[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 148 (Wednesday, August 2, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43821-43822]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-12462]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

 [Docket Nos. 50-157 and 50-97]


Notice of Issuance of Decommissioning Amendments for Cornell 
University Triga Research Reactor (TRIGA) and Cornell University Zero 
Power Reactor (ZPR)

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved the Cornell 
University Ward Center for Nuclear Studies (WCNS) decommissioning plan 
(DP) by amendments to the Facility Operating Licenses for the TRIGA

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Research Reactor and the Zero Power Reactor (ZPR).
    The WCNS is located on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, New 
York. The WCNS was constructed between 1959 and 1962 to house the 
TRIGA, the ZPR, and supporting systems. The TRIGA Reactor ceased 
operations on April 21, 2003. The ZPR ceased operations in 1996.
    The licensee submitted the WCNS DP to the NRC for review and 
approval in a letter dated August 22, 2003, as supplemented on May 13, 
September 27, October 26 and December 13, 2005, and February 13, 2006. 
The NRC approved the DP by Amendment No. 14 to the TRIGA Facility 
Operating License No. R-80 on June 15, 2006 and Amendment No. 8 to the 
ZPR Facility Operating License No. R-89 on June 6, 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 WCNS 
at Cornell University Reactor Facility'' was published in the Federal 
Register on August 10, 2005 (70 FR 46549). No comments were received.
    Copies of the license amendments approving Cornell University's 
proposed decommissioning plan are 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 amendments 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 
ML061030501 and ML061030405. 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 15 day of June, 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. E6-12462 Filed 8-1-06; 8:45 am]
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