[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 55 (Thursday, March 20, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15012-15013]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-5643]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-188]


Notice of Renewal of Facility License No. R-88; Kansas State 
University TRIGA Research Reactor

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has issued 
renewed Facility License No. R-88 for the Kansas State University (the 
licensee), for operation of the Kansas State University TRIGA Research 
Reactor Facility located in Manhattan, Kansas.
    The facility is a research reactor that has been operating at a 
power level not in excess of 250 kilowatts (thermal). The renewed 
Facility License No. R-88 allows operation at an increased power level 
not in excess of 1,250 kilowatts (thermal), and will expire twenty 
years from its effective date.
    The renewed 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 renewal. 
Opportunity for hearing was afforded in the notice of the proposed 
issuance of this renewal in the Federal Register on October 6, 2005 (70 
FR 58487) and on August 2, 2006 (71 FR 43816). 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 and power increase 
will not results in any significant environmental impacts.
    The Commission has prepared a ``Safety Evaluation Report Related to 
the Renewal of the Facility License for the TRIGA Research Reactor at 
the Kansas State University'' for the renewal of Facility License No. 
R-88 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 February 26, 2008 (73 FR 10308) 
for the renewal of Facility License No. R-88 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 September 12, 2002, as supplemented on 
November 11, 2002, November 13, 2002, December 21, 2004, July 6, 2005, 
September 27, 2005, March 20, 2006, March 30, 2006, June 28, 2006, 
September 28, 2006, May 17, 2007, and June 4, 2007, September 12, 2007, 
October 11, 2007, and February 6, 2008; (2) Renewal of Facility License 
No. R-88; (3) the related Safety Evaluation Report; and (4) the 
Environmental Assessment dated February 20, 2008. Documents may be 
examined, and/or

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copied for a fee, at the NRC's Public Document Room, located at One 
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, 
Maryland. Publicly available records will be accessible electronically 
from the Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) 
Public Electronic Reading Room on the Internet at NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
    If you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are problems in 
accessing the documents located in ADAMS, contact the PDR Reference 
staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737 or by e-mail to [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 13th day of March, 2008.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Daniel S. Collins,
Chief, Research and Test Reactors Branch A, Division of Policy and 
Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
 [FR Doc. E8-5643 Filed 3-19-08; 8:45 am]
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