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Type of Review: Extension without 

change of a previously approved 

collection. 

Title of Collection: Temporary Labor 

Camps (29 CFR 1910.142). 

OMB Control Number: 1218–0096. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofits. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

833. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 67. 

Estimated Total Annual Costs Burden 

(excludes hourly wage costs): $0. 

Description: The information is 

required to safeguard the health of 

temporary labor camp residents. The 

information is used to limit the 

incidence of communicable disease 

among temporary labor camp residents. 

For additional information, see the 

related 60-day preclearance notice 

published in the Federal Register at 

Vol. 74 FR 11975 on March 20, 2009. 

PRA documentation prepared in 

association with the preclearance notice 

is available on http:// 

www.regulations.gov under docket 

number OSHA–2009–0003. 

Agency: Occupational Safety and 

Health Administration. 

Type of Review: Extension without 

change of a previously approved 

collection. 

Title of Collection: 1,3-Butadiene (29 

CFR 1910.1051). 

OMB Control Number: 1218–0170. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofits. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

115. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 955. 

Estimated Total Annual Costs Burden 

(excludes hourly wage costs): $95,288. 

Description: The purpose of this 

standard and its information collection 

requirements are to provide protection 

for employees from the adverse health 

effects associated with occupational 

exposure to 1,3-Butadiene. For 

additional information, see the related 

60-day preclearance notice published in 

the Federal Register at Vol. 74 FR 11974 

on March 20, 2009. PRA documentation 

prepared in association with the 

preclearance notice is available on 

http://www.regulations.gov under 

docket number OSHA–2009–0004. 

Darrin A. King, 

Departmental Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–13155 Filed 6–4–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–26–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Request for Certification of 

Compliance—Rural Industrialization 

Loan and Grant Program 

AGENCY: Employment and Training 

Administration, Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Employment and 

Training Administration is issuing this 

notice to announce the receipt of a 

‘‘Certification of Non-Relocation and 

Market and Capacity Information 

Report’’ (Form 4279–2) for the 

following: 

Applicant/Location: Jagdamba III 

Corporation dba Golden Corral/ 

Queensbury, New York. 

Principal Product/Purpose: The loan, 

guarantee, or grant application is to 

enable a new business venture to 

purchase commercial real estate to 

construct and open a Golden Corral 

restaurant franchise. The NAICS 

industry code for this enterprise is: 

722110 Full-Service Restaurants. 

DATES: All interested parties may submit 

comments in writing no later than June 

19, 2009. Copies of adverse comments 

received will be forwarded to the 

applicant noted above. 

ADDRESSES: Address all comments 

concerning this notice to Anthony D. 

Dais, U.S. Department of Labor, 

Employment and Training 

Administration, 200 Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Room S–4231, 

Washington, DC 20210; or e-mail 

Dais.Anthony@dol.gov; or transmit via 

fax (202) 693–3015 (this is not a toll-free 

number). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Anthony D. Dais, at telephone number 

(202) 693–2784 (this is not a toll-free 

number). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

188 of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 

Development Act of 1972, as established 

under 29 CFR part 75, authorizes the 

United States Department of Agriculture 

to make or guarantee loans or grants to 

finance industrial and business 

activities in rural areas. The Secretary of 

Labor must review the application for 

financial assistance for the purpose of 

certifying to the Secretary of Agriculture 

that the assistance is not calculated, or 

likely, to result in: (a) A transfer of any 

employment or business activity from 

one area to another by the loan 

applicant’s business operation; or (b) An 

increase in the production of goods, 

materials, services, or facilities in an 

area where there is not sufficient 

demand to employ the efficient capacity 

of existing competitive enterprises 

unless the financial assistance will not 

have an adverse impact on existing 

competitive enterprises in the area. The 

Employment and Training 

Administration within the Department 

of Labor is responsible for the review 

and certification process. Comments 

should address the two bases for 

certification and, if possible, provide 

data to assist in the analysis of these 

issues. 

Signed at Washington, DC this 1st of June 

2009. 

Gay M. Gilbert, 

Administrator, Office of Workforce 

Investment, Employment and Training 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. E9–13112 Filed 6–4–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–FN–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2008–0420] 

Notice of Availability of Final Generic 

Environmental Impact Statement for InSitu Leach Uranium Milling Facilities 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC), with the 

cooperation of the Wyoming 

Department of Environmental Quality, 

Land Quality Division, is issuing a final 

Generic Environmental Impact 

Statement (GEIS) that assesses the 

potential environmental impacts of the 

construction, operation, aquifer 

restoration, and decommissioning at an 

in-situ leach (ISL) uranium milling 

facility located in particular regions of 

the western United States. The rationale 

for developing the GEIS is that ISL 

facilities use the same or very similar 

technology, such that the potential 

environmental impacts associated with 

the technology could be assessed on a 

generic (programmatic) basis. In this 

way repetitive reviews of certain of 

these impacts could be avoided, thus 

focusing NRC’s evaluation on unique 

issues of concern for each ISL license 

application. 

The NRC anticipates that it will 

receive numerous new license 

applications for ISL uranium milling 

within the next several years. NRC will 

use the GEIS to provide a starting point 

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specific license applications for new ISL 

facilities. Additionally, the NRC staff 

plans to use the GEIS, along with 

applicable previous site-specific 

environmental review documents, in its 

NEPA analysis for applications to renew 

or otherwise amend operations at 

existing NRC-licensed ISL facilities. In 

these analyses, NRC would evaluate the 

site-specific data to determine whether 

relevant sections of the GEIS could be 

incorporated by reference into the sitespecific environmental review. 

Additionally, NRC would determine 

which GEIS impact conclusions can be 

adopted in the site-specific review and 

whether additional data and analysis is 

needed to determine the potential 

impacts for a specific environmental 

resource area. NRC will prepare a 

Supplemental Environmental Impact 

Statement (SEIS) on a license 

application for a new ISL facility. NRC 

will prepare an Environmental 

Assessment (EA), SEIS, or 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

for license renewals or amendments to 

ISL facility applications. 

ADDRESSES: The GEIS may be accessed 

on the Internet at http://www.nrc.gov/ 

reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/ 

by selecting ‘‘NUREG–1910.’’ 

Additionally, the NRC maintains an 

Agencywide Documents Access and 

Management System (ADAMS), which 

provides text and image files of the 

NRC’s public documents. The GEIS and 

its appendices may also be accessed 

through the NRC’s Public Electronic 

Reading Room on the Internet at: http:// 

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

you either do not have access to 

ADAMS or if there is a problem 

accessing documents located in 

ADAMS, contact the NRC Public 

Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 

1 (800) 397–4209, 1 (301) 415–4737 or 

by e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 

Information and documents 

associated with the GEIS are also 

available for public review through the 

NRC Public Electronic Reading Room on 

the Internet at http://www.nrc.gov/ 

reading-rm/adams.html and at the 

NRC’s Web site for the GEIS, http:// 

www.nrc.gov/materials/uraniumrecovery/geis.html. Both information 

and documents associated with the 

Final GEIS also are available for 

inspection at the Commission’s PDR, 

NRC’s Headquarters Building, 11555 

Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, 

Maryland. For those without access to 

the Internet, paper copies of any 

electronic documents may be obtained 

for a fee by contacting the NRC’s PDR 

at 1–800–397–4209. The GEIS and 

related documents may also be found at 

the following public libraries: 

Albuquerque Main Library, 501 Copper 

NW., Albuquerque, New Mexico 

87102, 505–768–5141. 

Mother Whiteside Memorial Library, 

525 West High Street, Grants, New 

Mexico 87020, 505–287–4793. 

Octavia Fellin Public Library, 115 W 

Hill Avenue, Gallup, New Mexico 

87301, 505–863–1291. 

Natrona County Public Library, 307 East 

Second Street, Casper, Wyoming 

82601, 307–332–5194. 

Carbon County Public Library, 215 W 

Buffalo Street, Rawlins, Wyoming 

82301, 307–328–2618. 

Campbell County Public Library, 2101 

South 4J Road, Gillette, Wyoming 

82718, 307–687–0009. 

Weston County Library, 23 West Main 

Street, Newcastle, Wyoming 82701, 

307–746–2206. 

Chadron Public Library, 507 Bordeaux 

Street, Chadron, Nebraska 69337, 

308–432–0531. 

Rapid City Public Library, 610 Quincy 

Street, Rapid City, South Dakota 

57701, 605–394–4171. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

James Park, Project Manager, 

Environmental Review 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) 415–6935; e-mail: 

James.Park@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Atomic Energy Act (AEA) and the 

Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation 

Control Act of 1978 (UMTRCA) 

authorize NRC to issue licenses for the 

possession and use of source material 

and byproduct material. The statutes 

require NRC to license facilities that 

meet NRC regulatory requirements that 

were developed to protect public health 

and safety from radiological hazards. 

ISL uranium milling facilities must meet 

NRC regulatory requirements in order to 

obtain this license to operate. Under the 

NRC’s environmental protection 

regulations in Title 10, Part 51 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR 

part 51), which implements NEPA, 

issuance of a license to possess and use 

source material for uranium milling 

requires an EIS or a supplement to an 

EIS. 

To help fulfill this requirement, the 

NRC staff and its contractor, the Center 

for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses, 

in cooperation with the Wyoming 

Department of Environmental Quality 

(Land Quality Division), prepared the 

GEIS. The GEIS was prepared to assess 

the potential environmental impacts 

associated with the construction, 

operation, aquifer restoration, and 

decommissioning of an ISL facility in 

four specified geographic areas of the 

western United States (U.S.). The intent 

of the GEIS is to determine which 

impacts would be essentially the same 

for all ISL facilities and which ones 

would result in varying levels of 

impacts for different facilities, thus 

requiring further site-specific 

information to determine the potential 

impacts. As such, the GEIS provides a 

starting point for its NEPA analyses for 

site-specific license applications for 

new ISL facilities, as well as for 

applications to renew or amend existing 

ISL licenses. 

The NRC is expecting numerous 

license applications for new ISL 

uranium milling facilities in the next 

several years. ISL milling facilities 

recover uranium from low grade ores 

that may not be economically 

recoverable by other methods. In this 

process, a leaching agent, such as 

oxygen with sodium bicarbonate, is 

added to native groundwater for 

injection through wells into the 

subsurface ore body to dissolve the 

uranium. Before ISL operations can 

begin, the portion of the aquifer 

designated for uranium recovery must 

be exempted by EPA as an underground 

source of drinking water in accordance 

with the Safe Drinking Water Act (40 

CFR 146.4). The leach solution, 

containing the dissolved uranium, is 

pumped back to the surface and sent to 

the processing plant, where ion 

exchange is used to separate the 

uranium from the solution. The 

underground leaching of the uranium 

also frees other metals and minerals 

from the host rock. Operators of ISL 

facilities are required to restore the 

groundwater affected by the leaching 

operations and decommission the 

facility when operations have ceased. 

The milling process concentrates the 

recovered uranium into the product 

known as ‘‘yellowcake,’’ which is then 

shipped to uranium conversion facilities 

for further processing in the overall 

uranium fuel cycle. 

The proposed Federal action 

identified in the GEIS is to grant an 

application to obtain, renew, or amend 

a source material license for an ISL 

facility. In reviewing a license 

application for a new ISL facility, NRC 

will use the GEIS as starting point for its 

site-specific environmental reviews. 

NRC will evaluate site-specific data and 

information to determine if the 

applicant’s proposed activities and the 

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those evaluated in the GEIS. NRC will 

then determine which sections of the 

GEIS can be incorporated by reference 

and which impact conclusions can be 

adopted in the site-specific 

environmental review, and whether 

additional data or analysis is needed to 

determine the environmental impacts 

for a specific resource area. 

Additionally, the GEIS provides 

guidance in the evaluation for certain 

impact analyses (e.g., cumulative 

impacts, environmental justice) for 

which the GEIS did not make impact 

conclusions. No decision on whether to 

license an ISL facility will be made 

based on the GEIS alone. The licensing 

decision will be based, in part, on a sitespecific environmental analysis that 

makes use of the GEIS. 

The GEIS also addresses the no-action 

alternative. Under this alternative, NRC 

would deny the applicant’s or licensee’s 

request for a new ISL facility. As a 

result, the license applicant may choose 

to resubmit the application to use an 

alternate uranium recovery method or 

decide to obtain the yellowcake from 

other sources. A licensee whose license 

renewal application is denied would 

have to commence shutting down 

operations in a timely manner. Denials 

of license amendments would require 

the licensee to continue operating under 

its previously approved license 

conditions. The no-action alternative 

serves as a baseline for comparison of 

the potential environmental impacts. 

Conventional mining/milling and the 

heap leach process are two other 

methods of uranium recovery. However, 

inasmuch as the suitability and 

practicality of using these alternative 

milling methodologies depends upon 

site-specific conditions, a generic 

discussion of potential environmental 

impacts associated with these 

methodologies in the GEIS is not 

appropriate. Accordingly, the GEIS does 

not contain a detailed analysis of 

alternative milling methodologies to the 

ISL process. A detailed analysis of 

reasonable alternative milling 

methodologies that can be applied at a 

specific site will be addressed in the 

NRC’s site-specific environmental 

review for individual ISL license 

applications. 

The GEIS is structured in the 

following manner. The NRC staff began 

by identifying four uranium milling 

regions in the western U.S. to use as a 

framework for discussions in the 

document. Two regions are found in 

Wyoming, one in New Mexico, and a 

final region encompasses portions of 

Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming. 

Next, the GEIS provides a description 

of the ISL process and addresses the 

construction, operation, aquifer 

restoration, and decommissioning 

activities for an ISL facility. Financial 

assurance is also discussed, whereby the 

ISL licensee or applicant establishes a 

bond or other financial mechanism prior 

to operations to ensure that sufficient 

funds are available to complete aquifer 

restoration, decommissioning, and 

reclamation activities for the site. 

Then, the GEIS describes the affected 

environment in each uranium milling 

region, using the environmental 

resource areas and topics identified 

through public scoping comments on 

the GEIS and from NRC guidance to its 

staff found in NUREG–1748, 

‘‘Environmental Review Guidance for 

Licensing Actions Associated With 

NMSS Programs,’’ issued by NRC in 

2003. 

Finally, the GEIS provides an 

evaluation of the potential 

environmental impacts of constructing, 

operating, aquifer restoration, and 

decommissioning at an ISL facility in 

each of the four uranium milling 

regions. Impacts are examined for the 

following resource areas: 

• Land use 

• Transportation 

• Geology and soils 

• Water resources 

• Ecology 

• Air Quality 

• Noise 

• Historical and cultural resources 

• Visual and scenic resources 

• Socioeconomic 

• Public and occupational health 

Following the discussion of potential 

environmental impacts, the GEIS 

addresses cumulative impacts; 

environmental justice; practices, 

measures, and actions to mitigate 

potential impacts; environmental 

monitoring activities; and the 

consultation process with Federal and 

tribal entities. 

To document its review of the 

potential environmental impacts for a 

new ISL facility, NRC will prepare an 

SEIS. NRC’s decision to prepare an SEIS 

is a change to its previously stated 

position (72 FR 54947; September 27, 

2007) that allowed for the possibility of 

NRC preparing an EA on a new ISL 

license application. NRC’s decision to 

prepare an SEIS will more clearly meet 

the requirement for completing an EIS 

for new ISL facilities and considers 

public comments received on the draft 

GEIS. The NRC will follow the public 

participation procedures outlined in 10 

CFR part 51, which can include requests 

for public input on the scope of the SEIS 

and requires public comment on the 

draft SEIS. 

For applications to renew or amend 

existing ISL licenses, NRC will conduct 

an environmental review, consistent 

with the provisions in 10 CFR part 51. 

This review may be an EA, SEIS, or an 

EIS. The NRC previously stated in the 

Federal Register on September 27, 2007 

(72 FR 54947) that all draft EAs 

prepared for ISL facility license 

applications would be available for 

public comment. This statement was 

made in anticipation that NRC would be 

preparing EAs for applications for new 

ISL facilities. As noted, based on public 

comments NRC received on the draft 

GEIS, NRC has decided to prepare an 

SEIS for new license applications. The 

NRC will follow the public participation 

procedures outlined in 10 CFR part 51, 

which require public comment on the 

draft SEIS. The NRC may make a draft 

EA and accompanying Finding of No 

Significant Impact (FONSI) available for 

public comment. The decision to submit 

a draft EA for public comment would 

take into account the provisions in 10 

CFR 51.33 concerning the similarity of 

the proposed actions to actions 

normally requiring preparation of an EIS 

and the precedent setting nature of the 

proposed action. Additionally, the NRC 

may consider the level of public interest 

and the contentious nature of the 

proposed action in determining whether 

to publish a draft EA/FONSI for public 

comment. The NRC staff would address 

public comments received on the draft 

EA/FONSI in the staff’s final 

environmental review document. This 

approach is consistent with NRC 

regulations. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 29th day 

of May 2009. 

For The U.S. 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. 

[FR Doc. E9–13027 Filed 6–4–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

OFFICE OF PERSONNEL 

MANAGEMENT 

[OMB Control No. 3206–0042; Form RI 25– 

15] 

Proposed Collection; Request for 

Comments on an Existing Information 

Collection 

AGENCY: Office of Personnel 

Management. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. 


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