Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 205 / Tuesday, October 25, 2005 / Notices 61649 

Signed at Washington, DC this 17th day of 

October 2003. 

Richard Church, 

Certifying Officer, Division of Trade 

Adjustment Assistance. 

[FR Doc. E5–5888 Filed 10–24–05; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

[TA–W–57,781] 

Nu-Gro Technologies, Inc., 

Gloversville, NY; Dismissal of 

Application for Reconsideration 

Pursuant to 29 CFR 90.18(C) an 

application for administrative 

reconsideration was filed with the 

Director of the Division of Trade 

Adjustment Assistance for workers at 

Nu-Gro Technologies, Inc., Gloversville, 

New York. The application contained 

no new substantial information which 

would bear importantly on the 

Department’s determination. Therefore, 

dismissal of the application was issued. 

TA–W–57,781; Nu-Gro Technologies, Inc., 

Gloversville, New York (October 11, 

2005). 

Signed at Washington, DC this 13th day of 

October 2005. 

Douglas F. Small, 

Acting Director, Division of Trade Adjustment 

Assistance. 

[FR Doc. E5–5886 Filed 10–24–05; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Office of the Assistant Secretary for 

Veterans Employment and Training 

President’s National Hire Veterans 

Committee; Notice of Open Meeting 

The President’s National Hire 

Veterans Committee was established 

under 38 U.S.C. 4100 Public Law 107–

288, Jobs For Veterans Act, to furnish 

information to employers with respect 

to the training and skills of veterans and 

disabled veterans, and to the advantages 

afforded employers by hiring veterans 

with training and skills and to facilitate 

the employment of veterans and 

disabled veterans through participation 

in Career One Stop National Labor 

Exchange, and other means. 

The President’s National Hire 

Veterans Committee will meet on 

Thursday, November 17, 2005 beginning 

at 1 p.m. in the Board Room of the 

United Brotherhood of Carpenters, 100 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC. 

The committee will discuss raising 

corporate awareness about the 

advantages of hiring veterans. 

Individuals needing special 

accommodations should notify Bill 

Offutt at (202) 693–4717 by November 

10, 2005. 

Signed at Washington D.C., this 19th day 

of October, 2005. 

Charles S. Ciccolella, 

Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans’

Employment and Training. 

[FR Doc. 05–21277 Filed 10–24–05; 8:45 am] 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket Number 030–28641] 

Environmental Assessment and 

Finding of No Significant Impact for 

Department of the Air Force’s Request 

for 10 CFR 20.2002 Authorization, for 

Disposal of Four Tanks Containing 

Depleted Uranium to a Subtitle C 

RCRA Hazardous Waste Disposal 

Facility 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Rachel S. Browder, M.S., Health 

Physicist, Nuclear Materials Licensing 

Branch, Division of Nuclear Materials 

Safety, Region IV, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, 611 Ryan Plaza 

Drive, Suite 400, Arlington, Texas 

76011; Telephone: (817) 276–6552; fax 

number: (817) 860–8122; e-mail: 

rsb3@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is considering 

approval of a request dated June 23, 

2004, by the U.S. Department of the Air 

Force (Air Force), for disposal of four 

M–47 tanks containing depleted 

uranium (DU) from the 98th Range Wing 

at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, to a 

Subtitle C RCRA hazardous waste 

disposal facility. The request for 

approval is submitted pursuant to 10 

CFR 20.2002, ‘‘Method of Obtaining 

Approval of Proposed Disposal 

Procedures.’’ NRC staff evaluated the 

licensee’s analyses of disposal to a 

Subtitle C RCRA hazardous waste 

disposal facility, to demonstrate 

compliance with 10 CFR 20.2002. The 

staff used the general guidance for dose 

modeling as documented in NUREG–

1727, SRP 5.2, and supplemented by the 

decommissioning-specific guidance of 

the license termination rule. The dose 

assessment for the disposal of the 

subject material would result in doses 

less than 0.01 millisievert (1 millirem) 

per year. This action will revise the Air 

Force Master Materials License No. 42–

23539–01AF, to authorize the specific 

disposal of four M–47 tanks containing 

DU material to a Subtitle C RCRA 

hazardous waste disposal facility, 

pursuant to 10 CFR 20.2002, for 

procedures not otherwise authorized in 

the regulations of this chapter. This 

proposed action would also exempt the 

low-contaminated material authorized 

for burial from further Atomic Energy 

Act (AEA) and NRC licensing 

requirements. The NRC staff has 

prepared an Environmental Assessment 

(EA) in support of this action in 

accordance with the requirements of 10 

CFR part 51. The NRC has determined 

that a Finding of No Significant Impact 

(FONSI) is appropriate for the proposed 

action. 

II. Environmental Assessment 

Background 

The Air Force used four U.S. Army 

M–47 tanks as target practice at Nellis 

Air Force Base, Nevada. The M–47 tanks 

were contaminated with DU, as a result 

of A–10 aircraft target penetrator 

rounds. Each tank contains less than 

forty GAU–8 30mm DU rounds; each 

round contains 300 grams of DU. As a 

result of the kinetic energy released 

when a tank is hit by a DU round, some 

of the DU from the round will bond 

with the metal surrounding the entry 

point and the interior of the chamber. 

The DU is a metal form with a minor 

contribution as an oxide. The mass of 

the DU per tank is approximately 12 kg, 

and when averaged over the mass of the 

tank (60 tons), the source material is less 

than one-twentieth of 1 percent (0.05 

percent) of the mixture. The Air Force 

demonstrated by calculation that the 

potential dose consequence is less than 

1 mrem per year, based on the proposed 

burial of the M–47 tanks in a RCRA 

facility. 

Identification of the Proposed Action 

The proposed action is approval of 

the disposal of four (4) M–47 tanks from 

Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, to U.S. 

Ecology facility in Grand View, Idaho, 

which is a Subtitle C RCRA hazardous 

waste disposal facility. The Air Force 

has conservatively assumed the 

inventory of DU in each of the four M–

47 tanks and calculated the potential 

dose as being less than 1 mrem per year, 

if all four tanks were to be disposed of,