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data about the Partners for Reentry 

Opportunities in Workforce 

Development (PROWD) Evaluation. A 

copy of the proposed Information 

Collection Request (ICR) can be 

obtained by contacting the office listed 

below in the addressee section of this 

notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

addressee section below on or before 

February 18, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either one of the following methods: 

Email: ChiefEvaluationOffice@dol.gov; 

Mail or Courier: Evan Murphy, Chief 

Evaluation Office, OASP, U.S. 

Department of Labor, Room S–2312, 200 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20210. Instructions: Please submit 

one copy of your comments by only one 

method. All submissions received must 

include the agency name and OMB 

Control Number identified above for 

this information collection. Comments, 

including any personal information 

provided, become a matter of public 

record. They will also be summarized 

and/or included in the request for OMB 

approval of the information collection 

request. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Evan Murphy by email at 

ChiefEvaluationOffice@dol.gov or by 

phone at (202) 693–0224. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background: The U.S. Department 

of Labor (DOL), in partnership with the 

Department of Justice (DOJ) Bureau of 

Prisons (BOP), awarded the Partners for 

Reentry Opportunities in Workforce 

Development (PROWD) grants to 

provide employment-related reentry 

services to people exiting the federal 

prison system. DOL’s Chief Evaluation 

Office (CEO) has partnered with the 

Employee and Training 

Administration’s Reentry Employment 

Opportunity (REO) Program to conduct 

an independent evaluation of the 

PROWD grants. This study will provide 

DOL, BOP, grantees, and other 

constituents with knowledge about the 

implementation and impact of grantees 

awarded PROWD grants in Fall 2023, 

including how grantees are preparing 

people exiting federal prisons to find 

and maintain good jobs after release. 

DOL CEO is working with an evaluation 

team led by Mathematica and their 

partners RTI International and Abt 

Global. This Federal Register Notice 

provides the opportunity to comment on 

proposed data collection instruments 

that will be used in the impact 

evaluation: 

1. Impact study participant baseline 

survey. This 15-minute survey will be 

administered by PROWD grantee staff to 

up to 3,000 individuals enrolling in 

services at two stages in service 

delivery: in the BOP prisons and 

residential reentry centers (RRCs), for a 

total of up to 6,000 responses (2,000 

responses a year annualized across three 

years). The survey will ask about basic 

demographic information and personal 

identifiers needed for record linking, 

employment history, and criminal 

justice history, and if completing the 

survey at the RRC, what PROWD or 

other employment services they 

received in the BOP correctional 

institution. 

II. Desired Focus of Comments: 

Currently, the Department of Labor is 

soliciting comments concerning the 

above data collection for the Partners for 

Reentry Opportunities in Workforce 

Development (PROWD) Evaluation. 

DOL is particularly interested in 

comments that do the following: 

Æ evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance functions of 

the agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

Æ evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s burden estimate of the 

proposed information collection, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions; 

Æ enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

Æ minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology— 

for example, permitting electronic 

submissions of responses. 

III. Current Actions: At this time, the 

Department of Labor is requesting 

clearance for the impact study 

participant baseline survey. 

Type of Review: New information 

collection request. 

OMB Control Number: 1290–0NEW. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this request will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget approval of the 

information collection request; they will 

also become a matter of public record. 

ESTIMATED ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS

Type of instrument 

(form/activity) 

Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Total number 

of responses 

Average 

burden time 

per response 

(hours) 

Estimated 

burden 

hours 

Impact study participant baseline survey ............................ 1 1,000 2 2,000 .25 500 

Total .............................................................................. 1,000 ........................ 2,000 ........................ 500 

1Assumes approximately 3,000 program participants will complete the baseline survey up to two times over the three-year clearance period. 

Alix Gould-Werth, 

Chief Evaluation Officer, U.S. Department of 

Labor. 

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[Docket No. 70–0925; NRC–2023–0087] 

Cimarron Environmental Response 

Trust; Cimarron Facility; 

Environmental Assessment and 

Finding of No Significant Impact 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is considering 

amending Special Nuclear Materials 

(SNM) License No. SNM–928, which is 

held by the Cimarron Environmental 

Response Trust (CERT) for activities at 

the site of the former Cimarron Fuel 

Fabrication Facility (Cimarron site) in 

Logan County, Oklahoma. The license 

amendment would approve a revision to 


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the site decommissioning plan 

developed by Environmental Properties 

Management, LLC (EPM) to address 

remaining groundwater contamination 

at the Cimarron site. The NRC staff is 

issuing an environmental assessment 

(EA) and finding of no significant 

impact (FONSI) associated with the 

proposed amendment. 

DATES: The EA and FONSI referenced in 

this document are available on 

December 19, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2023–0087 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 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2023–0087. Address 

questions about Docket IDs in 

Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; 

telephone: 301–415–0624; email: 

Stacy.Schumann@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 

https://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, at 

301–415–4737, or by email to 

PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. For the 

convenience of the reader, instructions 

about obtaining materials referenced in 

this document are provided in the 

‘‘Availability of Documents’’ section. 

• NRC’s PDR: The PDR, where you 

may examine and order copies of 

publicly available documents, is open 

by appointment. To make an 

appointment to visit the PDR, please 

send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov 

or call 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415– 

4737, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern 

time (ET), Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christine Pineda, Office of Nuclear 

Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–6789; email: 

Christine.Pineda@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The NRC is considering amending 

license no. SNM–928, held by the CERT, 

for NRC-regulated activities at the site of 

the former Cimarron Fuel Fabrication 

Facility located near Cimarron City 

along the Cimarron River in Logan 

County, Oklahoma. On October 7, 2022, 

EPM submitted a request to the NRC for 

a license amendment that would 

approve revision 3 of the site 

decommissioning plan. Revision 3 of 

the decommissioning plan details EPM’s 

plans to install, operate, and dismantle 

a groundwater treatment system at the 

site. 

As required in section 51.21 of title 10 

of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 

CFR), ‘‘Criteria for and identification of 

licensing and regulatory actions 

requiring environmental assessments,’’ 

the NRC developed an EA for the 

proposed license amendment, which 

would incorporate the revised 

decommissioning plan into the license. 

Based on the results of the EA, the NRC 

has determined not to prepare an 

environmental impact statement for the 

proposed amendment and is issuing a 

FONSI. 

II. Summary of Environmental 

Assessment 

Description of the Proposed Action 

The proposed Federal action is 

amending the license to incorporate a 

revised decommissioning plan that 

details EPM’s plans to construct, 

operate, and dismantle a groundwater 

treatment system. The proposed 

groundwater treatment operation would 

reduce concentrations of uranium in 

groundwater to 6.7 becquerels per liter 

(Bq/L) (180 picocuries per liter [pCi/L]), 

as required in condition 27(b) of license 

no. SNM–928. The establishment of this 

criterion assumed the use of 

groundwater as a drinking water source 

and for the raising of produce (plants 

and livestock) by a resident farmer. 

Treated groundwater would be 

reinjected to the ground or discharged to 

the Cimarron River. After groundwater 

treatment is complete, EPM would 

conduct monitoring, dismantle the 

treatment system, and perform a final 

status survey before requesting NRC 

license termination. The entire 

groundwater treatment process would 

take about 16 years. Remediation would 

be completed in about 12.5 years, 

followed by about 3 years of 

groundwater monitoring, dismantling 

activities, and the development and 

implementation of a final status survey. 

The proposed license amendment to 

approve the decommissioning plan 

would also authorize the possession of 

technetium-99 (Tc-99), which is present 

in the groundwater. Because treatment 

of the groundwater would likely result 

in the concentration of Tc-99 in the 

treatment media, the addition of Tc-99 

to the license would allow the licensee 

to possess and dispose of contaminated 

material containing both uranium and 

Tc-99 as low-level radioactive waste. 

The proposed action is in accordance 

with the licensee’s application dated 

October 7, 2022, as supplemented by 

letters dated November 3, 2023; 

November 15, 2023; and December 8, 

2023. 

Need for the Proposed Action 

The purpose of the NRC’s proposed 

action is to amend the license to 

incorporate the revised 

decommissioning plan, which details 

EPM’s plans to conduct groundwater 

cleanup activities to ensure that the site 

will comply with NRC 

decommissioning criteria and standards 

in 10 CFR part 20, ‘‘Standards for 

Protection Against Radiation,’’ for 

protection of the public and the 

environment. Groundwater remediation 

is needed so that the NRC can 

ultimately release the site from and 

terminate license no. SNM–928. 

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed 

Action 

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. The NRC staff 

concluded that, as detailed in the 

revised decommissioning plan, 

construction, operation, and 

decommissioning of the proposed 

groundwater remediation system would 

have a beneficial impact on 

groundwater quality and would not 

have significant impacts on land use, 

visual and scenic resources, the geologic 

environment, surface water resources, 

air quality, noise, socioeconomic 

conditions, public and occupational 

health, transportation, and waste 

generation and management. The NRC 

staff concluded, after consultation with 

the Oklahoma State Historic 

Preservation Office and the Oklahoma 

Archaeological Survey and receiving 

input from Native American Tribes, that 

the proposed action would not cause 

effects on resources that are eligible for 

listing on the National Register of 

Historic Places and that no Tribal 

cultural resources have been identified 

or are known to exist on the site. In 

consultation with the Oklahoma 

Ecological Services Field Office of the 


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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the 

Oklahoma Department of Environmental 

Quality (DEQ), the NRC staff concluded 

that the proposed action may affect but 

is not likely to adversely affect 

terrestrial threatened or endangered 

species, would not affect the aquatic 

threatened or endangered species, and 

may modify but is not likely to 

adversely modify critical habitat for two 

species of fish. Finally, the staff found 

that the proposed decommissioning 

activities would not have 

disproportionate and adverse human 

health and environmental effects on 

minority and low-income populations 

living near the Cimarron site. The 

proposed action would result in the 

remediation of uranium to 

concentration limits required by the 

NRC, specified in license condition 

27(c). In addition, the proposed action 

would result in the removal of some Tc99 from groundwater, but the 

concentrations of Tc-99 in groundwater 

are already below the NRC limit. The 

Oklahoma DEQ plans to work with EPM 

during and after the proposed action to 

further address Tc-99, as well as nitrate 

and fluoride levels in the groundwater. 

After groundwater remediation for 

uranium is complete and the NRC 

license is terminated, EPM would 

follow any controls that may be 

established by the Oklahoma DEQ for 

future land use or groundwater use. 

Environmental Impacts of the 

Alternatives to the Proposed Action 

The NRC staff considered the ‘‘noaction alternative.’’ Under the no-action 

alternative, the NRC would not approve 

the revised decommissioning plan as 

proposed and EPM would need to 

prepare and submit a new plan for 

review. Site maintenance activities 

would continue in the meantime. The 

impacts from the no-action alternative 

ultimately would be similar to the 

impacts of the proposed action 

described in the EA, albeit delayed by 

the amount of time needed to revise, 

review, and approve a new groundwater 

treatment plan. 

Agencies and Persons Consulted 

The NRC provided the draft EA in 

June 2024 to the Oklahoma DEQ for 

review and comment. The Oklahoma 

DEQ provided clarifying comments 

regarding the State’s role during and 

after the NRC-licensed 

decommissioning activities to further 

ensure public health and safety at the 

site, clarification regarding limits to be 

established in the permit for discharges 

of treated groundwater to the Cimarron 

River, clarification regarding State Tc-99 

limits in discharges and in groundwater, 

and corrections. The EA reflects changes 

the NRC staff made to address these 

State comments. 

As described in the ‘‘Environmental 

Impacts of the Proposed Action’’ section 

of this notice, during the preparation of 

the EA the NRC staff consulted with the 

Oklahoma State Historic Preservation 

Office, the Oklahoma Archaeological 

Survey, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service. The EA reflects the information 

received from these agencies to address 

cultural and historic resources and 

threatened and endangered species. 

Throughout the development of the 

EA, the NRC staff communicated with 

Native American Tribes. While no 

Tribes requested formal consultation, 

several Tribes requested to be kept 

informed of the status of the NRC’s 

review. Section 4.2 of the EA details the 

NRC’s communications with Tribes over 

the course of this review. 

III. Finding of No Significant Impact 

The NRC staff prepared the EA as part 

of its review of the proposed action. On 

the basis of the EA, the NRC finds that 

there would be no significant 

environmental impacts from the 

proposed action, and that preparation of 

an environmental impact statement is 

not warranted. Accordingly, the NRC 

has determined that a FONSI is 

appropriate. In accordance with 10 CFR 

51.32(a)(4), this FONSI incorporates the 

EA by reference. 

IV. Availability of Documents 

The documents identified in the 

following table are available to 

interested persons through one or more 

of the following methods, as indicated. 

Document description ADAMS accession No. 

Environmental Assessment for Revised Decommissioning Plan Proposal to Remediate Groundwater at the Cimarron Site in Logan County, Oklahoma, dated November 2024.ML24334A062. 

Cimarron Environmental Response Trust Facility Decommissioning Plan—Revision 3, dated October 7, 2022 ..... ML22286A041 (Package). 

Response to NRC Request for Additional Information for the EA, dated November 3, 2023 ................................... ML23319A252. 

Response to NRC Request for Additional Information Related to Nuclear Criticality Safety, dated November 15, 

2023.

ML23319A203. 

Response to NRC Request for Additional Information for the SER, dated December 8, 2023 ................................. ML23346A262. 

NRC Form 374—Materials License SNM–928, Amendment 21, dated February 14, 2011 ...................................... ML110270373.

Email to State of Oklahoma Requesting Review of Draft EA, dated May 31, 2024 .................................................. ML24316A012. 

State of Oklahoma Comments on Draft EA, dated August 2, 2024 ........................................................................... ML24218A172. 

State of Oklahoma Letter to NRC—National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit Discharge Limits, 

dated October 11, 2024.

ML24309A252. 

Dated: December 13, 2024. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Robert Sun, 

Chief, Environmental Project Management 

Branch 2, Division of Rulemaking, 

Environmental, and Financial Support, Office 

of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. 

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BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

Licensing Support Network Advisory 

Review Panel; Charter Renewal 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of charter renewal. 

SUMMARY: The Licensing Support 

System Advisory Review Panel was 

established by the U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission (NRC) as a 

Federal Advisory Committee in 1989. Its 

purpose was to provide advice on the 

fundamental issues of design and 

development of an electronic 

information management system to be 

used to store and retrieve documents 

relating to the licensing of a geologic 

repository for the disposal of high-level 

radioactive waste, and on the operation 

and maintenance of the system. This 

electronic information management 

system was known as the Licensing 

Support System. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Russell E. Chazell, Office of the 


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