[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 54 (Monday, March 21, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-6556]
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[Federal Register: March 21, 1994]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Uranium Mill Facilities: Availability of Draft Final Staff
Technical Position on Alternate Concentration Limits for Title II
Uranium Mills
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is announcing the
availability of its ``Draft Final Staff Technical Position on Alternate
Concentration Limits for Title II Uranium Mills.'' This Draft Final
Technical Position offers guidance for preparing and reviewing
applications for the establishment of alternate concentration limits
(ACLs) at Title II uranium mill tailings sites, pursuant to Criterion 5
of appendix A to 10 CFR part 40.
The Draft Final Staff Technical Position represents a revised and
updated version of NRC's Draft Technical Position on ACLs, which was
announced in the Federal Register on June 30, 1988 (53 FR 24820). The
revisions were made largely in response to comments that NRC received
on the Draft Technical Position. A revision deserving mention in this
notice is the omission of the maximum annual individual risk permitted,
which had been indicated in the Draft Technical Position to be
approximately 1 x 10-6, with this value representing the
combined total risk from radiological and nonradiological hazardous
constituents. A value for the maximum risk level in the current draft
is pending the results of ongoing discussions between the staffs from
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and NRC on the maximum risk
level that should be permitted. However, the staff considers the
maximum risk level to be more of a staff review standard than a guide
to the licensees; therefore, the omission of the maximum risk level
from the current draft of the Technical Position is not considered a
limitation for preparing and submitting ACL applications by the
licensees. The staff intends to use this Draft Final Technical Position
to review ACL applications by licensees.
ADDRESSES: Requests for copies of the Draft Final Technical Position
should be addressed to Anne E. Garcia, Repository Licensing & QA
Project Directorate, Division of High Level Waste, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, Mailstop 4-H-3 OWFN, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555. Telephone: (301) 504-2438.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Comments and requests for further information on the Draft Final Staff
Technical Position should be transmitted to Latif S. Hamdan, Uranium
Recovery Branch, Division of Low-Level Waste and Decommissioning,
Office of Nuclear material Safety and Safeguards, Mailstop 5-E-4 OWFN,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555. Telephone:
(301) 504-2528. Comments will be received through April 29, 1994.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 14th day of March, 1994.
For The Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Joseph J. Holonich,
Acting Chief, Uranium Recovery Branch, Division of Low-Level Waste
Management and Decommissioning, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and
Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 94-6556 Filed 3-18-94; 8:45 am]
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