Energia i regulacje · 10.12.1997

Umetco Minerals Corporation

Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has amended Umetco Minerals Corporation's (Umetco's) Source Material License SUA-648 to change six reclamation milestone dates. This amendment was requested by Umetco in its letter dated October 6, 1997, and the receipt of the request by NRC was noticed in the Federal Register on October 16, 1997. The license amendment modifies License Condition 59 to change completion dates for six site-reclamation milestones. The new dates approved by the NRC extend completion of placement of final radon barrier for the Inactive (enhanced barrier) and the A-9 impoundments by four years, and that for the Heap Leach impoundment by one year; and placement of erosion protection cover for the Inactive impoundment by five years, and for the A-9 and the Heap Leach impoundments by four years. Umetco attributes the delays to its efforts to enhance the previously approved designs of the Inactive and the A-9 impoundments, and in obtaining permits for a rock quarry that can produce sufficient volumes and quality of rock for erosion protection cover. Based on the review of Umetco's submittal, the NRC staff concludes that the delays are attribu