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amended, states that ‘‘The Foundation is

authorized to award, within the limits of

funds made available * * *

scholarships and graduate fellowships

for scientific study or scientific work in

the mathematical physical, medical,

biological, engineering, social, and other

sciences at appropriate nonprofit

American or nonprofit foreign

institutions selected by the recipient of

such aid, for stated periods of time.’’

The Foundation Fellowship Programs

are designed to meet the following

objectives:

• To assure that some of the Nation’s

most talented students in the sciences

obtain the education necessary to

become creative and productive

scientific researchers.

• To train or upgrade advanced

scientific personnel to enhance their

abilities as teachers and researchers.

• To promote graduate education in

the sciences, mathematics, and

engineering at institutions that have

traditionally served ethnic minorities.

• To encourage pursuit of advanced

science degrees by students who are

members of ethnic groups traditionally

under-represented in the Nation’s

advanced science personnel pool.

The Foundations has the following

fellowship award programs:

NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Graduate Fellowships

Minority Gradate Fellowships

Women in Engineering and Computer

and Information Science

Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Research

Fellowships

Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in

Chemistry

Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral

Research Fellowships

NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellowships

and Supporting Engineering

Minority Postdoctoral Research

Fellowships and Supporting

Activities

Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in

Biosciences Related to the

Environment

Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in

Molecular Evolution

Ridge Inter-Disciplinary Global

Experiments

Advanced Study Institute Travel

Awards

International Opportunities for

Scientists and Engineers

Japan Research Fellows

North American Research fellows

International Research fellows

Ethics and Values Fellowship Awards

These are annual award programs

with application deadlines varying

according to the fellowship program.

Public burden may also vary according

to program, however it is estimated that

each submission is averaged to be 12

hours per respondent.

Send comments to Herman Fleming,

Clearance Office, National Science

Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard,

Suite 485, Arlington, VA 22230. Written

comments should be received by August

1, 1996

Dated: May 31, 1996.

Herman G. Fleming,

NSF Clearance Officer.

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BILLING CODE 7555–01–M

NUCLEAR REGULATORY

COMMISSION

[Docket No. 040–9027]

Consideration of an Amendment

Request for Decommissioning the

Cabot Corporation Facility in Revere,

Pennsylvania and Opportunity for a

Hearing

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory

Commission.

ACTION: Notice of Consideration of a

License Amendment for the Cabot

Corporation Site in Revere,

Pennsylvania, and Opportunity for a

Hearing.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission is considering issuance of

a license amendment to Source

Materials License No. SMC–1562 issued

to Cabot Corporation (the licensee) for

the decommissioning of its facility in

Revere, Pennsylvania. The licensee

requested the amendment in a letter

dated April 25, 1996, to incorporate the

site decommissioning plan submitted

with the request.

The waste from the Revere facility

consists of silica slag containing natural

uranium and thorium resulting from the

past production of niobium metal. There

are approximately 23,210 cubic meters

of material, about 5 percent of which is

radioactive slag. The radioactive slag is

mixed in with soil, rubble, and other

slag that is not radioactive. The licensee

proposes to consolidate material from

several areas onsite into one onsite

location. The licensee has submitted a

risk analysis that purports to

demonstrate that the potential radiation

dose to the critical population group

will be acceptably low.

The NRC will require the licensee to

remediate the Revere facility to meet

NRC’s criteria, and, during the

decommissioning activities, to maintain

effluents and doses as low as is

reasonably achievable.

Prior to the issuance of the proposed

amendment, NRC will have made

findings required by the Atomic Energy

Act of 1954, as amended, and NRC’s

regulations. These findings will be

documented in a Safety Evaluation

Report and an Environmental

Assessment.

The NRC hereby provides notice that

this is a proceeding on an application

for a license amendment falling within

the scope of Subpart L, ‘‘Informal

Hearing Procedures for Adjudication in

Materials Licensing Proceedings,’’ of

NRC’s rules and practice for domestic

licensing proceedings in 10 CFR Part 2.

Pursuant to § 2.1205(a), any person

whose interest may be affected by this

proceeding may file a request for a

hearing in accordance with § 2.2105(c).

A request for a hearing must be filed

within thirty (30) days of the date of

publication of this Federal Register

notice.

The request for a hearing must be

filed with the Office of the Secretary

either:

1. By delivery to the Docketing and

Service Branch of the Office of the

Secretary at One White Flint North,

11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD

20852–2738; or

2. By mail or telegram addressed to

the Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission, Washington, DC 20555.

Attention: Docketing and Service

Branch.

In addition to meeting other

applicable requirements of 10 CFR Part

2 of the NRC’s regulations, a request for

a hearing filed by a person other than

an applicant must describe in detail:

1. The interest of the requestor in the

proceeding;

2. How that interest may be affected

by the results of the proceeding,

including the reasons why the requestor

should be permitted a hearing, with

particular reference to the factors set out

in § 2.1205(g);

3. The requestor’s areas of concern

about the licensing activity that is the

subject matter of the proceeding; and

4. The circumstances establishing that

the request for a hearing is timely in

accordance with § 2.1205(c).

In accordance with 10 CFR

§ 2.1205(e), each request for a hearing

must also be served, by delivering it

personally or by mail, to:

1. The applicant, Cabot Performance

Materials, P.O. Box 1608, County Line

Road, Boyertown, Pennsylvania, 19512–

1608, Attention Mr. Anthony T.

Campitelli; and

2. The NRC staff, by delivery to the

Executive Director for Operations, One

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville

Pike, Rockville, MD 20852–2738, or by
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mail addressed to the Executive Director

for Operations, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission, Washington, DC 20555.

For further details with respect to this

action, the application for amendment

request is available for inspection at the

NRC’s Public Document Room, 2120 L

Street NW, Washington, DC 20555.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 31st day

of May 1996.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Robert A. Nelson,

Acting Chief, Low-Level Waste and

Decommissioning Projects Branch, Division

of Waste Management, Office of Nuclear

Material Safety, and Safeguards.

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BILLING CODE 7590–01–P

[Docket No.: 040–08724]

Finding of No Significant Impact

Related To Amendment To Materials

License SUB–1357, Chemetron

Corporation, Inc.

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory

Commission.

ACTION: Notice of Finding of No

Significant Impact associated with

amendment to Materials License SUB–

1357, Chemetron Corporation, Inc.,

Cuyahoga Heights, Ohio, to authorize

remediation of Harvard Avenue site.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission is considering issuing an

amendment of Materials License No.

SUB–1357, held by Chemetron

Corporation, Inc., to authorize the

remediation of the Harvard Avenue site

located on Harvard Avenue in Cuyahoga

Heights, Ohio.

Environmental Assessment Summary

Background

By the letter of March 24, 1994,

Chemetron Corporation, Inc.,

(Chemetron) requested that NRC amend

its license to authorize it to perform the

remediation of the Harvard Avenue and

Bert Avenue sites in accordance with its

remediation plan entitled, ‘‘Site

Remediation Plan, Chemetron

Remediation Project, Harvard and Bert

Avenue Sites, Chemetron Corporation,

Inc., Newburgh Heights, Ohio,’’

Revision 1, dated February 25, 1995.

This remediation plan also included

Chemetron’s plans for remediating

buildings, adjacent to the Harvard

Avenue site, owned by the McGeanRohco, Inc., that are contaminated with

radioactive material. By letter of May

18, 1995, Chemetron requested NRC

staff to expedite and separately review

the remediation of the Harvard Avenue

site so that remediation would not be

delayed due to the required Ohio

Environmental Protection Agency

(OEPA) review of the solid waste issues

at the Bert Avenue site, under the

jurisdiction of OEPA.

Following the review of the portions

of the Chemetron Final Remediation

Plan for Harvard Avenue and Bert

Avenue sites that addressed the

McGean-Rohco building remediation,

NRC staff published, in the Federal

Register (FR), on August 5, 1994, a

Finding of No Significant Impact

(FONSI) and an environmental

assessment for the McGean-Rohco

complex remediation. On August 9,

1994, NRC staff issued Amendment 4 to

the Chemetron license authorizing

Chemetron to conduct the McGeanRohco building remediation. On August

9, 1994, NRC staff also issued a Safety

Evaluation Report for the proposed

remediation of the McGean-Rohco

complex.

Proposed Action

In this action, Chemetron is proposing

to utilize onsite disposal, under 10 CFR

20.2002, at the Harvard Avenue facility,

for wastes, from the remediation of the

Harvard Avenue site, with

concentrations up to the Option 2 limit

in the NRC’s Branch Technical Position

on ‘‘Disposal or Onsite Storage of

Thorium or Uranium Wastes from Past

Operations’’ (1981 BTP). If wastes, that

exceed the Option 2 concentration

limits in the 1981 BTP, are discovered

at the Harvard Avenue site, these wastes

would be shipped offsite, to a licensed

low-level waste disposal site.

Need for Proposed Action

The purpose of the proposed action is

to decommission the Harvard Avenue

site, by removing depleted uranium

contamination in soils and building

rubble, so that the site can be released

for unrestricted use. Remediating the

site will allow Chemetron to release the

site back to the site owner, McGeanRohco, Inc., and to remove the site from

Chemetron’s NRC license.

Environmental Impacts of Proposed

Action

The NRC staff reviewed the levels of

contamination, the proposed

remediation methods, and the

radiological and environmental controls

that will be used during the

remediation. These controls include

worker dosimetry, the As Low As Is

Reasonably Achievable (ALARA)

program, air monitoring, routine

surveys, a bioassay program for workers,

and routine monitoring of both airborne

and liquid effluent releases to meet 10

CFR Part 20 radiation protection

requirements. Worker and public doses

will be limited so that exposures will

not exceed 10 CFR Part 20 requirements.

Chemetron proposed to remediate the

Harvard Avenue site in accordance with

‘‘Guidelines for Decontamination of

Facilities and Equipment Prior to

Release for Unrestricted Use or

Termination of Licenses for Byproduct,

Source, and Special Nuclear Materials,’’

dated August 1987. Chemetron also

proposed to dispose of depleted

uranium wastes onsite in accordance

with the 1981 BTP. Based on uranium

solubility testing of the Harvard Avenue

wastes, the maximum depleted uranium

concentration that is acceptable for

disposal in the disposal cell is 7.4 Bq/

gm (200 pCi/gm) total uranium.

The staff also analyzed the

radiological impacts to the public from

the disposal of depleted uranium

contaminated soils and building rubble

in the proposed onsite disposal cell.

Radiological impacts to members of the

public will result from inhalation and

ingestion of releases of radioactivity in

air and in water during the remediation

operations and direct exposure to

radiation from radioactive materials at

the site during remediation operations.

The public will also be exposed to

radiation as a result of the onsite

disposal. Decommissioning workers will

receive doses primarily by inhalation

and direct exposure during the

remediation activities. In addition to

impacts from routine operations, the

potential radiological consequences of

accidents were considered.

The licensee provided an estimate of

the dose to the public from airborne

effluents to be generated during the

excavation activities associated with the

decommissioning of Harvard Avenue

site. The maximum public dose from

airborne effluents is 0.02 mSv (2 mrem)

for the Harvard Avenue site. The staff

performed a more conservative,

independent analysis of the potential for

public exposure from airborne effluents.

The staff estimated the dose to the

nearest resident during excavation of

soil at the Chemetron Harvard Avenue

site to be approximately 0.09 mSv (9

mrem).

The licensee performed dose

assessments for the Harvard Avenue

disposal cell using the RESRAD

computer code, Version 5.05. The

RESRAD code calculates dose impacts

assuming a resident-farmer scenario,

where an individual would construct a

residence, live there, grow food, and

consume all drinking water from a

conservatively located groundwater

well. Radiation doses were calculated to

be 0.132 mSv/yr (13.2 mrem/yr) at 1000

years and peak at 0.142 mSv/yr (14.2