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Removal of the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant From the Site Decommissioning Management Plan

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 [Federal Register: October 9, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 195)]
[Notices]
[Page 51479]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr09oc01-148]

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 40-8767; License No. SUC-1380]
 
Removal of the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant From the Site 
Decommissioning Management Plan

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of removal from the site decommissioning management 
plan.

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    This notice is to inform the public that the United States Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission (NRC) is removing the Lake City Army Ammunition 
Plant (LCAAP) from the Site Decommissioning Management Plan (SDMP). The 
SDMP is a program, created by the Commission, to ensure that the NRC 
focuses special attention on certain sites to ensure timely 
decommissioning of those sites. LCAAP is one of the sites included in 
the SDMP.
    LCAAP is located in Independence, Missouri. The U.S. Department of 
the Army (the licensee) is the holder of NRC Materials License SUC-
1380, which covers a number of facilities including LCAAP. LCAAP is a 
facility that was used for the production and testing of munitions 
containing depleted uranium (DU). LCAAP, in addition to being included 
in NRC's SDMP, is also included in the U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency's (EPA's) Superfund Program, the National Contingency Plan.
    The licensee recently completed remediation of both the LCAAP 600-
Yard Bullet Catcher and the DU contaminated portion of Building 3A. 
Remediation of the remaining DU contaminated areas will not be 
completed for a number of years because of both Resource Conservation 
and Recovery Act related issues and the continuing use of the LCAAP 
firing range. EPA, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MDNR), 
NRC, and the licensee agreed that DU remediation for the remaining 
portions of LCAAP could be regulated under the provisions of 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, 
the LCAAP Federal Facility Agreement, and Executive Order 12580. Both 
EPA and MDNR will provide regulatory oversight of the DU remediation 
during this period. NRC Material License SUC-1380 will continue to 
cover LCAAP until DU contamination is remediated. Once a determination 
is made that the remainder of the DU contamination has been remediated, 
NRC will review the documentation supporting that determination. In 
addition, NRC may perform a confirmatory survey. Once NRC agrees with 
that determination, NRC will remove LCAAP from NRC Materials License 
SUC-1380. Based on the agreement between the agencies and successful 
remediation of both the LCAAP 600-Yard Bullet Catcher and Building 3A, 
NRC has determined that LCAAP no longer requires the special attention 
associated with the SDMP. Therefore, LCAAP is being removed from the 
SDMP.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 1st day of October 2001.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Stewart Brown,
Facilities Decommissioning Section, Decommissioning Branch, Division of 
Waste Management, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 01-25187 Filed 10-5-01; 8:45 am]
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