ML17005A416

Letter - EA and Finding of No Significant Impact Regarding Amendment No.16 for Facility Operating License R-23

ML17005A416
Person / Time
Site:	Texas A&M University
Issue date:	01/12/2017
From:	Patrick Boyle NRC/NRR/DPR/PRLB
To:	Mcdeavitt S Texas A&M Univ
Yin X, NRR/DPR/PRLB, 301-415-1404
Shared Package
ML16362A307	List: ML16362A308 ML16362A317 ML17005A416 NRC-2017-0007, FRN: EA - Finding of No Significant Impact Regarding Amendment No.16 for Facility Operating License R-23
References
TAC MF6159
Download: ML17005A416 (3)

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January 12, 2017 Dr. Sean McDeavitt, Director Nuclear Science Center Texas A&M University Texas Engineering Experiment Station 1095 Nuclear Science Road, MS 3575 College Station, Texas 77843

SUBJECT:

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-NOTICE OF ISSUANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT REGARDING AMENDMENT NO. 16 FOR FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE NO. R-23 TO ALLOW FOR THE UNRESTRICTED USE OF THE AGN-201M RESEARCH REACTOR FACILITY IN THE ZACHRY ENGINEERING CENTER AT THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE STATION - DOCKET NO. 50-59 [TAC NO. MF6159]

Dear Dr. McDeavitt:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff has forwarded a Notice of Issuance of the Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact regarding the application for license amendment submitted by Texas A&M University (TAMU) for the Aerojet General Nucleonics Model 201-Modified (AGN-201M) Reactor dated November 21, 2016, as supplemented on December 16 and 20, 2016, and January 9 and 11, 2017. The amendment would delete from the Technical Specifications (TSs) the Zachry Engineering Center location that constituted the reactor facility for the AGN-201M reactor and associated components before they were relocated. The amendment would also delete the license conditions requiring a physical security plan (PSP) and TSs requiring PSP implementing procedures, and audits of the PSP and its implementing procedures because the special nuclear material possession limit in the License No. R-23 is below the quantity of material that requires a PSP.

The amendment would effectively allow the unrestricted use of the rooms where the AGN-201M reactor and its byproduct and SNM were formerly located in the Zachry Engineering Center.

S. McDeavitt 2 If you have any questions regarding this review, please contact me at 301-415-3936 or via electronic mail at Patrick.Boyle@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Patrick G. Boyle, Project Manager Research and Test Reactors Licensing Branch Division of Policy and Rulemaking Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No.50-059 cc: See next page

Texas A&M University Docket No.50-059 cc:

Mayor, City of College Station P.O. Box Drawer 9960 College Station, TX 77840-3575 Governors Budget and Policy Office PO BOX 12428 Austin, TX 78711-2428 Jeremy Osborn AGN-201M Reactor Supervisor Texas A&M University Nuclear Engineering Department 3133 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-3133 Jerry Newhouse, Assistant Director Nuclear Science Center Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station 3575 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-3575 Radiation Program Officer Bureau of Radiation Control Dept. Of State Health Services Division for Regulatory Services 1100 West 49th Street, MC 2828 Austin, TX 78756-3189 Technical Advisor Office of Permitting, Remediation & Registration Texas Commission on Environmental Quality P.O. Box 13087, MS 122 Austin, TX 78711-3087 Test, Research and Training Reactor Newsletter P.O. Box 118300 University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611-8300 Radiological Safety Officer Texas A&M University Environmental Health and Safety 1111 Research Parkway College Station, TX 77843-4472

ML16362A307 (Pkg.); ML17005A416 (Letter); ML16362A308 (FRN);

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