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any identifying or contact information, 

the NRC cautions you against including 

any information in your submission that 

you do not want to be publicly 

disclosed. 

The NRC requests that any party 

soliciting or aggregating comments 

received from other persons for 

submission to the NRC inform those 

persons that the NRC will not edit their 

comments to remove any identifying or 

contact information, and therefore, they 

should not include any information in 

their comments that they do not want 

publicly disclosed. 

Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for documents filed under Docket ID 

NRC–2008–0339. Comments may be 

submitted electronically through this 

Web site. Address questions about NRC 

dockets to Carol Gallagher at 301–492– 

3668, or e-mail at 

Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. 

Mail comments to: Michael T. Lesar, 

Chief, Rulemaking and Directives 

Branch (RDB), Division of 

Administrative Services, Office of 

Administration, Mail Stop: TWB–05– 

B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001, or by fax to RDB at (301) 492– 

3446. You may also send comments 

electronically to 

NicholsRanchISRSEIS@nrc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

general information on the NRC’s NEPA 

process, or the environmental review 

process related to the Draft SEIS, please 

contact Irene Yu, Project Manager, 

Environmental Review Branch, Division 

of Waste Management and 

Environmental Protection (DWMEP), 

Mail Stop T–8F5, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC, 20555–001, by phone at 1 (800) 

368–5642, extension 1951. For general 

or technical information associated with 

the safety and licensing of uranium 

milling facilities, please contact Stephen 

Cohen, Team Lead, Uranium Recovery 

Branch, DWMEP, Mail Stop T–8F5, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, by phone 

at 1 (800) 368–5642, extension 7182. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

As stated previously, in response to 

several requests during the public 

comment period, the NRC is extending 

the Draft SEIS comment period close 

date from February 1, 2010, to March 3, 

2010. The comment period extension is 

in response to public comments 

indicating (1) the original comment 

period for the Draft SEIS included 

multiple Federal holidays, and (2) the 

Draft SEIS for the Nichols Ranch ISR 

Project was published concurrently with 

two additional NRC Draft SEISs (the 

Lost Creek ISR Project in Sweetwater 

County, Wyoming, and the Moore 

Ranch ISR Project in Campbell County, 

Wyoming). 

Following the end of the public 

comment period, the NRC staff will 

publish a Final SEIS for the Nichols 

Ranch ISR Project that addresses, as 

appropriate, the public comments on 

the Draft SEIS. 

II. Further Information 

Publicly available documents related 

to this notice can be accessed using the 

following methods: 

NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR): 

The public may examine and have 

copied, for a fee, publicly available 

documents at the NRC’s PDR, Public 

File Area O1 F21, One White Flint 

North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland. 

NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access 

and Management System (ADAMS): 

Publicly available documents created or 

received at the NRC are available 

electronically at the NRC’s Electronic 

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

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

the public can gain entry into ADAMS, 

which provides text and image files of 

NRC’s public documents. If you do not 

have access to ADAMS or if there are 

problems in accessing the documents 

located in ADAMS, contact the NRC’s 

PDR reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 

301–415–4737, or by e-mail to 

Pdr.Resource@nrc.gov. The 

‘‘Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Nichols Ranch ISR Project in 

Campbell and Johnson Counties, 

Wyoming—Supplement to the Generic 

Environmental Impact Statement for InSitu Leach Uranium Milling Facilities’’ 

is available electronically under 

ADAMS Accession Number 

ML093340536. 

The Draft SEIS for the Nichols Ranch 

ISR Project also may be accessed on the 

internet at http://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/ by 

selecting ‘‘NUREG–1910.’’ The Draft 

SEIS will be Supplement 2 to NUREG– 

1910. To facilitate review, links to 

NEPA documents developed by other 

Federal agencies that were referenced in 

the Draft SEIS will be provided at the 

aforementioned internet address. 

Additionally, a copy of the Draft SEIS 

will be available at the following public 

libraries: 

Campbell County Public Library, 2101 

South 4J Road, Gillette, Wyoming 

82718, 307–687–0009. 

Johnson County Library, 171 North 

Adams Avenue, Buffalo, Wyoming 

82834, 307–684–5546. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 1st day 

of February, 2010. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Patrice M. Bubar, 

Deputy Director, Environmental Protection 

and Performance Assessment Directorate, 

Division of Waste Management and 

Environmental Protection, Office of Federal 

and State Materials and Environmental 

Management Programs. 

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[Docket No. 40–1162; NRC–2010–0038] 

Notice of Availability of Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact for License 

Amendment for Revised Groundwater 

Protection Standards, Western 

Nuclear, Inc., Jeffrey City, WY 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Richard Chang, Project Manager, Special 

Projects 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 20555–0001. Telephone: (301) 415– 

7188; fax number: (301) 415–5369; email: richard.chang@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is considering 

issuing a license amendment to 

Materials License No. SUA–56, held by 

Western Nuclear, Inc. (WNI), to 

authorize revised groundwater 

protection standards for its facility near 

Jeffrey City, Wyoming. On June 19, 

1981, WNI announced that the facility 

would be placed on standby because of 

a diminishing demand for the ore and 

because of depressed uranium prices. 

The facility remained on standby until 

1986 when the NRC staff amended the 

license to terminate the use of the 

tailings impoundments for disposal, and 

WNI was required to submit a tailings 

reclamation plan. On December 1, 2008, 

as supplemented by a February 7, 2009, 

submittal, WNI submitted a license 

amendment request for revised 

groundwater protection standards. On 


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March 9, 2009, WNI submitted an 

additional amendment request for 

groundwater protection standards for 

other constituents. NRC staff sent a 

request for additional information on 

April 1, 2009, which WNI responded to 

on June 16, 2009. NRC has prepared an 

Environmental Assessment (EA) in 

support of this amendment request 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 is appropriate. The 

amendment will be issued following the 

publication of this Notice. 

II. EA Summary 

The purpose of the proposed 

amendment is to authorize revised 

groundwater protection standards for 

the site. Specifically, WNI has requested 

that an alternate concentration limit 

(ACL) be set for selenium at the point 

of compliance wells equal to 0.05 mg/ 

L. This requested selenium value is 

equal to the U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) maximum 

contaminant level (MCL) for selenium 

in drinking water. WNI has also 

requested that natural uranium trigger 

levels for licensee action at the point of 

exposure be set at background levels, 

specifically 0.087 mg/L for the Split 

Rock aquifer and 0.044 mg/L for the 

flood-plain aquifer. The request 

excludes one well (Well SWAB–32), 

where the existing standard will not 

change. 

The NRC staff has prepared the EA in 

support of the proposed license 

amendment. The NRC staff considered 

impacts to groundwater, surface water, 

endangered and threatened species, 

historic and cultural resources, 

socioeconomic conditions, and 

transportation. This EA references 

previously approved ACLs, which were 

granted in 2006. The site currently has 

institutional controls in place limiting 

the domestic use of groundwater within 

the proposed long-term surveillance 

boundary. Because WNI is requesting a 

standard for selenium values at the 

points of compliance equal to EPA’s 

MCL and the trigger levels for licensee 

action at the point of exposure for 

natural uranium at background levels, 

the staff does not expect the proposed 

action to significantly impact the 

following resource areas: groundwater, 

surface water, endangered and 

threatened species, historic and cultural 

resources, socioeconomic conditions, 

and transportation. 

III. Finding of No Significant Impact 

On the basis of the EA, NRC has 

concluded that there are no significant 

environmental impacts from the 

proposed amendment and has 

determined that there is no need to 

prepare an environmental impact 

statement. 

IV. 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 

Documents Access and Management 

System (ADAMS), which provides text 

and image files of NRC’s public 

documents. The ADAMS accession 

numbers for the documents related to 

this notice are: 

Document title Date Accession No. 

Split Rock Uranium Mill Tailings Facility Proposed Amendments to LC 74 ............................................... December 1, 2008 ..... ML083380453 

License Amendment Request for Western Nuclear, Inc., Source Materials License SUA–56 .................. February 7, 2009 ....... ML090430285 

License Amendment Request for Western Nuclear, Inc., Source Materials License SUA–56 .................. March 9, 2009 ........... ML090750922 

Request For Additional Information—Amendments To License Condition 74, Materials License SUA– 

56, Western Nuclear Inc., Split Rock Site, Jeffrey City, Wyoming.

April 1, 2009 .............. ML090820330 

Request for Additional Information—Amendments to L.C. 74, Materials License SUA056, Western Nuclear Inc., Split Rock Site.June 16, 2009 ........... ML091680563 

Final Environmental Assessment ................................................................................................................ January 28, 2010 ...... ML092780271 

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, O1 F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. The PDR 

reproduction contractor will copy 

documents for a fee. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 28th day 

of January, 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–2008–0391] 

Extension of Public Comment Period 

on the Draft Environmental Impact 

Statement for the Lost Creek In-Situ 

Recovery Project in Sweetwater 

County, WY; Supplement to the 

Generic Environmental Impact 

Statement for In-Situ Leach Uranium 

Milling Facilities 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC). 

ACTION: Extension of Public Comment 

Period. 

SUMMARY: This notice revises a notice 

published on Friday, December 11, 

2009, in the Federal Register (74 FR 

65804), which announced, in part, that 

the public comment period for the 

NRC’s Draft Environmental Impact 

Statement (Draft SEIS) for the Lost Creek 


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