[Federal Register: September 16, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 179)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Number 030-04781]
Notice of Availability of Environmental Assessment and Finding of
No Significant Impact for License Amendment for Pharmacia & Upjohn
Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Peter J. Lee, Decommissioning
Branch, Division of Nuclear Materials Safety, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Region III, 2443 Warrenville Road, Lisle, Illinois 60532-
4352. Telephone: (630) 829-9870; fax number: (630) 515-1259; e-mail:
pjl2@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering issuing
a license amendment of Material License No. 21-00182-03 issued to
Pharmacia & Upjohn Company (the licensee), to authorize release of its
200 Portage Road facility for unrestricted use.
The NRC staff has prepared an Environmental Assessment (EA) in
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support of this amendment 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. The amendment will be issued
following the publication of this Notice.
II. EA Summary
The purpose of the proposed action is to amend the licensee's
byproduct material license and release its 200 Portage Road facility
for unrestricted use. On April 24, 1958, the Atomic Energy Commission
authorized the licensee to conduct the radiological operations. The
primary radioactive materials used at 200 Portage Road facility were
hydrogen-3, carbon-14, phosphorus-32, phosphorus-33, sulfur-35, and
iodine-125. On June 20, 2005, the licensee submitted a license
amendment request to amend its license to release its 200 Portage Road
facility for unrestricted use. The licensee has conducted surveys of
the facility and provided information to the NRC to demonstrate that
the site meets the license termination criteria in 10 CFR 20.1402,
''Radiological Criteria for Unrestricted Use.''
The staff has examined the licensee's request and the information
provided in support of its request, including the surveys performed to
demonstrate compliance with the release criteria. The staff has found
that the environmental impacts from the proposed action are bounded by
the impacts evaluated in the ``Generic Environmental Impact Statement
in Support of Rulemaking on Radiological Criteria for License
Termination of NRC-Licensed Facilities'' (NUREG-1496). Based on its
review, the staff has determined that there are no additional
remediation activities necessary to complete the proposed action and a
Finding of No Significant Impact is appropriate.
III. Finding of No Significant Impact
On the basis of the EA, the NRC concluded that there are no
significant environmental impacts from the proposed amendment and
determined not to prepare an environmental impact statement.
IV. Further Information
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRC's ``Rules of Practice,''
documents related to this action, including the application for
amendment and supporting documentation, will be available
electronically for public inspection and copying from the Publicly
Available Records (PARS) of NRC's document system (ADAMS) accessible
from the NRC's Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
The ADAMS accession numbers for the documents related to this notice
are: ML051740182 for the June 20, 2005, amendment request, and
ML052520086 for the EA summarized above. 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@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, MD 20852. The PDR reproduction
contractor will copy documents for a fee.
Dated at Lisle, Illinois, this 9th day of September, 2005.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Jamnes L. Cameron,
Chief, Decommissioning Branch, Division of Nuclear Materials Safety,
Region III.
[FR Doc. E5-5085 Filed 9-15-05; 8:45 am]
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