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In the event that the Licensee requests 

a hearing as provided above, the issues 

to be considered at such hearing shall 

be: 

(a) Whether the Licensee was in 

violation of the Commission’s 

requirements as set forth in the Notice 

referred to in Section II above, and 

(b) Whether, on the basis of such 

violation, this Order should be 

sustained.

Dated this 27th day of January 2005.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Frank J. Congel, 

Director, Office of Enforcement.

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[Docket No. 030–20885] 

Notice of Availability of Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact for License 

Amendment for Genzyme Biosurgery’s 

Facility in Ridgefield, NJ

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Kathy Dolce Modes, Materials Security 

& Industrial Branch, Division of Nuclear 

Materials Safety, Region I, 475 

Allendale Road, King of Prussia, 

Pennsylvania 19406, telephone (610) 

337–5251, fax (610) 337–5269; or by email: KAD@NRC.GOV.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

(NRC) is issuing a license amendment to 

Genzyme Biosurgery for Materials 

License No. 29–23308–01, to authorize 

release of its facility in Ridgefield, New 

Jersey for unrestricted use. 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. The amendment will be 

issued following the publication of this 

notice. 

II. EA Summary 

The purpose of the action is to 

authorize the release of the licensee’s 

Ridgefield, New Jersey facility for 

unrestricted use. Genzyme Biosurgery 

was authorized by NRC from December 

23, 1983, to use radioactive materials for 

research and development purposes at 

the site. On June 4, 2004, Genzyme 

Biosurgery requested that NRC release 

the facility for unrestricted use. 

Genzyme Biosurgery has conducted 

surveys of the facility and provided 

information to the NRC to demonstrate 

that the site meets the license 

termination criteria in subpart E of 10 

CFR part 20 for unrestricted use. 

The NRC staff has prepared an EA in 

support of the license amendment. The 

facility was remediated and surveyed 

prior to the licensee requesting the 

license amendment. The NRC staff has 

reviewed the information and final 

status survey submitted by Genzyme 

Biosurgery. Based on its review, the staff 

has determined that there are no 

additional remediation activities 

necessary to complete the proposed 

action. Therefore, the staff considered 

the impact of the residual radioactivity 

at the facility and concluded that since 

the residual radioactivity meets the 

requirements in subpart E of 10 CFR 

part 20, a Finding of No Significant 

Impact is appropriate. 

III. Finding of No Significant Impact 

The staff has prepared the EA 

(summarized above) in support of the 

license amendment to terminate the 

license and release the facility for 

unrestricted use. The NRC staff has 

evaluated Genzyme Biosurgery’s request 

and the results of the surveys and has 

concluded that the completed action 

complies with the criteria in subpart E 

of 10 CFR part 20. The staff has found 

that the environmental impacts from the 

action are bounded by the impacts 

evaluated by NUREG–1496, Volumes 1–

3, ‘‘Generic Environmental Impact 

Statement in Support of Rulemaking on 

Radiological Criteria for License 

Termination of NRC-Licensed 

Facilities’’ (ML042310492, 

ML042320379, and ML042330385). On 

the basis of the EA, the NRC has 

concluded that the environmental 

impacts from the action are expected to 

be insignificant and has determined not 

to prepare an environmental impact 

statement for the action. 

IV. Further Information 

Documents related to this action, 

including the application for the license 

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: Environmental 

Assessment (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML050270048), ‘‘Report of the 

Decommissioning of the Genzyme 

Biosurgery Research and Development 

Laboratories for the Purpose of 

Surrendering the Company’s 

Radioactive Materials License’’ included 

with the licensee’s letter dated June 4, 

2004 (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML041800154) and additional 

information dated October 15, 2004 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML042990427). 

Please note that on October 25, 2004, 

the NRC terminated public access to 

ADAMS and initiated an additional 

security review of publicly available 

documents to ensure that potentially 

sensitive information is removed from 

the ADAMS database accessible through 

the NRC’s Web site. Interested members 

of the public may obtain copies of the 

referenced documents for review and/or 

copying by contacting the Public 

Document Room pending resumption of 

public access to ADAMS. The NRC 

Public Documents Room is located at 

NRC Headquarters in Rockville, MD, 

and can be contacted at (800) 397–4209, 

(301) 415–4737 or by e-mail to 

pdr@nrc.gov.

Dated in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania this 

27th day of January, 2005.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

James P. Dwyer, 

Chief, Commercial and R&D Branch, Division 

of Nuclear Materials Safety, Region I.

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[Docket No. 70–3098] 

Duke Cogema Stone and Webster’s 

Proposed Mixed Oxide Fuel 

Fabrication Facility; Notice of 

Availability of Final Environmental 

Impact Statement

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission.

ACTION: Notice of availability of final 

environmental impact statement. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Matthew Blevins, Senior Project 

Manager, Environmental and 

Performance Assessment Directorate, 

Division of Waste Management and 

Environmental Protection, Office of 

Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555. Telephone: 

(301) 415–7684; e-mail: mxb6@nrc.gov.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

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1Please note that the MOX proceeding is 

governed by the old 10 CFR Part 2 provisions. 

Under the old regulation, the material being 

withheld is in accordance with 10 CFR 2.790(a).

Commission (NRC) is issuing a Final 

Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) 

on the proposed construction and 

operation of a mixed oxide (MOX) fuel 

fabrication facility at the Savannah 

River Site in South Carolina. The FEIS 

is being issued as part of the NRC’s 

decision-making process on whether to 

authorize Duke Cogema Stone & 

Webster (DCS), a contractor of the U.S. 

Department of Energy (DOE), to 

construct and operate the proposed 

MOX fuel fabrication facility (MOX 

facility). 

The proposed MOX facility would 

convert depleted uranium dioxide and 

weapons-grade plutonium dioxide into 

MOX fuel. The FEIS discusses the 

purpose and need for the proposed 

MOX facility, and reasonable 

alternatives to the proposed action, 

including the no-action alternative. The 

FEIS also discusses the environment 

potentially affected by the proposal, 

presents and compares the potential 

environmental impacts resulting from 

the proposed action and its alternatives, 

and identifies mitigation measures that 

could eliminate or lessen the potential 

environmental impacts. 

The FEIS is being issued as part of the 

NRC’s decision-making process on 

whether to authorize DCS to begin 

construction of the proposed MOX 

facility. The FEIS will also be relevant 

to any later decision on whether to 

authorize DCS to operate the MOX 

facility. Based on the evaluation in the 

FEIS, the NRC environmental review 

staff have concluded that the proposed 

action will generally have small effects 

on the public and existing environment. 

This FEIS reflects the final analysis of 

environmental impacts of DCS’s 

proposal and its alternatives including 

the consideration of public comments 

received by the NRC. In addition, the 

FEIS provides summaries of the 

substantive public comments on the 

draft EIS, and responses, as appropriate. 

Several pages in the FEIS have been 

removed from public access based on 

the additional security reviews that the 

NRC initiated on October 25, 2004. The 

material on these pages is being 

withheld pursuant to 10 CFR 2.390(a).1

ADDRESSES: The NRC maintains an 

Agencywide Documents Access and 

Management System (ADAMS), which 

provides text and image files of NRC’s 

public documents. The FEIS and its 

appendices may be accessed through the 

NRC’s Public Electronic Reading Room 

on the Internet at http://www.nrc.gov/

reading-rm/adams.html. 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. Please note 

that on October 25, 2004, the NRC 

suspended public access to ADAMS, 

and initiated an additional security 

review of publicly available documents 

to ensure that potentially sensitive 

information is removed from the 

ADAMS database accessible through the 

NRC’s Web site. Pending resumption of 

public access to ADAMS, interested 

members of the public may obtain 

copies of the referenced documents that 

have undergone security screening by 

contacting the Public Document Room 

at the above phone number. 

The FEIS is also available for 

inspection at the Commission’s Public 

Document Room, U.S. NRC’s 

Headquarters Building, 11555 Rockville 

Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland. 

Upon written request and to the extent 

supplies are available, a single copy of 

the FEIS can be obtained for a fee by 

writing to the Office of the Chief 

Information Officer, Reproduction and 

Distribution Services Section, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; by 

electronic mail at 

DISTRIBUTION@nrc.gov; or by fax at 

(301) 415–2289. 

A selected group of documents 

associated with the MOX facility may 

also be obtained from the Internet on 

NRC’s MOX facility Web page: http://

www.nrc.gov/materials/fuel-cycle-fac/

mox/licensing.html (case sensitive).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In January 

2000, the DOE issued a Record of 

Decision pertaining to its surplus 

plutonium disposition program and the 

DOE’s 1999 EIS related to this program 

(65 FR 1608). The fundamental purpose 

of the DOE program is to ensure that 

plutonium produced for nuclear 

weapons and declared excess to 

national security needs is converted to 

forms that are inaccessible and 

unattractive for use in nuclear weapons. 

The FEIS for the proposed MOX 

facility was prepared by the staff of the 

NRC and its contractor, Argonnne 

National Laboratory, in compliance with 

the National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA), and the NRC’s regulations for 

implementing NEPA (10 CFR part 51). 

The proposed action involves a decision 

by NRC of whether to authorize DCS to 

construct and later operate the proposed 

MOX facility at the Savannah River Site 

to convert surplus weapons plutonium 

into MOX fuel. 

If approved by the NRC, the proposed 

MOX facility would be built in the FArea of the DOE’s Savannah River Site 

(SRS). Feedstock (surplus plutonium 

dioxide and depleted uranium dioxide) 

would have to be transported to SRS to 

make the MOX fuel. To support 

operation of the proposed MOX facility, 

two other new facilities would have to 

be built by the DOE at the SRS. 

Infrastructure upgrades, such as 

construction waste transfer pipelines, 

electric utility line realignment, and 

addition of access roads, would also be 

required. Any MOX fuel made at the 

proposed MOX facility would be 

transported to mission reactors, where it 

would be irradiated. 

The NRC published a Notice of Intent 

to prepare an Environmental Impact 

Statement for the proposed MOX 

facility, and to conduct a scoping 

process, in the Federal Register on 

March 7, 2001 (66 FR 13794). NRC staff 

subsequently held scoping meetings, 

and issued a Scoping Summary Report 

in August 2001. In April 2002, DOE 

issued an amended Record of Decision 

changing its planned approach for 

surplus weapons plutonium disposition 

(67 FR 19432). On August 22, 2002, the 

NRC announced public meetings to 

discuss changes in DCS Environmental 

Report (ER) that resulted from changes 

in DOE’s plans (67 FR 54501). The 

meetings were held on September 17, 

2002, in Savannah, Georgia, September 

18, 2002, in Augusta, Georgia, and 

September 19, 2002, in Charlotte, North 

Carolina. On June 20, 2003, DCS 

submitted Revision 3 of its ER, and on 

August 13, 2003, DCS submitted 

Revision 4 of its ER, and on June 10, 

2004, DCS submitted Revision 5 of its 

ER. These revisions are summarized in 

Appendix J of the FEIS. 

The FEIS describes the proposed 

action, and alternatives to the proposed 

action, including the no-action 

alternative. The FEIS discussion of the 

no-action alternative evaluates the 

environmental impacts of the continued 

storage of surplus plutonium in various 

DOE locations nationwide, in the event 

NRC decides not to approve the 

proposed MOX facility. Alternatives 

considered but not analyzed in detail 

include alternate locations for the 

proposed MOX facility in the F-Area, 

alternative technology and design 

options, immobilization of surplus 

plutonium instead of producing MOX 

fuel, deliberately making offspecification MOX fuel, and the Parallex 

Project, the latter of which involves 

irradiating the MOX fuel in Canadian 

Deuterium-Natural Uranium Reactors. 

Additionally, the FEIS compares the 

impacts of using high-efficiency 

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particulate air filters to the impacts of 

using sand filters for removal of 

particulate air emissions. 

After weighing the impacts, costs, and 

benefits of the proposed action and 

comparing alternatives (see Chapter 4 of 

the FEIS), the NRC staff, in accordance 

with 10 CFR 51.91(d), sets forth its final 

NEPA recommendation regarding the 

proposed action. The NRC staff 

recommends that, unless safety issues 

mandate otherwise, the action called for 

is the issuance of the proposed license 

to DCS with conditions to protect 

environmental values. 

The NRC staff in the Division of Fuel 

Cycle Safety and Safeguards are 

currently completing the safety review 

of DCS’ construction authorization 

request. The final decision is currently 

scheduled for the Spring of 2005.

Dated in Rockville, Maryland, this 21st day 

of December, 2004.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Scott C. Flanders, 

Deputy Director, Environmental and 

Performance Assessment Directorate, 

Division of Waste Management and 

Environmental Protection, Office of Nuclear 

Material Safety and Safeguards.

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Advisory Committee on Nuclear 

Waste; Meeting on Planning and 

Procedures; Notice of Meeting 

The Advisory Committee on Nuclear 

Waste (ACNW) will hold a Planning and 

Procedures meeting on February 23, 

2005, Room T–2B3, 11545 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland. 

The entire meeting will be open to 

public attendance, with the exception of 

a portion that may be closed pursuant 

to 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(2) and (6) to discuss 

organizational and personnel matters 

that relate solely to internal personnel 

rules and practices of ACNW, and 

information the release of which would 

constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy. 

The agenda for the subject meeting 

shall be as follows: 

Wednesday, February 23, 2005—8:30 

a.m.–10 a.m.

The Committee will discuss proposed 

ACNW activities and related matters. 

The purpose of this meeting is to gather 

information, analyze relevant issues and 

facts, and formulate proposed positions 

and actions, as appropriate, for 

deliberation by the full Committee. 

Members of the public desiring to 

provide oral statements and/or written 

comments should notify the Designated 

Federal Official, Mr. Michael P. Lee 

(Telephone: (301) 415–6887) between 

7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. (e.t.) five days 

prior to the meeting, if possible, so that 

appropriate arrangements can be made. 

Electronic recordings will be permitted 

only during those portions of the 

meeting that are open to the public. 

Further information regarding this 

meeting can be obtained by contacting 

the Designated Federal Official between 

7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. (e.t.). Persons 

planning to attend this meeting are 

urged to contact the above named 

individual at least two working days 

prior to the meeting to be advised of any 

potential changes in the agenda.

Dated: January 27, 2005. 

John H. Flack, 

Acting Branch Chief, ACRS/ACNW.

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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND 

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Grants Related Information Collections 

Under OMB Review

AGENCY: Office of Management and 

Budget.

ACTION: Notice of submission for OMB 

review, comment request. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980, as 

amended (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this 

notice announces that eight information 

collection renewal requests were 

submitted to the Office of Management 

and Budget’s (OMB) Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs 

(OIRA) for processing under 5 CFR 

1320.10. The first notice of these 

information collection renewals was 

published in the Federal Register, as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act, on October 29, 2004 [69 FR 63186], 

and invited the general public and 

Federal agencies to comment on the 

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standard forms: the SF–269, Financial 

Status Report (long form); SF–269A, 

Financial Status Report (short form); 

SF–272, Federal Cash Transactions 

Report; SF–272A, Federal Cash 

Transactions Report (continuation); SF–

424A, Budget Information—

Nonconstruction Programs; SF–424B, 

Assurances—Non-construction 

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Information—Construction Programs; 

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Construction Programs. These forms are 

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102, ‘‘Grants and Cooperative 

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and Agreements with Institutions of 

Higher Education, Hospitals, and Other 

Non-Profit Organizations.’’ These eight 

forms will continue to be used while 

interagency teams working under two 

streamlining initiatives (the Grants.gov 

E-Gov effort and the P.L.106–107 

implementation work groups) complete 

the final consolidated data standards.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before March 7, 2005. Late comments 

will be considered to the extent 

practicable.

ADDRESSES: Due to potential delays in 

OMB’s receipt and processing of mail 

sent through the U.S. Postal Service, we 

encourage respondents to submit 

comments electronically to ensure 

timely receipt. We cannot guarantee that 

comments mailed will be received 

before the comment closing date. 

Electronic mail comments may be 

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OMB Control No.: 0348–0039. 

Title: Financial Status Report (Long 

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Form No.: SF–269. 

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