[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 124 (Thursday, June 26, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 36360]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-14486]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-150]


Ohio State University Research Reactor; Notice of Issuance of 
Renewed Facility License No. R-75

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued renewed 
Facility License No. R-75, held by Ohio State University (the 
licensee), which authorizes continued operation of the Ohio State 
University Research Reactor (OSURR), located in Columbus, Franklin 
County, Ohio. The OSURR is a pool-type, light-water-moderated-and-
cooled research reactor licensed to operate at a steady-state power 
level of 500 kilowatts thermal power. Renewed Facility License No. R-75 
will expire at midnight 20 years from its date of issuance.
    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 
Title 10, Chapter 1, ``Nuclear Regulatory Commission,'' of the Code of 
Federal Regulations (10 CFR), and sets forth those findings in the 
renewed license. The agency afforded an opportunity for hearing in the 
Notice of Opportunity for Hearing published in the Federal Register on 
August 2, 2006, at 71 FR 43818, and September 1, 2006, at 71 FR 52173. 
The NRC received no request for a hearing or petition for leave to 
intervene following those notices.
    The NRC staff prepared a safety evaluation report for the renewal 
of Facility License No. R-75 and concluded, based on that evaluation, 
that the licensee can continue to operate the facility without 
endangering the health and safety of the public. The NRC staff also 
prepared an environmental assessment for license renewal, noticed in 
the Federal Register on April 14, 2008, at 73 FR 20072, and concluded, 
based on that assessment, that renewal of the license will not have a 
significant impact on the quality of the human environment.
    For details with respect to the application for renewal, see the 
licensee's letter dated December 15, 1999 (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML993610185), as supplemented by letters dated August 21, 2002 (ADAMS 
Accession No. ML022380431); August 18, 2005 (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML052350564); July 26, 2006 (ADAMS Accession No. ML062090072); May 22, 
2007 (ADAMS Accession No. ML071430417); May 31, 2007 (ADAMS Accession 
No. ML071550098); September 4, 2007 (ADAMS Accession No. ML072490367); 
September 28, 2007 (ADAMS Accession No. ML072750038); and February 29, 
2008 (ADAMS Accession No. ML080650352). For details with respect to the 
issuance of the renewed facility license, see renewed Facility License 
No. R-75 (ADAMS Accession No. ML081000618), the related safety 
evaluation report (ADAMS Accession No. ML081000618), and the related 
environmental assessment dated April 7, 2008 (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML070230004). Documents may be examined, and/or copied for a fee, at 
the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR), 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 NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who encounter 
problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS should contact the 
NRC PDR Reference staff at 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, or send an 
e-mail to [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day of June, 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. E8-14486 Filed 6-25-08; 8:45 am]
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