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the potential to build capacity for 

instrument development in academic 

settings and to create new products with 

wide scientific and commercial impact. 

The MRI program is seeking OMB 

approval to administer a comprehensive 

survey of all MRI awardees to better 

understand outcomes from the program. 

Expected Respondents 

The respondents will be current and 

former MRI awardees all based at 

academic and non-profit organizations. 

Quantitative procedures will be fielded 

using Web-based modes. Up to 3,600 

MRI awardees (respondents) will be 

contacted to request their participation 

in the survey. As needed, each MRI 

awardee will be contacted with 

reminders to complete the survey no 

more than twice during the survey’s 

duration under this generic clearance. 

Technology will be heavily utilized to 

limit the burden on respondents. 

Use of the Information 

The purpose of this survey of MRI 

awardees is to better understand 

outcomes of NSF MRI-related 

investments. The data will be used 

internally to inform NSF as it considers 

future improvements to the MRI 

program, and to gain a better 

understanding regarding the program’s 

impact on associated research and 

education activities. Findings may be 

presented externally in technical papers 

at conferences, published in the 

proceedings of conferences, or in 

journals. 

Burden on the Public 

Number of Respondents: 3600. 

Number of Minutes per Response: 30. 

Overall Burden Request (in hours): 

1800. 

Dated: October 12, 2010. 

Suzanne Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

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Notice of Availability of Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact for License 

Amendment No. 61 for Rio Algom 

Mining LLC, Ambrosia Lake, NM— 

SUA–1473 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas McLaughlin, Project Manager, 

Materials Decommissioning Branch, 

Division of Waste Management and 

Environmental Protection, Office of 

Federal and State Materials and 

Environmental Management Programs, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555. Telephone: 

(301) 415–5869; fax number: (301) 415– 

5369; e-mail: 

Thomas.McLaughlin@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

(NRC) is considering the issuance of a 

license amendment to Source Materials 

License SUA–1473 issued to Rio Algom 

Mining LLC (Rio Algom, or the 

Licensee) to authorize an alternate onsite disposal cell location for disposal of 

byproduct material at its Ambrosia Lake 

Mill Facility, in Ambrosia Lake, New 

Mexico. The NRC has prepared an 

Environmental Assessment (EA) for this 

proposed action in accordance with the 

requirements of 10 CFR part 51. Based 

on the EA, the NRC has concluded that 

a Finding of No Significant Impact 

(FONSI) is appropriate with respect to 

the proposed action. The amendment 

will be issued following the publication 

of this Notice. 

The Licensee previously has 

addressed, and the NRC has approved, 

the remaining site-wide reclamation 

plan elements through separate 

licensing actions, including the original 

reclamation plan for Tailings Ponds 1, 2, 

and 3 Disposal Cells (approved in 

September 1990), mill demolition, 

relocation of lined evaporation pond 

sediments, soil decommissioning plan, 

and groundwater remediation. The 

expansion of Tailings Pond Disposal 

Cell 2 was approved by License 

Amendment No. 58. The current 

licensing action is to provide an 

alternate on-site disposal area for 

placing byproduct material such as mill 

building debris and windblown 

impacted soil. 

II. Environmental Assessment 

Summary 

The purpose of the proposed 

amendment is to authorize an alternate 

on-site disposal cell location at the 

Licensee’s Ambrosia Lake Mill Facility, 

in Ambrosia Lake, New Mexico. By 

letter dated April 26, 2010, Rio Algom 

submitted a request to the NRC for 

approval of an alternate on-site disposal 

cell location for disposal of byproduct 

material. 

Rio Algom proposes placing 

byproduct materials, consisting 

primarily of mill building debris and 

windblown impacted soils, in the 

former ore-storage area west of the 

existing mill office, and stabilizing the 

materials in accordance with NRC 

standards in 10 CFR part 40. The cover 

over the disposal area would consist of 

a radon/infiltration barrier, overlain by 

a frost protection layer and rock erosion 

protection layers. Following approval by 

NRC of successful remediation of the 

area pursuant to the Reclamation Plan, 

the construction will be completed and 

the site eventually will be transferred to 

DOE. 

The staff, in coordination with the 

New Mexico Environmental Department 

(NMED), has prepared the EA in support 

of the proposed license amendment. 

The EA evaluates the construction of an 

alternate on-site disposal cell and is 

limited to the construction impacts as 

all other impacts (long-term and 

indirect) were previously evaluated in 

the Tailings Pond 2 expansion EA 

completed in November 2007, in 

connection with License Amendment 

No. 58. 

The potential direct impacts from 

construction activities primarily would 

be dust generation due to excavating 

material to form the channel, noise 

generated by construction equipment, 

and water surface runoff. The staff has 

determined that these potential direct 

impacts would be sufficiently mitigated, 

and the potential impacts at the tailings 

cell area would be small as the area is 

already disturbed from site reclamation 

activities. 

Three alternatives to the proposed 

action were considered and rejected, 

including: no action, increasing the 

capacity of disposal area #2, or selecting 

another disposal area at the facility. 

II. Finding of No Significant Impact 

Based on the analysis contained in 

this EA, the staff concluded that there 

are no significant environmental 

impacts from the proposed action, and 

that the preparation of an 

Environmental Impact Statement is not 

warranted. Accordingly, the NRC 

determined that a Finding of No 

Significant Impact is appropriate. 

III. Further Information 

Documents related to this action, 

including the application for 

amendment and supporting 

documentation, are available 

electronically at the NRC’s Electronic 

Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/ 

reading-rm/adams.html. From this site, 

you can access the NRC’s Agencywide 

Document Access and Management 

System (ADAMS), which provides text 

and image files of NRC’s public 

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documents. The ADAMS accession 

numbers for the documents related to 

this notice are: the Licensee’s license 

amendment request and environmental 

evaluation dated April 26, 2010 

(ADAMS ML101190534); the October 1, 

2010, EA for License Amendment No. 

61 (the alternate on-site disposal cell 

location) (ADAMS ML102220253); 

Approval for License Amendment No. 

58 (ADAMS ML073050328); and the 

November 2007, EA for Tailings Pond 2 

(ADAMS ML072670278). If you do not 

have access to ADAMS or if there are 

problems in accessing the documents 

located in ADAMS, contact the NRC 

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, Maryland, 20852. The 

PDR reproduction contractor will copy 

documents for a fee. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 7th day 

of October, 2010. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Keith I. McConnell, 

Deputy Director, Decommissioning and 

Uranium Recovery Licensing Directorate, 

Division of Waste Management and 

Environmental Protection, Office of Federal 

and State Materials and Environmental 

Management Programs. 

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[NRC–2009–0435] 

Notice of Availability of Draft 

Environmental Assessment and Draft 

Finding of No Significant Impact and 

Notice of Public Meeting for the 

Proposed License Renewal for Nuclear 

Fuel Services, Inc. in Erwin, TN 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability of Draft 

Environmental Assessment and Draft 

Finding of No Significant Impact; Notice 

of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing for public 

comment the Draft Environmental 

Assessment (EA) and Draft Finding of 

No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the 

proposed renewal of NRC special 

nuclear material license SNM–124 

(License SNM–124) that authorizes 

operations at the Nuclear Fuel Services, 

Inc. (NFS) fuel fabrication facility in 

Erwin, Tennessee. On June 30, 2009, 

NFS submitted to the NRC an 

application in which NFS requested 

renewal of License SNM–124 for a 40- 

year period. 

The Draft EA and Draft FONSI are 

being issued for public review and 

comment based on the NRC staff 

determination that (1) the NFS proposed 

action to renew License SNM–124 for 40 

years is without precedent, because, if 

granted, this would be the first 40-year 

license renewal for a Category I nuclear 

fuel fabrication facility, and (2) the 

preparation of a Draft EA and Draft 

FONSI will further the purposes of the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) of 1969, as amended (42 U.S.C. 

4321 et seq.). 

The NRC staff’s environmental review 

of the proposed 40-year license renewal 

is documented in the Draft EA, which 

was prepared following NRC regulations 

at title 10 of the U.S. Code of Federal 

Regulations (10 CFR) part 51 that 

implement NEPA, and in accordance 

with NRC staff guidance in NUREG– 

1748, ‘‘Environmental Review Guidance 

for Licensing Actions Associated with 

NMSS Programs.’’ In the Draft EA, the 

NRC staff identifies and evaluates the 

potential environmental impacts of the 

proposed renewal of License SNM–124 

and any reasonable alternatives. Based 

on the Draft EA, the NRC staff has made 

a preliminary determination that 

renewal of License SNM–124 for a 40- 

year period will not significantly affect 

the quality of the human environment 

and that a finding of no significant 

impact should therefore be made. By 

this notice, the NRC staff is requesting 

public comment on the Draft FONSI and 

on the supporting Draft EA. 

The NRC staff will hold a public 

meeting on October 26, 2010, to accept 

oral and written public comments on 

the Draft FONSI and Draft EA. The 

meeting will take place at the Erwin 

Town Hall in Erwin, Tennessee. For one 

hour prior to the public meeting, the 

NRC staff will be available to informally 

discuss the proposed action and answer 

questions in an ‘‘open house’’ format. 

The public meeting will officially begin 

at 6 p.m. The meeting will include (1) 

NRC staff presentations summarizing 

the NRC’s roles and responsibilities 

with respect to the proposed license 

renewal and also the contents of the 

Draft EA that supports the Draft FONSI, 

and (2) an opportunity for interested 

government agencies, Tribal 

governments, organizations, and 

individuals to provide oral or written 

comments on the Draft EA and Draft 

FONSI. The public meeting will be 

transcribed by a court reporter, and the 

meeting transcript will be made 

publicly available at a later date. 

Persons wishing to provide oral 

comments at the public meeting may 

register in advance by contacting Ms. 

Tarsha Moon at (800) 368–5642, ext. 

6745, no later than October 22, 2010. 

Those who wish to present oral 

comments may also register at the 

meeting. Individual oral comments may 

have to be limited by the time available, 

depending upon the number of persons 

who register. Written comments can 

also be provided at the meeting, and 

should be given to an NRC staff person 

at the registration desk at the meeting 

entrance. If special equipment or 

accommodations are needed to attend or 

present information at the public 

meeting, the need should be brought to 

the attention of Ms. Tarsha Moon at 

(800) 368–5642, ext. 6745, no later than 

October 22, 2010, to provide NRC staff 

with adequate notice to determine 

whether the request can be 

accommodated. Please note that 

comments do not have to be provided at 

the public meeting and may be 

submitted at any time during the 

comment period, as described in the 

DATES section of this notice. Any 

interested party may submit comments 

on the Draft EA and Draft FONSI for 

consideration by NRC staff. Comments 

may be submitted by any of the methods 

described in the ADDRESSES section of 

this notice. 

DATES: The public comment period on 

the Draft FONSI and the Draft EA begins 

on the date of publication of this notice 

and ends on November 13, 2010. To 

ensure consideration, comments on the 

Draft FONSI and Draft EA must be 

received or postmarked by November 

13, 2010. The NRC staff will consider 

comments received or postmarked after 

that date to the extent practical. 

The NRC will conduct a public 

meeting in Erwin, Tennessee. The 

meeting date, time, and location are 

listed below: 

Meeting Date: October 26, 2010. 

Meeting Location: Erwin Town Hall, 

211 North Main, Avenue, Erwin, 

Tennessee 37650. 

Informal Open House Session: 5–6 

p.m. 

Public Comment Meeting: 6–9 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any one of the following methods. 

Please include Docket ID NRC–2009– 

0435 in the subject line of your 

comments. 

Electronic Mail: Comments may be 

sent by electronic mail to the following 

address: NuclearFuel_DraftEA@nrc.gov. 

Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

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