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Information Relay Service (FIRS) at FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For tanks, consolidating the remaining
1–800–877–8339. further information on this Amended approximately 900,000 gallons of SBW
[FR Doc. E6–20124 Filed 11–27–06; 8:45 am]
ROD and the Idaho Cleanup Project, into three 300,000-gallon belowgrade
contact Scott Van Camp, Assistant tanks, and cleaning the emptied tanks.
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Manager, Facility and Materials Tank cleaning to remove the tank heels
Disposition Project, U.S. DOE, Idaho in the emptied tanks (the amount of
Operations Office, 1955 Fremont liquid remaining in each tank after
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Avenue, MS–1222, Idaho Falls, ID lowering the tank contents to the
83415, Telephone: (208) 526–6503. greatest extent possible by use of the
Amended Record of Decision: Idaho existing transfer equipment) began in
High-Level Waste and Facilities For general information on DOE’s
NEPA process, please contact: Carol M. late 2002. Seven of the 300,000-gallon
Disposition Final Environmental tanks, the four 30,000-gallon inactive
Impact Statement Borgstrom, Director, Office of NEPA
Policy and Compliance (GC–20), U.S. tanks, and associated ancillary
AGENCY: Department of Energy. DOE, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW., equipment have been cleaned, and DOE
ACTION: Amended Record of Decision. Washington, DC 20585–0103, plans to clean and complete closure of
Telephone: (202) 586–4600 or leave a the remaining tanks, piping, valve
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of message at (800) 472–2756. boxes, encasements, and vaults by
Energy (DOE) is amending its Record of SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
December 31, 2012.
Decision (ROD) published December 19, The Final EIS, issued in October 2002,
2005 (70 Federal Register [FR] 75165), I. Background analyzed two sets of alternatives for
pursuant to the Idaho High-Level Waste accomplishing the proposed action: (1)
From 1952 to 1991, DOE and its
and Facilities Disposition Final Waste processing alternatives for
predecessor agencies reprocessed SNF
Environmental Impact Statement (Final treating, storing, and disposing of liquid
at INTEC, known prior to 1998 as the
EIS) (DOE/EIS–0287, September 2002). SBW and NGLW stored in belowgrade
Idaho Chemical Processing Plant, on the
The Final EIS analyzed two sets of tanks and solid HLW calcine stored in
Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site.
alternatives for accomplishing DOE’s bin sets at the INTEC on the INL Site;
Reprocessing operations used solvent
proposed actions regarding the Idaho and (2) facility disposition alternatives
extraction systems to remove mostly
Nuclear Technology and Engineering for final disposition of facilities directly
uranium-235 from SNF. The waste related to the HLW Program after its
Center (INTEC): (1) Waste processing product from the first extraction cycle of
alternatives and (2) facility disposition missions are complete, including any
the reprocessing operation was liquid new facilities necessary to implement
alternatives. As described in this HLW mixed with hazardous materials,
Amended ROD, DOE has decided to the waste processing alternatives. This
which was stored in belowgrade Amended ROD addresses only
conduct performance-based closure of stainless steel tanks at the INTEC TFF.
the INTEC Tank Farm Facility (TFF). disposition of the TFF and not waste
Subsequent extraction cycles, treatment processing or other facilities addressed
This decision to conduct performance- processes, and follow-on
based closure of the TFF does not affect in the initial ROD.
decontamination activities generated On October 28, 2004, the NDAA was
decisions made in the initial ROD additional liquids that were combined enacted. Among other provisions of the
concerning: performance-based closure to form liquid SBW, which is generally Act, Section 3116 provides that certain
of other existing facilities directly much less radioactive than HLW wastes from reprocessing SNF are not
related to the HLW Program; planned generated from the first extraction cycle. HLW if the Secretary, in consultation
clean closure of newly constructed After SNF reprocessing was curtailed in with the NRC, determines that the
waste processing facilities needed to 1991, the first cycle reprocessing wastes criteria in Section 3116(a) have been
implement the initial ROD; steam were removed from the tanks in the TFF met.
reforming treatment of sodium-bearing and the tanks were reused to store In DOE’s initial ROD, published
waste (SBW) to allow disposal at the liquid SBW. The liquid SBW was stored December 19, 2005 (70 FR 75165), DOE
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near in ten of the eleven 300,000-gallon decided, among other things, to pursue
Carlsbad, New Mexico (DOE’s preferred belowgrade storage tanks in the TFF. a phased decision-making process and
disposal path) or at a geologic repository The eleventh tank was maintained as a stated its plan to issue an Amended
for spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and HLW; spare (but was contaminated with a ROD in 2006 specifically addressing
management of newly generated liquid small quantity of waste). The TFF also closure of the TFF, in coordination with
waste (NGLW); and DOE’s strategy to includes four 30,000-gallon belowgrade the Secretary’s Determination under
retrieve HLW calcine for disposal tanks that were used in reprocessing Section 3116. As explained in the initial
outside the State of Idaho. Nor does this operations. The last campaign of SNF ROD, the State of Idaho, as a
Amended ROD affect future decisions reprocessing at INTEC was in 1991, and cooperating agency on the Draft and
concerning the retrieval strategy for HLW is no longer generated at INTEC. Final EIS, stated that it would continue
HLW calcine stored at INTEC, potential From 1963 to 1998, DOE processed to coordinate with DOE and NRC, as
calcine treatment if necessary, and HLW and some SBW through appropriate, regarding Section 3116
closure of the bin sets in which the calcination that converted the liquid activities.
calcine is stored. waste into a dry powder calcine. DOE submitted a Draft Section 3116
ADDRESSES: Copies of this Amended Additional SBW was processed by Determination concerning the TFF to
ROD will be available on DOE’s calcination from 1998 to 2000. At the NRC on September 7, 2005, and
National Environmental Policy Act present, approximately 4,400 cubic consulted with the NRC pursuant to
(NEPA) Web site at: http:// meters of HLW calcine remains stored Section 3116(a) of the NDAA. Although
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www.eh.doe.gov/nepa under DOE NEPA in six bin sets (a series of reinforced not required by Section 3116, DOE
Documents. Copies of the Section 3116 concrete vaults, each containing three to issued a Notice of Availability of the
Determination and associated seven stainless steel storage bins). Over Draft Section 3116 Determination in the
documents are available on DOE’s Web the past several years, TFF operations Federal Register on September 14, 2005
site at http://apps.em.doe.gov/idwd. have included removing SBW from the (70 FR 54374), for public review,

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