[Federal Register: September 15, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 179)]
[Notices]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-284]
Notice of Renewal of Facility Operating License No. R-110; Idaho
State University AGN-201M Research Reactor
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has issued
Amendment No. 6 to Facility Operating License No. R-110 for the Idaho
State University (the licensee), which renews the license for operation
of the Idaho State University AGN-201M Research Reactor Facility
located at the Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho.
The facility is a research reactor that has been operating at a
power level not in excess of 5 watts (thermal). The renewed Facility
Operating License No. R-110 will expire twenty years from its date of
issuance.
The amended 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 amendment.
Opportunity for hearing was afforded in the notice of the proposed
issuance of this renewal in the Federal Register on January 8, 1996 (61
FR 563). No request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene
was filed following notice of the proposed action.
Continued operation of the reactor will not require alteration of
buildings or structures, will not lead to significant changes in
effluents released from the facility to the environment, will not
increase the probability or consequences of accidents, and will not
involve any unresolved issues concerning alternative uses of available
resources. Based on the foregoing and on the Environmental Assessment,
the Commission concludes that renewal of the license will not result in
any significant environmental impacts.
The Commission has prepared a ``Safety Evaluation Report Related to
the Renewal of the Operating License for the Research Reactor at Idaho
State University'' for the renewal of Facility Operating License No. R-
110 and has, based on that evaluation, concluded that the facility can
continue to be operated by the licensee without endangering the health
and safety of the public.
The Commission also prepared an Environmental Assessment which was
published in the Federal Register on April 9, 2004, (69 FR 18988) for
the
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renewal of Facility Operating License No. R-110 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 amendment dated November 21, 1995, as supplemented on
January 31, 2003 and July 10, 2003, (2) Amendment No. 6 to Facility
Operating License No. R-110; (3) the related Safety Evaluation Report
and (4) the Environmental Assessment dated March 30, 2004. Documents
may be examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the NRC's Public Document
Room, located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first
floor), Rockville, Maryland. The NRC maintains an Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System (ADAMS), which provides text and image
files of NRC's public documents. Documents related to this license
renewal dated on or after November 24, 1999, may be accessed through
the NRC's Public Electronic Reading Room on the Internet at http://www.nrc.gov.
If you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are
problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC
Public Document Room (PDR) Reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-
4737 or by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 14th day of August 2006.
For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brian E. Thomas,
Chief, Research and Test Reactors Branch, Division of Policy and
Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. E6-15310 Filed 9-14-06; 8:45 am]
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