[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 33 (Tuesday, February 19, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 11688]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-03762]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-57; NRC-2012-0103]
Notice of Issuance of Amendment to Facility License R-77
Incorporating a Decommissioning Plan for the Buffalo Materials Research
Center Reactor at the State University of New York at Buffalo
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved the
State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) decommissioning plan (DP)
by amendment to the Facility License R-77 for the Buffalo Materials
Research Center (BMRC) reactor.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Theodore Smith, Project Manager,
Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management
Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001; telephone: 301-415-6721; email: Theodore.Smith@nrc.gov
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2012-0103 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You
may access information related to this document, which the NRC
possesses and are publicly-available, using any of the following
methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0103. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-492-
3668; email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may access publicly available documents online in the NRC
Library 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 at PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. The ADAMS accession number
for each document referenced in this notice (if that document is
available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that the document is
referenced.
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.
I. Notice of Issuance
The BMRC reactor is located at the UB in Buffalo, NY. The reactor
is a PULSTAR heterogeneous open-pool type water cooled reactor. The
reactor operated from March 24, 1961 until June 23, 1994. During
operation, the reactor used 6% enriched uranium dioxide fuel clad in
zirconium-alloy. The UB submitted the DP for the reactor to the NRC in
a letter dated February 17, 2012 (ADAMS accession no. ML120540187), as
supplemented by letters dated June 20, 2012 (ADAMS accession no.
ML121870132), September 21, 2012 (ADAMS accession no. ML122780454), and
October 15, 2012 (ADAMS accession no. ML12297A237).
Pursuant to sections 20.1405 and 50.82(b)(5) of Title 10 of the
Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), the NRC published a notice and
solicitation of comments for this DP in the Federal Register entitled,
``License Amendment Request From The State University of New York,
University of Buffalo Reactor Facility,'' on May 10, 2012 (77 FR
27487). No comments were received in response to this notice.
Subsequently, the NRC conducted a safety evaluation of the proposed
DP (ADAMS accession no. ML12286A352). Based on this safety evaluation,
the NRC concluded that, pursuant to 10 CFR 50.82(b)(5), the DP
demonstrates that the proposed decommissioning will be performed in
accordance with the Commission's regulations and will not be inimical
to the common defense and security or to the health and safety of the
public. Therefore, the Commission approved, by amendment to Facility
License R-77, the DP subject to the safety evaluation.
The NRC is publishing this notice announcing the issuance of the
amendment to Facility License R-77 pursuant to 10 CFR 2.106(a)(1),
because a notice of proposed action regarding this amendment had been
previously published.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day of February, 2013.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrew Persinko,
Deputy Director Decommissioning and Uranium Recovery, Licensing
Directorate, Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection,
Office of Federal and State Materials, and Environmental Management
Programs.
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