ML100220465

Request Exemption from Emergency Plan Requirements

ML100220465
Person / Time
Site:	05000131
Issue date:	01/14/2010
From:	Romberger D US Dept of Veterans Affairs, Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System
To:	Document Control Desk, NRC/FSME
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-S GrandNIsland Broadwell Avenue Grand Island NE 68803-2196 January 14, 2010 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ATTN. Document Control Desk Washington D.C. 20555 Re: License R-57, Docket # 50-131. Request Exemption from Emergency Plan Requirements.

During the December 2 3 rd, 2009 Reactor Safeguards Committee meeting action was taken to ask for exemption of Emergency Plan Requirements. As a result of this action the Alan J Blotcky Reactor Facility is requesting exemption from Emergency Plan Requirements. The Alan J Blotcky Reactor Facility is in a shut down status. The reactor has been permanently shut down and all of the fuel and neutron sources have been removed from the site. The Decommissioning and Decontamination plan has been submitted and is currently being reviewed by the NRC.

The Alan J Blotcky Reactor Facility requests that the NRC exempt the facility from Emergency Plan Requirements based on the facility's absence of nuclear fuel. (The NRC's Inspection Manual, Inspection Procedure 69002 states, "If the facility is not to return to reactor operations and all fuel has been removed from the facility, there may (be) no need to maintain the emergency plan. The licensee should request exemption from the NRC before they discontinue implementation of the plan).

The AJBRF respectfully asks for exemption to Emergency Plan Requirements.

Sip;*erely, - / _ .

Debra Rot'nberger Associate Chief of Sta search Co-Chair Reactor Safe uards Committee.