In the Matter of the Curators of the University of Missouri, The University of Missouri Research Reactor; Order Modifying Emergency Plan Requirements, 4731-4732 [E7-1633]
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[Docket No. 50–186]
In the Matter of the Curators of the
University of Missouri, The University
of Missouri Research Reactor; Order
Modifying Emergency Plan
Requirements
I
The Curators of the University of
Missouri (the Licensee) hold Amended
Facility License No. R–103 issued by the
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC or the Commission) pursuant to
Title 10, Part 50, ‘‘Domestic Licensing of
Production and Utilization Facilities’’
(10 CFR part 50), and Broad Scope
Materials License No. 24–00513–39
issued by the NRC pursuant to 10 CFR
part 30, ‘‘Rules of General Applicability
to Domestic Licensing of Byproduct
Material.’’ Amended Facility License
No. R–103 authorizes the operation of
the University of Missouri Research
Reactor (MURR or the facility) in
accordance with conditions specified
therein. Broad Scope Materials License
No. 24–00513–39 authorizes the
possession and use of various
byproduct, special nuclear, and source
material at the Licensee’s facility. The
facility is located on the Licensee’s
campus in Columbia, Missouri.
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II
On March 19 and April 5, 1990, the
NRC staff issued two license
amendments applicable to the
Licensee’s Special Nuclear Material and
Source Material License No. SNM–247.
At the request of the Licensee, the NRC
terminated Special Nuclear Material and
Source Material License No. SNM–247
on July 7, 1993. On that day, the
Commission included the special
nuclear materials that were listed on
Special Nuclear Material and Source
Material License No. SNM–247 in the
University’s newly issued Broad Scope
Materials License No. 24–00513–39. The
amendments collectively authorized the
Licensee to possess and use certain
specified quantities of uranium
(depleted in U–235), neptunium-237,
americium-241, plutonium-239, and
plutonium-240. The Licensee’s purpose
in requesting the amendments was to
conduct research related to the
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Transuranic Management by
Pyropartitioning Separation (TRUMP–S)
Research Project. The Licensee carried
out this research in the Alpha laboratory
at the MURR.
Three organizations and 10
individuals filed motions to intervene
and requests for hearing on the license
amendments. In response to the
intervenors’ filings, the Commission
appointed a Presiding Officer to conduct
an informal hearing pursuant to Subpart
L, ‘‘Informal Hearing Procedures for
NRC Adjudications’’ of the
Commission’s procedural regulations in
10 CFR part 2, ‘‘Rules of Practice for
Domestic Licensing Proceedings and
Issuance of Orders.’’ The Presiding
Officer issued a First Initial Decision on
April 5, 1991, followed by a Final Initial
Decision on July 10, 1991.
The Licensee and the intervenors
appealed various aspects of the
proceeding and decisions of the
Presiding Officer and the Commission to
the Commission. In response, the
Commission issued Memorandum and
Order, CLI–95–01, dated February 28,
1995; Memorandum and Order, CLI–95–
08, (Petitions for Reconsideration),
dated June 22, 1995; Memorandum and
Order, CLI–95–11, (Petition for Partial
Reconsideration), dated August 22,
1995; and Memorandum and Order,
CLI–95–17, (Petition for
Reconsideration), dated December 14,
1995. The first three of these
memoranda and orders required the
Licensee to make changes to the MURR
Emergency Plan (EP). The MURR EP
was changed because the material,
while under a NRC broad scope
materials license, was being used in the
Alpha Laboratory at MURR. In response
to the memoranda and orders, the
Licensee submitted proposed changes to
the EP on December 20, 1995, as
supplemented on May 1, 1996. The NRC
staff reviewed the Licensee’s proposed
changes to the EP and, in a letter to the
Licensee dated June 20, 1996,
concluded that the proposed changes to
the EP met the intent of the
Commission’s memoranda and orders
and were acceptable as written.
III
By letter dated March 31, 2004, the
Licensee requested changes to the EP to
remove the requirements added to it by
the Commission’s memoranda and
orders related to the TRUMP–S
Research Project. The Licensee also
requested the recision of the
Commission’s memoranda and orders
requiring changes to the EP. The
Licensee completed experiments at the
MURR related to the TRUMP–S
Research Project on September 30, 1997.
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By July 20, 1998, the Licensee had
shipped all low-level waste from the
project and completed final verification
surveys documenting the
decommissioning of the Alpha
Laboratory. All transuranic waste
(americium, neptunium, and
plutonium) was shipped from the
MURR to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
on May 15, 2003. The NRC renewed
Broad Scope Materials License No. 24–
00513–39, effective December 22, 2003,
with reduced possession limits for the
radioisotope types associated with the
TRUMP–S Research Project. The
renewed license possession limits allow
no radioisotope quantities in excess of
the quantities listed in 10 CFR 30.72
Schedule C, ‘‘Quantities of Radioactive
Materials Requiring Consideration of the
Need for an Emergency Plan for
Responding to a Release.’’ The NRC staff
reviewed the Licensee’s proposed
changes to the EP and concluded that
they will not decrease the effectiveness
of the EP and are therefore acceptable.
IV
Accordingly, pursuant to Sections
104c, 161b and 161i of the Atomic
Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and
the Commission’s regulations in 10 CFR
part 50, it is hereby ordered that:
The changes to the University of
Missouri Research Reactor Emergency
Plan imposed by Commission-issued
Memoranda and Orders CLI–95–01
dated February 28, 1995; CLI–95–08
dated June 22, 1995; and CLI–95–11
dated August 22, 1995, are hereby
deleted and the changes to the
Emergency Plan for the University of
Missouri Research Reactor in the
Licensee’s letter of March 31, 2004, are
approved.
V
Pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of
1954, as amended, the licensee or any
other person adversely affected by this
Order may request a hearing within 30
days of the date of publication of this
Order in the Federal Register. A request
for a hearing or a petition for leave to
intervene must be filed (1) By first class
mail addressed to the Office of the
Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001, Attention: Rulemaking and
Adjudications Staff, or (2) by courier,
express mail, or expedited delivery
services to the Office of the Secretary,
Sixteenth Floor, One White Flint North,
11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD
20852, Attention: Rulemaking and
Adjudications Staff. Because of
continuing disruptions in delivery of
mail to U.S. Government offices, it is
requested that requests for hearing
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should also be transmitted to the
Secretary of the Commission either by email addressed to the Office of the
Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission,
HEARINGDOCKET@nrc.gov, or by
facsimile transmission addressed to the
Office of the Secretary, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC, Attention: Rulemakings and
Adjudications Staff at 301–415–1101
(the verification number is 301–415–
1966).
A copy of the request for hearing and
petition for leave to intervene must also
be sent to the Director, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation and to the Assistant
General Counsel for Operating Reactors
and High Level Waste Programs, Office
of the General Counsel, with both copies
addressed to the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001. The NRC further
requests that copies be transmitted
either by facsimile transmission to 301–
415–3725 or by e-mail to
OGCMAILCENTER@nrc.gov.
If a person other than the Licensee
requests a hearing, he or she shall set
forth with particularity the manner in
which his or her interest is adversely
affected by this Order and shall address
the criteria set forth in 10 CFR 2.309,
‘‘Hearing Requests, Petitions to
Intervene, Requirements for Standing,
and Contentions.’’
If a hearing is requested by the
Licensee or a person whose interest is
adversely affected, the Commission will
issue an order designating the time and
place of any hearing. If a hearing is held,
the issue to be considered at such
hearing shall be whether this Order
should be sustained.
In the absence of any request for a
hearing or written approval of an
extension of time in which to request a
hearing, the provisions specified in
Section IV above shall be effective and
final 30 days from the date of
publication of this Order in the Federal
Register without further order or
proceedings. If an extension of time for
requesting a hearing has been approved,
the provisions specified in Section IV
shall be final when the extension
expires if a hearing request has not been
received.
In accordance with 10 CFR 51.10(d),
this Order is not subject to Section
102(2) of the National Environmental
Policy Act, as amended. The NRC staff
notes, however, that with respect to
environmental impacts associated with
the changes imposed by this Order as
described in the safety evaluation, the
changes would, if imposed by other
than an Order, meet the definition of a
categorical exclusion in accordance
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with 10 CFR 51.22(c)(14)(v). Thus,
pursuant to either 10 CFR 51.10(d) or 10
CFR 51.22(c)(14)(v), neither an
environmental assessment nor an
environmental impact statement is
required.
For further information, see the
application from the Licensee dated
March 31, 2004 (Agencywide
Documents Access Management System
(ADAMS) Accession No.
ML041040772), available for public
inspection at the Commission’s Public
Document Room (PDR), located at One
White Flint North, Public File Area O1
F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor),
Rockville, MD. Publicly available
records will be accessible electronically
from the ADAMS Public Electronic
Reading Room on the Internet at the
NRC Web site, https://www.nrc.gov/
reading-rm/adams.thml. Persons who
do not have access to ADAMS or who
have problems in accessing the
documents in ADAMS should contact
the NRC PDR reference staff by
telephone at 1–800–397–4209 or 301–
415–4737 or by e-mail to PDR@nrc.gov.
Dated this 26th day of January 2007.
For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
Michael J. Case,
Director, Division of Policy and Rulemaking,
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulations.
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Notice of Consideration of Amendment
Request for Decommissioning of the
Defense Logistics Agency, Hammond
Depot, Hammond, IN and Opportunity
to Request a Hearing
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of amendment request
and opportunity to request a hearing.
AGENCY:
A request for a hearing must be
filed by April 2, 2007.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Betsy Ullrich, Senior Health Physicist,
Commercial and R&D Branch, Division
of Nuclear Materials Safety, Region I,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
King of Prussia, PA 19406. Telephone:
(610) 337–5040; fax number: (610) 337–
5269; or e-mail: exu@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DATES:
I. Introduction
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC) is considering issuance of a
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license amendment to Source Material
License No. STC–133 issued to the
Defense Logistics Agency (the Licensee),
to authorize decommissioning of its
Hammond Depot (the Facility) in
Hammond, Indiana under the Licensee’s
Decommissioning Plan (DP).
An NRC administrative review,
documented in a letter to the Defense
Logistics Agency dated October 19,
2006, found the DP acceptable to begin
a technical review.
If the NRC approves the DP, the
approval will be documented in an
amendment to NRC License No. STC–
133. However, before approving the
proposed amendment, the NRC will
need to make the findings required by
the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as
amended, and NRC’s regulations. These
findings will be documented in a Safety
Evaluation Report and an
Environmental Assessment and/or an
Environmental Impact Statement. The
license will be amended to authorize
release of the Facility for unrestricted
use if this amendment is approved
following completion of
decommissioning activities and
verification by the NRC that the
radiological criteria for license
termination have been met.
II. Opportunity to Request a Hearing
The NRC hereby provides notice that
this is a proceeding on an application
for a license amendment regarding
decommissioning of the Facility located
in Hammond, Indiana. In accordance
with the general requirements in
subpart C of 10 CFR part 2, as amended
on January 14, 2004 (69 FR 2182), any
person whose interest may be affected
by this proceeding and who desires to
participate as a party must file a written
request for a hearing and a specification
of the contentions which the person
seeks to have litigated in the hearing.
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.302(a),
a request for a hearing must be filed
with the Commission either by:
1. First class mail addressed to: Office
of the Secretary, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001, Attention: Rulemakings
and Adjudications Staff;
2. Courier, express mail, and
expedited delivery services: Office of the
Secretary, Sixteenth Floor, One White
Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike,
Rockville, MD 20852, Attention:
Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff,
between 7:45 a.m. and 4:15 p.m.,
Federal workdays;
3. E-mail addressed to the Office of
the Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission,
HEARINGDOCKET@NRC.GOV; or
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-186]
In the Matter of the Curators of the University of Missouri, The
University of Missouri Research Reactor; Order Modifying Emergency Plan
Requirements
I
The Curators of the University of Missouri (the Licensee) hold
Amended Facility License No. R-103 issued by the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission) pursuant to Title 10,
Part 50, ``Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization
Facilities'' (10 CFR part 50), and Broad Scope Materials License No.
24-00513-39 issued by the NRC pursuant to 10 CFR part 30, ``Rules of
General Applicability to Domestic Licensing of Byproduct Material.''
Amended Facility License No. R-103 authorizes the operation of the
University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR or the facility) in
accordance with conditions specified therein. Broad Scope Materials
License No. 24-00513-39 authorizes the possession and use of various
byproduct, special nuclear, and source material at the Licensee's
facility. The facility is located on the Licensee's campus in Columbia,
Missouri.
II
On March 19 and April 5, 1990, the NRC staff issued two license
amendments applicable to the Licensee's Special Nuclear Material and
Source Material License No. SNM-247. At the request of the Licensee,
the NRC terminated Special Nuclear Material and Source Material License
No. SNM-247 on July 7, 1993. On that day, the Commission included the
special nuclear materials that were listed on Special Nuclear Material
and Source Material License No. SNM-247 in the University's newly
issued Broad Scope Materials License No. 24-00513-39. The amendments
collectively authorized the Licensee to possess and use certain
specified quantities of uranium (depleted in U-235), neptunium-237,
americium-241, plutonium-239, and plutonium-240. The Licensee's purpose
in requesting the amendments was to conduct research related to the
Transuranic Management by Pyropartitioning Separation (TRUMP-S)
Research Project. The Licensee carried out this research in the Alpha
laboratory at the MURR.
Three organizations and 10 individuals filed motions to intervene
and requests for hearing on the license amendments. In response to the
intervenors' filings, the Commission appointed a Presiding Officer to
conduct an informal hearing pursuant to Subpart L, ``Informal Hearing
Procedures for NRC Adjudications'' of the Commission's procedural
regulations in 10 CFR part 2, ``Rules of Practice for Domestic
Licensing Proceedings and Issuance of Orders.'' The Presiding Officer
issued a First Initial Decision on April 5, 1991, followed by a Final
Initial Decision on July 10, 1991.
The Licensee and the intervenors appealed various aspects of the
proceeding and decisions of the Presiding Officer and the Commission to
the Commission. In response, the Commission issued Memorandum and
Order, CLI-95-01, dated February 28, 1995; Memorandum and Order, CLI-
95-08, (Petitions for Reconsideration), dated June 22, 1995; Memorandum
and Order, CLI-95-11, (Petition for Partial Reconsideration), dated
August 22, 1995; and Memorandum and Order, CLI-95-17, (Petition for
Reconsideration), dated December 14, 1995. The first three of these
memoranda and orders required the Licensee to make changes to the MURR
Emergency Plan (EP). The MURR EP was changed because the material,
while under a NRC broad scope materials license, was being used in the
Alpha Laboratory at MURR. In response to the memoranda and orders, the
Licensee submitted proposed changes to the EP on December 20, 1995, as
supplemented on May 1, 1996. The NRC staff reviewed the Licensee's
proposed changes to the EP and, in a letter to the Licensee dated June
20, 1996, concluded that the proposed changes to the EP met the intent
of the Commission's memoranda and orders and were acceptable as
written.
III
By letter dated March 31, 2004, the Licensee requested changes to
the EP to remove the requirements added to it by the Commission's
memoranda and orders related to the TRUMP-S Research Project. The
Licensee also requested the recision of the Commission's memoranda and
orders requiring changes to the EP. The Licensee completed experiments
at the MURR related to the TRUMP-S Research Project on September 30,
1997. By July 20, 1998, the Licensee had shipped all low-level waste
from the project and completed final verification surveys documenting
the decommissioning of the Alpha Laboratory. All transuranic waste
(americium, neptunium, and plutonium) was shipped from the MURR to the
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant on May 15, 2003. The NRC renewed Broad
Scope Materials License No. 24-00513-39, effective December 22, 2003,
with reduced possession limits for the radioisotope types associated
with the TRUMP-S Research Project. The renewed license possession
limits allow no radioisotope quantities in excess of the quantities
listed in 10 CFR 30.72 Schedule C, ``Quantities of Radioactive
Materials Requiring Consideration of the Need for an Emergency Plan for
Responding to a Release.'' The NRC staff reviewed the Licensee's
proposed changes to the EP and concluded that they will not decrease
the effectiveness of the EP and are therefore acceptable.
IV
Accordingly, pursuant to Sections 104c, 161b and 161i of the Atomic
Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and the Commission's regulations in 10
CFR part 50, it is hereby ordered that:
The changes to the University of Missouri Research Reactor
Emergency Plan imposed by Commission-issued Memoranda and Orders CLI-
95-01 dated February 28, 1995; CLI-95-08 dated June 22, 1995; and CLI-
95-11 dated August 22, 1995, are hereby deleted and the changes to the
Emergency Plan for the University of Missouri Research Reactor in the
Licensee's letter of March 31, 2004, are approved.
V
Pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, the licensee
or any other person adversely affected by this Order may request a
hearing within 30 days of the date of publication of this Order in the
Federal Register. A request for a hearing or a petition for leave to
intervene must be filed (1) By first class mail addressed to the Office
of the Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001, Attention: Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff, or (2) by
courier, express mail, or expedited delivery services to the Office of
the Secretary, Sixteenth Floor, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, MD 20852, Attention: Rulemaking and Adjudications
Staff. Because of continuing disruptions in delivery of mail to U.S.
Government offices, it is requested that requests for hearing
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should also be transmitted to the Secretary of the Commission either by
e-mail addressed to the Office of the Secretary, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, HEARINGDOCKET@nrc.gov, or by facsimile
transmission addressed to the Office of the Secretary, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC, Attention: Rulemakings and
Adjudications Staff at 301-415-1101 (the verification number is 301-
415-1966).
A copy of the request for hearing and petition for leave to
intervene must also be sent to the Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation and to the Assistant General Counsel for Operating Reactors
and High Level Waste Programs, Office of the General Counsel, with both
copies addressed to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001. The NRC further requests that copies be transmitted
either by facsimile transmission to 301-415-3725 or by e-mail to
OGCMAILCENTER@nrc.gov.
If a person other than the Licensee requests a hearing, he or she
shall set forth with particularity the manner in which his or her
interest is adversely affected by this Order and shall address the
criteria set forth in 10 CFR 2.309, ``Hearing Requests, Petitions to
Intervene, Requirements for Standing, and Contentions.''
If a hearing is requested by the Licensee or a person whose
interest is adversely affected, the Commission will issue an order
designating the time and place of any hearing. If a hearing is held,
the issue to be considered at such hearing shall be whether this Order
should be sustained.
In the absence of any request for a hearing or written approval of
an extension of time in which to request a hearing, the provisions
specified in Section IV above shall be effective and final 30 days from
the date of publication of this Order in the Federal Register without
further order or proceedings. If an extension of time for requesting a
hearing has been approved, the provisions specified in Section IV shall
be final when the extension expires if a hearing request has not been
received.
In accordance with 10 CFR 51.10(d), this Order is not subject to
Section 102(2) of the National Environmental Policy Act, as amended.
The NRC staff notes, however, that with respect to environmental
impacts associated with the changes imposed by this Order as described
in the safety evaluation, the changes would, if imposed by other than
an Order, meet the definition of a categorical exclusion in accordance
with 10 CFR 51.22(c)(14)(v). Thus, pursuant to either 10 CFR 51.10(d)
or 10 CFR 51.22(c)(14)(v), neither an environmental assessment nor an
environmental impact statement is required.
For further information, see the application from the Licensee
dated March 31, 2004 (Agencywide Documents Access Management System
(ADAMS) Accession No. ML041040772), available for public inspection at
the Commission's Public Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint
North, Public File Area O1 F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor),
Rockville, MD. Publicly available records will be accessible
electronically from the ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room on the
Internet at the NRC Web site, https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.thml.
Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who have problems in
accessing the documents in ADAMS should contact the NRC PDR reference
staff by telephone at 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737 or by e-mail to
PDR@nrc.gov.
Dated this 26th day of January 2007.
For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Michael J. Case,
Director, Division of Policy and Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulations.
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