[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 5 (Friday, January 8, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 1088]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-116]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2009-0578]


Notice of Availability of a Memorandum of Understanding Between 
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Bureau of Land Management

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of Availability.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Alan Bjornsen, 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: 301-415-1195, fax number: 301-
415-5369; e-mail: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0c4d606d62224e66637e627f69624c627e6f226b637a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b6f7dad7d898f4dcd9c4d8c5d3d8f6d8c4d598d1d9c0">[email protected]</span></a>.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Introduction

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the Bureau of Land 
Management (BLM) have finalized a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to 
define the cooperative working relationship between the agencies in 
each agency's preparation of National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 
documents related to the extraction of uranium and thorium on public 
lands administered by BLM. The MOU was finalized on November 30, 2009. 
The MOU will improve the interagency communications, facilitate the 
sharing of special expertise and information, and coordinate the 
preparation of studies, reports and environmental (NEPA) documents.

II. Summary

    The MOU provides a framework for this cooperative relationship and 
identifies the responsibilities of each agency. The intent of the MOU 
is to improve interagency communications, facilitate the sharing of 
special expertise and information, and coordinate the preparation of 
studies, reports and environmental (NEPA) documents associated with NRC 
licensing actions and the BLM administration of public lands. The 
implementation of the MOU will occur through periodic meetings between 
the NRC and BLM management to ensure coordination, establishing points 
of contact at each agency, identifying information gaps that can be 
filled by each agency, and ensuring that specific environmental 
resources issues of interest to each agency are covered in each 
environmental review. To the fullest extent possible, NRC and BLM will 
participate either as lead agency, co-lead or cooperating agency on the 
preparation of site-specific environmental documents.

III. Further Information

    Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and 
search for documents filed under Docket ID NRC-2009-0578. Address 
questions about NRC documents to Carol Gallagher, 301-492-3668; e-mail 
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#044765766b682a4365686865636c6176446a76672a636b72"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="450624372a296b0224292924222d2037052b37266b222a33">[email protected]</span></a>.
    Publicly available documents related to this notice can be accessed 
using the following methods:
    NRC's Public Document Room (PDR): The public may examine and have 
copied, for a fee, publicly available documents at the NRC's PDR, 
Public File Area 01 F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, 
Rockville, Maryland.
    NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS): 
Publicly available documents created or received at the NRC are 
available electronically at the NRC's Electronic Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. From this page, the public can gain 
entry into ADAMS, which provides text and image files of NRC's public 
documents. If you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are problems 
in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC's PDR 
reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to 
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2b5b4f5905594e58445e59484e6b455948054c445d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="077763752975627468727564624769756429606871">[email protected]</span></a>. The ``Memorandum of Understanding between the 
Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior and the Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, an Independent Agency'' is available 
electronically under ADAMS Accession Number ML093430195.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 31st day of December 2009.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Patrice M. Bubar,
Deputy Director, Environmental Protection and Performance Assessment 
Directorate, Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection, 
Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management 
Programs.
[FR Doc. 2010-116 Filed 1-7-10; 8:45 am]
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