[Federal Register: August 22, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 163)]
[Notices]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-131]
Notice of Renewal of Facility Operating License No. R-57,
Department of Veterans Affairs, Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care
System
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has issued
Amendment No. 11 to Facility Operating License No. R-57 for the
Department of Veterans Affairs, Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care
System (the licensee), which renews the license for operation of the
Alan J. Blotcky Reactor Facility located at the Department of Veterans
Affairs, Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System, Omaha Division
(formerly known as the VA Medical Center Omaha) in Omaha, Nebraska.
The facility is a non-power reactor that has been operating at a
power level not in excess of 20 kilowatts (thermal). The renewed
Facility Operating License No. R-57 will expire 20 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 1. 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 26, 1995,
at 60 CFR part 5228. No request for a hearing or petition for leave to
intervene was filed following notice of the proposed action.
Continues 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 the
Department of Veterans Affairs, Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care
System, Omaha Division'' for the renewal of Facility Operating License
No. R-57 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 November 27, 2001, (66 FR 59267)
for the renewal of Facility Operating License No. R-57 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 May 10, 1993, as supplemented on March
1, 1995, December 17, 1997, March 12, April 5, July 29, November 24 and
December 2, 1999, January 4, September 25, October 2 and October 24,
2000, and August 8 and October 16, 2001, (2) Amendment No. 11 to
Facility Operating License No. R-57; (3) the related Safety Evaluation
Report and (4) the Environmental Assessment dated November 20, 2001.
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 NRS'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 5th day of August 2002.
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For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Patrick M. Madden,
Section Chief, Research and Test Reactors Section, Operating Reactor
Improvements Program, Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs,
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 02-21415 Filed 8-21-02; 8:45 am]
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