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National Science Foundation, 4201 

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Or by email: ACApermits@nsf.gov 

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18, 2014 the National Science 

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Federal Register of a permit application 

received. After considering all 

comments received, the permit 

modification was issued on October 24, 

2014 to: Dan McGrath and Dwayne 

Stevens, Permit No. 2014–007. 

Nadene G. Kennedy, 

Polar Coordination Specialist, Division of 

Polar Programs. 

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Government in the Sunshine Act (5 

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scheduling of a teleconference for the 

transaction of National Science Board 

business, as follows: 

DATE AND TIME: Wednesday, November 

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SUBJECT MATTER: Chairman’s updates on 

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scope of work for the ad hoc Working 

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[Docket No. 040–8943; NRC–2008–0208] 

License Renewal of Crow Butte ISR, 

Uranium In Situ Recovery Project 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Environmental assessment and 

finding of no significant impact; 

issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is considering 

renewal of Crow Butte Resources, Inc. 

(CBR or the applicant), Source Materials 

License SUA–1534 for continued 

uranium production operations and in 

situ recovery (ISR) of uranium at the 

Crow Butte Project in Crawford, 

Nebraska. 

DATES: The environmental assessment 

and finding of no significant impact are 

available as of October 30, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2008–0208 when contacting the 

NRC about the availability of 

information regarding this document. 

You may obtain 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–2008–0208. 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 

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. For the 

convenience of the reader, the ADAMS 

accession numbers are provided in a 

table in the ‘‘Availability of Documents’’ 

section of this document. 

• 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: 

Nathan Goodman, Office of Nuclear 

Material Safety and Safeguards, 

telephone: 301–415–2703, email: 

Nathan.Goodman@nrc.gov; U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The NRC is considering renewal of 

CBR’s Source Materials License SUA– 

1534 for continued uranium production 

operations and ISR of uranium at the 

Crow Butte Project in Crawford, 

Nebraska. The applicant is proposing 

continued ISR operations and 

processing materials into yellowcake to 

be shipped for conversion. The NRC 

staff has prepared an Environmental 

Assessment (EA) in support of this 

proposed license renewal, in accordance 

with the requirements in Part 51 of Title 

10 of the Code of Federal Regulations 

(10 CFR). The NRC staff has also 

completed a safety evaluation of the 

proposed license renewal, pursuant to 

10 CFR Part 40, and the results of the 

safety evaluation are documented in a 

separate Safety Evaluation Report (SER), 

ADAMS Accession No. ML14149A433. 

If approved, the NRC will issue the 

renewed license following the 

publication of this notice. The new 

license will also be made publicly 

available in ADAMS. 

II. Environmental Assessment 

Summary 

On November 27, 2007, CBR 

submitted an application to the NRC to 

extend the current NRC License SUA– 

1534 for an additional 10 years of 

operation (ADAMS Accession Nos. 

ML073480266, ML073480272, 

ML073480274, and ML073480267). The 

proposed action would permit CBR to 

continue ISR operations and yellowcake 

production at the CBR facility. The ISR 

operations require an extraction step 

and a uranium recovery step. Extraction 

is accomplished by installing a series of 

injection wells through which barren 

lixiviant (a mixture of groundwater 

charged with oxygen and bicarbonate) is 

pumped into an underground geological 

formation containing uranium deposits 

(the ore body). Corresponding 

production wells and pumps promote 

flow through the ore body and allow for 

the collection of uranium-rich pregnant 

lixiviant. Uranium is removed from the 

pregnant lixiviant by ion exchange, and 

then from the ion exchange resin by 

elution. After the uranium is removed, 

the lixiviant can then be recharged and 


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reinjected into the ore body to repeat the 

extraction cycle. The elution liquid 

containing the uranium (the ‘‘pregnant’’ 

eluant) is then processed by 

precipitation, dewatering, and drying to 

produce a transportable form of 

uranium (yellowcake). 

The NRC staff has assessed the 

environmental impacts associated with 

the request from CBR to renew its 

Source Materials License No. SUA–1534 

for CBR’s ISR facility located in 

Crawford, Nebraska, as well as the no 

action alternative, and has documented 

the results in this EA. The NRC staff 

performed its environmental review in 

accordance with the requirements in 10 

CFR Part 51. In conducting the 

environmental review, the NRC staff 

considered information in the license 

renewal application (LRA); information 

in the responses to the NRC staff’s 

requests for additional information 

(RAIs); communications with CBR, the 

Nebraska State Historic Preservation 

Office (SHPO), and the Nebraska 

Department of Environmental Quality 

(NDEQ); information from the NRC staff 

site visits and inspections; consultation 

with Native American Tribes and the 

public; and the NRC staff’s independent 

analysis. 

In this EA, the NRC staff evaluated the 

potential environmental impacts of the 

proposed action and the no action 

alternative on the affected environment, 

specifically: land use; historical and 

cultural resources; visual and scenic 

resources; air quality; geology and soils; 

water resources; ecological resources; 

socioeconomics; environmental justice; 

noise; transportation; and public and 

occupational health and safety. 

The NRC staff evaluated the potential 

impacts and categorized the impacts as 

follows: 

• SMALL—environmental effects are 

not detectable or are so minor that they 

will neither destabilize nor noticeably 

alter any important attribute of the 

resource. 

• MODERATE—environmental 

effects are sufficient to alter noticeably, 

but not to destabilize, important 

attributes of the resource. 

• LARGE—environmental effects are 

clearly noticeable and are sufficient to 

destabilize important attributes of the 

resource. 

Additionally, the NRC staff analyzed 

the cumulative impacts from past, 

present, and reasonably foreseeable 

future actions when combined with the 

environmental impacts from the 

proposed action. For cumulative 

impacts, the NRC staff evaluated 

whether these actions would have a 

significant impact on each resource 

area. 

The NRC staff has determined that 

renewal of Source Material License 

SUA–1534 will be consistent with the 

requirements of 10 CFR Part 40 and will 

not have long-term detrimental impacts 

on the environment. The following 

statements summarize the conclusions 

resulting from the staff’s environmental 

assessment: 

(1) Impacts for all resource areas were 

determined to be SMALL. 

(2) Approval of the proposed action 

would not alter the current land use at 

the CBR facility. No new construction, 

including roads, at the CBR facility is 

anticipated. Traffic is not expected to 

increase from current conditions. 

(3) The NRC staff has determined that 

impacts to water resources, discussed in 

detail in Sections 4.6 and 4.13.6 of the 

EA, would not be significant from the 

relicensing of the CBR facility. Under 

the license renewal, the facility would 

continue to operate in accordance with 

the State and Federal requirements that 

minimize impacts to water resources. 

(4) The proposed action would have 

SMALL impacts to cultural resources. 

Consultation was completed between 

the NRC and Native American Tribes in 

accordance with Section 106 of the 

National Historic Preservation Act 

(NHPA), and there were no sites 

considered eligible for listing in the 

National Register of Historic Places. 

Additionally, there will be no 

disproportionally high and adverse 

impacts on minority and low-income 

populations. 

(5) Impacts to threatened and 

endangered species are not expected 

from the relicensing of the CBR facility 

because no new construction or land 

disturbance is anticipated. 

(6) There would be no impacts to the 

public pertaining to radiological and 

non-radiological health associated with 

relicensing the CBR facility. Under the 

license renewal, the facility would 

continue to operate in accordance with 

the State and Federal requirements that 

minimize radiological and nonradiological impacts. 

(7) The NRC staff analyzed potential 

cumulative impacts and concluded that 

there would not be significant adverse 

cumulative impacts to any resource 

area. 

III. Finding of No Significant Impact 

(FONSI) 

Based on its review of the proposed 

action, in accordance with the 

requirements in 10 CFR Part 51, the 

NRC staff has concluded that the 

proposed action, renewal of NRC Source 

Materials License No. SUA–1534 for 

CBR’s ISR facility located in Crawford, 

Nebraska, will not have a significant 

impact on the resource areas discussed 

in this EA and will not significantly 

affect the quality of the human 

environment. Therefore, the NRC staff 

has determined, pursuant to 10 CFR 

51.31, that preparation of an 

environmental impact statement is not 

required for the proposed action and a 

FONSI is appropriate. 

IV. Availability of Documents 

The documents identified in the 

following table are available to 

interested persons as indicated. For 

additional information on accessing 

ADAMS, see the ADDRESSES section of 

this document. 

Document ADAMS Accession No. 

License Renewal Application ........................................................................................................................... ML073480266, ML073480272, 

ML073480274, ML073480267 

Applicant’s Response to Environmental RAIs ................................................................................................. ML091980473 

Section 106 Documents: 

NRC Staff Documentation of Section 106 Review Findings .................................................................... ML13260A566 

Traditional Cultural Property Survey Report by Santee Sioux Nation and Crow Nation ......................... ML13093A123 

NRC Staff letter to Nebraska SHPO requesting concurrence on completion of Section 106 process ... ML13105A359 

Nebraska SHPO response to concurrence letter ..................................................................................... ML13266A266 

Environmental Assessment .............................................................................................................................. ML14288A517 

Safety Evaluation Report ................................................................................................................................. ML14149A433 


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The Section 106 documents listed in 

the above table are also publicly 

available on the NRC Web site at: 

http://www.nrc.gov/info-finder/

materials/uranium/licensed-facilities/

crow-butte/section-106-license-renewaldocs.html. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day 

of October, 2014. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Marissa G. Bailey, 

Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety, 

Safeguards and Environmental Review, Office 

of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. 

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Advisory Committee on the Medical 

Uses of Isotopes: Meeting Notice 

AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) will convene a 

teleconference meeting of the Advisory 

Committee on the Medical Uses of 

Isotopes (ACMUI) on December 10, 

2014, to discuss the Committee’s 

comments on NRC’s Advanced Notice of 

Proposed Rulemaking for Title 10 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations for Part 20. 

Meeting information, including a copy 

of the agenda and handouts, will be 

available at http://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/doc-collections/acmui/meetings/

2014.html. The agenda and handouts 

may also be obtained by contacting Ms. 

Sophie Holiday using the information 

below. 

DATE: The teleconference meeting will 

be held on Wednesday, December 10, 

2014, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern 

Daylight Time (EDT). 

Public Participation: Any member of 

the public who wishes to participate in 

the teleconference should contact Ms. 

Holiday using the contact information 

below. 

Contact Information: Sophie Holiday, 

email: sophie.holiday@nrc.gov, 

telephone: (301) 415–7865. 

Conduct of the Meeting 

Dr. Bruce Thomadsen, ACMUI 

Chairman, will preside over the 

meeting. Dr. Thomadsen will conduct 

the meeting in a manner that will 

facilitate the orderly conduct of 

business. The following procedures 

apply to public participation in the 

meeting: 

1. Persons who wish to provide a 

written statement should submit an 

electronic copy to Ms. Holiday at the 

contact information listed above. All 

submittals must be received by 

December 05, 2014, three business days 

prior to the meeting, and must pertain 

to the topic on the agenda for the 

meeting. 

2. Questions and comments from 

members of the public will be permitted 

during the meetings, at the discretion of 

the Chairman. 

3. The draft transcript and meeting 

summary will be available on ACMUI’s 

Web site http://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/doc-collections/acmui/meetings/

2014.html on or about January 23, 2015. 

This meeting will be held in 

accordance with the Atomic Energy Act 

of 1954, as amended (primarily Section 

161a); the Federal Advisory Committee 

Act (5 U.S.C. App); and the 

Commission’s regulations in Title 10, 

U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, Part 7. 

Dated: October 24, 2014 

Andrew L. Bates, 

Advisory Committee Management Officer. 

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Advisory Committee on the Medical 

Uses of Isotopes: Call for Nominations 

AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Call for Nominations. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is advertising for 

nominations for the position of 

radiation therapy medical physicist on 

the Advisory Committee on the Medical 

Uses of Isotopes (ACMUI). 

DATES: Nominations are due on or 

before January 13, 2015. 

Nomination Process: Submit an 

electronic copy of resume or curriculum 

vitae to Ms. Sophie Holiday, 

Sophie.Holiday@nrc.gov. Please ensure 

that the resume or curriculum vitae 

includes the following information, if 

applicable: Education; certification; 

professional association membership 

and committee membership activities; 

duties and responsibilities in current 

and previous clinical, research, and/or 

academic position(s). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Sophie Holiday, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Office of 

Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards; 

(301) 415–7865; Sophie.Holiday@

nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

ACMUI advises NRC on policy and 

technical issues that arise in the 

regulation of the medical use of 

byproduct material. 

Responsibilities include providing 

comments on changes to NRC 

regulations and guidance; evaluating 

certain non-routine uses of byproduct 

material; providing technical assistance 

in licensing, inspection, and 

enforcement cases; and bringing key 

issues to the attention of NRC staff, for 

appropriate action. 

ACMUI members possess the medical 

and technical skills needed to address 

evolving issues. The current 

membership is comprised of the 

following professionals: (a) Nuclear 

medicine physician; (b) nuclear 

cardiologist; (c) two radiation 

oncologists; (d) diagnostic radiologist; 

(e) therapy medical physicist; (f) nuclear 

medicine physicist; (g) nuclear 

pharmacist; (h) health care 

administrator; (i) radiation safety officer; 

(j) patients’ rights advocate; (k) Food 

and Drug Administration representative; 

and (l) Agreement State representative. 

NRC is inviting nominations for the 

therapy medical physicist to the 

ACMUI. The term of the individual 

currently occupying this position will 

end October 15, 2015. Committee 

members currently serve a four-year 

term and may be considered for 

reappointment to an additional term. 

Nominees must be U.S. citizens and 

be able to devote approximately 160 

hours per year to Committee business. 

Members who are not Federal 

employees are compensated for their 

service. In addition, members are 

reimbursed for travel (including perdiem in lieu of subsistence) and are 

reimbursed secretarial and 

correspondence expenses. Full-time 

Federal employees are reimbursed travel 

expenses only. 

Security Background Check: The 

selected nominee will undergo a 

thorough security background check. 

Security paperwork may take the 

nominee several weeks to complete. 

Nominees will also be required to 

complete a financial disclosure 

statement to avoid conflicts of interest. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 24th day 

of October, 2014. 

For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

Andrew L. Bates, 

Advisory Committee Management Officer. 

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