[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 56 (Monday, March 24, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13903-13904]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-7320]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-72]


University of Utah (University of Utah AGN-201 Research Reactor), 
Order Terminating Amended Facility Operating License No. R-25

    By application dated July 17, 1990, as supplemented on July 18, 
1990, and June 12, 1991, the University of Utah (the licensee) 
requested from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the 
Commission) authorization to dismantle and dispose of the component 
parts of the AGN-201 Research Reactor (AGN-201 or the reactor) located 
on the licensee's campus in Salt Lake City, Utah. The letter of July 
17, 1990, contained a request that upon successful completion of 
decommissioning, authorization be given for termination of Amended 
Facility Operating License No. R-25. A ``Notice of Proposed Issuance of 
Orders Authorizing Disposition of Component Parts and Terminating 
Facility License,'' was published in the Federal Register on May 9, 
1991 (56 FR 21508). No requests for a hearing were received. By Order 
dated August 1, 1991 (56 FR 37733), the Commission authorized 
dismantling of the reactor and disposition of component parts as 
proposed in the decommissioning plan of the licensee. By letter dated 
April 13, 1994, as supplemented on March 17 and 22, 1995, and February 
6, 1996, the licensee submitted ``A Summary of the Decommissioning 
Process of the University of Utah AGN-201M Reactor No. 107.''
    The reactor fuel has been removed from the core and shipped to a 
Department of Energy facility. The reactor has been completely 
dismantled, and all requirements pertaining to residual radioactivity, 
personnel and external radiation exposure, and fuel

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disposition have been met. By separate action, the NRC has granted in 
accordance with 10 CFR 50.12, upon its own initiative, a specific 
exemption to the part of the requirements in 10 CFR 50.82(b)(6)(ii) 
that requires as a condition of license termination a terminal 
radiation survey and associated documentation to demonstrate that the 
site is suitable for release. Because the AGN-201 is located in the 
same room as the University of Utah TRIGA Research Reactor (Docket No. 
50-407, Facility Operating License No. R-126), the Reactor Room in the 
Merrill Engineering Building is not being released for unrestricted use 
by this Order and will continue to be subject to the terms of Operating 
License No. R-126 for the TRIGA Research Reactor. Only residual reactor 
components from the AGN-201 remaining on Amended Facility Operating 
License No. R-25 are being released for unrestricted use by this 
action.
    The terminal radiation survey and associated documentation 
demonstrate that the remaining reactor components are suitable for 
release. Confirmatory radiological surveys verified that the reactor 
components meet the recommended regulatory guidance for release of the 
components for unrestricted use. Accordingly, the Commission has found 
that the decommissioning has been performed in accordance with the 
approved decommissioning plan in that the reactor has been dismantled 
and decontaminated pursuant to the Commission's Order dated August 1, 
1991. 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, on the basis of the 
application filed by the University of Utah, and pursuant to Sections 
104 and 161 b, and i, of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and 
in accordance with 10 CFR 50.82(b)(6), Amended Facility Operating 
License No. R-25 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 
environmental impact. The Environmental Assessment and Finding of No 
Significant Impact was published in the Federal Register on March 13, 
1997 (62 FR 11935).
    For further details with respect to this action, see (1) the 
application for termination of Amended Facility Operating License No. 
R-25, dated July 17, 1990, as supplemented; (2) the Commission's safety 
evaluation related to the termination of the license; (3) the 
environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact; (4) the 
Commission's exemption to part of the requirements of 10 CFR 
50.82(b)(6); and (5) the ``Notice of Proposed Issuance of Orders 
Authorizing Disposition of Component Parts and Terminating Facility 
License,'' published in the Federal Register on May 9, 1991 (56 FR 
21508). Each of these items is available for public inspection at the 
Commission's Public Document Room, 2120 L Street, NW., Washington, D.C. 
20037.
    Copies of items (2), (3), (4), and (5) may be obtained upon receipt 
of a request addressed to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, D.C. 20555-0001, Attention: Director, Division of Reactor 
Program Management.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 14th day of March 1997.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas T. Martin,
Director, Division of Reactor Program Management Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation
[FR Doc. 97-7320 Filed 3-21-97; 8:45 am]
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