ML20029D518
| ML20029D518 | |
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| Site: | Claiborne |
| Issue date: | 04/29/1994 |
| From: | Yawar Faraz LOUISIANA ENERGY SERVICES, NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
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| ML, NUDOCS 9405060061 | |
| Download: ML20029D518 (6) | |
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l UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION.-
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LOUISIANA ENERGY SERVICES, L.P. )-
Docket No. 70-3070-ML
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(Claiborne Enrichment Center)
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(Contention I (Areas 8-11))-
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l AFFIDAVIT I, Yawar H. Faraz, being duly sworn, do hereby state as follows:
- 1. I am employed by the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission as a Nuclear Process Engineer in the Certification Section, Enrichment Branch, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and l
Safeguards, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. I am also the NRC Licensing L
Project Manager for the Louisiana Energy Services ("LES_") project.
My duties include managing the NRC staff (" Staff") license application review for the LES application to construct _
and operate the Claiborne Enrichment Center (" CEC"), to be located at Homer, Louisiana.
- 2. My business address and telephone number are:
Yawar H. Faraz, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, Enrichment Branch, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, l
l U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555; (301) 504-2669.
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- 3. In a letter dated March 21, 1991, the Staff informed LES that it had completed a j
preliminary review of the safety analysis report ("SAR") and environmental report ("ER")
portions of LES' application to construct and operate the CEC. The Staff further informed LES l
that the application appeared to contain incomplete or inadequate information for several topics in the ER and SAR. The above mentioned March 21,1991 letter is the same letter upon which Citizens Against Nuclear Trash (" CANT") relied for a basis for Contention I.
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Contention I, as admitted by the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (" Licensing i
Board"), in its December 19,1991, Memorandum and Order (Ruling on Contentions) noted that l
the basis for Contention I is the March 21,1991 Staffletter to LES and limited the basis for the contention to eleven specific areas as follows:
In the Environmental Report:
- 1. environmental impacts of site preparation and construction;
- 2. monitoring data to support source term determinations for gaseous effluents;
- 3. evaluation of means of reducing liquid effluent concentrations;
- 4. assessment of radiologicalimpacts of plant operation;
- 5. environmental effects of accidents;
- 6. baseline data for pre-operational effluent and environmental monitoring program; and
- 7. program to maintain releases as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA);
in the Safety Analysis Report:
- 8. finalization of design features for earthquakes, tornadoes, and missiles;
- 9. quality assurance program for Class I equipment;
- 10. program for surveillance and maintenance of cylinders containing tails in interim storage; and
- 11. management and control program.
- 5. Subsequent to the Staff's March 21,1991, request for additional information, LES i
supplemented its license application numerous times to provide the information requested by the Staff. In particular LES provided the Staffinformation regarding items 8 through 11, listed in paragraph 4 above, in sufficient detail to allow the Staff to complete its review of LES' application.
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- 6. I have read the Affidavit of Peter G. LeRoy, dated April 11, 1994, regarding this matter. The Staff agrees that the information outlined by Mr. LeRoy in paragraph 5 of the aforementioned affidavit resolved the issues regarding items 8 through 11, listed in paragraph 4 above, to the satisfaction of the Staff.
- 7. I further state that the Staff finds the LES application, including the SAR as it has been supplemented by LES, sufficiently complete and adequate for the Staff to conduct its review of the application and that the Staff is aware of no genuine issue of material fact regarding Contention I (Areas 8-11).
- 8. The information above is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
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Yawar H. Faraz Sworn and subscribed to before me this 29th day of April,1994.
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YAWAR H. FARAZ PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS I am employed as a nuclear process engineer and project manager in the Enrichment Branch, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). I am responsible for managing the NRC staff license application review for the Louisiana Energy Services (LES) project.
I am also responsible for providing technical support to licensing staff in areas such as decommissioning, radiological characterization, radiological environmental assessment, occupational radiological protection and health physics.
I received a BS degree in Nuclear Engineering in 1982 from the University of Maryland at College Park (UMCP). I completed 26 credit hours in the graduate Nuclear Engineering program at UMCP. In 1991, I was certified by the American Board of Health Physics in the comprehensive practice of health physics.
In May 1984, I began employment with NUS Corporation as an environmental analyst. I performed radiological environmental dose assessments and developed portions of several Environmental Impact Statements, Environmental Assessments and radiological effluent release reports.
In August 1990, I began employment with the NRC as a nuclear process engineer. From September 1990 to February 1992, in the Fuel Cycle Safety Branch, I managed several industrial source material licenses identified by the NRC's Site Decommissioning Management Plan as having potential decc:nmissioning problems. From February 1993 to April 1994, I was the assistant project manager for the LES project. In April 1994, I was assigned as the project manager for the LES project. On the LES project, I was the principal author for portions of the Safety Evaluation Report (NUREG-1491), namely the chapters on decommissioning and conduct of operations. I also provided a detailed technical review of the NUREG-1491 chapter on 1
radiological protection and license conditions proposed by LES. I currently serve as a member of the NRC Headquarters emergency response team for nonreactor emergencies. In addition, j
! currently serve as the dose assessment analyst on the NRC Headquarters protective measures team for materials facilities.
I am a member of the national and local chapters of the Health Physics Society.
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DOCKETED USNRC UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION-W APR 29 P3:33 BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of
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BRANCH LOUISIANA ENERGY SERVICES, L.P.
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Docket No. 70-3070-ML
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of "NRC STAFF'S ANSWER IN SUPPORT OF:
" LOUISIANA ENERGY SERVICES' MOTION FOR
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DISPOSITIO THE SAFETY AREAS OF CONTENTION I"" in the above-captioned. proceeding have been served on the following by deposit in the United States mail, first class, or
.l as indicated by an asterisk through deposit in the Nuclear Regulatory _ Commission's internal mail system, this 29th day of April,1994:
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Thomas S. Moore, Chairman
- Richard F. Cole
- Administrative Judge Administrative Judge
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Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 1
Mail Stop: EW-439 Mail Stop: EW-439
.l U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 Washington, DC 20555 q
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Frederick J. Shon*
Mr. Ronald Wascom Administrative Judge Deputy Assistant Secretary
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Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Office of Air Quality &
Mail Stop: EW-439 Radiation Protection U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission P.O. Box'82135 Washington, DC 20555 Baton Rouge, LA 70884 2135 J. Michael McGarrf, III, Esq.
Peter I.eRoy Winston & Strawn Duke Engin ering & Services, Inc.
1400 L Street, N.W.
P.O. Box 1004 Washington, DC 20005 Charlotte, NC 28201-1004
. Dr. W. Howard Arnold Marcus A.' Rowden, Esq.
Louisiana Energy Services, L.P.
Fried, Frank, Harris 2600 Virginia Avenue, N.W.
Shriver & Jacobsen Suite 608 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20037 Suite 900 South Washington, DC 20004 Office of the Commission Appellate
' Office of the Secretary
- Adjudication
- ATTN: Docketing and Service Mail Stop: 16-G-15 OWFN U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 Washington, DC 20555 Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Nathalie M. Walker, Esq.
Panel
- Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund Mail Stop: EW-439 400 Magazine Street, Ste. 401 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission New Orleans, LA 70130 Washington, DC 20555 Diane Curran, Esq.
c/o IEER 6935 Laurel Avenue, Suite 204
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Eugene'J. Holler
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