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year, and specific outputs and 

outcomes. 

Use of the Information: The data 

collected will be used for NSF internal 

reports, historical data, performance 

review by peer site visit teams, program 

level studies and evaluations, and for 

securing future funding for continued 

ERC program maintenance and growth. 

Estimate of Burden: 100 hours per 

center for 17 centers for a total of 1,700 

hours. 

Respondents: Academic institutions. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Report: One from each of the 17 ERCs. 

Dated: March 16, 2015. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

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clearance under the Paperwork 

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(a) whether the collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

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the collection of information unless it 

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Title: Request for Proposals. 

OMB Control Number: 3145–0080. 

Proposed Project: The Federal 

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policies and procedures for preparing 

and issuing Requests for Proposals. The 

FAR System has been developed in 

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Office of Federal Procurement Policy 

Act of 1974, as amended. The NSF Act 

of 1950, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 1870, 

Sec. II, states that NSF has the authority 

to: 

(c) Enter into contracts or other 

arrangements, or modifications thereof, 

for the carrying on, by organizations or 

individuals in the United States and 

foreign countries, including other 

government agencies of the United 

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scientific or engineering activities as the 

Foundation deems necessary to carry 

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request of the Secretary of Defense, 

specific scientific or engineering 

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U.S.C. 

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other for-profit; not-for-profit 

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local, or tribal governments. 

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Respondents: 41,850 hours. 

Dated: March 16, 2015. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

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In accordance with the Federal 

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463, as amended), the National Science 

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meeting: 

Name: Advisory Committee for 

Engineering #1170. 

Date/Time: April 15, 2015: 12:30 p.m. 

to 6:00 p.m.; April 16, 2015: 8:30 a.m. 

to 12:30 p.m. 

Place: National Science Foundation, 

4201 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1235, 

Arlington, Virginia 22230. 

Type of Meeting: open. 

Contact Person: Evette Rollins, 

National Science Foundation, 4201 

Wilson Boulevard, Suite 505, Arlington, 

Virginia 22230; 703–292–8300. 

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on major goals and policies pertaining 

to engineering programs and activities. 

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• Directorate for Engineering Report 

• Electrical, Communications, and 

Cyber Systems (ECCS) Overview 

• ECCS Committee of Visitors (COV) 

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• Perspectives from the Office of the 

Director 

• Emerging Frontiers of Research and 

Innovation (EFRI) Overview 

• EFRI Committee of Visitors (COV) 

Report 

• Roundtable on ENG Strategic 

Activities and Recommendations 

Dated: March 13, 2015. 

Suzanne Plimpton, 

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COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 070–3103; NRC–2013–0044] 

URENCO USA, Uranium Enrichment 

Facility 

AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Environmental assessment and 

finding of no significant impact; 

issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is considering 

approval of the URENCO USA (UUSA) 

license amendment request 12–10 

(LAR–12–10) that would authorize 

capacity expansion of the UUSA 

enrichment facility near Eunice, New 

Mexico. In addition the NRC is 

considering approval of related UUSA 

license amendment requests that would 

authorize increases in the mass 

possession limits for natural, depleted, 

and enriched uranium; and would 

authorize use of a modified enrichment 

process to utilize depleted uranium as 

the feed material. 

DATES: The environmental assessment 

and finding of no significant impact 

referenced in this document is available 

on March 19, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2013–0044 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 Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2013–0044. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Ms. 

Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301–415– 

3463; email: Carol.Gallagher@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 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 

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: 

Asimios Malliakos, Office of Nuclear 

Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–6458; email: 

Asimios.Malliakos@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The NRC is considering approval of 

the UUSA LAR–12–10 (a publiclyavailable version is available in ADAMS 

under Accession No. ML12319A591), 

and UUSA’s supplemental license 

amendment request (ADAMS Accession 

No. ML14171A092). The NRC’s 

approval would authorize capacity 

expansion of the UUSA enrichment 

facility that operates near Eunice, New 

Mexico. LAR–12–10 and the 

supplemental request were submitted by 

URENCO USA (formerly Louisiana 

Energy Services, LLC), requesting 

amendment of its special nuclear 

material (SNM) License SNM–2010, 

under which UUSA operates its gas 

centrifuge uranium enrichment facility. 

The NRC’s approval would increase the 

authorized mass possession limits for 

natural, depleted, and enriched 

uranium, and would authorize use of a 

modified enrichment process to utilize 

depleted uranium as the feed material. 

The NRC staff has prepared an 

Environmental Assessment (EA) 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML15072A016) 

of the proposed actions, in accordance 

with the requirements in Part 51 of Title 

10 of the Code of Federal Regulations 

(10 CFR). Both LAR–12–10 and UUSA’s 

June 2014, supplemental license 

amendment request were considered in 

the EA prepared by the NRC staff. 

The NRC staff’s safety evaluation of 

the proposed actions will be 

documented in a separate Safety 

Evaluation Report (SER). If the proposed 

actions are approved, the NRC will issue 

to UUSA an amended SNM–2010 

license following the publication of this 

notice, and the amended license will be 

made publicly available. 

II. Environmental Assessment 

On September 10, 2012, UUSA 

submitted an Environmental Report (ER) 

(ADAMS Accession Nos. ML12262A539 

and ML12262A540) that forms a basis 

for the NRC’s EA of the proposed 

actions. On November 9, 2012, UUSA 

submitted the associated LAR–12–10 to 

expand the production capacity of the 

UUSA facility. Subsequent to LAR–12– 

10, UUSA submitted a supplemental 

license amendment request on June 17, 

2014. The June 2014 submittal 

requested an increase in the authorized 

mass possession limits for natural, 

depleted, and enriched uranium. In 

addition, the June 2014 submittal 

requested authorization to use a 

modified enrichment process that 

would utilize depleted uranium instead 

of natural uranium as the feed material. 

The NRC staff has assessed the 

potential environmental impacts 

associated with the 2012 and 2014 

license amendment requests, as well as 

the no action alternative, and has 

documented the results in the EA. The 

NRC staff performed its environmental 

review in accordance with the 

requirements in 10 CFR part 51. In 

addition to the ER, the NRC staff also 

considered information received from a 

request for additional information (RAI); 

communications with the New Mexico 

State Historic Preservation Office 

(SHPO); the New Mexico Department of 

Game and Fish; information gathered 

from an NRC site visit; consultation 

with Native American Tribes, local 

governments and agencies officials; as 

well as information from independent 

analysis. 

In the EA, the NRC staff evaluated the 

potential environmental impacts of the 

proposed action and the no action 

alternative on the affected environment. 

The resource areas evaluated include: 

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; transportation; public and 

occupational health and safety; and 

waste management. 

Additionally, the NRC staff analyzed 

the potential cumulative impacts from 

past, present, and reasonably 

foreseeable future actions when 

combined with the environmental 


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