[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 108 (Friday, June 5, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32184-32185]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-13810]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 70-3103; NRC-2010-0264]


Louisiana Energy Services, URENCO USA Facility

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Inspection reports; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff has 
conducted inspections of the Louisiana Energy Services, LLC, URENCO USA 
(UUSA) Facility in Eunice, New Mexico, and has authorized the Uranium 
Byproduct Cylinder Storage Pad Crane for use with non-enriched uranic 
material; the introduction of uranium hexafluoride (UF6) 
into cascades 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, and 5.7; and the 
commencement of UF6 re-feed operations in cascades 5.1 
through 5.7 in Separation Building Module-1005.

DATES: June 5, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2010-0264 when contacting the 
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You 
may access publicly-available information related to this document 
using any of the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2010-0264. 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]. 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: Tilda Liu, Office of Nuclear Material 
Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 
DC 20555-0001; telephone: 404-997-4730; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Further Information

    The NRC staff has prepared inspection reports documenting its 
findings in accordance with the requirements of the NRC's Inspection 
Manual, and these reports are available for review as specified in 
Section II of this notice. The publication of this notice satisfies the 
requirements of Section 70.32(k) of Title 10 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations (10 CFR), and Section 193(c) of the Atomic Energy Act of 
1954, as amended.
    The introduction of UF6 into any separation building 
module (SBM) at the UUSA uranium enrichment facility is not permitted 
until the NRC

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completes an operational readiness and management measures verification 
review, to verify that management measures that ensure compliance with 
the performance requirements of 10 CFR 70.61 have been implemented, and 
confirms that the SBM has been constructed in accordance with the 
license and will be operated safely. Subsequent operational readiness 
and management measures verification reviews will continue throughout 
the planned future phases of construction and, upon completion of these 
subsequent phases, additional notices of the operation approval letters 
will be published in the Federal Register in accordance with 10 CFR 
70.32(k).

II. Availability of Documents

    The authorization letters and inspection reports identified in the 
following table are available to interested persons.

NRC Authorization Letters

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     Authorization letters              Date        ADAMS  accession No.
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Cascade 5.1....................  February 6, 2015.  ML15037A054
Uranium Byproduct Cylinder       February 19, 2015  ML15050A282
 Storage Pad Crane.
Cascade 5.2....................  February 20, 2015  ML15051A028
Cascade 5.3....................  March 2, 2015....  ML15063A003
Cascade 5.4....................  March 12, 2015...  ML15071A364
Cascade 5.5....................  April 7, 2015....  ML15097A278
Re-Feed Operations in Cascades   April 9, 2015....  ML15099A487
 5.1 through 5.5.
Cascade 5.6....................  April 29, 2015...  ML15119A189
Cascade 5.7 and Re-Feed          May 26, 2015.....  ML15146A123
 Operations.
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NRC Inspection Reports

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     Inspection Report No.              Date        ADAMS  accession No.
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2014-005.......................  January 29, 2015.  ML15029A031
2015-002.......................  April 21, 2015...  ML15111A280
2015-006.......................  February 27, 2015  ML15058A712
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    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of May, 2015.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas A. Grice,
Acting Chief, Enrichment and Conversion Branch, Division of Fuel Cycle 
Safety, Safeguards, and Environmental Review, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety, and Safeguards.
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