34450 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 128 / Tuesday, July 2, 1996 / Notices

schedules that (1) propose the

destruction of records not previously

authorized for disposal, or (2) reduce

the retention period for records already

authorized for disposal. NARA invites

public comments on such schedules, as

required by 44 U.S.C. 3303a(a).

DATES: Request for copies must be

received in writing on or before August

16, 1996. Once the appraisal of the

records is completed, NARA will send

a copy of the schedule. The requester

will be given 30 days to submit

comments.

ADDRESSES: Address requests for single

copies of schedules identified in this

notice to the Records Appraisal and

Disposition Division (NIR), National

Archives and Records Administration,

College Park, MD 20740. Requesters

must cite the control number assigned

to each schedule when requesting a

copy. The control number appears in

the parentheses immediately after the

name of the requesting agency.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Each year

U.S. Government agencies create

billions of records on paper, film,

magnetic tape, and other media. In order

to control this accumulation, agency

records managers prepare records

schedules specifying when the agency

no longer needs the records and what

happens to the records after this period.

Some schedules are comprehensive and

cover all the records of an agency or one

of its major subdivisions. These

comprehensive schedules provide for

the eventual transfer to the National

Archives of historically valuable records

and authorize the disposal of all other

records. Most schedules, however, cover

records of only one office or program or

a few series of records, and many are

updates of previously approved

schedules. Such schedules also may

include records that are designated for

permanent retention.

Destruction of records requires the

approval of the Archives of the United

States. This approval is granted after a

thorough study of the records that takes

into account their administrative use by

the agency of origin, the rights of the

Government and of private persons

directly affected by the Government’s

activities, and historical or other value.

This public notice identifies the

Federal agencies and their subdivisions

requesting disposition authority,

includes the control number assigned to

each schedule, and briefly describes the

records proposed for disposal. The

records schedule contains additional

information about the records and their

disposition. Further information about

the disposition process will be

furnished to each requester.

Schedules Pending

1. Executive Office of the President,

National Critical Materials Council (N1–

359–95–1). Routine and facilitative

records maintained by the Council

(substantive program records are being

preserved).

2. Executive Office of the President,

Office of the United States Trade

Representative (N1–364–96–1).

Electronic and textual records created

between April 24, 1986 and January 27,

1993, that are duplicative or deal with

routine administrative matters. (Master

file of e-mail messages will be

preserved).

3. Department of the Army (N1–AU–

96–4). Radiation oncology records.

4. Department of the Army (N1–AU–

96–5). Patient treatment film.

5. Department of Health and Human

Services, National Institutes of Health

(N1–443–96–1). Diagnostic Cardiac

Records.

6. National Archives and Records

Administration (N1–GRS–96–1).

Updated General Records Schedule

(GRS) 11, Space and Maintenance

records.

7. Office of Government Ethics (N1–

522–96–2). Records of the Office of

Education.

Dated: June 20, 1996.

James W. Moore,

Assistant Archivist for Records

Administration.

[FR Doc. 96–16801 Filed 7–1–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7515–01–M

NATIONAL CREDIT UNION

ADMINISTRATION

Sunshine Act Meeting; Notice of

Change in Subject of Meeting

The National Credit Union

Administration Board determined that

its business required the addition of the

following item which was closed to

public observation, to the previously

announced closed meeting (Federal

Register, Vol. 61, No. 120, page 31557,

Thursday, June 20, 1996) scheduled for

Wednesday, June 26, 1996.

6. Request for Expanded Authorities

Pending Final Adoption of Part 704.

Closed pursuant to exemption (8).

The Board voted unanimously that

agency business required that this item

be considered with less than the usual

seven days notice, that it be closed to

the public, and that no earlier

announcement of this change was

possible.

The previously announced items

were:

1. Approval of Minutes of Previous

Closed Meetings.

2. Administrative Action under Section

206 of the Federal Credit Union Act.

Closed pursuant to exemption (8).

3. Request from Federal Credit Union to

Convert to a Community Charter.

Closed pursuant to exemption (8).

4. Appeal from Federal Credit Union of

Regional Director’s Denial of Request

for Expansion to its Field of

Membership. Closed pursuant to

exemption (8).

5. Personnel Actions. Closed pursuant

to exemptions (2) and (6).

For Further Information Contact:

Becky Baker, Secretary of the Board,

Telephone (703) 518–6300.

Becky Baker,

Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 96–16940 Filed 6–27–96; 4:46 pm]

BILLING CODE 7535–01–M

NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION

SAFETY BOARD

Sunshine Act Meeting

TIME AND DATE: 9:30 a.m., Tuesday, July

9, 1996.

PLACE: The Board Room, 5th Floor, 490

L’Enfant Plaza, S.W., Washington, D.C.

20594.

STATUS: Open.

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED:

6486C—Aviation Accident Report: In-Flight

Icing Encounter and Loss of Control,

Simmons Airlines, d.b.a. American Eagle

Flight 4184, ATR Model 72–212, Roselawn,

Indiana, October 31, 1994.

NEWS MEDIA CONTACT: Telephone: (202)

382–0660.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Bea

Hardesty, (202) 382–6525.

Dated: June 28, 1996.

Bea Hardesty,

Federal Register Liaison Officer.

[FR Doc. 96–17060 Filed 6–28–96; 3:49 pm]

BILLING CODE 7533–01–P

NUCLEAR REGULATORY

COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50–440–OLA–3]

In the Matter of: The Cleveland Electric

Illuminating Company (Perry Nuclear

Power Plant, Unit 1) Notice of

Appointment of Adjudicatory

Employees

Pursuant to 10 CFR § 2.4, notice is

hereby given that Mr. Charles Serpan, a

Commission employee in the Office of

Nuclear Regulatory Research, and Mr.
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Allen Hansen, a Commission employee

in the Office of Nuclear Reactor

Regulation, have been appointed as

Commission adjudicatory employees

within the meaning of section 2.4, to

advise the Commission on issues related

to the pending appeal of LBP–95–17, 42

NRC 137 (1995). Messrs. Serpan and

Hansen have not previously performed

any investigative or litigating function

connected with this or any factuallyrelated proceeding.

Until such time as a final decision is

issued in this matter, parties to the

proceeding shall not communicate with

Messrs. Serpan or Hansen with regard to

the merits of this case.

It is so ordered.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day

of June, 1996.

For the Commission.

John C. Hoyle,

Secretary of the Commission.

[FR Doc. 96–16875 Filed 7–1–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7590–01–M

[Docket No. 40–8943]

Crow Butte Resources Inc.

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory

Commission.

ACTION: Final finding of no significant

impact, notice of opportunity for

hearing.

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission (NRC) proposes to amend

NRC Source Material License SUA–1534

to allow the licensee, Crow Butte

Resources, Inc., to increase the

maximum concentrations of radium,

uranium, and sulfate in process waste

fluids to be disposed by deep well

injection at its in-situ leach uranium

mining facility in Dawes County,

Nebraska. An Environmental

Assessment was performed by the NRC

staff in accordance with the

requirements of 10 CFR part 51. The

conclusion of the Environmental

Assessment is a Finding of No

Significant Impact (FONSI) for the

proposed licensing action.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

James R. Park, Uranium Recovery

Branch, Mail Stop TWFN 7–J9, Division

of Waste Management, Office of Nuclear

Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission,

Washington, DC 20555. Telephone 301/

415–6699.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

During April 1991, Crow Butte

Resources, Inc. (Crow Butte)

commenced uranium recovery

operations at its Crow Butte in-situ

leach (ISL) uranium mining facility in

Dawes County, Nebraska. These

activities are authorized by NRC Source

Material License SUA–1534. The NRC

staff prepared an Environmental

Assessment (EA) based on its review of

Crow Butte’s license application and

environmental report (ER); a Final

Finding of No Significant Impact

(FONSI) concerning the issuance of

SUA–1534 was issued on December 27,

1989 (54 FR 53200). Supplemental EAs

were prepared based on the NRC staff’s

review of Crow Butte’s amendment

requests to increase its maximum

processing flow rate from 2500 gallons

per minute (gpm) to 3500 gpm, and

separately, from 3500 gpm to the

currently approved level of 5000 gpm.

The NRC staff issued Final FONSIs on

March 12, 1993 (58 FR 13561), and

February 28, 1996 (61 FR 7541),

respectively, concerning these licensing

actions.

Summary of the Environmental

Assessment

Identification of the Proposed Action

The proposed action is an amendment

to SUA–1534 to allow Crow Butte to

increase the maximum concentration

limits for radium, uranium, and sulfate

in process waste fluids to be disposed

by deep well injection at its ISL facility.

The concentration limits for these

constituents would be increased as

follows: (1) For radium, from 1000

picocuries per liter (pCi/l) to 5000 pCi/

l; (2) for uranium, from 10 milligrams

per liter (mg/l) to 25 mg/l; and (3) for

sulfate, from 5000 mg/l to 10,000 mg/l.

The NRC staff’s review was conducted

in accordance with the requirements of

10 CFR 40.32 and 10 CFR 40.45.

Need for the Proposed Action

Crow Butte requested NRC approval

of this increase in the concentration

limits because the concentrations of

radium, uranium, and sulfate in its

typical facility waste water may

approach or exceed the currently

approved limits.

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed

Action

The NRC staff approved deep well

injection as an alternate method of

waste disposal for the Crow Butte ISL

facility by amendment to SUA–1534 on

October 4, 1994. The NRC staff’s

approval was conditional on the State of

Nebraska issuing the necessary

underground injection permit for the

deep well disposal process, and finding

that the potential for contamination of

other usable aquifers by deep well

injection was minimal. If the State

determined in the affirmative on both of

these issues, the NRC staff considered

the potential impacts to a member of the

public to be minimal. In addition, the

NRC staff considered that worker

exposure could be adequately managed

under Crow Butte’s radiation safety

program. Finally, the NRC staff

determined that the radiological

constituent concentration limits

requested by Crow Butte were

comparable to levels allowed by the

NRC at other ISL uranium recovery

operations which employ deep well

injection as a waste disposal option.

State of Nebraska Department of

Environmental Quality (NDEQ) Permit

No. NE0206369 was issued to Crow

Butte on June 20, 1995. Under this

permit, Crow Butte is authorized to

operate a Class I non-hazardous waste

injection well to inject waste fluids into

the Morrison and Sundance Formations,

which are located below the lowermost

underground source of drinking water

(USDW), at approximately 3500 to 3800

feet below ground surface. Due to

elevated concentrations of total

dissolved solids, water quality in these

formations is not considered under

Federal or State of Nebraska regulations

to be a USDW.

Among other provisions, NDEQ

Permit No. NE0206369 requires Crow

Butte to continuously monitor the

injection pressure to ensure that,

coupled with the hydrostatic pressure,

the fracture pressure of the injection

zones is not exceeded, and to conduct

regular mechanical integrity testing of

the well to assure that process waste

fluids are not injected into an

unauthorized injection zone and thus

pose a threat to fresh and/or usable

waters of the State.

Based on its review of Crow Butte’s

proposed amendment request, the NRC

staff considers that the requested

concentration limits for uranium and

radium continue to be comparable to

levels approved for other ISL

operations. The NRC staff defers to the

NDEQ on a determination regarding the

requested concentration limit for the

non-radiological constituent, sulfate.

The NRC staff notes that a revised

NDEQ Permit No. NE0206369, issued on

April 18, 1996, incorporates the

increased sulfate concentration level.

Finally, the monitoring and testing

provisions required under NDEQ Permit

No. NE0206369 are not impacted by the

proposed amendment.

Conclusion

The NRC staff concludes that

approval of Crow Butte’s amendment

request to increase the maximum