[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 180 (Tuesday, September 16, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53451-53452]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-21556]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

 Docket No. 50-243


Oregon State University Research Reactor; Notice of Issuance of 
Renewed Facility License No. R-106

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission) has 
issued renewed Facility License No. R-106, held by Oregon State 
University (the licensee), which authorizes continued operation of the 
Oregon State University TRIGA reactor (OSTR), located in Corvallis, 
Benton County, Oregon. The OSTR is a pool-type, light-water-moderated-
and-cooled research reactor licensed to operate at a steady-state 
thermal power level of 1.1 megawatts. Renewed Facility License No. R-
106 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 (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 June 
14, 2007, at 72 FR 32922. The NRC received no request for a hearing or 
petition for leave to intervene following this notice.
    The NRC staff prepared a safety evaluation report for the renewal 
of Facility License No. R-106 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 September 8, 2008, at 73 FR 52072, and 
concluded, based on that assessment, that renewal of the license will 
not have a significant impact on the quality of the human environment.
    The NRC maintains the Agencywide Documents Access and Management 
System (ADAMS), which provides text and image files of the NRC's public 
documents. For details with respect to the application for renewal, see 
the licensee's letter dated October 5, 2004 (ADAMS Accession Nos. 
ML043270077 and ML07430452), as supplemented by letters dated August 8, 
2005 (ADAMS Accession No. ML052290051), May 24, 2006 (ADAMS Accession 
No. ML061510355), November 10, 2006 (ADAMS Accession No. ML063210182), 
November 21, 2006 (ADAMS Accession No. ML063320500), July 10, 2007 
(ADAMS Accession Nos. ML072150361 and ML072150362), July 27, 2007 
(ADAMS Accession No. ML072150363), July 31, 2007 (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML072190043), August 6, 2007 (ADAMS Accession No. ML072340580), April 
14, 2008 (ADAMS Accession No. ML081150194), August 6, 2008 
(ML082261409), and August 11, 2008 (ML082270383). The dates and 
associated ADAMS accession numbers of NRC requests for additional 
information are May 15, 2006 (ADAMS Accession No. ML061310209), October 
3, 2006 (ADAMS Accession No. ML062060026), May 21, 2007 (ADAMS

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Accession No. ML071300010), February 4, 2007 (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML072890036), and March 19, 2008 (ADAMS Accession No. ML080710139). For 
details with respect to the issuance of the renewed facility license, 
see renewed Facility License No. R-106 (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML082520502), the related safety evaluation report (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML071430452), and the related environmental assessment dated September 
8, 2008 (ADAMS Accession No. ML061650197). 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 are accessible 
electronically from the 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 Public Document Room 
reference staff at 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, or send an e-mail to 
[email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10th day of September 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. E8-21556 Filed 9-15-08; 8:45 am]
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