[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 11 (Tuesday, January 18, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 2885]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-888]



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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-131]


Notice and Solicitation of Comments Pursuant to 10 CFR 20.1405 
and 10 CFR 50.82(b)(5) Concerning Proposed Action to Decommission 
Department of Veterans Affairs Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System 
Alan J. Blotcky Reactor Facility

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(the Commission) has received an application from the Department of 
Veterans Affairs, Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System dated 
September 21, 2004, for a license amendment approving its proposed 
decommissioning plan for the Alan J. Blotcky Reactor Facility (Facility 
License No. R-57) located in Omaha, Nebraska.
    In accordance with 10 CFR 20.1405, the Commission is providing 
notice and soliciting comments from local and 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 (Accession Number ML042740512) 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 10th day of January, 2005.

    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. 05-888 Filed 1-14-05; 8:45 am]
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