[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 222 (Tuesday, November 18, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61556-61557]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-30208]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 40-8968]
Hydro Resources, Inc.
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of availability of issuance of errata.
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SUMMARY: The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued an Errata
to the ``Final Environmental Impact Statement to Construct and Operate
the Crownpoint Uranium Solution Mining Project, Crown Point, New
Mexico'' (NUREG-1508). It should be noted that none of these errata
change the conclusions of the Final Environmental Impact Statement.
ADDRESSES: A copy of the Errata is available for public inspection and/
or copying at the NRC Public Document Room, 2120 L. Street (Lower
Level), NW, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Copies of NUREG-1508 and the
accompanying Errata may be purchased from the Superintendent of
Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, PO Box 37082, Washington,
DC. 20402-9328. Copies are also available from the National Technical
Information Service, 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Carlson, Uranium Recovery
Branch, Mail Stop TWFN 7-J8, Division of Waste Management, Office of
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555. Telephone (301) 415-8165.
Dated at Rockville, Md, this 15th day of November 1997.
For The Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Joseph J. Holonich,
Chief, Uranium Recovery Branch, Division of Waste Management, Office of
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
The following information is provided as errata to the ``Final
Environmental Impact Statement to Construct and Operate the Crownpoint
Uranium Solution Mining Project, Crownpoint, New Mexico'' (NUREG-1508),
dated February 1997.
Errata
1. Page 1-5, 1st paragraph: replace the term ``* * * Safe Water
Drinking Act (SWDA)'' with ``* * * Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).''
2. Page 2-6, Table 2.2, equation (2a): replace the term ``* * *
+4Na+H2O'' with ``* * * +4Na++H2O.''
3. Page 2-19, 1st complete paragraph, 5th sentence: change sentence
to read: ``NRC would require HRI to decontaminate areas if radionuclide
accumulation exceeds decommissioning standards, if HRI uses land
application to dispose of process waters.''
4. Page 2-19, 1st complete paragraph, 4th sentence; Page 4-81, last
paragraph, last sentence: delete the following phrase from the existing
text ``* * * generally using a zero-release NPDES permit.''
5. Page 2-28, 4th paragraph, last sentence: delete the word
``preestablished.''
6. Page 3-56, 1st paragraph, 1st sentence: revise existing text to
read, `` * * * known as the ``checkerboard'' for its mixed private,
tribal, and government property rights.''
7. Page 3-5, Table 3.4; Page 3-7, Table 3.5; and Page 4-3, Table
4.3: replace the term ``fg/m3'' with ``g/
m3.''
8. Page 4-20, last paragraph, #1: replace the term ``alkalinity''
with the term ``bicarbonate.''
9. Page 4-28, Table 4.6; and Page 4-30, Table 4.7: replace the
parameter ``Radium-226'' with ``Radium'' (i.e., radium is inclusive of
radium-226 and radium-228).
10. Page 4-61, 5th bullet, #(4): replace the phrase ``one
production/ injection well per 1.6 ha (4 acres) in each well field''
with the phrase ``one production/injection well per acre in each well
field.''
11. Page 4-63, #8: replace entire text with the following, ``All
casing strings shall be pressure tested to 125% of actual wellfield
operating pressure, not to exceed 70% of the minimum burst strength
(measured on surface usually using water and the rig pump). If pressure
declines more than 10% in 30 minutes, corrective action shall be
taken.''
12. Page 4-71, last paragraph: delete last sentence beginning with,
``However, to further minimize transportation risk, * * *''
13. Page 4-72, top of page: delete entire proposed license
condition (entire bullet beginning with, ``Yellowcake and 11e(2) by-
product waste material, * * *''), and subsequent phrase, ``In addition
to this license condition,''.
14. Page xx of the Summary and Conclusions, 2nd complete paragraph;
Page 2-20, 1st paragraph; Page 4-27, 1st complete paragraph; Page 4-45,
1st complete paragraph; Page 4-47, top of page; and Page A-21, 3rd
complete paragraph: change the term ``300 pCi/mL'' to ``300 pCi/L.''
15. Page 3-27, Table 3.13: replace the existing table with the
following (values in italic have been changed):
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Revised Table 3.13.--Crownpoint Site Water Quality Data,a Westwater Canyon Aquifer
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EPA (and
NNEPA)
Parameter Mean (mg/L) Maximum (mg/ Minimum (mg/ drinking
L) L) water
standard
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Calcium.................................................. 2.73 7.8 0.07 ...........
Magnesium................................................ 0.48 2.5 0.00000 ...........
Sodium................................................... 127.7 184.0 97.0 ...........
Potassium................................................ 13.0 56.0 1.5 ...........
Carbonate................................................ 27.9 127.0 0.00000 ...........
Bicarbonate.............................................. 203.0 260.0 54.0 ...........
Sulfate.................................................. 62.2 177.0 19.0 250.0
Chloride................................................. 15.8 54.0 1.8 250.0
Nitrate.................................................. 0.05 0.26 0.00000 10.0
Fluoride................................................. 0.35 0.62 0.23 4.0 or 2.0
Silica................................................... 16.3 20.0 1.0
TDS...................................................... 394.0 666.0 281.0 500.0
Conductivityb............................................ 602.3 1040.0 418.0
Alkalinity............................................... 213.0 256.0 191.0
pHc...................................................... 9.0 10.4 8.26 6.5-8.5
Arsenic.................................................. 0.00000 0.002 0.00000 0.05
Barium................................................... 0.13 1.0 0.01 2.0
Cadmium.................................................. 0.00000 0.0008 0.00000 0.01
Chromium................................................. 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.05
Copper................................................... 0.00000 0.02 0.00000 1.0
Iron..................................................... 0.11 0.92 0.00000 0.3
Lead..................................................... 0.00000 0.078 0.00000 0.05
Manganese................................................ 0.035 0.029 0.00000 0.05
Mercury.................................................. 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.002
Molybdenum............................................... 0.00000 0.02 0.00000
Nickel................................................... 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.1
Selenium................................................. 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.05
Silver................................................... 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.1
Uranium.................................................. 0.005 0.021 0.00000
Vanadium................................................. 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000
Zinc..................................................... 0.00000 0.03 0.00000 5.0
Boron.................................................... 0.05 0.11 0.00000
Ammonia.................................................. 0.05 0.31
Radium-226d.............................................. 58.7 806.0 0.1 5.0
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a Values obtained from Wells CP-3, CP-5, CP-6, CP-7, CP-9, and well CP-2 (for parameters from arsenic to radium-
226, (Source: HRI 1992b).
b mhos/cm.
c Units.
d pCi/L.
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