ML19320B667
| ML19320B667 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | West Valley Demonstration Project |
| Issue date: | 06/05/1980 |
| From: | Cunningham R NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| To: | Deuster R NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES, INC. |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8007140580 | |
| Download: ML19320B667 (6) | |
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JUN 5 1380 Docket No. 50-201 l
Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc.
l ATTN: Mr. Ralph W. Deuster, President i'
6000 Executive Boulevard, Suite 600 Rockville, M) 20852 Gentlemen:
This letter is in reference to your responsibilities as a co-licensee under your facility license (CSF-1) for the Western New York Nuclear Service Center Facility in West Valley, New York. Based on information provided to us, the initial term of your agreements with the.New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (the Authority) will end on December 31, 1980. Our correspondence with you since your announcement on September 22, 1976 of your withdrawal from consnercial reprocessing has failed to indicate either your intention or those of your co-licensee with respect to the future of the facility. In addition, we have not been informed of your plans for submitting appropriate applications for amendnents to your license i
as had been stated in your letter of September 22, 1976 from R. W. Deuster i
to K. R. Chapman of the Nuclear Regulatory Cemission (NRC).
Neither the NRC nor its predecessor, the Atomic Energy Conmission (AEC),
is or was a party to the " Lease," the " Facilities Contract," or the "Wasta Storage Agreement," which were entered into by Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc.
(NFS) and the Authority's predecessor on May 15, 1963. The requirements of your facility license are independent of and in addition to any of the various contractual provisions and obligations that exist between yourselves and the Authority. As you are aware, should you desire to transfer the license to another prospective site operator a license transfer application must be submitted in accordance with the provisions of 10 CFR 50.80. ~We are very interested in your future plans and intentions. Specifically, we request that you respond to the questions listed below:
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Do you and the Authority plan to renew the lease? If so, what term and what facility status do you propose during any such lease renewal period?
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Have you identified or obtained a possible replacement site operator? If so, when do you intend to submit a license transfer application under 10 CFR 50.807 The NRC staff requires this information, if and when it is available, to plan for the staffing and budgetary requirements needed to support an efficient acceptance and review of such an application.
We recognize the major potential impact on the future of the facility that is beginning to be generated by the Department of Energy %
(DOE) West Valley high level waste imobilization project. As you know, there are various legislative proposals awaiting full consideration and decision by the Congress that will give the DOE sufficient authority and resources to continue and complete this most inportant project.
Although many of the details associated with the waste imobilization project are still being fornulated, it appears likely that some ancillary portions of the facility may not be used in support of the imobilization project. These ancillary portions could include.the interceptor and lagoons, the low level waste treatment plant and the fuel receipt and storage rea. As the details of DOE's waste imobiliza-tion project become clearer, the NRC staff intends to ask detailed questions on your plans for the decomissioning and disposition of any such ancillary portions of the facility.
The staff considers the plans for the future of the West Valley facility to be a joint responsibility of both NFS and the Authority.
For your information we have enclosed a copy of a similar letter request being sent to your co-licensee. Because of the inportance of this matter, we are also sending copies of these letters to Mr. Sidney R. Peterson, Chainnan of the Board of the Getty 011 Company, and the Honorable Hugh T. Carey, Governor of the State of New York.
Over three and one-half years have elapsed since the onset of consulta-tions with your co-licensees that was mentioned in your letter of September 22, 1976. We recognize that in the intervening period, various organizations have tried to answer the broad range of questions that need to be answered before complete decisions on the future disposition e
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In taite of the unavailability of all necessary answers to these questior:s, we must begin to address the answerable questiens now and begin to plan the site's future without further delay. Therefore, we request that you respona to the questions contained in this letter within thirty days.
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As has been our long standing practice, we would be pleased to meet
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Richard E. Cunningh'am, Director Division of Fuel Cycle and Material Safety Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards
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14226 New York, N. Y. 10036 Building Annex Albany, N.Y.
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[ureau of Radiological Health High Level Waste Project Western New York
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Dr. Marvin Resnikoff, Chmn.
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12223 U:st Valley, N.Y.14171 Sierra Club, Niagara Group Box 64, Station G
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14213 Mr. David Berick Cirector, Technical Develop-Natural Resources Defense Co.
Environmental Policy Center ment Programs 917 15th Street, N.W.
317 Pennsylvania Avenue, S.E.
State of New York Energy Washington, D. C.
20005 Washington, D. C. 20003 Office Ag:ncy Building 2 E,oire State Plaza Albany, New York 12223 ocan Loring, Esq.
William E. Straub, Esq.
Assistant County Attorney First Asst. County Atty.
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14202 Buffalo, N.Y.
14202 Robert Abrams, Esq.
Mr. Ross Scott N.Y. State Department of Attorney General of the 102 Heath Street Environmental Conservation State of New York Buffalo, N.Y.
' ATTN: Director ATTN: Richard G. Berger Cffice of Environmental Deputy Asst. Attorney Analysis General Albany, N.Y.
12201 Two World Trade Center Butzel & Kass New York, N. Y.
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