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exemption that will be issued as part of 

the letter to the licensee approving the 

exemption to 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix 

R, Section III.G.2. 

The proposed action will not 

significantly increase the probability or 

consequences of accidents. No changes 

are being made in the types of effluents 

that may be released offsite. There is no 

significant increase in the amount of 

any effluent released offsite. There is no 

significant increase in occupational or 

public radiation exposure. Therefore, 

there are no significant radiological 

environmental impacts associated with 

the proposed action. 

Based on the nature of the exemption, 

the proposed action does not result in 

changes to land use or water use, or 

result in changes to the quality or 

quantity of non-radiological effluents. 

No changes to the National Pollution 

Discharge Elimination System permit 

are needed. No effects on the aquatic or 

terrestrial habitat in the vicinity or the 

plant, or to threatened, endangered, or 

protected species under the Endangered 

Species Act, or impacts to essential fish 

habitat covered by the MagnusonStevens Act are expected. There are no 

impacts to the air or ambient air quality. 

There are no impacts to historic and 

cultural resources. There would be no 

noticeable effect on socioeconomic 

conditions in the region. Therefore, no 

changes or different types of nonradiological environmental impacts are 

expected as a result of the proposed 

action. Accordingly, the NRC staff 

concludes that there are no significant 

environmental impacts associated with 

the proposed action. 

Environmental Impacts of the 

Alternatives to the Proposed Action 

As an alternative to the proposed 

action, the NRC staff considered denial 

of the proposed action (i.e., the ‘‘noaction’’ alternative). Denial of the 

application would not result in a 

decrease in current environmental 

impacts. If the proposed action was 

denied, the licensee would have to 

perform plant modifications to achieve 

compliance. The environmental impacts 

of the proposed action and the 

alternative action are similar. 

Alternative Use of Resources 

The action does not involve the use of 

any different resources than those 

previously considered in the Final 

Environmental Statement for PBAPS 

Unit Nos. 1, 2, and 3, dated April 1973, 

and for PBAPS Unit Nos. 2 and 3, 

‘‘Generic Environmental Impact 

Statement for License Renewal of 

Nuclear Plants,’’ (NUREG–1437, 

Supplement 10), dated January 2003. 

Agencies and Persons Consulted 

In accordance with its stated policy, 

on September xx, 2010, the NRC staff 

consulted with the Pennsylvania State 

official, Bradley Fuller, of the 

Pennsylvania State Department of 

Environmental Protection, regarding the 

environmental impact of the proposed 

action. The State official had no 

comments. 

Finding of No Significant Impact 

On the basis of the environmental 

assessment, the NRC concludes that the 

proposed action will not have a 

significant effect on the quality of the 

human environment. Accordingly, the 

NRC has determined not to prepare an 

environmental impact statement for the 

proposed action. 

For further details with respect to the 

proposed action, see the licensee’s letter 

dated March 6, 2009, as supplemented 

on February 12, 2010 (ADAMS 

Accession Nos. ML090680141 and 

ML100470774, respectively). 

Documents may be examined, and/or 

copied for a fee, at the NRC’s Public 

Document Room (PDR), located at One 

White Flint North, Room O1 F21, 11555 

Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, 

Maryland. Publicly available records 

will be accessible electronically from 

the ADAMS Public Electronic Reading 

Room on the Internet at the NRC Web 

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

adams.html. Persons who do not have 

access to ADAMS or who encounter 

problems in accessing the documents 

located in ADAMS should contact the 

NRC PDR Reference staff by telephone 

at 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415–4737, or 

send an e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 17th day 

of September 2010. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

John D. Hughey, 

Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch I– 

2, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, 

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

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[Docket No. 70–1257; NRC–2009–0028] 

Notice of Issuance of Amendment No. 

1 for Special Nuclear Material License 

No. SNM–1227 [AREVA NP, Inc., 

Richland, WA] 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of issuance of license 

amendment. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Rafael L. Rodriguez, Project Manager, 

Fuel Manufacturing Branch, Division of 

Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, Office 

of Nuclear Material Safety and 

Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Rockville, MD 20852. 

Telephone: (301) 492–3111; Fax 

Number: (301) 492–3363; E-mail: 

Rafael.Rodriguez@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

By letter dated June 12, 2008, to the 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

(NRC), AREVA NP, Inc. (AREVA) 

requested approval of an amendment to 

its Special Nuclear Material License No. 

SNM–1227 which would authorize 

AREVA to install and operate a new 

process at its fuel fabrication facility in 

Richland, Washington, that will use 

supercritical carbon dioxide to extract 

uranium from waste material that 

contains a relatively low percentage of 

uranium. This submittal was revised 

and resubmitted by AREVA on August 

22, 2008, to reflect the required portion 

marking set forth in Title 10 of the Code 

of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 

2.390(b). Pursuant to the requirements 

in 10 CFR 2.106, the NRC is providing 

notice that Amendment No. 1 for 

Special Nuclear Material License No. 

SNM–1227 has been issued. AREVA’s 

request for the proposed amendment 

was previously noticed, and an 

opportunity to request a hearing was 

provided in the Federal Register on 

January 16, 2009 (74 FR 3110–3114). 

The NRC staff evaluated AREVA’s 

license amendment request and 

concluded that it meets the regulatory 

criteria for a categorical exclusion, as 

described in 10 CFR 51.22(c)(11). This 

conclusion is documented in the NRC 

staff’s Safety Evaluation Report (SER). 

This license amendment complies 

with the standards and requirements of 

the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as 

amended, and NRC’s rules and 

regulations as set forth in 10 CFR 

Chapter 1. Accordingly, this license was 

amended on July 28, 2010, and is 

effective immediately. 

II. Further Information 

The NRC has prepared an SER that 

documents the information that was 

reviewed and the NRC’s conclusion. In 

accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the 

NRC’s ‘‘Rules of Practice,’’ details with 

respect to this action, including the SER 

and accompanying documentation 

included in the license package, are 

available electronically at the NRC’s 

Electronic Reading Room at http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. 


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From this site, you can access the NRC’s 

Agencywide Documents Access and 

Management System (ADAMS), which 

provides text and image files of NRC’s 

public documents. The ADAMS 

accession numbers for the public 

version of the documents related to this 

notice are: 

(a) June 12, 2008, Original License 

Amendment Application: 

ML081700146; 

(b) August 22, 2008, Revised License 

Amendment Application: ML082420070 

and ML082420071; 

(c) SER in Support of License 

Amendment Application: 

ML101550158; and 

(d) Amended Special Nuclear 

Material License No. SNM–1227: 

ML101550153. 

If you do not have access to ADAMS, 

or if there are problems in accessing the 

documents located in ADAMS, contact 

the NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR) 

Reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301– 

415–4737 or by e-mail to 

PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. 

These documents may also be viewed 

electronically on the public computers 

located at the NRC’s PDR, O–1 F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. The PDR 

reproduction contractor will copy 

documents for a fee. 

Dated at Rockville, MD this 16th day of 

September 2010. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Peter J. Habighorst, 

Chief, Fuel Manufacturing Branch, Fuel 

Facility Licensing Directorate, Division of Fuel 

Cycle Safety and Safeguards, Office of 

Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. 

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Advisory Committee on Reactor 

Safeguards (ACRS); Meeting of the 

ACRS Subcommittee on Radiation 

Protection and Nuclear Materials 

The ACRS Subcommittee on 

Radiation Protection and Nuclear 

Materials will hold a meeting on 

October 22, 2010, Room T–2B1, 11545 

Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland. 

The entire meeting will be open to 

public attendance. 

The agenda for the subject meeting 

shall be as follows: 

Friday, October 22, 2010—1 p.m. until 

5 p.m. 

The Subcommittee will review the 

Standard Review Plan for Renewal of 

Independent Spent Fuel Storage 

Installation Licenses and Dry Cask 

Storage System Certificates of 

Compliance. The Subcommittee will 

hear presentations by and hold 

discussions with representatives of the 

NRC staff and other interested persons 

regarding this matter. The 

Subcommittee will gather information, 

analyze relevant issues and facts, and 

formulate proposed positions and 

actions, as appropriate, for deliberation 

by the Full Committee. Members of the 

public desiring to provide oral 

statements and/or written comments 

should notify the Designated Federal 

Official (DFO), Christopher Brown 

(Telephone 301–415–7111 or E-mail 

Christopher.Brown@nrc.gov) five days 

prior to the meeting, if possible, so that 

appropriate arrangements can be made. 

Thirty-five hard copies of each 

presentation or handout should be 

provided to the DFO thirty minutes 

before the meeting. In addition, one 

electronic copy of each presentation 

should be e-mailed to the DFO one day 

before the meeting. If an electronic copy 

cannot be provided within this 

timeframe, presenters should provide 

the DFO with a CD containing each 

presentation at least thirty minutes 

before the meeting. Electronic 

recordings will be permitted only 

during those portions of the meeting 

that are open to the public. Detailed 

procedures for the conduct of and 

participation in ACRS meetings were 

published in the Federal Register on 

October 14, 2009, (74 FR 58268–58269). 

Detailed meeting agendas and meeting 

transcripts are available on the NRC 

Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/doc-collections/acrs. Information 

regarding topics to be discussed, 

changes to the agenda, whether the 

meeting has been canceled or 

rescheduled, and the time allotted to 

present oral statements can be obtained 

from the Web site cited above or by 

contacting the identified DFO. 

Moreover, in view of the possibility that 

the schedule for ACRS meetings may be 

adjusted by the Chairman as necessary 

to facilitate the conduct of the meeting, 

persons planning to attend should check 

with these references if such 

rescheduling would result in a major 

inconvenience. 

Dated: September 20, 2010. 

Christopher Brown, 

Acting Chief, Reactor Safety Branch A, 

Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards. 

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Advisory Committee on Reactor 

Safeguards (ACRS); Meeting of the 

ACRS Subcommittee on Plant License 

Renewal 

The ACRS Subcommittee on Plant 

License Renewal will hold a meeting on 

October 22, 2010, Room T–2B1, 11545 

Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland. 

The entire meeting will be open to 

public attendance. 

The agenda for the subject meeting 

shall be as follows: 

Friday, October 22, 2010—8:30 a.m. 

until 12 p.m. 

The Subcommittee will review the 

proposed Revision 2 to NUREG–1801, 

‘‘Generic Aging Lessons Learned (GALL) 

Report.’’ The Subcommittee will hear 

presentations by and hold discussions 

with representatives of the NRC staff 

and other interested persons regarding 

this matter. The Subcommittee will 

gather information, analyze relevant 

issues and facts, and formulate 

proposed positions and actions, as 

appropriate, for deliberation by the Full 

Committee. 

Members of the public desiring to 

provide oral statements and/or written 

comments should notify the Designated 

Federal Official (DFO), Peter Wen 

(Telephone 301–415–2832 or E-mail 

Peter.Wen@nrc.gov) five days prior to 

the meeting, if possible, so that 

appropriate arrangements can be made. 

Thirty-five hard copies of each 

presentation or handout should be 

provided to the DFO thirty minutes 

before the meeting. In addition, one 

electronic copy of each presentation 

should be e-mailed to the DFO one day 

before the meeting. If an electronic copy 

cannot be provided within this 

timeframe, presenters should provide 

the DFO with a CD containing each 

presentation at least thirty minutes 

before the meeting. Electronic 

recordings will be permitted only 

during those portions of the meeting 

that are open to the public. Detailed 

procedures for the conduct of and 

participation in ACRS meetings were 

published in the Federal Register on 

October 14, 2009, (74 FR 58268–58269). 

Detailed meeting agendas and meeting 

transcripts are available on the NRC 

Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/doc-collections/acrs. Information 

regarding topics to be discussed, 

changes to the agenda, whether the 

meeting has been canceled or 

rescheduled, and the time allotted to 

present oral statements can be obtained 

from the Web site cited above or by 


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