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joint contention, for which one of the 

co-sponsoring requesters/petitioners is 

designated the lead representative. 

Further, in accordance with 10 CFR 

2.309(f)(3), any requester/petitioner that 

wishes to adopt a contention proposed 

by another requester/petitioner must do 

so, in accordance with the E-Filing rule, 

within ten days of the date that the 

contention is filed, and designate a 

representative who shall have the 

authority to act for the requester/ 

petitioner. 

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.309(g), 

a request for hearing and/or petition for 

leave to intervene may also address the 

selection of the hearing procedures, 

taking into account the provisions of 10 

CFR 2.310. 

III. Further Information 

Documents related to this action, 

including the application for 

amendment and supporting 

documentation, are available 

electronically at the NRC’s Electronic 

Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/ 

reading-rm/adams.html. From this site, 

you can access the NRC’s Agencywide 

Document Access and Management 

System (ADAMS), which provides text 

and image files of NRC’s public 

documents. The documents related to 

this action are listed below, along with 

their ADAMS accession numbers: 

1. Hypervelocity Gun Facility 

Decommissioning Assessment, ADAMS 

Accession No. ML070330468 and 

2. Hypervelocity Gun Facility 

Decommissioning Plan, ADAMS 

Accession No. ML081640631. 

If you do not have access to ADAMS 

or if there are problems in accessing the 

documents located in ADAMS, contact 

the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) 

Reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 

301–415–4737, or by e-mail to 

pdr.resource@nrc.gov. These documents 

may also be viewed electronically on 

the public computers located at the 

NRC’s PDR, O 1 F21, One White Flint 

North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

MD 20852. The Public Document Room 

reproduction contractor will copy 

documents for a fee. 

Dated at Region I, 475 Allendale Road, 

King of Prussia, PA, this 27th day of March, 

2009. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Randolph H. Ragland, Jr., 

Chief, Decommissioning Branch, Division of 

Nuclear Materials Safety, Region I. 

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[Docket No. 70–1257; NRC–2009–0147] 

Notice of Availability of Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact for License 

Amendment for AREVA NP, Inc., 

Richland, WA 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Gloria Kulesa, Senior Environmental 

Project Manager, Environmental Review 

Branch, Division of Waste Management 

and Environmental Protection, Office of 

Federal and State Materials and 

Environmental Management Programs, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Rockville, Maryland 20852. Telephone: 

(301) 415–5308; fax number: (301) 415– 

5369; e-mail: Gloria.Kulesa@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

(NRC) is considering the renewal of 

Special Nuclear Material License SNM– 

1227 for the continued operation of the 

AREVA NP, Inc. Fuel Fabrication 

Facility located in Richland, 

Washington. This renewal authorizes 

the licensee to receive and possess 

nuclear materials at the Richland 

facility to fabricate and assemble 

nuclear fuel components under the 

provisions of 10 CFR part 70, Domestic 

Licensing of Special Nuclear Material. If 

NRC approves the renewal of the 

license, the term would cover 40 years. 

NRC has prepared an Environmental 

Assessment (EA) in support of this 

action in accordance with the 

requirements of 10 CFR part 51. Based 

on the EA, the NRC has concluded that 

a Finding of No Significant Impact 

(FONSI) is appropriate. If approved, 

NRC will issue the renewed license 

following the publication of this notice. 

II. EA Summary 

The licensee requests approval to 

renew SNM–1227 for an additional 40 

years at the Richland, Washington 

facility. Specifically, this would allow 

AREVA NP to continue manufacturing 

and assembling nuclear fuel 

components for use in commercial lightwater-cooled nuclear reactors. On 

October 24, 2006, AREVA NP requested 

that NRC approve the proposed 

amendment. AREVA NP’s request for 

the proposed change was previously 

noticed in the Federal Register on 

March 15, 2007 (72 FR 12202), with a 

Notice of an Opportunity to Request a 

Hearing. 

The staff has prepared the EA in 

support of the proposed license 

renewal. Staff considered 12 

environmental impacts in their 

evaluation, including: Land use; 

transportation; socioeconomics; air 

quality; water quality; geology and soils; 

ecology; noise; historic and cultural; 

scenic and visual; public and 

occupational health; and waste 

management. All of the environmental 

impacts were small, with the exception 

of transportation. NRC staff considered 

the transportation long-term and 

cumulative impacts as small-tomoderate based on projected population 

growth estimates and anticipated 

development of residential communities 

and commercial lands. The regional 

government and industry 

collaboratively plan the area’s future 

transportation system to minimize 

traffic impacts. NRC considers that the 

proactive planning efforts will keep the 

impact small. A brief summary of the 

other environmental resources follows. 

The license renewal request does not 

require altering the site footprint nor 

does it change the operating processes 

of the existing facility, therefore there 

are no anticipated impacts in land use, 

noise, historic and cultural, scenic and 

visual, and site ecology resources. The 

proposed action will not adversely 

affect federal or state-listed threatened 

or endangered species nor flora and 

fauna in the site vicinity. AREVA NP is 

a major business that contributes a 

positive benefit towards the region’s 

socioeconomics. Airborne and liquid 

effluent monitoring indicates readings 

below regulatory 10 CFR part 20 limits 

for non-radiological and radiological 

contaminants. Public and occupational 

exposures are below the limit 

established in 10 CFR part 20. AREVA 

NP maintains acceptable waste 

management practices and procedures. 

The staff concluded that the proposed 

40 year renewal of license SNM–1227 

will not result in a significant impact to 

the environment. 

NRC staff consulted with other 

agencies regarding the proposed action, 

including the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service (USFWS), the Washington 

Department of Ecology, Washington 

Department of Archaeology and Historic 

Preservation [i.e. the State Historic 

Preservation Office], the Confederated 

Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation 

[i.e., one of the two local Tribal Historic 

Preservation Offices], and the 

Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla 

Indian Reservation. The consultations 

ensured that the requirements of Section 

7 of the Endangered Species Act and 


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Section 106 of the National Historic 

Preservation Act were met and provided 

the designated state liaison agency the 

opportunity to comment on the 

proposed action. 

III. Finding of No Significant Impact 

On the basis of the EA, NRC has 

concluded that there are no significant 

environmental impacts from the 

proposed amendment and has 

determined not to prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement. 

IV. Further Information 

Documents related to this action, 

including the application for 

amendment and supporting 

documentation, are available 

electronically at the NRC’s Electronic 

Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/ 

reading-rm/adams.html. From this site, 

you can access the NRC’s Agencywide 

Document Access and Management 

System (ADAMS), which provides text 

and image files of NRC’s public 

documents. The ADAMS accession 

numbers for the documents related to 

this notice are: 

Document ADAMS Accession 

No. 

License Renewal—Letter ............................................................................................................................................................. ML063110083 

—Application ......................................................................................................................................................................... ML063110089 

—Environmental Report ........................................................................................................................................................ ML063110087 

NRC Letters to Confederate Tribes & Bands of Yakama Nation ................................................................................................ ML073370055 

ML082470386 

ML090440136 

NRC Letters to Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation ................................................................................... ML080250134 

ML082610765 

ML090440128 

NRC Letter to Washington State SHPO ...................................................................................................................................... ML073100238 

ML082470310 

ML090430370 

NRC Letter to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service .............................................................................................................................. ML073100164 

ML082470214 

Request for Additional Information (RAI) and Responses .......................................................................................................... ML080600457/ 

ML080640145 

ML081300403 

ML082330600 

Tribal letters to NRC .................................................................................................................................................................... ML080790549 

ML081620577 

State Historic Preservation Office, letter to NRC ........................................................................................................................ ML080560066 

ML082880314 

Washington Department of Ecology letter to NRC ...................................................................................................................... ML083040124 

USFWS correspondence with NRC ............................................................................................................................................. ML090720616 

ML090720623 

ML090720581 

Environmental Assessment .......................................................................................................................................................... ML090700258 

If you do not have access to ADAMS or 

if there are problems in accessing the 

documents located in ADAMS, contact 

the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) 

Reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301– 

415–4737 or by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov. 

These documents may also be viewed 

electronically on the public computers 

located at the NRC’s PDR, O 1 F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. The PDR 

reproduction contractor will copy 

documents for a fee. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 27th day 

of March 2009. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Andrea Kock, 

Chief, Environmental Review Branch, 

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: NRC will convene a meeting 

of the Advisory Committee on the 

Medical Uses of Isotopes (ACMUI) on 

May 7–8, 2009. A sample of agenda 

items to be discussed during the public 

session includes: (1) Summary of the 

enforcement process and enforcement 

actions against medical licensees; (2) 

regulatory responsibilities of the U.S. 

Food and Drug Administration; (3) 

ACMUI subcommittee report on 

byproduct material events; (4) ACMUI 

subcommittee report on training and 

experience for yttrium-90 microspheres 

users; (5) National Academy of Science 

report on the production of medical 

isotopes using highly enriched uranium 

and low enriched uranium; (6) briefing 

on the Veterans Affairs medical events; 

(7) infiltrations of therapeutic 

radiopharmaceuticals as medical events; 

(8) National Council on Radiation 

Protection & Measurements Report 160 

‘‘Ionizing Radiation Exposure of the 

Population of the United States’’ and its 

implications for NRC programs; (9) 

ACMUI subcommittee report on training 

and experience for American Board of 

Radiology certification; (10) medical 

event reporting to the International 

Nuclear Event Scale; and (11) potential 

changes to 10 CFR Part 35. A copy of the 

agenda will be available at http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/acmui/agenda or by emailing Ms. Ashley Cockerham at the 

contact information below. 

Purpose: Discuss issues related to 10 

CFR Part 35 Medical Use of Byproduct 

Material. 

Date and Time for Closed Session: 

May 7, 2009, from 3:15 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. 

This session will be closed so that 

ACMUI can complete self-evaluations, 

discuss internal Committee business, 

and prepare for a meeting with the 

Commission. 


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