ML112232301

Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute - Approval of Request for an Extension, Response to Request for Additional Information Dated July 19, 2010

ML112232301
Person / Time
Site:	Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute
Issue date:	08/16/2011
From:	Alexander Adams Research and Test Reactors Licensing Branch
To:	Melanson M US Dept of Defense, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute
Meyer W, NRR/DPR/PRLB, 301-415-0897
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TAC ME1587
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August 16, 2011 Colonel Mark A. Melanson, PhD Director Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute 8901 Wisconsin Avenue Bethesda, Maryland 20889-5603

SUBJECT:

ARMED FORCES RADIOBIOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE - APPROVAL OF REQUEST FOR AN EXTENSION, RE: RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION DATED JULY 19, 2010 (TAC NO. ME1587)

Dear Colonel Melanson:

The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received your letter dated June 3, 2011 (Agencywide Document Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML11165A016), requesting an extension to the time to respond to a request for additional information (RAI) from NRC in a letter dated July 19, 2010 (ADAMS Accession No. ML101870035). You requested an extension of 12 months after the fiscal year 2012 Federal budget is allocated in October 2011 to complete the responses to three RAIs which you indicate will require contracting outside technical assistance.

Your extension request was discussed in an August 5, 2011, telephone conference which included the Deputy Director, Division of Policy and Rulemaking (DPR) and the Branch Chief, DPR Research and Test Reactors Licensing Branch. This letter documents the granting of the extension request for responding to three RAIs, specifically for RAI 3, 5 and 6.

During the August 5, 2011, telephone conference you agreed to provide progress updates by electronic mail or telephone to the license renewal Project Manager, Walter Meyer, at least monthly and more often if news impacting the schedule is learned.

In accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), Section 50.30(b), you must execute your response in a signed original document under oath or affirmation. Your response must be submitted in accordance with 10 CFR 50.4, Written Communications.

Information included in your response that is considered security, sensitive, or proprietary, that you seek to have withheld from the public, must be marked in accordance with 10 CFR 2.390, Public inspections, exemptions, requests for withholding.

If you have any questions, please contact Walter Meyer at 301-415-0897 or by electronic mail at walter.meyer@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Alexander Adams Jr., Senior Project Manager Research and Test Reactors Licensing Branch Division of Policy and Rulemaking Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-170 cc: See next page

Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Docket No. 50-170 cc:

Director, Maryland Office of Planning 301 West Preston Street Baltimore, MD 21201 Montgomery County Executive 101 Monroe Street, 2nd Floor Rockville, MD 20850 Mr. Stephen I. Miller Reactor Facility Director Armed Force Radiobiology Research Institute 8901 Wisconsin Avenue Bethesda, MD 20889-5603 Environmental Program Manager III Radiological Health Program Air & Radiation Management Adm.

Maryland Dept of the Environment 1800 Washington Blvd.,Suite 750 Baltimore, MD 21230-1724 Rich McLean, Manager Nuclear Programs Maryland Department of Natural Resources Tawes B-3 Annapolis, MD 21401 Director Air & Radiation Management Adm.

Maryland Dept of the Environment 1800 Washington Blvd., Suite 710 Baltimore, MD 21230 Test, Research, and Training Reactor Newsletter University of Florida 202 Nuclear Sciences Center Gainesville, FL 32611

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