[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 51 (Monday, March 16, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14980-14981]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-05285]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 70-0157; NRC-2009-0382]
University of Texas at Austin, TX
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: License termination; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is providing
public notice of the termination of Special Nuclear Materials (SNM)
License No. SNM-180. The NRC has terminated the license held by the
University of Texas at Austin (UTX-A) to possess and use SNM for
research, training, and educational purposes.
DATES: The license termination for SNM-180 was issued on January 23,
2020.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2009-0382 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 https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2009-0382. Address
questions about NRC docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Jennifer Borges;
telephone: 301-287-9127; 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 https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, 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]. For the convenience of the reader,
instructions about obtaining materials referenced in this document are
provided in the ``Availability of Documents'' section.
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
The NRC has terminated License No. SNM-180, held by UTX-A at its
Nuclear Engineering Teaching Laboratory (NETL). The NETL used SNM to
supplement its training program in the field of nuclear engineering.
The licensed materials were to be used in experiments in the NETL at
the J.J. Pickle Research Campus in Austin, Texas. The license was most
recently renewed on November 13, 2009 and was due for renewal in
November 2019. Instead, due to a change in the direction of research
activities at the NETL resulting in the disuse of licensed SNM, UTX-A
arranged to ship the licensed SNM to the U.S. Department of Energy
(DOE) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. By letter dated November 15, 2019, the
NETL forwarded notification to the NRC that packaging and shipment to
DOE had been completed.
UTX-A's initial license was issued February 27, 1958, and the most
recent renewal was issued on November 13, 2009. However, the SNM
licensed for use by UTX-A had been in storage and unused since prior to
the last license renewal. An application to terminate the license was
received by the NRC on
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November 15, 2019. The NRC staff prepared a safety evaluation report
for the termination of SNM-180 and concluded that this license
termination complies with the standards and requirements of the Atomic
Energy Act of 1954, as amended, section 70.38 of title 10 of the Code
of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), and other applicable NRC's rules and
regulations as set forth in 10 CFR chapter 1. Accordingly, this license
termination was issued on January 23, 2020.
II. Availability of Documents
The documents identified in the following table are available to
interested persons through the ADAMS accession numbers as indicated.
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Document ADAMS accession No.
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Initial License_SNM-180................ ML19354A020
License Renewal Application for SNM-180 ML080240243
(Public Version).
Ltr to S. Biegalski, Approval of the ML093030048
University of Texas at Austin License
Renewal Application for the Nuclear
Engineering Teaching Laboratory.
Enclosure 4. Safety Evaluation Report ML093030057
for the Renewal of License SNM-180 for
the University of Texas at Austin.
University of Texas at Austin SNM-180 ML19337A016
Termination Request (Package).
Approval of Amendment Request for ML19352E566
Special Nuclear Material--180 License
Termination and Amendment 2 (Package).
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Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day of March 2020.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Tyrone D. Naquin,
Project Manager, Fuel Facility Licensing Branch, Division of Fuel
Management Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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