[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 77 (Wednesday, April 22, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19962-19963]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-10667]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Dockets 70-7001 and 70-7002]


Notice of Receipt of Amendment Application to Certificates of 
Compliance GDP-1 and GDP-2 for the U.S. Enrichment Corporation, Paducah 
and Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plants, Paducah, KY and Portsmouth, 
OH; Notice of Comment Period

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(NRC) has received two amendment applications from the United States 
Enrichment Corporation (USEC) that may be significant pursuant to 10 
CFR 76.45. Any interested party may submit written comments on the 
applications for amendment for consideration by the staff. To be 
certain of consideration, comments must be received by the NRC within 
thirty (30) days of appearance of this notice in the Federal Register. 
Comments received after that will be considered if it is practical to 
do so, but the Commission is able to assure consideration only for 
comments received on or before the due date.
    Written comments on the amendment applications should be mailed to 
the Chief, Rules Review and Directives Branch, Office of 
Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555, or may be hand delivered to 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 
20852 between 7:45 am and 4:15 pm on Federal workdays. Comments should 
be legible and reproducible, and include the name, affiliation (if 
any), and address of the commenter. All comments received by the 
Commission will be made available for public inspection at the 
Commission's Public Document Room and the Local Public Document Rooms. 
In accordance with 10 CFR 76.62 and 76.64, a member of the public must 
submit written comments to petition the Commission requesting review of 
the Director's Decision on the amendment requests. For further details 
with respect to the action see the applications for amendment. The 
applications are available for public inspection at the Commission's 
Public Document Room, the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street, NW, 
Washington, DC, and at the Local Public Document Rooms.
    Date of amendment requests: October 31, 1997.
    Brief description of amendments: On October 31, 1997, USEC 
submitted amendment requests transmitting the Safety Analysis Report 
updates (SARUPs) required by Issue 2 of DOE/ORO-2026, ``Plan for 
Achieving Compliance with NRC Regulations at the Paducah Gaseous 
Diffusion Plant'' and Issue 2 of DOE/ORO-2027, ``Plan for Achieving 
Compliance with NRC Regulations at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion 
Plant'' (the Compliance Plans). The SARUPs provide updates for the two 
plants on commitments to various industry codes and standards, updated 
site specific information on geography, demography, meteorology, 
hydrology, geology and seismology, natural phenomena events, and 
external man-made events, and a new accident analysis based upon a 
hazard analysis methodology including new source term, in-building 
transport, and atmospheric transport methodology with resulting changes 
in the Technical Safety Requirements and the identification of 
important to safety structures, systems, and components.

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    Certificates of Compliance Nos. GDP-1 and GDP-2: Amendments will 
revise the Safety Analysis Reports based upon the SARUP revisions.
    Local Public Document Room location: Paducah Public Library, 555 
Washington Street, Paducah, Kentucky 42003 and Portsmouth Public 
Library, 1220 Gallia Street, Portsmouth, Ohio 45662.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 13th day of April 1998.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Carl J. Paperiello,
Director, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 98-10667 Filed 4-21-98; 8:45 am]
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