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#REDIRECT [[IA-89-262, Recommends Commission Approval of Proposed Agreement Between State of Il & Nrc,Per Section 274 of Atomic Energy Act of 1954,as Amended]]
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| number = ML20245A848
| issue date = 04/21/1987
| title = Recommends Commission Approval of Proposed Agreement Between State of Il & Nrc,Per Section 274 of Atomic Energy Act of 1954,as Amended
| author name = Denton H
| author affiliation = NRC OFFICE OF GOVERNMENTAL & PUBLIC AFFAIRS (GPA)
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| case reference number = FOIA-89-262, TASK-PINV, TASK-SE
| document report number = SECY-87-104, NUDOCS 8705260447
| package number = ML20245A851
| document type = COMMISSION PAPER, TEXT-SAFETY REPORT
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POLICY ISSUE (Notation Vote)
April 21, 1987                                                  SECY-87-104 i
i FOR:                        The Commissioners FROM:                      Harold R. Centon, Director Of' ice of Governmental and                            i Public Affairs                                      !
SUEJECT:                    PROPOSED AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE STATE OF ILLI?l0IS AND U.S. NUCLEAR REGtLATORY COMMISSION PlGS'JANT TO SECTION 274 0F THE ATOMIC Ei;ERGY ACT OF 1954, AS AMENDED PURPOSE:                    To recuest Comission appreval of the proposed Agreement with Illinois.
SI:v?.WY:                  By ictter dated October 2,1986, Governer Thompson of Illinois requested that the Comission enter into a Sectier 274b Agreenent with the State. Feneral Reaister notices of the t'RC sto"f's assessment of the proocsed 1111reis radiction control progren and the proposed agreement were published es required by Se:: tion P74e of the Atomic Enercy Act o' 1954, as amerdcd. The coment period ended February P.0, 1987.
The State's request includes transfer of regulatory authority for health and safety over the Allied-Cbemical UF conversion plant (source materialb which h!s been identified by the Department of Enercy as having cocrion defense and security significance. Policy options for dealing with such situations were furnished to the Co:rrission in SECY-87-59. The Comission's decision to retain jurisdiction over the plant has been factored into this paper,
 
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3          i                                              Two NRC licenses that c6ver materials that would be-transferred to Illinois under the Agreenent are currently.the subjects of MRC adjudicatory proceedings. (DocketNo. 40-2061-SC [ASLBP No.
84-502-01-SC) and Docket No. 27-39-SC [ASLBP Mo.
:i                                                      78-374-01-0T)). These proceedings relate to Kress          .
Creek and the Sheffield low-level waste disposal            4 site, respectively. Under . terms of a Section 274b        i Agreement, HRC relinquishes and the State asserts its authority over licenses affected by the
  ?                                                            Agreement. Accordingly, 4RC staff plans to request termination of these proceedings upon approval of the proposed Agreement.                                      l DISCUSSION:    In a letter dated October 2,'1986, Governor James R.
Thompson of the State of Illinois requested that the' Commission enter into an Agreement with the State pursuant to Section 274 of the Atonic Energy Act, as amended. No effective date for the Agreement was proposed but staff discussions with the Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety (ICNS),
which will administer the Agreement progran, have          1 indicated the State established March 1, 1987 as a        ;
target date. Assuming no nrotracted delays occur the staff believes that an effective date at the end of April,1987 is practicable.          In his letter, the Governor certified that the State of Illinois has a program f6r control of radiation hazards which is adequate to protect the public health and safety with respect to the materials within_ the State covered by the proposed Agreenent, and that the State of Illinois wishes to assume regulatory responsibility for such materials. The text of the proposed Agreement is shown in Enclosure A.
The specific authority requested is for (1) by-p=                                                            product material as defined in Section 11e.(1) of the Act, (2) source material, (3) special nuclear material in quantities not su'ficient to fonn a critical mass and (4) permanent disposal of low-level weste containing one or more of the                !
foregoing materials but not containing uranium and thorium mill tailings (byproduct material as defined in Section lle.(2) of the Act). The State does not wish to assume authority over uranium and thorium milling activities. The State, however, reserves l
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amended Agreement to assune authority in this area.
As required by Section'274 of the Ator'ic-Energy Act, the proposed Agreement and the staff's asses'sment of the State's proposed radiation control progran were publishedintheFederalRegisteronceaweekfoy four consecutive. weeks ending February 11, 1987 Interested persons were invited to submit coments by February 20, 1987.
The proposed Agreement had several unique                    l components.                                                  i Regulation of an existing low-level radioactive waste disposal site.
Illinois is the site of an existing low-level radioactive waste disposal site which is no longer accepting waste for disposal (Sheffield). Under the Agreement, jurisdiction will be relinquished by NRC to Illinois. The.
State of Illinois and the licensee, US Ecoloay, have been parties to an NRC adjudicatory proceeding on an imediately effective show cause order relating to whether US Ecology could unilaterally terminate its license for activities at Sheffield without Comission action.  [ Docket No. 27-39-SC (ASLBP No.
78-374-01-0T)). The State's proposed progran l
I The proposed agreement and staff's assessment were initially published in the Federal Register December 31,-1986 at 51 FP. 47327 and republished January 7,1987 at 52 FR 618. A' comment period ending
,            January 30, 1987 was specified. The December 31st and January 7th publications were determined to have been the subject of Federal Register printing errors. As a result, they were incomplete and also contained errors. A corrected notice was published January 21, 1987 at 52 FR 2309. Since the-initial notice was incomplete and also contained significant errors, the 4 consecutive week publication cycle required by the Act was restarted beginning with the January 21, 1987 notice. A revision of the date for public coments was also published at that tir.e
            -(52 FR 2309) changing it to February 20, 1987. The 2nd consecutive weekly notice was published January 28, 1987 at 52 FR 2898. The 3rd
              . consecutive weekly notice was published February 4, 1987 at 52 FR 3503 but printing errors again occurred, this time resulting in the omission of text. A correction notice for this omission was published February 12, 1987 at 52 FR 4569. The 4th consecutive weekly notice was published February 11, 1987 at 52 FR 4436. NRC has requested a change to Section 274e of the Act which would specify one Federal Register publication rather than four. Congress has not acted on this request.
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received from other persons has been determired by the staff to meet applicable criteria in the NRC Policy Statement, " Criteria for Guidance' of States and NRC in Discontinuance of NRC Regulatory Authority and Assumption Thereof by l
States Through Agreement" (46 FR 7540, 46 FR 36960 and 48 FR 33376). The Federal Register notice stated that the staff would request termination of the Sheffield proceeding when the proposed Agreement became effective. After the notice appeared, the ASLB on March 10, 1987 issued an order concluding the proceeding after having ruled against the licensee on two legal' issues: (1).whether the licensee possessed the buried low-level waste, and (2) whether the licensee could unilaterally terminate the license. On March 16, 1987, the Board's order was appealed by US Ecology which asked for expedited Appeal Board consideration. On March    '
19, 1987, the Appeal Board denied US Ecology's motion for expedited consideration. The staff is comitted to ask the Appeal Board to terminate the proceeding if the Agreement is          j signed before the Appeal Board acts on US Ecology's appeal._ Upon the effective date of the Agreenent the requirements of the                i Comission's order will become Illinois'                )
requirements until superseded by the results of Illinois' own proceeding.
Reculation of a new regional low-level waste disposal facility.
i Illinois is a member of th'e Centrrl Hidwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact        ,
(the other menber State is the Ccmonwealth of Kentucky). Illinois has been designated the host State. As.noted above, the State's proposed progran for regulating in this area has been determined by the staff to meet applicable NPC criteria referred to in the preceding paragraph.                                    ,
l Reaulation of the Allied Chemical llF, Conversion Plant.
The Allied Chemical plant is one of two plants          ,
in the United States licensed to convert                !
uranium "yellowcake" to UF . (The other plant            !
is Kerr-McGee's Sequoyah piant in Oklahona).          j 1
The Allied Chemical plant has been identified          1 by DOE as having a potential comon defense and          l l
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security significance. Section 274m of the Atomic Energy Act, as amended, provides that:              ,
              "No agreement entered into under subsection b., ... shall effect the authority of the Commissinn under subsection 161b. or 1. to issue rules, regulations, or orders to protect the comon defense and security..."
NRC staff prepared a policy option paper for the Comission for establishment of Comission policy regarding licenses subject to Section 274b Agreements which have comon defense and security significance (SECY-87-59). The Comission decision on the policy option paper was to retain regulatory authority over such plants based on common defense and security considerations. A draft order to effectuate this policy with respect to the Allied Chemical plant has been prepared for Comission approval (enclosureG). The order should become effective at the same time as the proposed section 274b Agreement. No modification of the Agreement is necessary since such an action would be independent of the Agreement and taken under the separate authority of Section 274m.
As discussed in SECY 87-59 the ste#f will notify DOE of the Commission decision in this matter.
The Kerr-McGee West Chicago pare Earths Facilitv.
The Kerr-McGee West Chicago Rare Earths Facility is a site where thorium processing and recovery operations were conducted under an AEC/NRC license.      The radioactive mill tailings that resulted from operations at the site have been determined by the NRC staff to be byproduct material as defined by Section 11e.(2) of the Act. Illinois has not requested authority to regulate Section 11e.(2) byproduct naterial under the proposed agreement and thus jurisdiction over these materials will remain with NRC. The disposition of these tailings is
)      the subject of an ASLB proceeding fDocket 40-2061-ML (ASLBP No. 83-495-01-ML)].
Thorium-bearing materials in off-site areas in and around Ifest Chicago that are attributed to the site activities have been characterized by NRC staff at source material (see Enclosure C, staff response to Comment 4). Jurisdiction
 
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materials include (a) thorium bearing materials    j
'                                                    now stored at the Kerr-McGee Fest Chicago Rare Earths Facility site that have been. recovered from off-site residential properties"and from the sewage'treatnent plant.in_ West Chicago and (b) uranium and therium contaminated materials-in Kress Creek and the West Branch of the DuPage River, and Reed-Keppler Park, West Chicago. The Kress Creek-DuPage River material is the subject of an NRC adjudicatory proceeding-{DocketNo. 40-2061-SC (ASLBP No.
84-502-01-SC)). In this proceeding, in which Kerr-McGee and the People of the State of Illinois are parties, the ASLB found that the presence of this material in Kress Creek and the West Branch of the DuPage River probably resulted from the conduct of an NRC (and AEC) licensed activity at the Fest Chicago P,are Earths Facility.      The ASLB,'however, declined to require clean-up of the Creek and the River based upon its analysis.of the hazard posed by the radiologically contaminated material. The NRC staff has appealed that decision to the Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board, but a decision on appeal has not yet been issued.
The Aopeal- Boerd has detennined to' suspend further consideration of this matter until the question of the State Agreement is resolved.
Since jurisdiction over source material ir Kress Creek and the West Branch of the Duh.oe River will be' relinquished to Illinois when the Agreement becomes effective, the NRC staff will reauest termination of the NRC adjudicatory proceedino.      At this point it will be up to Illinois to initiate further proceedings.
Jurisdiction over the source material in Reed-Keppler Park will also be relinquished to Illinois when the Agreement becomes effective.
Five written coments on the proposed Agreement and NRC staff assessment were received prior t the end of the coment period on February 20, 1087.2 Three 2
Additionally, on February 4, 1987, the Commission received a request to suspend the license issued k Chem Nuclear Systems, Inc.
which authorizes waste storage and which is the subject of an amendment to operate a waste compactor near Channonhon, IL. NRC staff have acknowledged the letter in accordance with 10 CFR 2 ?O6. The request (Footnote Continued) l-l
 
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Metterhahn, P.C., counsel for US Ecology which holds-the license for. the Sheffield site. One coment letter. was received from A. Eugene Sennels, the
* Payor. of the City of West Chicago. -One coment letter was received. from Covington and Burling, counsel: representing Kerr-McGee. Several supplementary coments were filed by Conner &
WetterhahnaftertheendoftheSomm'atD'riod-Sumaries of the public coments and NRC staff responses are set out in Enclosure C.                                  -
The staff's conclusion with respect to the proposed Illinois program was stated in the Federal Register notices:
                                                                                "... the State of Illinois meets the requirements of Section 274 of the Act. ' The State'.s statutes, regulations, personnel, licensing, inspection and administrative procedures are conpatible with those of the-Comission ~and adeouate to protect the public .
                                                                              -health and safety.with respect to the materials covered by the proposed agreement. Since the.
State is not seeking authority over uranium nilling activit a :s, subsection o, is not applicable go the proposed Illinois agreement."
Briefly, the comnents related to:
(Footnote Continued)                                                    .                  .
for an amendment to cperate a waste compactor which precipitated this request is under review by NRC staff and includes preparation of an environmental assessnent. If the proposed agreement is approved by the Commission prior to a final decision by NRC staff on the amendment request, the request will be included with the license which will be transferred to Illinois.
3 Copies of the public comments era c,ailable for public inspection in the Comission's public document roent at 1717 H Street NW, Washington DC and the Comission's Region III Office, 799 Roosevelt Road, Building No. 4. Glen Ellyn, Illinois.
4 While the tem " uranium milling" was used, subsection o applies to "the licensing)and Section    11e.(2 of this                regulation Ar.t. or ofof  anybyproduct      material, activity which          as.indefined results    the                in
                                . production of byproduct material as so defined under an agreement entered pursuant to subsection b." Illinois did not request inclusion in the Agreement of Section 11e.(2) byproduct material and subsection o does not therefore apply.
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o    Unavailability in the NRC H Street PDR of documents referenced in the Federal Register (Conner and Wetterhahn).
o    Request to extend the roment period from 30 to 60 days (Conner and Wetterhe.hni.
o    Recuest for reconsideration by NRC of the classification of radioactive materials at the Kerr-McGee Rare Earths Facility in West Chicago (Eugene A. Rennels).
o    Request i t Illinois be required to assume regulatory jurisdiction over all the radioactive materials at the Kerr-McGee Rare Earths Facility in West Chicago (i.e., byproduct naterial as defined in Secticn 11e.(2) of the Act)
(Eugene A. Rennels).
o    Request that NRC adopt as policy certain resolutions of the City of West Chicago concerning the radioactive naterials at                  ,
the Kerr-McGee Rare Earths Facility                      j (Eugene A. Rennels).
o    Objections to the planned requests by NRC staff to terminate the NRC adjudicatory proceedings on Sheffield and Kress Creek if the proposed Agreement is approved                    ,
(Conner and Wetterbahn, Covington and Burling),
o    Objection to NPC staff plan to transfer to Illinois under the Agreement jurisdiction over certain thorium contaminated                        i materials associated with the Kerr-McGee                  l West Chicago facility (Covington and                      l Burling).                                                4 o    Objection to NRC staff views that transfers of authority under Section 274b.
Agreements may be made by categories of materials only (Conner and Wetterhahn).
o    Recuests for an opportunity to present oral views to the Comission (Conner and Wetterhahn, Covington and Burling).
The staff carefully considered the comments that were submitted. The principal purposes of the comments are to request relief from the provisions of the proposed Agreement and to request an opportunity to orally present arguirents to the
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h e      .      Comission. The applicable tests to be applied to a                1 proposed Section 274b Agreement are the requirements of Section 274 of the Act, as amended, and the previously referenced implementing Comission Policy                4 Statenent (see p.4., supra) which scecifies criteria              i l              to be net by States requesting approval to enter                  i into Section 274b Agreements. None of the coments received within the coment period disputed the staff's assessment and conclusion with respect to                j the adequacy and compatibility of the proposed                      l Illinois program. Following expfration of the                      )
comment period, one comenter (Conner and Wetterhahn) continued to file comments by means of                l supplementary letters (now numberin                              l date of preparation of this paper) gincluding 5 as of athe comment taking iss'fs with the staff's finding of compatibility for the low level waste program. The NRC staff has fcund the comment on cor'patibility to be without merit (see Enclosure C, coment no. 5 p.8, footnote 2, i_nfra). The staff, after consideration of the comments, finds no basis to alter its conclusions. Since the other pub 1(c comments did not substantively dispute the staff's assessnent and were, in the main, limited to legal and procedural matters outside the scope of the                    i assessment, the staff sees no reason to suggest                    1 consideration by the Conmission of the requests by the commenters to present oral arcunents on the:;e matters.
The proposed program will be administered by the Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety, a cabinet level State agency. Approximately 800 licenses will be transferred to the State. NRC staff has worked out tne details of the transfer with Illinois to assure a smooth transition,    In October,1986 the Department held a public meeting for NRC materials licensees in Illinois to explcln the arrangements under the Agreement and introduce Department staff.
OSP and Region III staffs participated.
It should be noted that the NRC staff conducts an extensive post agreement program with each Agreement State fo11cwing execution of a 274b agreement. This program consists of enchange of information, technical assistance, training, and periodic on-site                ,
reviews of the radiation control programs. Exchange                i of information covers incidents, enforcement actions, policies, reguidtions and program statistics. Technical assistance includes help with statutes, regulations, licenses and inspections that are unusual or technically complex, and enforcement actions. Training includes a variety of courses designed to enhance staff proficiency in health                    !
 
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* physics,. radiation engineering, lii.ensing, inspection procedures, transportation, radiography.                      1 and medical applications. Periodic prop,ran reviews are r;ade at 12-18 month intervals to determine program adecuacy and compatibility using Comission                        g approved guidelines. Communications are frecuent with a new agreement State during the." start up" i                                                                period and an on-site visit is made in about three                          '
months to see if there are any problem areas needing assistance.                                                              i l
If approved by the Comission, Illinois will become the 29th Agreement St6te and the second such State in Region III.
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_ RECOMMENDATION: That the Commission:                                                      l Find:
: 1. That the proposed Illinois program for control of radiation hazards with respect to byproduct materials as defined in Section 11e.(1) of the Atomic Energy Act, source materials, and special nuclear mate ials in quantities not sufficient to fom a critical mass, and perr.anent disposal of low-level waste cantaining one or more of the foregoing riaterials but not cc taining uranium and thorium mill tailings (byproduct material as defined in Section 11e.(2) of the Act) is compatible with the Commission's program for the regulation of like mater %1s; and
: 2. That the proposed Illinois program is adequate to protect the public health and safety with respect to the materials within the State covered by the proposed Section 274b Agreement.
: 3. That authority to regulate the Allied-Chemical t!F conversion plant shall be retained by the6Comission consistent with its decision on policy for licenses subject to Section 27db Agreements which have comon defense and security significance (SECY-87-S9).
Approve:
: 1. The proposed Section 274b Agreement set forth in Enclosure A between the State of Illinois and the fluclear Regulatory Comission.
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                                      ,                continued NRC regulatory authority for health and safety.as provided by,Section 278n of the Act. as amended.
Note:
: 1. That the Comission's decision on Policy for licensees whose activities have a
      ,                                              potential common defense and.sacurity h                                                    significance has been applied to the-
                                                    -Allied Chemical UF, conversion plant in M11nois..The stafY will prepare correspondence notifying' DOE of this decision as specified in SECY 87-59 ard will prepare proposed revisions to the NRC Policy Statement to incorporate this decision.
: 2. That the.Section 274b Agreement will be publisheo in the Federal Register within thirty days after signature of both parties as required by the Act.
: 3. That the staff has been informed by_Dr.
Lash, Director of the Illinois' Department of Nue' ear Safety that the State does not desire a.fonrel signing ceremony. Staff will prepare the: Agreement documents for.
the. Chairman's signature'and make appropriate arrangements for the execution  1 of the Agreement by correspondence.
4    That the Subconnittee on-Nuclear              ,
                                                    ' Regulation of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, the            l t
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          ~                                        of the House Comittee on Interior-and        )
Insular Affairs, and the Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the House Committee on Energy and Comerce will be'infomed by a letter similar to Enclosure D.                ]
: 5. That a Public Announcement such as Enclosure E will be issued on filing of the notice with the Office of the Federal Register
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: 6. That a letter to Governor Thonpson similar to Enclosure F will be sent if the Comission approves the proposed Agreement.
 
COORDINATION:              The Office of the General Counsel has reviewed the Commission paper and enclosures and has no legal objection. The Executive Director for Operations has concurred in it.
SCHEDULING:                In his request, Governor Thompson did not specify an effective date for the Agreement.
Staff discussions with Dr. Lash, Director of the Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety indicate that a target date of March 1,1987 was' planned for. The staff believes an effective date of at least two weeks after approval would permit time for the State to sign the Agreement and allow for completion of an orderly transfer of files prior to the effective date. Therefore the staff recomends Comission action by May 6,1987.
                                                      /                w Harold R. Denton, Director Office of Governmental and Public Affairs
 
==Enclosures:==
 
A. Proposed Agreement B. Federal Register Notice with NRC staff assessment C. Sumaries of public comments and NRC staff responses D. Proposed letters to Congressional Comittees E. Proposed Public Announcement F. Proposed letter to Governor of Illinois                                                ,
G. Proposed Order to Allied-Chemical l
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Commissioners' comments or consent should be provided directly to'the Office of the Secretary by c.o.b. JT esday, May 5, 1987.
Commission Staff Office comments, if any, should be submitted to the Commissioners NLT Tuesday, April 28, 1987, with an infor-mation copy to the Office of the Secretary. If the paper is of such a nature that it requires additional time for analytical review and comment, the Commissioners and the Secretariat should be apprised of when comments may be expected.
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fnclosure A AGREEMENT DETWEEN THE UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COPMISSION AND THE STATE OF ILLIN0IS FOR DISCONTINUANCE OF CERTAIN COMMISSION REGULATORY AUTHORITY AND RESPONSIBILITY WITHIN THE STATE PURSUANT TO SECTION 274 0F THE ATOMIC ENERGY ACT OF '954, AS AMENDED WHEREAS, the United States Nuclear Regulatory Comission (hereinafter referred to as the Comission) is authorized undec Section 274 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (hereinafter rEfarred to as the Act), to                      j enter into agreements with the Governor of any State providing for dis-                      :
continuance of the regulatnry authority of the Comnission within the Statt under Chapters 6, 7, and 8, and Section 161 of the Act with respect to by-product raterials as defined in Sections 11e.(1) and (2) of the Act, source materials, and special nuclear naterials in quantities not sufficient to fom a critical mass; and, WHEREAS, the Governor of the State of Illinois is authorized under Illinois Revised Statutes, 1985, ch. 111 1, par. 216b and ch. 111 1, par.
241-19, to enter into this Agreement with the Comission; and, WHEREAS, the Governor of the State of Illinois certified or. October 2, 1986, that the State of Illir.cis (hereinafter referred to as the State) has a program for the control of radiation hazards adequate to protect the public health and safety with respect to the materials within the State covered by this Agreement, and that the State desires to assume regulatory responsibility for such materials; and, WHEREAS, the Comission found on                    that the program of the State for the regulation of the materials covereo by this Agreenent is compatible with the Comission's program for the regulation of such materials and is adequate to protect the public health and safety; and, WHEREAS, the State and the Comission recognize the desirability and importance of cooperation between the Commission and the Stete in the fomulation of standards for protection against hazards of radiation an:' in assuring that State and Comission programs for protection against hazards of radiation will be coordinated and compatible; and, WHEREAS, the Comission and the State recognize the desirability of reciprocal recognition of licenses and exemptions from licet.c*ng of those materials subject to this Agreenent; and, UHEREAS, this Acreement is entered into pursuant to the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended; NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HERERY AGREED between the Comissicn and the Governor of tbc State, acting in behalf of the State, as follows:
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2 ARTICLE I Subject to the exceptions provided in Articles II, IV and V, the Comi:sion shad discontinue, as of the effective date of this Agreement,          ;
the regulatory authority of the Commission in the State under Chapters 6, 7,  1 end 8, and Section 16I of the fr.t with respect to the following:
A. ByprcductmaterialasdefinedinSection11e.(1)ofthaAct; B. Source materials; C. Special nuclear materials in cuantities not sufficient to form a critical mass; and, D. The land disposal of source, byproduct and special nuclear material received from other persons.                              ,
i ARTICLE II This Agreemer.t does not provide for discontinuance of any authority and the Comission shall rttain authority and responsibility with respect to regulation of:
A. The construction and operation of any production c,r utilization facility; B. The export from or import into the Un.ited States of byproduct, source, or special nuclear r.aterial, or cf any production or utilization facility;      ,
C. The disposal into the ocean or sea of byproduct, source or special nuclear waste meterials as defined in regulations or orders of the Comission; D. The disposal of such other byproduct, source, or special nuclear material as the Comission from time to time determines by regulation or order should, becaute of the hazards or potential hazards thereof, not be so di:; posed of without a license from the Comission; and, E.
The extraction or concentration of source material from source      l naterial ore and the management and disposal of the resulting        '
byproduct material.
ARTICLE III This Agreement may be amended, upon application by the State and approval by the Corf,nission, to include the additional area specified in Article II, paragraph E, whereby the State can exert regulatory control over the materials stated therein.                                                      i
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ARTICLE IV                                      i Notwithstanding this Agreement, the Comission may from time to time by rule, regulation or order, require that the manufacturer, processor, or          {
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producer of any eouipment, device, comodity, or other product containing source, byproduct or special nuclear naterial shall not transfer possess 4rn or c(ntrol of such product except pursuant to a license or an exemptinn from licensing issued by the Corr:ission.
ARTICLE V This Agreenent shall not affect the authority of the Comission under subsection 161 b. or 1. of the Act to issue rules, regulations or orders to protect the common defense and security, to protect restricted data or to guard against the loss or diversion of special nuclear material.
ARTICLE VI The Comission will use its best efforts to cooperate with the State and other Agreement States in the formulation of standards and regulatory programs of the State and the Comission for protection against hazards of radiation and to assure that State and Comission programs for protection against hazards of radiation will be coordinated and compatible. The State will use its best efforts to cooperate with the Comission and other Agree-ment States in the fomulation of standards and regulatory prograns of the State and the Comission for protection against hazards of radiation and to assure that the State's program will continue to be compatible with the program of the Comission for the regulation of like materials. The State and the Conmission will use their best efforts to keep each other informed of proposed changes in their respective rules and regulations and licensirg, inspection and enforcement policies and criteria, and to obtain the coments and assistance of the other party thereon.
ARTICLE VII The Comission and the State agree that it is cesirable to provide reciprocal recognition of licenses for the materials listed in Article I licensed by the other party or by any Agreement State. Accordingly, the Comission and the State acree to use their best efforts to oevelop appre-priate rules, regulations and procedures by which such reciprocity will be dCCorded.
ARTICLE VIII The Comission, upon its own initiative after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to the State, or upon request of the Governor of the State, may terminate or suspend all or part of this agreement and reassert the licensing and regulatory authority vested in it under the Act if the Comission finds that (1) such termination or suspension is required to protect the public health and safety, or (2) the State has not complied with one or more of the requirements of Section 274 of the Act. The Comission may also, pursuant to Section 274j of the Act, temporarily suspend all or part of this Agreement if in the judgment of the Comission, an emergency sitt,ation exists requiring immediate action to protect public health and safety and the State has failed to take necessary steps. The Comission I
shall periodically review this Agreement and actions taken by the State I        under this Agreement to ensure compliance with Section 274 of the Act.
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ARTICLE IX This Agreement shall become effective on                  , and shall remain in effect unles; and until such time as it is teminated pursuant to Article VIII.
Dore at                              , in triplicate, this      day of FOR THE UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
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2310 more of the fomgoing materials but not avuum: Notice is hereby given that                                    relinquish and the Stats would assume
  .                                                                                                                            containing uranium and thorium mill the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission certain regulatory authority pursuant to                                            tailings (byproduct material as defined section U4 of the Atomic Energy Act of la pubhshing for public comment the                                                                                        In section 11e.(2) of the Act.Re State NRC staff assessment of a proposed                                    1954. as amended.                                                                                        !
Section 274e of the Atomic Energy Act does not wish to assurne authenty over agreemenfreceived from the Governor                                  of 1954. as amended. requires that the              arardum recovery activities.ne State.              {>
of the State ofIllinois for the assumption                                                                                however. reserves the right to apply at a terms of the proposed agreement bs                                                                      l of certain of the Commission's                                        published fer public comment onca each future date to NRC for an amended                              I regulatory authority persuant to section                                                                                  speement to assume authority in this 274 of the Atomic Energy Act of1954, as                              week for four consecutive weeks.
Accordingly, this notice will be                    area.The nine articles of the proposed            f amended. Comments are requested on published four times in the Todaral                  sprement cover the following areas:
the public beslth and safety aspects of                                                                                      L IJsts the materials covered by the Registar.
the proposal.                                                                                                              areement.
A staff assessment of the State's                            L Background                                            H. Lista the Commission's continued proposed program for control over                                          A Section 274 of the Atomic Energy              author''y and responsibility for certain          I scurces of radiation is set forth below as Act of 1054, as amended. provides a                                            activities.
supplementary information to this                                    mechanism whereby the NRC may                            11 1. Allows for future amendment of notice. A copy of the proposed                                      transfer to the States certain regulatory            the speement.
agreement. propam narrative. Including                                authority over agreement materials :                    IV. Allows for certain regulstory the referenced appendices, apNeable when a State desires to assume this                  changes by b Commissics State legislation and lilinois regt..ations,                          authorny and the Govemor certifies that                V. References the ccatinued is available for pubhc inspection in the                              the State has an adequste regulatory                authority of the Comrnission for Commission's public document room at                                                                                      common defense and security for pro ram, and when the Commission 1717 H Street NW.. Washingtoa DC. the                                fin a that the State's propam la                        f      rd Commission's Region ill Ofhce. 799                                  compatible with that of the NRC and is              **f8""p[80d',s                dfm M h Roosevelt Road. Buildmg No.4. Glen                                                                                                                                        },
adequate to protect the public health                Comnu.ssion and the Sts'e to achieve Ellyn' Ulinois. and the Illmois                                      and safety. Section U4g directs the                        rdinated and compatible preparrs.
e Departmint of Nuclear Safety.1035                                    Commission to coop rate with the                        Vit Recofr.izes reciprocity of Outer Park Drive. Springfield. IJ1inois.
States in the formulation of standards              licerms issued by the respective                4 Exemptions from the Commission's                                      for protection against radiation hazards                                                            f 88 "2 C2 "'
regulatory su hority, which would                                    to assure that State and Comnussion in!ement this proposed agreemen.                                                                                              Vht Sets forth cnteria for                  {
have been publ'shed in the Fedem programs for radistion protection will be tuminst!an or cuspmim d the                                j coordinated and compeuble. Further.                a gmment, Register and codified as Part 150 d 4he                              section 274) provides that the Commission's regulations in Title 10 of                                                                                      IX. Specifies the effective date of Commission shall periodically review                the speement.
the Code of Federal Regulations.
such agreements and actions taken by                    C. UL Rev. Stat.1985 ch 127, par.          I DATE: Comments must be received on or                                the States under the agreementt *o                                ena                    '
before January k.1987 ' .                                            e    ure cornpliance with the previsions                    7[,  p,      n'8 i 1      nr sfety Acomissts: Written comments may be                                  O                                                  authorizes the Department to issue submitted to the Rules and Procedures                                  B.1 a et er' dated October 2.106s'                cens          nd e m            etto s o if                  of    hstrat on$$ uer                    e}o{ljmes P.Thom  "        son o b                ,
pmposed agreement syd otherwise Regulatory Cornmission. Washi gtort                                                                n agree ent                                      m
                                                          .7 r'y$and Commission e r in p unnt to a tion 274 of                  o]tjlra    ,,
1 ei e e t Ro Nations! Bank Building. Bethesda,
[a                                        radiation protection were adopted on amended.The Go temor certifbd that                  September 25.1986 under autbonty of Maryland from 8.15 a.m.to 5:00 p.m.                                he State of Ulinch has a propam for                the enabling siatute and provide Monday through Friday. Copies of                                  control of rsdiation herstds which is              sta ndards. licensing. inspection.
comments received may be examined at                              ad                      th    blic h alth        enforcement and administrative the NRCPub c cument Room.1717 H                                  an      afet    t respect o the materia!?          procedures for speement and non-Stmt                          . s gin D                    within Be State covered by the                      agreement mettrials. Pursuant to eon runTHan twoaMAT104 COMTACT.                                  proposed agreement, and that the State              $ 330.380 the regulations will apply to loel O.Lubenau. Office of State                                  of !!1inois desires to assume regulatory            speement materials on the effective Programs. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory                                responsibility for such materials. The              date of the agreement.The regulations Commission. Wsshington. DC 20555.                              text of the proposed agreement is abown provide for the State to license and telephone: 301-492-0887                                        in Appendix A.                                      inspect users of naturally occurring and settutwtAmy tooRh4AT)O9C                                          The epecific authority requested is for          accelerator-produced radioactive              ,
Assessment of Propored1Hinois                                  (1) byproduct material as defined e.                matuiale.                                    l Program to Regulate Ceetain Radioactive section11e.(1)of the Act.(2) source                                            D. Illinois is one of two States with a    1 material. (3) special nuclear materiali.a          cabinet-level agency devoted                  I Materials Pursusnt to section 274 of the Atomic Energy Act of1954. as amended. quantitles not aufficient to form a                                          exclusively to radiation safety and          i critical mass and (4) permane nt dieposal control. Illinolv role in radiation safety            {
The Commission has received a                      oflow.!avel waste containing one oc                                                              i is traceable to 1955 when the Illinois I                  proposal from the Govemor of Illinois ipt the State to enter into an agreement                                                                          U"'IM' M C#*'d N M0dC Power Investigating Comminsion. The with the NRC whereby the NRC would                          ~ . A tyrm6ct mai, net. .. d.r. red in stett)
: a. eypmtet metais s. der.r.d in :t.<a;            Illinois Department of Nuclear S,afety        ;
C some 'naimt.. ud                              Program provides a comprehensae su the prmens document m which the            D. trecal nw.ies, ma ten 14 in qmm n no, mcan, pesa. tory commwan remu sh.                                                                              program encompa esing radiation nmcnnt to fans e cnncat awu comnwei dudhne.                                                                                                                                              I i
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2312'                                                    Fadsral Register / Vol. 52. No. 23 / Wednesday. Jannery 21, 1987 r/. Notices autho:lly inspections as per to C!R 19.                                      essentially uniform with those of to Cm recalved radiation exposu e in excess of
                * .Section 19.16 and to be represer.ted .                                                  Part 20. Waste transfer and manifest                the prescribed limits.                        j during inspections as specified in                                            system requirements for transfer of                      The Illinois regulations require the Section 19.14 of to CFB 19.                                                    waste for ultimate disposal at a land                following records and reports licensees The Illmois regulation contain.b                              disposal facility are includcd in the                and registrants:
requirements for instruction and nctices                                      !!!inois regulations.The waste disposal                  (a) Recorde covering personnel            ]
to workers that are uniform with those                                        requirements include a waste                        radistion exposures, radiation surveys.
of 10 CFR Part 19.                                                            classification scheme and previsions for and disposals of materials.
 
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321LL ADM. CODE Part                              weste form equivalent to that in to CFR                  (b) Records of receipt and transfer of 4%XL                                                                          Part 61.                                            materials.
: 8. Storose. Ucensed radioactive                                    The !!!inois rqulations provide for                  (c) Reports concerning incidents matenalin storage shall be secured                                            land disposal of low-level radioactive              involving radioactive matenals.
aFainst unauthonzed removal.                                                  waste received from other persons                        (d) Reports to former employees of The Illinois regulations contam. a                            which are compatible with the            .
their radiation exposure.
re utrement for security of stored                                            applicable technical definitions.                        (e) Reports to employees of their ra oa c'                                                                      perf rmance bjectives, technical                    annual radiation exposura.
p {,rence 32                          kDM. CODE              requirements and supporting sections                    (f) Reports to employees of radialion set ut n 0                                          exposure in excess of prescribed limits.
R ioactive Waste Disposal. (al                  regulationselude  m,CG      Part 61.The provisions,  for        I!!inois
 
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32 ILL ADM. CODE 310.40.
Waste disposal by . material uvrs.The                                              andal snengunents 6                            mm 340m M4050 awl 400.130.
standards for the disposal of r..licactive decontamination, closure and                                                              12. Additiona/ Requirements and rnsterials into the air. water and sewer
* stabilization. Under the Nuclear Waste              Exemptiens. Consistent with the overall and burialin the soil shall be in                                            Policy Act f 1982 (Pub. L 97--425) the.              cnteris here enumerated and to acecrdance with to CFR Part 20                                                financial arrangements for long-term                accommodate special cases and Holders of radioactive material desiring                                                                                          circumstances, the State regulatory to re! ease or dispose of quantibes or
                                                                                                          **^".oring and maintenance at specific sites in Illm is will be subject to                  authority shall be authorized in concentrations of radioactive materials                                      Commission review and approval prior                individual cases to impose additional in excess of prescribed limits shall be                                      to lllin is relieving the s,tei  operator of        requirements to protect hestth and required to obtain special permission                                        licensed responsibility.                            safety. or to grant necessary exemptions from the appropnate regulatory                                                 
 
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32 tLL ADM. CODE                    which will not jeopardize health and authoritydments                                      for transfer of waste for3+0 ".060. 340.3010 to 340. 3110. Ps rt 601t        safety.
Requir                                                                                                                The Illinois Department of Nuclear the purpose of ultimate disposal s: a                                        Section 151(al(2). Pub. L 97-425.
                              !and disposal faci'ity (waste transfer                                          10. Regulations Coverning Shipment              Safety is authorized to impose upen any of Radioactive Materio/s. "Ihe St te                licensee or registrant by rule. regulation.
and maruht system) shall be in                                              shall to the extent of its jurisdiction            or order such requirements in addition accordance with 10 CFR Part 20.                                                                                                    to those established in the regulations as The waste disposal standards shall                          promulgate regulations applicab!e to the shipment of radioactive materials such              it deems appropriate or necessary to include a waste classification scheme                                                                                            minimize danger to public health and and provisions for waste form.                                              regulations to be corapatible with those applicable to waste generators. that is                                    established by the U.S. Department of                safety or property.
equivalent to that contamed in 10 CFR                                      Transportation and other agencies of the               
 
==Reference:==
321LL ADM. CODE 3io.70.
United States whose junsdiction over                    The Department may also grant such Part 61.
(b) Laad Disposal of waste received                          interstate shipment of such materials                exemptions from the requirements of the from other persons. The State shall                                          necessarily continues. State regulations            regulations as it determines are prcmulgate regulations containing                                            regarding transportation of radioactive            authonred by law and will not result in
                              , licensing requirements for Isnd disposal                                  materists must be compatible with 10                undue hazard to public health and of radiwetive waste te elved from other CFR Part 71.                                                                              safety or property.
persons which are compatible with th:                                          The Illinnia regulations are uniform               
 
==Reference:==
32 ILL ADM. CODE 310.30.
applicable technical definitions.                                            with those contained in NRC regulations to CFR Part ti.                                    Frior Evoluotion of Uses nf Radioactive performance objectives. technical                                                                                              Materials requirements and applicable supporting                                       
 
==References:==
32 ILL ADM. CODE Part sections set forth m .10 CFR Part 81.                                      341.                                                    13. Prior Evolvation ofHozords aniJ Adequate financial errar.gements (under                                      11. Records andReports. The State                Uses. Ezeeptions. In the pesent state of tenns established by regulation) shall be regulatory program shall require that                                                knowledge, it is necessary in regulating required of each waste disposal site                                      holder:  and  users  of radio  9etive              the poenession and use of byproduct.
materials (a) maintain records covering              source and special nuclear materials licensee to ensttre sufficient funds for decontamination. closure and                                              personnel    radiation  exposures. radiation  that  the State regulatory authority stabilization of a disposal site.In                                        surveys, and diasposals of materials:(b) require the submission ofinformation addition. Agreement State financial                                        keep records of the receipt and transfer            on and evaluation of. the poter.tial arrangements for tong-term monitoring                                      of the materials:(c) report significant            hazards and the espability of th- user or and maintenance of a specific site must                                    incidents  involving  the  materials. as          possessor    prior to his teceipt of the prescribed by the regulatory authority:            materials.This criterion is subject to be reviewed and approved by the Commission prior to relieving the site -                                  (d)make trailable upon request of a                certain exceptions and to continuing i                                operator of licensed responsibility                                        former employee a report of the                    reappraisal as knowledge and I                                (set; tion 151(a)(2). Pub. L 97--.425).                                    employee's    exposure  to  radiation:(e) at      expedence in the atomic energy field The Illinois regulations contain                          request of an employee advise the                    increase. Prequently there are. and provittions relating to the disposal of                                    employee of his or her annuel radiation            increasingly in the future there may be.
radioactive materials into the air, water                                exposure: and (f) Inforrr. each employee            categories of mater:als and uses as to in writing when  the  employee    has              which there is sufficient knowledge to acd sewer And burialin soil which are
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  .'          permit possession and use without prior        In evaluating a proposal to use        is dependent upon the type and scope of evalustion of the hazards and the            agreement meterials, the !!!inois          the licensed activities and will be at capability of the possessor and user.      Department of Nuclear Safety will          least as frequent as inspections of These categories fallinto two groups-        determine that:                            similar licensees by NRC. Generally, those matenals and uses which may be            (1)The applicant is qual:fied by        inspections will be unannounced.
completely exempt from regulatory            reason of training and experience to use     
 
==References:==
32111 ADM. CODE controls, and those materials arad uses      the meterialin question foe the purpose    310.50. 310.60. 310.70 and 400.140(a);
in which sanctions for misuse are          requested in accordance with the            Illinois Program State; ment. Section maintained without pre-evaluation of        regulations in such a manner as to        !!.B.1.(s)(2) " Inspection and the individual possession or use. In        minimize danger to public beslth and      Compliance." Section !!!C " Ins pection authorizing research and development        safety or propertyt                        and Enforcement" and Section IVE.
or other activities involving .nultiple        (2)The applicant's proposed            " Division of Resporcsibilities."
uses of radioactive materials, where an      equipment, facilities, and procedures are      17. /nspections Compulsory. Ucensees institution has people with extensive        adequate to ininimize danger to public    shall be under obligation by law to training and experience. the State          health and safety or property; and          provide access to inspectors.
segulatory authority may wish to                (3)De issuance of the license will not      !!!inois regulations state that licensees provide a means for authorizing broad      be inimical to the health and safety of    shall afford the Department at all use of rnaterials without evaluating each the public.                                  reasonable times opportunity to inspect aptcific use.                                  Other special requirements for the sources of radiation and the premises Prior to the issuance of a specific      issuance of specificlicenses am and facilities whereia such sources of        i license for the use of radioactive          contained in the regulations.
radistion are used or stored.                  i materials, the Illinois Department of         
 
==References:==
32 !!1 ADM. CODE 330.250 to 330.280 and Part 601:lllinois       
 
==Reference:==
3211L ADM. CODE 310.50.
Nuclear Safety will require the                                                            gg                    gjy g submission of information on, and will            am Statement. Sections 11.B.1.a(1)  Inspection. Ucensees are entitled to be make an evaluation of, the potential          jenning Unt.(s) low. Incl and          advised of the results ofinspections arid
[LBi bt v , ste Management i
hazards of such uses, and the capability                                              to notice as to whether or not they are in    '
C      e8pp k. ant                            15. Human Use. De use of radioactive compliance.
 
==References:==
32111 ADM. CODE                                                              Following Department inspections.
materials and radiation on or in humans 330.240 to 330.240 and Part 601. Ilhno.is                                              each licensee will be notified in wntmg        l shall not be permitted except by Program Statement. Sections ILB.1(a)(1)                                                of the results of the inspection.The reperly qualified persons (normally Ucensing. I!C1(alt 3) ilegulating        [ censed physicians) possessing            letters and wntten notices indicate if the Low. Level, Waste Disposal and 11LB.        prescribed minimum experience in the      licer see is in compliance and if not. list Ocenskg.                                  use of radioisotopes or radiation.        the areas of noncompliance.
Provision is made for the frauance of
                                                                                                                                                    )
The Illinois regulations require that     
 
==Reference:==
Illinois Program Statement, generallicenses for byproduct. source      the use of radioactive matenals            Section !!.B.1.(a)(2)"Inspecuen and and special nuclear materials in            (including sealed sources) on er in        Compliance." Section Illa " Inspection situations where prior evaluation of the    humans shall be by a physician having      and Enforcement" and Section IVE.
licensee's qualifica uons. facilities,      substantial experience in the handling    " Division of Responsibilities."                ,
equyrnent and procedures are not            and administration of radioactive reconred. The regulations grant general                                                Enforcement material and, where applicable, the licenses under the same circumstances      clinical management of radioactive              19. Enforcement Possession and use as those under which generallicenses        patients.                                  of radioactive matenals should be are granted in the Commission's               
 
==Reference:==
32 Ili ADM. CODE            amenable to enforcement through legal regula tions.                                                                          sanctions, and the regulatory authority 330.280(a) (b). and (c).
 
==References:==
32111 ADM. CODE                                                        shall be equipped or assisted by law 330.210 and 330.220.                        la8PcClied                                with the necessary powers for prompt ProviMon is made for exemption of            16. krpose. Trequency. De              enforcement.This mayinclude as certain surce and other radioactive        possession and use of radiosetive          appropriate, administrative remedies            l usterists and devices containing            materials shall be subject to inspection  looking toward issuance of orders radioactive materials. The exemptions      by the regulatory authority and shall be  requinns affirmative action or for materials covered by the Agreement      subject to the performance of tests as    svepension or revocation of the right tg are the same as those granted by NRC        required by the regulate,ry authotity,    possest and use materials. and the regulations.                                Inspection and testing is conducted to    impounding of materials: the cbtaining
 
==References:==
32 IIL ABM. CODE            determine and to assist in obtaining      ofinJunctive relief; and the imposing of 330.30 and 330.40.                          compliarce with regulatory                civil or criminal penaltics.
: 14. Ero/uotion Criterio. In evaluatirg  tequirementa. Fre quency of inspection        The Illinois Department of Nuclear a proposal to use radioactive materials,    shall be reisted directly to the amount    Safety is equipped with the necessary the regulatory authorliy shall determine    6nd kind of material and type of          powers for prompt enforcement of the the adequacy of the applicant's facilities operation licensed. and it shall be        reg. !ations. Where conOtions exist that and safety equipment.his training and      adequate to insure compliance.            create a clear presence of a hazard to experience in the use of the materials          111inois materials licensees will bs  the public health that requires for the purpose requested, and his          subject to inspection by the Department    immediate action to protect human proposed administrative controls. States of Nucle 6r Safety. Upon instruction from health and safety. the Department may should develop guidance documents for      the Department. licensees shall perform    issue ordert to reduce, discontinue or i            use by license applicants.nis guidance      or permit the Department to perform        eliminate such conditions. ne                  '
i l            should be consistent with NRC licensing    such reasonable tests and surveys as the department actions may also include and regulatory guide 6 for various          Department deems appropriate or            Impounding of radioactive meterial.
categories of licensed activities.          necessary. The frequency of inspections    impcsition of a civil penalty. revocation 1
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Department of EnvironmentalHealth Protection." Oak Ridge Associated                                                                  Tennenu D964)
Sciences                                      " Safety Aspects ofIndustrial Universities.Tenneuee (1985)                    197Ms7R The Church of Taipel.
                                      *Ca e and Oil Well Logging." US NRC                    Minister. Taipei, Taiwan                        Radiography for State Regulatory Texas 0984)                                                                                        Perr,or.nel." US NRC. Baton Rouge.
1WM979: Yun-Fu Pharmaceutical Ltd.,
                                      'Ucensing Practices and Procedures."                  Pharmacist. Taipei. Taiwan                        Louisiana (1964)
US NRC. Maryland 0964)
 
                                                                                                                                                        )
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: 21. 1987 / No?Jces                      23q Foderal Register / Vol. 32. No.13 / Wednesday. January a, applications and performa inspections of
          *                                            "Ra df a t[on Thera py Workshop. Medical 1hPresent minois Department of                                                                radioactive materials hcansees.
unear Accelerates." US Public                  Training-Nuclear Safety                                Health Service. Chicago. Il!!nois (1951) 1984-1900; Univeralty of tews!!                  " Acceptance Testir:s of Radiological 1985. Brookhavec National Laboratory Graduate work toward M.S.--Colorado Imaging Equipment." American                    State University (1985)
Sca3 Oak %dge Netional Laboratory                  Association of Physicista in Medicine. -Univenity of Termessee (1982)
Andrew S. Cu/crynsk/: Chicago                  American College of Radiology and          --Health Physics Inspection and Enforcement Section                  Godety for Radiological Engineering.      B.S.-Villanova University (1973)
Head. Dinaion of Nudear Materials.                  Chicago. Illinois (1981)                  --Blolop Supervises Chicago offir.e materia!a            " Safety Aspects ofIndustrial                  Certificate--St. losepb*a Hospital and license inspectors.                                  Radiography for State Programs." US          Medical Center School of Nudear Tr"N                                          NRC Baton Rocre. toutsinna (19et)            Medicine Tedmology Patenon. New BS-Northeastern Illinola University                k ection F1ocdru," US NRC, Clen                Jersey (1977) t.uyn. Illinola (1960)
(1964
      '--Diolop "QvelNy Aarurance in Nuclear Medicine                      *1nspection Atlanta. Georgia    (1986) Procedures." US N Fin Week Health Ptryslca and                    Departments.** US Foed and Drva Adntinistration. Rockville. Maryland          Experience:
Rediation Protection Couns. US NRC Oak Ridge.Tannessee (1986)                  g979;                                      1900-Present Illinois Depirtment of
                                                        " Radiological Emergency Response                Nudear Safety
        " Int ernal Dose As sessment." Tar.hnical            Operations Training Course for State Management Services. Ins hou                                                              1981-1984: Oak Ridge National and local Government Emergency                Laboratory, Health and Safety 0984                                          Preparedness Personnal" FEMA. Las
                    '                                                                                      Re:earch Division. Senior Laboratory ateNels." US        b'iC*I8'Encie        Vegas. Nevada (1979)                          Technician
                                                          %cial Pmcedures a CT Sanners"                  Ig791981: Oak R;dge National US Public Health service. Chicgo.            Labaratory. Biology Dwision.
          " hie calUses of Radionuclidris for Stste Regulatory Peceoonet" US NRC.            LLlinois (1976)                              Biological Technician Oak Ridea.Tennenee (19H)                  " Radiological Workshop." US Public
          " Safety Aspects ofindustriaj                      HeaM Serwce. Cbcago. Emis 0970Einstein            1977-19m        Radiology Associates. Alb Medic,al Center. No. Dm: son.
Radiogref.by for Stato RegulatoryPenonne  Experience:
                                                                                  " US NRC Baton Nuclear    Rouge. Med one Technologist.
                                                                                                                                  "' I '* " # "
* Louisiana 0983) 19&Pruent hois Department of                  IN      N P'C Inc., Analytical Chemistry Technician Nuclear Safety
            *Inspectiot Procedures for State              igm 933. Illinois Depanment of Public.            /0^^ W COOPER Macager. Office of Regulatory Penormel." US NRC                  Health. Division of Radiological          Envirnnsental Safety. Provides Atlanta. Georgia (1983)                                                                  technical support tolhe Division of
* Radiological Emergency hesponse                  Health
                              "                          19m97tk Oak Park Hospital. Nuclear            Nuclear Materials on an as needed Opereties, FEMA, Las Vegas-                    Medicine Technologist. Oak Park.          basis.
Nevada 0983)                                  hois                                          Tra.ining-Ixperience:                                1972-1973: Oak Park Hospital. X-Ray 19&Present hols Departeent of                      Te.:hnelogist. Oak Park, hois              Ph&-.Uninnity oflowa 0970 Nudear Safety                                                                            --Radiation Biology 1982-1985:
Kanses Department of Health        Robin Gehrbord! Bouerr Radioact!ve Mi-University of lown 0966) and Environment. Bureau of Radistiu Materials Ucense Inspector. Performa-Marmacy ContmlTopeka. Kansas-                      reviews of radioactive materials licenseB.S-Drake University (1960) 1981-19et Argonne National                    applications and performa inspections of --Pharmacy Laboratory. Argonne. Illinois            radioactive materials licenaces.              "Industnal Ventilation Systems." OSHA 1977-1981:                                        Training:                                    Trabkg kawe. has 0983)
Univers,      Northeastern ity. Ch.cago. Encia  blinola                                                  "Respirstor  Safety for CSHO's." OSHA MS-Emory University (1985)                      Training  institute, Eooia (1982)
JohnD.Papendorf Radiocatin                --Radiological Physica Materials License Inspector. Perfortria        B.S.-Univenity of Miami 0963)                    g,M reviews of radiactive materials limnse -Biology                                              1961-Present hols Department of applications and performs inspectiaca of " Health Physics and Radiation                          Nuclecr Safety radioactive materiafa licenaces.                  Protection." US NRC Oak R1dge.            1775-136t U.S. Nudear Regulatory TratT                                        T'"2"*** 0900)                                Commitslon, Region m. Inspector and N.M.T.--Oak Park Hospital (1975)                  Experience:                                  ILer% reviewer
                --Nudeat Medidna Technologist                                                                1971-1975: A!!cgheny General Medical igas-Present hols Depetment of                    Center. Radistion Biotagy Laboratory Certi$catiac                                  Nudeat Safety                                          University ofIowa. Radiation R.T.--Hines V A. Hospital (1972)                                                            19 % -1971:
                -X. Ray Technologist CertiScotion              1985-1965: Georgia Bsptist Hospital.            research and teaching A.S.--Central YMCA Collegv 0972)                Internship,MedicalPbysica. Atlanta,            Apparco Devotar Chief. Division of
                *InspectJoo of Transportation of                Georgia                                    Medical Pbysica. Prcvides technica!
Radicaetin Mataria!a. U.S.NRL,,'          1985-1985 W Udvenity.X. Ray.                  suppon to the Division of Nuclear Clen Ellyn. Elinois (1985)                    Nudear Medicbs. Calibratkn.                Materials on a.n as needed baaia.
                  ,,Nudear Tramsportatlon,for State                Atlanta. Georg's                              Trainbg atoryPerannal USNRC                  19893-19M:Loyola University.Research R                                            Technician. Maywwd. Esta                    Ph.D.--University of New Orleans (1975)-Physica
                  *Hara        a at ria T 1:In                    foonna      B. Kark  Radioactive          MS- University pf New Orteann Materfats U.S. DOE. Chica go, hois 0983)            License Inspector. Performs rvviews of          0972)--Phydes "Ra distion Safety " Northwestem              ndicactiva materials ticense UnJvenity.Evanston. Encis upe2)
 
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Federal Register / Voi,52. No.13 / Wedn:sday, Janur.ry                                                                              i
  .                                                                                                            B.S.- Soothern mMn Untvenity (o)Stoffpreviouslyidentifiadio the                    (1979}-Geology M.S.--University of hois (1956)-                    materials or umniwn conntsion plant                "Uranlurn and Thorium, A Perspective i
Nudent Eupneering                                r.agulatory ontrightprograms (Sectiarr                on the Hazard." Radiation Safety                l J
B1-Millikin Univerairy (1954)--                      20 a cadbt                                            Au ciatn. Springfield. illinois (19681 Physia/Mathemata                                    Michael H. Moment.Ubains Che.                  "Correctrve Actions for Containing and
* Management Education Workshop." 2. John W. Cooper.]ames F.Schweitzer.
Dept s,f Personnel. Champaign (1978)                                                                    Con            tl    Nat ona Water Well
      " international Symposium on Migration              (b/ O&trIDASSto/#                                      Association. Columbus, Ohio (1986)
                    ""
* Robert A. Lommler: Chlef. D(vision"AofStandardized System for Evaluation International AtornbEnergy Agency.              Waste and Transportation. Has                          of Crmmdwster Pollution Potential responsibilities for implemendng the                  Using Hydrogeologe Setting."                  I Cahnia (1978)                                    Blinois U.W management act.
        *Radiologeal Emergency Response                                                                            National Water Weu Anocation.
supervises staff in the U.W progsm and                Denver Colorado (1966)
Opersdons
* US NRC. Nevada (1W7) tramages the spent nucisar fual and U.W " Groundwater                                  Pollut$on and            "'
        "Woriahop on CoUective Ba gaining for                shipment inspection program.                          Hydrology." Princeton & Assa:iates.
Ptblic Employees." 2. Dept of                        Training:                                          Miami.no ida (1986)
Personnel (tws)                                  BS--Kent Stats Univmity (1971).--                  " Engineering snd Design of Weste
* Administrative and Orgaturat! anal                      Chemistry                .
DisposalSysteens. CivilEngneering Behavior." D1. Dept. of PubHe Hedth              "10 CFR 61." US NRC Springfield                        Departmot. Colorsdo Stat 2
                                                                  !!Unds  (1906)                                          ersity,'iort Collins. Colorsdo (1975)
        " Professional Engineering Review.a                  "Incinerster Basics." Unfy. of CaRfornia, Univ, of E. (1974)                                                  '
                                                                                                                  ""Cro dwater Monitoring Workshop."
ternal                                              nsportstion          111inois Department of Energy and "Rup nu d Stmetas e                                  "Radfon        vs      t ri Forces.Le Earthqualsa. Tornados.                    Workshop" US DOE. Chicago, hols Natural itesources. Champaign.
(3pg                                              hois (1984) etc " Penn. State Univ. (1958)                  ~20 CFR 61 Compliance." TMS ine                    '. Radiological Emergency Reeponse Experience:                                          Wa shington, D.C. (1964)                          Training for State and Local 19ao-Present: hois Department of                    " Radiological Protection Omcer                      Covernment Emergency Preparedness Nuclear Safety                                        Co                                                Pers nnel." FEMA. Nevada Test Site 1973-M80:Dlicois Department of PubUc                *Che          "! Officer U S. AAmb(1978)anced Course -                                              '
ence:
att              Materials 196 -1973:Sangamo.WestonE12ctmaica                  "Tr e                                              1983-Pre:ent: hois Department tf Company. Springfield,ha                              by Air." US DOT (1972)                            Nuclear Safety 1985~127:Watinghouse Electric                        -Chedcal Omcer Baeic Course." U.S. 1981-1983: Mine Geologist. Atlas Company. Forre st Hills. Penneylv anla                Army (1971)                                      Miners!: Conoration. Moab. Utah
 
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J                                                                    MA--Montana College of Mineral program which (scludes the ShzEeld                      Science and Technology (19M} -                Bi-Drale University (1878] Geology l              alte and the regonal wasis disposal i
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Omca's Division of Nucleat Chemistry                                                                      Colorado (1988) win provida isteratory scpport.                        DavidMynnr Geolog'at. Eva!ustes                " Groundwater PoUution & Hydtclogy."      I Technical support will also be available geological and hydrologic factors                                Princeton Aarxistes. Pnnecton. New from the Division of Nuclear Matenals.              relating to LLW management.                          lersey (1986)
                  %ese personnel and anmmades d their                    Training-                                                                                  I duties arr I
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                      =                                                                            coordinating and assisting with the
                ^                                      " Radon Training Seulon for State '
direction of office programa.
    '"Comprehensive Hulth P6ysica."                        Personnal." US EPA                          Traldag-                      .
Rockwell! international D985)                      Experience:                                                                                                  j
    **Biolo ical Effecia oflonizing                                        ofs Department of        B.A.--WeUealey CoUe2e (1981)
                                                                  '#Ng                                    ,$,*etts Instit 3te of Techndogy.
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                                        ^'"                  -1  1 a en Atomic Electric                Department of Urban Studies and J
n        ect ve A        n    d lon                                                          Planning (1982-1964)                                            f M: king for Radiological Emergency              int 5b$ vent o' kwell. Renarch                  nhenity of Hanover.%,ut Cumany i
Reactor Fac ity Health Physica Response." US NRC. FTMA (1980)                                                                  Department of Planning and Technician "EnvironmentalRadiation                              Michael V. Madom.o: Nuclear Safety            Architecture Ow1982)
Surveillance? Georgia Institute of Ase clate.Perf rms technicalduties          Additional coursework in decision                                ;
Technology (1977)                                                          1 in ni              analysia fundamentals of radistion                            l
* Radiological Emergency Response Operations Training? US NRC.ERDA cggge a fa                                                    protection, basardous weste minimization
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* Environmental Source Term Modeling." B.S.--University of filinois                                Experience-
* Unherai'y of Chicago. Argonne                  -Nucleat Engineering. Radiation              1%Present Illinois Department of National Laboratory (1971)                        Protection and Shielding                      Nuclear Safety
                                                          " Air Sampling for Radioactive                1G84: Parliamentary Research Service:                        !
Experience:
1mPresent: Illinois Dspartment of                    Materials." Oak Ridge Apodated                Bonn.Weet Germany Nucleat Safety                                    Universities: Oak Ridge. Tennessee        1982-1984: Worked on a variety of 1973-19act Illinois De;;artment of Public            (m86)                                        projecas deating with policy "Pertonal Computtr Applications in              develo;nnem and dispute resolu; ion in N''O                                              He alth Physica." 7MS. Inc.; Boston.
19            Ulinois Environmental                                                                environmentalissues
                          ^8                                MA 0988)                                      PdulE. Seidler: Nuclear Policy Nudent-General Employee Tralning AbdulKhalique: Nuclear Safety                                                                Analy:L Responsible for implementing Scientist L Plans. imple/nents and                  (NCET). Commonwealth Edison.              the lilinois public participation plan.
Chicago. Ulinois 0985) p:rticipates in radioenslyt! cal programa. ,, Radiation De'ection and                          also performs sa Usison with local Training:                                        Measurement-Advanced Course,              govemed groups.                                              .
Ph.D.--Univenity of Birmingham.                      Eberline Analytical Albuquerque,                  pedence.
England (1976). Analytical Chemistry              New Mexico D985)                          M.A.--University of Chicago 0966J M.S.--University of Karachi, Pakistan
* Fundamentals of Ground Weter                -Public Policy (1967). Chemistry                                Contamination." Cereghty & MiDer.          B.A.--Univenity of hois 0983)
B.S.-University of Karachi. Pakistan                  Chicago. Illinois (1985)                      -Political Science. Ccamulaestions gg34)                                            Experience:                                Studies Quality Control Course. University of              1985-Present: Illinois Department of          Urban & RetenalInfcrmation Systems Business Administration. University              Nuclear Safety                                An:cauoa,1986 Annual Confertnce cf Karachi. Pakistan 19tW)                    1h1984 (Summers):1111nois                        DsBO)
Experienca:                                      Department of Nuclear Ssfety                  Experience:
1mPresentIllinois Deputment of                        Richard Wo!Aen Nuclear Policy              1mPresent Ulinois Cepsrtment of Nudear Safety                                  Analyst. Performs review and analysis            Nudear Safety 1981-1988: Dr.pratment of Pharmacology. of Federal and State regulations.                        1  6 1966: University of C.;hicago Office Southern Ulinois University School of            Training-                                      of the ComptroUer Medicine                                      Ph.D--Purdue University 0976)                1985-1985: Illinois Burnu of the Budget 1975-1980: Claxk Laboratories                        Sociology (Research Methods and            19644985: Compaas Health Plans (pakistan). Ltd.                                  Statiatica) 19664972. Opal Laboratories. Ltd.                                                              1984-1984:U.S. Senator Paul Sirnen M.S.-Punius University (1974)                  1982-1582: Creative Research (Pakistan)                                    --Sociology                                      Anociates Melonic A.Homel: Health Phyalcist.            B.S.-Manetta College 0972)                    . Referrnce. Ulinois Program Sts'ement, Tunctions as a health physics specialist          -Sociology in the environmental monitoring                    Environmental Ra diation SurveiUanca.        (Section D.C.1.a) ''kw-W Wute Manager:ent." (Section U.C.t.b) division.                                            Harvard University. Massachusetts Tra6Ms.                                          I      centals of Radistion Safety?        [ h;          c        B1                          vel B.          t  rsity of f,owell.MA (1977).      "run                                          Radioactive Waste Mansgement RadaM Safety AuWatu D985)
Program? and Appendic.:s 5 and 9 University of Lowell. MA 0977).                    Experience:                                    21. Conditions Appheoble to Special Environmental Monitoring and                  1965-Present Ulinois Department of            Nuclear Material. Source Meterial. ond Surveillance. Health Physics                    Nucleat Sefety                              Witium.Nothing in the State's Certification Review, Medical Haalth          19764984: Chairman, Department of            regulatory program shallinterfere with Physics                                          Sociology.Blar.kburn College,              the duties imposed on the holder of the
* Environmental Law and the Citizen.-                Carlinnlle. Hunois                        materish by.the NRC. for example, the Sangemon State Univenity.                    1976-1978: Department of Soc, ology            duty to report to the NRC. on NRC Springfield, Illinois                            Muhlenberg Collega. AUentown.              prescribed forms 0) transfers of specia!
              " Post. Accident Radiation Anessment.-              Pennsylvama                                nuclear material, source material, and Northwestern University. Illinois              Teresa A. Adams: Nuclear Policy            tritium; and (2) periodic inventory data.
* Radiation Protection Instrumentation."          Analyst. Performs ctaff functions Harvard University. Boston.MA i
 
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2323 F:deral Register / Vol. S2. No.13 / Wednesday. !anuary 21. 1987 / Notices nert regu! story control over the WHEREAS.the Commission and the applicable to tha proposedIllinois                  State recognize the desirability of                materials stated therein.
egreement.                                          reciprocal recognition of ifcenses and Deted at Bethesda. Maryland. this ath day AidcleIV axemptions tromlicensing of those                                                                                                      l af December 1986.                                    instenals subject to this Agreement:                    Notwithstanding this Agreement the Tor the U.S. Eclear Regdatory                                                                        Comm4sion may from time to time by                                                  '
Comminion,                                          and'HEREAS, W                    this Agreement la entered ru!a regulation or order, require that the
: c. Wayne Kerr.                                        into pursuaet to the provisions of the            manufacturer, processor, or producer of l
Diivetor. Office ofStowmsman                        Atomic Energy Act of 1954. ss amended;              any equipment. device, commodity, or                                              i Appendix A-Proposed Agreement                          NOW.THEREFORE IT IS HEREBY                      other product containing sourcs' rial ecial nuclear es te                                          !
B: tween the United States Nuclear                  AGREED between the Comrnission and                  byproduct        or afer' possession or control Regulatory Commission and the State of the Govemor of the State, acting in                              shallnot trans behalf of the State as follows:                    of such product except pursuant to a 1111aola for Discontinuance of Carten                                                                    Iicen88 or an *Remption frorn licensing Commission Regulatory Authority and                  Article 1                                                                      " ""
Responsibility Within the State Pureuang Tc Section 274 of the Atomic Energy Act                  Subject tu the exceptions provided in                                                                                        -. l A/ficle V Articles II. IV and V. the Commission cf1954.as Amended                                    shall 6scontinue, as of the effective                  his Agreement shallnot aflect the WHEREAS, the United States Nuclear date of this Agreement the regulatory                              authority of the Commission under                                                t Regulatory Commission (hereinafter                    authon of the Commission in the State              educM61 br 1. of 6 M M im                                                        ;
referred to as the Cc:nMuicn)is                      under . spters 6.7 and 8. e.nd Section              ,ge s.      . ations or orders to protect the                                ,
j cuthorized under Section 274 of the a                161 of the Act with respect to tht,                con.m defense and security. to pretect                                        '
Atom.ic EneFEY Act of t954.ss amendec-              gono,g"&                                            rntric'ed data of to 8 ard a8einst the (heremafter referred to as the Act) to                  A.Dyproduct resterial as defined in                        d snter into agreements with the Covemor section11e.(1)of the Act:                                          iys ch'iunion of special nuclear cf any State providing for                              B. Source materials:                                                                                                              l disc.ontinuance of the regvlatory                      C. Special nuclear materials in                  Article vi                                                                      J cuthority of the Commission within the              quantities not sufficient to form a                    The Commission will use its best State under Chapters 6. 7 and 8. and                entical masa; knd.                                  efforts to cooperate with the State and                                        l Section 161 of the Act with res ect to                  D.The land disposal of sotree.                    othu Ag ummt Statu in the                                                      ,
byproduct materials as dehne in                      byproduct and special nuclear materitt              fonnulation of standards arid regulatory                                        l Sections 11e.(1) and (2) of the Act,                                                                                                                                                  '
received from other persons.                                          '      '
f courte materials and special nuclear                                                                                              n      Im                                            i matedals in quantitfes not sufficient to            ArticlJIl                                            hazards o! radiation and to assure that i
form a gitical mata:sud.                                This Apement does not prov' le for              State and Commission programs for                                                ;
WHEREAS, the Governor of the State              discontinuance of any authority and the p(otection J3ainst hazards of radiation of Illinoir la authorized under Illinois            Commission shall retain authority and                will be coordinated and compatible.The                                          l Revised S!stutes.1965, ch.111 %. par.                responsibility with rspect to regulation                                                                                            j 216b and ch.111 %. par. 241-19 to enter                                                                  State will use its best efforts to of:                                                  coopersts with the Commission and Into this Agreement with the                            A.%e constretion and operat:en of                other Agreement States in the Cotomission: and.                                    any production or utilization faelDty:              formulation of standards and reguletory                                      ,
WHEREAS, the Covernor of the State                  B.The export from or import bio the that ihe                                                            programs of the State and the efIllinois certified on                              United States of bypro fuct, source or              Commission for protection against State of Illinois (hereinafter referred to          special nuclear material, or of any                hazards of radiation and to assure that                                        j as the State) has a program for the the State's program will continue to be control of radiation hazards adequate toC.The              production    or utilization facility:
disposalic%e ocean or sea                                                                                            l compatible wit 1. the program of the protect the public health and safety with of byproduct, source or special nuclear                        Comminion for the regulation of like                                          l respect to the materials within the State covered by this Agreement, and that the              wssie      materials as definedin                    materials.ne State and the regulations or orders of the Commission: Commission will use their best efforts to Stats desires to assume regulatory                        D.The disposa! of such other responsibility for such meterials: and.                                                                  keep uch otherinformed of proposed byproduct, source, or special nucle ar              charges in their respective rules and WHEREAS. the Commission found on material as the Commission from time to regulations an6 bcensing. inspection and                                                                  )
                          - that the program of the State for      time determines by regulation or order              enforcement policies and criterie and to the regulatJon of the materials Bovered by this Agreement 15 compatible with                should.bause      of the  hazards  or              obtain the comments and assistance of the Commission's program for the                    por atia1 hazards thereof. not be so                the other party thereon.
regulation of such materials and is                  dismedof      without  a11cenas    from  the      Afgjef, pff adequate to protect the public health                Comtninion: and.                          ,
and sefety; and.                                          E.ne extraction or concentration of                De Commission and the State agree l                                                                    source material from source material ore thaIit is desirable to provide reciprocal WHEREAS the State and the Commission recognize the desirability                and the management and disposal of the recognition of license: for the materials resulting byproduct material.                        listedin Article Ilicensed by the other and importance of cooperation between the Commission and the State in the                  A#fICI'III                                          party or by any Agreement State.
formuistion of standards for protection                                                                  Accordingly, the Commission and the
                                                                          %is Agreement may be amended.                    State agree to use their best efforts to                                    l rigainst hazards of rsdiation and in                  tpon application by the State and                                                                                              !
anuring that State and Commlulon .                                                                        develop appropriate rules. regulations approval by the Commission, to include              and procedures by which such programs for protection agalnat hazards . the additional area specified in Article of radiation will be coordinated and                                                                      reciprocity will be accorded.
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Enclosure C Sumaries of Public Comegts and F:RC Staff Responses Comments 1 and 2 Letters dated January 7, 1987, and January 15, 1987 from Robert M.
Rader, Counsel for US Ecology, noting unavailability in the NRC H Street public document room of documents referenced in the Federal Register notice and requesting that the coment period be extended from 30 to 60 days. Mr. Rader stated that US Ecology, Inc. is currently a party to ;
proceeding before an NRC Atomic Safety and Licensing Board regarding tne low-level radioactive waste disposal site near Sheffield, Illinois.      ,
NRC Staft Response:
On January 27, 1987, G. Wayne Kerr, Director, OSP infomed Mr. Rader that documents referenced in the FR notice were made available for public inspection in the PDR on January 9,1987, that the coment period was extended to February 20, 1987 to accommodate public review of the    {
corrected FR notice, and that the staff had decided, after careful        '
consideration of the request, w+ to extend the 30 day comment period.
Coment 3 Letter dated January 29, 1987 from A. Eugene Rennels, Mayor, City of West Chicago, comenting on the classification of waste at the Kerr-McGee West Chicago Rare Earths Facility as section 11e.(2) byproduct material and on the request of Illinois to exclude this material from the provisions of the agreement, noting that under the proposed agreement Illinois would assume regulatory responsibility for off-site source material resulting from operation of the Kerr-PcGee West  j Chicago Rare Earths Facility (including off-site materiel which has been  1 or may be returned to the Kerr-McGee site), expressing the view that regulatory responsibility for the materiels located at the West Chicago Rare Earths F6cility site should not be divided between the State of Illinois and the NRC and requesting, u the alternative, either that the Comission disapprove the Agreement beceuse it does not include section    )
11e.(2) byproduct material, or that the classification of the materials in the City of West Chicago, both those located at the i(err-McGee West Chicago Rare Earths Facility site and those located off-site, be reassessed and detemined to be source material. The Mayor also requested that b'RC adopt as policy 'utain resolutions of the City of West Chicago concerning the radioactive materials at the Kerr-McGee Rare    l Earths Facility.
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1 I Copies of the public coments are available for public inspection in the Comission's public document room at 1717 H Street N.W.,            i Washington, DC and the Comission's Region III Office, 799 Roosevelt        ,
Road, Building No. 4. Glen Ellyn, Illinois.
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  '.                  NRC Staff Response For the reasons set out below, the NRC staff disagrtes with the commenters' views that the off-site process wastes f/cm the West Chicaoo                i Rare Earths Facility, including those off-site wastes which have been                      I subsequently returned to the West Chicago site, should da considered                      /
{11e.(2)byproductmaterial. In the opinion of the stoff, these wastes are properly characterized as source material.
Under the regulatory scheme established by $274 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, the transfer of jurisdiction over particular licenseet depends on whether the licensed activities fall within the categories of materials over which a state has agreed to assume regulatory authority under the provisions of a 5274b agreement.                    In the case of the proposed Illinois agreement, Illinois would assume regulatory responsibility for ectivities in the following categories:
511e.(1) byproduct material, source material,. special nuclear material in quantities not sufficient to fonn a cHtical mass, and land disposal                    '
of low-level radioactive waste received from other persons. NRC would                    )
retainjurisdictionover$11e.(2)byproductmaterial. While there is no argument over this division of authority, a dispute has arisen as to whether certain materials attributed to one licensee (Kerr-McGee Chemical Corporation) have been properly characterized. The dispute relates to the characterization of cffsite materials located in the vicinity of Kerr-McGee's West Chicago site. (Some of these materials have been returned to the Kerr-McGee ' West Chicago site for storage.)                    I One comenter, the City of West Chicago, urges that all the radiological materials on and in the vicinity of the West Chicago site be classified as source material, thereby placing all regulatory authority over these materials in the State of Illinois. Another commenter, Covington &
Burling on behalf of Kerr-McGee Chemical Corporation, Nrges that the                      i offsite materials in the vicinity of the West Chicago site be classified as $11e.(2) byproduct material, thereby assuring that ragulatory                          l responsibility for these materials will remain with NRC. The waste materials that have remained on the site are already classified as                        :
111e.(2)byproductmaterial. Both commenters object to the NRC staff's                      !
determination characterizing part of the materials at the West Chicago                    I site is 611e.(2) byproduct material and part as source material (see Federal Register notice containing Staff Assessment of Proposed Agreeuent between the NRC and the State of Illinois, 52 FR 2309 at 2322, January 21,1987.) In the opinion of these commenters, regulatory authority over these materials should either be exercised by NRC or by Illinois but not by both.
As defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, es amended and the Comission's regulations, the terms source material and 611e.(2) byproduct material have the following meanings:
Source material means (1) uranium or thorium, or any combination thereof, in any physical or chemical form or (2) ores which contain by weight one-twentieth of one percent (0.05%) or more of (i) uranium, (ii) thorium or (iii) any combination thereof.                  Source material does not include special nuclear naterial.
 
of industrial uses including polishes, chemical manufacture, catalysts, and television phosphors. Beginning in the 1940's, the refinery, under Government contracts, became a principal source of thorium for national              j defense needs. Following World War II, much of the factory output was                j sold to U.S. ijovernment agencies. With the passage of the Atomic Energy              1 Act of 1954, production of thorium at the facility became subject to                  l federal regulation. At all times since May 1, 1956, the facility has                  ,
been licensed by the Atonic Energy Comission or its successor, the                    !
Nuclear Regulatory Comission. In 1958, the facility was acquired by                  j American Potash & Chemical Corporation which continued thcrium                        i production at the site.      In 1967, Kerr-McGee acquired the West Chicago            1 Rare Earths Facility as a small part of its larger acquisition of                    )
American Potash.      In December 1973, Kerr41cGee discontinued operations            ]
at the facility.
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Kerr-McGee, which now holds a license authorizing possession of                      )
unlimited amounts of thorium at the West Chicago Rare Earths Facility,                1 has applied to the Commission for a licer.se amendment authorizing it to decommission the facility and restore the West Chicago site to its approximate original state. Under the restoration plan proposed by              -
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Kerr-McGee, all the factory structures would be torn down (demolition of              !
these rtructures is r.ow essentially complete), five settling ponds would            j be eliminated and the contaminated building rubble and precess wastes would be placed in a disposal cell on s landscaped and fenced p;)rtion of the site. The remainder of the property would be prepared for                        j unrestricted, beneficial use.      The NRC has not yet acted on Kerr-McGee's          "
application for a license amendment. The matter is pending before an                  !
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board. The State of Illinois has intervened              I in this proceeding. Both Illinois and the City of West Chicago have                  j indicated that they want all the contaminated material removed from the site.
According to the plant operating history, as presented in the Kerr-McGee              !
Decommissioning Plan submitted August 15, 1979, the West Chicago                      i facility processed 10,000 tons per year of monazite sands during peak production years between 1954 and 1958, about 5000 to 6000 tons per year between 1958 and 1963, and about 2000 to 2500 tons per year before 1954 and after 1963. The ore fed to the process from 1954-1973 was about 77 percent of the total ore used from 1936-1973. The liquid and solid                    i waste volumes which resulted from the production process and contain                  i significant quantities of thorium and thorium dadghter products Wculd be essentially proportional to ore use. It follows, therefore, that the majority of the liquid and solid wastes producea during the life of the                ,
facility, including those now on the West Chicago site, were produced                j during the period the facility was licensed by the Atomic Energy                      i Comission.
The process used for thorium and rare earths production at the West Chicago facility produced two types of waste materials. These wastes were initially deposited on site. One waste material resulted from the                i ure digestion process and was a solid sandlike residue. The other waste                ;
material was composed of liquid wastes from a number of processes and                I contained dissolved salts and suspended solids. The solids settled out                !
l            on the bottoms of the facility's sumps and percolation ponds. These                    ,
sediments were periodically dredged from the ponds and sumps and placed              j i
 
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, f E                    the operations at the West Chicago Rare Earths Facility can be attributed to the production of rare eartns.-it would be inaccurate to characterize all the wastes detemined to have originated from the West
                    . Chicago Rare Earths Facility:as $11e.(2) byproduct material.
The NRC staff has characterized the contaminated landfill returned to the West Chicago site from West Chicago residential areas and the sewage-treatment plant as source material. The NRC staff has also E                    characterized other offsite materials detemined to be contaminated as a' H                    result of the operations of the West Chicago Rare Earths Facility as source material. These materials include landfill at Reed-Keppler Park and in certain residential areas of DuPage County, and contaminated areas in Kress Creek and the West Branch of the DuPage River. The staff    j
                  - based these characterizations on the fact that most'of the process wastes' created prior to 1953, particularly prior to the early 1940's,      4 are properly attributable to the production of rare earths. It'is these
                  - materialszthat were removed from the West Chicago site and used as landfill. The process wastes created during the period'after 1953, particularly during the period the West Chicego Rare Earths Facility was licensed by the Atumic Energy Comissio s                .
primarily t9 the production of thorium.p,      are properly
                                                                  -Accordingly, the attributable staff has characterized the onsite process wastes which now remain at and have at no. time been removed from the West Chicago site as {11e.(2) byproduct material. During the' period the fac Mity was producing thorium under its AEC license, come of the facility structures became increasingly contaminated. Since the most extensive use of the' buildings has been in connection with the thorium production process, the staff has also characterized the contaminated building rubble.left on the West Chicago site following demolition of the facility structures as 911e.(2) byproduct naterial. In view of the fects, the    staff is of the opinion that these characterizations are reasonable.
Both Kerr McGee Chemical. Corporation and US Ecology (see Comment 5) object to the temin6 tion of the proceedings before the Comission on the grounds that termination would deny them due process and be wasteful of the efforts that the Comission and the parties have devoted to those proceedings to date.
The comenters' due proceu concerns are speculative and without foundation. Once the Nhc proceedings are teminated, it will be up to        q Illinois to initiate its own enforcement proceedings. We see no basis to speculate that Illinois would deny either ef the licensees due process of law in the conduct of those proceedings.
The NRC staff has exavined Illinois procedures.for the fomulation of        J general rutas, for approving or denying applications for licenses or authorizations to possess and use radioactive materials and for taking disciplinary actions against licensees in the light of Criterion 23        l I
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See, Kerr-McGee Chemical Corporation, Internal Correspondence, Memos dated February 4, 1982 and January 21, 1983 re: " West Chicago Comingled Tailings."
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from Mark J. Wetterhahn). The NRC staff's views on these matters, surrnarized briefly in footnote 3 are contained in documents on file in the Comission's public document room and have, in addition, already been made available to the comenter under an FOIA request (F01A-87 47) which was both filed and answered before the relevant comments were submitted. Conner & Wetterhahn's late-filed coment of April 2,1987 addresses US Ecology's cencerns respecting two inactive chemical waste disposal sites located to the north and west of the Sheffield low-level radioactive waste disposal site. These chemical waste disposal sites are not regulated by the NRC and are not included in the categories of    i materials transferred by the agreement. The following NRC response to the comenter's {{letter dated|date=February 20, 1987|text=letter dated February 20, 1987}} also addresses the matters raised by Mark J. Wetterhahn in his late-filed coment {{letter dated|date=March 6, 1987|text=letter dated March 6, 1987}}.'
NRC Staff Response                                                        i The concerns expressed by Conner & Wetterhahn on behalf of their client, US Ecology, relate primarily to the anticipated impact of the Agreement upon the ongoing NRC adjudicatory proceeding involving the Sheffield site and to the detrimental effect that the State's assumption of regulatory authority is expected to have on US Ecology's procedural rights.    (The connenter's due response to Coment 4, supra.) process    concerns The coments      are substantively do not addressed in the NRC addmss the NRC staff's assessment of the Illinois program. The coments did not question the NRC staff's conclusion that Illinois' proposed program is adequate to protect public health and safety within the State nor do they substantively challenge the NRC staff's conclus Sn that the Illinois program is compatible with the Comission's reaulatory program for like materials. The principal purpose of the corrents is to request relief, specifically temporary exclusion of the Sheffield site, from the provisions of the proposed agreement.
On March 10, 1987, the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board issued an Order holding that all issues in the Sheffield proceeding hgd been resolved by the Board's Memorandum and Order of February 20, 1987 and concluding        >
the proceeding. On Parch 16, 1987, US Ecology appealed the Licensing        l Board's order and asked for expedited Appeal Board consideration, On        ',
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October 1,1986 from G. Wayne Kerr, SP to J. Davis, HMSS which sumarized the staff's disposition of HMSS' comments on the Illinois proposal, including addressing each and every one of those of WM. This document was placed in the NRC public document room in Washington, DC l                  along with other materials relating to the negotiations for an Agreement with Illinois on February 26, 1987 and was in the same package that l                  contained the October 3, 1986 WM meno. In the aggregate, staff found I                  the March 16, 1987 cornent on the compatibility of the proposed Illinois l
proposal to be totally without merit.
4 The Board's Memorandum and Order of February 20, 1987 addressed two legal issues. The first dealt with the possession of the buried materials and the second with the termination of the license.
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segments of a nuclear materials category or over individual licensees.7 e          Contrary to the views of the comenter, the NRC does not retain jurisdiction over pending enforcement matters after an Agreenent has been executed nor do such matters constitute a special category of radioactive materials within the meaning of $274. Read correctly, the menorandum on which the connenter relies only stands for the proposition that the staff is to finish what can be finished in the time available so that the turnover can be completed in an orderly manner.
Section.274j authorizes the Comission, under certain circumstances, to tenninate or suspend a $274b agreement and to reassert its licensing erd regulatory authority. In 1978, this section was amended to enable the Comission to terminate or suspend "all or part of" its agreement. This change made it possible for the Comission to reassert regulatory authority over a single category of materials, such as uranium mills and        -
mill tailings, while at the same tine permitting States to retain regulatory authority over other categories of materials subject to the agreement. However, this amendment did not authorize NRC to terminate or suspend an agreement with respect to a particular licensee. In 1980,
          $274j was again amended to authorize NRC to reassert its regulatory authority over an individual licensee. Under this authority, the Comission may temporarily suspend all or part of its agreement with a State without notice or hearing if, in the judgment of the Commission:
            . . . an emergency situation exists with respect to any material covered by such an agreement creating danger which requires imediato action to protect the health or safety of persons either within or outside of the State, and ... the State has failed to take steps necessary to contain or eliminate the cause of the danger within a reasonable time after the situation arose." Section 274j further provides that this temporary suspension is to remain in effe:t "only for (FootnoteContinued) agreement.
Section 274f tracks the text of $274e of the draft bill which the Atonic Energy Commission, NRC's predeces      s  or agency, transmitted to the Joint Comittee on Atomic Energy in March 1959. In its section-by-section analysis of $274e of the draft bill, the Comission concluded
          " Subsection e. gives the Commission necessary authority to implement those agreements." JCAE, Joint Comittee Print " Selected Materials on Federal-State Cooperation in the Atomic Energy Field," March 1959, 86th Cong. ,1st Sess, at p. 33. See also, analysis of S. 1987, es introduced,105 Cong. Rec. 7524, May 19,1959, 7
This point is specifically addressed in the section-by-section analysis prepared by the AEC to accompany its draft bill which was introduced in the Senate as S. 1987 on May 19, 1959. "Three categories of activities are specified. Under the bill the Comission r:ay enter into an agreement providing for discontinuance of its regulatory authority with respect to any one or more of those categories. Such an agreement may not provide for discontinuance of the Comission's authority with respect to part of a category ..." 105 Cong. Rec. 7523, May 19, 1959.
 
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The Honorable John Breaux, Chairman                                                    I Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation Committee on Environment and Public Works United States Senate Washington, D.C. 20510
 
==Dear Mr. Chaiman:==
 
We are pleased to advise the-Comittee that, pursuant to section 274 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, entitled " Cooperation with States," the Commission on      _
                                                                    , 1987 approved a proposed Agreement with the State of Illinois under which the State will assume certain regulatory responsibi'ity for byproduct materials as defined in section 11e.(1) of the Act, source materials, special nuclear materials in cuantities less than a critical mass and for the commercial disposal of low-level radioactive waste. The State will not assume authority'for uranium or thorium milling activities nc- for the Allied-Chemical UF 6
conversion p1hnt in Metropolis. The State did not request authority to regulate uranium or thorium milling activities. The Commission has decided to retain authority over the Allied-Chemical plant hecause of its significance to the comon defense and security. A copy of the proposed Agreement is enclosed. Also enclosed is a copy of the public announcement which we plar,to issue within the next few days.
In his proposal requesting that the Comission enter into an Agreement with the State, Governor James R. Thompson certified that the State of Illinois has a program for the control of radiation hazards adequate to protect the public health and safety with respect to the naterials
 
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covered by the pioposed Agreement, and that the State desires to assume regulatory responsibility for such materials.                                          1 l
The proposrA Agreement and the staff assessment of the proposed Agreement were published in the Federal Register for public comment as required by section 274 of the Atomic Energy Act, as amended. Copies of the proposal were made available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Roon.
l The Commission has detemined that the Illinois program is compatible with the Comission's program for the regulation of like materials and adequate to protect the public health and safety with respe:t to the materials covered by the proposed Agreement.
It is planned to execute the Agrcement by correspondence with an effective date of                    , 1987 The Agreenent will be published in the Federal Register within thirty days after signature by the parties.
Sincerely, Carlton C. Kamerer. Director State, local and Indian Tribe Programs Office of Governmental and Public Affairs
 
==Enclosures:==
: 1. Agreement
: 2. Proposed Public Announcement cc:    Senator Alan Simpson
 
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Enclosure E PP.0 POSED P'J BLIC ANNOUNCEMENT NRC APPROVES ILLINDIS AGREEMENT TO c'iULATE USE OF CERTAIN RADI0 ACTIVE MATER 1r.LS                !
l The Nuclear Regulatory Comission has approved an Agreement with the                                                        j State of Illinois under which that State will assurrc. part of the fluclear Regulatory Comission's regulatory authority over the use of certain radioactive materials. The Agreement will become effective on -                                                            ,
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Under the Agreement, the responsibility for licensing, rulemaking, inspection, and enforcement concerning the use of byproduct materials, the source materials uranium and thorium, swall quantities of fissionable materials and commercial low-level waste disposal will be transferred to Illinois.                                                        There are approximately 800 NRC licenses currently in effect in Illinois which will be transferred to the State.
The Agreement, however, does not provide for State authority over Section 11e.(2) byproduct material milling activities or their waster.
The Comission will also retain authority over the Allied-Chemical UF 6
conversion plant in Metropolis because of its significance to the national common defense and security.
The Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety will be the State agency responsible for administering the regulatory progran.
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the public health and safety. The Agreement, as approved by the Comission, is the satae as the one published for public comment in the Federal Register for four consecutive weeks beginning on January 21, 1987.
Illinoir, becomes the 29th State to sign such an Agreement with the NRC.
Other States which have already assumed this authority from the NRC are:
Alabama; Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Gcorgia,      '
                    ' Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Nebraskc, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Da!P,ta, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina. Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Washington, i
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==Dear Governor Thompson:==
 
I am pleased to infom you that the Nuclear Regulatory Comission has approved your proposed Agreement under which the NRC will discontinue and the State of Illinois, on                  , 1987, will assume certain of the Comission's regulatory authority over byproduct, source and special nuclear materials in accordance with section 274 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended. The Comission, a#ter consultation with the U.S. Department of Energy and after careful consideration of the national comon defense and security needs, has ordered retention of regulatory authority for health and safety over the Allied-Chemical conversion plant in Metropolis (enclosure.1). Please be assured that this action does not in any way reflect upon the overall adecuacy of the Illinois program for regulation of health and safety.      We plan, however, to continue to keep the Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety informed of health and safety regulatory actions taken with respect to this plant.
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I am pleased to enclose three (3) copies of the Agreement for your signature (enclosure 1). Following your execution of the Agreement, please return two copies to NRC. The third copy is for retention by the State.                                                                                        j I
 
L On behalf of the Comission, I congratulate you, your staff, and the State of Illinois for taking this important step in Federal-State relations.
Sincerely, Lando W. Zech, Jr.
Chairman
 
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Enclosure G UNITED STATES nJCLEAR Rent'LATORY COMMISSION Ir the Matter of                        )
ALLIED-CHEMICAL CORPORATION                Docket No. 40-Metropolis, Illinois                    )  License No. _                _
,                              ORDER TO PROTECT THE COMMON DEFENSE AND S'ECURITY I                                        4 i
Allied-Chemical Corporation, Metropolis, Illinois, (the " licensee")      l 1s the holder of License No,.                (the " licensee") issued by the  !
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the " Commission" or "NRC") which.
authorizes the licensee to use source material in a UFg conversion plant in Metropolis, Illinois. The license was last issued On                  .
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II In a {{letter dated|date=October 2, 1986|text=letter dated October 2,1986}}, Governor James P. Thompson of the State of Illinois requested that the Comission enter into an Agreement with the State pursrant to Section 274 of the Atomic Energy            {
Act, as amended. The~ specific authority reouested includes the-                l category, source material . An NRC staff assessment and the proposed            1 agreement were pt.blished in the Federal Register.for public comment (52 FR 2309, 2898, 3503 and 4456; correction notice at 52 FR 4569). The staff assessment noted that with respect to the Allied. Chemical plant, the.Comission was considering whether continued NRC regulation was necessary in the interest of the common defense and security of the United States.
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In a letter dated Novembcr 17, 1986, the Department of Energy,
(" DOE")commentingtoNRConthematteroftheproposedinclusionofthe                    l NRC license to Allied Chemical among the category of source material              !
licenses to be transferred to Illinois under a Section 274b Agreenent,          I stated that the combination of the commercially operated uranium                  l conversion facilitiet in the U.S. and the DOE operated enrichment facilities represent a complex that is an important national asset essential to maintaining the common defense and security of the United States. DOE further exp~  r essed the view that, "it would be prudent for NRC to retain its existing regulatory authority over uranium conversion facilities consistent with its charter to regulate facilities whose operation is in the naticnal interest."
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that regulation of the Allied-Chemical conversion plant in Metropolis      i should be continued under NRC jurisdiction to protect the comon defense and security.-
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                  -Energy Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 92021(m), IT.IS HEREBY ORDERED, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, THAT:
: a. Notwithstanding the provisions of a Section 274b Agreement
                  .with the State of Illinois as approved by the Comiskicn the NRC jurisdiction over the possession and use of source meterial by Allied Chemical.(license          ) shall be retained by the NRC, and b.. NRC jurisdiction over the license shall remain in effect during the term of such Section 274b Agreertent unless the Comission shall determine that continued regulation by NRC is no longer needed to
                  . assure the protection cf the comon defense and security of.the l'hited States.
VI Any person whose interests may be affected by this. order may within days'of the date of this order file written coments with supporting analysis with the Secretary of the Comission explaining why this order should not have been issued. The Comission vill consider        i any coments that are filed with a view to possible modification or rescission of the order. The filing of any coments does not stay the effectiveness of this order.
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i FOR THE UNITED STATES                1 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Samuel J. Chilk, Secretary Office of the Secretary of the Comission Dated at Washington, DC this            day of          , 1987.
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Recommends Commission Approval of Proposed Agreement Between State of Il & Nrc,Per Section 274 of Atomic Energy Act of 1954,as Amended
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Issue date: 04/21/1987
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SUEJECT: PROPOSED AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE STATE OF ILLI?l0IS AND U.S. NUCLEAR REGtLATORY COMMISSION PlGS'JANT TO SECTION 274 0F THE ATOMIC Ei;ERGY ACT OF 1954, AS AMENDED PURPOSE: To recuest Comission appreval of the proposed Agreement with Illinois.

SI:v?.WY: By ictter dated October 2,1986, Governer Thompson of Illinois requested that the Comission enter into a Sectier 274b Agreenent with the State. Feneral Reaister notices of the t'RC sto"f's assessment of the proocsed 1111reis radiction control progren and the proposed agreement were published es required by Se:: tion P74e of the Atomic Enercy Act o' 1954, as amerdcd. The coment period ended February P.0, 1987.

The State's request includes transfer of regulatory authority for health and safety over the Allied-Cbemical UF conversion plant (source materialb which h!s been identified by the Department of Enercy as having cocrion defense and security significance. Policy options for dealing with such situations were furnished to the Co:rrission in SECY-87-59. The Comission's decision to retain jurisdiction over the plant has been factored into this paper,

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3 i Two NRC licenses that c6ver materials that would be-transferred to Illinois under the Agreenent are currently.the subjects of MRC adjudicatory proceedings. (DocketNo. 40-2061-SC [ASLBP No.

84-502-01-SC) and Docket No. 27-39-SC [ASLBP Mo.

i 78-374-01-0T)). These proceedings relate to Kress .

Creek and the Sheffield low-level waste disposal 4 site, respectively. Under . terms of a Section 274b i Agreement, HRC relinquishes and the State asserts its authority over licenses affected by the

? Agreement. Accordingly, 4RC staff plans to request termination of these proceedings upon approval of the proposed Agreement. l DISCUSSION: In a letter dated October 2,'1986, Governor James R.

Thompson of the State of Illinois requested that the' Commission enter into an Agreement with the State pursuant to Section 274 of the Atonic Energy Act, as amended. No effective date for the Agreement was proposed but staff discussions with the Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety (ICNS),

which will administer the Agreement progran, have 1 indicated the State established March 1, 1987 as a  ;

target date. Assuming no nrotracted delays occur the staff believes that an effective date at the end of April,1987 is practicable. In his letter, the Governor certified that the State of Illinois has a program f6r control of radiation hazards which is adequate to protect the public health and safety with respect to the materials within_ the State covered by the proposed Agreenent, and that the State of Illinois wishes to assume regulatory responsibility for such materials. The text of the proposed Agreement is shown in Enclosure A.

The specific authority requested is for (1) by-p= product material as defined in Section 11e.(1) of the Act, (2) source material, (3) special nuclear material in quantities not su'ficient to fonn a critical mass and (4) permanent disposal of low-level weste containing one or more of the  !

foregoing materials but not containing uranium and thorium mill tailings (byproduct material as defined in Section lle.(2) of the Act). The State does not wish to assume authority over uranium and thorium milling activities. The State, however, reserves l

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amended Agreement to assune authority in this area.

As required by Section'274 of the Ator'ic-Energy Act, the proposed Agreement and the staff's asses'sment of the State's proposed radiation control progran were publishedintheFederalRegisteronceaweekfoy four consecutive. weeks ending February 11, 1987 Interested persons were invited to submit coments by February 20, 1987.

The proposed Agreement had several unique l components. i Regulation of an existing low-level radioactive waste disposal site.

Illinois is the site of an existing low-level radioactive waste disposal site which is no longer accepting waste for disposal (Sheffield). Under the Agreement, jurisdiction will be relinquished by NRC to Illinois. The.

State of Illinois and the licensee, US Ecoloay, have been parties to an NRC adjudicatory proceeding on an imediately effective show cause order relating to whether US Ecology could unilaterally terminate its license for activities at Sheffield without Comission action. [ Docket No. 27-39-SC (ASLBP No.

78-374-01-0T)). The State's proposed progran l

I The proposed agreement and staff's assessment were initially published in the Federal Register December 31,-1986 at 51 FP. 47327 and republished January 7,1987 at 52 FR 618. A' comment period ending

, January 30, 1987 was specified. The December 31st and January 7th publications were determined to have been the subject of Federal Register printing errors. As a result, they were incomplete and also contained errors. A corrected notice was published January 21, 1987 at 52 FR 2309. Since the-initial notice was incomplete and also contained significant errors, the 4 consecutive week publication cycle required by the Act was restarted beginning with the January 21, 1987 notice. A revision of the date for public coments was also published at that tir.e

-(52 FR 2309) changing it to February 20, 1987. The 2nd consecutive weekly notice was published January 28, 1987 at 52 FR 2898. The 3rd

. consecutive weekly notice was published February 4, 1987 at 52 FR 3503 but printing errors again occurred, this time resulting in the omission of text. A correction notice for this omission was published February 12, 1987 at 52 FR 4569. The 4th consecutive weekly notice was published February 11, 1987 at 52 FR 4436. NRC has requested a change to Section 274e of the Act which would specify one Federal Register publication rather than four. Congress has not acted on this request.

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received from other persons has been determired by the staff to meet applicable criteria in the NRC Policy Statement, " Criteria for Guidance' of States and NRC in Discontinuance of NRC Regulatory Authority and Assumption Thereof by l

States Through Agreement" (46 FR 7540, 46 FR 36960 and 48 FR 33376). The Federal Register notice stated that the staff would request termination of the Sheffield proceeding when the proposed Agreement became effective. After the notice appeared, the ASLB on March 10, 1987 issued an order concluding the proceeding after having ruled against the licensee on two legal' issues: (1).whether the licensee possessed the buried low-level waste, and (2) whether the licensee could unilaterally terminate the license. On March 16, 1987, the Board's order was appealed by US Ecology which asked for expedited Appeal Board consideration. On March '

19, 1987, the Appeal Board denied US Ecology's motion for expedited consideration. The staff is comitted to ask the Appeal Board to terminate the proceeding if the Agreement is j signed before the Appeal Board acts on US Ecology's appeal._ Upon the effective date of the Agreenent the requirements of the i Comission's order will become Illinois' )

requirements until superseded by the results of Illinois' own proceeding.

Reculation of a new regional low-level waste disposal facility.

i Illinois is a member of th'e Centrrl Hidwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact ,

(the other menber State is the Ccmonwealth of Kentucky). Illinois has been designated the host State. As.noted above, the State's proposed progran for regulating in this area has been determined by the staff to meet applicable NPC criteria referred to in the preceding paragraph. ,

l Reaulation of the Allied Chemical llF, Conversion Plant.

The Allied Chemical plant is one of two plants ,

in the United States licensed to convert  !

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is Kerr-McGee's Sequoyah piant in Oklahona). j 1

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security significance. Section 274m of the Atomic Energy Act, as amended, provides that: ,

"No agreement entered into under subsection b., ... shall effect the authority of the Commissinn under subsection 161b. or 1. to issue rules, regulations, or orders to protect the comon defense and security..."

NRC staff prepared a policy option paper for the Comission for establishment of Comission policy regarding licenses subject to Section 274b Agreements which have comon defense and security significance (SECY-87-59). The Comission decision on the policy option paper was to retain regulatory authority over such plants based on common defense and security considerations. A draft order to effectuate this policy with respect to the Allied Chemical plant has been prepared for Comission approval (enclosureG). The order should become effective at the same time as the proposed section 274b Agreement. No modification of the Agreement is necessary since such an action would be independent of the Agreement and taken under the separate authority of Section 274m.

As discussed in SECY 87-59 the ste#f will notify DOE of the Commission decision in this matter.

The Kerr-McGee West Chicago pare Earths Facilitv.

The Kerr-McGee West Chicago Rare Earths Facility is a site where thorium processing and recovery operations were conducted under an AEC/NRC license. The radioactive mill tailings that resulted from operations at the site have been determined by the NRC staff to be byproduct material as defined by Section 11e.(2) of the Act. Illinois has not requested authority to regulate Section 11e.(2) byproduct naterial under the proposed agreement and thus jurisdiction over these materials will remain with NRC. The disposition of these tailings is

) the subject of an ASLB proceeding fDocket 40-2061-ML (ASLBP No. 83-495-01-ML)].

Thorium-bearing materials in off-site areas in and around Ifest Chicago that are attributed to the site activities have been characterized by NRC staff at source material (see Enclosure C, staff response to Comment 4). Jurisdiction

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materials include (a) thorium bearing materials j

' now stored at the Kerr-McGee Fest Chicago Rare Earths Facility site that have been. recovered from off-site residential properties"and from the sewage'treatnent plant.in_ West Chicago and (b) uranium and therium contaminated materials-in Kress Creek and the West Branch of the DuPage River, and Reed-Keppler Park, West Chicago. The Kress Creek-DuPage River material is the subject of an NRC adjudicatory proceeding-{DocketNo. 40-2061-SC (ASLBP No.

84-502-01-SC)). In this proceeding, in which Kerr-McGee and the People of the State of Illinois are parties, the ASLB found that the presence of this material in Kress Creek and the West Branch of the DuPage River probably resulted from the conduct of an NRC (and AEC) licensed activity at the Fest Chicago P,are Earths Facility. The ASLB,'however, declined to require clean-up of the Creek and the River based upon its analysis.of the hazard posed by the radiologically contaminated material. The NRC staff has appealed that decision to the Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board, but a decision on appeal has not yet been issued.

The Aopeal- Boerd has detennined to' suspend further consideration of this matter until the question of the State Agreement is resolved.

Since jurisdiction over source material ir Kress Creek and the West Branch of the Duh.oe River will be' relinquished to Illinois when the Agreement becomes effective, the NRC staff will reauest termination of the NRC adjudicatory proceedino. At this point it will be up to Illinois to initiate further proceedings.

Jurisdiction over the source material in Reed-Keppler Park will also be relinquished to Illinois when the Agreement becomes effective.

Five written coments on the proposed Agreement and NRC staff assessment were received prior t the end of the coment period on February 20, 1087.2 Three 2

Additionally, on February 4, 1987, the Commission received a request to suspend the license issued k Chem Nuclear Systems, Inc.

which authorizes waste storage and which is the subject of an amendment to operate a waste compactor near Channonhon, IL. NRC staff have acknowledged the letter in accordance with 10 CFR 2 ?O6. The request (Footnote Continued) l-l

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Metterhahn, P.C., counsel for US Ecology which holds-the license for. the Sheffield site. One coment letter. was received from A. Eugene Sennels, the

  • Payor. of the City of West Chicago. -One coment letter was received. from Covington and Burling, counsel: representing Kerr-McGee. Several supplementary coments were filed by Conner &

WetterhahnaftertheendoftheSomm'atD'riod-Sumaries of the public coments and NRC staff responses are set out in Enclosure C. -

The staff's conclusion with respect to the proposed Illinois program was stated in the Federal Register notices:

"... the State of Illinois meets the requirements of Section 274 of the Act. ' The State'.s statutes, regulations, personnel, licensing, inspection and administrative procedures are conpatible with those of the-Comission ~and adeouate to protect the public .

-health and safety.with respect to the materials covered by the proposed agreement. Since the.

State is not seeking authority over uranium nilling activit a :s, subsection o, is not applicable go the proposed Illinois agreement."

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for an amendment to cperate a waste compactor which precipitated this request is under review by NRC staff and includes preparation of an environmental assessnent. If the proposed agreement is approved by the Commission prior to a final decision by NRC staff on the amendment request, the request will be included with the license which will be transferred to Illinois.

3 Copies of the public comments era c,ailable for public inspection in the Comission's public document roent at 1717 H Street NW, Washington DC and the Comission's Region III Office, 799 Roosevelt Road, Building No. 4. Glen Ellyn, Illinois.

4 While the tem " uranium milling" was used, subsection o applies to "the licensing)and Section 11e.(2 of this regulation Ar.t. or ofof anybyproduct material, activity which as.indefined results the in

. production of byproduct material as so defined under an agreement entered pursuant to subsection b." Illinois did not request inclusion in the Agreement of Section 11e.(2) byproduct material and subsection o does not therefore apply.

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o Unavailability in the NRC H Street PDR of documents referenced in the Federal Register (Conner and Wetterhahn).

o Request to extend the roment period from 30 to 60 days (Conner and Wetterhe.hni.

o Recuest for reconsideration by NRC of the classification of radioactive materials at the Kerr-McGee Rare Earths Facility in West Chicago (Eugene A. Rennels).

o Request i t Illinois be required to assume regulatory jurisdiction over all the radioactive materials at the Kerr-McGee Rare Earths Facility in West Chicago (i.e., byproduct naterial as defined in Secticn 11e.(2) of the Act)

(Eugene A. Rennels).

o Request that NRC adopt as policy certain resolutions of the City of West Chicago concerning the radioactive naterials at ,

the Kerr-McGee Rare Earths Facility j (Eugene A. Rennels).

o Objections to the planned requests by NRC staff to terminate the NRC adjudicatory proceedings on Sheffield and Kress Creek if the proposed Agreement is approved ,

(Conner and Wetterbahn, Covington and Burling),

o Objection to NPC staff plan to transfer to Illinois under the Agreement jurisdiction over certain thorium contaminated i materials associated with the Kerr-McGee l West Chicago facility (Covington and l Burling). 4 o Objection to NRC staff views that transfers of authority under Section 274b.

Agreements may be made by categories of materials only (Conner and Wetterhahn).

o Recuests for an opportunity to present oral views to the Comission (Conner and Wetterhahn, Covington and Burling).

The staff carefully considered the comments that were submitted. The principal purposes of the comments are to request relief from the provisions of the proposed Agreement and to request an opportunity to orally present arguirents to the

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h e . Comission. The applicable tests to be applied to a 1 proposed Section 274b Agreement are the requirements of Section 274 of the Act, as amended, and the previously referenced implementing Comission Policy 4 Statenent (see p.4., supra) which scecifies criteria i l to be net by States requesting approval to enter i into Section 274b Agreements. None of the coments received within the coment period disputed the staff's assessment and conclusion with respect to j the adequacy and compatibility of the proposed l Illinois program. Following expfration of the )

comment period, one comenter (Conner and Wetterhahn) continued to file comments by means of l supplementary letters (now numberin l date of preparation of this paper) gincluding 5 as of athe comment taking iss'fs with the staff's finding of compatibility for the low level waste program. The NRC staff has fcund the comment on cor'patibility to be without merit (see Enclosure C, coment no. 5 p.8, footnote 2, i_nfra). The staff, after consideration of the comments, finds no basis to alter its conclusions. Since the other pub 1(c comments did not substantively dispute the staff's assessnent and were, in the main, limited to legal and procedural matters outside the scope of the i assessment, the staff sees no reason to suggest 1 consideration by the Conmission of the requests by the commenters to present oral arcunents on the:;e matters.

The proposed program will be administered by the Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety, a cabinet level State agency. Approximately 800 licenses will be transferred to the State. NRC staff has worked out tne details of the transfer with Illinois to assure a smooth transition, In October,1986 the Department held a public meeting for NRC materials licensees in Illinois to explcln the arrangements under the Agreement and introduce Department staff.

OSP and Region III staffs participated.

It should be noted that the NRC staff conducts an extensive post agreement program with each Agreement State fo11cwing execution of a 274b agreement. This program consists of enchange of information, technical assistance, training, and periodic on-site ,

reviews of the radiation control programs. Exchange i of information covers incidents, enforcement actions, policies, reguidtions and program statistics. Technical assistance includes help with statutes, regulations, licenses and inspections that are unusual or technically complex, and enforcement actions. Training includes a variety of courses designed to enhance staff proficiency in health  !

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months to see if there are any problem areas needing assistance. i l

If approved by the Comission, Illinois will become the 29th Agreement St6te and the second such State in Region III.

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_ RECOMMENDATION: That the Commission: l Find:

1. That the proposed Illinois program for control of radiation hazards with respect to byproduct materials as defined in Section 11e.(1) of the Atomic Energy Act, source materials, and special nuclear mate ials in quantities not sufficient to fom a critical mass, and perr.anent disposal of low-level waste cantaining one or more of the foregoing riaterials but not cc taining uranium and thorium mill tailings (byproduct material as defined in Section 11e.(2) of the Act) is compatible with the Commission's program for the regulation of like mater %1s; and
2. That the proposed Illinois program is adequate to protect the public health and safety with respect to the materials within the State covered by the proposed Section 274b Agreement.
3. That authority to regulate the Allied-Chemical t!F conversion plant shall be retained by the6Comission consistent with its decision on policy for licenses subject to Section 27db Agreements which have comon defense and security significance (SECY-87-S9).

Approve:

1. The proposed Section 274b Agreement set forth in Enclosure A between the State of Illinois and the fluclear Regulatory Comission.

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1. That the Comission's decision on Policy for licensees whose activities have a

, potential common defense and.sacurity h significance has been applied to the-

-Allied Chemical UF, conversion plant in M11nois..The stafY will prepare correspondence notifying' DOE of this decision as specified in SECY 87-59 ard will prepare proposed revisions to the NRC Policy Statement to incorporate this decision.

2. That the.Section 274b Agreement will be publisheo in the Federal Register within thirty days after signature of both parties as required by the Act.
3. That the staff has been informed by_Dr.

Lash, Director of the Illinois' Department of Nue' ear Safety that the State does not desire a.fonrel signing ceremony. Staff will prepare the: Agreement documents for.

the. Chairman's signature'and make appropriate arrangements for the execution 1 of the Agreement by correspondence.

4 That the Subconnittee on-Nuclear ,

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Insular Affairs, and the Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the House Committee on Energy and Comerce will be'infomed by a letter similar to Enclosure D. ]

5. That a Public Announcement such as Enclosure E will be issued on filing of the notice with the Office of the Federal Register

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6. That a letter to Governor Thonpson similar to Enclosure F will be sent if the Comission approves the proposed Agreement.

COORDINATION: The Office of the General Counsel has reviewed the Commission paper and enclosures and has no legal objection. The Executive Director for Operations has concurred in it.

SCHEDULING: In his request, Governor Thompson did not specify an effective date for the Agreement.

Staff discussions with Dr. Lash, Director of the Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety indicate that a target date of March 1,1987 was' planned for. The staff believes an effective date of at least two weeks after approval would permit time for the State to sign the Agreement and allow for completion of an orderly transfer of files prior to the effective date. Therefore the staff recomends Comission action by May 6,1987.

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Enclosures:

A. Proposed Agreement B. Federal Register Notice with NRC staff assessment C. Sumaries of public comments and NRC staff responses D. Proposed letters to Congressional Comittees E. Proposed Public Announcement F. Proposed letter to Governor of Illinois ,

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Commissioners' comments or consent should be provided directly to'the Office of the Secretary by c.o.b. JT esday, May 5, 1987.

Commission Staff Office comments, if any, should be submitted to the Commissioners NLT Tuesday, April 28, 1987, with an infor-mation copy to the Office of the Secretary. If the paper is of such a nature that it requires additional time for analytical review and comment, the Commissioners and the Secretariat should be apprised of when comments may be expected.

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fnclosure A AGREEMENT DETWEEN THE UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COPMISSION AND THE STATE OF ILLIN0IS FOR DISCONTINUANCE OF CERTAIN COMMISSION REGULATORY AUTHORITY AND RESPONSIBILITY WITHIN THE STATE PURSUANT TO SECTION 274 0F THE ATOMIC ENERGY ACT OF '954, AS AMENDED WHEREAS, the United States Nuclear Regulatory Comission (hereinafter referred to as the Comission) is authorized undec Section 274 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (hereinafter rEfarred to as the Act), to j enter into agreements with the Governor of any State providing for dis-  :

continuance of the regulatnry authority of the Comnission within the Statt under Chapters 6, 7, and 8, and Section 161 of the Act with respect to by-product raterials as defined in Sections 11e.(1) and (2) of the Act, source materials, and special nuclear naterials in quantities not sufficient to fom a critical mass; and, WHEREAS, the Governor of the State of Illinois is authorized under Illinois Revised Statutes, 1985, ch. 111 1, par. 216b and ch. 111 1, par.

241-19, to enter into this Agreement with the Comission; and, WHEREAS, the Governor of the State of Illinois certified or. October 2, 1986, that the State of Illir.cis (hereinafter referred to as the State) has a program for the control of radiation hazards adequate to protect the public health and safety with respect to the materials within the State covered by this Agreement, and that the State desires to assume regulatory responsibility for such materials; and, WHEREAS, the Comission found on that the program of the State for the regulation of the materials covereo by this Agreenent is compatible with the Comission's program for the regulation of such materials and is adequate to protect the public health and safety; and, WHEREAS, the State and the Comission recognize the desirability and importance of cooperation between the Commission and the Stete in the fomulation of standards for protection against hazards of radiation an:' in assuring that State and Comission programs for protection against hazards of radiation will be coordinated and compatible; and, WHEREAS, the Comission and the State recognize the desirability of reciprocal recognition of licenses and exemptions from licet.c*ng of those materials subject to this Agreenent; and, UHEREAS, this Acreement is entered into pursuant to the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended; NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HERERY AGREED between the Comissicn and the Governor of tbc State, acting in behalf of the State, as follows:

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2 ARTICLE I Subject to the exceptions provided in Articles II, IV and V, the Comi:sion shad discontinue, as of the effective date of this Agreement,  ;

the regulatory authority of the Commission in the State under Chapters 6, 7, 1 end 8, and Section 16I of the fr.t with respect to the following:

A. ByprcductmaterialasdefinedinSection11e.(1)ofthaAct; B. Source materials; C. Special nuclear materials in cuantities not sufficient to form a critical mass; and, D. The land disposal of source, byproduct and special nuclear material received from other persons. ,

i ARTICLE II This Agreemer.t does not provide for discontinuance of any authority and the Comission shall rttain authority and responsibility with respect to regulation of:

A. The construction and operation of any production c,r utilization facility; B. The export from or import into the Un.ited States of byproduct, source, or special nuclear r.aterial, or cf any production or utilization facility; ,

C. The disposal into the ocean or sea of byproduct, source or special nuclear waste meterials as defined in regulations or orders of the Comission; D. The disposal of such other byproduct, source, or special nuclear material as the Comission from time to time determines by regulation or order should, becaute of the hazards or potential hazards thereof, not be so di:; posed of without a license from the Comission; and, E.

The extraction or concentration of source material from source l naterial ore and the management and disposal of the resulting '

byproduct material.

ARTICLE III This Agreement may be amended, upon application by the State and approval by the Corf,nission, to include the additional area specified in Article II, paragraph E, whereby the State can exert regulatory control over the materials stated therein. i

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producer of any eouipment, device, comodity, or other product containing source, byproduct or special nuclear naterial shall not transfer possess 4rn or c(ntrol of such product except pursuant to a license or an exemptinn from licensing issued by the Corr:ission.

ARTICLE V This Agreenent shall not affect the authority of the Comission under subsection 161 b. or 1. of the Act to issue rules, regulations or orders to protect the common defense and security, to protect restricted data or to guard against the loss or diversion of special nuclear material.

ARTICLE VI The Comission will use its best efforts to cooperate with the State and other Agreement States in the formulation of standards and regulatory programs of the State and the Comission for protection against hazards of radiation and to assure that State and Comission programs for protection against hazards of radiation will be coordinated and compatible. The State will use its best efforts to cooperate with the Comission and other Agree-ment States in the fomulation of standards and regulatory prograns of the State and the Comission for protection against hazards of radiation and to assure that the State's program will continue to be compatible with the program of the Comission for the regulation of like materials. The State and the Conmission will use their best efforts to keep each other informed of proposed changes in their respective rules and regulations and licensirg, inspection and enforcement policies and criteria, and to obtain the coments and assistance of the other party thereon.

ARTICLE VII The Comission and the State agree that it is cesirable to provide reciprocal recognition of licenses for the materials listed in Article I licensed by the other party or by any Agreement State. Accordingly, the Comission and the State acree to use their best efforts to oevelop appre-priate rules, regulations and procedures by which such reciprocity will be dCCorded.

ARTICLE VIII The Comission, upon its own initiative after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to the State, or upon request of the Governor of the State, may terminate or suspend all or part of this agreement and reassert the licensing and regulatory authority vested in it under the Act if the Comission finds that (1) such termination or suspension is required to protect the public health and safety, or (2) the State has not complied with one or more of the requirements of Section 274 of the Act. The Comission may also, pursuant to Section 274j of the Act, temporarily suspend all or part of this Agreement if in the judgment of the Comission, an emergency sitt,ation exists requiring immediate action to protect public health and safety and the State has failed to take necessary steps. The Comission I

shall periodically review this Agreement and actions taken by the State I under this Agreement to ensure compliance with Section 274 of the Act.

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ARTICLE IX This Agreement shall become effective on , and shall remain in effect unles; and until such time as it is teminated pursuant to Article VIII.

Dore at , in triplicate, this day of FOR THE UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

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2310 more of the fomgoing materials but not avuum: Notice is hereby given that relinquish and the Stats would assume

. containing uranium and thorium mill the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission certain regulatory authority pursuant to tailings (byproduct material as defined section U4 of the Atomic Energy Act of la pubhshing for public comment the In section 11e.(2) of the Act.Re State NRC staff assessment of a proposed 1954. as amended.  !

Section 274e of the Atomic Energy Act does not wish to assurne authenty over agreemenfreceived from the Governor of 1954. as amended. requires that the arardum recovery activities.ne State. {>

of the State ofIllinois for the assumption however. reserves the right to apply at a terms of the proposed agreement bs l of certain of the Commission's published fer public comment onca each future date to NRC for an amended I regulatory authority persuant to section speement to assume authority in this 274 of the Atomic Energy Act of1954, as week for four consecutive weeks.

Accordingly, this notice will be area.The nine articles of the proposed f amended. Comments are requested on published four times in the Todaral sprement cover the following areas:

the public beslth and safety aspects of L IJsts the materials covered by the Registar.

the proposal. areement.

A staff assessment of the State's L Background H. Lista the Commission's continued proposed program for control over A Section 274 of the Atomic Energy authory and responsibility for certain I scurces of radiation is set forth below as Act of 1054, as amended. provides a activities.

supplementary information to this mechanism whereby the NRC may 11 1. Allows for future amendment of notice. A copy of the proposed transfer to the States certain regulatory the speement.

agreement. propam narrative. Including authority over agreement materials : IV. Allows for certain regulstory the referenced appendices, apNeable when a State desires to assume this changes by b Commissics State legislation and lilinois regt..ations, authorny and the Govemor certifies that V. References the ccatinued is available for pubhc inspection in the the State has an adequste regulatory authority of the Comrnission for Commission's public document room at common defense and security for pro ram, and when the Commission 1717 H Street NW.. Washingtoa DC. the fin a that the State's propam la f rd Commission's Region ill Ofhce. 799 compatible with that of the NRC and is **f8""p[80d',s dfm M h Roosevelt Road. Buildmg No.4. Glen },

adequate to protect the public health Comnu.ssion and the Sts'e to achieve Ellyn' Ulinois. and the Illmois and safety. Section U4g directs the rdinated and compatible preparrs.

e Departmint of Nuclear Safety.1035 Commission to coop rate with the Vit Recofr.izes reciprocity of Outer Park Drive. Springfield. IJ1inois.

States in the formulation of standards licerms issued by the respective 4 Exemptions from the Commission's for protection against radiation hazards f 88 "2 C2 "'

regulatory su hority, which would to assure that State and Comnussion in!ement this proposed agreemen. Vht Sets forth cnteria for {

have been publ'shed in the Fedem programs for radistion protection will be tuminst!an or cuspmim d the j coordinated and compeuble. Further. a gmment, Register and codified as Part 150 d 4he section 274) provides that the Commission's regulations in Title 10 of IX. Specifies the effective date of Commission shall periodically review the speement.

the Code of Federal Regulations.

such agreements and actions taken by C. UL Rev. Stat.1985 ch 127, par. I DATE: Comments must be received on or the States under the agreementt *o ena '

before January k.1987 ' . e ure cornpliance with the previsions 7[, p, n'8 i 1 nr sfety Acomissts: Written comments may be O authorizes the Department to issue submitted to the Rules and Procedures B.1 a et er' dated October 2.106s' cens nd e m etto s o if of hstrat on$$ uer e}o{ljmes P.Thom " son o b ,

pmposed agreement syd otherwise Regulatory Cornmission. Washi gtort n agree ent m

.7 r'y$and Commission e r in p unnt to a tion 274 of o]tjlra ,,

1 ei e e t Ro Nations! Bank Building. Bethesda,

[a radiation protection were adopted on amended.The Go temor certifbd that September 25.1986 under autbonty of Maryland from 8.15 a.m.to 5:00 p.m. he State of Ulinch has a propam for the enabling siatute and provide Monday through Friday. Copies of control of rsdiation herstds which is sta ndards. licensing. inspection.

comments received may be examined at ad th blic h alth enforcement and administrative the NRCPub c cument Room.1717 H an afet t respect o the materia!? procedures for speement and non-Stmt . s gin D within Be State covered by the agreement mettrials. Pursuant to eon runTHan twoaMAT104 COMTACT. proposed agreement, and that the State $ 330.380 the regulations will apply to loel O.Lubenau. Office of State of !!1inois desires to assume regulatory speement materials on the effective Programs. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory responsibility for such materials. The date of the agreement.The regulations Commission. Wsshington. DC 20555. text of the proposed agreement is abown provide for the State to license and telephone: 301-492-0887 in Appendix A. inspect users of naturally occurring and settutwtAmy tooRh4AT)O9C The epecific authority requested is for accelerator-produced radioactive ,

Assessment of Propored1Hinois (1) byproduct material as defined e. matuiale. l Program to Regulate Ceetain Radioactive section11e.(1)of the Act.(2) source D. Illinois is one of two States with a 1 material. (3) special nuclear materiali.a cabinet-level agency devoted I Materials Pursusnt to section 274 of the Atomic Energy Act of1954. as amended. quantitles not aufficient to form a exclusively to radiation safety and i critical mass and (4) permane nt dieposal control. Illinolv role in radiation safety {

The Commission has received a oflow.!avel waste containing one oc i is traceable to 1955 when the Illinois I proposal from the Govemor of Illinois ipt the State to enter into an agreement U"'IM' M C#*'d N M0dC Power Investigating Comminsion. The with the NRC whereby the NRC would ~ . A tyrm6ct mai, net. .. d.r. red in stett)

a. eypmtet metais s. der.r.d in :t.<a; Illinois Department of Nuclear S,afety  ;

C some 'naimt.. ud Program provides a comprehensae su the prmens document m which the D. trecal nw.ies, ma ten 14 in qmm n no, mcan, pesa. tory commwan remu sh. program encompa esing radiation nmcnnt to fans e cnncat awu comnwei dudhne. I i

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2312' Fadsral Register / Vol. 52. No. 23 / Wednesday. Jannery 21, 1987 r/. Notices autho:lly inspections as per to C!R 19. essentially uniform with those of to Cm recalved radiation exposu e in excess of

  • .Section 19.16 and to be represer.ted . Part 20. Waste transfer and manifest the prescribed limits. j during inspections as specified in system requirements for transfer of The Illinois regulations require the Section 19.14 of to CFB 19. waste for ultimate disposal at a land following records and reports licensees The Illmois regulation contain.b disposal facility are includcd in the and registrants:

requirements for instruction and nctices  !!!inois regulations.The waste disposal (a) Recorde covering personnel ]

to workers that are uniform with those requirements include a waste radistion exposures, radiation surveys.

of 10 CFR Part 19. classification scheme and previsions for and disposals of materials.

Reference:

321LL ADM. CODE Part weste form equivalent to that in to CFR (b) Records of receipt and transfer of 4%XL Part 61. materials.

8. Storose. Ucensed radioactive The !!!inois rqulations provide for (c) Reports concerning incidents matenalin storage shall be secured land disposal of low-level radioactive involving radioactive matenals.

aFainst unauthonzed removal. waste received from other persons (d) Reports to former employees of The Illinois regulations contam. a which are compatible with the .

their radiation exposure.

re utrement for security of stored applicable technical definitions. (e) Reports to employees of their ra oa c' perf rmance bjectives, technical annual radiation exposura.

p {,rence 32 kDM. CODE requirements and supporting sections (f) Reports to employees of radialion set ut n 0 exposure in excess of prescribed limits.

R ioactive Waste Disposal. (al regulationselude m,CG Part 61.The provisions, for I!!inois

Reference:

32 ILL ADM. CODE 310.40.

Waste disposal by . material uvrs.The andal snengunents 6 mm 340m M4050 awl 400.130.

standards for the disposal of r..licactive decontamination, closure and 12. Additiona/ Requirements and rnsterials into the air. water and sewer

  • stabilization. Under the Nuclear Waste Exemptiens. Consistent with the overall and burialin the soil shall be in Policy Act f 1982 (Pub. L 97--425) the. cnteris here enumerated and to acecrdance with to CFR Part 20 financial arrangements for long-term accommodate special cases and Holders of radioactive material desiring circumstances, the State regulatory to re! ease or dispose of quantibes or
    • ^".oring and maintenance at specific sites in Illm is will be subject to authority shall be authorized in concentrations of radioactive materials Commission review and approval prior individual cases to impose additional in excess of prescribed limits shall be to lllin is relieving the s,tei operator of requirements to protect hestth and required to obtain special permission licensed responsibility. safety. or to grant necessary exemptions from the appropnate regulatory

References:

32 tLL ADM. CODE which will not jeopardize health and authoritydments for transfer of waste for3+0 ".060. 340.3010 to 340. 3110. Ps rt 601t safety.

Requir The Illinois Department of Nuclear the purpose of ultimate disposal s: a Section 151(al(2). Pub. L 97-425.

!and disposal faci'ity (waste transfer 10. Regulations Coverning Shipment Safety is authorized to impose upen any of Radioactive Materio/s. "Ihe St te licensee or registrant by rule. regulation.

and maruht system) shall be in shall to the extent of its jurisdiction or order such requirements in addition accordance with 10 CFR Part 20. to those established in the regulations as The waste disposal standards shall promulgate regulations applicab!e to the shipment of radioactive materials such it deems appropriate or necessary to include a waste classification scheme minimize danger to public health and and provisions for waste form. regulations to be corapatible with those applicable to waste generators. that is established by the U.S. Department of safety or property.

equivalent to that contamed in 10 CFR Transportation and other agencies of the

Reference:

321LL ADM. CODE 3io.70.

United States whose junsdiction over The Department may also grant such Part 61.

(b) Laad Disposal of waste received interstate shipment of such materials exemptions from the requirements of the from other persons. The State shall necessarily continues. State regulations regulations as it determines are prcmulgate regulations containing regarding transportation of radioactive authonred by law and will not result in

, licensing requirements for Isnd disposal materists must be compatible with 10 undue hazard to public health and of radiwetive waste te elved from other CFR Part 71. safety or property.

persons which are compatible with th: The Illinnia regulations are uniform

Reference:

32 ILL ADM. CODE 310.30.

applicable technical definitions. with those contained in NRC regulations to CFR Part ti. Frior Evoluotion of Uses nf Radioactive performance objectives. technical Materials requirements and applicable supporting

References:

32 ILL ADM. CODE Part sections set forth m .10 CFR Part 81. 341. 13. Prior Evolvation ofHozords aniJ Adequate financial errar.gements (under 11. Records andReports. The State Uses. Ezeeptions. In the pesent state of tenns established by regulation) shall be regulatory program shall require that knowledge, it is necessary in regulating required of each waste disposal site holder: and users of radio 9etive the poenession and use of byproduct.

materials (a) maintain records covering source and special nuclear materials licensee to ensttre sufficient funds for decontamination. closure and personnel radiation exposures. radiation that the State regulatory authority stabilization of a disposal site.In surveys, and diasposals of materials:(b) require the submission ofinformation addition. Agreement State financial keep records of the receipt and transfer on and evaluation of. the poter.tial arrangements for tong-term monitoring of the materials:(c) report significant hazards and the espability of th- user or and maintenance of a specific site must incidents involving the materials. as possessor prior to his teceipt of the prescribed by the regulatory authority: materials.This criterion is subject to be reviewed and approved by the Commission prior to relieving the site - (d)make trailable upon request of a certain exceptions and to continuing i operator of licensed responsibility former employee a report of the reappraisal as knowledge and I (set; tion 151(a)(2). Pub. L 97--.425). employee's exposure to radiation:(e) at expedence in the atomic energy field The Illinois regulations contain request of an employee advise the increase. Prequently there are. and provittions relating to the disposal of employee of his or her annuel radiation increasingly in the future there may be.

radioactive materials into the air, water exposure: and (f) Inforrr. each employee categories of mater:als and uses as to in writing when the employee has which there is sufficient knowledge to acd sewer And burialin soil which are

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.' permit possession and use without prior In evaluating a proposal to use is dependent upon the type and scope of evalustion of the hazards and the agreement meterials, the !!!inois the licensed activities and will be at capability of the possessor and user. Department of Nuclear Safety will least as frequent as inspections of These categories fallinto two groups- determine that: similar licensees by NRC. Generally, those matenals and uses which may be (1)The applicant is qual:fied by inspections will be unannounced.

completely exempt from regulatory reason of training and experience to use

References:

32111 ADM. CODE controls, and those materials arad uses the meterialin question foe the purpose 310.50. 310.60. 310.70 and 400.140(a);

in which sanctions for misuse are requested in accordance with the Illinois Program State; ment. Section maintained without pre-evaluation of regulations in such a manner as to  !!.B.1.(s)(2) " Inspection and the individual possession or use. In minimize danger to public beslth and Compliance." Section !!!C " Ins pection authorizing research and development safety or propertyt and Enforcement" and Section IVE.

or other activities involving .nultiple (2)The applicant's proposed " Division of Resporcsibilities."

uses of radioactive materials, where an equipment, facilities, and procedures are 17. /nspections Compulsory. Ucensees institution has people with extensive adequate to ininimize danger to public shall be under obligation by law to training and experience. the State health and safety or property; and provide access to inspectors.

segulatory authority may wish to (3)De issuance of the license will not  !!!inois regulations state that licensees provide a means for authorizing broad be inimical to the health and safety of shall afford the Department at all use of rnaterials without evaluating each the public. reasonable times opportunity to inspect aptcific use. Other special requirements for the sources of radiation and the premises Prior to the issuance of a specific issuance of specificlicenses am and facilities whereia such sources of i license for the use of radioactive contained in the regulations.

radistion are used or stored. i materials, the Illinois Department of

References:

32 !!1 ADM. CODE 330.250 to 330.280 and Part 601:lllinois

Reference:

3211L ADM. CODE 310.50.

Nuclear Safety will require the gg gjy g submission of information on, and will am Statement. Sections 11.B.1.a(1) Inspection. Ucensees are entitled to be make an evaluation of, the potential jenning Unt.(s) low. Incl and advised of the results ofinspections arid

[LBi bt v , ste Management i

hazards of such uses, and the capability to notice as to whether or not they are in '

C e8pp k. ant 15. Human Use. De use of radioactive compliance.

References:

32111 ADM. CODE Following Department inspections.

materials and radiation on or in humans 330.240 to 330.240 and Part 601. Ilhno.is each licensee will be notified in wntmg l shall not be permitted except by Program Statement. Sections ILB.1(a)(1) of the results of the inspection.The reperly qualified persons (normally Ucensing. I!C1(alt 3) ilegulating [ censed physicians) possessing letters and wntten notices indicate if the Low. Level, Waste Disposal and 11LB. prescribed minimum experience in the licer see is in compliance and if not. list Ocenskg. use of radioisotopes or radiation. the areas of noncompliance.

Provision is made for the frauance of

)

The Illinois regulations require that

Reference:

Illinois Program Statement, generallicenses for byproduct. source the use of radioactive matenals Section !!.B.1.(a)(2)"Inspecuen and and special nuclear materials in (including sealed sources) on er in Compliance." Section Illa " Inspection situations where prior evaluation of the humans shall be by a physician having and Enforcement" and Section IVE.

licensee's qualifica uons. facilities, substantial experience in the handling " Division of Responsibilities." ,

equyrnent and procedures are not and administration of radioactive reconred. The regulations grant general Enforcement material and, where applicable, the licenses under the same circumstances clinical management of radioactive 19. Enforcement Possession and use as those under which generallicenses patients. of radioactive matenals should be are granted in the Commission's

Reference:

32 Ili ADM. CODE amenable to enforcement through legal regula tions. sanctions, and the regulatory authority 330.280(a) (b). and (c).

References:

32111 ADM. CODE shall be equipped or assisted by law 330.210 and 330.220. la8PcClied with the necessary powers for prompt ProviMon is made for exemption of 16. krpose. Trequency. De enforcement.This mayinclude as certain surce and other radioactive possession and use of radiosetive appropriate, administrative remedies l usterists and devices containing materials shall be subject to inspection looking toward issuance of orders radioactive materials. The exemptions by the regulatory authority and shall be requinns affirmative action or for materials covered by the Agreement subject to the performance of tests as svepension or revocation of the right tg are the same as those granted by NRC required by the regulate,ry authotity, possest and use materials. and the regulations. Inspection and testing is conducted to impounding of materials: the cbtaining

References:

32 IIL ABM. CODE determine and to assist in obtaining ofinJunctive relief; and the imposing of 330.30 and 330.40. compliarce with regulatory civil or criminal penaltics.

14. Ero/uotion Criterio. In evaluatirg tequirementa. Fre quency of inspection The Illinois Department of Nuclear a proposal to use radioactive materials, shall be reisted directly to the amount Safety is equipped with the necessary the regulatory authorliy shall determine 6nd kind of material and type of powers for prompt enforcement of the the adequacy of the applicant's facilities operation licensed. and it shall be reg. !ations. Where conOtions exist that and safety equipment.his training and adequate to insure compliance. create a clear presence of a hazard to experience in the use of the materials 111inois materials licensees will bs the public health that requires for the purpose requested, and his subject to inspection by the Department immediate action to protect human proposed administrative controls. States of Nucle 6r Safety. Upon instruction from health and safety. the Department may should develop guidance documents for the Department. licensees shall perform issue ordert to reduce, discontinue or i use by license applicants.nis guidance or permit the Department to perform eliminate such conditions. ne '

i l should be consistent with NRC licensing such reasonable tests and surveys as the department actions may also include and regulatory guide 6 for various Department deems appropriate or Impounding of radioactive meterial.

categories of licensed activities. necessary. The frequency of inspections impcsition of a civil penalty. revocation 1

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- Fe<!rral R2gister / Vol. 52. No.13 / Wednesday, January 21. 1987 / Notices 2315 1977-197/:NationalTaiwan University.

" Health Physics in Radiation " Transportation of Radioactive Materists." US NRC lilinois (1983) Hospital. Pharmacy intem. Taipei.

Accidents." Dak Ridge Asaocfattd Universities, Terinessee (1979) " Current Applications of Nuclear Taiwan

" Laser Safr.y Seminar." US Food and Imaging." Siemens Cammasonics. Inc., 1977-1977:Pfizer Pharmaceutical lllinois (1981)

- Company. Assistant Pharmacist Drug Admin., Wisconsin (1979)

  • Radiological Response Operations " Nuclear Cardiology." Univ. of (intern). Tan Shul. Taiwan ROC Training Course." US NRC. Nevada
  • Wisconsin. Wisconsin (1980) Y. David 4o Touche: Radioactive U878) Experience: Materials Ucense Reviewer. Division of

~ '" 1982-Present: Ulinois Departmant of Nuclear Materials. Performs reviews of lut$ons Unv em Nuclear Safety radioactive materiallicense applications California California (1978) 1973-1982:St. John's Hospital. and performs inspections of radioactive

" Radiological Onergency Response Springfield.111inois materials licensees.

f Planning Course." US NRC Minnesota 1981:Unwoln Land Community College. Training:

pg77; Springfield. Illinois (Instructor) Ph.D.--Oregon State University (1981)

' *He 2!th Physics and Radiation -Radiation Biology

' 1973-1977:Nucleat Medicine Institute

  • Lotection." US NRC. Tennessee Ohio (Affiliate Instructor) M.S-Oregon State University (1978) 9g77) 1971-1973: Wesley Medical Center. -Biological Science

" Fundamentals of Non.!onizing B.S.--Concordia University. Montreal.

Kansas Rudiation Protection." U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Maryland (1C*3) fou-Cuons(JoelRwang:Uces 58 Canada (1976)

"Ucensing Course-Byproduct. Source. Section Head. Division of Nucleer --Biology

  • and Special Nucleas Materials." US Materials.Respon ble for supervising "Special Topics in Ucensing:

NRC Maryland (1972) the review of radioactive material Contingency Plans." US NRC. San license applications. Francisco. CA (1986)

Experience: " Health Physics and Radiation 1980-Present: IIHnois Department of Training-Protection " US NRC Oak Ridge.

Nuclear Safety Ph.D.--Purdue University (1965)

  • 1971 - 1980: Ilwls Department of Public -Health Phyeica .

Tenneesee (19661 MSpg.-University of South Caroline " Uranium and Thorium: A Perspective Health. Division of Radiological on the Hazard." Radistion Safety Health (1981) As sociates. Inc., Springfield. Illinois 1970 - 1971: University of lows -Industrial Hygiene and Environmental Radiation Protection Offica Quality Assessmsnt (1986)

B.S.--National Taiw an University (1978) " Introduction to Ucensing Practices and Michoe/ Ewen: Chief. Division of Procedures." US NRC Bethesda.

Nuclear Materials. Manages the -.-Pharmacy Division including supervision of staff " Uranium and Thorium: A Perspective Maryland (1986) and establishment of program on the Hazard." Radiation Sdery Exp.edence:

objectives.

Asociates. Inc., Springfield. Enois Prom Emis Departe d Training- 0986) Nuclear Safet "Extemal Dosimetry." Health Physica 1962-1986: Ores n State University.

M.A.-Sangamon State Univerr.ity . IL Society. State College. Pennsylvania Corvallis. Oregon Research Associate (1980) 0986) 1979-1981: Oregon Stste University.

-Business Administration " Introduction to Licensing Practices and Corvallis. Oregon Graduate Research B.S.-University ofIowa 0971)

Procedures. US NRC Bethesda. Associate

-Ceneral Science /Nucleat Medicine 1977-1979: Oregon State University.  ;

g]C d Thorium: A Perspective "Me Ua a Radionuclides for Cervallis. Oregon Gradua te. Teaching on the Hazard." Ra dis ti.on Safety State Regulatory Personnel" US NRC.

s ates.Inc. Springfield.Illi ois Os Tenrtessee 0966) f - n tephenHsu Radioactive "Sptdal Topics in Ucenalng- 19ao-Present: Illinois Department of *" '#' " " " ***

Contingency Plsns." US NRC San Nuclear Safety tr.dioactive meteriallicense applications Francisco.CA 096e) 1986. Purdue Un radusta and performs inspections of radioactae "In:ineration Ba sica." Univ. of ng tru { ** # #'"

California. Irvine. Clarlotta. N.C , ts Health "". raining:

0986) g M.S --Old Dominion University (19821

" Basic Supervision" Keys Productivity

  • 19ejc39yPurdue University. Graduate Center. Springield. !!!inois (1986) --Norfolk. Virginia Research Instructor. School of He alth -Physica

, impact of Proposed Changer to M CFR sel 8 ' 198019$ University of South Carolina. B.S.-Tam Kang college of Arts and in Cal aryland 9 Crsduate Teaching Assistant. Seierces ortation o Radioactive Department of EnvironmentalHealta

-Physics "Trans;ials."

Mater US DOE. Illinois 0545)

." Richmond Staff Seg e.,c,e " Introduction to Air 1985)

Kansas City Minoun Top (es." US F.PA 1m0-1980: University of South Carolina.

" Technical Development.11 Writinfinois (1985) Graduate Research Assistant.

"Heelth Physics and Radiation

" Health Physica and Radiation Pidection." US NRC Cak Ridge.

Department of EnvironmentalHealth Protection." Oak Ridge Associated Tennenu D964)

Sciences " Safety Aspects ofIndustrial Universities.Tenneuee (1985) 197Ms7R The Church of Taipel.

  • Ca e and Oil Well Logging." US NRC Minister. Taipei, Taiwan Radiography for State Regulatory Texas 0984) Perr,or.nel." US NRC. Baton Rouge.

1WM979: Yun-Fu Pharmaceutical Ltd.,

'Ucensing Practices and Procedures." Pharmacist. Taipei. Taiwan Louisiana (1964)

US NRC. Maryland 0964)

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21. 1987 / No?Jces 23q Foderal Register / Vol. 32. No.13 / Wednesday. January a, applications and performa inspections of
  • "Ra df a t[on Thera py Workshop. Medical 1hPresent minois Department of radioactive materials hcansees.

unear Accelerates." US Public Training-Nuclear Safety Health Service. Chicago. Il!!nois (1951) 1984-1900; Univeralty of tews!! " Acceptance Testir:s of Radiological 1985. Brookhavec National Laboratory Graduate work toward M.S.--Colorado Imaging Equipment." American State University (1985)

Sca3 Oak %dge Netional Laboratory Association of Physicista in Medicine. -Univenity of Termessee (1982)

Andrew S. Cu/crynsk/: Chicago American College of Radiology and --Health Physics Inspection and Enforcement Section Godety for Radiological Engineering. B.S.-Villanova University (1973)

Head. Dinaion of Nudear Materials. Chicago. Illinois (1981) --Blolop Supervises Chicago offir.e materia!a " Safety Aspects ofIndustrial Certificate--St. losepb*a Hospital and license inspectors. Radiography for State Programs." US Medical Center School of Nudear Tr"N NRC Baton Rocre. toutsinna (19et) Medicine Tedmology Patenon. New BS-Northeastern Illinola University k ection F1ocdru," US NRC, Clen Jersey (1977) t.uyn. Illinola (1960)

(1964

'--Diolop "QvelNy Aarurance in Nuclear Medicine *1nspection Atlanta. Georgia (1986) Procedures." US N Fin Week Health Ptryslca and Departments.** US Foed and Drva Adntinistration. Rockville. Maryland Experience:

Rediation Protection Couns. US NRC Oak Ridge.Tannessee (1986) g979; 1900-Present Illinois Depirtment of

" Radiological Emergency Response Nudear Safety

" Int ernal Dose As sessment." Tar.hnical Operations Training Course for State Management Services. Ins hou 1981-1984: Oak Ridge National and local Government Emergency Laboratory, Health and Safety 0984 Preparedness Personnal" FEMA. Las

' Re:earch Division. Senior Laboratory ateNels." US b'iC*I8'Encie Vegas. Nevada (1979) Technician

%cial Pmcedures a CT Sanners" Ig791981: Oak R;dge National US Public Health service. Chicgo. Labaratory. Biology Dwision.

" hie calUses of Radionuclidris for Stste Regulatory Peceoonet" US NRC. LLlinois (1976) Biological Technician Oak Ridea.Tennenee (19H) " Radiological Workshop." US Public

" Safety Aspects ofindustriaj HeaM Serwce. Cbcago. Emis 0970Einstein 1977-19m Radiology Associates. Alb Medic,al Center. No. Dm: son.

Radiogref.by for Stato RegulatoryPenonne Experience:

" US NRC Baton Nuclear Rouge. Med one Technologist.

"' I '* " # "

  • Louisiana 0983) 19&Pruent hois Department of IN N P'C Inc., Analytical Chemistry Technician Nuclear Safety
  • Inspectiot Procedures for State igm 933. Illinois Depanment of Public. /0^^ W COOPER Macager. Office of Regulatory Penormel." US NRC Health. Division of Radiological Envirnnsental Safety. Provides Atlanta. Georgia (1983) technical support tolhe Division of
  • Radiological Emergency hesponse Health

" 19m97tk Oak Park Hospital. Nuclear Nuclear Materials on an as needed Opereties, FEMA, Las Vegas- Medicine Technologist. Oak Park. basis.

Nevada 0983) hois Tra.ining-Ixperience: 1972-1973: Oak Park Hospital. X-Ray 19&Present hols Departeent of Te.:hnelogist. Oak Park, hois Ph&-.Uninnity oflowa 0970 Nudear Safety --Radiation Biology 1982-1985:

Kanses Department of Health Robin Gehrbord! Bouerr Radioact!ve Mi-University of lown 0966) and Environment. Bureau of Radistiu Materials Ucense Inspector. Performa-Marmacy ContmlTopeka. Kansas- reviews of radioactive materials licenseB.S-Drake University (1960) 1981-19et Argonne National applications and performa inspections of --Pharmacy Laboratory. Argonne. Illinois radioactive materials licenaces. "Industnal Ventilation Systems." OSHA 1977-1981: Training: Trabkg kawe. has 0983)

Univers, Northeastern ity. Ch.cago. Encia blinola "Respirstor Safety for CSHO's." OSHA MS-Emory University (1985) Training institute, Eooia (1982)

JohnD.Papendorf Radiocatin --Radiological Physica Materials License Inspector. Perfortria B.S.-Univenity of Miami 0963) g,M reviews of radiactive materials limnse -Biology 1961-Present hols Department of applications and performs inspectiaca of " Health Physics and Radiation Nuclecr Safety radioactive materiafa licenaces. Protection." US NRC Oak R1dge. 1775-136t U.S. Nudear Regulatory TratT T'"2"*** 0900) Commitslon, Region m. Inspector and N.M.T.--Oak Park Hospital (1975) Experience: ILer% reviewer

--Nudeat Medidna Technologist 1971-1975: A!!cgheny General Medical igas-Present hols Depetment of Center. Radistion Biotagy Laboratory Certi$catiac Nudeat Safety University ofIowa. Radiation R.T.--Hines V A. Hospital (1972) 19 % -1971:

-X. Ray Technologist CertiScotion 1985-1965: Georgia Bsptist Hospital. research and teaching A.S.--Central YMCA Collegv 0972) Internship,MedicalPbysica. Atlanta, Apparco Devotar Chief. Division of

  • InspectJoo of Transportation of Georgia Medical Pbysica. Prcvides technica!

Radicaetin Mataria!a. U.S.NRL,,' 1985-1985 W Udvenity.X. Ray. suppon to the Division of Nuclear Clen Ellyn. Elinois (1985) Nudear Medicbs. Calibratkn. Materials on a.n as needed baaia.

,,Nudear Tramsportatlon,for State Atlanta. Georg's Trainbg atoryPerannal USNRC 19893-19M:Loyola University.Research R Technician. Maywwd. Esta Ph.D.--University of New Orleans (1975)-Physica

  • Hara a at ria T 1:In foonna B. Kark Radioactive MS- University pf New Orteann Materfats U.S. DOE. Chica go, hois 0983) License Inspector. Performs rvviews of 0972)--Phydes "Ra distion Safety " Northwestem ndicactiva materials ticense UnJvenity.Evanston. Encis upe2)

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Federal Register / Voi,52. No.13 / Wedn:sday, Janur.ry i

. B.S.- Soothern mMn Untvenity (o)Stoffpreviouslyidentifiadio the (1979}-Geology M.S.--University of hois (1956)- materials or umniwn conntsion plant "Uranlurn and Thorium, A Perspective i

Nudent Eupneering r.agulatory ontrightprograms (Sectiarr on the Hazard." Radiation Safety l J

B1-Millikin Univerairy (1954)-- 20 a cadbt Au ciatn. Springfield. illinois (19681 Physia/Mathemata Michael H. Moment.Ubains Che. "Correctrve Actions for Containing and

  • Management Education Workshop." 2. John W. Cooper.]ames F.Schweitzer.

Dept s,f Personnel. Champaign (1978) Con tl Nat ona Water Well

" international Symposium on Migration (b/ O&trIDASSto/# Association. Columbus, Ohio (1986)

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  • Robert A. Lommler: Chlef. D(vision"AofStandardized System for Evaluation International AtornbEnergy Agency. Waste and Transportation. Has of Crmmdwster Pollution Potential responsibilities for implemendng the Using Hydrogeologe Setting." I Cahnia (1978) Blinois U.W management act.
  • Radiologeal Emergency Response National Water Weu Anocation.

supervises staff in the U.W progsm and Denver Colorado (1966)

Opersdons

  • US NRC. Nevada (1W7) tramages the spent nucisar fual and U.W " Groundwater Pollut$on and "'

"Woriahop on CoUective Ba gaining for shipment inspection program. Hydrology." Princeton & Assa:iates.

Ptblic Employees." 2. Dept of Training: Miami.no ida (1986)

Personnel (tws) BS--Kent Stats Univmity (1971).-- " Engineering snd Design of Weste

  • Administrative and Orgaturat! anal Chemistry .

DisposalSysteens. CivilEngneering Behavior." D1. Dept. of PubHe Hedth "10 CFR 61." US NRC Springfield Departmot. Colorsdo Stat 2

!!Unds (1906) ersity,'iort Collins. Colorsdo (1975)

" Professional Engineering Review.a "Incinerster Basics." Unfy. of CaRfornia, Univ, of E. (1974) '

""Cro dwater Monitoring Workshop."

ternal nsportstion 111inois Department of Energy and "Rup nu d Stmetas e "Radfon vs t ri Forces.Le Earthqualsa. Tornados. Workshop" US DOE. Chicago, hols Natural itesources. Champaign.

(3pg hois (1984) etc " Penn. State Univ. (1958) ~20 CFR 61 Compliance." TMS ine '. Radiological Emergency Reeponse Experience: Wa shington, D.C. (1964) Training for State and Local 19ao-Present: hois Department of " Radiological Protection Omcer Covernment Emergency Preparedness Nuclear Safety Co Pers nnel." FEMA. Nevada Test Site 1973-M80:Dlicois Department of PubUc *Che "! Officer U S. AAmb(1978)anced Course - '

ence:

att Materials 196 -1973:Sangamo.WestonE12ctmaica "Tr e 1983-Pre:ent: hois Department tf Company. Springfield,ha by Air." US DOT (1972) Nuclear Safety 1985~127:Watinghouse Electric -Chedcal Omcer Baeic Course." U.S. 1981-1983: Mine Geologist. Atlas Company. Forre st Hills. Penneylv anla Army (1971) Miners!: Conoration. Moab. Utah

Reference:

Dlinois Program Ststement. Experience: 1sim Associste Mne Celopst.

1984-Present hois Department of Ranchu's ExplesCon a Developmmt Section ID.D." Allied Chemical UrsniumNuclear Sa.fety Corporadon. Albuquerque.New Conversion facility." Appendix 5. and US Amy.RadiadM Sdery Append'x 9," Current Agreement State 1979-1983: Medeo Omcer.Pt.Riley Kansas Inte junie Geolopst.Ranchni Sta ff Positions: Low.Ist el Ra dioactive1975-1978:US Ancy,y kim West Exploration & Development Weste Managetment Program. Office of Cerms.ny Comoratfon, Albuquerque.Ntw Ecrironmental Safe'y.

1971-197kUS Army.Edgewood. g**iC*

c. Ucensing andRegulation of Msry1and Shonnon M Mannigan. Geologst.

Permanens Oisposof ofLov.Lsni MichaelKlebe Nuclear Safety Reviews.f.nterpreto and evaluates l Radioactive Waste Engineer. Serves as technical resource geolope hydrolope, physical and on U.W managetoent environmental environmental data reisted to L P"*"d mblema, decommissioning and disposal environmental tmpact design. locat,on.

& Office of EnvironmentalSafery faciuty siting, cor.struction and decommissioning of l he a responsibility for the low.lsval Traintng. I' '

f waste (U.W) mansgement regulatory T'*i'k3 {

J MA--Montana College of Mineral program which (scludes the ShzEeld Science and Technology (19M} - Bi-Drale University (1878] Geology l alte and the regonal wasis disposal i

  • Mining Engneering A.A.-Springfield Couege in hois facility.h asseesment of the f (1976}-Business regulatery framework is lacluded stnderBA-.Matana Science andTec1 cod]e ed ology (1980}-. Mineral . Radiological Emergency Response,,

J Criterion 9. "Radioacdvs Wasta M@ Engmeanng FEMA. Nevada (19so) l Disposal" b u W and transportation -Groundwater Contaminant Trknsport 1

management program 13 staffed by 13 Experience. .

Modaling." Prmcaton University, j

technical staff members. N Manager 1905-.Present; hois Department M Princeton, New Jersey (1906) l l

' of the Office of EnvironmentalSafety Nuclear Safety "A standardized System for Evalus.ing will provide overall npevision and 19c-19sa:Sheu Madng Canpany. Grotmdwater Pouution Using manssement and the Chief of the Houston. Ening Engineer Texas and F!k hart, hola. Hydmgeologic Setting- Denver.

Omca's Division of Nucleat Chemistry Colorado (1988) win provida isteratory scpport. DavidMynnr Geolog'at. Eva!ustes " Groundwater PoUution & Hydtclogy." I Technical support will also be available geological and hydrologic factors Princeton Aarxistes. Pnnecton. New from the Division of Nuclear Matenals. relating to LLW management. lersey (1986)

%ese personnel and anmmades d their Training- I duties arr I

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Fed:ral Regist:r / Vol. 52. N .13 / Wedresday, January

= coordinating and assisting with the

^ " Radon Training Seulon for State '

direction of office programa.

'"Comprehensive Hulth P6ysica." Personnal." US EPA Traldag- .

Rockwell! international D985) Experience: j

    • Biolo ical Effecia oflonizing ofs Department of B.A.--WeUealey CoUe2e (1981)

'#Ng ,$,*etts Instit 3te of Techndogy.

Sho b 11 al h )

^'" -1 1 a en Atomic Electric Department of Urban Studies and J

n ect ve A n d lon Planning (1982-1964) f M: king for Radiological Emergency int 5b$ vent o' kwell. Renarch nhenity of Hanover.%,ut Cumany i

Reactor Fac ity Health Physica Response." US NRC. FTMA (1980) Department of Planning and Technician "EnvironmentalRadiation Michael V. Madom.o: Nuclear Safety Architecture Ow1982)

Surveillance? Georgia Institute of Ase clate.Perf rms technicalduties Additional coursework in decision  ;

Technology (1977) 1 in ni analysia fundamentals of radistion l

  • Radiological Emergency Response Operations Training? US NRC.ERDA cggge a fa protection, basardous weste minimization

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  • Environmental Source Term Modeling." B.S.--University of filinois Experience-
  • Unherai'y of Chicago. Argonne -Nucleat Engineering. Radiation 1%Present Illinois Department of National Laboratory (1971) Protection and Shielding Nuclear Safety

" Air Sampling for Radioactive 1G84: Parliamentary Research Service:  !

Experience:

1mPresent: Illinois Dspartment of Materials." Oak Ridge Apodated Bonn.Weet Germany Nucleat Safety Universities: Oak Ridge. Tennessee 1982-1984: Worked on a variety of 1973-19act Illinois De;;artment of Public (m86) projecas deating with policy "Pertonal Computtr Applications in develo;nnem and dispute resolu; ion in NO He alth Physica." 7MS. Inc.; Boston.

19 Ulinois Environmental environmentalissues

^8 MA 0988) PdulE. Seidler: Nuclear Policy Nudent-General Employee Tralning AbdulKhalique: Nuclear Safety Analy:L Responsible for implementing Scientist L Plans. imple/nents and (NCET). Commonwealth Edison. the lilinois public participation plan.

Chicago. Ulinois 0985) p:rticipates in radioenslyt! cal programa. ,, Radiation De'ection and also performs sa Usison with local Training: Measurement-Advanced Course, govemed groups. .

Ph.D.--Univenity of Birmingham. Eberline Analytical Albuquerque, pedence.

England (1976). Analytical Chemistry New Mexico D985) M.A.--University of Chicago 0966J M.S.--University of Karachi, Pakistan

  • Fundamentals of Ground Weter -Public Policy (1967). Chemistry Contamination." Cereghty & MiDer. B.A.--Univenity of hois 0983)

B.S.-University of Karachi. Pakistan Chicago. Illinois (1985) -Political Science. Ccamulaestions gg34) Experience: Studies Quality Control Course. University of 1985-Present: Illinois Department of Urban & RetenalInfcrmation Systems Business Administration. University Nuclear Safety An:cauoa,1986 Annual Confertnce cf Karachi. Pakistan 19tW) 1h1984 (Summers):1111nois DsBO)

Experienca: Department of Nuclear Ssfety Experience:

1mPresentIllinois Deputment of Richard Wo!Aen Nuclear Policy 1mPresent Ulinois Cepsrtment of Nudear Safety Analyst. Performs review and analysis Nudear Safety 1981-1988: Dr.pratment of Pharmacology. of Federal and State regulations. 1 6 1966: University of C.;hicago Office Southern Ulinois University School of Training- of the ComptroUer Medicine Ph.D--Purdue University 0976) 1985-1985: Illinois Burnu of the Budget 1975-1980: Claxk Laboratories Sociology (Research Methods and 19644985: Compaas Health Plans (pakistan). Ltd. Statiatica) 19664972. Opal Laboratories. Ltd. 1984-1984:U.S. Senator Paul Sirnen M.S.-Punius University (1974) 1982-1582: Creative Research (Pakistan) --Sociology Anociates Melonic A.Homel: Health Phyalcist. B.S.-Manetta College 0972) . Referrnce. Ulinois Program Sts'ement, Tunctions as a health physics specialist -Sociology in the environmental monitoring Environmental Ra diation SurveiUanca. (Section D.C.1.a) kw-W Wute Manager:ent." (Section U.C.t.b) division. Harvard University. Massachusetts Tra6Ms. I centals of Radistion Safety? [ h; c B1 vel B. t rsity of f,owell.MA (1977). "run Radioactive Waste Mansgement RadaM Safety AuWatu D985)

Program? and Appendic.:s 5 and 9 University of Lowell. MA 0977). Experience: 21. Conditions Appheoble to Special Environmental Monitoring and 1965-Present Ulinois Department of Nuclear Material. Source Meterial. ond Surveillance. Health Physics Nucleat Sefety Witium.Nothing in the State's Certification Review, Medical Haalth 19764984: Chairman, Department of regulatory program shallinterfere with Physics Sociology.Blar.kburn College, the duties imposed on the holder of the

  • Environmental Law and the Citizen.- Carlinnlle. Hunois materish by.the NRC. for example, the Sangemon State Univenity. 1976-1978: Department of Soc, ology duty to report to the NRC. on NRC Springfield, Illinois Muhlenberg Collega. AUentown. prescribed forms 0) transfers of specia!

" Post. Accident Radiation Anessment.- Pennsylvama nuclear material, source material, and Northwestern University. Illinois Teresa A. Adams: Nuclear Policy tritium; and (2) periodic inventory data.

  • Radiation Protection Instrumentation." Analyst. Performs ctaff functions Harvard University. Boston.MA i

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2323 F:deral Register / Vol. S2. No.13 / Wednesday. !anuary 21. 1987 / Notices nert regu! story control over the WHEREAS.the Commission and the applicable to tha proposedIllinois State recognize the desirability of materials stated therein.

egreement. reciprocal recognition of ifcenses and Deted at Bethesda. Maryland. this ath day AidcleIV axemptions tromlicensing of those l af December 1986. instenals subject to this Agreement: Notwithstanding this Agreement the Tor the U.S. Eclear Regdatory Comm4sion may from time to time by '

Comminion, and'HEREAS, W this Agreement la entered ru!a regulation or order, require that the

c. Wayne Kerr. into pursuaet to the provisions of the manufacturer, processor, or producer of l

Diivetor. Office ofStowmsman Atomic Energy Act of 1954. ss amended; any equipment. device, commodity, or i Appendix A-Proposed Agreement NOW.THEREFORE IT IS HEREBY other product containing sourcs' rial ecial nuclear es te  !

B: tween the United States Nuclear AGREED between the Comrnission and byproduct or afer' possession or control Regulatory Commission and the State of the Govemor of the State, acting in shallnot trans behalf of the State as follows: of such product except pursuant to a 1111aola for Discontinuance of Carten Iicen88 or an *Remption frorn licensing Commission Regulatory Authority and Article 1 " ""

Responsibility Within the State Pureuang Tc Section 274 of the Atomic Energy Act Subject tu the exceptions provided in -. l A/ficle V Articles II. IV and V. the Commission cf1954.as Amended shall 6scontinue, as of the effective his Agreement shallnot aflect the WHEREAS, the United States Nuclear date of this Agreement the regulatory authority of the Commission under t Regulatory Commission (hereinafter authon of the Commission in the State educM61 br 1. of 6 M M im  ;

referred to as the Cc:nMuicn)is under . spters 6.7 and 8. e.nd Section ,ge s. . ations or orders to protect the ,

j cuthorized under Section 274 of the a 161 of the Act with respect to tht, con.m defense and security. to pretect '

Atom.ic EneFEY Act of t954.ss amendec- gono,g"& rntric'ed data of to 8 ard a8einst the (heremafter referred to as the Act) to A.Dyproduct resterial as defined in d snter into agreements with the Covemor section11e.(1)of the Act: iys ch'iunion of special nuclear cf any State providing for B. Source materials: l disc.ontinuance of the regvlatory C. Special nuclear materials in Article vi J cuthority of the Commission within the quantities not sufficient to form a The Commission will use its best State under Chapters 6. 7 and 8. and entical masa; knd. efforts to cooperate with the State and l Section 161 of the Act with res ect to D.The land disposal of sotree. othu Ag ummt Statu in the ,

byproduct materials as dehne in byproduct and special nuclear materitt fonnulation of standards arid regulatory l Sections 11e.(1) and (2) of the Act, '

received from other persons. ' '

f courte materials and special nuclear n Im i matedals in quantitfes not sufficient to ArticlJIl hazards o! radiation and to assure that i

form a gitical mata:sud. This Apement does not prov' le for State and Commission programs for  ;

WHEREAS, the Governor of the State discontinuance of any authority and the p(otection J3ainst hazards of radiation of Illinoir la authorized under Illinois Commission shall retain authority and will be coordinated and compatible.The l Revised S!stutes.1965, ch.111 %. par. responsibility with rspect to regulation j 216b and ch.111 %. par. 241-19 to enter State will use its best efforts to of: coopersts with the Commission and Into this Agreement with the A.%e constretion and operat:en of other Agreement States in the Cotomission: and. any production or utilization faelDty: formulation of standards and reguletory ,

WHEREAS, the Covernor of the State B.The export from or import bio the that ihe programs of the State and the efIllinois certified on United States of bypro fuct, source or Commission for protection against State of Illinois (hereinafter referred to special nuclear material, or of any hazards of radiation and to assure that j as the State) has a program for the the State's program will continue to be control of radiation hazards adequate toC.The production or utilization facility:

disposalic%e ocean or sea l compatible wit 1. the program of the protect the public health and safety with of byproduct, source or special nuclear Comminion for the regulation of like l respect to the materials within the State covered by this Agreement, and that the wssie materials as definedin materials.ne State and the regulations or orders of the Commission: Commission will use their best efforts to Stats desires to assume regulatory D.The disposa! of such other responsibility for such meterials: and. keep uch otherinformed of proposed byproduct, source, or special nucle ar charges in their respective rules and WHEREAS. the Commission found on material as the Commission from time to regulations an6 bcensing. inspection and )

- that the program of the State for time determines by regulation or order enforcement policies and criterie and to the regulatJon of the materials Bovered by this Agreement 15 compatible with should.bause of the hazards or obtain the comments and assistance of the Commission's program for the por atia1 hazards thereof. not be so the other party thereon.

regulation of such materials and is dismedof without a11cenas from the Afgjef, pff adequate to protect the public health Comtninion: and. ,

and sefety; and. E.ne extraction or concentration of De Commission and the State agree l source material from source material ore thaIit is desirable to provide reciprocal WHEREAS the State and the Commission recognize the desirability and the management and disposal of the recognition of license: for the materials resulting byproduct material. listedin Article Ilicensed by the other and importance of cooperation between the Commission and the State in the A#fICI'III party or by any Agreement State.

formuistion of standards for protection Accordingly, the Commission and the

%is Agreement may be amended. State agree to use their best efforts to l rigainst hazards of rsdiation and in tpon application by the State and  !

anuring that State and Commlulon . develop appropriate rules. regulations approval by the Commission, to include and procedures by which such programs for protection agalnat hazards . the additional area specified in Article of radiation will be coordinated and reciprocity will be accorded.

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Enclosure C Sumaries of Public Comegts and F:RC Staff Responses Comments 1 and 2 Letters dated January 7, 1987, and January 15, 1987 from Robert M.

Rader, Counsel for US Ecology, noting unavailability in the NRC H Street public document room of documents referenced in the Federal Register notice and requesting that the coment period be extended from 30 to 60 days. Mr. Rader stated that US Ecology, Inc. is currently a party to ;

proceeding before an NRC Atomic Safety and Licensing Board regarding tne low-level radioactive waste disposal site near Sheffield, Illinois. ,

NRC Staft Response:

On January 27, 1987, G. Wayne Kerr, Director, OSP infomed Mr. Rader that documents referenced in the FR notice were made available for public inspection in the PDR on January 9,1987, that the coment period was extended to February 20, 1987 to accommodate public review of the {

corrected FR notice, and that the staff had decided, after careful '

consideration of the request, w+ to extend the 30 day comment period.

Coment 3 Letter dated January 29, 1987 from A. Eugene Rennels, Mayor, City of West Chicago, comenting on the classification of waste at the Kerr-McGee West Chicago Rare Earths Facility as section 11e.(2) byproduct material and on the request of Illinois to exclude this material from the provisions of the agreement, noting that under the proposed agreement Illinois would assume regulatory responsibility for off-site source material resulting from operation of the Kerr-PcGee West j Chicago Rare Earths Facility (including off-site materiel which has been 1 or may be returned to the Kerr-McGee site), expressing the view that regulatory responsibility for the materiels located at the West Chicago Rare Earths F6cility site should not be divided between the State of Illinois and the NRC and requesting, u the alternative, either that the Comission disapprove the Agreement beceuse it does not include section )

11e.(2) byproduct material, or that the classification of the materials in the City of West Chicago, both those located at the i(err-McGee West Chicago Rare Earths Facility site and those located off-site, be reassessed and detemined to be source material. The Mayor also requested that b'RC adopt as policy 'utain resolutions of the City of West Chicago concerning the radioactive materials at the Kerr-McGee Rare l Earths Facility.

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1 I Copies of the public coments are available for public inspection in the Comission's public document room at 1717 H Street N.W., i Washington, DC and the Comission's Region III Office, 799 Roosevelt ,

Road, Building No. 4. Glen Ellyn, Illinois.

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'. NRC Staff Response For the reasons set out below, the NRC staff disagrtes with the commenters' views that the off-site process wastes f/cm the West Chicaoo i Rare Earths Facility, including those off-site wastes which have been I subsequently returned to the West Chicago site, should da considered /

{11e.(2)byproductmaterial. In the opinion of the stoff, these wastes are properly characterized as source material.

Under the regulatory scheme established by $274 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, the transfer of jurisdiction over particular licenseet depends on whether the licensed activities fall within the categories of materials over which a state has agreed to assume regulatory authority under the provisions of a 5274b agreement. In the case of the proposed Illinois agreement, Illinois would assume regulatory responsibility for ectivities in the following categories:

511e.(1) byproduct material, source material,. special nuclear material in quantities not sufficient to fonn a cHtical mass, and land disposal '

of low-level radioactive waste received from other persons. NRC would )

retainjurisdictionover$11e.(2)byproductmaterial. While there is no argument over this division of authority, a dispute has arisen as to whether certain materials attributed to one licensee (Kerr-McGee Chemical Corporation) have been properly characterized. The dispute relates to the characterization of cffsite materials located in the vicinity of Kerr-McGee's West Chicago site. (Some of these materials have been returned to the Kerr-McGee ' West Chicago site for storage.) I One comenter, the City of West Chicago, urges that all the radiological materials on and in the vicinity of the West Chicago site be classified as source material, thereby placing all regulatory authority over these materials in the State of Illinois. Another commenter, Covington &

Burling on behalf of Kerr-McGee Chemical Corporation, Nrges that the i offsite materials in the vicinity of the West Chicago site be classified as $11e.(2) byproduct material, thereby assuring that ragulatory l responsibility for these materials will remain with NRC. The waste materials that have remained on the site are already classified as  :

111e.(2)byproductmaterial. Both commenters object to the NRC staff's  !

determination characterizing part of the materials at the West Chicago I site is 611e.(2) byproduct material and part as source material (see Federal Register notice containing Staff Assessment of Proposed Agreeuent between the NRC and the State of Illinois, 52 FR 2309 at 2322, January 21,1987.) In the opinion of these commenters, regulatory authority over these materials should either be exercised by NRC or by Illinois but not by both.

As defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, es amended and the Comission's regulations, the terms source material and 611e.(2) byproduct material have the following meanings:

Source material means (1) uranium or thorium, or any combination thereof, in any physical or chemical form or (2) ores which contain by weight one-twentieth of one percent (0.05%) or more of (i) uranium, (ii) thorium or (iii) any combination thereof. Source material does not include special nuclear naterial.

of industrial uses including polishes, chemical manufacture, catalysts, and television phosphors. Beginning in the 1940's, the refinery, under Government contracts, became a principal source of thorium for national j defense needs. Following World War II, much of the factory output was j sold to U.S. ijovernment agencies. With the passage of the Atomic Energy 1 Act of 1954, production of thorium at the facility became subject to l federal regulation. At all times since May 1, 1956, the facility has ,

been licensed by the Atonic Energy Comission or its successor, the  !

Nuclear Regulatory Comission. In 1958, the facility was acquired by j American Potash & Chemical Corporation which continued thcrium i production at the site. In 1967, Kerr-McGee acquired the West Chicago 1 Rare Earths Facility as a small part of its larger acquisition of )

American Potash. In December 1973, Kerr41cGee discontinued operations ]

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unlimited amounts of thorium at the West Chicago Rare Earths Facility, 1 has applied to the Commission for a licer.se amendment authorizing it to decommission the facility and restore the West Chicago site to its approximate original state. Under the restoration plan proposed by -

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Kerr-McGee, all the factory structures would be torn down (demolition of  !

these rtructures is r.ow essentially complete), five settling ponds would j be eliminated and the contaminated building rubble and precess wastes would be placed in a disposal cell on s landscaped and fenced p;)rtion of the site. The remainder of the property would be prepared for j unrestricted, beneficial use. The NRC has not yet acted on Kerr-McGee's "

application for a license amendment. The matter is pending before an  !

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board. The State of Illinois has intervened I in this proceeding. Both Illinois and the City of West Chicago have j indicated that they want all the contaminated material removed from the site.

According to the plant operating history, as presented in the Kerr-McGee  !

Decommissioning Plan submitted August 15, 1979, the West Chicago i facility processed 10,000 tons per year of monazite sands during peak production years between 1954 and 1958, about 5000 to 6000 tons per year between 1958 and 1963, and about 2000 to 2500 tons per year before 1954 and after 1963. The ore fed to the process from 1954-1973 was about 77 percent of the total ore used from 1936-1973. The liquid and solid i waste volumes which resulted from the production process and contain i significant quantities of thorium and thorium dadghter products Wculd be essentially proportional to ore use. It follows, therefore, that the majority of the liquid and solid wastes producea during the life of the ,

facility, including those now on the West Chicago site, were produced j during the period the facility was licensed by the Atomic Energy i Comission.

The process used for thorium and rare earths production at the West Chicago facility produced two types of waste materials. These wastes were initially deposited on site. One waste material resulted from the i ure digestion process and was a solid sandlike residue. The other waste  ;

material was composed of liquid wastes from a number of processes and I contained dissolved salts and suspended solids. The solids settled out  !

l on the bottoms of the facility's sumps and percolation ponds. These ,

sediments were periodically dredged from the ponds and sumps and placed j i

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. Chicago Rare Earths Facility:as $11e.(2) byproduct material.

The NRC staff has characterized the contaminated landfill returned to the West Chicago site from West Chicago residential areas and the sewage-treatment plant as source material. The NRC staff has also E characterized other offsite materials detemined to be contaminated as a' H result of the operations of the West Chicago Rare Earths Facility as source material. These materials include landfill at Reed-Keppler Park and in certain residential areas of DuPage County, and contaminated areas in Kress Creek and the West Branch of the DuPage River. The staff j

- based these characterizations on the fact that most'of the process wastes' created prior to 1953, particularly prior to the early 1940's, 4 are properly attributable to the production of rare earths. It'is these

- materialszthat were removed from the West Chicago site and used as landfill. The process wastes created during the period'after 1953, particularly during the period the West Chicego Rare Earths Facility was licensed by the Atumic Energy Comissio s .

primarily t9 the production of thorium.p, are properly

-Accordingly, the attributable staff has characterized the onsite process wastes which now remain at and have at no. time been removed from the West Chicago site as {11e.(2) byproduct material. During the' period the fac Mity was producing thorium under its AEC license, come of the facility structures became increasingly contaminated. Since the most extensive use of the' buildings has been in connection with the thorium production process, the staff has also characterized the contaminated building rubble.left on the West Chicago site following demolition of the facility structures as 911e.(2) byproduct naterial. In view of the fects, the staff is of the opinion that these characterizations are reasonable.

Both Kerr McGee Chemical. Corporation and US Ecology (see Comment 5) object to the temin6 tion of the proceedings before the Comission on the grounds that termination would deny them due process and be wasteful of the efforts that the Comission and the parties have devoted to those proceedings to date.

The comenters' due proceu concerns are speculative and without foundation. Once the Nhc proceedings are teminated, it will be up to q Illinois to initiate its own enforcement proceedings. We see no basis to speculate that Illinois would deny either ef the licensees due process of law in the conduct of those proceedings.

The NRC staff has exavined Illinois procedures.for the fomulation of J general rutas, for approving or denying applications for licenses or authorizations to possess and use radioactive materials and for taking disciplinary actions against licensees in the light of Criterion 23 l I

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from Mark J. Wetterhahn). The NRC staff's views on these matters, surrnarized briefly in footnote 3 are contained in documents on file in the Comission's public document room and have, in addition, already been made available to the comenter under an FOIA request (F01A-87 47) which was both filed and answered before the relevant comments were submitted. Conner & Wetterhahn's late-filed coment of April 2,1987 addresses US Ecology's cencerns respecting two inactive chemical waste disposal sites located to the north and west of the Sheffield low-level radioactive waste disposal site. These chemical waste disposal sites are not regulated by the NRC and are not included in the categories of i materials transferred by the agreement. The following NRC response to the comenter's letter dated February 20, 1987 also addresses the matters raised by Mark J. Wetterhahn in his late-filed coment letter dated March 6, 1987.'

NRC Staff Response i The concerns expressed by Conner & Wetterhahn on behalf of their client, US Ecology, relate primarily to the anticipated impact of the Agreement upon the ongoing NRC adjudicatory proceeding involving the Sheffield site and to the detrimental effect that the State's assumption of regulatory authority is expected to have on US Ecology's procedural rights. (The connenter's due response to Coment 4, supra.) process concerns The coments are substantively do not addressed in the NRC addmss the NRC staff's assessment of the Illinois program. The coments did not question the NRC staff's conclusion that Illinois' proposed program is adequate to protect public health and safety within the State nor do they substantively challenge the NRC staff's conclus Sn that the Illinois program is compatible with the Comission's reaulatory program for like materials. The principal purpose of the corrents is to request relief, specifically temporary exclusion of the Sheffield site, from the provisions of the proposed agreement.

On March 10, 1987, the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board issued an Order holding that all issues in the Sheffield proceeding hgd been resolved by the Board's Memorandum and Order of February 20, 1987 and concluding >

the proceeding. On Parch 16, 1987, US Ecology appealed the Licensing l Board's order and asked for expedited Appeal Board consideration, On ',

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October 1,1986 from G. Wayne Kerr, SP to J. Davis, HMSS which sumarized the staff's disposition of HMSS' comments on the Illinois proposal, including addressing each and every one of those of WM. This document was placed in the NRC public document room in Washington, DC l along with other materials relating to the negotiations for an Agreement with Illinois on February 26, 1987 and was in the same package that l contained the October 3, 1986 WM meno. In the aggregate, staff found I the March 16, 1987 cornent on the compatibility of the proposed Illinois l

proposal to be totally without merit.

4 The Board's Memorandum and Order of February 20, 1987 addressed two legal issues. The first dealt with the possession of the buried materials and the second with the termination of the license.

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segments of a nuclear materials category or over individual licensees.7 e Contrary to the views of the comenter, the NRC does not retain jurisdiction over pending enforcement matters after an Agreenent has been executed nor do such matters constitute a special category of radioactive materials within the meaning of $274. Read correctly, the menorandum on which the connenter relies only stands for the proposition that the staff is to finish what can be finished in the time available so that the turnover can be completed in an orderly manner.

Section.274j authorizes the Comission, under certain circumstances, to tenninate or suspend a $274b agreement and to reassert its licensing erd regulatory authority. In 1978, this section was amended to enable the Comission to terminate or suspend "all or part of" its agreement. This change made it possible for the Comission to reassert regulatory authority over a single category of materials, such as uranium mills and -

mill tailings, while at the same tine permitting States to retain regulatory authority over other categories of materials subject to the agreement. However, this amendment did not authorize NRC to terminate or suspend an agreement with respect to a particular licensee. In 1980,

$274j was again amended to authorize NRC to reassert its regulatory authority over an individual licensee. Under this authority, the Comission may temporarily suspend all or part of its agreement with a State without notice or hearing if, in the judgment of the Commission:

. . . an emergency situation exists with respect to any material covered by such an agreement creating danger which requires imediato action to protect the health or safety of persons either within or outside of the State, and ... the State has failed to take steps necessary to contain or eliminate the cause of the danger within a reasonable time after the situation arose." Section 274j further provides that this temporary suspension is to remain in effe:t "only for (FootnoteContinued) agreement.

Section 274f tracks the text of $274e of the draft bill which the Atonic Energy Commission, NRC's predeces s or agency, transmitted to the Joint Comittee on Atomic Energy in March 1959. In its section-by-section analysis of $274e of the draft bill, the Comission concluded

" Subsection e. gives the Commission necessary authority to implement those agreements." JCAE, Joint Comittee Print " Selected Materials on Federal-State Cooperation in the Atomic Energy Field," March 1959, 86th Cong. ,1st Sess, at p. 33. See also, analysis of S. 1987, es introduced,105 Cong. Rec. 7524, May 19,1959, 7

This point is specifically addressed in the section-by-section analysis prepared by the AEC to accompany its draft bill which was introduced in the Senate as S. 1987 on May 19, 1959. "Three categories of activities are specified. Under the bill the Comission r:ay enter into an agreement providing for discontinuance of its regulatory authority with respect to any one or more of those categories. Such an agreement may not provide for discontinuance of the Comission's authority with respect to part of a category ..." 105 Cong. Rec. 7523, May 19, 1959.

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The Honorable John Breaux, Chairman I Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation Committee on Environment and Public Works United States Senate Washington, D.C. 20510

Dear Mr. Chaiman:

We are pleased to advise the-Comittee that, pursuant to section 274 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, entitled " Cooperation with States," the Commission on _

, 1987 approved a proposed Agreement with the State of Illinois under which the State will assume certain regulatory responsibi'ity for byproduct materials as defined in section 11e.(1) of the Act, source materials, special nuclear materials in cuantities less than a critical mass and for the commercial disposal of low-level radioactive waste. The State will not assume authority'for uranium or thorium milling activities nc- for the Allied-Chemical UF 6

conversion p1hnt in Metropolis. The State did not request authority to regulate uranium or thorium milling activities. The Commission has decided to retain authority over the Allied-Chemical plant hecause of its significance to the comon defense and security. A copy of the proposed Agreement is enclosed. Also enclosed is a copy of the public announcement which we plar,to issue within the next few days.

In his proposal requesting that the Comission enter into an Agreement with the State, Governor James R. Thompson certified that the State of Illinois has a program for the control of radiation hazards adequate to protect the public health and safety with respect to the naterials

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covered by the pioposed Agreement, and that the State desires to assume regulatory responsibility for such materials. 1 l

The proposrA Agreement and the staff assessment of the proposed Agreement were published in the Federal Register for public comment as required by section 274 of the Atomic Energy Act, as amended. Copies of the proposal were made available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Roon.

l The Commission has detemined that the Illinois program is compatible with the Comission's program for the regulation of like materials and adequate to protect the public health and safety with respe:t to the materials covered by the proposed Agreement.

It is planned to execute the Agrcement by correspondence with an effective date of , 1987 The Agreenent will be published in the Federal Register within thirty days after signature by the parties.

Sincerely, Carlton C. Kamerer. Director State, local and Indian Tribe Programs Office of Governmental and Public Affairs

Enclosures:

1. Agreement
2. Proposed Public Announcement cc: Senator Alan Simpson

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Enclosure E PP.0 POSED P'J BLIC ANNOUNCEMENT NRC APPROVES ILLINDIS AGREEMENT TO c'iULATE USE OF CERTAIN RADI0 ACTIVE MATER 1r.LS  !

l The Nuclear Regulatory Comission has approved an Agreement with the j State of Illinois under which that State will assurrc. part of the fluclear Regulatory Comission's regulatory authority over the use of certain radioactive materials. The Agreement will become effective on - ,

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Under the Agreement, the responsibility for licensing, rulemaking, inspection, and enforcement concerning the use of byproduct materials, the source materials uranium and thorium, swall quantities of fissionable materials and commercial low-level waste disposal will be transferred to Illinois. There are approximately 800 NRC licenses currently in effect in Illinois which will be transferred to the State.

The Agreement, however, does not provide for State authority over Section 11e.(2) byproduct material milling activities or their waster.

The Comission will also retain authority over the Allied-Chemical UF 6

conversion plant in Metropolis because of its significance to the national common defense and security.

The Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety will be the State agency responsible for administering the regulatory progran.

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The Commission has found that the radiation control progran proposed by' Illinois is compatible with the NRC progran and is adequate to protect i

the public health and safety. The Agreement, as approved by the Comission, is the satae as the one published for public comment in the Federal Register for four consecutive weeks beginning on January 21, 1987.

Illinoir, becomes the 29th State to sign such an Agreement with the NRC.

Other States which have already assumed this authority from the NRC are:

Alabama; Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Gcorgia, '

' Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Nebraskc, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Da!P,ta, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina. Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Washington, i

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Enclosure F The Honorable James R. Thonpson Governor of Illinois '

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Dear Governor Thompson:

I am pleased to infom you that the Nuclear Regulatory Comission has approved your proposed Agreement under which the NRC will discontinue and the State of Illinois, on , 1987, will assume certain of the Comission's regulatory authority over byproduct, source and special nuclear materials in accordance with section 274 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended. The Comission, a#ter consultation with the U.S. Department of Energy and after careful consideration of the national comon defense and security needs, has ordered retention of regulatory authority for health and safety over the Allied-Chemical conversion plant in Metropolis (enclosure.1). Please be assured that this action does not in any way reflect upon the overall adecuacy of the Illinois program for regulation of health and safety. We plan, however, to continue to keep the Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety informed of health and safety regulatory actions taken with respect to this plant.

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I am pleased to enclose three (3) copies of the Agreement for your signature (enclosure 1). Following your execution of the Agreement, please return two copies to NRC. The third copy is for retention by the State. j I

L On behalf of the Comission, I congratulate you, your staff, and the State of Illinois for taking this important step in Federal-State relations.

Sincerely, Lando W. Zech, Jr.

Chairman

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Enclosure G UNITED STATES nJCLEAR Rent'LATORY COMMISSION Ir the Matter of )

ALLIED-CHEMICAL CORPORATION Docket No. 40-Metropolis, Illinois ) License No. _ _

, ORDER TO PROTECT THE COMMON DEFENSE AND S'ECURITY I 4 i

Allied-Chemical Corporation, Metropolis, Illinois, (the " licensee") l 1s the holder of License No,. (the " licensee") issued by the  !

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authorizes the licensee to use source material in a UFg conversion plant in Metropolis, Illinois. The license was last issued On .

19_ and will expire on , 19_.

II In a letter dated October 2,1986, Governor James P. Thompson of the State of Illinois requested that the Comission enter into an Agreement with the State pursrant to Section 274 of the Atomic Energy {

Act, as amended. The~ specific authority reouested includes the- l category, source material . An NRC staff assessment and the proposed 1 agreement were pt.blished in the Federal Register.for public comment (52 FR 2309, 2898, 3503 and 4456; correction notice at 52 FR 4569). The staff assessment noted that with respect to the Allied. Chemical plant, the.Comission was considering whether continued NRC regulation was necessary in the interest of the common defense and security of the United States.

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In a letter dated Novembcr 17, 1986, the Department of Energy,

(" DOE")commentingtoNRConthematteroftheproposedinclusionofthe l NRC license to Allied Chemical among the category of source material  !

licenses to be transferred to Illinois under a Section 274b Agreenent, I stated that the combination of the commercially operated uranium l conversion facilitiet in the U.S. and the DOE operated enrichment facilities represent a complex that is an important national asset essential to maintaining the common defense and security of the United States. DOE further exp~ r essed the view that, "it would be prudent for NRC to retain its existing regulatory authority over uranium conversion facilities consistent with its charter to regulate facilities whose operation is in the naticnal interest."

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that regulation of the Allied-Chemical conversion plant in Metropolis i should be continued under NRC jurisdiction to protect the comon defense and security.-

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-Energy Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 92021(m), IT.IS HEREBY ORDERED, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, THAT:

a. Notwithstanding the provisions of a Section 274b Agreement

.with the State of Illinois as approved by the Comiskicn the NRC jurisdiction over the possession and use of source meterial by Allied Chemical.(license ) shall be retained by the NRC, and b.. NRC jurisdiction over the license shall remain in effect during the term of such Section 274b Agreertent unless the Comission shall determine that continued regulation by NRC is no longer needed to

. assure the protection cf the comon defense and security of.the l'hited States.

VI Any person whose interests may be affected by this. order may within days'of the date of this order file written coments with supporting analysis with the Secretary of the Comission explaining why this order should not have been issued. The Comission vill consider i any coments that are filed with a view to possible modification or rescission of the order. The filing of any coments does not stay the effectiveness of this order.

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i FOR THE UNITED STATES 1 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Samuel J. Chilk, Secretary Office of the Secretary of the Comission Dated at Washington, DC this day of , 1987.

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