25646 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 100 / Wednesday, May 22, 1996 / Notices

Center, Military Personnel Records,

9700 Page Avenue, St. Louis, MO

63132–5100. Official mailing addresses

are published as an appendix to the

Navy’s compilation of system of record

notices.

Inpatient and outpatient treatment

records: Chief, Bureau of Medicine and

Surgery, 2300 E Street, Northwest,

Washington, DC 20372–5300;

Commanding Officers and Officers-inCharge of naval medical treatment

facilities; and, Director, National

Personnel Records Center, Military

Personnel Records, 9700 Page Avenue,

St. Louis, MO 63132–5100. Official

mailing addresses are published as an

appendix to the Navy’s compilation of

system of record notices.

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE:

Active duty Navy and Marine Corps

personnel and drilling members of the

Navy and Marine Corps Reserves

seeking to determine whether this

system of records contains information

about themselves should address

written inquiries to the originating

medical or dental treatment facility.

Official mailing addresses are published

as an appendix to the Navy’s

compilation of system of record notices.

Inactive Naval Reservists should

address requests for information to the

Naval Reserve Personnel Center, 4400

Dauphine Street, New Orleans, LA

70149–7800. Marine Reservists should

address requests for information to

Marine Corps Reserve Support Center,

10950 El Monte, Overland Park, KS

66211–1408. Former members who have

no further reserve or active duty

obligations should address requests for

information to the Director, National

Personnel Records Center, (Military

Personnel Records), 9700 Page Avenue,

St. Louis, MO 63132–5100.

All written requests should contain

the full name and Social Security

Number of the individual, his/her

signature, and in those cases where his/

her period of service ended before 1971,

his/her service or file number. In

requesting records for personnel who

served before 1964, information

provided to the National Personnel

Records Center should also include date

and place of birth and dates of periods

of active Naval service.

Records may be requested in person.

Proof of identification will consist of the

Armed Forces Identification Card or by

other types of identification bearing

picture and signature.

Requests for inpatient records within

two years of inpatient stay should be

addressed to the Commanding Officer of

the hospital where the individual was

treated.

Requests for inpatient records after

two years after inpatient stay should be

addressed to the Director, National

Personnel Records Center, (Civilian

Personnel Records), 111 Winnebago

Street, St. Louis, MO 63118–4199 or to

the Director, National Personnel

Records Center, (Military Personnel

Records), 9700 Page Avenue, St. Louis,

MO 63132–5100.

Requests for subsidiary medical

records should be addressed to the

Commanding Officer of medical or

dental center where treatment was

received.

The following data should be

provided: Full name, Social Security

Number, status, date(s) of treatment or

period of hospitalization, address at

time of medical treatment, and service

number.

Full name, date, and place of birth,

I.D. card or driver’s license, or other

identification to sufficiently identify the

individual with the medical records

held by the treatment facility must be

presented.

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURE:

Individuals seeking access to record

about themselves contained in this

system of records should address

written inquiries to the medical or

dental treatment facility where

treatment was received or to the officials

listed under ‘Notification procedure’.

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURE:

The Navy’s rules for accessing

records, and for contesting contents and

appealing initial agency determinations

are published in Secretary of the Navy

Instruction 5211.5; 32 CFR part 701; or

may be obtained from the system

manager.

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES:

Reports from attending and previous

physicians and other medical personnel

regarding the results of physical, dental,

and mental examinations, treatment,

evaluation, consultation, laboratory, xrays, and special studies conducted to

provide health care to the individual or

to determine the individual’s physical

and dental qualification.

EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED FOR THE SYSTEM:

None.

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BILLING CODE 5000–04–F

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Office of Environmental Management;

Environmental Management Site

Specific Advisory Board; Renewal

Pursuant to Section 14(a)(2)(A) of the

Federal Advisory Committee Act (Public

Law 92–463), and in accordance with

title 41 of the Code of Federal

Regulations, section 101–6.1015(a), and

following consultation with the

Committee Management Secretariat,

General Services Administration, notice

is hereby given that the Environmental

Management Site Specific Advisory

Board has been renewed for a two-year

period beginning May 16, 1996.

The purpose of the Board is to

provide the Assistant Secretary for

Environmental Management with advice

and recommendations on environmental

management projects and issues such as

risk management, economic

development, future land use, and

budget prioritization activities, from the

perspectives of affected groups and

State and local governments. Board

membership will reflect the full

diversity of views in the affected

community and region and be

composed primarily of people who are

directly affected by site clean-up

activities. Members will include

interested stakeholders from local

governments, Indian Tribes,

environmental and civic groups, labor

organizations, universities, waste

management and environmental

restoration firms, and other interested

parties. Representatives from the

Department of Energy (DOE), the

Environmental Protection Agency, and

State governments will be ex-officio

members of the Board. Selection and

appointment of Board members will be

accomplished using procedures

designed to ensure diverse membership

and a balance of viewpoints. Consensus

recommendations to the DOE from the

Board on the resolution of numerous

difficult issues will help achieve DOE’s

objective of an integrated environmental

management program.

The Secretary of Energy has

determined that renewal of the

Environmental Management Site

Specific Advisory Board is necessary to

conduct the DOE’s business and is in

the public interest. The Board will

operate in accordance with the

provisions of the Federal Advisory

Committee Act, the DOE Organization

Act (Public Law 95–91), and rules and

regulations issued in implementation of

those Acts.

Further information regarding this

advisory board may be obtained from
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Rachel Murphy Samuel at (202) 586–

3279.

Issued in Washington, DC on May 16,

1996.

JoAnne Whitman,

Deputy Advisory Committee Management

Officer.

[FR Doc. 96–12821 Filed 5–21–96; 8:45 am]

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Electrometallurgical Treatment

Research and Demonstration Project

in the Fuel Conditioning Facility at

Argonne National Laboratory—West;

Finding of No Significant Impact

(FONSI)

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

ACTION: Finding of no significant

impact.

SUMMARY: The United States Department

of Energy has prepared an

environmental assessment, DOE/EA–

1148 (finalized on May 15, 1996), on the

proposed Electrometallurgical

Treatment Research and Demonstration

Project in the Fuel Conditioning Facility

at Argonne National Laboratory—West.

The Proposed Action is to conduct a

research and demonstration project

involving electrometallurgical

processing of up to 100 Experimental

Breeder Reactor–II driver assemblies

and 25 Experimental Breeder Reactor–II

blanket assemblies in the Fuel

Conditioning Facility at Argonne

National Laboratory—West.

Electrometallurgical processing involves

the dissolution of spent nuclear fuel by

use of an electric current in a molten

salt mixture. The uranium in the fuel is

collected at the cathode and

subsequently melted to form a metal

ingot; the structural metals and some

fission products are retrieved

undissolved from the anode and are cast

into a metal ingot; and eventually most

fission products and all transuranic

elements are isolated in a ceramic waste

form. The number of driver fuel

assemblies covered by the Proposed

Action would provide the minimum

fission product loading (3 percent)

necessary to evaluate the effectiveness

of the removal of fission products from

the electrorefiner salt and their

concentration in the ceramic waste

form. In addition, the 25 blanket

assemblies proposed would provide a

sufficient quantity of material to

evaluate the higher efficiency

electrorefining necessary to process the

much larger blanket assemblies. The

Proposed Action would require

approximately three years, and is

designed to address demonstration goals

for electrometallurgical treatment

technology outlined by the National

Research Council in a 1995 report to the

Department. In accordance with the

Council on Environmental Quality

requirements contained in 40 CFR Parts

1500–1508, the environmental

assessment examined the environmental

impacts of the Proposed Action and

potential alternatives.

The Department distributed a draft

environmental assessment for public

review and comment from February 5,

1996 to March 22, 1996 (61 FR 3922,

January 29, 1996), and conducted public

meetings on the draft assessment in

Idaho Falls, Idaho on February 21, 1996,

and Washington, D.C. on February 27,

1996. In response to several requests,

the Department reopened the public

review period until May 3, 1996 (61 FR

16471, April 15, 1996).

The Department has considered all

comments on the draft environmental

assessment, including comments

submitted by 5 members of Congress, 17

organizations, and 53 individuals.

Those comments and the Department’s

responses are presented in an appendix

to the final environmental assessment

entitled, ‘‘Comment Response

Document.’’ A summary of the major

public comments and the Department’s

responses is provided under

Supplementary Information below.

The Department has decided to

proceed with the proposed

demonstration. Even if successful,

however, the demonstration will not

automatically lead to the treatment of

more Experimental Breeder Reactor–II

spent nuclear fuel or to other broader

applications of electrometallurgical

technology. The Department will not

make any significant additional use of

the electrometallurgical refining

technology without first preparing an

environmental impact statement.

Specifically, the Department will not

use this technology to treat the

remaining Experimental Breeder

Reactor–II spent fuel or make another

production-scale use of the technology

without preparing an environmental

impact statement.

The Department would exercise its

authority to prevent proliferation

sensitive information and technology

advances resulting from the proposed

demonstration from becoming available

to potential proliferant-risk countries,

including exercising its authority under

the Atomic Energy Act, the Nuclear

Nonproliferation Act of 1978 and the

Department’s implementing regulations.

Based on the analysis in the

environmental assessment, which is

incorporated herein by reference, and

after consideration of all the comments

received as a result of the public review

process, the Department of Energy has

determined that the Proposed Action

does not constitute a major Federal

action significantly affecting the quality

of the human environment within the

meaning of the National Environmental

Policy Act of 1969. Therefore, an

environmental impact statement is not

required.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Persons requesting additional

information regarding the

Electrometallurgical Treatment Project

or a copy of the environmental

assessment should contact: Mr. Robert

G. Lange, Associate Director for

Facilities (NE–40), Office of Nuclear

Energy, Science and Technology, U.S.

Department of Energy (GTN), 19901

Germantown Road, Germantown,

Maryland 20874.

Mr. Lange may also be reached by

calling (301) 903–2915.

Persons requesting general

information on the Department of

Energy’s National Environmental Policy

Act process should contact: Ms. Carol

M. Borgstrom, Director, Office of NEPA

Policy and Assistance (EH–42), U.S.

Department of Energy, 1000

Independence Avenue SW.,

Washington, DC 20585.

Ms. Borgstrom may also be reached by

calling (202) 586–4600, or by leaving a

message at (800) 472–2756.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

The Department of Energy is

responsible for managing spent nuclear

fuel in its inventory, including spent

nuclear fuel from the Experimental

Breeder Reactor-II. The Department

manages 25.5 metric tons (heavy metal)

of Experimental Breeder Reactor-II fuel

at Argonne National Laboratory-West

and the Idaho Chemical Processing

Plant, both located at the Idaho National

Engineering Laboratory near Idaho Falls.

The Department has a legally binding

commitment to remove spent nuclear

fuel from the State of Idaho by the year

2035, including fuel from the

Experimental Breeder Reactor-II. The

Experimental Breeder Reactor-II fuel is

unlikely to be suitable for direct

disposal in a geologic repository

because it is saturated with sodium,

which is a reactive material.

Experimental Breeder Reactor-II spent

fuel may also be unsuitable for direct

disposal in a geologic repository

because of criticality concerns

associated with fuels containing highlyenriched uranium.

The Department has identified

electrometallurgical treatment as a

promising technology to treat