ML012910122
| ML012910122 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | University of Missouri-Columbia |
| Issue date: | 10/18/2001 |
| From: | Alexander Adams Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs |
| To: | Covington B, Delcoure S, Denney B, Drey K, Arlette Howard, Laune C, Lowes S, Midkiff K, Sager T, Sandler A, Sonnenschein L, Wright R - No Known Affiliation, Missouri Coalition for the Environment, Nuclear Energy Institute, Sierra Club, Ozark Chapter, St. Louis Children's Aquarium |
| Adams A, NRC/N RR/DRIP/REXB, 415-1127 | |
| References | |
| 66FR39803, TAC MB0850 | |
| Download: ML012910122 (29) | |
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October 18, 2001 Ms. Kay Drey 515 West Point Avenue University City, MO 63130
SUBJECT:
NRC DISCUSSION OF COMMENTS RECEIVED ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA CONSTRUCTION PERMIT RECAPTURE AMENDMENT (TAC NO. MB0850)
Dear Ms. Drey:
This letter regards the comments you submitted in response to a Request for Public Comment, Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact which appeared in the FEDERAL REGISTER on August 1, 2001 (66 FR 39803), for the University of Missouri-Columbia Research Reactor (MURR). The University submitted a request for a license amendment to change the expiration date of Amended Facility License No. R-103 for the MURR from November 21, 2001, to October 11, 2006, to recapture the period of facility construction.
Please find enclosed Discussion of Comments Received on the Environmental Assessment for the University of Missouri-Columbia Construction Permit Recapture Amendment. This document contains a discussion of the disposition of comments received that were relevant to the Environmental Assessment.
You will be sent under separate cover a copy of the staffs discussion of comments received related to the operation of the reactor and other issues not related to the Environment Assessment or the license amendment request.
Thank you for your comments.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Alexander Adams, Jr., Senior Project Manager Operational Experience and Non-Power Reactors Branch Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-186
Enclosure:
As stated
OFFICE REXB:LA REXB:PM REXB:SC NAME EHylton AAdams: PMadden DATE 10/18/2001 10/18/2001 10/18/2001 October 18, 2001 Dr. Tom Sager 8 Laird Avenue Rolla, MO 65401
SUBJECT:
NRC DISCUSSION OF COMMENTS RECEIVED ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA CONSTRUCTION PERMIT RECAPTURE AMENDMENT (TAC NO. MB0850)
Dear Dr. Sager:
This letter regards the comments you submitted in response to a Request for Public Comment, Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact which appeared in the FEDERAL REGISTER on August 1, 2001 (66 FR 39803), for the University of Missouri-Columbia Research Reactor (MURR). The University submitted a request for a license amendment to change the expiration date of Amended Facility License No. R-103 for the MURR from November 21, 2001, to October 11, 2006, to recapture the period of facility construction.
Please find enclosed Discussion of Comments Received on the Environmental Assessment for the University of Missouri-Columbia Construction Permit Recapture Amendment. This document contains a discussion of the disposition of comments received that were relevant to the Environmental Assessment.
You will be sent under separate cover a copy of the staffs discussion of comments received related to the operation of the reactor and other issues not related to the Environment Assessment or the license amendment request.
Thank you for your comments.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Alexander Adams, Jr., Senior Project Manager Operational Experience and Non-Power Reactors Branch Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-186
Enclosure:
As stated
OFFICE REXB:LA REXB:PM REXB:SC NAME EHylton AAdams: PMadden DATE 10/18/2001 10/18/2001 10/18/2001 October 18, 2001 Ms. Angelina S. Howard Nuclear Energy Institute 1776 I Street, NW Suite 400 Washington, DC 20006-3708
SUBJECT:
NRC DISCUSSION OF COMMENTS RECEIVED ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA CONSTRUCTION PERMIT RECAPTURE AMENDMENT (TAC NO. MB0850)
Dear Ms. Howard:
This letter regards the comments you submitted in response to a Request for Public Comment, Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact which appeared in the FEDERAL REGISTER on August 1, 2001 (66 FR 39803), for the University of Missouri-Columbia Research Reactor (MURR). The University submitted a request for a license amendment to change the expiration date of Amended Facility License No. R-103 for the MURR from November 21, 2001, to October 11, 2006, to recapture the period of facility construction.
Please find enclosed Discussion of Comments Received on the Environmental Assessment for the University of Missouri-Columbia Construction Permit Recapture Amendment. This document contains a discussion of the disposition of comments received that were relevant to the Environmental Assessment.
You will be sent under separate cover a copy of the staffs discussion of comments received related to the operation of the reactor and other issues not related to the Environment Assessment or the license amendment request.
Thank you for your comments.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Alexander Adams, Jr., Senior Project Manager Operational Experience and Non-Power Reactors Branch Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-186
Enclosure:
As stated
OFFICE REXB:LA REXB:PM REXB:SC NAME EHylton AAdams: PMadden DATE 10/18/2001 10/18/2001 10/18/2001 October 18, 2001 Ms. Becky Denney 625 Angenette Avenue Kirkwood, MO 63122
SUBJECT:
NRC DISCUSSION OF COMMENTS RECEIVED ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA CONSTRUCTION PERMIT RECAPTURE AMENDMENT (TAC NO. MB0850)
Dear Ms. Denney:
This letter regards the comments you submitted in response to a Request for Public Comment, Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact which appeared in the FEDERAL REGISTER on August 1, 2001 (66 FR 39803), for the University of Missouri-Columbia Research Reactor (MURR). The University submitted a request for a license amendment to change the expiration date of Amended Facility License No. R-103 for the MURR from November 21, 2001, to October 11, 2006, to recapture the period of facility construction.
Please find enclosed Discussion of Comments Received on the Environmental Assessment for the University of Missouri-Columbia Construction Permit Recapture Amendment. This document contains a discussion of the disposition of comments received that were relevant to the Environmental Assessment.
You will be sent under separate cover a copy of the staffs discussion of comments received related to the operation of the reactor and other issues not related to the Environment Assessment or the license amendment request.
Thank you for your comments.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Alexander Adams, Jr., Senior Project Manager Operational Experience and Non-Power Reactors Branch Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-186
Enclosure:
As stated
OFFICE REXB:LA REXB:PM REXB:SC NAME EHylton AAdams: PMadden DATE 10/18/2001 10/18/2001 10/18/2001 October 18, 2001 Ms. Bea Covington Executive Director Missouri Coalition for the Environment 6267 Delmar Boulevard, 2-E Saint Louis, MO 63130
SUBJECT:
NRC DISCUSSION OF COMMENTS RECEIVED ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA CONSTRUCTION PERMIT RECAPTURE AMENDMENT (TAC NO. MB0850)
Dear Ms. Covington:
This letter regards the comments you submitted in response to a Request for Public Comment, Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact which appeared in the FEDERAL REGISTER on August 1, 2001 (66 FR 39803), for the University of Missouri-Columbia Research Reactor (MURR). The University submitted a request for a license amendment to change the expiration date of Amended Facility License No. R-103 for the MURR from November 21, 2001, to October 11, 2006, to recapture the period of facility construction.
Please find enclosed Discussion of Comments Received on the Environmental Assessment for the University of Missouri-Columbia Construction Permit Recapture Amendment. This document contains a discussion of the disposition of comments received that were relevant to the Environmental Assessment.
You will be sent under separate cover a copy of the staffs discussion of comments received related to the operation of the reactor and other issues not related to the Environment Assessment or the license amendment request.
Thank you for your comments.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Alexander Adams, Jr., Senior Project Manager Operational Experience and Non-Power Reactors Branch Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-186
Enclosure:
As stated
OFFICE REXB:LA REXB:PM REXB:SC NAME EHylton AAdams: PMadden DATE 10/18/2001 10/18/2001 10/18/2001 October 18, 2001 Ms. Saundra A. Lowes 7425 Teasdale St. Louis, MO 63130
SUBJECT:
NRC DISCUSSION OF COMMENTS RECEIVED ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA CONSTRUCTION PERMIT RECAPTURE AMENDMENT (TAC NO. MB0850)
Dear Ms. Lowes:
This letter regards the comments you submitted in response to a Request for Public Comment, Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact which appeared in the FEDERAL REGISTER on August 1, 2001 (66 FR 39803), for the University of Missouri-Columbia Research Reactor (MURR). The University submitted a request for a license amendment to change the expiration date of Amended Facility License No. R-103 for the MURR from November 21, 2001, to October 11, 2006, to recapture the period of facility construction.
Please find enclosed Discussion of Comments Received on the Environmental Assessment for the University of Missouri-Columbia Construction Permit Recapture Amendment. This document contains a discussion of the disposition of comments received that were relevant to the Environmental Assessment.
You will be sent under separate cover a copy of the staffs discussion of comments received related to the operation of the reactor and other issues not related to the Environment Assessment or the license amendment request.
Thank you for your comments.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Alexander Adams, Jr., Senior Project Manager Operational Experience and Non-Power Reactors Branch Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-186
Enclosure:
As stated
OFFICE REXB:LA REXB:PM REXB:SC NAME EHylton AAdams: PMadden DATE 10/18/2001 10/18/2001 10/18/2001 October 18, 2001 Mr. Ken Midkiff, Director Ozark Chapter/Sierra Club 1007 North College Avenue Suite 1 Columbia, MO 65201
SUBJECT:
NRC DISCUSSION OF COMMENTS RECEIVED ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA CONSTRUCTION PERMIT RECAPTURE AMENDMENT (TAC NO. MB0850)
Dear Mr. Midkiff:
This letter regards the comments you submitted in response to a Request for Public Comment, Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact which appeared in the FEDERAL REGISTER on August 1, 2001 (66 FR 39803), for the University of Missouri-Columbia Research Reactor (MURR). The University submitted a request for a license amendment to change the expiration date of Amended Facility License No. R-103 for the MURR from November 21, 2001, to October 11, 2006, to recapture the period of facility construction.
Please find enclosed Discussion of Comments Received on the Environmental Assessment for the University of Missouri-Columbia Construction Permit Recapture Amendment. This document contains a discussion of the disposition of comments received that were relevant to the Environmental Assessment.
You will be sent under separate cover a copy of the staffs discussion of comments received related to the operation of the reactor and other issues not related to the Environment Assessment or the license amendment request.
Thank you for your comments.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Alexander Adams, Jr., Senior Project Manager Operational Experience and Non-Power Reactors Branch Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-186
Enclosure:
As stated
OFFICE REXB:LA REXB:PM REXB:SC NAME EHylton AAdams: PMadden DATE 10/18/2001 10/18/2001 10/18/2001 October 18, 2001 Mr. Leonard A. Sonnenschein, President St. Louis Childrens Aquarium 416 Hanley Industrial Court Brentwood, MO 63144
SUBJECT:
NRC DISCUSSION OF COMMENTS RECEIVED ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA CONSTRUCTION PERMIT RECAPTURE AMENDMENT (TAC NO. MB0850)
Dear Mr. Sonnenschein:
This letter regards the comments you submitted in response to a Request for Public Comment, Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact which appeared in the FEDERAL REGISTER on August 1, 2001 (66 FR 39803), for the University of Missouri-Columbia Research Reactor (MURR). The University submitted a request for a license amendment to change the expiration date of Amended Facility License No. R-103 for the MURR from November 21, 2001, to October 11, 2006, to recapture the period of facility construction.
Please find enclosed Discussion of Comments Received on the Environmental Assessment for the University of Missouri-Columbia Construction Permit Recapture Amendment. This document contains a discussion of the disposition of comments received that were relevant to the Environmental Assessment.
You will be sent under separate cover a copy of the staffs discussion of comments received related to the operation of the reactor and other issues not related to the Environment Assessment or the license amendment request.
Thank you for your comments.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Alexander Adams, Jr., Senior Project Manager Operational Experience and Non-Power Reactors Branch Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-186
Enclosure:
As stated
OFFICE REXB:LA REXB:PM REXB:SC NAME EHylton AAdams: PMadden DATE 10/18/2001 10/18/2001 10/18/2001 October 18, 2001 Ms. Arlene Sandler 6947 Columbia Avenue St. Louis, MO 63130
SUBJECT:
NRC DISCUSSION OF COMMENTS RECEIVED ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA CONSTRUCTION PERMIT RECAPTURE AMENDMENT (TAC NO. MB0850)
Dear Ms. Sandler:
This letter regards the comments you submitted in response to a Request for Public Comment, Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact which appeared in the FEDERAL REGISTER on August 1, 2001 (66 FR 39803), for the University of Missouri-Columbia Research Reactor (MURR). The University submitted a request for a license amendment to change the expiration date of Amended Facility License No. R-103 for the MURR from November 21, 2001, to October 11, 2006, to recapture the period of facility construction.
Please find enclosed Discussion of Comments Received on the Environmental Assessment for the University of Missouri-Columbia Construction Permit Recapture Amendment. This document contains a discussion of the disposition of comments received that were relevant to the Environmental Assessment.
You will be sent under separate cover a copy of the staffs discussion of comments received related to the operation of the reactor and other issues not related to the Environment Assessment or the license amendment request.
Thank you for your comments.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Alexander Adams, Jr., Senior Project Manager Operational Experience and Non-Power Reactors Branch Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-186
Enclosure:
As stated
OFFICE REXB:LA REXB:PM REXB:SC NAME EHylton AAdams: PMadden DATE 10/18/2001 10/18/2001 10/18/2001 October 18, 2001 Ms. Rebecca M. Wright 2011 Rutger Street St. Louis, MO 63104
SUBJECT:
NRC DISCUSSION OF COMMENTS RECEIVED ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA CONSTRUCTION PERMIT RECAPTURE AMENDMENT (TAC NO. MB0850)
Dear Ms. Wright:
This letter regards the comments you submitted in response to a Request for Public Comment, Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact which appeared in the FEDERAL REGISTER on August 1, 2001 (66 FR 39803), for the University of Missouri-Columbia Research Reactor (MURR). The University submitted a request for a license amendment to change the expiration date of Amended Facility License No. R-103 for the MURR from November 21, 2001, to October 11, 2006, to recapture the period of facility construction.
Please find enclosed Discussion of Comments Received on the Environmental Assessment for the University of Missouri-Columbia Construction Permit Recapture Amendment. This document contains a discussion of the disposition of comments received that were relevant to the Environmental Assessment.
You will be sent under separate cover a copy of the staffs discussion of comments received related to the operation of the reactor and other issues not related to the Environment Assessment or the license amendment request.
Thank you for your comments.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Alexander Adams, Jr., Senior Project Manager Operational Experience and Non-Power Reactors Branch Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-186
Enclosure:
As stated
OFFICE REXB:LA REXB:PM REXB:SC NAME EHylton AAdams: PMadden DATE 10/18/2001 10/18/2001 10/18/2001 October 18, 2001 Ms. Sandra Delcoure 3029 Willow Creek Florissant, MO 63031
SUBJECT:
NRC DISCUSSION OF COMMENTS RECEIVED ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA CONSTRUCTION PERMIT RECAPTURE AMENDMENT (TAC NO. MB0850)
Dear Ms. Delcoure:
This letter regards the comments you submitted in response to a Request for Public Comment, Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact which appeared in the FEDERAL REGISTER on August 1, 2001 (66 FR 39803), for the University of Missouri-Columbia Research Reactor (MURR). The University submitted a request for a license amendment to change the expiration date of Amended Facility License No. R-103 for the MURR from November 21, 2001, to October 11, 2006, to recapture the period of facility construction.
Please find enclosed Discussion of Comments Received on the Environmental Assessment for the University of Missouri-Columbia Construction Permit Recapture Amendment. This document contains a discussion of the disposition of comments received that were relevant to the Environmental Assessment.
You will be sent under separate cover a copy of the staffs discussion of comments received related to the operation of the reactor and other issues not related to the Environment Assessment or the license amendment request.
Thank you for your comments.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Alexander Adams, Jr., Senior Project Manager Operational Experience and Non-Power Reactors Branch Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-186
Enclosure:
As stated
OFFICE REXB:LA REXB:PM REXB:SC NAME EHylton AAdams: PMadden DATE 10/18/2001 10/18/2001 10/18/2001 October 18, 2001 Ms. Clare Laune 1661 Caulles Creek Ridge Chesterfield, MO 63005-6546
SUBJECT:
NRC DISCUSSION OF COMMENTS RECEIVED ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA CONSTRUCTION PERMIT RECAPTURE AMENDMENT (TAC NO. MB0850)
Dear Ms. Laune:
This letter regards the comments you submitted in response to a Request for Public Comment, Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact which appeared in the FEDERAL REGISTER on August 1, 2001 (66 FR 39803), for the University of Missouri-Columbia Research Reactor (MURR). The University submitted a request for a license amendment to change the expiration date of Amended Facility License No. R-103 for the MURR from November 21, 2001, to October 11, 2006, to recapture the period of facility construction.
Please find enclosed Discussion of Comments Received on the Environmental Assessment for the University of Missouri-Columbia Construction Permit Recapture Amendment. This document contains a discussion of the disposition of comments received that were relevant to the Environmental Assessment.
You will be sent under separate cover a copy of the staffs discussion of comments received related to the operation of the reactor and other issues not related to the Environment Assessment or the license amendment request.
Thank you for your comments.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Alexander Adams, Jr., Senior Project Manager Operational Experience and Non-Power Reactors Branch Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-186
Enclosure:
As stated
OFFICE REXB:LA REXB:PM REXB:SC NAME EHylton AAdams: PMadden DATE 10/18/2001 10/18/2001 10/18/2001 Discussion of Comments Received on the Environmental Assessment for the University of Missouri-Columbia Construction Permit Recapture Amendment Docket No. 50-186 License No. R-103 By letter dated December 27, 2000, as supplemented on April 12 and June 6, 2001, the University of Missouri-Columbia (UMC or the licensee) submitted a request to change the expiration date of Amended Facility License No. R-103 for the University of Missouri-Columbia Research Reactor (MURR) from November 21, 2001, to October 11, 2006, to recapture the period of facility construction. This action is not unique and is consistent with prior precedents.
The State of Missouri Department of Natural Resources requested that the Environmental Assessment (EA) be circulated for public comment. In light of the request, the NRC determined to exercise its discretion to circulate the EA for a 30-day public comment period and on August 1, 2001, the Notice of Request for Public Comment, Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact appeared in the Federal Register (66 FR 39803). During the comment period, the staff received 12 comment letters.
The NRCs Public Electronic Reading Room (PERR) is found on the Internet at the following web address: http://www.nrc.gov. From this site, the public can gain access to the NRCs Agencywide Document Access and Management System (ADAMS), which provides text and image files of NRCs public documents. Documents concerning the MURR, including comments received on the EA, can be found under docket number 05000186. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who have problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS may contact the PDR reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737 or by email at pdr@nrc.gov. Documents can also be examined, or copied for a fee, at the NRCs Public Document Room found at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, MD.
All of the comments have been reviewed by the NRC and are identified in Attachment 1. The majority of the comments received related to the operation of the reactor and other issues not related to the EA or the license amendment request. These comments will be addressed separately by the staff. Each comment was assigned a specific alpha-numeric identifier (e.g.,
A1) for ease of tracking the staffs considerations of the comment and the publics understanding of how the comment was dispositioned. The identifier is typed in the margin of the correspondence at the beginning of the discussion of the comment. The staff response to the specific comments is provided in Attachment 2; the responses are organized by topic and like-kind comments were organized together with a common response. In response to relevant comments, several changes were made to the text of the EA to clarify issues raised in the comments.
Enclosure 1