[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 164 (Tuesday, August 25, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45268-45269]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-22764]


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Cintichem, Inc. (Cintichem, Inc. 5 Megawatt Open Pool Research 
Reactor); Order Terminating Facility License

[Docket No. 50-54]
    By application dated October 19, 1990, Cintichem, Inc. (the 
licensee) requested from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the 
Commission) authorization to dismantle and dispose of the component 
parts of its 5 Megawatt Open Pool Research Reactor located in Tuxedo, 
New York. A ``Notice of Proposed Issuance of Orders Authorizing 
Disposition of Component Parts and Terminating Facility License''

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was published in the Federal Register on January 14, 1991 (56 FR 1422). 
One request for a hearing was made on February 14, 1991, by the New 
York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to assure 
that DEC's interest in the decommissioning process can be adequately 
represented. The hearing request was withdrawn on March 13, 1991, after 
an agreement with Cintichem and the Staff of the Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, which covered DEC's involvement with respect to the 
Decommissioning Activities.
    By Order dated November 21, 1991 (56 FR 60124), the Commission 
authorized dismantling of the facility and disposition of component 
parts as proposed in the decommissioning plan of the licensee. Changes 
to the decommissioning plan were subsequently made (see Environmental 
Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact which was published in 
the Federal Register on August 19, 1998 (63 FR 44476). By letters dated 
January 26, 1995, March 3, 1995, March 26, April 19 and June 7, 1996, 
June 6 and 27, 1997, July 3 and 30, 1997, and September 22, 1997, the 
licensee submitted the radiological survey reports for the facility in 
accordance with the approved decommissioning plan as amended. 
Confirmatory radiological surveys verified that the facility met the 
Commission's approved decommissioning plan requirements for release of 
the facility for unrestricted use. The reactor fuel has been removed 
from the facility and shipped to a Department of Energy facility, and 
other radioactive material stored on site has been removed from the 
facility.
    Accordingly, the Commission has found that the facility has been 
dismantled and decontaminated pursuant to the Commission's Order dated 
November 21, 1991 as supplemented. 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, and i, of the Atomic 
Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and in accordance with 10 CFR 
50.82(b)(6), Facility License No. R-81 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 August 19, 
1998 (63 FR 44476).
    For further details with respect to this action see (1) the 
application for termination of Facility License No. R-81, dated October 
19, 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, and (4) the ``Notice 
of Proposed Issuance of Orders Authorizing Disposition of Component 
Parts and Terminating Facility License,'' published in the Federal 
Register on January 14, 1991 (56 FR 1422). Each of these items are 
available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document 
Room, 2120 L Street, NW, Washington, DC 20003-1527.
    Copies of items (2), (3), and (4) 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 19th day of August 1998.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Jack W. Roe,
Acting Director, Division of Reactor Program Management, Office of 
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 98-22764 Filed 8-24-98; 8:45 am]
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