[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 88 (Wednesday, May 7, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24976-24977]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-11858]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-297]
Notice of Renewal of Facility License No. R-120; North Carolina
State University
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has issued
Amendment No. 11 to Facility License No. R-120 for the North Carolina
State University (the licensee), which renews the license for operation
of the PULSTAR Research Reactor located on the licensee's campus in
Raleigh, North Carolina.
The facility is a non-power reactor that has been operating at a
power level not in excess of 1000 kilowatts (thermal). Renewed Facility
License No. R-120 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 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 December 28, 1988,
at 53 FR 52535. 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. On the basis of 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 North
Carolina State University'' (NUREG-1572) for the renewal of Facility
License No. R-120 and has, on the basis of that report, 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 29, 1997 (62 FR 23280) for
the renewal of Facility License No. R-120 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 August 19, 1988, as supplemented on
January 2, April 17, and December 18, 1989; April 17 and July 18, 1990;
January 25, 1991; November 30, 1992; September 15, 1995; and October 4,
November 25, and December 30, 1996; (2) Amendment No. 11 to Facility
License No. R-120; (3) the related Safety Evaluation Report (NUREG-
1572); and (4) the
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Environmental Assessment dated April 18, 1997. These items are
available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document
Room, the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037.
Copies of NUREG-1572 may be purchased by calling (202) 275-2060 or
(202) 275-2171, or write the Superintendent of Documents, U.S.
Government Printing Office, Post Office Box 37082, Washington, DC
20013-7982.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 30th day of April 1997.
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. 97-11858 Filed 5-6-97; 8:45 am]
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