[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 55 (Wednesday, March 20, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 11435]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-6673]



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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Catholic University of America

[Docket No. 50-77]
(Catholic University of America AGN-201 Research Reactor); Order 
Terminating Facility License
    By application dated February 6, 1992, the Catholic University of 
America (the licensee) requested from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission (the Commission) authorization to dispose of the component 
parts of its Aerojet-General Nucleonics (AGN-201) Nuclear Research 
Reactor located in Washington, District of Columbia. A ``Notice of 
Proposed Issuance of Orders Approving Decommissioning Plan, Authorizing 
Decommissioning, and Terminating Facility License'' was published in 
the Federal Register on August 20, 1992, (57 FR 37850). No request for 
a hearing or petition for leave to intervene was filed following notice 
of the proposed action.
    By Order dated September 24, 1992, (57 FR 45094), the Commission 
authorized dismantling of the facility and disposition of component 
parts as proposed in the decommissioning plan of the licensee. On June 
2, 1995, the licensee requested approval for changes to the 
decommissioning plan. These changes were approved on July 17, 1995. By 
letter dated December 20, 1994, as supplemented on September 22, 1995, 
the licensee submitted the radiological survey report for the facility 
in accordance with the NRC approved decommissioning plan as amended.
    This order applies to room B-16R of Pangborn Hall (also known as 
the nuclear reactor room) and the machine shop in the power plant 
building at the Catholic University of America campus in Washington, 
D.C. The reactor fuel has been removed from the core and shipped to a 
Department of Energy (DOE) facility. The reactor facility has been 
completely dismantled and all requirements pertaining to residual 
radioactivity, personnel and external radiation exposure, and fuel 
disposition have been met. Confirmatory radiological surveys verified 
that the facility met the NRC approved decommissioning plan 
requirements for release of the facility for unrestricted use.
    Accordingly, the Commission has found that the facility has been 
dismantled and decontaminated pursuant to the Commission's Order dated 
September 24, 1992, as supplemented on July 17, 1995. Satisfactory 
disposition has been made of the component parts and fuel in accordance 
with the Commission's regulations in 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, based on the application filed by the 
licensee, and pursuant to Sections 104 and 161 b, i, of the Atomic 
Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and in 10 CFR 50.82(f), Facility 
License No. R-31 is terminated as of the date of this Order.
    In accordance with 10 CFR Part 51, the Commission has determined 
that the issuance of this termination Order will have no significant 
impact. The Environmental Assessment was published in the Federal 
Register on March 12, 1996 (61 FR 10037).
    For further details with respect to this action see (1) the 
application for termination of Facility License No. R-31, dated 
February 6, 1992, as supplemented, (2) the Commission's Safety 
Evaluation related to the termination of the license, (3) the 
Environmental Assessment, and (4) the ``Notice of Proposed Issuance of 
Orders Approving Decommissioning Plan, Authorizing Decommissioning, and 
Terminating Facility License,'' published in the Federal Register on 
August 20, 1992, (57 FR 37850). 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 (2), (3) and (4) may be obtained upon addressed 
request to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 
20555, Attention: Director, Division of Reactor Program Management.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 14th day of March 1996.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Dennis M. Crutchfield,
Director, Division of Reactor Program Management, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 96-6673 Filed 3-19-96; 8:45 am]
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