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CFR), establishes a general license 

authorizing any physician, clinical 

laboratory, veterinarian in the practice 

of veterinary medicine, or hospital to 

possess certain small quantities of 

byproduct material for in vitro clinical 

or laboratory test not involving the 

internal or external administration of 

the byproduct material or the radiation 

therefrom to human beings or animals. 

Possession of byproduct material under 

10 CFR 31.11 is not authorized until the 

physician, clinical laboratory, 

veterinarian in the practice of veterinary 

medicine, or hospital has filed NRC 

Form 483 and received from the 

Commission a validated copy of NRC 

Form 483 with a registration number. 

The public may examine and have 

copied for a fee publicly-available 

documents, including the final 

supporting statement, at the NRC’s 

Public Document Room, Room O–1F21, 

One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. The 

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public-involve/doc-comment/omb/. The 

document will be available on the 

NRC’s home page site for 60 days after 

the signature date of this notice. 

Comments and questions should be 

directed to the OMB reviewer listed 

below by November 24, 2014. 

Comments received after this date will 

be considered if it is practical to do so, 

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Comments can also be emailed to 

Vladik_Dorjets@omb.eop.gov or 

submitted by telephone at 202–395– 

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6258. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day 

of October 2014. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Tremaine Donnell, 

NRC Clearance Officer, Office of Information 

Services. 

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BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 70–3098; NRC–2014–0235] 

Shaw AREVA MOX Services; Mixed 

Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Environmental assessment and 

finding of no significant impact; 

issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is considering 

extending the expiration date for 

Construction Authorization (CA) 

CAMOX–001 issued to Shaw AREVA 

MOX Services for the Mixed Oxide Fuel 

Fabrication Facility on the Savannah 

River Site in Aiken, South Carolina. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2014–0235 when contacting the 

NRC about the availability of 

information regarding this document. 

You may obtain publicly-available 

information related to this action by the 

following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2014–0235. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Carol 

Gallagher; telephone: 301–287–3422; 

email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For 

technical questions, contact the 

individual listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

document. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable documents online in the NRC 

Library at http://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/adams.html. To begin the search, 

select ‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and 

then select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS 

Search.’’ For problems with ADAMS, 

please contact the NRC’s Public 

Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 

1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by 

email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The 

ADAMS accession number for each 

document referenced in this notice (if 

that document is available in ADAMS) 

is provided the first time that a 

document is referenced. The request to 

extend the construction authorization 

expiration date, dated May 16, 2014, is 

available in ADAMS under Accession 

No. ML14132A342. 

• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and 

purchase copies of public documents at 

the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Tiktinsky, Office of Nuclear 

Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission; 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–287–9155; email: David.Tiktinsky@

nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The NRC is considering extending the 

CA expiration date specified in CA 

CAMOX–001 issued to Shaw AREVA 

MOX Services (MOX Services) for the 

Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility. 

The facility is located on the 

Department of Energy’s Savannah River 

Site in Aiken, South Carolina. 

Therefore, as required by § 51.21 of Title 

10 of the Code of Federal Regulations 

(10 CFR), the NRC performed an 

environmental assessment. Based on the 

results of the environmental assessment 

that follows, the NRC has determined 

not to prepare an environmental impact 

statement for the action of extending the 

expiration date of the construction 

authorization, and is issuing a finding of 

no significant impact. 

II. Environmental Assessment 

Identification of the Proposed Action 

The proposed action would extend 

the expiration date of CA CAMOX–001 

from March 30, 2015, to March 30, 2025. 

MOX Services submitted the CA 

extension request by letter dated May 

12, 2014 (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML14132A342). MOX Services 

submitted the request to extend the CA 

at least 90 days before the expiration of 

the existing CA, therefore, in accordance 

with 10 CFR 2.109(a), the existing CA 

will remain in effect until the NRC staff 

has completed the review of the request. 

The proposed extension will not 

expand the scope of any work to be 

performed that is not already allowed by 

the existing construction authorization. 

The extension will grant the MOX 

Services additional time to complete 

construction in accordance with the 

previously approved CA. 

The Need for the Proposed Action 

The proposed action is necessary to 

give the CA holder adequate time to 

complete construction of the Mixed 

Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility. The CA 

for the MFFF was originally issued on 

March 30, 2005, with an expiration date 

of March 31, 2015. MOX Services has 

stated in their May 12, 2014, request 

that various factors have contributed to 

the need for an extension of the CA. The 

factors include: (a) The MFFF is a 

unique first of a kind facility of this type 

to be licensed in the United States 

under 10 CFR part 70; (b) annual 

funding/appropriations supporting 

construction activities have been less 

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that the projected funding profile for 

several years; (c) requirements of 

nuclear procurements coupled with a 

shortage of qualified vendors have 

resulted in delayed delivery of 

components; (d) a shortage of qualified 

construction workers have resulted in 

longer durations for key construction 

activities, and (e) a 2-year delay between 

issuance of the CA and the start of 

nuclear construction. 

In May 2014, MOX Services 

determined that in order to bound the 

potential completion date of the facility, 

with respect to the dependence of 

annual congressional funding, that the 

CA should be extended to March 31, 

2025. 

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed 

Action 

The environmental impacts associated 

with the construction of the facility 

have been previously discussed and 

evaluated in MOX Services Mixed 

Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility 

Environmental Report, Revision 5, dated 

June 10, 2004. 

The NRC staff previously evaluated 

the environmental impacts of 

construction and operation of this 

facility. In January 2005, the NRC staff 

issued NUREG–1767, ‘‘Final 

Environmental Impact Statement on the 

Construction and Operation of a 

Proposed Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication 

Facility at the Savannah River Site, 

South Carolina (Vol. 1: ML050240233; 

Vol. 2: ML050240250) (FEIS). The FEIS 

stated that after weighing the costs and 

benefits of the proposed action and 

comparing alternatives, the staff 

concluded that (a) the applicable 

environmental requirements set forth in 

FEIS Chapter 6, and (b) the proposed 

mitigation measures discussed in FEIS 

Chapter 5 would eliminate or 

substantially lessen any potential 

environmental impacts associated with 

the proposed action. The staff also 

concluded that the overall benefits of 

the proposed MOX facility outweigh its 

disadvantages and costs. 

As part of the application for 

extension of the CA, MOX Services has 

concluded that activities conducted to 

date are still bounded by the MOX 

Services Environmental Report. MOX 

Services has also concluded that the 

extension of the CA expiration would 

not authorize or result in any new 

activities or result in changes of 

significance as defined 10 CFR Part 

51.60(b)(2). 

Under the authorization within 

CAMOX–001 Rev 3, MOX Services has 

made substantial progress in the 

construction of the MFFF with overall 

construction status in excess of 60 

percent complete. Significant progress 

has been made in construction of 

Principal Structures, Systems, and 

Components (PSSCs) and other nonPSSCs. For example, the MOX Fuel 

Fabrication Building (PSSC–036) is 

substantially complete, including the 

roof and the exterior structure, with 

only temporary construction openings 

remaining. More than 200,000 pounds 

of ventilation system ductwork (PSSC– 

004, –005, –006, –041, –050) has been 

installed. Seventy of 73 tanks have been 

installed (PSSC–003, –009, –010, –023, 

–041, 043, –045). Approximately 20 

gloveboxes (PSSC–024) have been 

installed. Installation of approximately 

1000 fire dampers (PSSC–021) has 

commenced. These PSSC activities have 

been completed in accordance with 

MOX Services’ NRC-approved Quality 

Assurance Plan. Construction activities 

that are not related to PSSCs include 

completion of the Administration 

Building, Technical Support Building, 

Craft Support Building, and Secured 

Warehouse as well as the installation of 

more than 70,000 linear feet of nonPSSC electrical cable. In addition, MOX 

Services has completed in-advance 

testing of 27 process units. 

While significant progress has been 

made on construction of the MFFF, 

additional time is required for 

completion of construction. Key 

structures remaining to be constructed 

include the Emergency Generator 

Building (PSSC–016) and the Reagents 

Processing Building (non-PSSC). Other 

key PSSC related construction activities 

remaining include completing 

installation of ventilation systems 

(PSSC–004, –005, –006, –041, –050), 

including fire dampers (PSSC–021), fire 

detection and suppression system 

(PSSC–022), diesel generator and 

support systems (PSSC–012, –017, 

–018), process units (various PSSCs), 

and gloveboxes (PSSC–024). These 

activities are authorized under 

CAMOX–001 Rev. 3 and will be 

constructed in accordance with the 

MOX Project Quality Assurance Plan. 

MOX Services has made substantial 

progress in the construction of the MOX 

Fuel Fabrication building and other 

support buildings. Most of the 

remaining construction activities will 

take place within the existing buildings. 

Therefore, most of the environmental 

impacts discussed in MOX Services’ 

Environmental Report have occurred 

and the impacts are consistent with the 

staff’s FEIS. The requested extension of 

the CA is for the time needed to 

complete construction and does not 

impact the scope of activities. 

Accordingly, the extension does not 

involve any additional impacts or 

represent a significant change to those 

impacts described and analyzed in the 

previous environmental report. Based 

on the foregoing, the NRC staff has 

concluded that the proposed action 

would have no significant 

environmental impact. 

Environmental Impacts of the 

Alternatives to the Proposed Action 

A possible alternative to the proposed 

action would be to deny the request, or 

the no-action alternative. If the NRC 

denies the extension request, then MOX 

Services will need to cease construction 

activities in 2015 when the CA expires. 

Because most of the construction 

activities have already taken place, the 

impacts of this alternative would not be 

significantly different that if NRC 

approved the extension request. 

Alternative Use of Resources 

Since the CA holder has no plans to 

perform any new activities that were not 

considered in previous environmental 

reviews, the spreading out of time for 

the construction of the remainder of the 

facility does not involve the use of 

resources not previously considered in 

the environmental documents for the 

MFFF. 

Agencies and Persons Consulted 

In accordance with its stated policy, 

on July 29, 2014, the NRC staff 

consulted with officials from the South 

Carolina Department of Health and 

Environmental Control regarding the 

environmental impact of the proposed 

action. The State officials had no 

comments. 

III. Finding of No Significant Impact 

Based on the details provided in this 

environmental assessment, the NRC 

staff concludes that the proposed action 

of extending the expiration date of CA 

from March 30, 2015, to March 30, 2025, 

does not involve any different impacts 

or a significant change to those impacts 

described and analyzed in the original 

environmental impact statement. 

Therefore, the NRC staff has determined 

that extending the CA completion date 

will not have a significant effect on the 

quality of the human environment 

because it does not involve any 

additional impacts or represent a 

significant change to those impacts 

described and analyzed in the previous 

environmental report and FEIS. 

Accordingly, the NRC has determined 

not to prepare an environmental impact 

statement for the proposed action. 

This finding and documents related to 

this action such as the CA holder’s 

request for extension dated May 12, 

2014 (ADAMS Accession No. 

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ML14132A342) and related 

environmental documents (FEIS: Vol. 1: 

ML050240233; Vol. 2: ML050240250) 

are available electronically at the NRC 

Library at http://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/adams.html. To begin the search, 

select ‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and 

then select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS 

Search.’’ 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 16th day 

of October 2014. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Robert Johnson, 

Chief, Fuel Manufacturing Branch, Division 

of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, Office 

of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. 

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BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 72–08; NRC–2011–0085] 

Exelon Generation Corporation, LLC; 

Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant; 

Independent Spent Fuel Storage 

Installation 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Environmental assessment and 

finding of no significant impact; reissuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is re-issuing an 

Environmental Assessment (EA) and 

Finding of No Significant Impact 

(FONSI) for the proposed renewal of 

NRC License SNM–2505 for the 

continued operation of the Independent 

Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI) 

at the Exelon Generation Corporation, 

LLC (Exelon Generation), Calvert Cliffs 

Nuclear Power Plant site in Calvert 

County, Maryland. The re-issued EA 

includes the NRC staff’s consideration 

of the impacts of continued storage of 

spent nuclear fuel (as documented in 

NUREG–2157, ‘‘Generic Environmental 

Impact Statement for Continued Storage 

of Spent Fuel’’) as an appendix to the 

EA. The re-issued EA also includes an 

update to the cumulative impacts 

assessment to address new information 

about reasonably foreseeable future 

actions in the vicinity of or associated 

with the ISFSI site. 

DATES: The re-issued EA and FONSI are 

available as of October 23, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2011–0085 when contacting the 

NRC about the availability of 

information regarding this document. 

You may access publicly-available 

information related to this document 

using any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2011–0085. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Carol 

Gallagher; telephone: 301–287–3422; 

email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For 

technical questions, contact the 

individual listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

document. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly 

available documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

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

adams.html. To begin the search, select 

‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then 

select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS 

Search.’’ For problems with ADAMS, 

please contact the NRC’s Public 

Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 

1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by 

email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The 

ADAMS accession number for each 

document referenced in this document 

(if that document is available in 

ADAMS) is provided the first time that 

a document is referenced. 

• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and 

purchase copies of public documents at 

the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

James Park, Office of Nuclear Material 

Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415– 

6935; email: James.Park@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

On September 17, 2010, Exelon 

Generation submitted an application 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML102650247) 

to the NRC to renew NRC License SNM– 

2505 for the Calvert Cliffs ISFSI in 

Calvert County, Maryland, for a period 

of 40 years. Exelon Generation 

supplemented its application by 

submittals dated February 10, 2011, 

March 9, 2011, June 28, 2011, and 

December 15, 2011 (ADAMS Accession 

Nos. ML110620120, ML110730731, 

ML11180A270, and ML11364A024). 

The NRC staff prepared an EA in 

accordance with § 51.30(a) of Title 10 of 

the Code of Federal Regulations (10 

CFR), publishing a notice of issuance for 

the EA and a FONSI in the Federal 

Register on June 8, 2012 (77 FR 34093). 

The NRC’s licensing proceedings for 

nuclear reactors and ISFSIs have 

historically relied upon a generic 

determination codified in the NRC’s 

regulations (10 CFR Part 51) to satisfy 

the agency’s obligations under the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969, as amended (NEPA), with respect 

to the narrow area of the environmental 

impacts of storage of spent nuclear fuel 

(spent fuel) beyond a reactor’s licensed 

life for operation and prior to ultimate 

disposal (continued storage). The Court 

of Appeals for the District of Columbia 

Circuit, in New York v. NRC, 681 F. 3d 

471 (D.C. Cir. 2012), vacated the NRC’s 

2010 update to that rule (75 FR 81031; 

December 23, 2010) and remanded it to 

the NRC. Thereafter, the Commission 

determined on August 7, 2012, that the 

NRC would not issue licenses 

dependent upon the formerly known 

Waste Confidence Decision and 

Temporary Storage Rule until the Court 

of Appeals’ was appropriately addressed 

(Commission Order CLI–12–16, ADAMS 

Accession No. ML12220A199). 

On September 19, 2014 (79 FR 56238), 

the NRC published a final rule at 10 

CFR 51.23, ‘‘Environmental impacts of 

continued storage of spent nuclear fuel 

beyond the licensed life for operations 

of a reactor’’ (RIN 3150–AJ20; NRC– 

2012–0246). That rule, effective October 

20, 2014, codifies the NRC’s generic 

determinations in NUREG–2157 

(ADAMS Accession Nos. ML14196A105 

and ML14196A107) regarding the 

environmental impacts of the continued 

storage of spent fuel. In CLI–14–08 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML14238A213), 

the Commission held that the revised 10 

CFR 51.23 and associated NUREG–2157 

cure the deficiencies identified by the 

court in New York v. NRC, 681 F.3d 471 

(D.C. Cir. 2012) and stated that the rule 

satisfies the NRC’s NEPA obligations 

with respect to continued storage. The 

rule, however, does not authorize the 

storage of spent fuel. 

In EAs prepared for future relevant 

licensing actions related to a reactor’s 

spent nuclear fuel, 10 CFR 51.23(b) now 

requires the NRC to consider the 

environmental impacts of continued 

storage, if the impacts of continued 

storage of spent fuel are relevant to the 

proposed action. An appendix to the reissued EA (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML14282A278) prepared for the 

proposed renewal of the Calvert Cliffs 

ISFSI license provides the NRC staff’s 

consideration of the impact 

determinations in NUREG–2157 

regarding continued storage. 

The NRC staff has also updated its 

assessment of cumulative impacts to 

include new information about 

reasonably foreseeable future actions 

(RFFAs) in the vicinity of or associated 

with the ISFSI site. These RFFAs 

include Exelon Generation’s proposed 

expansion of the ISFSI and updates to 

the Cove Point liquefied natural gas 

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