[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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