[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 174 (Thursday, September 9, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 54706]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-20391]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 040-08794]


Notice of License Termination and Release of Molycorp's Property 
In York, PA for Unrestricted Release

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of license termination and site release for unrestricted 
use.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas G. McLaughlin, Materials 
Decommissioning Section, Division of Waste Management and Environmental 
Protection, NRC, Washington, DC 20555; telephone (301) 415-5869; fax 
(301) 415-5397; or e-mail at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Introduction

    Pursuant to 10 CFR 2.106, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) 
is providing notice that it is terminating license SMB-1408 for 
Molycorp, Inc. (Molycorp or Licensee), and releasing the Molycorp 
property in York, PA, for unrestricted use. The Licensee's request for 
an amendment to authorize decommissioning of its former rare earth 
processing facility in York, PA, was previously noticed in the Federal 
Register on May 13, 1996 (61 FR 22075) with a notice of an opportunity 
to request a hearing.
    Molycorp provided a final radiological status survey and performed 
an on-site and off-site dose analysis to demonstrate the site meets the 
license termination criteria in Subpart E of 10 CFR part 20. In 
addition, NRC staff conducted independent measurements of residual 
contamination remaining at the site.
    The NRC staff has evaluated the Molycorp request, has reviewed the 
results of the final radiological survey, has performed confirmatory 
measurements throughout the site property, and has determined that the 
site cleanup meets the Site Decommissioning Management Plan criteria as 
well as the unrestricted release dose criteria in 10 CFR 20.1402. The 
Commission has concluded that the site is suitable for release for 
unrestricted use, and has terminated the license for the Molycorp York, 
PA property. The staff prepared a Safety Evaluation Report (SER) to 
support the proposed action.

II. Further Information

    In accordance with 10 CFR 2.790 of the NRC's ``Rules of Practice,'' 
details with respect to this action, including the SER, are available 
electronically at the NRC's Electronic Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. From this site, you can access the 
NRC's Agencywide Document Access and Management System (ADAMS), which 
provides text and image files of NRC's public documents. The ADAMS 
accession number for the document ``Release of Molycorp York 
Pennsylvania Property and Termination of License (License No. SMB-
1408)'' is ADAMS No. ML042310150. If you do not have access to ADAMS or 
if there are problems in accessing a document located in ADAMS, contact 
the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) Reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 
(301) 415-4737, or by e-mail to [email protected].
    These documents may also be viewed electronically on the public 
computers located at the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR), O 1 F21, One 
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. The PDR 
reproduction contractor will copy documents for a fee.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

    Dated at NRC, Rockville, MD, this 2nd day of September, 2004.
Daniel M. Gillen,
Deputy Director, Decommissioning Directorate, Division of Waste 
Management and Environmental Protection, Office of Nuclear Material 
Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 04-20391 Filed 9-8-04; 8:45 am]
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