94-9257. Umetco Minerals Corporation, White Mesa Mill

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 40-8681]

 

Umetco Minerals Corporation, White Mesa Mill

agency: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

action: Notice of receipt of a request to amend Source Material License 
SUA-1358 to receive and dispose of approximately 2.6 million cubic 
yards of materials from the Department of Energy's Monticello Tailings 
Project.

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1. Proposed Action

    By letter dated March 25, 1994, Umetco Minerals Corporation, holder 
of Source Material License SUA-1358 for the White Mesa Mill, requested 
an amendment to their license to allow receipt and disposal of 
materials from the Department of Energy's Monticello Tailings Project.

2. Reason for Request to Amend License

    Umetco Minerals Corporation owns and operates a uranium milling 
facility in San Juan County, Utah. The mill is licensed to produce 4380 
tons of U3O8 per calendar year. Currently the mill is not in 
production. The Department of Energy has notified Umetco Minerals 
Corporation that they have been selected as the primary alternative 
site for the permanent receipt and disposal of the Monticello Tailings 
material. The materials would be disposed of in a dry state in Cell 4A 
and Cell 3 of the present tailings impoundment system. The composition 
of the materials would be uranium and vanadium mill tailings, mill 
structures, vicinity property cleanup materials, and a small amount of 
uranium-vanadium ore samples. The Department of Energy has committed to 
Umetco that no shipments of RCRA materials would be made to the White 
Mesa Mill.

3. Notice of Opportunity to Request Hearing

    In accordance with Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, part 2 
(10 CFR part 2), Sec. 2.1205(c)(1), interested parties are hereby 
notified that they may request a hearing pursuant to the procedures set 
forth in 10 CFR 2.1205 within 30 days of the publication of this 
notice. Upon completion of the NRC staff's review of the requested 
amendment, notice of the action to be taken by published in the Federal 
Register for information.

    Signed in Denver, Colorado, this 1st day of April 1994.
Edward F. Hawkins,
Deputy Director, Uranium Recovery Field Office, Region IV.
[FR Doc. 94-9257 Filed 4-15-94; 8:45 am]
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