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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, ‘‘General 

Domestic Licenses for Byproduct 

Material.’’ 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 

April 10, 2018, 83 FR 15421. 

1. The title of the information 

collection: Title 10 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations (10 CFR) part 31, 

‘‘General Domestic Licenses for 

Byproduct Material.’’ 

2. OMB approval number: 3150–0016. 

3. Type of submission: Revision. 

4. The form number if applicable: N/ 

A. 

5. How often the collection is required 

or requested: Reports are submitted as 

events occur. General license 

registration requests may be submitted 

at any time. Changes to the information 

on the registration may be submitted as 

they occur. 

6. Who will be required or asked to 

respond: Persons receiving, possessing, 

using, or transferring devices containing 

byproduct material. 

7. The estimated number of annual 

responses: 140,281 (10,681 responses + 

129,600 recordkeepers). 

8. The estimated number of annual 

respondents: 10,681 (993 NRC licensee 

respondents + 9,688 Agreement State 

respondents). 

9. An estimate of the total number of 

hours needed annually to comply with 

the information collection requirement 

or request: 36,638 hours (4,926 hours for 

NRC licensees + 31,712 hours for 

Agreement State licensees). 

10. Abstract: 10 CFR part 31 

establishes general licenses for the 

possession and use of byproduct 

material in certain devices. General 

licensees are required to keep testing 

records and submit event reports 

identified in 10 CFR part 31, which 

assist the NRC in determining, with 

reasonable assurance, that devices are 

operated safely and without radiological 

hazard to users or the public. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day 

of August, 2018. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

David C. Cullison, 

NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 40–8502; NRC–2012–0120] 

Uranium One; Ludeman Satellite 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Environmental assessment and 

finding of no significant impact; 

issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is considering an 

amendment of License SUA–1341, to 

expand operations to the Ludeman 

Satellite at Uranium One’s Willow 

Creek In-situ recovery (ISR) facility 

(Docket No. 40–8502). The NRC has 

prepared an environmental assessment 

(EA) and finding of no significant 

impact (FONSI) for this licensing action. 

DATES: The environmental assessment 

referenced in this document is available 

on August 14, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2012–0120 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 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2012–0120. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer 

Borges; telephone: 301–287–9127; 

email: Jennifer.Borges@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 

http://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, 301– 

415–4737, or by email to pdr.resource@

nrc.gov. The ADAMS accession number 

for each document referenced in this 

document (if that document is available 

in ADAMS) is provided the first time 

that a document is referenced. 

• 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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ashley Waldron, Office of Nuclear 

Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, D.C. 20555–0001; 

telephone: 301–415–7317; email: 

Ashley.Waldron@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The NRC is considering issuance of an 

amendment of License No. SUA–1341, 

issued to Uranium One, for operation of 

the Ludeman Satellite, located in 

Wyoming, Converse County. Therefore, 

as required by part 51 of title 10 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), 

the NRC performed an environmental 

assessment. Based on the results of the 

environmental assessment, the NRC has 

determined not to prepare an 

environmental impact statement for the 

amendment, and is issuing a finding of 

no significant impact. 

II. Environmental Assessment 

Description of the Proposed Action 

The proposed action would allow 

Uranium One to construct, operate, 

perform aquifer restoration, and 

decommissioning activities at the 

Ludeman Satellite. The proposed action 

is in accordance with the licensee’s 

application dated December 3, 2011 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML120120182). 

Need for the Proposed Action 

The proposed action allows Uranium 

One to recover uranium within the 

proposed Ludeman Satellite. The 

licensee would process the recovered 

uranium into yellowcake at the existing 

central processing plant (CPP) currently 


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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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BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

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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