[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 131 (Friday, July 10, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 33283]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-16350]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
National Bureau of Standards Reactor
[Docket No. 50-184; NRC-2009-0305]
Notice of Issuance of Renewed Facility License No. TR-5
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued renewed
Facility Operating License No. TR-5, held by the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (the licensee), which authorizes continued
operation of the National Bureau of Standards Reactor (NBSR), located
in Gaithersburg, Montgomery County, Maryland. The NBSR is a tank-type,
heavy-water-moderated-and-cooled test reactor licensed to operate at a
steady-state power level of 20 megawatts thermal power. Renewed
Facility Operating License No. TR-5 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
September 21, 2004 (69 FR 56462). The NRC received no request for a
hearing or petition for leave to intervene following the notice.
The NRC staff prepared a safety evaluation report for the renewal
of Facility License No. TR-5 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 a final Environmental Impact Statement for license renewal,
noticed in the Federal Register on December 13, 2007 (72 FR 70900), and
concluded 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 April 9, 2004 (ADAMS Accession Nos.
ML041120167, ML041120179, ML041120201, ML041120205, ML041120206,
ML041120207, ML041120210, ML041120216, ML041120217, ML041120221,
ML041120225, ML041120229, ML041120233, ML041120234, ML041120235,
ML041120237, ML041120239, ML041120241, ML041120244, ML041120247,
ML041120250), as supplemented on October 2, 2006 (ADAMS Accession No.
ML062850511), May 30 (ADAMS Accession No. ML071570459) and August 14,
2007 (ADAMS Accession No. ML072390261), September 16 (ADAMS Accession
No. ML082890338), October 21 (ADAMS Accession No. ML083030209), and
December 8, 2008 (ADAMS Accession No. ML083510754), and March 3 (ADAMS
Accession No. ML090700132), March 19 (ADAMS Accession No. ML090890327),
and April 22, 2009 (ADAMS Accession Nos. ML091190451 and ML091190464).
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 2nd day of July 2009.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Kathryn M. Brock,
Chief, Research and Test Reactors Branch A, Division of Policy and
Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. E9-16350 Filed 7-9-09; 8:45 am]
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