[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 88 (Wednesday, May 7, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24976-24977]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-11858]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-297]


Notice of Renewal of Facility License No. R-120; North Carolina 
State University

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has issued 
Amendment No. 11 to Facility License No. R-120 for the North Carolina 
State University (the licensee), which renews the license for operation 
of the PULSTAR Research Reactor located on the licensee's campus in 
Raleigh, North Carolina.
    The facility is a non-power reactor that has been operating at a 
power level not in excess of 1000 kilowatts (thermal). Renewed Facility 
License No. R-120 will expire 20 years from its date of issuance.
    The amended license complies with the standards and requirements of 
the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the 
Commission's regulations. The Commission has made appropriate findings 
as required by the Act and the Commission's regulations in 10 CFR 
Chapter I. Those findings are set forth in the license amendment. 
Opportunity for hearing was afforded in the notice of the proposed 
issuance of this renewal in the Federal Register on December 28, 1988, 
at 53 FR 52535. No request for a hearing or petition for leave to 
intervene was filed following notice of the proposed action.
    Continued operation of the reactor will not require alteration of 
buildings or structures, will not lead to significant changes in 
effluents released from the facility to the environment, will not 
increase the probability or consequences of accidents, and will not 
involve any unresolved issues concerning alternative uses of available 
resources. On the basis of the foregoing and on the Environmental 
Assessment, the Commission concludes that renewal of the license will 
not result in any significant environmental impacts.
    The Commission has prepared a ``Safety Evaluation Report Related to 
the Renewal of the Operating License for the Research Reactor at North 
Carolina State University'' (NUREG-1572) for the renewal of Facility 
License No. R-120 and has, on the basis of that report, concluded that 
the facility can continue to be operated by the licensee without 
endangering the health and safety of the public.
    The Commission also prepared an Environmental Assessment, which was 
published in the Federal Register on April 29, 1997 (62 FR 23280) for 
the renewal of Facility License No. R-120 and has concluded that this 
action will not have a significant effect on the quality of the human 
environment.
    For further details with respect to this action, see (1) The 
application for amendment dated August 19, 1988, as supplemented on 
January 2, April 17, and December 18, 1989; April 17 and July 18, 1990; 
January 25, 1991; November 30, 1992; September 15, 1995; and October 4, 
November 25, and December 30, 1996; (2) Amendment No. 11 to Facility 
License No. R-120; (3) the related Safety Evaluation Report (NUREG-
1572); and (4) the

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Environmental Assessment dated April 18, 1997. These items are 
available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document 
Room, the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037.
    Copies of NUREG-1572 may be purchased by calling (202) 275-2060 or 
(202) 275-2171, or write the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. 
Government Printing Office, Post Office Box 37082, Washington, DC 
20013-7982.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 30th day of April 1997.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Seymour H. Weiss,
Director, Non-Power Reactors and Decommissioning Project Directorate, 
Division of Reactor Program Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 97-11858 Filed 5-6-97; 8:45 am]
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