Waste Control Specialists LLC; Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact

Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Nuclear Regulatory Commission [Docket No. 70-7005; NRC-2024-0164] AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Notice; issuance. SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing an environmental assessment (EA) and finding of no significant impact (FONSI) in support of the NRC's consideration of a request from Waste Control Specialists LLC (WCS) to continue to possess certain transuranic waste, which originated from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), without an NRC license under the terms of a 2023 Order. The 2023 Order exempted WCS from the NRC's regulations concerning special nuclear material (SNM). The current action is in response to a request by WCS dated May 24, 2024, to extend the possession time of certain waste at specific locations at the facility in Andrews County, Texas (WCS Site) until December 31, 2026. DATES: October 29, 2024. ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2024-0164 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You may access publicly available information related to this document using any of the following methods: Federal Rulemaking website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2024-0164. Address questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; telephone: 301-415-0624; email: Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov . For technical questions, contact the individual listed in the For Further Information Contact section of this document. NRC's Agencywide Docume…