[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 179 (Friday, September 15, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54529-54530]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-15310]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-284]


Notice of Renewal of Facility Operating License No. R-110; Idaho 
State University AGN-201M Research Reactor

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has issued 
Amendment No. 6 to Facility Operating License No. R-110 for the Idaho 
State University (the licensee), which renews the license for operation 
of the Idaho State University AGN-201M Research Reactor Facility 
located at the Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho.
    The facility is a research reactor that has been operating at a 
power level not in excess of 5 watts (thermal). The renewed Facility 
Operating License No. R-110 will expire twenty years from its date of 
issuance.
    The amended license complies with the standards and requirements of 
the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the 
Commission's rules and regulations. The Commission has made appropriate 
findings as required by the Act and the Commission's regulations in 10 
CFR Chapter I. Those findings are set forth in the license amendment. 
Opportunity for hearing was afforded in the notice of the proposed 
issuance of this renewal in the Federal Register on January 8, 1996 (61 
FR 563). No request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene 
was filed following notice of the proposed action.
    Continued operation of the reactor will not require alteration of 
buildings or structures, will not lead to significant changes in 
effluents released from the facility to the environment, will not 
increase the probability or consequences of accidents, and will not 
involve any unresolved issues concerning alternative uses of available 
resources. Based on the foregoing and on the Environmental Assessment, 
the Commission concludes that renewal of the license will not result in 
any significant environmental impacts.
    The Commission has prepared a ``Safety Evaluation Report Related to 
the Renewal of the Operating License for the Research Reactor at Idaho 
State University'' for the renewal of Facility Operating License No. R-
110 and has, based on that evaluation, concluded that the facility can 
continue to be operated by the licensee without endangering the health 
and safety of the public.
    The Commission also prepared an Environmental Assessment which was 
published in the Federal Register on April 9, 2004, (69 FR 18988) for 
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renewal of Facility Operating License No. R-110 and has concluded that 
this action will not have a significant effect on the quality of the 
human environment.
    For further details with respect to this action, see: (1) The 
application for amendment dated November 21, 1995, as supplemented on 
January 31, 2003 and July 10, 2003, (2) Amendment No. 6 to Facility 
Operating License No. R-110; (3) the related Safety Evaluation Report 
and (4) the Environmental Assessment dated March 30, 2004. Documents 
may be examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the NRC's Public Document 
Room, located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first 
floor), Rockville, Maryland. The NRC maintains an Agencywide Documents 
Access and Management System (ADAMS), which provides text and image 
files of NRC's public documents. Documents related to this license 
renewal dated on or after November 24, 1999, may be accessed through 
the NRC's Public Electronic Reading Room on the Internet at http://www.nrc.gov. If you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are 
problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC 
Public Document Room (PDR) Reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-
4737 or by e-mail to [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 14th day of August 2006.

    For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brian E. Thomas,
Chief, Research and Test Reactors Branch, Division of Policy and 
Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. E6-15310 Filed 9-14-06; 8:45 am]
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