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TABLE C—WILLIAM D. FORD FEDERAL DIRECT LOAN (DIRECT LOAN) PROGRAM AND TEACHER EDUCATION ASSISTANCE

FOR COLLEGE AND HIGHER EDUCATION (TEACH) GRANT PROGRAM SUBMISSION DATES FOR DISBURSEMENT INFORMATION BY INSTITUTIONS FOR THE 2011–2012 COD PROCESSING YEAR 1—Continued 

Who submits? What is submitted? Where is it submitted? What are the earliest submission and 

deadline dates for receipt? 

An institution is required to submit 

disbursement information no 

later than 30 calendar days 

after the institution makes a disbursement or becomes aware of 

the need to make an adjustment 

to previously reported disbursement data. 

1A COD Processing Year is a period of time in which institutions are permitted to submit Direct Loan and TEACH Grant records to the COD 

System that are related to a given award year. For a Direct Loan, the period of time includes loans that have a loan period covering any day in 

the 2011–2012 award year. For a TEACH Grant, the period of time includes an award for a payment period that includes any day in the 2011– 

2012 award year. 

Note: The COD System must accept origination data for a student from an institution before it accepts disbursement information from the institution for that student. Institutions may submit origination and disbursement data for a student in the same transmission. However, if the origination data is rejected, the disbursement data is rejected. 

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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Notice of Availability of Draft Waste 

Incidental to Reprocessing Evaluation 

for the Concentrator Feed Makeup 

Tank and Melter Feed Hold Tank at the 

West Valley Demonstration Project for 

West Valley, NY 

AGENCY: Office of Environmental 

Management, U.S. Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy 

(DOE) announces the availability of a 

draft evaluation which shows that the 

concentrator feed makeup tank and 

melter feed hold tank (the vessels) 

which were used in conjunction with 

vitrifying waste from reprocessing of 

spent nuclear fuel and certain treatment 

material at the West Valley 

Demonstration Project (WVDP), located 

at the Western New York Service Center 

in West Valley, New York, are waste 

incidental to reprocessing and thus are 

not high-level radioactive waste (HLW) 

and may be managed and disposed of 

offsite as low-level waste (LLW). DOE 

prepared the draft evaluation pursuant 

to DOE Manual 435.1–1, Radioactive 

Waste Management Manual. DOE is 

consulting with the Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) before finalizing this 

evaluation. Although it is not required 

by DOE Manual 435.1–1, DOE is making 

the draft evaluation available for public 

and state review and comment during 

the NRC consultative review period. 

DOE will make its final evaluation and 

determination as to whether the vessels 

are HLW, or are waste incidental to 

reprocessing which can be managed and 

disposed of as LLW, after consideration 

of any public, state, and NRC comments 

on this draft evaluation. 

DATES: The comment period will end 

August 13, 2012. Comments received 

after that time will be considered to the 

extent practicable. 

ADDRESSES: The draft waste evaluation 

is available on the Internet at http:// 

www.wv.doe.gov/Document_Index/ 

vessels.pdf, and is publicly available for 

review at the following location: U.S. 

Department of Energy, West Valley 

Demonstration Project Public Reading 

Room located at the Ashford Office 

Complex, 9030 US Route 219, Ashford, 

NY 14171–9799, during the office hours 

of Monday through Thursday, 8:00 

a.m.–5:00 p.m., phone: (716) 942–4601. 

Written comments should be submitted 

to: Mr. Daniel Sullivan, U.S. Department 

of Energy, West Valley Demonstration 

Project, 10282 Rock Springs Road, West 

Valley, New York 14171–9799. 

Alternatively, comments may also be 

filed electronically by email to 

vessels@wv.doe.gov or by fax at (716) 

942–4703. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information about this draft 

waste evaluation, please contact Mr. 

Daniel Sullivan at the mailing address 

or Web site listed in ADDRESSES. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

vessels were used in the vitrification 

process to prepare and temporarily store 

pre-treated HLW slurry supplied to the 

vitrification melter. They were used as 

part of the process to solidify the HLW 

which had been generated by 

commercial reprocessing of spent 

nuclear fuel at the Western New York 

Nuclear Service Center in West Valley, 

New York, by Nuclear Fuel Services, 

Inc., from 1966 through 1972. DOE 

undertook the solidification activities 

pursuant to DOE’s responsibilities 

under the WVDP Act. To solidify the 

waste, DOE vitrified the waste 

(combined it at a high temperature with 

borosilicate glass) and transferred the 

molten glass-waste mixture into 

specially developed stainless steel 

canisters where the mixture hardened 

into a solid glass waste form. 

DOE operated the vitrification system 

between 1996 and 2002. In 2002, prior 

to shut down, the vessels were flushed 

with high pressure demineralized water 

so as to remove key radionuclides to the 

maximum extent technically and 

economically practical. The vessels with 

their remaining residual waste were 

characterized for radioactivity and 

determined to have radionuclide 

concentrations that do not exceed 

concentration limits for Class C LLW. 

They were removed from the 

vitrification cell in 2004 and are 

presently safely stored at the WVDP in 

transportation containers that meet 

Department of Transportation Industrial 

Package 2 requirements. The vessels 

were further stabilized by filling them 

with cement grout. As explained in the 

draft evaluation, they would be 

disposed of at a suitable off-site LLW 

waste disposal facility, either the Area 

5 Radioactive Waste Management Site at 

DOE’s Nevada National Security Site 

(NNSS) in Nevada or the Waste Control 

Specialists Federal Facility Waste 

Disposal Facility near Andrews, Texas. 

DOE would dispose of the vessel waste 

packages in accordance with applicable 

waste acceptance criteria using specific 

waste profile documentation. 

DOE Manual 435.1–1, which 

implements DOE Order 435.1, 

Radioactive Waste Management, 

contains a rigorous evaluation process 

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which DOE uses to determine whether 

or not certain waste from the 

reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel is 

incidental to reprocessing and therefore 

is not HLW and can be managed as 

LLW. This process, in relevant part, 

requires demonstrating that: 

(1) Key radionuclides have been 

removed to the maximum extent that is 

technically and economically practical; 

(2) The waste will be managed to meet 

safety requirements comparable to the 

performance objectives set out in 10 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 

61, subpart C, Performance Objectives; 

and 

(3) The waste will be managed, 

pursuant to DOE’s authority under the 

Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, 

and in accordance with the provisions 

of Chapter IV of DOE Manual 435.1–1, 

provided the waste will be incorporated 

in a solid physical form at a 

concentration that does not exceed the 

applicable concentration limits for Class 

C LLW as set out in 10 CFR 61.55, Waste 

Classification. 

The draft waste-incidental-toreprocessing evaluation summarizes 

DOE’s analysis and shows that the 

vessels: 

(1) Have had key radionuclides 

removed to the maximum extent 

technically and economically practical; 

(2) Will be managed to meet safety 

requirements comparable to the NRC 

performance objectives at 10 CFR part 

61, subpart C; and 

(3) Will be in a solid physical form 

that does not exceed concentration 

limits for Class C LLW and will be 

managed and disposed of pursuant to 

DOE’s authority under the Atomic 

Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and in 

accordance with applicable provisions 

of Chapter IV of DOE Manual 435.1–1. 

Accordingly, the draft evaluation 

demonstrates using the wasteincidental-to-reprocessing evaluation 

process that the West Valley vessel 

waste packages may be managed and 

disposed of as LLW. The vessel waste 

packages will meet the applicable waste 

acceptance criteria for the selected 

offsite LLW disposal facility, either the 

NNSS Area 5 Radioactive Waste 

Management Site or the Waste Control 

Specialists Federal Facility Waste 

Disposal Facility in Texas. The vessel 

waste packages have been approved for 

disposal by the NNSS in case a final 

decision is made to send the waste 

package to that site for disposal. 

DOE is consulting with the NRC 

before finalizing this evaluation. 

Although not required by DOE Manual 

435.1–1, DOE is making the draft 

evaluation available for public and state 

review and comment during the NRC 

consultative review period. DOE plans 

to issue a final determination as to 

whether the vessels are HLW or can be 

managed and disposed of as LLW 

following review and consultation with 

the NRC and consideration of public 

and state comments. 

DOE’s decision on the disposal site to 

be used is not within the scope of this 

draft evaluation. Any DOE decision on 

the facility to which the vessel waste 

packages would be sent would be made 

after the final DOE evaluation and 

determination, following consideration 

of NRC and public comments on this 

draft evaluation, and after DOE confers 

with appropriate State officials in the 

state where the waste packages may be 

disposed. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on June 20, 

2012. 

Frank Marcinowski, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Waste 

Management, Office of Environmental 

Management. 

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BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

[FE Docket Nos. 12–21–NG; 12–43–NG; 12– 

48–LNG] 

Noble Americas Gas & Power Corp., 

LNG Development Company, LLC, LNG 

Development Company, LLC (d/b/a 

Oregon LNG); Notice of Orders 

Granting Authority To Import and 

Export Natural Gas and Liquefied 

Natural Gas During May 2012 

AGENCY: Office of Fossil Energy, 

Department of Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Notice of orders. 

SUMMARY: The Office of Fossil Energy 

(FE) of the Department of Energy gives 

notice that during May 2012, it issued 

Orders granting authority to import and 

export natural gas and liquefied natural 

gas. These Orders are summarized in the 

attached appendix and may be found on 

the FE Web site at http:// 

www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/ 

gasregulation/authorizations/Orders2012.html. They are also available for 

inspection and copying in the Office of 

Fossil Energy, Office of Natural Gas 

Regulatory Activities, Docket Room 

3E–033, Forrestal Building, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585, (202) 586–9478. 

The Docket Room is open between the 

hours of 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on June 25, 

2012. 

John A. Anderson, 

Manager, Natural Gas Regulatory Activities, 

Office of Oil and Gas Global Security and 

Supply, Office of Fossil Energy. 

APPENDIX 

DOE/FE ORDERS GRANTING IMPORT/EXPORT AUTHORIZATIONS

Order No. Date Issued FE 

Docket No. Authorization Holder Description of Action 

3098 ............................. 05/03/12 12–21–NG Noble Americas Gas & 

Power Corp.

Order granting blanket authority to import/export natural 

gas from/to Canada/Mexico, and to import LNG from 

various international sources by vessel. 

3099 ............................. 05/31/12 12–43–NG LNG Development Company, LLC.Order granting blanket authority to import natural gas 

from Canada. 

3100 ............................. 05/31/12 12–48–LNG LNG Development Company, LLC (d/b/a Oregon 

LNG).

Order granting long-term multi-contract authority to export 

LNG by vessel from the proposed LNG Terminal in 

Warrenton, Clatsop County, Oregon to Free Trade 

Agreement nations. 

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