ML20039A542
| ML20039A542 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 11/30/1981 |
| From: | Donoghue D, Scott R NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION (ADM) |
| To: | |
| Shared Package | |
| ML20039A540 | List: |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8112180043 | |
| Download: ML20039A542 (11) | |
Text
REQUEST FOR OMB REVIEW (Undir th9 Pap 3rwork Reduction Act and Ex:cutiva Order 12291)
Imp rt;nt - Read instructions (SF 83A) before completing this Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs form. Submit the required number of copies of SF-83.together office of Management and Budget with tha matertal for which review is requested to:
Wash.ngton. D C. 20503
- 1. Diptrtment/ Agency and Bureau / Office originatmg request
- 3. Name(s) and telephone number (s) of person (s) who can best answer questions regarding request U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Pat wnn11ay do?-8137 2.6 digst Agency / Bureau number (firstpart of 11-digit Treasury 4.3-dugnt functional code flastpart of 11-digot Treasury Account Account No.)
No.)
_3_ _l
_.0 _2_
- 0. __a
.2 _
_2.- _6_
- 5. htis ot Informatson CoIIectnon or Rulemak.ng C. Is this a rutemaking sucmassion under Section 3504th) of PL. 96 511 ? (Check one) 1X No (Section 3507 submission) 2C Yes.NPRM. Expected date of pt.blication:
3 0 Yes, tinat rute. Excected date of pub lscatnon:
- 6. A. Is any ontormation coIIection (reporting or recordkeeping) involised? (Check one)
Effective date:
D. At what phase of rulemaking is this submission rr.ade?
1 XXYes and proposal is attached for review 2 C Yes but DroDosalis not attached - skip to question D.
3 C No - skic to Question D.
1 D Not applicable B. Ara tne respondents ptsmanly educational agencies or 20 Maior rute.at NPRM stage Institutions oris the purpose telated to Federa'sducation 3 0 Maior Final rufe for wnich no NPRM was published programs ?
4 C Major Final rute, af ter publication of NPRM O Yes 2 No 5 C Nonmajor rule, at NPRM stage l
6 C Nonmajor rule. at Final stage COMPLETE SHADED PORTION IFINFORM ATION COLLECTION PROPOSALIS ATTACHED 7.Currcnt for former) OMB Number
- 8. Requested
- 12. Agency report form number (s)
Expiration Date
~~
3150-0064 N/A Expiration Date
- 13. Are respondents only Federal agencies?
12/31/81 12/31/82-O Yes CC No j
- 9. Is proposed information ccifection listed m
- 14. Type of request (Check one) the information collection budget?
/ Yes No 1 O prehminary plan
- ~ "
- 10. Will this oroposed information collection 2 O r ew (not previously approved or espired more than 6 months cause the egency to exceed its information ago) collection budget allowance? (If yes, attach O Yes ~ C No 3 0 revision amendment reglaest from agency head.)
4 extension latustment to burden only)
- 11. Number of report forms submitted for approval MX extens on 13e ens tgel 6 C '*'**'"' (*"D** *'tmn 6 m on tr s1 N/A 15.
- 16. Classificatton of Change nn Burders (expiaan in supporting staterrent) e aoorouw eie vre of un.eerse (.e samp.es I4 No of Responses No of Reporting Hours Cost to the Public 34
- a. In inventory
$bj I
b e sirsof semo'e 1 FRA f
e teeirattedavrabero,
- b. As proposed 56_ l 1,E80 l5
,e.mac.... or recoro he.oers per veer
- c. Ditference (b-a) l5
)4 Explanation of difference (indicate as many as apply) d n:oortssaaveu,e,ese.,
4- - Adiustments e feetsnaue reinoa es
- d. Correction-error 1
i+
l+, s r
t.ree es. vser 55 See Supp0EIng e. Correction-reestimate _
( *_
l+, s
^
sret.. cede. ege 1hs aw=Nr o' hom Statement
- f. Change ln use
+
Der retoonte Program changes g E stemtted total have s l-l-S ce saa eioveosa.a g.tneresse
+
r<cci v eer l-l-5
'"*"5""
l,680
- h. Decrea se 8112180043 811201 Stancaro Form as tAev 3.eif PDR ORG EUSOt1BPDR For use eeginning o1,ai
- 17. Abstract-N;cds cnd Us:s (50 w;rds or t;ss)
NRC requires quarterly reporting of environmental monitoring program at uranium mills.
- 18. R;Iated report form (s) (give OMB number (s),IRCN(s).
~20. Catalog of FederalDomestic Assistance Program Number int 3rnal a gency report form number (s) or symbol (s))
rUA
- 21. Small business or organ Zation O Yes
- 1) No
- 19. Typ3 of affected public (Check as many as apply)
- 22. Type of activity of affected public-indicate 3-digit Standard
~ *
1 O individuals cihouseholds 10, check O Multiple or O All 2 O state orlocalgovernments iO farms 0 0 3
e y businesses or otherinstitutions (except farms)
- 23. Britt description of atfected public le g.,"retailgrocery stores."" State education agencies "" households in 50 largest SMSA s")
NRC licensees
- 24. Purpose (Check as many as apply. If more than one. indicate
- 26. Collection method (Check as many as apply) ptsdominant by an asterisk) 1 Q mail self-administered 1 O application for benefits 20 other self-administered 2 O program evaluation 30 telephone interview 3 0 general purpose statistics 40 personalinterview 4 0 regulatory or compliance 50 recordkeeping requirement:
5 MpNgram planning or management Required retention period:
years 6 O research 8 C other-desenbe:
- 25. Frequency of Use
- 27. Collection agent (Check one) 1 O Nor recurring 10' requesting Department / Agency Recurring (check as many as apply) 2 O other Federal Department / Agency 2 O on occasion 6 O semiannually 3 0 private contractor 3 0 weekly 70 annually 4 O recordkeepingrequirement 4 O monthly 80 biennially 5 0 other-describe:
Sg quarterly 93 other-describe:
- 28. Authority for agency forinformation collection or
- 30. Do you promise confidentiality?
rulsmaking-indicate statute, regulation, judicial decree, (if yes explam basis forpledge etc.
irt supporting statement.)
O Yes y No 40 CFR 190 131. Will the proposed information collection create a new or become part of an existing Privacy Act system of reccrds?
29 Respondent's obligat:en to reply (Check as manyas apply)
(If yes. attkch Federal Register notice or proposec craft of O voluntary notice l O Yes XXNo 2 O required to cbtain or retain benefit
- 32. Cost to Federal Government of 21'400 3 gmandatory-cite statute.not CFR (attach copy of information collection or rutemaking S statutory authority)
G Act of 1974 E Act of lp COMPLETE ITEMS 33 THRU 35 ONLY IF RULEMAKING 3UBMISSION
- 33. Compliance costs to the pubhc
- 34 Is there a regulatory impact
- 35. ls there a statutory or judicial analysis' attached?
deadline affecting issuance?
0 Yes O No O Yes. Enter date:
O No CERTIFICATION BY AUTHORIZED OFFICI ALS SUBMITTING REQUEST-We certify that trie information coilection or rutemaking submitted for tr. vow is necetsary for the proper performance of the agency's functions, tnat the proposal represents the minimum Duche burcen and Fecern. ;ost consist ;nt with need, and is consistent with apohcable OMB and agency cohey directives S.gnature and title ef:
(PAovi*eG PottCT C8 FiC64L Fosi act scv ca" sL'9mTTWG OF54Ciag carg
)
f Y
L j
v a-a i
SUPPORTING STATEMENT FOR COMPLIANCE DETERMINATIONS WITH 40 CFR 190 Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Nuclear Power Operations - Uranium Milling Justification The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission (NRC), pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, is responsible for assuring that every reasonable effort is made to maintain radiation exposures and releases of radioactive materials in effluents to unrestricted areas "as lowasreasonablyachievable"(ALARA). Also, on January 13, 1977, the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency issued regulations setting forth environmental radiation protection standards for the uranium fuel cycle. These regulations are found in Title 40, Chapter 1, Subchapter F, Part 190, of tb Code of Federal Regulations (40 CFR 190). The standard for uranium ore milling facilities became effective on December 1,1980. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, as the " Regulatory Agency" defined in 40 CFR 190, is responsible for assuring that uranium milling facilities licensed by the Comission meet the requirements of these new environmental radiation protection standards. Therefore, pursuant to the existing requirements of 10 CFR 20 " Standards for Protection Against Radiation" and the ALARA principle, as well as to enable the NRC staff to be able to determine compliance with 40 CFR 190, each licensee is being required to submit four (4) quarterly reports of the sampling and analysis results of their environmental monitoring program (EMP). Because the NRC is relying on the use of the actual environmental monitoring data, instead of the use of computer models, to monitor radioactive materials in the environment and to calculate the radiation dose for comparison to the 40 CFR 190 standard, each licensee is being required to develop and ' submit a single report to the NRC which describes the compliance determinations with 40 CFR 190 and which specifies the lower limits of detection for analytical systems so that the data generated in the EMP will be of a sufficient degree of accuracy to permit the required radiological assessments, EPA imposes no reporting requirement on NRC licensees.
/
r.
The NRC staff needs this particular environmental monitoring data to be able to determine compliance with 40 CFR 190 at each of the fou. teen (14) NRC-licensed facilities, as well as. to assure compliance with the 10 CFR 20 and ALARA requirements. These reports are to be submitted directly to the Uranium Recovery Licensing Branch, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, D.C.
20555.
There are no other alternative data sources since only the individual licensees are gathering the site specific information and operating their own environmental monitoring program.
w
, The NRC staff has reviewed all available environmental monitoring data and all radiological assessments completed in the Final Environmental Statements (FES) which support past licensing actions; however, the 40 CFR 190 standard limits the annual radiological exposures accrued after December 1,1980. Therefore, these new reporting requirements are necessary to obtain the most recent environmental monitoring data in order to determine compliance for this new EPA radiation protection standard. After this initial one-year period (July 1, 1981 for 5 mills and October 1,1981 for the remaining 9) for which the four quarterly reports are required for affected 14 licensees, the existing semi-annual reporting requirements of 10 CFR 40.65 will be sufficient to show compliance to appropriate radiation protection standards.
Description of Potential Respondents These reporting requirements affect fourteen (14) NRC licensed facilities for uranium milling operations.
Tabulation and Publication Plans There are no plans to publish the information received from the licensees but the NRC will issue an annual report which summarizes its findings with respect to each licensee's compliance with 40 CFR 190.
Time Schedule for Data Collection The sampling and analysis results of each licensee's environmental monitoring program are to be reported within 60 days of the end of each calendar quarter for just four (4) quarters. Upon fulfillment of the 4 quarterly reporting requirements, the existing semiannual reporting requirement under 10 CFR 40.65 will once again become effective.
This is~a one-time requirement which reverts to the twice a year requirement of 10 CFR 40.65.
For 5 of the mills, this quarterly reporting requirement became effective July 1,1981.
For the remaining 9 mills, this quarterly reporting requirement became effective October 1,1981.
Each licensee is also being required to submit one report detailing a Quality Assurance Program, specifying lower limits of detecticn, and a map of its environmental sampling locations plus other pertinent information.
Consultations Outside the Acency The NRC staff has consulted with:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency R. A. Richardson 401 M Street, S.W.
Washington, D.C, 20460
.\\
~.
.... Representatives of NRC-licensed uranium milling facilities (see attached list) were briefed by the staff at a meeting held on November 14, 1980 in Silver Spring, Maryland.
These discussions involved all affected respondents and there were no unresolved problems with respect to the information requested.
Extensive public comments were received by the EPA during its rulemaking procedures for 40 CFR 190.
Compliance Burden Of the fourteen (14) licensees affected, the two (2) additional quarterly environmental monitoring data reports required during the first year only are estimated to be about 20 man-hours per licensee per report; or a total one-time burden of 560 man-hours for all fourteen affected facilities. The single report of the Quality Assurance Program and the other required pertinent information is estimated to be about 80 man-hours per license; or a total one-time burden of 1120 man-hours for all fourteen affected facilities.
Estimate of Cost to Federal Government There is additional cost to the Federal Government of 535 staff hours of effort to review reports.
Staff effort is estimated at $40.00 per hour (and includes overhead).
Total cost $21,400.
Provisions for Confidentiality The information submitted to NRC by licensees in response to these reporting requirements is available for public inspection in accordance with 10 CFR Part 9.
Enclosure:
Sample Order
& g /c y g e,'
% X Amf u MMn 4n M M M AAnnM M M4
/
~
,o.
s
(
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION In the Matter of:
}
Docket No. 40-8698
)
Source Material License Plateau Resources Limited
)
No. SUA-1371 772 Horizon Drive
)
Amendment No. 3 Grand Junction, Colorado 81501
)
ORDER TO MODIFY LICENSE Plateau Resources Limited ("The Licensee") is the holder cf lource Material License No. SUA-1371 issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ("The Commission").
The license authorizes the possession, use and processing of natural uranium and the-production of 1,350 pounds of.U 08 per day.
The licensee converts 3
' nat0ral uranium ore tolu 0s (yellowcake). The current license was issued 3
September 21, 1979 and is due to expire on September 30, 1984.
II On January 13, 1977, the U.S. Environmental Protect. ion Agency issued regulations setting forth environmental radiation protection standards for the uranium fuel cycle.
These regulations are found in Title 40, Chapter 1, subchapter.F, Part 190, of the Code of Federal Regulations (40 CFR 190).
The standard f5r uranium ore milling facilities became effective on December 1, 1980.
The regulations in 40 CFR 190 require that radioactivity in normal effluent releases'to the general environment, radon and its daughters excepted, from n
~
h
' ~
.1,
(
(
2 licensed milling operations shall be limited in such a manner as to provide reasonable' assurance that no member of the public will receive an annual dose equivalent of more than 25 millirems to the whole body, 75 millirems to the thyroid, or 25 millirems-to any other organ.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, as the " Regulatory Agency" defined in 40 CFR 190, is responsible for assuring that uranium milling facilities licensed by the Commission meet the requirements of these new environmental radiation p'rotection standards. 'To assure compliance with 40.CFR 190, the license is being cond.itioned to require the modification to the requirement for the evaluation and periodic reporting of environmental monitoring data and 4
es other pertinent information.
The attached. document, " Compliance Determination Procedure,s for Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Uranium Recovery facilities - 40 CFR 190," provides for a standardized reporting format for the environmental monitoring. data, and the' dose conversion factors to be used to calculate the dose commitments.
The need to establish a comprehensive Quality Assurance Program and ta obtain reasonable lower limits of detection for analytical systems has also been included en that the data generated from the environmental monitoring program will be meaningful and will be of a sufficient degree of accuracy to permit the required radiological dose assessments.
~
I The NRC, staff his reviewed the available environmental monitoring data, and, the radiological assessmen'ts contained in the Final Environmental Statement (FES) for Plateau". Resources Limited-(NUREG-0583).
On the basis of this information and.its review, the staff concludes that implementation of the 40 CFR 190 standard is practicable (see the NRC Report "40 CFR 190 Compliance
~e b
---w--
e
+,
r w
's
(
3 Ass'ssment for NRC Licensed Uranium Recovery Facilities as of December 1, e
1980").
Th'is report and the attached' document describing NRC 40 CFR 190 compliance determination procedures form the' technical basis for the conditions contained in this order.
III Accordingly, in order to assure compliance with Title 40, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 190, and pursu' ant to Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 40, Source Material Licease No. SUA-1371 is hereby amended pursuant to 10 CFR 2.204 to add the following conditions:
40 For,a period of four (4) calendar quarters frein the time that the Environmental Monitoring Program becomes operational as required by f
license condition 34, the s=mpling and analysis results of the environ-mental monitoring shall be reported within 60 days of the end of each calendar quarter in accordance with the discussion in Section 7 " Recording and Reporting Results" of Regulatory Guide 4.14 " Radiological Effluent and Environmental Monitoring at Uranium Mills".
Dose assessments based on this actual ^ environmental monitoring program data and the dose conversion fact' ors as given in Attachment A of " Compliance Determination Procedures for Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Uranium Recovery Facilities-40 CFR 190'" shall'be included in the report.
A copy of this report shall'.be sent' dire,ctly to the Uranium Recovery Licensing Branch,
~
U.S. Nuclear Regulat'ory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555.
~
4 41 ~ The requirement in 10 CFR 20.405(c), when effective, for not'ification upon determination of non-compliance to.'40 CFR 190 shall be suspended during the period that the four quarterjy_ environmental monitoring reports are being submitted as required in condition 40 above.
42 The licensee shall submit the following information to the Urtoium Recovery Licensing Branch, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,'D.C. 20555, by April 1,1981 for NRC review and cpproval prior to implementation:
A.
Complete specifications for a quality assurance program tnat includes all o'f the elements recommended in Regulatory Guide 4.15, " Quality Assurance for Radiological Monitoring Programs (Normal Operatior.s) -
I Effluent Streams and the Environment."
i B.
The l'ower limits of detection (LLD) for analysis of samples collected pursuant to the environmental monitoring program of candition 34 shall meet the LLD's listed in Section 5 Lower Limit of Detection of Regulatory Guide.4.14, " Radiological Effluent and Environmental Monitoring at Uranium Mills."
C.
A detailed topographic map (s) showing all environmental sample collection locations and all of the following within 5 miles (8 km) of any portion of the restricted area boundary:
private residences, grazing ~. areas, private and public potable water and agricultural wells,. milk cattle, ionresidential structures and uses, mining areas, and-?re storage pads.
-m m
t
(
5 The~ licensee or any other person whose interest may be affected by this Order may request a hearing on this Order before April 1,1981.
The amendment will become effective on the expiration of the period dJring which a hearing may be recuested.
In.the event a hearing is requested, the amendment will becom'e effective on a data specified in an order made following the hearing.
In the event a hearing is requested, the only issues to be considered at such'a hearing shall be:
Whether the amendments in Part III are reasonably related to assuring o
that the requirements of 40 CFR 190 are complied with.
~
o Whether this Order should be sustained.
FOR THE' NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Joh'n B. Martin, Director Division of WLste Management Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Da ed at Silver Spring, Maryland, this day of December, 1980.
W=
q
+
~f
~
" m u s.>e> w o m en, es.
(.
(.
.g
(
e
)
l
~
Table 1
, LICENSED URANIUM RECOVERY FACILITIES DOCKET EXPIRATION
~
NARE LOCATION NUM3ER
. NUMBER DATE i'
Moab, UT 40-3453 SUA-917
- 04-30-84
- 1. Atlas Minerals
'2. Bear Creek Uranium Co.
Converse Co.
40-8452 SUA-130 07-31-82
~
(Rocky Mt. Energy Co.)
W
- 3. Exxon Minerals Converse Co.
40-8102 SUA-1139 07-31-78" i
Highland Mi31 W
- 4. Federal American Gas Hills, OY 40-4492 SUA-667 01-31-76" Partners
- 5. Energy Fuels Nuclear Blanding, UT 40-8681 SUA-1358 08-31-84 White Mesa Mill & 035 6 Minerals Exp'1 oration Co Sweetwater Co, 40-8584 SUA-1350 02-28-84 Sweetwater Mill W
- 7. Pathfinder Mines-Gas Hills, W 40-2259 SUA-672 01-31-83
- 8. Pathfinder Mines Shirley Basin, 40-6622 SUA-442 09-30-82
~
W S. Petretemics Company Shirl.ey Basin, 40-6559 SUA-551 04'-30-81 W
- 10. Plateau Resources Shootei-ing 40-8698 SUA-1371 09-30-84 Canycn UT 09'30-82
- 11. Rio Algom LaSal, UT 40-8084 SUA-1371 Humeca Mill 17 'Ur.icn Carbide Corp Gas Hills, W 40-299 SUA-648 '
03-31-76*
]$. United Nuclear Corp
- Converse Co,-
.40-8602 SUA-1356 05-31-84 Morton Ranch W
%.VesternNuclear,Inc.
Jeffrey City, ' 40-1162 SUA-56 10-31-73*
Split Rock Mill "W
T,, t '. y ?. e. E 'a 't
.;lJ.;"";."""~""
" " ^ "
.:== --
~'
.. ~:::=...:::.....
P~'
~:
- "2 :;.:"'" '
.:.:ht.
~
....."':.+.;2
.. -.sWP
- . -l...:..=h. **! :::.......
".T.'...: :..
- .=:: :::=.::
. ;;. ;;."y~...'." '" " ~- -
+
.;n==-
1....~.. ~;;;;'
- "~. ".~" #~"'"~r
- :J ;...
=
- g. _,_
7.7.:.---
3._,
g.
.E:i:
- 1
~ " ' ' ' ' ' ' " '.
p _,
- .h?' "- !:.u..
E=! ' " ' '
- .?".L ~
.p -.
.1
.=;.-
- c..
)
i 1