ML20040H587
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| Site: | West Valley Demonstration Project |
| Issue date: | 02/11/1982 |
| From: | Rouse L NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
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| Download: ML20040H587 (3) | |
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION DOCKET NO. 50-201 NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES, INC. AND NEW YORK STATE ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (WESTERN NEW YORK NUCLEAR SERVICE CENTER)
ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT TO FACILITY LICENSE NO. CSF-1 Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. (NFS) and New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (as successor to the New York State Atomic and Space Development Authority) (the Authority) hold Provisional Operating License No. CSF-1. The license, issued under section 104b. of the Atomic Energy Act, had authorized the operation of a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing and radioactive waste disposal facility at the Western New York Nuclear Service Center in West Valley, New York (the Center).
Under the West Valley Demonstration Project Act, Pub. L.96-368, the Department of Energy has been authorized to carry out a high-level radioactive waste management demonstration project at the Center for the purpose of demonstrating solidification techniques which can be used for preparing high-level liquid radioactive waste for disposal.
On September 30, 1981, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission (the Commission) issued an amendment to the license which would permit transfer of the facility to the Department of Energy for purposes of the project (46 FR 49237).
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On October 6,1981, the Commission received from NFS an application for unendment of License No. CSF-1 to relieve NFS of all operational responsibility under the license. Notice of receipt of this application was published in the FEDERAL REGISTER on November 13,1981 (46 FR 56086).
The Commission denied the application on January 11, 1981, without prejudice, in order to avoid adjudication before the Commission of issues of law and fact that are being litigated between NFS and the Authority in the federal court system.
NFS submitted a further application to the Commission on February 1, 1982. The new application requests that the authority and responsibility of NFS under the license be terminated upon the occurrence of certain events. A supporting letter, dated February 9,1982, was filed by the Authority. The Department of Energy, by letter of February 10, 1982, advised the Commission that it has no objection to the issuance of the requested amendment.
In accordance with 10 CFR 52.106, notice is hereby given that the Commission has today issued an snendment to License No. CSF-1, substantially as requested by NFS, which provides for termination of the authority and responsibility of NFS under said license, effective upon 1) acceptance of surrender of the facility by the Authority from NFS, 2) DOE's assumption of exclusive possession of the facility, and 3) the Settlement Date of a I
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J Settlement Agreement in pending civil actions in the United States District Court for the Western District of New York. The Commission has detemined that the application for the amendment complies with the requirements of the Atomic Energy Act and the regulations of the Commission (10 CFR Chapter I).
The Comission has determined that this amendment involves no significant
. hazards cons derat on. Copies of the' amendment to the license and the NRC i
i staff's safety evaluation are available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
and at the Local Public Document Rooins maintained at the Buffalo and Erie County P;.blic Library, Lafayette Square, Buffalo, New York; and the Town of Concord Public Library, 23 North Buffalo Street, Springville, New York.
Dated at Silver Spring, Maryland, this //
dayof7 1982.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION C.
Leland C. Rouse, Chief Advanced Fuel and Spent Fuel Licensing Branch Division of Fuel Cycle and Material Safety 4
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