[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 3 (Wednesday, January 5, 1994)]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 94-129]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-142]

 

University of California at Los Angeles Research Reactor; Order 
Releasing Facility for Unrestricted Use

    By application dated February 28, 1980, the University of 
California, Los Angeles (UCLA) submitted a request for renewal of 
Facility License No. R-71 for the UCLA Research Reactor Facility (UCLA 
facility). By letters dated June 14 and July 26, 1984, UCLA requested 
termination of Facility License No. R-71. A ``Notice of Proposed 
Issuance of Orders Authorizing Disposition of Component Parts of 
Terminating Facility License'' was published in the Federal Register on 
September 24, 1984 (49 FR 37484). Following hearings and stipulations 
on the license renewal and termination applications by the parties 
involved, an order was issued on November 8, 1985, by the Atomic Safety 
and Licensing Board that approved a Settlement Agreement dated 
September 30, 1985, between the Regents of the University of 
California, the Campus Committee to Bridge the Gap, and the staff of 
the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission/NRC). 
The Order also terminated UCLA License No. R-71. The Settlement 
Agreement stipulated a timetable for the decommissioning of the UCLA 
facility.
    By application dated October 29, 1985, as supplemented, UCLA 
submitted a Phase I decomissioning plan. An order authorizing Phase I 
dismantling of the UCLA facility and disposition of component parts was 
issued by the Commission on July 14, 1986. Phase I concerned the 
removal of all UCLA facility components except for the concrete 
building structure, concrete biological shield, components affixed to 
or embedded in the biological shield, the holdup tank, primary water 
pump, sump pump, compressor system, floor drains, decontamination 
sinks, and fuel storage pits. Phase I of decommissioning was completed 
on August 18, 1989.
    By application dated June 10, 1988, as supplemented, UCLA submitted 
its Phase II decommissioning plan. An order authorizing Phase II 
dismantling of the UCLA facility and disposition of component parts was 
issued by the Commission on July 28, 1989. Phase II decommissioning 
concerned the removal of components that remained after completion of 
Phase I decommissioning. When Phase II decommissioning was completed, 
UCLA submitted final survey information on January 4 and 28 and 
February 22, 1993.
    The reactor fuel has been removed from the core and shipped to a 
Department of Energy (DOE) facility. The UCLA reactor facility has been 
completely dismantled and all NRC and settlement agreement requirements 
pertaining to residual radioactivity, personnel and external radiation 
exposure, and fuel disposition have been met. Confirmatory radiological 
surveys verified that the UCLA facility met the recommended regulatory 
guidance for release of the facility for unrestricted use. Accordingly, 
the Commission has found that the UCLA facility has been dismantled and 
decontaminated pursuant to the Commission Orders dated July 14, 1986, 
and July 28, 1989, and the Settlement Agreement. Satisfactory 
disposition has been made of the component parts and fuel in accordance 
with the Commission regulations in title 10 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations (10 CFR) chapter I, and in a manner not inimical to the 
common defense and security, or to the health and safety of the public. 
Therefore, on the basis of the Settlement Agreement, applications filed 
by UCLA and pursuant to sections 104 and 161 b, i, of the Atomic Energy 
Act of 1954, as amended, the UCLA facility is released for unrestricted 
use as of the date of this Order. In accordance with 10 CFR part 51, 
the Commission has determined that the issuance of this Order will have 
no significant environmental impact. The Environmental Assessment was 
published in the Federal Register on December 27, 1993 (58 FR 68445).
    For further details with respect to this action see (1) UCLA final 
survey information dated January 4 and 28 and February 22, 1993, (2) 
the Settlement Agreement of September 30, 1985, (3) the Commission 
Safety Evaluation related to release of the UCLA facility for 
unrestricted use, (4) the Environmental Assessment, and (5) the 
``Notice of Proposed Issuance of Orders Authorizing Disposition of 
Component Parts of Terminating Facility License,'' which was published 
in the Federal Register on September 24, 1984 (49 FR 37484). Each of 
these items is available for public inspection at the Commission Public 
Document Room, 2120 L Street, NW., Washington, DC 20555.
    Copies of items (3), (4), and (5) may be obtained upon request 
addressed to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555, Attention: Director, Division of Operating Reactor Support.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 28th day of December 1993.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas E. Murley,
Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 94-129 Filed 1-5-94; 8:45 am]
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