[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 122 (Monday, June 26, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33010-33011]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-15532]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 40-8027]
Sequoyah Fuels Corporation Facility in Gore, OK; Information
Meeting
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
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Information Meeting on the Remediation of Sequoyah Fuels
Corporation Facility in Gore, Oklahoma.
SUMMARY: This notice is to inform the public of a meeting to share
information related to the current status of and proposed
decommissioning options for the Sequoyah Fuels Corporation (SFC)
facility near Gore, OK. Interested individuals are invited to attend
this meeting scheduled for June 27, 1995, at the Vian High School
Auditorium. The purpose of the meeting is to bring together members of
the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) Region VI, SFC representatives, representatives from other
Federal agencies, State officials, local officials, Cherokee Nation,
and citizen groups to share information related to current and future
actions at the SFC facility.
BACKGROUND: The Sequoyah Fuels facility is located in Sequoyah County,
approximately 2 miles southeast of Gore, Oklahoma, above the Arkansas
and Illinois Rivers. From 1970 through 1992, the SFC facility was used
to convert uranium oxide (yellow cake) to uranium hexafluoride
(UF6) and from 1987 through 1993 to convert depleted UF6 to
depleted uranium tetrafluoride. In 1993, SFC ceased operations and
submitted to NRC a preliminary plan that described a proposed
remediation plan of the site.
During the operational period, radioactive materials generated at
the Sequoyah Fuels facilities were disposed of on-site in accordance
with the former 10 CFR 20.304, chemical and radioactively contaminated
materials were transferred to on site ponds, and sludge and other
process materials were disposed of by burial on-site. One remediation
alternative under consideration by the licensee is an on-site disposal
cell based on the criteria used at uranium mill tailings sites (10 CFR
Part 40, Appendix A). SFC (the licensee) will be required to meet the
NRC's decommissioning criteria, as described the Site Decommissioning
Management Plan Action Plan (57 FR 13389, dated April 16, 1992) or the
final requirements to be established through Enhanced Participatory
Rulemaking (proposed rule published on August 22, 1994 [59 FR 43200]).
In 1990 and 1991, the licensee conducted characterization of the
areas in the vicinity of the main process and solvent extraction
buildings and the ponds. Results of this characterization effort are
documented in the ``Facility Environmental Investigation Findings
Report'' that was issued in July 1991. The licensee is currently
performing characterization activities for the remainder of the site
and will submit a Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Facility
Investigation Report to EPA in December 1995, and a Site
Characterization Report (SCR) to NRC in January 1996.
CONDUCT OF MEETING: NRC will conduct the first in a series of meetings
on June 27, 1995, in the Vian High School Auditorium, 100 School St.,
Vian, OK (Exit 297 North from I-40). The meeting will begin at 7:00
p.m. and will end at 10:00 p.m. The meeting will be facilitated by F.X.
Cameron, Special Counsel for Public Liaison at NRC. The purpose of this
meeting is to share, with representative stakeholders and the public,
information about the status of [[Page 33011]] current actions at the
SFC facility, projected schedules and plans for the decommission of the
site, and the responsibilities of the NRC and other regulatory agencies
in the decommissioning process. The meetings will consist of invited
representatives from the following groups: NRC; EPA; other Federal
agencies; State officials; Cherokee Nation; the licensee; local
officials; and local citizen groups.
Invited representatives will present their views on the Sequoyah
Fuels facility in a facilitated round-table discussion. An agenda for
the meeting will be prepared and distributed to all invited
representatives, as well as placed in the local public document room in
advance of the meeting. Time will be provided for public comment during
the meetings. Comments and questions will generally be limited to
topics contained in the agenda. Future Information Meetings will be
held periodically concerning other issues related to the SFC facility.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim Shepherd, Project Manager,
Division of Waste Management, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mail
Stop T7-F27, Washington, DC 20555, telephone (301) 415-6712.
Dated at Rockville, MD, this 16th day of June 1995.
For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Michael F. Weber,
Chief, Low-Level Waste and Decommissioning Projects Branch, Division of
Waste Management, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 95-15532 Filed 6-23-95; 8:45 am]
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