[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 12 (Thursday, January 18, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 2685]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-00800]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 70-0938; NRC-2016-0152]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts;
License Renewal; Issuance
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: License renewal; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued a renewal
of Special Nuclear Materials (SNM) License No. SNM-986 held by the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to possess and use SNM for
education, research, and training programs. The renewed license
authorizes MIT to continue to possess and use SNM for an additional 10
years from the date of issuance.
DATES: The renewed license SNM-986 was issued on December 14, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2016-0152 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You
may obtain publicly-available information related to this document
using any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2016-0152. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this document.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and
then select ``Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.'' For problems with ADAMS,
please contact the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at
1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by email to [email protected]. The
ADAMS accession number for each document referenced (if it is available
in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is referenced. For
the convenience of the reader, the ADAMS accession numbers are provided
in a table in the ``Availability of Documents'' section of this
document.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tyrone D. Naquin, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-7352; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Discussion
Pursuant to section 2.106 of title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR), the NRC is providing notice of the issuance of
license renewal to Material License No. SNM-986, to MIT, which
authorizes MIT to possess and use SNM for education, research, and
training programs at its campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This
licensee's request for renewal of its license was made on February 24,
2016. Because the licensed material will be used for research and
development and for educational purposes, renewal of SNM License No.
SNM-986 is an action that is categorically excluded from a requirement
to prepare an environmental assessment or environmental impact
statement, pursuant to 10 CFR 51.22(c)(14)(v). A notice of receipt of
the license renewal application with an opportunity to request a
hearing and petition for leave to intervene was published in the
Federal Register on August 8, 2016 (81 FR 52478). The NRC did not
receive a request for a hearing or for a petition for leave to
intervene. This license renewal complies with the standards and
requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and the
NRC's rules and regulations as set forth in 10 CFR Chapter 1.
Accordingly, this license renewal was issued on December 14, 2017, and
is effective immediately.
The NRC prepared a safety evaluation report for the renewal of SNM-
986 and concluded that the licensee can continue to operate the
facility without endangering the health and safety of the public.
II. Availability of Documents
The documents identified in the following table are available to
interested persons through ADAMS accession numbers as indicated.
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ADAMS
Document accession No.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology Request for ML16092A171
Renewal Application....................................
NRC Request for Additional Information.................. ML16257A205
MIT Response to Request for Additional Information...... ML16302A017
Transmittal of MIT License Renewal (SNM-0986)........... ML17086A517
Safety Evaluation Report for MIT License Renewal........ ML17086A565
SNM-986 MIT Materials License........................... ML17086A581
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Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day of January, 2018.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Tyrone D. Naquin,
Project Manager, Fuel Manufacturing Branch, Division of Fuel Cycle
Safety, Safeguards and Environmental Review, Office of Nuclear Material
Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2018-00800 Filed 1-17-18; 8:45 am]
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