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Request for Additional Information to Viacom Regarding Application to Terminate 10 CFR Part 50 Portion of Westinghouse Test Reactor TR-2 License
ML032250729
Person / Time
Site: Waltz Mill
Issue date: 08/26/2003
From: Isaac P
Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs
To: Rich Smith
Viacom
References
TAC MB8491
Download: ML032250729 (4)


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August 26, 2003 Mr. Richard Smith Vice President - Environmental Remediation Viacom Inc.

11 Stanwix Street Pittsburgh, PA 15222-1312

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO VIACOM REGARDING APPLICATION TO TERMINATE 10 CFR PART 50 PORTION OF WESTINGHOUSE TEST REACTOR TR-2 LICENSE (TAC NO. MB8491)

Dear Mr. Smith:

We have reviewed your application, dated October 29, 2002, to terminate the 10 CFR Part 50 utilization facility license (TR-2) held by Viacom for the Westinghouse Test Reactor Facility (WTR) on the Waltz Mill Site in Pennsylvania. In order for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff to continue the review and make our determination, additional information is needed. Enclosed is the staffs Request for Additional Information (RAI). Please provide your responses or your schedule for responding to the enclosed RAI within 30 days of the date of this letter. In accordance with 10 CFR 50.30(b), your response to this letter and the RAI must be executed in a signed original under oath or affirmation.

If you have any questions regarding this review, please contact Patrick Isaac, at 301-415-1019.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Patrick Isaac, Project Manager Research and Test Reactors Section New, Research and Test Reactors Program (RNRP)

Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-22

Enclosure:

As stated cc w/enclosure: Please see next page

Westinghouse/Waltz Mill Docket No. 50-22 cc:

Mr. James G. Yusko Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection 400 Waterfront Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15222

August 26, 2003 Mr. Richard Smith Vice President - Environmental Remediation Viacom Inc.

11 Stanwix Street Pittsburgh, PA 15222-1312

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO VIACOM REGARDING APPLICATION TO TERMINATE 10 CFR PART 50 PORTION OF WESTINGHOUSE TEST REACTOR TR-2 LICENSE (TAC NO. MB6650)

Dear Mr. Smith:

We have reviewed your application, dated October 29, 2002, to terminate the 10 CFR Part 50 utilization facility license (TR-2) held by Viacom for the Westinghouse Test Reactor Facility (WTR) on the Waltz Mill Site in Pennsylvania. In order for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Staff to continue the review and make our determination, additional information is needed. Enclosed is the Staffs Request for Additional Information (RAI). Please provide your responses or your schedule for responding to the enclosed RAI within 30 days of the date of this letter. In accordance with 10 CFR 50.30(b), your response to this letter and the RAI must be executed in a signed original under oath or affirmation.

If you have any questions regarding this review, please contact Patrick Isaac, at 301-415-1019.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Patrick Isaac, Project Manager Research and Test Reactors Section New, Research and Test Reactors Program (RNRP)

Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-22

Enclosure:

As stated cc w/enclosure: Please see next page Distribution:

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REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WESTINGHOUSE TEST REACTOR TR-2 DOCKET NO. 50-22

1. In order to make the determination whether the facility license (TR-2) for the Westinghouse Test Reactor facility can be terminated, the staff would like to review the final site survey radiological data and the supporting analysis that has determined the character of the residual radioactive materials being transferred to the SNM-770 license.

Please provide the survey data, results, and analysis supporting the characterization of the material to be transferred.

2. In order to terminate the reactor license (TR-2) for the Westinghouse Test Reactor facility, the SNM-770 license must be amended so that the residual radioactive material can be transferred from the TR-2 license to the SNM license. Please confirm that an application to amend the SNM-770 license has been made to the NRC. If this application has not been submitted, please provide your plans and schedule for making this application.
3. Paragraph 2 of Section 2.17 of the NRCs Safety Evaluation Report (SER) approving the TR-2 DP states the following:

The method for determining that the WTR facility has met the decommissioning objectives and prerequisites for license termination will be an independent verification that the reactor vessel internal contents, the reactor vessel, and the biological shield have been removed. This independent verification will be performed and documented.

Please describe the method for performing this independent verification and provide the results of the verification to NRC for review.