amendment for 

the Willow Creek ISR project license 

authorizing the construction and 

operation of the Ludeman Satellite 

would not significantly affect the 

quality of the human environment. 

Approval of the proposed action would 

not result in an increased radiological 

risk to public health or the environment. 

Environmental Impacts of the 

Alternatives to the Proposed Action 

As an alternative to the proposed 

action, the staff considered denial of the 

proposed action (i.e., the ‘‘no-action’’ 

alternative). The no-action alternative 

would mean that the NRC would not 

approve the addition of the Ludeman 

Satellite to the existing Willow Creek 

ISR licensed permit area. In-situ 

uranium recovery would not occur 

within the Ludeman Satellite and the 

associated environmental impacts also 

would not occur. 

Agencies and Persons Consulted 

In accordance with its stated policy, 

on January 18, 2018, the NRC staff 

consulted with the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (FWS) regarding the 

proposed action. The FWS stated that 

no federally listed or proposed 

endangered or threatened species occur 

within the area affected by the proposed 

action. On February 27, 2018, the staff 

consulted with Wyoming Department of 

Environmental Quality (WDEQ), 

regarding the environmental impact of 

the proposed action. The WDEQ 

provided comments on the draft EA. 

Those comments were considered in 

preparation of the final EA and FONSI. 

On July 17, 2018, the Wyoming State 

Historic Preservation Office notified 

NRC that it concurred with its 

determinations of no effect at the 

Ludeman project. 

Additional Information 

The NRC staff conducted an 

environmental review in accordance 

with 10 CFR part 51, which implements 

the requirements of the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as 

amended (NEPA). The results of the 

NRC’s environmental review can be 

found in the final EA (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML18183A225). Based on 

the results of the environmental 

assessment, the NRC has determined not 

to prepare an environmental impact 

statement for the Ludeman Satellite 

amendment and is issuing a finding of 

no significant impact. 

In May 2009, the NRC staff issued 

NUREG–1910, ‘‘Generic Environmental 

Impact Statement for In-Situ Leach 

Uranium Milling Facilities’’ (herein 

referred to as the GEIS). In the GEIS, the 

NRC assessed the potential 

environmental impacts from 

construction, operation, aquifer 

restoration, and decommissioning of an 

in-situ leach uranium milling facility 

(also known as an ISR facility) located 

in four specific geographic regions of 

the western United States. Where 

applicable, this EA incorporates by 

reference relevant portions from the 

GEIS, and uses site-specific information 

from Uranium One’s license application 

and independent sources to fulfill the 

requirements in 10 CFR 51.20(b)(8). 

The final EA was prepared by the 

NRC and its contractor, the Center for 

Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses, in 

compliance with NEPA (as amended, 

and the NRC’s regulations for 

implementing NEPA (10 CFR part 51). 

In the final EA, the NRC staff assessed 

the potential environmental impacts 

from the construction, operation, aquifer 

restoration, and decommissioning of the 

proposed Ludeman Satellite. The NRC 

staff assessed the impacts of the 

proposed action on land use; historical 

and cultural resources; visual and 

scenic resources; climatology, 

meteorology and air quality; geology, 

minerals, and soils; water resources; 

ecological resources; socioeconomics; 

noise; traffic and transportation; public 

and occupational health and safety; and 

waste management. 

After weighing the impacts of the 

proposed license amendment and 

comparing to the no-action alternative, 

the NRC staff, in accordance with 10 

CFR 51.91(d), sets forth its NEPA 

recommendation regarding the proposed 

action (granting the request for an NRC 

license amendment for the proposed 

Ludeman Satellite). Unless safety issues 

mandate otherwise, the NRC staff 

recommendation related to the 

environmental aspects of the proposed 

action is that an NRC license 

amendment be issued. 

III. Finding of No Significant Impact 

Based on its review of the proposed 

action, and in accordance with the 

requirements in 10 CFR part 51, the 

NRC staff has determined that license 

amendment for the Willow Creek ISR 

project license authorizing the 

construction and operation of the 

Ludeman Satellite would not 

significantly affect the quality of the 

human environment. In its license 

amendment request, Uranium One has 

proposed the addition of six wellfields 

at the Ludeman Satellite. No other 

significant changes in Uranium One’s 

authorized operations for the Willow 

Creek ISR Project were requested. 

Approval of the proposed action would 

not result in an increased radiological 

risk to public health or the environment. 

The NRC staff has determined that 

pursuant to 10 CFR 51.31, preparation 

of an environmental impact statement 

(EIS) is not required for the proposed 

action and, pursuant to 10 CFR 51.32, a 

finding of no significant impact (FONSI) 

is appropriate. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day 

of August, 2018. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Craig G. Erlanger, 

Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety, 

Safeguards, and Environmental Review, 

Office of Nuclear Material Safety and 

Safeguards. 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2017–0218] 

Information Collection: Physical 

Protection of Plants and Materials 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of submission to the 

Office of Management and Budget; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) has recently 

submitted a request for renewal of an 

existing collection of information to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review. The information 

collection is titled, ‘‘Physical Protection 

of Plants and Materials.’’ 

DATES: Submit comments by September 

13, 2018. 


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ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly 

to the OMB reviewer at: OMB Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs 

(3150–0002), Attn: Desk Officer for the 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 725 

17th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 

20503; email: oira_submission@

omb.eop.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Cullison, NRC Clearance Officer, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–2084; email: 

INFOCOLLECTS.Resource@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comment 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2017– 

0218 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information for this 

action. You may obtain publiclyavailable information related to this 

action by any of the following methods: 

• Federal rulemaking Website: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2017–0218. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

adams.html. To begin the search, select 

‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then 

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, 301–415–4737, or by 

email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The 

supporting statement and burden 

spreadsheet are available in ADAMS 

under Accession Nos. ML158A157 and 

ML18158A159. 

• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and 

purchase copies of public documents at 

the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

• NRC’s Clearance Officer: A copy of 

the collection of information and related 

instructions may be obtained without 

charge by contacting the NRC’s 

Clearance Officer, David Cullison, 

Office of the Chief Information Officer, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, D.C. 20555–0001; 

telephone: 301–415–2084; email: 

INFOCOLLECTS.Resource@NRC.GOV. 

B. Submitting Comments 

The NRC cautions you not to include 

identifying or contact information in 

comment submissions that you do not 

want to be publicly disclosed in your 

comment submission. All comment 

submissions are posted at http://

www.regulations.gov and entered into 

ADAMS. Comment submissions are not 

routinely edited to remove identifying 

or contact information. 

If you are requesting or aggregating 

comments from other persons for 

submission to the OMB, then you 

should inform those persons not to 

include identifying or contact 

information that they do not want to be 

publicly disclosed in their comment 

submission. Your request should state 

that comment submissions are not 

routinely edited to remove such 

information before making the comment 

submissions available to the public or 

entering the comment into ADAMS. 

II. Background 

Under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. Chapter 35), the NRC recently 

submitted a request for renewal of an 

existing collection of information to 

OMB for review entitled, part 73 tile 10 

of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 

CFR), ‘‘Physical Protection of Plants and 

Materials.’’ The NRC hereby informs 

potential respondents that an agency 

may not conduct or sponsor, and that a 

person is not required to respond to, a 

collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

The NRC published a Federal 

Register notice with a 60-day comment 

period on this information collection on 

March 30, 2018, 83 FR 13801. 

1. The title of the information 

collection: 10 CFR part 73, ‘‘Physical 

Protection of Plants and Materials.’’ 

2. OMB approval number: 3150–0002. 

3. Type of submission: Revision. 

4. The form number, if applicable: 

Not applicable. 

5. How often the collection is required 

or requested: Once for the initial 

submittal of Cyber Security Plans, 

Physical Security Plans, Safeguards 

Contingency Plans, and Security 

Training and Qualification Plans and 

then on occasion when changes are 

made. Required reports are submitted 

and evaluated as events occur. 

6. Who will be required or asked to 

respond: Nuclear power reactor 

licensees licensed under 10 CFR parts 

50 or 52 who possess, use, import, 

export, transport, or deliver to a carrier 

for transport, special nuclear material; 

actively decommissioning reactor 

licensees; Category I, Category II and 

Category III fuel facilities; nonpower 

reactors (research and test reactors); and 

other entities who mark and handle 

Safeguards Information. 

7. The estimated number of annual 

responses: 177,986 (40,819 reporting 

responses + 136,957 third party 

disclosure responses + 210 record 

keepers.) 

8. The estimated number of annual 

respondents: 210 (60 power reactors; 10 

decommissioning reactor facilities; 3 

Category I fuel facilities; 4 Category II 

and III fuel facilities; 31 nonpower 

reactors; and 102 other entities who 

mark and handle Safeguards 

Information. 

9. The estimated number of hours 

needed annually to comply with the 

information collection requirement or 

request: 541,406 hours (22,591 reporting 

+ 475,852 recordkeeping + 42,963 third 

party disclosure). 

10. Abstract: The NRC regulations in 

10 CFR part 73 prescribe requirements 

to establish and maintain a physical 

protection system and security 

organization with capabilities for 

protection of: (1) Special nuclear 

material (SNM) at fixed sites, (2) SNM 

in transit, and (3) plants in which SNM 

is used. Part 73 of 10 CFR contains 

reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements which are necessary to 

help ensure that an adequate level of 

protection is provided for nuclear 

facilities and nuclear material, such as: 

Development and maintenance of 

security documents including a physical 

security plan, a training and 

qualification plan, a safeguards 

contingency plan, a cyber security plan, 

and security implementing procedures; 

notifications to the NRC regarding 

safeguards and cyber security events; 

notifications to state governors and 

tribes of shipments of irradiated reactor 

fuel; and requirements for conducting 

criminal history records checks of 

individuals granted unescorted access to 

a nuclear power facility, a non-power 

reactor, or access to Safeguards 

Information. The objective is to ensure 

that activities involving special nuclear 

material are consistent with interests of 

common defense and security and that 

these activities do not constitute an 

unreasonable risk to public health and 

safety. The information in the reports 

and records submitted by licensees is 

used by the NRC staff to ensure that the 

health and safety of the public and the 

environment are protected, and licensee 

possession and use of special nuclear 

material is in compliance with license 

and regulatory requirements. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day 

of August, 2018. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

David Cullison, 

NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

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