ML20029C910
| ML20029C910 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | University of Missouri-Rolla |
| Issue date: | 04/20/1994 |
| From: | Dandois D NRC OFFICE OF THE CONTROLLER |
| To: | Gajda W MISSOURI, UNIV. OF, ROLLA, MO |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9405020373 | |
| Download: ML20029C910 (1) | |
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APB 2 01994 University of Missouri Rolla ATTN: Walter J. Gajda, Jr.
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Rolla, MO 65401-0249 Gentlemen:
This is in response to your letters dated July 15, 1993, and July 28, 1993, concernin9 annual fee Invoice AT-0450-93 for research reactor License R-79.
On March 17, 1994, the Commission published in the Federal Reaister a Notice of its decision to reinstate the annual fee exemption for nonprofit educational institutions.
Enclosed is a copy of a March 23, 1994, Notice to all licensees and the March 17, 1994, Federal Reaister Notice attached thereto which were recently sent to all Commission licensees.
Please review the Notice and contact us if you have any questions.
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Dear Sirs:
We have been informed that the removal of the fee exemption for university reactors is being considered by the Commission. If the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission imposes the level l
of reactor licensing fees on the University of Missouri-Rolla Reactor (License Number R-79) that has been rumored (565,000), it will surely lead to the premature closure of our facility, since its annual operating budget (not including salaries and wages) is less than S15,000.
i Our facility has been in operation since December 1961 as a joint federal-state venture.
Recently, i U.S. Department of Energy invested heavily in new low-enriched uranium fuel that Tur reactor, in the reactor instrumentation upgrade program, and in the reactor was instah.
sharing propa. Additionally, the University has invested 32 years' worth of ume, money and effort in the continued operation of our facility. It would be a tremendous waste to close it due to the imposition of NRC fees.
Ours is truly a non-pront educational activity. We typically receive no external or industrial j
suppon, Our work is focused on providing students with the education necessary to cope with the nuclear engineering chilenges facing America. Our graduates will go to work in tields such as nuclear power generation, nuclear waste management, radiation safety, nuclear medicine, and, cf course, regulatory agencies (e.g. NRC, DOE, EPA, etc.)
The entire nation will suffer if the fee exemption for university reactors is removed. This action will result in the closure of several of the remaining facilities. Thus, there would be a direct
- nificant impact on the quality and number of nuclear engineering graduates available in and the work force. There is a tremendous demand for well educated nuclear engineering graduates and this demand is increasing every year.
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We have been asked to suggest alternative ways of funding, thus we suggest charging additional fees to all other licensees and government agencies, including the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, that directly benefit from the end product of universities -- well-educated graduates for the work force. All licensees, from mill tailings operations to power plants and regulatory bodies, would be adversely affected by the removal of the fee exemption, in that several facilities would be forced to close.
The UMR Reactor is a very important element of our nuclear engineering degree program and provides valuable educational expenence for both our undergraduate and graduate students. The 1988 National Academy of Sciences study and final report called for additional federal support of the university research reactors, not a decrease.
Our reactor facility provides Xceptionally large externalized benetits that cannot be captured in tuition or other market prices. Those benefits are applicable to personnel in the entire nuclear field and to society, as a whole.
Thus, we urgently request that the Commission vote to allow the exemption of licensing feet 'o non-profit educational institutions, including the University of Missouri-Rolla.
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Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs WGJ/vr cc: Ivan Selin (NRC Commission Chairman)
Kenneth C. Rogers (Commission Member)
James R. Curtiss (Commission Member)
Forrest J. Renick (Commission Member)
Gail de Planque (Commission Member)
Senator John Danforth Senator Christopher Bond Congressman Bill Emerson U.S. Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leag Dean Lee Saperstein Professor Albert E. Bolon l
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Dear Sirs:
Concerning Invoice No. : AT-0450-93, Invoice Date: 8/21/93, we would like for the letter dated July 15, 1993 from Walter J. Gajdh, Jr.,
Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs, to you to serve-as our initial correspondence to request a full license fee' exemption for the University of Missouri-Rolla Reactor (License Number R-79).
Please send us any other application forms with instructions, if they are needed.
Sincerely,
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