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statement of good cause for the 

extension. Any request for a hearing 

shall be submitted to the Secretary, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: 

Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff, 

Washington, DC 20555. Copies also 

shall be sent to the Director, Office of 

Enforcement, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555, to 

the Assistant General Counsel for 

Materials Litigation and Enforcement at 

the same address, to the Regional 

Administrator, NRC Region II, 61 

Forsyth Street, SW., Suite 23T85, 

Atlanta, Georgia, 30303–8931, and to 

the Certificate Holder. Because of 

continuing disruptions in delivery of 

mail to United States Government 

offices, it is requested that answers and 

requests for hearing be transmitted to 

the Secretary of the Commission either 

by means of facsimile transmission to 

301–415–1101 or by e-mail to 

hearingdocket@nrc.gov and also to the 

Office of the General Counsel either by 

means of facsimile transmission to 301–

415–3725 or by e-mail to 

OGCMailCenter@nrc.gov. If a person 

other than the licensee requests a 

hearing, that person shall set forth with 

particularity the manner in which his 

interest is adversely affected by this 

Order and shall address the criteria set 

forth in 10 CFR 2.309(d) and (f). 

If a hearing is requested by a person 

whose interest is adversely affected, the 

Commission will issue an Order 

designating the time and place of any 

hearing. If a hearing is held, the issue to 

be considered at such hearing shall be 

whether this Confirmatory Order should 

be sustained. 

In the absence of any request for 

hearing, or written approval of an 

extension of time in which to request a 

hearing, the provisions specified in 

Section IV above shall be final 20 days 

from the date of this Order without 

further order or proceedings. If an 

extension of time for requesting a 

hearing has been approved, the 

provisions specified in Section IV shall 

be final when the extension expires if a 

hearing request has not been received. 

An answer or a request for hearing shall 

not stay the immediate effectiveness of 

this order.

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. 030–17541] 

Notice of Availability of Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact for License 

Amendment for Exxonmobil 

Biomedical Sciences, Inc.’s Facility in 

Annandale, NJ

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Betsy Ullrich, Commercial and R&D 

Branch, Division of Nuclear Materials 

Safety, Region I, 475 Allendale Road, 

King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, 19406, 

telephone (610) 337–5040, fax (610) 

337–5269; or by email: EXU@NRC.GOV.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Introduction 

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

(NRC) is issuing a license amendment to 

Exxonmobil Biomedical Sciences, Inc. 

for Materials License No. 29–19396–01, 

to authorize release of its facility in 

Annandale, 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 

Annandale, New Jersey facility for 

unrestricted use. Exxonmobil 

Biomedical Sciences, Inc. was 

authorized by NRC from December 14, 

1999, to use radioactive materials for 

research and development purposes at 

the site. On October 25, 2004, 

Exxonmobil Biomedical Sciences, Inc. 

requested that NRC release the facility 

for unrestricted use. Exxonmobil 

Biomedical Sciences, Inc. 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 Exxonmobil 

Biomedical Sciences, Inc. 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 Exxonmobil Biomedical 

Sciences, Inc.’’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 Related to an Amendment 

of U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

Materials License No. 29–19396–01 

ML050280058; and the Radiological 

Decommissioning Report, ExxonMobil 

Biomedical Sciences, Inc., 1545 Route 

22 East, Annandale, New Jersey, 

October 24, 2004 (ML043100336). 

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 

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the ADAMS database accessible through 

the ADAMS web site. Interested 

members of the public may obtain 

copies of the reference 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, Maryland, and can be 

contacted at (800) 397–4209 or (301) 

415–4737, or by email to pdr@nrc.gov. 

The PDR reproduction contractor will 

copy documents for a fee. The PDR is 

open from 7:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, except on 

Federal holidays.

Dated at King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, this 

28th day of January, 2005.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

James Dwyer, 

Chief, Commercial and R&D Branch, Division 

of Nuclear Materials Safety, Region I.

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Advisory Committee on Nuclear 

Waste; Notice of Meeting 

The Advisory Committee on Nuclear 

Waste (ACNW) will hold its 157th 

meeting on February 23–25, 2005, Room 

T–2B3, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland. The date of this meeting was 

previously published in the Federal 

Register on Wednesday, December 8, 

2004 (69 FR 71084). 

The schedule for this meeting is as 

follows: 

Wednesday, February 23, 2005 

10:30 a.m.–10:40 a.m.: Opening 

Statement (Open)—The ACNW 

Chairman will open the meeting with 

brief opening remarks, outline the topics 

to be discussed, and indicate items of 

interest. 

10:40 a.m.–11:20 a.m.: ACNW 2005 

Action Plan (Open)—The ACNW 

Committee will discuss changes to the 

2005 Action Plan resulting from 

COMSECY–04–0077, dated January 19, 

2005. 

11:20 a.m.–12:20 p.m.: Time-ofCompliance for a Proposed High-Level 

Waste (HLW) Repository (Open)—The 

Committee will continue its discussions 

on time-of-compliance for a proposed 

HLW and determine the need and 

timing of a possible Working Group 

Meeting on this subject. 

1:20 p.m.–3 p.m.: Low-Level 

Radioactive Waste (LLW) Issues

(Open)—The Committee will be briefed 

by the Chairman on the current status of 

LLW management in the U.S. and LLW 

issues faced by the industry, regulators 

and stakeholders. 

3 p.m.–5:30 p.m.: Preparation for 

Meeting with the NRC Commissioners

(Open)—The Committee will discuss 

the proposed presentation topics for its 

meeting with the NRC Commissioners, 

which is scheduled to be held between 

9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, 

March 16, 2005. 

Thursday, February 24, 2005 

8:30 a.m.–8:35 a.m.: Opening 

Statement (Open)—The ACNW 

Chairman will make opening remarks 

regarding the conduct of today’s 

sessions. 

8:35 a.m.–9:25 a.m.: Status of HighSignificance Agreements Associated 

with the Proposed High-Level Waste 

Repository (Open)—The Committee will 

be briefed by an NRC representative on 

the status of high-significance 

agreements between NRC and DOE 

concerning the proposed HLW 

repository at Yucca Mountain. 

9:25 a.m.–10:15 a.m.: Preparation of 

ACNW Reports (Open)—The Committee 

will discuss proposed ACNW reports on 

the Agreement State Program and 

Resolution of High-Significance 

Agreements. 

10:30 a.m.–12 Noon: Discussion with 

Commissioner Merrifield (Open)—The 

Committee will interact with 

Commissioner Merrifield on areas of 

mutual interest in the waste 

management area. 

1 p.m.–5:30 p.m.: Center for Nuclear 

Waste Regulatory Analyses (CNWRA) 

Report—Accomplishments and Future 

Projects (Open)—The Committee will be 

briefed by NMSS and the CNWRA 

representatives regarding recent 

technical accomplishments and future 

project plans of NRC’s technical 

assistance contractor. 

Friday, February 25, 2005 

8:30 a.m.–8:35 a.m.: Opening 

Statement (Open)—The ACNW 

Chairman will make opening remarks 

regarding the conduct of today’s 

sessions. 

8:35 a.m.–9:45 a.m.: Preparation of 

ACNW Reports (Open)—The Committee 

will continue its discussion of proposed 

ACNW reports on the Agreement State 

Program and Resolution of HighSignificance Agreements. 

9:45 a.m.–12 Noon: Miscellaneous

(Open)—The Committee will discuss 

matters related to the conduct of 

Committee activities and matters and 

specific issues that were not completed 

during previous meetings, as time and 

availability of information permit. 

Discussions may include forthcoming 

meeting with Commissioners (Agenda 

Item #5). 

Procedures for the conduct of and 

participation in ACNW meetings were 

published in the Federal Register on 

October 18, 2004 (69 FR 61416). In 

accordance with these procedures, oral 

or written statements may be presented 

by members of the public. Electronic 

recordings will be permitted only 

during those portions of the meeting 

that are open to the public. Persons 

desiring to make oral statements should 

notify Mr. Michael P. Lee, (Telephone 

301–415–6887), between 7:30 a.m. and 

4 p.m. ET, as far in advance as 

practicable so that appropriate 

arrangements can be made to schedule 

the necessary time during the meeting 

for such statements. Use of still, motion 

picture, and television cameras during 

this meeting will be limited to selected 

portions of the meeting as determined 

by the ACNW Chairman. Information 

regarding the time to be set aside for 

taking pictures may be obtained by 

contacting the ACNW office prior to the 

meeting. In view of the possibility that 

the schedule for ACNW meetings may 

be adjusted by the Chairman as 

necessary to facilitate the conduct of the 

meeting, persons planning to attend 

should notify Mr. Lee as to their 

particular needs. 

Further information regarding topics 

to be discussed, whether the meeting 

has been canceled or rescheduled, the 

Chairman’s ruling on requests for the 

opportunity to present oral statements 

and the time allotted, therefore can be 

obtained by contacting Mr. Lee. 

ACNW meeting agenda, meeting 

transcripts, and letter reports are 

available through the NRC Public 

Document Room at pdr@nrc.gov, or by 

calling the PDR at 1–800–397–4209, or 

from the Publicly Available Records 

System (PARS) component of NRC’s 

document system (ADAMS) which is 

accessible from the NRC Web site at 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/

adams.html or http://www.nrc.gov/

reading-rm/doc-collections/ (ACRS & 

ACNW Mtg schedules/agendas). 

Video Teleconferencing service is 

available for observing open sessions of 

ACNW meetings. Those wishing to use 

this service for observing ACNW 

meetings should contact Mr. Theron 

Brown, ACNW Audiovisual Technician 

(301–415–8066), between 7:30 a.m. and 

3:45 p.m. e.t., at least 10 days before the 

meeting to ensure the availability of this 

service. Individuals or organizations 

requesting this service will be 

responsible for telephone line charges 

and for providing the equipment and 

facilities that they use to establish the 

video teleconferencing link. The