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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Veterans’ Employment and Training
Service
Office of the Assistant Secretary for
Veterans’ Employment and Training;
The Advisory Committee on Veterans’
Employment, Training and Employer
Outreach (ACVETEO); Notice of Open
Meeting
The Advisory Committee on Veterans’
Employment, Training and Employer
Outreach (ACVETEO) was established
pursuant to Title II of the Veterans’
Housing Opportunity and Benefits
Improvement Act of 2006 (Pub. L. 109–
233) and Section 9 of the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (FACA) (Pub.
L. 92–462, Title 5 U.S.C. app. II). The
ACVETEO’s authority is codified in
Title 38 U.S. Code, Section 4110.
The ACVETEO is responsible for
assessing employment and training
needs of veterans; determining the
extent to which the programs and
activities of the Department of Labor
meet these needs; and assisting in
carrying out outreach to employers
seeking to hire veterans.
The Advisory Committee on Veterans’
Employment Training and Employer
Outreach will meet on Tuesday, July
31st from 8 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. at the U.S.
Department of Labor, 200 Constitution
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC (202–
693–4700). The committee will discuss
programs assisting veterans seeking
employment and raising employer
awareness as to the advantages of hiring
veterans.
Individuals needing special
accommodations should notify Bill
Offutt at (202) 693–4717 by July 23rd,
2007.
Signed in Washington, DC, this 18th day of
June, 2007.
Charles S. Ciccolella,
Assistant Secretary, Veterans Employment
and Training.
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In the Matter of Purdue University
(Purdue University Research Reactor);
Order Modifying Facility Operating
License No. R–87
I
Purdue University (the licensee) is the
holder of Facility Operating License No.
R–87 (the license) issued on August 16,
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1962, by the U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission, and subsequently renewed
on August 8, 1988, by the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (the NRC or the
Commission). The license authorizes
operation of Purdue University Research
Reactor (the facility) at a power level up
to 1 kilowatt thermal. The facility is a
research reactor located on the campus
of Purdue University, in the city of West
Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
The mailing address is Radiation
Laboratories, Purdue University,
Nuclear Engineering Building, 400
Central Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907–
2017.
II
Title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR) Section 50.64,
limits the use of high-enriched uranium
(HEU) fuel in domestic non-power
reactors (research and test reactors) (see
51 FR 6514). The regulation, which
became effective on March 27, 1986,
requires that if Federal Government
funding for conversion-related costs is
available, each licensee of a non-power
reactor authorized to use HEU fuel shall
replace it with low-enriched uranium
(LEU) fuel acceptable to the
Commission unless the Commission has
determined that the reactor has a unique
purpose. The Commission’s stated
purpose for these requirements was to
reduce, to the maximum extent possible,
the use of HEU fuel in order to reduce
the risk of theft and diversion of HEU
fuel used in non-power reactors.
Paragraphs 50.64(b)(2)(i) and (ii)
require that a licensee of a non-power
reactor: (1) Not acquire more HEU fuel
if LEU fuel that is acceptable to the
Commission for that reactor is available
when the licensee proposes to acquire
HEU fuel and (2) replace all HEU fuel
in its possession with available LEU fuel
acceptable to the Commission for that
reactor in accordance with a schedule
determined pursuant to 10 CFR
50.64(c)(2).
Paragraph 50.64(c)(2)(i) requires,
among other things, that each licensee
of a non-power reactor authorized to
possess and to use HEU fuel develop
and submit to the Director of the Office
of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (Director)
by March 27, 1987, and at 12-month
intervals thereafter, a written proposal
for meeting the requirements of the rule.
The licensee shall include in its
proposal a certification that Federal
Government funding for conversion is
available through the U.S. Department
of Energy or other appropriate Federal
agency and a schedule for conversion,
based upon availability of replacement
fuel acceptable to the Commission for
that reactor and upon consideration of
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other factors such as the availability of
shipping casks, implementation of
arrangements for available financial
support, and reactor usage.
Paragraph 50.64(c)(2)(iii) requires the
licensee to include in the proposal, to
the extent required to effect conversion,
all necessary changes to the license, to
the facility, and to licensee procedures.
This paragraph also requires the
licensee to submit supporting safety
analyses in time to meet the conversion
schedule.
Paragraph 50.64(c)(2)(iii) also requires
the Director to review the licensee
proposal, to confirm the status of
Federal Government funding, and to
determine a final schedule, if the
licensee has submitted a schedule for
conversion.
Section 50.64(c)(3) requires the
Director to review the supporting safety
analyses and to issue an appropriate
enforcement order directing both the
conversion and, to the extent consistent
with protection of public health and
safety, any necessary changes to the
license, the facility, and licensee
procedures. In the Federal Register
notice of the final rule (51 FR 6514), the
Commission explained that in most, if
not all, cases, the enforcement order
would be an order to modify the license
under 10 CFR 2.204 (now 10 CFR
2.202).
Section 2.309 states the requirements
for a person whose interest may be
affected by any proceeding to initiate a
hearing or to participate as a party.
III
On August 13, 2006, as supplemented
on May 3, 2007, the licensee submitted
its conversion proposal. The NRC staff
is in the process of reviewing the
conversion proposal. On May 25, 2007,
the licensee submitted an additional
letter as part of its conversion proposal,
which indicated that early approval to
changes to the uranium-235 possession
limit in its license were needed to
support the proposed schedule for
conversion to LEU fuel. The receipt and
possession, but not use in the reactor, of
the LEU fuel are required by the
licensee at this time to assemble the fuel
elements in order to meet the proposed
timely conversion. The LEU fuel
contains the uranium-235 isotope at an
enrichment of less than 20 percent. The
NRC staff reviewed the licensee’s
proposal and the requirements of 10
CFR 50.64, and has determined that the
public health and safety and common
defense and security require the
licensee to receive and possess the LEU
fuel prior to the conversion. This is
necessary so the LEU fuel elements may
be prepared to convert the reactor from
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Veterans' Employment and Training Service
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Veterans' Employment and
Training; The Advisory Committee on Veterans' Employment, Training and
Employer Outreach (ACVETEO); Notice of Open Meeting
The Advisory Committee on Veterans' Employment, Training and
Employer Outreach (ACVETEO) was established pursuant to Title II of the
Veterans' Housing Opportunity and Benefits Improvement Act of 2006
(Pub. L. 109-233) and Section 9 of the Federal Advisory Committee Act
(FACA) (Pub. L. 92-462, Title 5 U.S.C. app. II). The ACVETEO's
authority is codified in Title 38 U.S. Code, Section 4110.
The ACVETEO is responsible for assessing employment and training
needs of veterans; determining the extent to which the programs and
activities of the Department of Labor meet these needs; and assisting
in carrying out outreach to employers seeking to hire veterans.
The Advisory Committee on Veterans' Employment Training and
Employer Outreach will meet on Tuesday, July 31st from 8 a.m. to 4:15
p.m. at the U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC (202-693-4700). The committee will discuss programs
assisting veterans seeking employment and raising employer awareness as
to the advantages of hiring veterans.
Individuals needing special accommodations should notify Bill
Offutt at (202) 693-4717 by July 23rd, 2007.
Signed in Washington, DC, this 18th day of June, 2007.
Charles S. Ciccolella,
Assistant Secretary, Veterans Employment and Training.
[FR Doc. E7-12603 Filed 6-27-07; 8:45 am]
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