[Federal Register: August 19, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 160)]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-607]

 
McClellan Air Force Base; Notice of Issuance of Facility 
Operating License No. R-130

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission or the NRC) 
has issued Facility Operating License No. R-130 for the United States 
Air Force, McClellan Air Force Base (the licensee), to operate the 
training reactor and isotopes production, General Atomics (TRIGA) 
research reactor located on the licensee's site in Sacramento, 
California.
    Facility Operating License No. R-130 authorizes a power level not 
in excess of 2300 kilowatts (thermal) and in the pulse mode, with pulse 
step reactivity insertion not in excess of $1.75 (1.23 percent 
<greek-D>k/k.) The license will expire 20 years from its date of 
issuance.
    The 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 10 CFR Chapter 
I. Those findings are set forth in the license. An opportunity for a 
hearing was afforded in the notice of the Proposed Issuance of Facility 
Operating License in the Federal Register on October 1, 1997 (62 FR 
51491). No request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene was 
filed following notice of the proposed action.
    The facility has been inspected by representatives of the 
Commission who have determined that the facility was constructed in 
substantial conformity with the terms and conditions of the 
application, as amended.
    The Commission has prepared a Safety Evaluation Report (NUREG-1630) 
regarding the operating license for the McClellan Air Force Base and, 
on the basis of that report, has concluded that the facility can be 
operated by the licensee without endangering the health and safety of 
the public.
    The Commission also prepared an Environmental Assessment and 
Finding of No Significant Environmental Impact, which was published in 
the Federal Register on April 6, 1998 (63 FR 16830), for the operation 
of the reactor and has concluded that this action will not have a 
significant effect on the quality of the human environment.
    For further details with respect to this action, see (1) the 
application for operating license of October 23, 1996, as supplemented; 
(2) Facility Operating License No. R-130; (3) the related Safety 
Evaluation Report (NUREG-1630); and (4) the Environmental Assessment 
and Finding of No Significant Environmental Impact of April 6, 1998. 
These items are available for public inspection at the Commission's 
Public Document Room, 2120 L Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20037.
    Copies of NUREG-1630 may be purchased by writing the Superintendent 
of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Post Office Box 37082, 
Washington, D.C. 20013-7982.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 13th day of August 1998.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Seymour H. Weiss,
Director, Non-Power Reactors and Decommissioning Project Directorate, 
Division of Reactor Program Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 98-22333 Filed 8-18-98; 8:45 am]
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