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Dated: January 10, 2012. 

Susanne Bolton, 

Committee Management Officer. 

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Proposal Review Panel for Materials 

Research; Notice of Meeting 

In accordance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463 as amended), the National Science 

Foundation announces the following 

meeting: 

Name: Site visit review of the Materials 

Research Science and Engineering Center 

(MRSEC) at Massachusetts Institute of 

Technology (MIT) by the Division of 

Materials Research (DMR) #1203. 

Dates and Times: Feb 16, 2012; 7:15 a.m.– 

6:45 p.m., Feb 17, 2012; 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. 

Place: Massachusetts Institute of 

Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 

02139. 

Type of Meeting: Part open. 

Contact Person: Dr. Charles Ying, Program 

Director, Materials Research Science and 

Engineering Centers Program, Division of 

Materials Research, Room 1065, National 

Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, 

Arlington, VA 22230, Telephone (703) 292– 

8428. 

Purpose of Meeting: To provide advice and 

recommendations concerning further support 

of the MRSEC at Massachusetts Institute of 

Technology. 

Agenda: 

Thursday, February 16, 2012 

7:15 a.m.–8:15 a.m. Closed—Executive 

Session 

8:15 a.m.–5 p.m. Open—Review of the MIT 

MRSEC 

5 p.m.–6:45 p.m. Closed—Executive Session 

Friday, February 17, 2012 

8 a.m.–9 a.m. Closed—Executive session 

9 a.m.–10 a.m. Open—Review of the MIT 

MRSEC 

10 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Closed—Executive 

Session, Report Writing 

Reason for Closing: The work being 

reviewed may include information of a 

proprietary or confidential nature, including 

technical information; financial data, such as 

salaries and personal information concerning 

individuals associated with the MRSEC. 

These matters are exempt under 5 U.S.C. 552 

b(c), (4) and (6) of the Government in the 

Sunshine Act. 

Dated: January 10, 2012. 

Susanne Bolton, 

Committee Management Officer. 

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[NRC–2010–0143] 

Notice of Availability of Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Proposed International Isotopes 

Fluorine Extraction Process and 

Depleted Uranium Deconversion Plant 

in Lea County, NM 

AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Draft environmental impact 

statement; request for comment. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing for public 

comment the Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement (EIS) for the Proposed 

Fluorine Extraction Process and 

Depleted Uranium Deconversion Plant. 

By letter dated December 30, 2009, 

International Isotopes Fluorine 

Products, Inc. (IIFP), a wholly-owned 

subsidiary of International Isotopes, 

Inc., submitted a license application, 

which included an Environmental 

Report that proposes the construction, 

operation, and decommissioning of a 

fluoride extraction and depleted 

uranium deconversion facility to be 

located in Lea County, New Mexico (the 

‘‘proposed action’’). 

This Draft EIS is being issued as part 

of the NRC’s process to decide whether 

to issue a license to IIFP, pursuant to 

Title 10 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (10 CFR) Part 40, to build 

and operate the proposed depleted 

uranium deconversion facility. 

Specifically, IIFP proposed to deconvert 

depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) 

into uranium oxide compounds for 

long-term disposal. 

The NRC staff will hold a public 

meeting on February 2, 2012, to present 

an overview of the licensing process and 

the contents of the Draft EIS, and to 

accept oral and written public 

comments on the Draft EIS. The meeting 

will take place at the Lea County Event 

Center, 5101 Lovington Highway in 

Hobbs, New Mexico. For 1 hour prior to 

the public meeting, the NRC staff will be 

available to informally discuss the 

proposed IIFP project and answer 

questions in an ‘‘open house’’ format. 

This ‘‘open house’’ format provides for 

one-on-one discussions with the NRC 

staff involved with the preparation of 

the Draft EIS. The Draft EIS public 

meeting will officially begin at 5:30 p.m. 

The meeting will include the following 

agenda items: (1) A brief presentation of 

NRC’s roles and responsibilities and the 

licensing process; (2) a presentation 

summarizing the contents of the Draft 

EIS; and (3) an opportunity for 

interested government agencies, Tribal 

governments, organizations, and 

individuals to provide comments on the 

draft EIS. The public meeting will be 

transcribed by a court reporter, and the 

meeting transcript will be made 

publicly available at a later date. 

Persons wishing to provide oral 

comments at the public meeting may 

register in advance by contacting Ms. 

Antoinette Walker-Smith at (800) 368– 

5642, ext. 6390 no later than January 26, 

2012. Those who wish to present 

comments may also register at the 

meeting. Individual oral comments may 

have to be limited by the time available, 

depending upon the number of persons 

who register. Written comments can 

also be provided at the meeting, and 

should be given to an NRC staff person 

at the registration desk at the meeting 

entrance. If special equipment or 

accommodations are needed to attend or 

present information at the public 

meeting, the need should be brought to 

the attention of Ms. Antoinette WalkerSmith at (800) 368–5642, ext.6390, no 

later than January 26, 2012, to provide 

NRC staff with adequate notice to 

determine whether the request can be 

accommodated. Please note that 

comments do not have to be provided at 

the public meeting and may be 

submitted at any time during the 

comment period, as described in the 

DATES section of this notice. Any 

interested party may submit comments 

on the Draft EIS for consideration by 

NRC staff. Comments may be submitted 

by any of the methods described in the 

ADDRESSES section of this notice. 

DATES: The public comment period on 

the Draft EIS begins on the date of 

publication of the U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency’s Federal Register 

(FR) Notice of Filing and ends on 

February 27, 2012. To ensure 

consideration, comments on the Draft 

EIS and the proposed action must be 

received or postmarked by February 27, 

2012. The NRC staff will consider 

comments received or postmarked after 

that date to the extent practical. 

The NRC will conduct a public 

meeting in Hobbs, New Mexico. The 

meeting date, location, and time are 

listed below: 

Meeting Date: Thursday, February 2, 

2012. 

Meeting Location: Lea County Event 

Center, 5101 Lovington Highway in 

Hobbs, New Mexico. 

Informal Open House Session: 4:30– 

5:30 p.m. 

Draft EIS Comment Meeting: 5:30– 

8:30 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: Please include Docket ID 

NRC–2010–0143 in the subject line of 

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your comments. For additional 

instructions on submitting comments 

and instructions on accessing 

documents related to this action, see 

‘‘Submitting Comments and Accessing 

Information’’ in the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section of this document. 

You may submit comments by any one 

of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for documents filed under Docket ID 

NRC–2010–0143. Address questions 

about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher, 

telephone: (301) 492–3668; email: 

Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. 

• Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, 

Chief, Rules, Announcements, and 

Directives Branch (RADB), Office of 

Administration, Mail Stop: TWB–05– 

B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001. 

• Fax comments to: RADB at (301) 

492–3446. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Submitting Comments and Accessing 

Information 

Comments submitted in writing or in 

electronic form will be posted on the 

NRC Web site and on the Federal 

rulemaking Web site, http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Because your 

comments will not be edited to remove 

any identifying or contact information, 

the NRC cautions you against including 

any information in your submission that 

you do not want to be publicly 

disclosed. 

The NRC requests that any party 

soliciting or aggregating comments 

received from other persons for 

submission to the NRC inform those 

persons that the NRC will not edit their 

comments to remove any identifying or 

contact information, and therefore, they 

should not include any information in 

their comments that they do not want 

publicly disclosed. 

You can access publicly available 

documents related to this document 

using the following methods: 

• NRC’s Public Document Room 

(PDR): The public may examine and 

have copied, for a fee, publicly available 

documents at the NRC’s PDR, O1–F21, 

One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): Publicly available documents 

created or received at the NRC are 

available online in the NRC Library at 

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

adams.html. From this page, the public 

can gain entry into ADAMS, which 

provides text and image files of the 

NRC’s public documents. If you do not 

have access to ADAMS or if there are 

problems in accessing the documents 

located in ADAMS, contact the NRC’s 

PDR reference staff at 1–(800) 397–4209, 

(301) 415–4737, or by email to 

pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The ‘‘Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for the 

Proposed Fluorine Extraction Process 

and Depleted Uranium Deconversion 

Plant in Lea County, New Mexico’’ is 

available electronically under ADAMS 

Accession Number ML12001A000. 

• Federal Rulemaking Web Site: 

Public comments and supporting 

materials related to this notice can be 

found at http://www.regulations.gov by 

searching on Docket ID NRC–2010– 

0143. 

The Draft EIS for the proposed 

Fluorine Extraction Process and 

Depleted Uranium Deconversion Plant 

also may be accessed on the Internet at 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/nuregs/staff/ by selecting 

‘‘NUREG–2113.’’ Additionally, a copy of 

the Draft EIS will be available at the 

following public library: Hobbs Public 

Library, 509 North Shipp, Hobbs, NM 

88240, (575) 397–9328. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information about the environmental 

review process or the Draft EIS for the 

proposed Fluorine Extraction Process 

and Depleted Uranium Deconversion 

Plant, please contact Asimios Malliakos, 

Project Manager, Environmental Review 

Branch, Division of Waste Management 

and Environmental Protection 

(DWMEP), Mail Stop T–8 F5, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–001, by phone at 

(301) 415–6458. For general or technical 

information associated with the safety 

and licensing of uranium deconversion 

facilities, please contact Matthew 

Bartlett, Project Manager, Conversion, 

Deconversion and Enrichment Branch, 

Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and 

Safeguards (FCSS), Mail Stop E–2 C40, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, by phone 

at (301) 492–3119. 

The Draft EIS was prepared in 

response to an application submitted by 

IIFP by letter dated December 30, 2009. 

The application proposes to construct, 

operate, and decommission a fluorine 

extraction and depleted uranium 

deconversion facility to deconvert 

commercially generated depleted DUF6

to DUO2 for long-term stable disposal as 

low-level waste. The fluoride extraction 

and depleted uranium deconversion 

facility would be located 14 miles west 

of Hobbs, New Mexico. 

The Draft EIS was prepared by the 

NRC and its contractor, Straughan 

Environmental Services, Inc. in 

compliance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as 

amended (NEPA), and the NRC’s 

regulations for implementing NEPA (10 

CFR Part 51). 

The site is located 22.5 kilometers 

(km) (14 miles [mi]) west of Hobbs, New 

Mexico. The proposed tract of land (IIFP 

site) occupies 259 ha (640 ac), and the 

proposed facility would occupy an 

estimated 16 ha (40 ac) of the tract, not 

including roadways and other 

infrastructure improvements. 

The Draft EIS is being issued as part 

of the NRC’s process to decide whether 

to issue a license to IIFP, pursuant to 10 

CFR Part 40. In this Draft EIS, the NRC 

staff has assessed the potential 

environmental impacts from the 

preconstruction, construction, 

operation, and decommissioning of the 

proposed IIFP facility. If a license is 

granted, the IIFP facility would include 

a commercial plant to produce specialty 

fluoride gas products for sale and DUO2

for disposal. IIFP would own the facility 

and be responsible for its operation and 

performance. 

The NRC staff published a Notice of 

Intent to prepare an Environmental 

Impact Statement for the proposed IIFP 

facility and to conduct a scoping 

process in the Federal Register on July 

15, 2010 (75 FR 41242). The NRC staff 

accepted comments through August 30, 

2010. The NRC staff issued a Scoping 

Summary Report in November 2010 

(ADAMS Accession Number: 

ML102871105). 

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, 

environmental justice, noise, traffic and 

transportation, public and occupational 

health and safety, and waste 

management. 

Additionally, the Draft EIS analyzes 

and compares the benefits and costs of 

the proposed action. Based on the 

preliminary evaluation in the Draft EIS, 

the NRC environmental review staff has 

concluded that the environmental 

impacts that would result from the 

proposed action and associated 

preconstruction activities on the 

physical environment and human 

communities would mostly be small, 

with the exception of small to moderate 

impacts on climatology, meteorology, 

and air quality associated with vehicle 

emissions and temporary fugitive dust 

released to the air during construction. 

In addition to the action proposed by 

IIFP, the NRC staff addressed the noaction alternative and also a reasonable 

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1Request of the United States Postal Service to 

Add Global Plus 1C to the Competitive Products 

List and Notice of Filing Two Functionally 

Equivalent Global Plus 1C Contracts Negotiated 

Service Agreements and Application for Non-Public 

Treatment of Materials Filed Under Seal, December 

30, 2011 (Notice). The Notice was filed pursuant to 

39 U.S.C. 3642, 39 CFR 3020.30 et seq., and Order 

No. 112; the agreements were filed pursuant to 

Commission rule 3015.5. 

2For an explanation of the duration of the instant 

contracts, see id. at 5. 

3See Docket Nos. CP2011–39 and CP2011–40. 

range of alternatives to the proposed 

action, including alternative sites for an 

IIFP facility, alternative technologies, 

shipment of the U.S.-generated DUF6 to 

overseas facilities, and the four U.S.- 

based enrichment companies to 

construct and operate their own 

deconversion facilities. These 

alternatives were eliminated from 

further analysis due to economic, 

environmental, or other reasons. The 

proposed action and the no-action 

alternative were analyzed in detail. The 

no-action alternative serves as a baseline 

for comparison of the potential 

environmental impacts of the proposed 

action. 

This DEIS is being issued for public 

comment. The public comment period 

on the Draft EIS begins with publication 

of this notice and continues until 

February 27, 2012. Written comments 

should be submitted as described in the 

ADDRESSES section of this notice. The 

NRC will consider comments received 

or postmarked after that date to the 

extent practical. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day 

of January, 2012. 

For The Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Andrew Persinko, 

Deputy Director, Environmental Protection 

and Performance Assessment Directorate, 

Division of Waste Management and 

Environmental Protection, Office of Federal 

and State Materials and Environmental 

Management Programs. 

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Advisory Committee on the Medical 

Uses of Isotopes: Meeting Notice 

AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) will convene a 

teleconference meeting of the Advisory 

Committee on the Medical Uses of 

Isotopes (ACMUI) on February 7, 2012, 

to discuss the ACMUI Permanent 

Implant Brachytherapy Subcommittee 

Report. A copy of the agenda for the 

meeting will be available at http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/acmui/agenda. Handouts for 

the meeting will be available at http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/acmui/meeting-slides/. The 

agenda and handouts may also by 

obtained by contacting Ms. Ashley 

Cockerham using the information 

below. 

DATES: The teleconference meeting will 

be held on Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 

12 p.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern Standard Time 

(EST). 

Public Participation: Any member of 

the public who wishes to participate in 

the teleconference discussions should 

contact Ms. Cockerham using the 

contact information below. 

Contact Information: Ashley M. 

Cockerham, email: 

ashley.cockerham@nrc.gov, telephone: 

(240) 888–7129. 

Conduct of the Meeting 

Leon S. Malmud, M.D., will chair the 

meeting. Dr. Malmud will conduct the 

meeting in a manner that will facilitate 

the orderly conduct of business. The 

following procedures apply to public 

participation in the meeting: 

1. Persons who wish to provide a 

written statement should submit an 

electronic copy to Ms. Cockerham at the 

contact information listed above. All 

submittals must be received by February 

2, three business days prior to the 

meeting, and must pertain to the topic 

on the agenda for the meeting. 

2. Questions and comments from 

members of the public will be permitted 

during the meetings, at the discretion of 

the Chairman. 

3. The transcript will be available on 

the ACMUI’s web site (http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/acmui/tr/) approximately 30 

calendar days following the meeting, on 

March 8, 2012. A meeting summary will 

be available approximately 30 business 

days following the meeting, on March 

21, 2012. 

The meetings will be held in 

accordance with the Atomic Energy Act 

of 1954, as amended (primarily Section 

161a); the Federal Advisory Committee 

Act (5 U.S.C. App); and the 

Commission’s regulations in Title 10, 

U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, Part 7. 

Dated: January 10, 2012. 

Andrew L. Bates, 

Advisory Committee Management Officer. 

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POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. MC2012–6, CP2012–12 and 

CP2012–13; Order No. 1112] 

New Postal Product 

AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commission is noticing a 

recently-filed Postal Service request to 

add Global Plus 1C agreements to the 

competitive product list. This notice 

addresses procedural steps associated 

with the filing. 

DATES: Comments are due: January 17, 

2012. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments 

electronically by accessing the ‘‘Filing 

Online’’ link in the banner at the top of 

the Commission’s Web site (http:// 

www.prc.gov) or by directly accessing 

the Commission’s Filing Online system 

at https://www.prc.gov/prc-pages/filingonline/login.aspx. Commenters who 

cannot submit their views electronically 

should contact the person identified in 

the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

section as the source for case-related 

information for advice on alternatives to 

electronic filing. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stephen L. Sharfman, General Counsel, 

at (202) 789–6820 (case-related 

information) or DocketAdmins@prc.gov 

(electronic filing assistance). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Introduction. The Postal Service has 

filed a request to add Global Plus 1C 

Contracts, consisting of two Global Plus 

1C agreements, to the competitive 

product list.1 The instant agreements are 

set to begin on January 22, 2012, at the 

expiration of customers’ current 

customized (Global Plus 1B) 

agreements.2 Id. at 4–5. 

Product history. Prices and 

classifications for Global Plus Contracts 

1 were added to the competitive product 

list in 2008; several groupings within 

this product, including Global Plus 1A 

and Global Plus 1B, were later added. 

Id. at 1–2. The Postal Service describes 

the instant contracts as the immediate 

successors to, and counterparts of, the 

instruments the Commission found 

eligible for inclusion in the Global Plus 

1B product in previous dockets.3 Id. at 

4. It also says the contracts are on behalf 

of the same customers. Id. 

Functional equivalence. The Postal 

Service addresses the functional 

equivalence of the two Global Plus 1C 

contracts, including a review of their 

similarities and differences. Id. at 5–6. 

It attributes any differences to the result 

of negotiations, and says they do not 

affect the Global Plus rate design or 

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