[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 173 (Wednesday, September 8, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54326-54327]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-20300]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-02]


Notice and Solicitation of Comments Pursuant to 10 CFR 20.1405 
and 10 CFR 50.82(b)(5) Concerning Proposed Action to Decommission the 
University of Michigan Ford Nuclear Reactor (FNR)

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(the Commission) has received an application from the University of 
Michigan dated June 23, 2004, for a license amendment approving its 
proposed decommissioning plan for the FNR (Facility License No. R-28) 
located in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
    In accordance with 10 CFR 20.1405, the Commission is providing 
notice and soliciting comments from local and

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State governments in the vicinity of the site and any Indian Nation or 
other indigenous people that have treaty or statutory rights that could 
be affected by the decommissioning. This notice and solicitation of 
comments is published pursuant to 10 CFR 20.1405, which provides for 
publication in the Federal Register and in a forum, such as local 
newspapers, letters to State or local organizations, or other 
appropriate forum, that is readily accessible to individuals in the 
vicinity of the site.
    Comments should be provided within 30 days of the date of this 
notice to Patrick M. Madden, Chief, Research and Test Reactors Section, 
New, Research and Test Reactors Program, Division of Regulatory 
Improvement Programs, Mail Stop O12-G13, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555.
    Further, in accordance with 10 CFR 50.82(b)(5), notice is also 
provided to interested persons of the Commission's intent to approve 
the plan by amendment, subject to such conditions and limitations as it 
deems appropriate and necessary, if the plan demonstrates that 
decommissioning will be performed in accordance with the regulations in 
this chapter and will not be inimical to the common defense and 
security or to the health and safety of the public.
    A copy of the application is available electronically for public 
inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publicly 
Available Records component of the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access 
and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web 
site at (the Public Electronic Reading Room) http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.

    Dated in Rockville, Maryland, this 31st day of August, 2004.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Patrick M. Madden,
Section Chief, Research and Test Reactors Section, New Research and 
Test Reactors Program, Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs, 
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 04-20300 Filed 9-7-04; 8:45 am]
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