[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 163 (Thursday, August 22, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54496-54497]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-21415]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-131]


Notice of Renewal of Facility Operating License No. R-57, 
Department of Veterans Affairs, Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care 
System

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has issued 
Amendment No. 11 to Facility Operating License No. R-57 for the 
Department of Veterans Affairs, Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care 
System (the licensee), which renews the license for operation of the 
Alan J. Blotcky Reactor Facility located at the Department of Veterans 
Affairs, Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System, Omaha Division 
(formerly known as the VA Medical Center Omaha) in Omaha, Nebraska.
    The facility is a non-power reactor that has been operating at a 
power level not in excess of 20 kilowatts (thermal). The renewed 
Facility Operating License No. R-57 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 rules and regulations. The Commission has made appropriate 
findings as required by the Act and the Commission's regulations in 10 
CFR chapter 1. 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 January 26, 1995, 
at 60 CFR part 5228. No request for a hearing or petition for leave to 
intervene was filed following notice of the proposed action.
    Continues 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. Based on 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 the 
Department of Veterans Affairs, Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care 
System, Omaha Division'' for the renewal of Facility Operating License 
No. R-57 and has, based on that evaluation, 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 November 27, 2001, (66 FR 59267) 
for the renewal of Facility Operating License No. R-57 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 May 10, 1993, as supplemented on March 
1, 1995, December 17, 1997, March 12, April 5, July 29, November 24 and 
December 2, 1999, January 4, September 25, October 2 and October 24, 
2000, and August 8 and October 16, 2001, (2) Amendment No. 11 to 
Facility Operating License No. R-57; (3) the related Safety Evaluation 
Report and (4) the Environmental Assessment dated November 20, 2001. 
Documents may be examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the NRC's Public 
Document Room, located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, 
(first floor), Rockville, Maryland. The NRC maintains an Agencywide 
Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS), which provides text and 
image files of NRS's public documents. Documents related to this 
license renewal dated on or after November 24, 1999, may be accessed 
through the NRC's Public Electronic Reading Room on the internet at 
http://www.nrc.gov. If you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are 
problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC 
Public Document Room (PDR) Reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-
4737 or by e-mail to [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day of August 2002.


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For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Patrick M. Madden,
Section Chief, Research and Test Reactors Section, Operating Reactor 
Improvements Program, Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs, 
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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