[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 167 (Monday, August 30, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 52941]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-19663]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No.: 070-364]


Notice of License Termination for the Babcock and Wilcox Facility 
in Parks Township, Pennsylvania

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of license termination.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Amir Kouhestani, Project Manager, 
Decommissioning Directorate, Office of Nuclear Materials Safety and 
Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001. Telephone: (301) 415-0023; fax number: (301) 415-5398; e-mail: 
[email protected].
    This notice is to inform the public that the U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission (NRC or Commission) has terminated the Special 
Nuclear Material License No. SNM-414 (SNM-414), issued to Babcock and 
Wilcox Company, Pennsylvania Nuclear Service Operation (licensee). The 
licensee used radioactive material at its facility in Parks Township, 
Pennsylvania, for conducting fuel fabrication, research and 
development, and service work from 1960 until 1996. On January 26, 
1996, the licensee requested a license amendment authorizing it to 
decommission the Parks facility. This request and an opportunity for 
hearing was published in the Federal Register on October 10, 1996 (61 
FR 53240). The NRC staff published an Environmental Assessment (EA) on 
July 2, 1997 (62 FR 35844) which concluded that this licensing action 
would not have a significant adverse effect on the quality of the human 
environment. NRC approved Revision 3.1 of the Decommissioning Plan (DP) 
in 1998.
    The licensee has completed site decommissioning, and the post 
decommissioning groundwater monitoring of the site in accordance with 
the approved DP and the conditions discussed in NRC License No. SNM-
414.
    Based on the remedial actions taken by the licensee, the NRC 
staff's review of the licensee's termination surveys, and the results 
of the NRC staff's confirmatory surveys, the Commission concludes that 
the licensee has completed the decommissioning activities in accordance 
with its approved DP, and the site is suitable for unrestricted 
release.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day of August 2004.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Daniel M. Gillen,
Deputy Director for the Decommissioning Directorate, Division of Waste 
Management and Environmental Protection, Office of Nuclear Material 
Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 04-19663 Filed 8-27-04; 8:45 am]
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