94-14383. License Termination for the Amax Site, Parkersburg, WV

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

 

License Termination for the Amax Site, Parkersburg, WV

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of license termination.

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    This notice is to inform the public that the United States Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission (the Commission) is terminating the Material 
License No. SMB-1418 issued to Amax, Inc., for rare earth recovery 
operations near Parkersburg, WV. On March 24, 1993, the Commission 
published in the Federal Register (58 FR 1588) its intention to 
terminate the license upon receipt of appropriate closing or conveyance 
documents from the Department of Energy (DOE). Receipt of the documents 
will result in the site being transferred to DOE under authority of the 
Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA) section 151(c). The Amax, Inc. site is 
listed in the Commission's Site Decommissioning Management Plan.
    The Amax, Inc. site is subject to a provision of NWPA that requires 
DOE to assume title and custody of low-level radioactive waste that 
originated in the processing of zirconium, hafnium, or rare earth ores. 
The legislation stipulates that DOE assume title and custody of the 
site, since the owner of the site requests transfer, the site is 
``decontaminated and stabilized'' in accordance with the Commission 
requirements, and the owner has made financial arrangements, approved 
by the NRC, for the ``long-term maintenance and monitoring'' of the 
site.
    The conditions have been satisfied. The Commission has received 
notification from DOE that it has assumed custody of the site and that 
the title to the site has been transferred to the United States of 
America.
    This termination will be reopened only if additional contamination, 
or noncompliance with the decommissioning plan is found indicating a 
significant threat to public health and safety. Noncompliance would 
occur if the licensee had not complied with an approved decommissioning 
plan or had provided false information.

    Dated at Rockville, MD this 8th day of June 1994.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John H. Austin,
Chief, Low-Level Waste and Decommissioning Project Branch, Division of 
Waste Management, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 94-14383 Filed 6-13-94; 8:45 am]
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