[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 239 (Thursday, December 13, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70900-70901]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-24172]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-184]


National Institute of Standards and Technology; National Bureau 
of Standards Reactor; Notice of Availability of the Final Environmental 
Impact Statement for License Renewal of NBSR

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(NRC, Commission) has published a final Environmental Impact Statement 
(EIS) for License Renewal of the operating license TR-5 for an 
additional 20 years of operation for the National Bureau of Standards 
Reactor (NBSR) located on the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology (NIST) campus in upper Montgomery County, Maryland. Possible 
alternatives to the proposed action (license renewal) include no 
action, constructing a new reactor to replace the NBSR capabilities, 
and using alternative research facilities.
    The final EIS is publicly available at the NRC Public Document Room 
(PDR), located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, 
Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from the NRC's Agencywide Documents 
Access and Management System (ADAMS). The ADAMS Public Electronic 
Reading Room is accessible at http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/dologin.html. The Accession Number for the final EIS is ML072970861.

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Persons who do not have access to ADAMS, or who encounter problems in 
accessing the documents located in ADAMS, should contact the NRC's PDR 
reference staff by telephone at 1-800-397-4209, or 301-415-4737, or by 
e-mail at [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Dennis Beissel, Environmental 
Review Branch, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mail Stop O-11F1, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001. Mr. Beissel may be contacted at the 
aforementioned telephone number or e-mail address.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 6\th\ day of December, 2007.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Eric Benner,
Branch Chief, Environmental Review Branch, Division of License Renewal, 
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
 [FR Doc. E7-24172 Filed 12-12-07; 8:45 am]
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