[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 148 (Wednesday, August 2, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 43821]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-12441]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-2]


Notice of Issuance of Decommissioning Amendment for University of 
Michigan Ford Nuclear Reactor

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is noticing the 
approval of the University of Michigan decommissioning plan (DP) by 
amendment to the Facility Operating License for the Ford Nuclear 
Reactor (FNR).
    The FNR is located in the Phoenix Memorial Laboratory on the North 
Campus of the University in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The reactor was 
licensed to operate at 2 Megawatt thermal power. After the initial 
startup of the FNR in 1957, the reactor ceased operations on July 3, 
2003.
    The licensee submitted the FNR DP to the NRC for review and 
approval in a letter dated June 8, 2004, as supplemented on June 23, 
2004, January 5, 2006 and January 10, 2006. The NRC approved the DP by 
Amendment No. 50 to the FNR Operating License No. R-28 on June 22, 
2006.
    A ``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'' was published in the 
Federal Register on September 8, 2004 (69 FR 54326-54327) and in The 
Ann Arbor News on September 9, 2004. On June 7, 2006, the NRC staff 
consulted with the Environmental Coordinator for the City of Ann Arbor, 
Michigan. No comments were received.
    A copy of the license amendment approving the University of 
Michigan's proposed decommissioning plan is available for public 
inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room (PDR), located at 
One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, 
Maryland, 20855-2738. The NRC maintains an Agencywide Documents Access 
and Management System (ADAMS), which provides text and image files of 
NRC's public documents. The amendment may be accessed electronically 
from the ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room on the Internet at the 
NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html under ADAMS 
accession number ML061220260. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS, 
or have problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, may 
contact the NRC PDR Reference staff by phone at 1-800-397-4209, 301-
415-4737, or by e-mail to [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this June 30, 2006.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brian E. Thomas,
Branch Chief, Research and Test Reactors Branch, Division of Policy and 
Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. E6-12441 Filed 8-1-06; 8:45 am]
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