[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 216 (Tuesday, November 8, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69296-69297]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-28892]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-407, NRC-2011-0153]


University of Utah, University of Utah TRIGA Nuclear Reactor, 
Notice of Issuance of Renewed Facility Operating License No. R-126

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of issuance of renewed facility operating license.

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ADDRESSES: You can access publicly available documents related to this 
document using the following methods:
     NRC's Public Document Room (PDR): The public may examine 
and have copied, for a fee, publicly available

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documents at the NRC's PDR, O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): Publicly available documents created or received at the NRC 
are available online in the NRC Library at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. From this page, the public can gain entry into ADAMS, 
which provides text and image files of the NRC's public documents. If 
you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are problems in accessing 
the documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC's PDR reference staff 
at 1 (800) 397-4209, (301) 415-4737, or by email to 
[email protected].
     Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Public comments and 
supporting materials related to this final rule can be found at http://www.regulations.gov by searching on Docket ID NRC-2011-0153. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher, telephone: (301) 492-
3668; email: [email protected].
    For details with respect to the application for renewal, see the 
licensee's letter dated March 25, 2005 (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML050900074), as supplemented on June 1, 2009 (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML092090027), February 9, 2010 (ADAMS Accession No. ML100550670), March 
10, 2010 (ADAMS Accession No. ML100810143), May 13, 2010 (ADAMS 
Accession No. ML101380222), May 27, 2010 (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML101600188), October 4, 2010 (two letters), (ADAMS Accession Nos. 
ML103210041 and ML103160196), June 8, 2011 (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML111720666), July 15, 2011 (ADAMS Accession No. ML11207A429), August 
23, 2011 (ADAMS Accession No. ML11249A053), and August 31, 2011 (ADAMS 
Accession No. ML112490384).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Geoffrey Wertz, Project Manager, 
Research and Test Reactor Licensing Branch, Division of Policy and 
Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Rockville, MD 20852. Telephone: (301) 415-0893; 
fax number: (301) 415-3031; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC 
or the Commission) has issued renewed Facility Operating License No. R-
126, held by the University of Utah (UU, the licensee), which 
authorizes continued operation of the UU TRIGA Nuclear Reactor (UUTR), 
located in Salt Lake City, Utah. The UUTR is a pool-type, natural 
convection, light-water cooled, and shielded TRIGA (Training, Research, 
Isotope Production, General Atomics) reactor fuel. The UUTR is licensed 
to operate at a steady-state power level of 100 kilowatts thermal 
power. The renewed Facility Operating License No. R-126 will expire 20 
years from its date of issuance.
    The renewed facility operating 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 facility operating license. The agency afforded 
an opportunity for hearing in the Notice of Opportunity for Hearing 
published in the Federal Register on July 21, 2011 (76 FR 43733-43737). 
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 Operating License No. R-126 and concluded, based on that 
evaluation, 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 and Finding of No Significant 
Impact for the renewal of the facility operating license, noticed in 
the Federal Register on September 28, 2011 (76 FR 60091-60094), and 
concluded that renewal of the facility operating license will not have 
a significant impact on the quality of the human environment.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 31st day of October, 2011.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Patricia A. Silva,
Acting Chief, Research and Test Reactors Licensing Branch, Division of 
Policy and Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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