96-19318. Notice of Removal of the Frome Investment Company (Brooks & Perkins Corporation) Site From the Site Decommissioning Management Plan

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 147 (Tuesday, July 30, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39673-39674]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-19318]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No.: 040-00235]


Notice of Removal of the Frome Investment Company (Brooks & 
Perkins Corporation) Site From the Site Decommissioning Management Plan

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

SUMMARY: This notice is to inform the public that the U. S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission (the Commission) is removing the Frome Investment 
Company (Brooks & Perkins Corporation (BP)) site in Detroit, Michigan, 
from the Site Decommissioning Management Plan (SDMP). BP used thorium 
at this site from 1957 through the late 1960s under license from the 
Atomic Energy Commission. BP requested and received license termination 
in 1971. More recent surveys at the site revealed increased radiation 
levels in the soil outside the garage/warehouse. Analysis on soil 
samples indicate thorium concentrations approaching but not exceeding 
NRC unrestricted release limits. However, a fragment of magnesium 
thorium sheet metal found at the site required proper transfer and 
disposal. This fragment was removed from Frome Investment Company 
property on February 16, 1996 and disposed of at the Barnwell, South

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Carolina, low-level radioactive waste disposal site.
    Based on (1) remedial actions taken by Frome Investment Company, 
and (2) the results of NRC Region III surveys, the Commission concludes 
that decommissioning activities are complete and the site is suitable 
for unrestricted use.
    The SDMP describes four criteria that make a site eligible for 
removal from the SDMP list, including (1) termination of a license 
after successful remediation, (2) completion of remediation of an 
inactive area and modification of the active license to reflect the 
remediation, (3) completion of remediation at an unlicensed site, or 
(4) transferral of regulatory jurisdiction for remediation. The Frome 
Investment Company site has satisfied the third criterion because the 
site owner has successfully remediated the contaminated portion of the 
site. Consequently, the NRC staff intends to remove the Frome 
Investment Company site in Detroit, Michigan, from the SDMP.
    Removal from the SDMP will be reopened only if additional 
contamination, or noncompliance with remediation commitments is found, 
indicating a significant threat to public health and safety.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day of July 1996.

    For the 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. 96-19318 Filed 7-29-96; 8:45 am]
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